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paris is always a good idea | a Jonerys Drabble

Thank you @youwerenevermine for my wonderful birthday gift, I love it so much and I love Paris so much and Jonerys and you for making this for me so I felt inspired and wrote a quick little drabble thing, lol. It’s only the fourth time I’ve written Jonerys in a modern, non-Westeros world, but it was fun! And I wanna’ go back so much! Paris, je t’aime!

They met while in university, oddly enough, as fate would have it, on her birthday.

She had been there to study art, for a year abroad, savoring every last second wandering the wide, arched hallways of the Louvre, staring at grand masters for hours on end, burning the vibrant colors and mesmerizing brushstrokes into her memory, wishing she could be as good as them one day. One day, someone would have her art in their house, and proudly boast they'd gotten it back when she was but a nobody, painting on the streets or in the grassy parks.

Since it was her birthday, she decided to treat herself, and instead of heading straight to the university to get some time in the studio, she decided to get an ice cream at Berthillon, heading to the Ile-St-Louis instead of to the metro, taking her time to admire, as she often did, the glory of Notre Dame, it’s gargoyles and buttresses.

At the glacier she took her time selecting a flavor, did not even mind paying the exorbitant price and shouldered through tourists taking refuge from a cold rain that had begun to fall. She savored it, the clean water bouncing off her peat coat and the beanie she’d tugged over her silver hair.

She was about to set off, to eat her ice cream and wander into the Marais, perhaps drop down into the Latin Quarter— maybe take a trip to Chanel or Dior or Celine to admire the creations she couldn’t afford— when her ice cream went flying, straight onto the wet sidewalk. Where a mass of pidgins attacked it with gusto.

“Merde! Faites attention!” she shouted, stomping her Doc Marten on the ground in petulant annoyance.

The man who had bumped her because he’d been roughhousing with another friend had been apologetic. He bought her another and said his name was Robb Stark. He was from Scotland, was on spring break with his buddies, which she didn’t care about. To apologize he invited her for a drink, especially when the worker who she’d told it was her birthday had commented on it again when she got another ice cream.

She figured why not? He was attractive, sorry, and nice enough so she agreed, although she had commented his French was terrible best to speak English. “You’re English?” he had teased.

“Half and half,” she answered. English father, French mother.

At the comptoir where she suggested they meet, in Montmartre, she brought her roommate Missandei and Missandei’s boyfriend Grey. It was just a drink and they’d leave and go to the dinner Missandei planned to take her to anyway.

Except that’s where she met him.

The dark, brooding figure at the tiny table in the corner, ignoring Robb and Robb’s friend Theon, and a couple others, favoring silence and his drink. He was in all black, barely acknowledging her and slipped out for a smoke when Robb began to shamelessly flirt. She didn’t care about Robb, she cared about him.

Jon.

She exited, saw him lighting a cigarette against a lap post. She flicked her coat collar up and sidled towards him. “Puis-j’en avoir un?”

“Sorry I don’t speak,” he began, and his eyes— black in the orange lamplight glow— flicking to her. He smiled gently “French.”

She smiled and repeated her question in English. “Can I have one? A smoke that is?”

He stuck the cigarette between his pouty, sinful lips, framed with a cropped dark beard, and reached into his coat pocket, removing a pack. She took one delicately and he lit it, cupping his hands around the tip so the wind didn’t blow it out.

A stream of smoke escaped her nostrils when she puffed and she smiled up at him, hoping he got the hint. “Do you like Paris?”

“Not especially.”

“Aw come on,” she teased. She hummed, closing her eyes and taking in the cold night. The electric buzz is people on the street and at the cafes and bars around them. “Paris is always a good idea.”

“Someone famous said that.”

“Audrey Hepburn.”

He sucked on the cigarette and smiled, a tiny one, the curve of his lip sly rather than shy. “You aren’t in there with the rest of them.”

“Because it’s my birthday and I want to do what I want to do.” She stubbed the cigarette out on the post and turned, disposing it in the bin by the door. A quick text to Missandei: I’m going to skip dinner, I think I have a date, she turned and studied him. “I’m…”

“Dany,” he said. He shrugged, finishing his smoke. “I remember.”

Her eyes narrowed. “I didn’t think you were listening when Robb introduced me.”

“I was.” He pulled the tartan scarf around his neck tighter. He glanced towards Sacré-Cœur, illuminated white in the lights around its base. He smirked at her. “You going back in?”

She shook her head. “No,” she drawled. She followed his gaze to Sacré-Cœur. “Have you been up there?”

“No.”

“You should. Some of the best views of Paris.”

He chuckled, voice tight. “You should invite Robb.”

