LOVE

TYSHA

It is second year of the reign of Robert Baratheon. Tysha is a young girl with dreams of marrying and having children. Her mother died giving birth to her and her father died of a heart attack. She moved in with her fiancé's family for a while. Then her fiancé was caught poaching and beheaded on the orders of Lord Tywin Lannister. When her former fiance's father tried to rape her Tysha ran away and lived in a village of Oxcross. She stole a horse and some food for the journey.

She traveled during the night and rested during the day. When she arrived at the village Tysha sold the horse and got work as a cook in a tavern. Tysha has dark hair, green eyes and is sixteen name days old. Despite not being able to read or write she is very intelligent and a quick thinker. She likes to draw things that catch her attention. A year passes by when a Lannister enters the Tavern.

JAIME

He is the eldest son of House Lannister and younger twin to Cersei Lannister. Jaime had been sent to tour the family lands while visiting Casterly Rock with his sister the Queen. His younger brother Tyrion Lannister a Dwarf had asked him about women while on their way to Oxcross. Jaime felt it was time for his brother to experience the pleasure of being with a woman. He had sent Tyrion to get them a room at the inn while he visits the Tavern.

"What can I get you M'Lord?" A girl asks.

"Wow you're beautiful. What's your name?"

"Tysha my Lord. I cook and sometimes serve." Jaime places an order and leaves with the food. He finds some men to enact his plan then he returns to the Tavern. "Back so soon M'Lord?"

"I have a business proposition for you."

TYSHA

She is nervous, because she had never been with a man before, but the gold he offered was too much to pass up. A thousand gold dragons. She had sworn she would never turn to whoring, but this was just one time and she could do a lot for herself with that much money. The men she was with had been paid to pretend to rape her. They seemed like an alright sort, but she carried a knife all the same. Then the scout rides up, "They're coming!"

"You ready ma'am?"

She sighs, "Yes…rip my clothes and that is all…" They do just that and she screams.

"Hey!" Jaime screams. The men jump onto their horses and ride off.

"Are you alright?" Tyrion asks.

"I'm fine…thank you."

"Come there is an inn nearby. Did they hurt you?"

"Scared that's all…Um…"

"Tyrion."

She pretends to recognize the name, "Tyrion…of House Lannister?"

He smiles, "So you've heard of the Imp of Casterly Rock."

"That is mean." Tysha says genuinely offended.

"Well if someone says something negative against you. Take it! Make it your own and wear it like armor. Then no one can use it against you."

She looks at him, "And who are you protecting yourself from M'Lord?" He sighs and tells him about his father, sister, brother, Aunts, and Uncle. "That isn't your fault. Women die in pregnancy all the time."

"True, but still my father and sister blame and hate me."

She catches him staring at her cleavage, "Like what you see?"

"I'm sorry I…"

"Its alright…At least you're not trying to rape me." She kisses him on the lips.

"What was that for?"

"That was for how cute you get when you blush."

"No I'm not."

"Beauty can come from more than just on the outside. Some of the prettiest people in the world are the ugliest because of who they are. Some of the kindest people in the world are the most beautiful…Be a good man Lord Tyrion and you will be the tallest in the room and the most handsome."

This time he kisses her, "Thank you for saying that."

She grabs his hand, brings it to her breast and allows him to fondle her. "I have never been with a woman before."

"And I have never been with a man before." They undress each other. "Wow…how can you even walk with that thing?" She asks looking at his manhood.

"I would like to see you again." Tyrion says after their passions are satisfied.

"And I would like to see you as well."

Later Jaime meets with her, "Your gold as promised."

She sighs, "Keep it…I am not a whore." She says to him.

"I made a promise. A Lannister always pays his debts."

She sighs, "Then give it to the orphanage in my name."

He looks at her, "By the gods you're in love with my brother."

She doesn't respond and leaves. Over the next few months Tyrion and Tysha meet up. They talk, laugh, make jokes about his sister Cersei, they make love and he starts teaching her to read.

