Comment fic meme #2

[gotexchange_mod]

After the first round of got_exchange we had a surprisingly successful comment fic meme going for a while (here's a list of all the fics that were written last time), so I thought it might be fun to do this again. (Like last time, it's posted on the mod account journal because I don't want to enable anonymous comments on the exchange community.)

I changed the layout to one that still supports comment titles. I hope it works for everyone. If there are any problems, please let me know.

A couple of rules, or rather guidelines:

- please include the pairing/character (and maybe a short prompt/kink) in the comment title - both for prompts and for fills.
- there are both show and book fans on this comm, so please warn for book spoilers beyond AGOT in the comment title.
- anonymous comments are enabled, but I'd appreciate if we kept them to a minimum. If you absolutely want to go anon, okay, but I'd rather we kept this as non-anonymous as possible.
- all prompts are welcome: smut, gen, romance, fluff, angst, het, slash ... anything goes.
- and the usual: be civil, no character/pairing bashing, no kink shaming etc.

It's perfectly fine to repost prompts from the last comment fic meme or from the exchange.

As with any kink meme, this is only fun if people also fill prompts, not if there are only requests.

Filled prompts:
Jaime/Cersei: first time
Stannis/Davos: "like sailors, swimming in the sound of it (dashed to pieces)"
Queen Shireen: Shireen comes out on top of the Game of Thrones. Three heads has the dragon, and she is part-Targaryen, after all.
Jaime/Brienne: Modern AU as cops
Jon/Sansa: kissed by fire
Viserys, Elia, Rhaenys: leave me your wake to remember you by
Stannis/Jon: things he shouldn't think - or say
Robb/Theon: we had the greatest expectations (ADWD spoilers)
Roose/Robb, crack: The Young Wolf and the Leech Lord (ASOS spoilers)
Balon/Victarion: Faithfulness
Future!Rickon/Shireen: the last night of the world
Jaime/Catelyn and Jaime/Sansa: Jaime has a secret thing for reheads
Ned/Catelyn: when it became a love match
Petyr/Lysa: Her eyes closed
Jon/Val: In which Jon does end up with Val and Winterfell (ADWD spoilers)
Gendry/Arya: role reversal
Tywin/Joanna: dominance
Stannis/Davos, comfort: small undertakings
Stannis/Jon: things he shouldn't think - or say (second fill)
Roose/Walda/Stannis, crackfic: Pink Attack (ADWD spoilers?)
Petyr/Barbrey, bitterness: Ash (ADWD spoilers)
Brandon/Lyanna: belonging to Winterfell
Daenerys/Viserys: Just a Taste
Roose/Theon, Ramsay/Theon: Bad Blood (ADWD spoilers)
Stannis/Sansa: "I am a Stark, I can be brave."
Cersei/Ned: AU in which Ned did take the Iron Throne and Cersei ended up marrying him instead of Robert
Jon/Satin, crackfic: how Jon Snow learned to stop worrying and laugh at the insinuations
Elia/Oberyn: heart's desire
Euron/Victarion: pre-series hatesex
Lysa and Catelyn after the birth of Robb: lie by the river
Roose/Theon (hints of Robb/Theon): Another man's amusement (vague ADWD spoilers?)
Jaime/Brienne, dirty talk and consensual power play: with a wonder and a wild desire
Stannis/Sansa: wedding (sequel)
Stannis/Sansa and Stannis/Davos, dancing: Wishing to be in Two Places at Once
Brandon/Barbrey, Bethany: No True Knight (ADWD spoilers)
Ned, Sansa: "Sansa was a lady at three."
Daenerys/Robb, AU: Fire, Blood, and Honour
Roose/Victarion, crackfic: When all else fails
Robb/Theon, slight Robb/Jon: War is Not a Game
Stannis/Davos from Ned's POV (hints of Robert/Ned): Making You Smile
Catelyn/Petyr: Confrontation
Stannis/Jon, fantasies: and waked half dead with nothing (ASOS spoilers)
Jaime, Arya: The Shadow
Victarion/Asha: We do not sow
Ned/Catelyn, goodbyes: Songs written with swords
Ned/Ashara: winter song
Sansa - Stoneheart: confrontation
Jon/Sansa (AFFC spoilers, prompt is spoilery in itself)
Jon/Val: with you upon the wind (ADWD spoilers)
Daenerys/VIserys, AU: When the Blood began to Show
Stannis/Davos: six perspectives, six realities
Roose/Walda, crackfic: Leeches for Wolves
Jaime/Sansa, talking about Joffrey: Ignorance and Bliss
Sansa, Rickon: The last two Starks (ADWD spoilers)
Theon/Robb: Regrets (ADWD spoilers)
Cersei/Stannis, seduction fail: Persuasion
Jon, Stannis, Devan, mentions of Davos: Through the Eyes of a Child
Sansa, Brienne: True Knights (AFFC spoilers, prompt is spoilery in itself)
Stannis/Sansa: bedding & wedding night (sequel to this)
Catelyn, Jon (slight Jon/Robb), reunion AU: Lady of Ashes (ASOS spoilers)
Sansa/Robb, AU in which they do exchange her for Jaime: The Mercy of the Frozen Ground
Tywin/Joanna: dominance (second fill)
Jon Snow/Jeyne Westerling(/Robb Stark): post-series - tell me we both matter, don't we?
Robb/Jeyne: what was it like being the queen to a Northern king? (ASOS spoilers)
Robb/Roslin Frey: Robb upholds his vow and ends up with Roslin


