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[HARDHOME; SHORE]
[The people continue to rush onto the boats with JON, TORMUND, and KARSI leading them.]
[Hold the line! Hold the line!]
"Lord Commander!"
"Get them to the ship and come back for me!"
"Get on the boat you fool!" Lyanna hissed angrily and in fear.
"He can't" Rickard shook his head. "He's the one that leads them. As the leader, it is his responsibility to save as many of those people as he can. He is doing what any good leader would do."
"I don't care what he should do as a leader! He needs to get on there!"
"If I do that they won't trust me." Jon explained
Lyanna's bottom lip trembled.
"I just want you to be safe" she whispered.
"I'm here" Jon assured her, both her hands in his as he kissed the knuckle on each. "I am here."
Lyanna gripped his hand tightly, her own shaking slightly.
"I'm here" Jon assured her gently once more.
Lyanna nods, looking back at the vision.
[KARSI approaches JON.]
"You should be on one of those boats."
"So should you! My little girl has gone on. They're gonna let them pass the wall even if you're not there?"
"From what we've seen...
"You don't have to finish that sentence" Jon muttered.
Robb gave a small nod.
"You have my word. I've given orders."
"He has too much faith in these people" Arya muttered to herself.
"Don't think you're gonna be there to enforce those orders!"
[KARSI heads back to helping people onto the boats.]
"If they get through, everyone dies!"
"Night's Watch with me! Move! Move! Move!"
[JON, TORMUND, KARSI, and the Night's Watch brothers charge from the shore to the gate. The wights have knocked a hole into the gate big enough to crawl out of. One breaks through, tears someone apart, and then is taken down. A group of wights storm through the same hole. Cut to an overhead that shows just how many wights are behind the gate.]
"Get on the boats, please" Ned whispered, his jaw slack and eyes horrified at the sight. There was no way these men would last against that many. They needed to pull away now.
[JON arrives at the gate. He pins a wight to the gate with Longclaw as TORMUND and KARSI kill the wights that have already gotten through. The archers take out the wight JON pinned to the gate, and then the men cover the hole the wights had been escaping from with a sledge.]
Arya and Bran shifted in their seats before getting up to go to Jon. They both sat at his feet, leaning back against them.
"You have chairs..."
"We know" Bran muttered.
They said nothing more.
[Fighting continues. A group of wights tear into a Crow. LOBODA and KARSI continue to kill the wights. Jon looks up through the mist and sees 4 WHITE WALKERS on horseback on the top of the cliff.]
"The generals of the army" Stannis muttered.
"How do they control such a large army?" Renly muttered, "I know we do it with our second in commands and lieutenants and whatnot, but what do they have? There's just four of them."
"They are all psychically connected" Jon explained. "Each Walker can raise the dead and the dead become enslaved to it. With only a thought they can control their raised, like a puppeteer with his strings.
"As if they had to get any more terrifying" the Lord of Storm's End muttered.
"The Dragonglass!"
"You're with me, lad! Now!"
[JON and LOBODA charge towards the cabin. JON cuts a wight in half then kills another. The giant breaks through a wall in the cabin as the cabin starts to go down in flames. He shakes the wights off of his back, snapping some in half and stomping others into pieces.]
"That's some brute strength" Yara muttered, wide-eyed in wonder. She had not yet met a man that could do that. Then again, the giants were not just men.
[JON and LOBODA storm the cabin. The entire cabin is on fire. A WHITE WALKER wielding a staff walks towards them through the fire.]
Lyanna squeezed Jon's hands tighter, while Robb, Bran and Arya leaned closer to the boy.
Jon watched, silent and appraising.
"Get the glass."
[LOBODA walks towards the WHITE WALKER as JON scrambles towards the Dragonglass. LOBODA misses with his axe twice, getting it caught in the wall. He pulls it out to parry in time, but the WHITE ALKER'S spear shatters his axe. The Walker plunges his spear through Loboda's stomach.]
"Fuck" Brandon whispered in fear and rage. With the wildling down, it only left Jon...
[JON reaches the glass but is thrown across the room by the WHITE WALKER before he can pick it up, causing Longclaw to fly out of the cabin.]
