9 Works in Jeyne Poole & Satin of the Night's Watch

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    “I know you think you want to be... what, my heir?" Jon said. "Queen after me? Lady of Winterfell? But you don’t. You don’t want this, Sansa. It is sleepless nights, war, winter, bank loans, ledgers on bushels of wheat and salt beef stores until your brain goes numb and your eyes burn, and greying hair at eight-and-ten. You don’t want this.”

    Sansa frowned at him, brows knitting together as she shook her head almost incredulously. “But you do.”

    “I don’t.” Jon told her plainly, and Satin could hear the weary tiredness that clung to his voice. “I never wanted it and I never asked for it. But Robb’s dying will was that I wear this crown and it was my duty to accept it.”

    “You must have wanted it. You broke your oaths to the Night’s Watch to come here.”

    Jon seemed to almost flinch. “What?”

    (Littlefinger plots and schemes and whispers in Sansa’s ear while Satin works on a plan of his own. Sansa and Jon remain at odds. Jon asks for trust as the situation takes a turn for the worse, he only needs to convince her. They're family, and family was all they had left.)

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    Winterfell had never felt less like home. It had become his home this past half-year and he’d grown to love its granite stones and wolf tapestries and snowy parapets. But in just the fortnight since Littlefinger had arrived, it’s hot spring-fed walls and brazier-warmed halls felt colder and far, far less familiar. The corridors bustled with faces he didn’t recognize, buzzed with rumors he didn’t want to hear, and seemed always somehow filled with the ever-smiling, ever-whispering Petyr Baelish.

    I’m worried about Jeyne, he thought, about Sansa too. I’m worried about his smiles and his whispered words, what he knows and how he knows it. I’m worried about what he wants, for men like him do nothing but want. I’m worried about how a whoremonger and lesser lord becomes one of the most powerful men in Westeros. I’m worried about what in the hells he’s doing here and I’m worried he’s the man Jeyne ran from. I’m worried about what I’ll do if he is.

    (Littlefinger settles into Winterfell and things start to feel just a little... off. With Jeyne still hiding away in her rooms, Satin grows more and more suspicious but politics and lordly games of courtesy force him to play nice. For now, at least.)

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    When word had arrived in Winterfell from scouts claiming that the Lords of the Vale who had called their banners were seen sailing North, the council had been worried. At once, Jon had sent Lord Manderly home to White Harbour with a letter for the arriving Valemen demanding they declare themselves and their intentions, and a large delegate of men and arms to ready their shores for the possibility of war. And when a letter came saying those ships would be closing in on their port within the week, Jon had resigned himself to the likelihood of war and battle, and began readying his own banners to march. But another raven had come just a day hence bearing two letters. One had been from Lord Manderly bidding him rejoice and call off his march because the other letter had been from Sansa Stark.

    (Another wolf comes home, and with her an army of Valemen and one at their head with a particular mockingbird on his lapel. Old relationships, new faces, and complicated feelings follow. What is truth and what is rumor has never been more muddled.)

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    Satin had made sure the wedding went off without a hitch. Aloisya deserved that much. When she had come to him, cheeks flushed and smile so large it must have made her face ache, Satin had known at once what she was going to tell him. Her new man had proposed, she told him. An honest woman, she’d grinned and twirled about his chambers in a burst of joy, I’ll be an honest woman. A wedded woman, Satin! Me! Me! And she had thrown her arms around him in joy.

    Guests came and went. The door to the servant’s hall was in a near constant state of use, frequently swinging open as people found their way in to greet the bride and groom and enjoy a little free wine, or as they left for the night in good cheer. No one paid much mind to who was about, which house they served or what their job in the castle was. All were welcome to the food and drink. The more the merrier, Aloisya had said, isn’t that what a wedding is for? But when the door opened about an hour later and Jon Stark, King in the damned North, stepped into the room, all the music and the chatter and laughter had stopped.

    (Satin's friend Aloisya gets married. Servants and Royalty alike attend and mingle as Satin's world's collide.)