Multiple fills are of course welcome.

Comments

FILL: Catelyn, Jon (very slight Jon/Robb) ASOS Spoilers - Lady of Ashes (pt 2/3)

[juno-chan.livejournal.com]

She seems much smaller now to him, and he never thought he would feel sorry for Catelyn Stark, but he does, and he wishes he could reach out to her, to tell her that all she has lost he has lost, too, that they are in pain but they are alive (he thinks it would be of small comfort to her, though, looking at her face wracked with sorrow).

He does not, he knows better.

He could marvel at how their lives have cartwheeled, he is the Lord Commander and though the Night’s Watch is not regarded with the same honor it had been in centuries past, there is still a sort of deference, no matter how small, that is his, and there is a satisfaction in knowing his place in the world and knowing it firm, a fullness he had never known as a child sparring next to Robb in the yard (but there is an emptiness, too, an emptiness that Robb and Arya and all his siblings and his father had lived in, and he would take back his bastard state and uncertain future in a heartbeat for one moment with them).

And now the formidable Lady Stark is nothing more than the mother of a fallen rebel king (he cannot bear to think of what befell Robb that night, he pushes it from his mind and wonders if she does the same or if she never has respite), the widow of a condemned traitor, sister to a hostage lord and a murdered lady; the lady of the North is nothing more now than the lady of ashes and wind, with no family, no home, and no power. They do not hunt her because they do not fear her – what could she do to them, without a living trueborn son of Eddard Stark to lay claim to their home, to their inheritance? – and yet no northern holdfast would dare offer her a place to stay, in fear of being branded a traitor to the triumphant crown.

It makes sense, suddenly, that she would be here – where else is there in the world for her?

Absurdly, he feels some sort of obligation to help her, to find her refuge, assure her safety, perhaps because those who would have done so, his father and Robb, are gone, perhaps because she is for all he knows the last of the Stark family, perhaps because it is, in a way, justice for the brother he had lost and the war that king had lost, justice for the North. The Night’s Watch has no family but their sworn brothers, and you were no family to me anyway. We take no part in these wars.

“I had to see,” he says, finally, after a long moment of considering. “King Stannis has offered me Winterfell,” he pauses, and perhaps that is cruelty, there is still anger, for the love he never received, the place that was never his, but he does not get the reaction he thought. Her face is carefully blank, she barely stirs at the thought, at her worst fear (but then fears were simpler in those days past, he thinks), of Winterfell being laid claim to by her husband’s bastard son. “And I wanted to see exactly what I was rejecting.”

“Rejecting?” Still her voice is flat, indifferent, her boots crunch in the snow as she walks away, following along the collapsed bridge to the south gate, and he walks with her, not a step behind but shoulder to shoulder, she is not a great lady anymore.

“Yes,” he says, and despite himself he is slightly perturbed by her indifference; there is still that small part of him, that he learned long ago to push down, that yearns for her acceptance, approval, an ache he has forced further and further away but it is still there like a stubbed toe. “I am a man of the Night’s Watch. And Winterfell belongs to Sansa.”