"No!" Lyanna sobbed, her entire body shaking in terror. Not here, this couldn't be it for Jon.
Rhaegar's grip on his chair tightened as he watched. This was the threat his family had been waiting for, the threat he'd been trying to counter. And now his son was fighting it alone...
[JON ducks from the WHITE WALKER'S swings with his spear, and runs out to grab another sword. The WHITE WALKER swings and shatters the sword. He knocks JON down again.]
Ned gripped his wife tightly, watching his nephew battle a living force of nature. He's going to lose him here, out where nobody could help him. He'd become part of the undead and soon raze the Seven Kingdoms and serve a master who'd bring forth an age of darkness.
He had never felt so powerless than now, watching all his children suffer while he could do nothing.
[JON struggles, then gets up again, running to pick up Longclaw. He stumbles and drops the sword. The WHITE WALKER swaggers towards him. JON picks up Longclaw just in time to match the WHITE WALKER, and to both of their surprise, Longclaw stops the WHITE WALKER'S spear.]
The hall collectively inhales sharply.
"He stopped it!" Arya cheered.
"He has a chance!" Bran joined in.
[The WHITE WALKER deflects one blow from JON, but then he swings and shatters the WHITE WALKER into pieces.]
The Starks erupted into cheers. Lyanna sobbed from relief, while Arya, Bran and Robb gripped Jon tightly, the former two hugging him while the latter gripping his shoulder. Arms wrapped around Jon's neck from behind over his shoulders and a chin rested on his head. Sansa had come up to him at some point. Brandon let out a laugh from relief, Ned hugged Catelyn close as he smiled and tears ran down his face. Rickard looked relieved and older than his age.
"How did you know that Valyrian Steel would work like that?" Rhaegar asked Jom. The Prince was shaking, his words stumbling out of him.
"I saw it." Jon answered, watching the vision intently. Then he turned to Rhaegar. "Greenseing is really helpful sometimes."
Rhaegar looked over to his son, currently dogpiled by his cousins. He shook his head and smiled. He still didn't feel that he belonged there...
"How many houses have Valyrian Steel swords?" Robert asked Jon Arryn.
"A few... not enough."
The King hit the arm of his chair in frustration.
"Look for them. Keep looking until every last one of them has been found. I don't care from where we are going to get them all."
Jon Arryn nodded.
[JON falls to the ground after the struggle. The NIGHT'S KING watches him alone from the top of the cliff.]
"He's been noticed" Varys muttered in worry.
"Someone needs to get him out of there now" Gendry whispered.
Jon Snow may have been a bastard, but he was a royal bastard raised like a highborn bastard. And even then he cared about the people, small and alike, enemy or ally.
This was the kind of nobility Gendry could get behind.
[HARDHOME; GATE]
[TORMUND and KARSI continue to tear through wights. KARSI looks up and sees a group of blue-eyed wight children staring at her. They do nothing for a moment, then charge at her, chewing and clawing her to death.]
"No..." Shireen whimpered. She had children waiting for her, children who loved her and who she loved. She couldn't just die here.
Stannis put an arm around his daughter and held her close.
[Cut to JON crawling across the snow, coughing up blood. A man grabs him and JON puts Longclaw to his neck. The man turns out to be EDD and they lower their weapons.]
"Oh thank the gods" Myrcella whispered in relief. Someone was there to help him...
"The Dragonglass!"
"Fuck the glass! We're gonna die here."
[A screech comes from the top of the cliff. Hundreds of wights dive from the top of the cliff. They appear to have died for a brief moment after landing, but then wake up and charge at JON and EDD.]
"Run!" Tommen screamed.
The Starks, all busy expressing their relief, snapped out of it. The danger was now once more in their focus and they were all tense once more.
[TORMUND continues to hold the gate. The gate starts creaking then comes down. TORMUND runs to the boat. WUN WUN starts roaring as the other gate comes down, swinging a fiery log. JON, TORMUND, and EDD sprint towards the boat with the giant clearing a path for them with the log. The NIGHT'S KING continues to watch them from the top of the cliff.]
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