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we will call this place our home,
the dirt in which our roots may grow.
though the storms will push and pull,
we will call this place our home.
we’ll tell our stories on these walls.
every year, measure how tall.
and just like a work of art,
we’ll tell our stories on these walls.
[ NORTH, sleeping at last ]
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"Hello. You've reached Lord Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North. Please alert me as to your reason for needing to speak with me, and should it warrant a reply, I will do so as soon as time allows."
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Date: 2017-12-17 04:12 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
[Might as well check here before she begins packing up her meager belongings--]

Hello, Eddard. It's Claire Fraser. Some time ago Sansa offered me a bed in the place your family is staying. I didn't take her up on it at the time, but I was thinking I might, now.
Date: 2017-12-17 04:35 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
[HE'S YELLING no wait, he's not. Odd. Claire decides to just let that be.]

My husband returned to stasis not long after we moved to new place. It's not one I care to keep on my own. I had a brief return to the pods myself. I think Sansa and I would both benefit from living together.
Date: 2017-12-19 01:45 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
I'm sorry to hear about both her and Robb. There's really no telling with stasis.
Date: 2017-12-28 04:09 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
No. I felt normal as ever before I went, and my husband didn't mention anything before he went back, either.
Date: 2017-12-28 04:22 am (UTC)

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The price to pay to not be annihilated, I suppose.
Date: 2018-02-22 03:26 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
I need a drink. Do you know that pub by the house? Meet me there.
Date: 2018-02-22 03:36 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
Thanks. I'm in the back. Ordered us a pitcher.

[They're going to need it. Or she will. Actually, she does, so by the time he's there a third of it is already gone. She's quite the pitiful sight, sitting alone, elbows on the table with her hands around her drink, staring down at her distorted reflection as she waits for him to show.]
Date: 2018-02-22 04:00 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
[She looks up at him, biting back some snappy remark. Ned doesn't deserve it.]

Please.

[A hand motions at the chair, and she'll pour him a drink as he sits. Really, she would have preferred to talk at the house, but she doesn't want to risk Jon, Sansa, or Jamie overhearing the conversation. Jon is done with Theon, Sansa likely is too, and Jamie has enough on his plate without worrying about this boy.

Boy. Jamie only has a few years on Theon. Christ.]


I could start with small talk, or I could cut right to the chase. I think you're a man that appreciates that, so--I'll get on with it. I've been taking care of Theon's injury since the mess with Ramsay. I've... been getting to know him, since we met here. I wanted to know how you feel about him these days.

[To begin with.]
Date: 2018-02-22 04:08 am (UTC)

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Everything. [Maybe it's not everything, but after her last chat with him, there's nothing more he can tell her.] I know he was taken as a ward, to keep his father under your thumb. He grew up with your children, and he was very close to Robb.

[No prisoner, not sent to live with the pigs, and yet he still betrayed them. She thought that would be the worst of it.]

Do you hate him?
Date: 2018-02-22 04:33 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
[Claire's already sullen expression falls all the more. She'd been assuming the Starks had taken him--not that his father had offered. She's still feeling a little queasy from earlier, and this does nothing to help matters. Her palm presses flat on the table so as to steady herself.

It keeps getting worse. My family and I trusted him the way we trusted each other. She doubts Ned would lie right to her face, but maybe Theon wasn't lying, either--maybe he just didn't see it. Or, like Ned himself says: close, but not held close.]


He's told me things. Things I don't think he's shared with anyone else. [For good reason. Claire presses her lips together, fitting these new pieces together.] I won't share them with you because he trusted me enough to share, or perhaps he was just at the end of his rope. He's... in a bad place, and much of it is his doing, but I can only think of maybe two people that give a damn.

[Her, John Watson... and she's wondering if she can add Ned to the list.]

