"When did you forgive me?"

Mari lay on her side with her head in hand propped up on an elbow on the bed; a sheet covered her lower half. "What do you mean?"

He mirrored her pose and elaborated, "Well, one minute you were so hateful-vengeful at me. Hating me with a thousand suns and now you're…you're in love with me again."

She shrugged. "I never fell out of love with you, Jaime. It took me a long time to learn to forgive you. I didn't want to."

"What changed?"

She shook her head. "I wish for many things. I wish things were how they were before I went to Winterfell. I liked being alone and yet I couldn't stand it. I want to be Evy again, Jaime. To be normal."

"That's what you think normal is? Nobody's normal."

"To me that life was."

"You mean fighting to live."

"It wasn't like that. I had friends you know. A life."

"A secret life, Mari," Jaime interrupted.

"A normal life," she argued. "I just wish that life could be that simple again."

"It's life. It goes on with or without us even when we're not ready for it to-wait, why are you avoiding the question?"

She scoffed. "I am not."

"Yes, you are. You're talking around why you decided to forgive me?"

"Well…Jaime, you broke my heart," she said in exasperation in a quick breath as she sat up straight. "You-You lied to me in worst possible kind of way. You were everything to me, Jaime. I trusted you and you broke my heart. Lied to me."

"Why did you forgive me then," he snapped and sat up as well. "Hate me forever. Why does it matter?"

"I really don't know why I forgave you, Jaime." She confessed. "It just occurred to me that I can't lose another person I love because now I only have you and Tyrion…and Oberyn."

She touched his cheek and cupped it softly, his eyes suddenly full of the love she never noticed until now. Mari quickly averted her eyes. "I don't…I can't lose another person in my life."

He grabbed her delicate hands and forced her to look at him. He licked his lips and said, "I will not let anything happen to our little family. We'll be married soon."

She scoffed. "I know you won't hurt me, but that doesn't me that they won't. Once I step out of this room, they'll do everything they can to break me."

"You've already scared them enough with your dramatic entrance."

She frowned and was now alarmed, glancing around. "Where's Grey Wind?"

"Calm down, he's over there by the fireplace…looking very creepy in the shadows," Jaime said

He chuckled as he heard a soft growl from the wolf. Mari smiled and put on a robe as she stood up. She walked over to the wolf and softly stroked its fur. Without looking at Jaime, she said, "When's the wedding?"

"You mean Joffrey's?" She nodded. "In a couple of days. You don't have to go if you don't want to. I could make some excuse that you've gotten sick."

She scoffed and looked up at him. "If I don't go, I'm considered a coward for not facing the people who killed my family. If I do go, then there is a chance that I will be reminded of that…constantly by those highborn idiots. Besides I know that your father will most likely lock in the tower if I don't…him or Joffrey will. Cersei will torture me for sure."

"She won't lay a hand on you."

"Yeah, how you do know," she argued. "She's a big girl now and she's a woman. Hells have fury like a woman's scorn, but I'll be ready for her. I'm going to hide him."

He gave a quick glance to the boy then back to her. "Why?"

"She's already made a threat against him when he was in my womb. She'll strike when I either least expect it or when my guard's is down and I'm rendered defenseless. At the wedding, I'll be by myself and I'll be far away."

"I'll be with you, Mari."

"No, you won't, Jaime. You're in the Kingsguard and you still haven't been released from it. In law, you still have to do what they order you to and you're the freaking Lord Commander so you can't anyways."

He stood up and walked over to her in all his naked glory. Mari had to force her eyes to not travel down to his cock which was practically right in her face when he came over. "Fuck what they say." She gave an amused chuckle. "No really, I could no give a fucking care in the world for them."

She smiled up at him and then wordlessly looked down at his cock. Mari then took him in her hand and he gasped lowly. She slowly licked him from the head to the balls. She did it again when she heard him moan and his hand go to her hair. She took in him in her mouth and Jaime's hand shot out and gripped the chair next to them, the light illuminating the obvious pleasure on his face.

"We're actually doing this," Mari said in excitement as she held her son in her arms.

Jaime smiled brightly at her and led them in the middle of the night deep into the woods. He kissed her cheek. "I love you and him. I want us to be a family now. I want to marry you."

She gave a soft laugh. "So do I."

Mari smiled widely as she saw Tyrion there standing with a septon and a large blonde woman dressed as a knight. "You're Brienne?"

"Yes, my lady," she said and gave a little bow.

"You remind me of Arya Stark…she would've been jealous if she saw that you became a knight. She likes to fight and is very good at it actually," Mari said.

Brienne smiled politely at her and gave an understanding nod. Mari turned to Tyrion and hugged him tightly. "You're here."

"Yes, Mari, I'm here."

She pulled back. "I've missed you so much. It means the world to me that you're here."

"Well, who else would be since I'm the one giving you away to my dear brother?" Tyrion replied amusingly.

She laughed and shook her head. "I wouldn't have it any other way."

"Our lady knight here is the witness and the guard just in case someone stupid makes a stupid mistake of telling our horrid family what we're doing," Tyrion told her.

She looked up at Brienne and said kindly, "Thank you, Brienne."

"Of course, my lady."

"You can call me Mari or Marianna. It feels weird if I'm referred to as a lady when I clearly don't act like it."

"I think you and her will get along just fine. You're both blonde, stubborn, and are fighters." Jamie said.

"You know swordplay, my la-I mean Marianna," Brienne asked intrigued.

She nodded and stood up. "Yes, I had a second life and everything…it was all right under their noses."

"Ok, let's get this over with. I've been waiting for this for almost three years and no one is stopping this wedding as long as I'm alive," Tyrion said.

They all gave him a curious look and he shrugged. "It was torture watching you two because you two obviously liked each other and just didn't want to notice it. You're both made for each other actually because you're both so damn stubborn."

Mari smirked at him. "But we're family and you have to love us."

"I don't have to, but I choose to. Now come on."

Jaime turned to her and kissed her. Tyrion made a high pitched gasping noise and then walked and squeezed himself between them thus pushing them apart by his hands on them. "Not yet. Gods, just wait for a couple of dreading moments then you can kiss her all you want. But right now, keep your hands and lips to yourselves thank you very much."

Mari chuckled and Jaime shrugged. "I can't help it."

"Neither can I, my Dark Knight."

"Anything for you, little dragon." He replied with a mischievous smirk on his face.

TBC…

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