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Chapter 9
Jaime
Every day Jaime asked about his wife, and he received the same answer. "Shut up, Kingslayer.", "If you keep asking, I'll send you to the dungeons.", and "I will not tell you nothin'. And if I knew, I wouldn't tell you.". If it wasn't that, the guards hit him until he stops speaking. No matter the answer he received, Jaime keep asking about his wife.
Are you well my love? Jaime thought as he began to remember what happened that day.
Everything happened so fast. One moment Lylian was outside his cell, surrounded by Lannister soldiers and the next a dark shape began to make a rain of blood in the place; everything ended when Jaime saw how Luna, was getting speared and bolted by the soldiers, and Lylian fall to the floor crying and her eyes fixed to her direwolf.
Jaime was frightened for Lylian and his child; he knew that his wife would do anything for the ones she loves, putting her life at risk and her state can affect their child. "We came to save you, Ser." A young man said through the small window of his cell, blocking Jaime's view to Lylian.
"Take my wife out of here." I ordered them but they didn't listen, the men were fighting to open the cell.
Suddenly, Jaime heard and see one of the men gurgling and vomiting blood from his mouth; the other soldier stopped what he was doing and then his head was gone.
Jaime looked through the small window and saw his wife stained with blood; the skirts of her dress and sleeves were drenched, her hands were fully stained in red and her beautiful face was splashed with blood; but what scares him most was how her eyes were lost and darker, full of sorrow. He called Lylian, but she didn't turn her face to him, instead Lylian lay down with Luna, hug her and mumble something to her wolf.
It was painful to see Lylian so devastated, it was worse than the day when he found her under the Heart Tree. Jaime wanted to get out and console his wife, but the only thing he could do was seeing her wife crumbling down.
All of a sudden, Lylian's cries turn into screams. Her hands were over their child and she began to shake her head. The only thing Jaime could do was screaming for help as he was seeing his wife screaming in pain with her hands around her belly.
Days had passed and Jaime didn't have any news from his wife. He tried to escape once, killing on the process the gaoler of his cell, but he was caught and now he was in a dungeon, in full darkness, chained hand and foot and bolted to the wall in a very uncomfortable position; he could neither stand nor lie comfortably.
In the dark, Jaime was always thinking on Lylian and their child; he was dead worried about them. Jaime doesn't want to think the worst possibility, his wife and child dead on a bed.
Jaime remembered the promise he made for her on not trying to escape, but he broke it anyways, for only to see her. "Another promise broken." He said to himself in the dark, thinking the promises that Jaime made for her and broke each one, breaking Lylian's heart on the process. But there's one that Jaime hasn't broken: He has been faithful to Lylian. He stopped lain with Cercei and even not speaking to her, only the necessary; Jaime loved her since that day she saw him as a hero and not an oathbreaker, and loved her more when she enlighten the best of him.
Soon I'll be free and come for Lylian, Jaime thought firmly.
Jaime was thinking on his Wild Wolf when he heard voices from his door cell; he could recognize Lady Catelyn's voice talking to the gaoler. Sooner, he heard the door being opened and a sharp pain blind his eyes when he saw for the first time light after so long.
Jaime raised his hands over his face, the chains around his wrists clanking. "Lady Stark," he said in a hoarse voice. Jaime hasn't used his voice since he was on the dungeons. "I fear I am in no condition to receive you."
"Look at me, ser." He heard say Lady Catelyn firmly.
"The light hurts my eyes. A moment, if you would." Jaime asked.
While he was adapting his sight, Jaime heard Lady Catelyn speaking again. "We granted you the comfort of a tower cell befitting your birth and station. Your wife- my daughter did everything to give you that privilege, she went against The King In The North's orders and she could obtain that privilege for you. And now you repaid us by trying to escape." She reminded him that broken promise.
"I know what my dear wife did, but a cell is a cell. Some under Casterly Rock make this one seem a sunlit garden. One day perhaps I'll show them to you."
"A man chained and foot should keep a more courteous tongue in his mouth, ser. I did not come here to be threatened." Lady Catelyn didn't say anything, she look at him with repulsion. "I don't know how my daughter can still love you after everything you did. Your crimes will have earned you a place of torment in the deepest of the seven hells, if the gods are just."
"What gods are those, Lady Catelyn? The trees your husband prayed to? How well did they serve him when my sister took his head off?" Jaime chuckled. "If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?"