“I think he might be a third wheel.”

It took him a second, the gears in his mind turning, understanding what she was saying. He cocked his head. His black curls were in a mess around his face. A few scattered rain drops landed on them, and he shook it free like a dog. Or a wolf, she thought, noting the animal embroidered on the edge of his scarf.

He narrowed his eyes again. “I told you I don’t really like Paris.”

“Why?”

“It’s loud. Busy. Dirty.”

She laughed. “Every city is like that but in Paris it’s different.”

“Why?”

Her bravado got the better of her and she stepped towards him, linking her arm through his. If he didn’t get it now, he was a stupid fool who deserved it when she kicked him into the gutter. “Because,” she murmured, rising to her toes, trying to gaze as directly as she could into his eyes, which she now saw were actually gray. His breathing quickened. “You’re with me.”

The wolf got the point with that comment. He allowed her to keep her arm around his and lead him towards the cathedral. They spoke of nothing and anything on the long walk through Montmartre to the highest point in the city.

He was in Paris for a research trip. He was studying medieval weapons and was going out to Bayeux to study some relics. His cousin Robb and friends came along for the free trip. They spoke about being starving artists in their field-- her literally an artist as it were. They talked about Paris-- how much he disliked it, how much she adored it. The top of Sacre-Coeur might have changed his mind, but he pretended he still didn’t get the appeal, so she dragged him back down to the streets, to her favorite all-night boulangerie, into the metro and across town to the Eiffel Tower, spinning in circles on the Champs du Mars. They ran across the Pont-de-la-Concorde and across the Tullieries. They wandered down the Seine, smoked cigarettes in the doorsteps of old buildings in the Latin Quarter, and drank cheap wine in one of the tourist-cafes near the Jardin du Luxembourg.

They meandered back through the streets, the city oddly quiet, the rain stopping, and she brought him to her garret studio in the Bastille, up the six flights of stairs to the top of the building, where she shed her coat and boots adn scratched her fat cat Drogon’s ears, leading him to the wrought-iron bars in one of the four windows she had, pushing the window open and crawling out, up onto the roof where she wanted to show him something.

“Look,” she directed, when he climbed up next to her-- less gracefully-- pointing to the lit-up Eiffel Tower.

He cursed under his breath. “It’s gorgeous.”

“It’s my favorite place in Paris. The rent is steep, but it’s worth it for this.” She chuckled. “And it has the best view.”

He whispered. “Yes, it does.”

And to her surprise, since she didn’t realize the time, the tower began to twinkle, the 20,000 lights across its metal beams flickering and she glanced sideways; he wasn’t watching the tower, but her face. She arched her brows. “You know, the lights twinkle for five minutes every hour, on the hour.” She smiled and shrugged, whispering. “It’s a sign that you’re supposed to return to Paris.”

Instead of saying anything, like how silly that was, he leaned in and cupped her face in his wide palm, callused and warm, bringing her face to meet his, kissing gently, in the twinkly glow of the lights. He pulled back a moment later, breathing, “I think I like Paris. And you’er right...this place has the best view.” His eyes were wide on hers, focused. She chuckled, nodding in agreement, and pulled him back to her for another kiss.

That night she savored every moment with him, as they pulled each other’s clothes off slowly, kissing and touching, every smooth curve and muscle of each other, each hard ridge and plane of his strong, muscular body or her soft, lean one. He touched her and kissed her and stroked her in ways she’d never experienced, bringing her to heights she’d only dreamed about. It was intense, the lights behind her closed eyelids when she came, over and over, gripping his shoulders, hair, the bedframe behind her. He rose up and over her, in and out, their bodies moving as one, thrusting and arching.

She didn’t know if she’d see him again; if this was a one-time, romantic Parisian adventure, but in the morning when she woke, she found him coming back inside from getting pastries and coffees, the faintest scent of cigarettes and her toothpaste on his lips when he kissed her good morning.

They exchanged their information, vowing to speak daily, and he would see her when he got back from Bayeux. She couldn’t believe when he did call and he kept his word. “When you lie, words lose their meaning,” he’d explained, obviously reading her surprise.

And when her year ended in Paris, she found herself in London, back at university, dreaming of their magical time there, even when they made time for each other, going back and forth from London to Edinburgh; and he from Edinburgh to Paris during the last couple of months of her year there.

They made it a priority; every single year they spent time in Paris, like they were students again, on that magical night.

They grew older, no longer needing to find the cheapest drinks and cigarettes, or staying in studio garrets, eventually able to experience some of the best hotels and restaurants the city had to offer, as he sold books and became a well-known author and professor, and her dream of becoming a famous artist came true, when sure enough, someone bought one of her paintings on the side of the Seine, someone who happened to be an art dealer in New York.

