Y/N POV:

“But I dont want to go!” I complain to my mother and father as my hand maidens packed up my bags

“Y/n darling we wish there was some other option but we dont, this is the only way the Island can remain separate from the rule of the iron throne” my mother explains “we promise we will visit and as soon as you bare a son you and your betroth can come to the island and live in the castle” she says

“so I just have to what! sit and wait up in the mountains for that stupid boy to impregnate me” I complain trying to make the hand maidens stop packing my things

“Basicly yes” my father shrugs

“why cant I rule over Limia alone, why must I marry?” I ask

“you know the law Y/n only a princess married can take the throne of Limia” my mother explains

“fine then why cant I marry a boy from the island? hold a archery contest or something” I suggest

“you know you cant marry a commoner you must at least have a lord, you have been betrothed to the son of house reed your whole life y/n why is this suddenly a problem?” my father sighs having some wine

“Because father, I have never even met the boy, our marriage was arranged before I even came out to womb, and he was what four months old? neither of us had any say in it!” I complain “and if I am to return as queen of Limia why doesn’t he just come here” I complain

“because you are to become a reed Y/n weather you like it or not, you are going to become Y/n reed so you must go there to marry then return here if you so choose to take your throne” my father laughs

“once I pump a baby out can i divorce him?” I ask

“once I have a grand son you can have him murdered if you want” my mother laughs as I grab my bear from someone who was trying to back it

“I’m sure he isn’t that bad y/n, he is a lord after all” my father laughs

“No he is not, his father is” I complain cuddling my bear

“yeah and your not royalty, your parents are” my father laughs “just learn to love him y/n and hope the boy is shooting straight” my dad laughs

“dont you remember, y/n all the little letters you used to write to each other, all those cute little drawings you two used to send to each other when you where little” my mother smiles pulling me to try and make me pack a little bit “dont you remember who got you little bobo bear?” she smiles

“he didn’t, his family just sent it for me” I sigh looking at my bear I had had it since the day I was born it was went by my betroths family for when I was born, my little bobo bear still in as good condition as the day I got him

“I’ve still never met him, I know nothing about him, we haven’t written in years, I dont even know what he looks like, the most I know about him is the little dresses and things his family sends me on my birthday” I complain

“well, just imagine how much he must be looking forward to seeing you for the first time” my mother smiles helping me pick a dress to travel in

JOJEN’S POV:

“But I dont want her here” I complain

“Oh stop complaining Jojen” my father tells me as people began clearing space in my room making space for my soon to be wife “hurry it up she’ll be here in two days” he tells the staff

“But i dont want here here!” I say again “what am i meant to do with her?” I ask

“your meant to give me a bloody grandchild” My father laughs

“but I haven’t heard anything from her in years, and I have never even met the girl, why cant I just not marry whats wrong with not being married?” I complain

“whats wrong? you are my son, your sister may someday give me grandchildren but she will not carry the reed name, you will my son, and y/n is a princess dont forget, imagine it the spawn of house reed ruling over the Island of limia for generations to come” he smirks

“But I dont want to be king of Limia I like it here, as soon as I knock her up she will cart me off to that stupid Island” I complain “and she’s a princess she’ll be a pretty little…well, she wont be very nice, she’ll be all self importance and things at her feet within seconds of the asking” I complain

“you used to like the idea of marrying her” he laughs

“Once, when I was a kid, she at least used to write to me then, I knew bloody something about her, the most I get now is a note on my birthday with something nice, and maybe a note from her about whatever stupid thing you sent for her on her birthday, I have no idea what she’s like at all, she could be the biggest bitch this side of the wall” I complain

“well, whatever she is, your going to have to get used to her, your marrying her in a week” he laughs “if all goes wrong once your married move to the Island with her have one child, and spend the rest of your life as king drunk off your face with a thousand Whore girls to share your bed” he smirks

“I would rather just not marry her” i complain

“well tough” he laughs….