"Because of men like you."
"There are no men like me. There's only me."
"You have no shame. You are blind with arrogance and pride. You are not knight, you have forsaken every vow you swore-"
"So many vows… they make you swear and swear. Defend the King, Obey the King. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Love and protect your wife. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. What if your father despises the King? What if the King massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other. I was the youngest man ever to wear a white cloak."
"And the youngest to betray all it stood for, Kingslayer."
"Kingslayer," Jaime pronounced carefully. "And such a King he was! Here's Aerys Targaryen, the Second of His Name, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm and to the sword I shoved in his back."
"You are a man without honor." Lady Catelyn said coldly.
"You know, I've been with anyone but Cercei and Lylian. When I met better your daughter on the Kingsroad, I decided to end my relationship with Cercei and marry with Lylian, and I kept that vow. And this was reinforced when I married her, and I still keep my word. So, I have more honor than poor old dead Ned. What was the name of that bastard he fathered?"
Lady Catelyn took a step backward. "Brienne."
"No, that wasn't it. Snow, bastard from the north. Now when good dead Ned came home with some whore's baby, did you pretend to love it?" Jaime noticed how Lady Catelyn was tensed and look at him coldly. "No. You're not very good pretending, you're an honest woman. You hated that boy, didn't you? How could you not hate him? The walking talking reminder that the honorable Lord Eddard Stark fucked another woman."
He saw how someone entered to the cell. "You called, my Lady." Answer a tall woman
"Is that a woman? Where you find that beast?" Jaime asked shocked.
"Give me your sword." Catelyn held out her hand and the woman gave her the sword. And then she laid the point of the sword against his heart and said, "Swear that you will never again take up arms against Stark nor Tully. Swear that you will compel your brother to honor his pledge to return my daughters safe and unharmed. Swear on your honor as a knight, on your honor as a Lannister, on your honor as a Sworn Brother of the Kingsguard. Swear it by your sister's life, and your father's, and your son's, by the old gods and the new, and I'll send you back to your sister. Refuse, and I will have your blood."
"With one condition, Lady Stark."
"Captives do not set conditions."
"The reason why I escaped from my old cell was because of my wife. All I wanted is to see my wife. I don't know if she's well or not. The last time I saw her was screaming in pain outside my old cell. Let me see Lylian and I give you my word of bringing your daughters back and not taking up arms against Starks and Tullys." Jaime asked. Catelyn look at him reticent.
For a moment, Jaime thought that Lady Stark would not agree. "Very well." Lady Stark return the sword to its owner.
Lady Stark cover his head with a dark linen cloth and he felt how his chains were changed to others. They made him walk and walk, though the stairs were most difficult ones. All ended when they made him stop, a door was closed behind him and they took off what it was covering his head.
It was pitch dark, he could barely see something, however he could listen someone's breathing. Lady Catelyn moved around were they where and then, three candles illuminate the place from a nightstand beside a bed. It was in someone's chamber, Jaime could see a figure laid on the bed. Lady Catelyn walked to the window and opened it, a chill breeze entered into the room.
Jaime noticed that the body laid on the bed was Lylian's body, and she was giving her back to the door. "I need some time alone with her, if it's not much too ask."
"You will escape-"
"I insist on keeping my word. But I need a private moment with my wife." Jaime insist.
Lady Catelyn doesn't answer immediately. "Very well, we wait outside. You don't have too much time."
He get close to the bed where Lylian was sleeping and sat beside his wife. For Jaime, Lylian was almost unrecognizable; her tanned skin, which acquire living in King's Landing, disappear and look paler now, and not a good pale skin but a sick pale skin; Lylian was already slim when he met her and being with child fill her slightly, but now she was thinner than before, her long heart-shaped face was thinner, her cheeks and eyes looked bigger than before; Lylian's face aged five years, that juvenile appearance disappeared. But there's something else that call his attention.
Where's our child? Lylian had only six moons, Jaime thought worried when he looked her belly flat.
Lylian began to move on the bed and her eyes were fighting to be opened. "Jaime?" Lylian whispered half-sleep at Jaime's direction. She brushed her eyes and blinked several times; she opened her like plates when Lylian noticed his presence. "Jaime!"
