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Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Roose Bolton/Catelyn Tully Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark & Robb Stark Characters: Catelyn Tully Stark, Roose Bolton Additional Tags: POV Catelyn Tully Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark Lives, Past Catelyn Tully Stark/Ned Stark, Canon Divergence - Red Wedding | Roslin Frey and Edmure Tully's Wedding Goes Differently, Heavy Angst, Grief/Mourning, Dreadfort (A Song of Ice and Fire), Captivity, Gothic, Warning: Roose Bolton, Horror, Mentioned Theon Greyjoy, Supernatural Elements, Betaed, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:
“No mother deserves to watch her children die,” she had overheard a guard mentioning once, though she had not seen his face nor the coat of arms he bore in his chest. Am I still a mother if I have no children left to me? Catelyn wondered. Is an apple tree still a tree after it's been carved out? She found it hard to swallow. Did the Lord of Leeches crave the woman or the statue?
Catelyn is spared in the Red Wedding on the orders of the same lord that killed her son. Brought to the Dreadfort alongside his forces, she finds her heart has grown hollow amidst tragedy. Even so, Roose Bolton is a strange man with stranger vices, and teaches her there is still a strange sort of thrill to feeling fear.