TIMESKIP:

I stood in the man hall hearing the clattering of the horses on the carriage containing my future wife, what if she’s horrible? what if she’s evil? what if she’s so unattractive I cant even bare being in bed with her? what if she’s a lesbian? or even more concerning, what if she’s beautiful? but I had no time to think as I heard the carriage stop and my father go towards the door I was meant to go with him but I stayed still as the door opened and in stepped a man and woman in long beautiful clothes coming in and looking around

“Your majesty's” My father greeted as they wondered in

“Oh Halon my good man how are you it’s been years” the man greeted my father “Long since we met on the field” he smiled

“too long your highness” my father explained

“just go with Arthur Halon you know me” he smiled

“and your majesty Madam Maria I have not seen you since we met to agreed these two’s union” my father smiled greeting this woman

“well where is my son in law?” she smiled

“Jojen get over here” My father yelled so I sighed going over and greeting them

“My, my, I haven’t seen you since you where a baby” she smiled “my god how you have grown, my daughter will be impressed, I am if she isnt” she laughed

“well where is she?” my father asked

“she’s-” she began turning around “Oh for goodness sake” she sighed “Y/n come along” she shouted to outside and slowly but surely a girl stepped in a little younger then me she stood in a beautiful flowing blue dress it hanging from her curvaceous form as if the dress was a part of her body her body beautiful her long Y/C/H hung in little curls and waves down onto her shoulders and chest her face so sweet and pretty hardly aged at all she looked at her parents a little scared as her mother took her hand bringing her closer to me….

Y/N POV:

“Oh for goodness sake” she sighed “Y/n come along” she shouted to me so I sighed stepping slowly inside this house into a huge hall where my parents stood greeting some aged man with war scars on his face stood beside a boy he looked…almost younger then me, he was dressed nicely but clearly didn’t like it, his fluffy dirty blonde hair out of place where he had been messing with it his brown eyes watching me as I stepped in letting my mother take my hand her having to pull me along to bring me closer to this boy both my father and the older man smirked as my mother let me go and I stood only a few inches from this boy

“Suppose we should leave the young lovers alone to get all acquainted” my father laughed so my mother went off with some other woman I do remember from when we used to write he did have a sister so my mother obviously went off with her and my father went off with his obviously to drink leaving us two alone I stood fiddling with my fingers for a very long time longer then we should have until atlast he spoke to me

“Hello y/n” he said sounding rather annoyed

“Hello jojen” I sigh

“would you like to go for a walk?” he suggested

“I suppose so” I sigh and he wondered off towards a door so i followed him out into the gardens we both wondered though not talking at all I was more paying attention to the flowers then to him “so….uh…” i stuter

“dont bother, I know you dont want to talk to me, your just making a show for your parents” he sighs

“Excuse me!” I say in surprise “as much as i dont like it, I do have to marry you, I would like to have at least had one decent conversation with my husband before our wedding day” I explain

“well sorry Princess doesn’t look like that is going to happen” he tells me

“your being very rude to me” I complain stopping completely

“what do you want me to be! I’m being forced to marry some pretty little princess in three days, who I have never met before!” he complains

“yeah and Im being forced to marry some stuck up boy who i have also never met, at least as a baby you got some kind of not on it I wasn’t even bloody born yet when your daddy picked me out to be your wife so dont go all high and mighty on me!” I complain

“if your really going to be my wife I can talk to you how ever I like!” he yells

“and your going to be my husband so I can talk to you however I like!” I yell back

“Oh no you can not princess like it or not but your going to be a reed in three days so your going to have to learn to do what I say!” he yells at me

“dont you dare speak to me like that!” I yell back “Look…neither of us are happy about this, but we have to just grow up and live with it, neither of us can get out of it, and neither of us can get out of it without the other, all we have to do is make a son and we can go our separate ways from there, so just man up jojen and be prepared for a active wedding night because I want rid of you as soon as possible” I explain

“like wise princess” he sighs as we continue to walk though the gardens

“what are those?” I ask pointing to a flower

“Snap dragons” he shrugs

“we dont have them in Limia” I smile “they are very pretty”

“I will have some taken with us when we go to Limia then” He sighs “as I assume you want to go home once we are married” he sighs

