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Happiness [Working Title] by saltywench
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
20 Oct 2022
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Life is a funny thing. You can be as careful as you want, sensible in everything that you do, live up to both your family’s and society’s expectations and, putting it bluntly, wind up in Robb Stark’s position. That is to say, dead. Not that Robb had exactly been sensible. He had been known to have his lapses in judgement. But the point still stands; if Robb was dead and Theon was still living there was something fundamentally wrong with the world. By all rights, Theon should be in the ground with him, or in some funeral parlour as the case may be. It had been him inviting death, often with open arms.
He never wanted it like this. That’s all Jon can think every single time he’s needed to make even the smallest of inane decisions. Because somehow he’s found himself in a position where he’s the person in the family people go to for opinions. He’s dreamt of being out of Robb’s shadow, but he’d take a lifetime of darkness if it would bring his brother back. There’s a voice in the back of his mind that tells him this is his fault, that he’s willed it into existence, like it’s a cautionary tale one might tell children. Be careful what you wish for, kids, you might inadvertently put a family member six feet under.