VIII

(Sansa)

I had a bad feeling that night. I usually have bad feelings, but this time it was different. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't stay quiet. I was just wondering where he was… It was almost dawn when he showed up. I was sitting a chair when the door opened and when his eyes found mine I knew: he discovered. Somehow, we had a strange connection, somehow, instantly I felt his pain in my own heart. An empty whole, which consumed all the good feelings, I had. He said no word, he just cried. I said no word, I just held him. He ran into my arms and I felt his tears wetting my dress. I would prefer to be raped by Joffrey then to be obligated to see him crying, to see him hurt. He didn't deserve it.

"What is wrong with me? Tell me, please! I never wanted to be born! I never asked for this! I never had the intention to kill my mother; I never wanted to be a dwarf! It just happened, it was not my fault!" I heard those words so sadly, it was so painful. I couldn't stand his suffering; I couldn't stand his tears "I am just another world abomination…" I held his face with my hands and I cleaned his tears with my thumbs

"You are not. You are my husband, my guardian angel, my friend"

"If I am all this, why does the world try to swallow me?"

"World is not used to have extraordinary people like you living on it. Very often, people are mean and cruel. But there are people like you, merciful, brave, kind and extraordinary" He lay on my chest, I caressed his blonde hair

"Your words are so nice… Do I deserve them?"

"You do"

(Tyrion)

I never knew how it was to lay in the arms of a mother. My mother died when I was born, everything I know about her is what I heard. But I think it was similar to be laid in Sansa's arms. Not the same thing but similar, because I felt protected there. I know it should be the opposite, but women who think men do not need to feel sheltered are wrong: we generally suffer from deep absence of feelings because world thinks we don't need them. I felt ever heartbeat, every deep breath and I could almost read her thoughts. I never knew one was able to fell like this without sex, this connection, this thing.

"I never received so many affection. Actually I never received any"

"Good to know. Now I will overflow your heart with affection," she answered calmly. Someone knocked the door

"Wait a little, I will kill the bastard who is knocking the door" I said and she smiled. When I opened a guard said

"The queen asks to see you, Lord Tyrion"

"Great, let's start a morning with a sweet talk to my sister… I don't think so"

"Tyrion, you should go. I won't go anywhere, I promise" Sansa said. I took her hand and kissed it

"I will be back"

Cercei was in black. "Our father is gone," she said

"Oh pity. Well, when does the party start?" I joked

"Don't be silly Tyrion. You know why you are here. That hooker you used to fuck was there as well"

"I do not know about hookers. I have often violated my Lady wife's vagina with my member and only hers"

"You killed them. You killed them both, didn't you?"

"Can you prove?"

"No"

"I didn't" Cersei looked angrily at me

"I could arrest you for that"

"No if you are in debt with me"

"What?"

"Think, my Lady Sister, if he is not here to command you anymore, what it means? If I really killed him as you say, what did I give to you? I released you from your marriage to Lord Loras. Youown me" My house is not a house that usually follows traditions, but there is just one to be followed:

"A Lannister always pays his debts" She said "Anyway, you should get ready for the funeral" I left that room with a strange feeling, an impulse I would say, a will to run and scream, laugh and fly… That was happiness.