“I will, I would like to have my child in Limia if possible, I take it you want to stay here?” I ask

“very much so” he sighs

“I’m sure we can work something out, if that even is you want to see your child after It’s born” I sigh

“I would like too, cant leave it all to you you’ll….Royalty it up to much” He sighs

“whats that suppose to mean?” I ask a little angry

“nothing princess” He sighs

“why did you never write me back?” I ask after a while of walking

“you said you where to busy for me, with princess practice and such” he shrugs “I wasn’t aware when princess training ended” he sighs

“when I turned sixteen” I explain “I tried to write, I could never think of what to say to you” I shrug

“I had the same problem, I didn’t think you wanted to talk to me” he sighed

“I did jojen, time just got away from me” I sigh

JOJEN’S POV:

“Yeah…it got away from me too” I tell her

“can I ask…all those presents? did you ever have any say in it?” she laughed

“what the dresses? not often, they normal held up two and said which one goes to you and the other went to my sister” I shrug “what about the stuff from you?” I ask her

“I normally had a lot of say in it” she smiles “my father normally gave me a thousand and sent me off into the snow market on Limia, I normally found something to send off to you even if it wasn’t the best” she explains

“why did you send me a frog in a jar once?” I ask her

“I thought you might find it funny” she smiled “do you still have it?” she asks

“yeah, it’s in my room somewhere” I shrug “It was kinda funny” I laugh

“Jojen, I know I seem like a horrible stressy princess, but I want to try, your the closest thing to a friend I’ve ever had” she says

“I would like to try, but… I dont know if this will ever work” I sigh

“but we can try at least?” she suggests

“Okay, we try” I smile moving my hand to tap her’s and she giggled moving her finger against my hand

“I’m not used to people touching me” she said a little scared as I kept moving my fingers around her hand and she did the same “I’m used to you being so far away, it funny to think your here, infront of me” she smiles

“I used to imagine how we would meet when we where little, I didnt think we would spend the first of it yelling at each other” I laugh

“neither did i…when I was little I used to.. its silly” she giggles intertwining her fingers with mine “I used to think when I met you, the first thing I would do was…. kiss you” she blushed “pay you back for the kisses you used to put on the end of your letters” she giggled moving a little closer to me

“I used to think that too…proper fairy tale first kiss” I laugh “I thought about it” I blush “when I first saw you” I tell her slightly leaning in wanting to kiss her

“then why didn’t you” she smiles our lips an inch away from each other

“So how’s the happy couple getting along” My father smirks making us stop everything we where doing as both her father and mine stood there as well as her mother

“fine” I sigh

“ahhh see I said they would warm up to each other” her father laughed “but dont warm up to her too much boy you haven’t married my daughter yet” he laughed

“yes sir” I sigh

“well, we will leave you too to get on” her mother smiled pulling both my and her father away from us so we continued walking alone both of us a little giggly from all that…

“No I remember you telling me, you said your dad killed you for digging up the garden about it” she laughs as we walk

“it was your fault, your the one who said, your father left a gold bar buried under my window” I laugh

“you didnt think I was kidding?” she laughs

“No, your the one who got stuck in the rafters for two hours” I laugh

“It was once, I was doing dance practice and I got stuck I noted the ties up and I had to hand for two hours” she sighs

“that was so funny when I read it” I laugh just as It began to rain so we quickly ducked into the little wooden summer house in the garden shutting the door behind us as we sat down in here our clothes already wet though “you know princess, when I was little, I think I really did like you” I blush

“I liked you too, but…maybe a little more then liked you” she blushed twisting water out her hair

“what do you mean?” I ask her

“well…I used to sit and, read over your letters and I kinda…had a little crush on you” she blushed

“really?” I ask her and she nods “I kinda had a crush on you too” I blush moving to take her hand again but she moves away from me

“sorry, I should have told you, in limia a princess must not be touched by anyone but her family” she said a little worried “not until she’s married” she sighs

“so…I cant even hold your hand until our wedding?” I ask her and she shakes her head “Princess? just once in your life break the rules” I smirk moving to press my lips against hers