got drabble - the best kind of irony (robert/lyanna)
@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.
Read at Ao3.