It was their city, where they met, and where they could remember.

After they married, about fifteen years after that fateful birthday, they visited again, and spun together on the Pont-Neuf, kissing and murmuring how they loved each other and always would, and he took her back to the tiny studio garret, which was now theirs, and sat on the rooftop and watched the Eiffel Tower sparkle.

“Paris is always a good idea,” she murmured, head in the crook of his neck, her back to his front, wrapped in a warm blanket, and his arms tight around her middle. She tilted her face up to his, sated, and still hopelessly in love with him. “Take me to Paris, Jon.”

He nuzzled his nose into her cheek, whispering. “You are Paris, Dany.”

As it was the city where they’d met, fallen in love, and found true happiness, she grinned, because that was his way of saying how much he loved her. She brushed her lips over his, sighing, “I love you.”

“I love you too.”

And they kissed, as the Eiffel Tower lit up, and she curled up into him, falling asleep in the city of love and lights.

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Wisconsin Map, Capital, Universities, History, Population, Facts

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Wisconsin Map, Capital, Universities, History, Population, Facts

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state is divided into 72 counties.

Wisconsin’s geography is diverse, with the Northern Highland and Western Upland along with a part of the Central Plain occupying the western part of the state and lowlands stretching to the shore of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline.

Wisconsin is known as “America’s Dairyland” because it is one of the nation’s leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology (IT), and tourism are also major contributors to the state’s economy.

State of Wisconsin

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Nickname(s): Badger State; America’s Dairyland (No official nickname) Motto(s): Forward Demonym Wisconsinite Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Largest metro Milwaukee metropolitan area Area Ranked 23rd • Total 65,498.37 sq mi (169,640 km2) • Width 260 miles (420 km) • Length 310 miles (500 km) • % water 17 • Latitude 42° 30′ N to 47° 05′ N • Longitude 86° 46′ W to 92° 53′ W Population Ranked 20th • Total 5,778,708 (2016 est.) • Density 105/sq mi (40.6/km2) Ranked 23rd • Median household income $55,425 (28th) Elevation • Highest point Timms Hill 1,951 ft (595 m) • Mean 1,050 ft (320 m) • Lowest point Lake Michigan 579 ft (176 m) Before statehood Wisconsin Territory Admission to Union May 29, 1848 (30th) Governor Scott Walker (R) Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (R) Legislature Wisconsin Legislature • Upper house Senate • Lower house State Assembly U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R) Tammy Baldwin (D) U.S. House delegation 5 Republicans, 3 Democrats (list) Time zone Central: UTC −6/−5 ISO 3166 US-WI Abbreviations WI, Wis., Wisc. Website www.wisconsin.gov

Wisconsin state symbols

The Flag of Wisconsin

The Seal of Wisconsin

Living insignia Bird American robin Turdus migratorius Fish Muskellunge Esox masquinongy Flower Wood violet Viola sororia Insect Western honey bee Apis mellifera Tree Sugar maple Acer saccharum Inanimate insignia Beverage Milk Dance Polka Food Maize Zea mays Fossil Trilobite Calymene celebra Mineral Galena Motto “Forward” Rock Red granite Slogan America’s Dairyland Soil Antigo silt loam Song “On, Wisconsin!” Tartan Wisconsin tartan State route marker State quarter

Released in 2004

Geography

Wisconsin is bordered by the Montreal River; Lake Superior and Michigan to the north; by Lake Michigan to the east; by Illinois to the south; and by Iowa to the southwest and Minnesota to the northwest. A border dispute with Michigan was settled by two cases, both Wisconsin v. Michigan, in 1934 and 1935. The state’s boundaries include the Mississippi River and St. Croix River in the west, and the Menominee River in the northeast.

With its location between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Wisconsin is home to a wide variety of geographical features. The state is divided into five distinct regions. In the north, the Lake Superior Lowland occupies a belt of land along Lake Superior. Just to the south, the Northern Highland has massive mixed hardwood and coniferous forests including the 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km2) Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, as well as thousands of glacial lakes, and the state’s highest point, Timms Hill. In the middle of the state, the Central Plain has some unique sandstone formations like the Dells of the Wisconsin River in addition to rich farmland. The Eastern Ridges and Lowlands region in the southeast is home to many of Wisconsin’s largest cities. The ridges include the Niagara Escarpment that stretches from New York, the Black River Escarpment and the Magnesian Escarpment.

