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Jon, Daenerys, & Wife Stealing.
And when the Thief was in the Moonmaid, that was a propitious time for a man to steal a woman, Ygritte insisted. "Like the night you stole me. The Thief was bright that night."
"I never meant to steal you," he said. "I never knew you were a girl until my knife was at your throat."
"If you kill a man, and never mean t', he's just as dead," Ygritte said stubbornly.
A Storm of Swords, Jon III
If he loved you, he would come and carry you off at swordpoint, as Rhaegar carried off his northern girl, the girl in her insisted, but the queen knew that was folly. Even if her captain was mad enough to attempt it, the Brazen Beasts would cut him down before he got within a hundred yards of her.
A Dance With Dragons, Daenerys VII
Amongst the free folk, when a man desires a woman, he steals her, and thus proves his strength, his cunning, and his courage. The suitor risks a savage beating if he is caught by the woman's kin, and worse than that if she herself finds him unworthy.
A Dance With Dragons, Jon XIII
I'm quite convinced that if when Jon & Daenerys finally meet in the upcoming books, there's gonna be some symbolic wife-stealing going on. Ever since Jon accidentally stole Ygritte, wife-stealing as proof of a man's love & ability to provide has been a reoccurring theme in his narrative with the Free Folk. And here we have Daenerys, halfway across the world with no exposure to the custom, wishing that Daario, a man whom she is very much in love with, would steal her away at swordpoint as proof of his love for her. She even compares the daydream to what she believes happened between Rhaegar & Lyanna, where her much-idolized older brother "carried off his northern girl." The thought of a man she desires carrying her off in the night clearly seems quite romantic to her.
I think Jon will somehow "carry off" Daenerys, symbolically making them man & wife. and unlike when he first took Ygritte, this wife-stealing won't be an accident. Maybe he'll even do it when the Thief is in the Moonmaid. (note: throughout the books Daenerys is associated with the moon & lunar imagery a lot.)
But I think the irony of the situation will come in here:
"He's of my village. You know nothing, Jon Snow. A true man steals a woman from afar, t' strengthen the clan. Women who bed brothers or fathers or clan kin offend the gods, and are cursed with weak and sickly children. Even monsters."
A Storm of Swords, Jon III
When Jon steals/falls in love with/marries/allies with Daenerys, he'll be under the impression that he's "strengthening the clan" (aka his family & the North itself) by partnering a woman who he believes to be as far from being kin as one could possibly get. Only to find out, lo and behold, they've secretly been aunt & nephew this whole time! oops : /