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    “Speaking of heirs and councils,” Jon started after a moment’s silence. “I would hear your opinion on something.”

    “Of course. What are you working on?”

    “My will.” He replied simply, motioning to the parchment.

    “Your will?” Satin asked, eyes widening.

    “Aye. I need one.”

    (Satin returns to work with the help of a new face. Jon prepares his will and makes good on his promise to find a way to keep Satin safe more officially. A trip to the Glass Gardens seems a good place to start.)

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    Three days, Dallin told him. Three days of bedrest, those were the Maester’s orders. They were the last thing Satin had wanted to hear. He wanted to work. To rise with the dawn and pretend what happened hadn’t happened. That nothing had gone wrong and that there wasn’t a handprint purpling on his throat, a black bruise aching at his belly, and a broken wrist wrapped in plaster and linen on his dominant hand. He wanted to work. He could feel the pain later. It was easier that way and working would let him avoid it. Maester Dallin seemed to have other ideas. Satin tried to argue but the Maester had simply turned to Jon, and then Jon had given the order. Three days it would have to be.

    (A series of moments and conversations spanning Satin’s three days on bedrest. Satin recovers from the attack and his injuries. Jon deals with Whoresbane. Satin must learn to accept a little help.)

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    The completed embroidery piece he’d spent the last month working on seemed almost heavy in his pocket. It was stupid, he knew, but he had made it for Jon. Now that it was finished, the idea of actually giving it to him seemed foolish. What use has he for such frivolous stitchings? he thought. Jon was a practical man, Satin knew. He kept things that had a purpose, gave away what didn’t, and had little interest in pretty things that were pretty for the sake of being pretty. He was Lord of Winterfell, Keeper and Warden of the North, yet he did not drape himself in precious metals and jewels or spun-gold thread. He wore wool and moleskin like every other Northern lord. An embroidered kerchief too delicate to be used to even wipe one’s brow would be useless to him. Still, Satin had made it. Jeyne had wanted to sew with him, and it had seemed the obvious choice at the time. And now it sat in his pocket like a rock, a weight very much pulling at his awareness.

    (Satin has been spending time sewing with Jeyne while he keeps her company. His project is done, a gift for Jon. Now all he has to do is give it to Jon and all Jon has to do is accept it.)

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    Despite the late hour, Winterfell was still awake and bustling. Servants hustled through the corridors carrying food and drink, people danced and stepped on each other’s feet in their eagerness and intoxication, men sang loudly and off-key in harmonies so discordant it wasn’t always clear what song they were singing, and laughter echoed across the castle’s cobblestones. Life was good; the Boltons dead, Winterfell saved and liberated, and the balance of power put to rights, for a Stark – or as close a Stark as was left – ruled in the North again. Just for the night, all was right in the world.

    (The feast in honor of Winterfell's liberation is tonight but that doesn't mean Jon and Satin aren't working. The Lord of Winterfell is never free of duties and Satin is never far behind him to offer what help he can. But before the feast, during it between respective dances and conversations, and after the festivities are over, they can still find moments for one another.)

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    Tomorrow would be another busy day, and Satin would spend it running behind Jon until his feet ached and learning the castle like it was his own. It wasn’t his own, of course. It was Jon’s and Satin was, by rights, a man of the Night’s Watch. He had taken vows before a weirwood. It shall not end until my death, he had sworn, I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come. Yet now he spent his nights lounged in the plush feather bed belonging to the Lord of Winterfell, leagues away from the post at which he had promised to live and die. Satin had been forced to take the Black. The Black or hanging, it had been, and he had chosen the Wall with little other choice. The vows were sworn at the threat of the noose, but they were sworn all the same.

    (Jon and Satin settle into a new normal in Winterfell. They slowly find their footing in their respective roles of Lord and Steward, and try to find exactly where they stand with one another after all that has happened and the ever-shifting boundary lines between them continue to blur.)

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