The bedrock of the Niagara Escarpment is dolomite, while the two shorter ridges have limestone bedrock. In the southwest, the Western Upland is a rugged landscape with a mix of forest and farmland, including many bluffs on the Mississippi River. This region is part of the Driftless Area, which also includes portions of Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota. This area was not covered by glaciers during the most recent ice age, the Wisconsin Glaciation. Overall, 46% of Wisconsin’s land area is covered by forest. Langlade County has a soil rarely found outside of the county called Antigo silt loam.[63]

Education

Wisconsin, along with Minnesota and Michigan, was among the Midwestern leaders in the emergent American state university movement following the Civil War in the United States. By the start of the 20th century, education in the state advocated the “Wisconsin Idea”, which emphasized service to the people of the state. The “Wisconsin Idea” exemplified the Progressive movement within colleges and universities at the time.

Today, public post-secondary education in Wisconsin includes both the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System, with the flagship university University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the 16-campus Wisconsin Technical College System. Private colleges and universities include Alverno College, Beloit College, Cardinal Stritch University, Carroll University, Carthage College, Concordia University Wisconsin, Edgewood College, Lakeland College, Lawrence University, Marquette University, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Ripon College, St. Norbert College, Wisconsin Lutheran College, and others.

List of colleges and universities in Wisconsin

Active institutions School Location(s) Control Type Enrollment (fall 2010) Founded Accreditation Alverno College Milwaukee Private not-for-profit Master’s university 2,759 1887 HLC, CCNE,

NASM, NCATE

Bellin College Green Bay Private not-for-profit Special-focus institution 329 1909 HLC, CCNE Beloit College Beloit Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 1,397 1846 HLC Blackhawk Technical College Janesville Public Associate’s college 3,339 1968 NCA, ADA, APTA,

JRCERT, NLNAC

Bryant & Stratton College–Wauwatosa Wauwatosa Private for-profit Baccalaureate/associate’s college 942 1854 MSCHE, NLNAC Cardinal Stritch University Milwaukee Private not-for-profit Doctoral/research university 5,842 1937 HLC, CCNE, NCATE,

NLNAC

Carroll University Waukesha Private not-for-profit Master’s university 3,396 1846 HLC, ADA, APTA,

CCNE

Carthage College Kenosha Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 3,144 1847 HLC, NASM Chippewa Valley Technical College Eau Claire Public Associate’s college 6,062 1912 HLC, NASM, JRCERT,

NLNAC

College of Menominee Nation Keshena Private not-for-profit Tribal college 615 1993 HLC, NLNAC Concordia University Wisconsin Mequon Private not-for-profit Master’s university 7,484 1881 HLC, ACPE, AOTA,

APTA, CCNE

DeVry University–Wisconsin Milwaukee Private for-profit Special-focus institution 521 1931 HLC Edgewood College Madison Private not-for-profit Doctoral/research university 2,626 1927 HLC, AAMFT,

CCNE, NCATE

Fox Valley Technical College Appleton Public Associate’s college 10,684 1967 HLC, ADA, AOTA,

NLNAC

Gateway Technical College Kenosha Public Associate’s college 9,052 1972 HLC, ADA, APTA, NLNAC Globe University–Eau Claire Eau Claire Private for-profit Associate’s college 728 1885 ACICS, ABHES Herzing University Madison Private not-for-profit Master’s university 6,032 1965 HLC, ABHES, NLNAC High-Tech Institute–Brookfield Brookfield Private for-profit Associate’s college 365 2006 ABHES Kaplan College Milwaukee Private for-profit Associate’s college 578 1937 ACCSC, ACICS Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College Hayward Public Tribal college 489 1982 HLC Lakeland College Plymouth Private not-for-profit Master’s university 3,936 1862 HLC, TEAC Lakeshore Technical College Cleveland Public Associate’s college 3,159 1967 HLC, ABHES,

JRCERT, NLNAC

Lawrence University Appleton Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 1,557 1847 HLC, NASM Madison Area Technical College Madison Public Associate’s college 17,463 1912 HLC, ADA, ADA,

AOA, NLNAC

Madison Media Institute Madison Private for-profit Associate’s college 488 1969 ACICS Maranatha Baptist University Watertown Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 962 1968 HLC Marian University Fond du Lac Private not-for-profit Master’s university 2,881 1936 HLC, CCNE, NCATE Marquette University Milwaukee Private not-for-profit Doctoral/research university 11,806 1881 HLC, ACME, ABA,

ADA, APTA, APA,

ASHA, CCNE, NCATE,

NLNAC

Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee Private not-for-profit Special-focus institution 1,277 1893 HLC, ADA, CEPH, LCME Mid-State Technical College Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point Public Associate’s college 3,430 1911 HLC, NLNAC Midwest College of Oriental Medicine Racine Private for-profit Special-focus institution 99 1979 ACAOM Milwaukee Area Technical College Milwaukee Public Associate’s college 19,827 1912 HLC, ADA, AOTA,