When Ramsay had him, I think I was the only one who worried about him. Jon was done by then.
Date: 2018-02-23 12:00 am (UTC)

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[Likely to do with guilt over Robb. Claire doesn't want to put words in Theon's mouth, though, so she rubs at her temple before deciding to let that part rest.]

It's a number of reasons, and the ones I know of are all valid. I really can't blame Jon for how he feels. [Which is why she's here with Ned and not Jon.]

The final straw was him not helping us find Ramsay when he had Stannis. I think if things had gone a certain way, and it was between Stannis and Theon, he would have chosen Stannis.
Date: 2018-02-25 02:06 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
I think you need to talk to him. Theon.

[Not Jon. Claire considered it, but Jon, despite his experiences, is still a young man likely to get riled up by Theon's jabs at him. It's not good to mix the two now, if ever again.]

When Robb was here, a lot between them went unresolved. I believe that weighs on him a lot. You're Robb's father--the closest thing to him he might ever get again, and he won't ever approach you on his own.

[She's not even sure if this is right, but Ned is the closest thing he has to family here.]

You just have to promise me, no matter what he says, no matter what he does, you won't hurt him.

[No one losing their head on her watch, please.]
Date: 2018-02-25 03:08 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
I don't know if he'd agree or not, frankly. I don't know if offering to have me there would help, either. [She'd feel more comfortable to be there as a buffer, personally, but this is a matter of which she's stuck her nose into. It's between them to talk, to see where they stand, and perhaps for Theon to get an ounce of peace out of it.

Ned's words are a relief. Still, he doesn't know the truth of it, and Claire desperately wishes she could tell him so he could have time to deal with the shock and disgust before possibly facing Theon in person.]


He's changed a lot since you last saw him.
Date: 2018-02-25 03:27 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
[She smiles, faintly.] He tentatively trusts me, it seems. You can ask him if he'd be all right with me being there. Better for him to decide that. [It will likely be a no. Theon never wants to look weak, and having her there might make him feel like he's hiding behind her skirts.

There's a pause of her own, hands tight around her drink.]


I love your family. I don't think there's a question about that, these days. [She's happy to spend her free time with Sansa, to check on Jon, to have conversations with Ned over dinner. It feels like a family, and one she's a part of. Important to. It's made everything easier.]

But Theon needs someone on his side. Which isn't to say you aren't, but until he tells you the things he's done and you decide to feel one way or another, it'll have to be me. I know he's a good person. There's no way he could have grown up among your children and been anything but.

[If Claire were Ned, she'd probably drive a knife right through his heart. But maybe he'll surprise her.]

Jon and Sansa had something he didn't.

[A certainly of self, a strength. She doesn't know.]
Date: 2018-02-25 03:49 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
[Ned doesn't strike her as a man to lose his temper, but she does know people in general. They can lash out when you least expect it. She wouldn't be able to stop him if he went for Theon, but hopefully if she's allowed to sit in, she can keep the peace.]

I know. And I do wish I could tell you myself, but it hasn't been easy reaching this point with Theon. [Now that she's here, now that she's learned what he's done, she's can't go back.] But I will tell you that he knew Ramsay was going to take his finger. Like some sick sort of punishment. That is the sort of thing we're dealing with.
Date: 2018-02-27 08:38 pm (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
Ramsay was a monster, but I don't think Theon is the same. [Even after learning all he's done.] He's been manipulated. It's easy to do to someone desperate to belong. He's not a Stark, and he's only a Greyjoy by blood at this point. so I'm not surprised Ramsay was able to poison his mind.

[Here, at least. The things he did in Winterfell? Well... Claire hopes there's much more to it than Theon told her.]

I suppose we'll have to keep an eye out if any more Boltons decide to wake up.
Date: 2018-02-28 04:42 am (UTC)

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From: [personal profile] nineteenfortyfive
[Claire inhales, brows lifting. Theon, unfortunately, has no shortage of weaknesses. The look she gives Ned says as much.]

I am sorry for burdening you with this. You were going about your day, and I dragged you into this.

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