His Wild Wolf jumped over him with a hug and, at his chains let him, Jaime return the hug. Lylian began to cry loudly over his shoulder as she squeeze him more. Jaime began to worry even more by Lylian's state. "Lylian, what happen? Why you're sick? Where's our child?" Lylian shook her head in his shoulder. What happen…? "Tell me, Lily." Jaime insisted.
"I'm cursed." Lylian's voice sounded roared near his ear.
Jaime pushed Lylian slightly away from him, just enough to see her face. "What happen?"
"Luna and…" Lylian's chin trembled and looked down, she put one of her hands in her flat belly. "It's all my fault, I should have listen to you. I should have died when I had the miscarriage. My mother shouldn't have stopped me when I was about to jump from the window..." She hide her face with both hands and began to sob.
Lylian's words hurt him deeply. His chest ached, his thoughts were blank and at the same time he was thinking about her state.
Jaime thought about the loss of their first child together; they will never going to see little Joanna or little Eddard running around them laughing and screaming, they will never hold her or him. A piece of Jaime died with that unborn child.
His thoughts turn to the woman he love. Lylian has passed for too many terrible things; first her memory loss, then himself when he pushed one of her little brothers through the window of that old tower; himself again when Jaime attack her father; the battle between the Lannisters and the Starks; her Father declared a traitor and then beheaded; his sins; and now the death of her guardian and friend Luna, and their child.
Jaime pull Lylian's hands away from her face and cupped his wife's face. "You will not attempt with your life anymore, do you understand?" Lylian look at Jaime confused. "You will not leave me, Lylian Lannister. If you leave me, I will hate you for the rest of my life. We made a vow on the Sept, remember?"
"Oh… Jaime…" Lylian hugged him again and cried again.
"It pains me the death of our child, I love our child as much as you are. But it pains me more to see you like this, even more when you are blaming yourself for the death of our child and thinking of taking your life." I should take her with me… She's not well… "Your mother will exchange me for your sisters, I'm going to King's Landing. Come with me."
Lylian pull Jaime away from her enough to see him and spoke between her sobs. "I can't, I'm still very weak. I lost blood with the… I don't know how I'm alive, but it left me very weak. Besides of… these past days after that."
"I could take care of you-" Lylian shook her head with Jaime's words.
"I will be a burden Jaime." Jaime shook his head. "I need help to walk, and you can't defend me with those chains."
Jaime knew if he leaves Lylian in this place, she could be in danger; however, she could have the same danger as his wife has here, and she was right, with the chains he could not fight against someone who attempts his wife.
Jaime leaned his forehead on Lylian's. "Promise me you will not take your life. Once I arrive to King's Landing, I will come for you with thousands of my men to whatever the place you are. I will come for you and go to Casterly Rock to have a hundreds of children if you want."
"You want a battalion of children?" Lylian jested. Jaime a slight relieve seeing her wife joking and having a small smile on her lips.
"If that's what you want, I will be happy to be the father of a battalion of children. Our children. With your looks and mine's." Jaime saw her wife smiled again. "Promise me not taking your life. You don't know how important you are to me, I don't know what I would do if I heard you are dead."
Lylian separate their foreheads, she look at him as if she was taking on detail every part of his face and finally his Wild Wolf look fixedly to his eyes. "I promise I will live. I will wait for you, no matter the place I am. And you promise me you're going to King's Landing safe and sound, don't look back to me until you get there. I don't want you to worry about me, just focused on be alive and safe-"
"Don't forbid me to not worry about you-" Jaime spat upset, but Lylian hush him by putting two of her fingers on his lips.
"Don't worry about me, I will be safe. More safe than you think. Go to King's Landing, free my sisters, and look for me. Promise me you will do that, Jaime."
He will not break another vow, not to her. "I promise."
Lylian was looking at him in silence, caressing his cheek over his pronounced beard and with her thumb touching his lips. Her touch was paradise for him. "I will always belong to you, all alone. Body, heart and soul. Remember that Jaime Lannister." After Lylian said this, both kissed with all the love and passion they have each other.
Jaime heard the door being open and both stop kissing. It was Lady Catelyn and the woman beast. It was time to leave…
Jaime look for the last time his wife, the one who fill him heart and soul. "I will come for you." He said firmly.
"I'll be waiting, my Lion Knight." Lylian gave him a small smile.
I will come for you, my love…