#@kal

@bythunder said: Robert and Ned are roommates and Robert keeps hitting on Lyanna to get on Ned’s nerves. Lyanna suggests they pretend to date to really drive Ned crazy, and whoops feelings happened??

a/n: i tried :’D

but of course, of course Robert Baratheon would be the one to sweep her off her feet.

It’s Ned’s fault, kinda.

And not because he brought Robert Baratheon into their lives – Lyanna had been fifteen when that happened, Robert had been twenty. Ned had invited him over for Christmas during his first year of college and that had been it. She remembers coming down the stairs to find this huge guy standing next to her family—he was taller that her father—remembers the bright smile he gave her as he ruffled her hair and called her kid. Kid. Remembers the indignation, and the urge to kick his leg which she smothered only because her parents were right there. The mild shock when his response to Benjen’s “is he another of Ned’s strays?” had been a hearty laugh and a double thumbs-up.

After that, she’d seen him only a handful of times, and each had been a repeat of the last – except the third time, when they’ve been alone with only Ned as a witness and she had kicked him in the chin and told him to never ruffle her hair like a child again.

Derrick had groceries in his arms as he came home from work, just the basic things. Bread. Some meat. Nothing that required actual cooking skills. He didn’t even know why he bothered with pans, they were never used by him out of fear.

Heading up to his apartment he stopped at what looked like two thieves trying to break into his neighbors apartment.

In retrospect, telling more people before being turned into a vampire was probably a good idea. But Clara didn’t want to hear from others how she shouldn’t, or she should wait or anything else. Any excuse and she could’ve been scared out of it.

Besides, it worked, so no one had anything to worry about.

But now of course, she had to tell people that it had worked. Kal, Emery...Nicola. None of them knew, and it wasn’t like she could pretend nothing had changed.

The girls were down for the night and he was relaxing in the living room, having cleaned up the toys around as he watched the TV. Kal was taking a shower and he guessed she would go to bed afterwards, which he'd come upstairs to join her.

Derrick had picked up Yvonne from the train station, smiling as he listened to her excitedly telling him about her ride over. They hadn’t told her that this visit might be a more permanent one, wanting to surprise her instead with it.

"You got a new house?" Yvonne peered out the window as he drove up to the driveway, parking the car.

Derrick held one end of the canopy, standing on the bed as he looked how to put it up. "So tie it there and it should stay right?" He looked at Kal with a smile.