What are you doing in Winterfell? Or did you read every book in the Citadel already? [pause, sees Sam's expression] What's wrong? Gilly? Is she alright?
She's good.
Little Sam?
Don't you know?
Know what?
Daenerys. She executed my father and brother. They were her prisoners. [pause] She didn't tell you.
I'm so sorry. But we need to end this war.
Would you have done it?
I've executed men who've disobeyed me-
You've also spared men. Thousands of Wildlings, when they refused to kneel!
I wasn't a King.
But you were. You've always been.
I gave up my crown, Sam. [starts to leave] I bent the knee, I'm not King in the North anymore.
I'm not talking about the King in the North, I'm talking about the King of the bloody Seven Kingdoms! [Jon turns back] Bran and I worked it out. I had a High Septon's diary, and Bran had... whatever Bran has.
What're you talking about?
Your mother... was Lyanna Stark. And your father... your real father... was Rhaegar Targaryen. You've never been a bastard. You're Aegon Targaryen, true heir to the Iron Throne. [Jon starts toward him] I'm sorry. I know it's a lot to take in-
[angrily] My father was the most honorable man I ever met. You're saying he lied to me, all my life?!
[shakes his head] Your father- well, Ned Stark- he promised your mother he'd always protect you. And he did, Robert would have murdered you if he knew. You're the true King. Aegon Targaryen, Sixth of his Name, Protector of the Realm, all of it.
Daenerys is our Queen-
She shouldn't be.
That's treason.
It's the truth. You gave up your crown, to save your people. Would she do the same?
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