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“I’m glad you came,” she tells him. Then, tilting her head to the side to gauge his reaction, she lets a small smile slip onto her lips. “I’ve missed you, Jon Snow.”
“You’ve missed arguing with me, you mean.”
“So?” she asks, chocolate on her tongue instead of whiskey: the sweet lure rather than the amber burn. She reaches forward to sketch circles along his wrist, tracing a vein, skimming the heartbeat, beat, beat. She laughs when he gives her an exasperated look. “Unlike some people, I am willing to negotiate.”
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Daenerys Targaryen is determined to be the queen of seven, not six, kingdoms.
There's just one problem.
One very infuriating (and handsome) problem.
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where raging storms at midnight howl (this place is haunted) by BlueKiwi
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
04 Nov 2024
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There is ice in the mirror, and death too—the kiss and the shadow, the inferno and the chasm. She is the Silver Princess, the delight of the realm, and this reflection tells her of a world that cannot be, a world she cannot know. She wants to be comforted, but she cannot reach into that storm-silver surface to touch him and the comely young man with the grey eyes cannot step through to embrace her.
His voice is a dream and it is half a memory. It is all her desires and hopes and fears and she wants and wants and wants.
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In 283 AC, those who rebelled against the dragons were defeated on the Trident.
This is the world Daenerys Targaryen knows, a world where her brother rules over a fractious realm and the dragons still sit on the Iron Throne, a world where the Baratheons and the Lannisters never rose to power.
So who is this haunting boy in the frozen winter mirror who tells her otherwise, who tells her that the world she knows is a dream, a lie?
And which side of the mirror is the truth?
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“I think,” she finally says, “that I wouldn’t have it any other way. I like this version of you, Jon. I like this version of me. Yes, there are some things about each of us that are never going to change. But then you wouldn’t be the stubborn man I’ve come to love. And I don’t think I’d be the woman you asked to marry you.” She gives him a long look. “Unless you do wish I was someone else? Let me know now before I start shopping for a wedding dress.”
He laughs.
“I want you,” he confirms. “I just…”
He trails off. Dany smiles.
“You have me. Whatever else there is…we’ll deal with it.”
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Daenerys and Jon have come a long way since a snowstorm brought them crashing back into each other's lives again. And if there's one thing they've learned, it's that anything worth having is worth fighting for (questionable tastes in overpriced lattes aside).
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- Part 3 of the road trip series
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like the olden days, happy golden days of yore by BlueKiwi
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV)
19 Dec 2023
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“We can’t have everything we want. That’s not how any of this works.”
“I know.” He sighs, tiredly resting his head against the frosty glass of the car window. Just across, there are still ghostly shadows of the Valyrian letters she’d drawn with her finger earlier imprinted on the frost. Beyond the window, the morning sun has gilded the rolling white hills of the North, golden illumination against the pale wintry sky. “But I’d like to pretend for a little while that none of this was a mistake.”
Surprisingly, he hears her laugh before he feels her slip her small, warm hand into his.
“I know a thing or two about mistakes. Don’t you dare tell me that this is one of them.”
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Some things take time to repair.
While driving north for an unplanned holiday, Jon just never thought his relationship with Daenerys Targaryen would be one of them.
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- Part 2 of the road trip series
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a shadow for the splendor (let the profane tremble to ask) by BlueKiwi
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
28 Oct 2023
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It is no wonder, the smallfolk will murmur later, that when the King of Winter met the Mother of Dragons, the world spun itself into a cataclysmic revolution of night and summer and every wonderful, terrible thing beneath the white, dispassionate sun.
(But if one might ask the queen, the Targaryen witch whose reign is built on fire and shackles of ice, she’ll only shake her head. “You tell yourselves stories,” she chides—but there is a warning here: her husband is the wolf and she herself is the three-headed dragon and some stories must bear the weight of the truth.)
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The dragon and the wolf sit on thrones made of iron and conquest. But every dream of spring is built on the ashes of winter, every reign made of duty has its secrets, and a fledgling love can be just as potent as lust.
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“This is my first unofficial road trip,” she finally answers. “And considering the start, I hope for it to be my last.”
Jon smiles again. “You can’t let a northern blizzard decide how many road trips you’ll take in the future.”
“It’s faster to fly.”
“The whole point of a road trip,” Jon corrects slowly, “is not to get somewhere quickly. The point is the journey.”
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Take a canceled flight (or five). Add two stubborn exes, a questionable consumption of coffee and candy, a dog having a damned good time playing chaperone in the backseat, and one 24-hour period shut up in a truck with nothing to do except look at the scenery and talk about your feelings.
This is not the trip that Daenerys wanted.
(But perhaps, as it turns out, it is the one she needed.)
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- Part 1 of the road trip series
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interlude: la danse d'hiver (the winter dance) by BlueKiwi
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
18 Dec 2022
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It is the beginning that is the most important, isn’t it? There are many beginnings to this story but in the end, this tale starts with winter and the dragons, as they all do. If you know the stories by heart—and I know you do, little one—you must remember that all stories start with ice and fire.
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As the frost-blue darkness of winter embraces Westeros and fires crackle merrily in homes from Winterfell to Dorne, a mother tells stories to her child of the Dragon Queen and the King in the North.