“Yes,” she agrees quietly. A breeze stirs a stray strand of hair, escaped from her plait, and she gazes at the broken remains of the great seat of the North. “My Sansa, wherever in the world she is, and her Lannister husband. She is the heiress of ruins.”

“These ruins are hers by right,” he maintains stubbornly and she almost smiles, almost, and he can almost see the beautiful woman she once was before tragedy stole it from her, can almost see the mother she had been to his siblings and never to him, but mostly he sees Robb in her at that moment (almost, it is always almost and not enough).

FILL: Catelyn, Jon (very slight Jon/Robb) ASOS Spoilers - Lady of Ashes (pt 3/3)

[juno-chan.livejournal.com]

He opens his mouth, he wants to tell her, tell her that he had ridden in the night to join Robb’s side, that his sworn brothers had pulled him back and it has haunted him forever since, that he would have died at his brother’s side and never betrayed him, that he is not another Theon Turncloak. He wants to ask about his brother the king, how the crown sat his head, if he took the lessons their father had given them both, if he had been happy, in those moments before he fell.

Her eyes are empty on him, expansive like the sky beyond the Wall, there is something closed up deep inside her, he thinks, whatever she has locked away, her memories and pain and fury, whatever she has had to put aside to keep going, to keep moving, to keep living. We must all do what we can to go on.

He does not ask his questions, he takes pity, it is enough that he is the ghost of his father, he has no desire to crack open that box she has locked herself into to hold herself together.

Jon clears his throat. “But ruins they remain, my lady – you cannot stay here.”

“And where would you have me go, Lord Snow?” she asks, and there is a lilting, mocking note to her voice. “Shall I go to Riverrun, to serve as a hostage to my uncle’s good behavior? Or to King’s Landing to give my head as a gift to the boy king? Or shall I accompany you back to the Wall, I am certain you have sorely missed the joy of my company these years past.”

He wets his lips, uncertain. “It is not safe here.”

“It is not safe anywhere,” she replies hotly, and there is a brief spark in those eyes dulled and deadened. “And where else would my girls go, now that they are lost in the world? If they are alive, they will come here. They will come home, such as it is now.”

Jon takes a step closer, and sees her eyes are damp, Catelyn Stark is not a woman prone to tears and yet the last time he saw her she had wept for Bran and now she weeps for the rest, for all those lost to her, and he cannot help it; he reaches for her hand, clasping it between his gloved ones. Her mouth twitches, he can see it there, the innate resistance, but she does not pull away. There is so much evil in the world that we are too weary to fight amongst ourselves.

“You cannot remain here. Winterfell will be seized and you will be killed before you see either of them again. If you do not freeze or starve to death, first,” he decides firmly (there is a part of her, a large part that he thinks is dead already, pieces of her heart buried with his father and with Robb and Bran and Rickon, and parts lost with the girls, and he wonders if she would believe him if he said his is much the same). “Come. We will find something other than this folly.”

“Why does it matter to you?” she asks, incredulous, as he leads her – fairly drags her – from the ruins, the ashes she will pass to the few children that remain.

He pauses, wondering the same; for all that she never spared him a kindness, he did not wish Catelyn Stark ill but nor did he think he would bestir himself for her in her need. He decides, after a moment, to answer honestly. “It would matter to Robb. And to Father. And Bran, and Rickon, and if they do live, it will matter a great deal to Sansa and Arya, and they will have need of you.”

“They live,” she answers softly, pleadingly, her voice catches and her eyes seek reassurance. He could practically see it then, the break in that armor she wears like a second skin, it is almost a visible entity. He is suddenly no longer pulling her and her stride matches his again. “They must.” They must, they are all that is left for us, for the North…

He does not answer, but holds the hope close.

Re: FILL: Catelyn, Jon (very slight Jon/Robb) ASOS Spoilers - Lady of Ashes (pt 3/3)

[maidwithglasses.livejournal.com]

Wonderful fic!

Oh, how I wish something like this would have happened! A flicker of acceptance between these two, of reconciliation. As much as I love Catelyn, as much as I understand where she's coming from with her resentment of Robb, it always made me slightly angry at her. He was a child, after all, and totally faultless.

And it's so JON to refuse Winterfell so that Sansa can have it, even though she wasn't even the closest to him. And so him to offer protection to Cat. Cat, who still has hope for the girls. It would have been wonderful, Cat still alive, still having hope. But GRRM is a cruel, cruel man.