APTA, JRCERT,

NLNAC

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Milwaukee Private not-for-profit Special-focus institution 700 1974 HLC, NASAD Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee Private not-for-profit Master’s university 2,589 1903 HLC, CCNE Moraine Park Technical College Fond du Lac Public Associate’s college 8,484 1912 HLC, JRCERT Mount Mary University Milwaukee Private not-for-profit Master’s university 1,957 1913 HLC, ADA, AOTA Nashotah House Nashotah Private not-for-profit Special-focus institution 114 1842 ATSCA Nicolet Area Technical College Rhinelander Public Associate’s college 1,455 1967 HLC, NLNAC Northcentral Technical College Wausau Public Associate’s college 5,120 1912 HLC, ADA,

JRCERT, NLNAC

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Green Bay Public Associate’s college 9,755 1912 HLC, ADA, APTA,

JRCERT, NLNAC

Northland College Ashland Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 603 1906 HLC Ottawa University–Milwaukee Brookfield Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 405 1865 HLC Rasmussen College–Green Bay Green Bay, Appleton, Wausau Private for-profit Associate’s college 1,342 1900 HLC Ripon College Ripon Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 1,065 1851 HLC Sacred Heart School of Theology Franklin Private not-for-profit Special-focus institution 107 1932 HLC, ATSCA St. Norbert College De Pere Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 2,241 1898 HLC Sanford-Brown College West Allis Private for-profit Associate’s college 1,377 1866 ACICS, ABHES,

JRCERT

Silver Lake College Manitowoc Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 720 1885 HLC, CCNE, NASM Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Fennimore Public Associate’s college 3,431 1967 HLC, APTA, NLNAC University of Phoenix–Madison Campus Madison Private for-profit Special-focus institution 201 1976 HLC University of Phoenix–Milwaukee Campus Brookfield Private for-profit Special-focus institution 583 1976 HLC University of Wisconsin Colleges [note 4] Public Associate’s colleges 14,385 Various HLC University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire Eau Claire Public Master’s university 11,413 1916 HLC, ASHA,

CCNE, NASM

University of Wisconsin–Green Bay Green Bay Public Master’s university 6,636 1965 HLC, ADA, CCNE,

NASM, NLNAC

University of Wisconsin–La Crosse La Crosse Public Master’s university 10,135 1909 HLC, AOTA, APTA,

CEPH, JRCERT, NASM

University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison Public Research university 42,180 1848 HLC, ACPE, ABA,

ADA, AOTA, APTA,

APA, ASHA, AVMA,

CCNE, CEPH, JRCERT,

LCME, NASAD, NASM, NAST

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Milwaukee Public Research university 30,470 1885 HLC, AOTA, APTA,

APA, ASHA, CCNE, NASM

University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh Oshkosh Public Master’s university 13,629 1871 HLC, CCNE, NASM, NCATE University of Wisconsin–Parkside Kenosha Public Baccalaureate college 5,160 1968 HLC University of Wisconsin–Platteville Platteville Public Master’s university 7,928 1866 HLC, NASM, NCATE University of Wisconsin–River Falls River Falls Public Master’s university 6,902 1875 HLC, ASHA, NASM, NCATE University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Stevens Point Public Master’s university 9,500 1894 HLC, ADA, ASHA,

NASAD, NASD,

NASM, NAST

University of Wisconsin–Stout Menomonie Public Master’s university 9,339 1891 HLC, AAMFT, ADA, NASAD, NCATE University of Wisconsin–Superior Superior Public Master’s university 2,856 1893 HLC, NASM University of Wisconsin–Whitewater Whitewater Public Master’s university 11,557 1868 HLC, ASHA, NASAD,

NASM, NAST, NCATE

Viterbo University La Crosse Private not-for-profit Master’s university 3,238 1890 HLC, ADA, CCNE,

NASM, NCATE

Waukesha County Technical College Pewaukee Public Associate’s college 8,102 1923 HLC, ADA, NLNAC Western Technical College La Crosse Public Associate’s college 5,392 1912 HLC, ADA, AOTA,

APTA, JRCERT,

NLNAC

Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College Shell Lake Public Associate’s college 3,925 1972 HLC, NLNAC Wisconsin Lutheran College Milwaukee Private not-for-profit Baccalaureate college 840 1973 HLC Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology Milwaukee Private not-for-profit Special-focus institution 75 1978 HLC, APA

#States and Capitals #Wisconsin

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