The gates to Winterfell opened and Brienne saw him instantly despite being far away. She walked over to the gates and heard him arguing with the guards.
"This is not a trick, I need to speak to the King of the North and the Dragon Queen. It's very important and you need to let me in now." He said, not having noticed Brienne approaching him, Bronn and the guards.
"If you are who you say you are why would you be here?" Asked one of the guards.
"How about you don't make the same mistake as you did with not believing Lady Arya and let Ser Jaime and Ser Bronn in." Said Brienne, who was now right by the men with Jaime looking at her.
She would not look at him. She had been so angry following their encounter in the Dragonpit that she had not spoken for days on the journey back to Winterfell. It was all well and good that Cersei had agreed to send troops to the North to help the battle of the dead and Brienne was happy about that.
She was however, not happy about the way Jaime had turned her back on her in the Dragonpit and acted so cold towards her. It made her unable to think about Jaime as anything but the man he was when they had first met. He was firmly back under Cersei's thumb and her puppet. She admired his loyalty and sense of honour when it came to his sister but even she knew with her idealistic perceptions of honour and loyalty that there comes a point in which a person has to push beyond that.
She could not look at him because she knew it would break her heart.
"If you say so." Said the guard and moving out of the way to let Jaime and Bronn, who had already dismounted their horses and were walking in.
Jaime was still looking at Brienne.
"You could try and look a little happier to see me wench." He said, smirking at her.
She didn't know what made her do it but it felt ridiculously good. She slapped Jaime and turned to walk towards Pod.
"I'm going to let everyone know that they are here. Please can you take them to the main hall whilst I do so?" She asked the young boy.
" I y-y-yes m-my lady."
"Thank you Podrick."
With that, she walked inside to find King Jon, Queen Daenerys and Lady Sansa, fully aware that everyone in the courtyard was staring at her with their mouths wide open after what she did to Jaime.