Re: FILL: Catelyn, Jon (very slight Jon/Robb) ASOS Spoilers - Lady of Ashes (pt 3/3)

[juno-chan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so interested in the idea of these two meeting again after all the suffering their family has been through, especially after the Red Wedding. I can't see them ever really having AFFECTION, but I do think they would have been too tired of fighting against those who really wish them ill to have active resentment. I feel like it would have been enough that they loved the same people, even if they never loved each other, for them to have a sort of...grudging peace.

Catelyn's resentment of Jon is certainly a fault of hers, and it definitely isn't fair. However, I understand where her feelings come from and even why she chose to take out her feelings on Jon rather than on Ned. Again - not fair or right, but I do get it, and I hate when some fans blow what their relationship was out of proportion. (Also, in rereading I have to admit that I found Jon pretty annoying in Game of Thrones, especially up until he met Sam (really, Jon, you asked Tyrion what he knows about being a bastard aka feeling like an outcast? and you asked WHY HE READS? and you called a seven year old insipid?) XD)

I love Jon's steadfast response to Stannis's offer - "Winterfell belongs to my sister Sansa." And I do think he would feel some sort of obligation to help her, not because of any affection towards her, but again, because of his affection for the people that they both loved and who loved both of them. I really miss Cat and her POV chapters. :(

Thank you for your wonderful comment! :D

Re: FILL: Catelyn, Jon (very slight Jon/Robb) ASOS Spoilers - Lady of Ashes (pt 3/3)

[midnightblack07.livejournal.com]

THIS IS PEFECT!! (Y)

I love how loaded and riddled with the past everything about their interaction is, and how--despite everything--Jon still has that lingering desire for affection from this woman who was so wonderful a mother to all his siblings.

&& the idea that whatever ill-filling may have existed between them once seems so insignifigant in light of the kind of hate and harm they've endured breaks my heart (in the best of ways of course hehe) <333

really beautifully done, thank you for such a lovely fill!! :D

Re: FILL: Catelyn, Jon (very slight Jon/Robb) ASOS Spoilers - Lady of Ashes (pt 3/3)

[juno-chan.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm so glad you liked it!! :D I always thought it was interesting in the series how Catelyn sneaks into Jon's thoughts sometimes and for the most part, except for when he specifically brought up (her discussion with Robb), Catelyn doesn't really think about Jon. I definitely think he still has that deep down desire to have her affections, to be considered one of her children.

And I'm glad you thought it fit because even before this prompt, I've thought of these two meeting and I totally think that while there would never be AFFECTION, there would be a sort of grudging truce because they don't like/love each other, but they loved the same people and that's enough after everything they've been through. ( :( :( )

Thanks for the lovely comment!!

Re: FILL: Catelyn, Jon (very slight Jon/Robb) ASOS Spoilers - Lady of Ashes (pt 3/3)

[ukisama.livejournal.com]

this is the story I was waiting for!

I love their relationship in the books (and in the show). Of course they sort of "hate" each other but there's more than that. Catelyn choose to hate Jon instead of Ned which is totally understandable. Plus she is sort of "jealous" that he look like Ned and her children don't.
For Jon part I don't think he hate her but at the beginning he is still a child and she make him feel like everything in his life was unfair (which is not really the case). And somehow I don't think he really understand why she hate him so much and he only want her to accept him as her own child...
I have to admit that I don't really like Catelyn as a character but when it come to Jon I understand^^

Anyway I hope they will meet again in the books (If they make it alive that would be really good already XD) cause I kinda feel like it would be brilliant and heartbreaking...

Thank you anyway for this! this is so beautiful! Made me cry as much as when I was reading the books

Re: FILL: Catelyn, Jon (very slight Jon/Robb) ASOS Spoilers - Lady of Ashes (pt 3/3)

[juno-chan.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! <3 (And sorry for the delayed response!) Catelyn is my most favorite character but I definitely appreciate that while you don't really like her, you can give a fair look at her relationship with Jon! :D Thank you for your lovely comments, I'm so glad you enjoyed.

Re: FILL: Catelyn, Jon (very slight Jon/Robb) ASOS Spoilers - Lady of Ashes (pt 3/3)

[rfresa.livejournal.com]

This is great. I would love to read Catelyn's reaction to R+L=J, in this or any context.