GoT challenge

[Guest R+L=J]

Post-series, assumes R+L=J

So, the end has come, the White Walkers defeated, Daenerys has taken the Iron Throne and established peace in Westeros (it's hard to argue with a dragon, much less three of them). But there's a problem with one of the seven kingdoms. Daenerys needs someone trustworthy as Warden of the North, both to handle any issue that may come up with the Wall and what lies beyond, and because the North has rebelled twice in less than twenty years.

But it's not as simple as just picking someone and putting them in charge. She needs someone who knows and is familiar with the North and how things are done there. More than that, there's the issue of the lords of the North. As long as even a single member of House Stark survives, the men of the North would have them as the Lord of Winterfell and no other, and while Ned Stark's sons are all gone in various ways, both his daughters remain. Except Daenerys doesn't think of Sansa or Arya as trustworthy, after the time they spent around Littlefinger and the Faceless Men. So what she needs is someone she can trust, that's familiar with the North and its people, that can be accepted by the northerners without needing too much fire to convince them.

Fortunately, her nephew is exactly what she needs. Honorable to a fault, raised and educated in the North by a Lord of Winterfell alongside the man who would become the King in the North. He fits the part, in looks and demeanor. As for any issues with taking Winterfell from the Starks, she'll just have him marry Sansa. With that, she concludes the situation has been suitably resolved.

And since even her nephew doesn't dare argue with the Mother of Dragons, for fear of getting to know his "cousins" and their fire, that's how the situation is going to go. Jon Targaryen will go to Winterfell, marry his cousin Sansa, and be named Warden of the North.

Well, they and Arya are all happy enough to be together in Winterfell again, but the situation is a bit awkward. And made worse by the fact that Arya's half out of her mind after her time at the House of Black and White. Without reminders of who she is, she worries she'll slip away and become no one, so naturally when the person she was closest to as a child comes back, she latches onto him, which makes the marriage to Sansa all the more uncomfortable. Arya gets increasingly jealous, trying to remind Jon of how distant Sansa was when they were younger, wanting him to remain HERS.

It all comes to a head when they realize they're all they have left, and that they'd rather all stay together. And so goes the story of the Lord and Lady of Winterfell and the shadow that followed everywhere, even to their marriage bed.