TYRION

He was in love and buys a ring. The next time he saw Tysha he would ask her to marry him. They meet in the inn as usual. "You seem nervous."

"I have something to ask you." He takes her hand, "Tysha…Will you be my wife?"

"I love you, but…I'm just a commoner."

"I don't care. I love you Tysha and if you feel the same way about me…then say yes."

"Yes!"

They find a Septon, a drunk Septon. Tyrion pays him and they marry in secret. Tyrion takes Tysha to the beach house near Lannisport. They live there in wedding bliss.

TYWIN

Tywin Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock and Warden of the West. He ruled through fear and is best known for quelling the Tarbeck Redwyne rebellion. The Rains of Castamere are song all over Westeros and even in some places in Essos. From the age of fifteen Tywin had spent his life rebuilding his house from the ruin nearly bought onto it by his father. His greatest desire was to build a legacy that last a thousand years.

Tywin was a cold calculating man. He never showed his emotions or anything he considered to be weakness. He wasn't always like that. Cold at least, his wife Joanna knew how to make him smile. She was the only one who could get him to express love. Then she died giving birth to Tyrion and he blamed his dwarf son for her death. He blamed the gods as well and believed that they were punishing him for his arrogance.

Tywin is in his solar going over the finances for Casterly Rock, when the Septon enters. "What do you want?" Tywin asks in an unkind voice. He kept the Septon around for Genna and his nephews otherwise he would have sent the man away years ago.

"Sorry to bother you my Lord…I was touring your lands with Ser Jaime…and well…two weeks ago, your son Tyrion got married."

He looks at him, "To whom?" He finds Jaime in the training yard, "Leave us." He says to the other men in the courtyard.

"Father is something wrong?"

"Did you know that your brother has married a commoner, by the name of Tysha?"

"Oh…oh." He looks at his father, "What are you going to do?"

"What do you know of this?"

He sighs, "Tyrion came to me asking about women."

"And let me guess…You paid a whore to lay with him."
"Yes but she's not a whore."

"Did you offer to pay her?"

"Yes but…"

He cuts him off, "Whore! When a woman takes money to pen her legs she is a whore! And no…" He pauses, "…son of mine is going to marry some common whore!"
"Father listen to me."

"No! I know enough…" He says walking away. It didn't take long for his men to find Tyrion and his new wife. The old beach house he and Joanna spent time in during the first few days of the marriage.

"Father…What are doing here?"

"I heard my son got married."

"Well I believe that is the first time you acknowledge me as your son."

"I am not in the mood for that quick tongue of yours…Jaime paid the whore to marry you."

He shakes his head, "No…no she is no whore. She is my wife…I love her and she loves me."

He shakes his head, "Love! You think a woman would live you if your name was not Lannister? You the imp of Casterly Rock."

"Don't call me that!"

"You're a bigger fool than I thought. Jaime paid this woman to lay with you. And if she told you that she was in love with you then she said that to become a Lannister and nothing else."

"Tyrion I have…" Tysha says entering the house. She pauses when she sees the men inside. "What's going on?"

"Is it true?" Tyrion asks.

"Is what true?"

"Is it true that you are a whore? Is it true that my brother paid you to sleep me? Is it true that you married me because I am a Lannister?"

"It doesn't matter this marriage is over!"

She Tywin and then walks up to Tyrion who is sitting on a chair. She kneels down in front of him, "Look at me." Reluctantly he does, "Do you believe him? Do you believe I am a whore? Do you think I married you for your name? or are you so hurt, by what he and your sister did to you that you don't recognize love when it comes to you?"

He stares at her crying, "You didn't answer my question."

She stands up, "No I didn't." She turns to face Tywin, "And you! He told me about your wife."
"Be careful girl."

"I am not afraid of you. I am sure your wife was a beautiful woman…She had to be to make a son like Tyrion who could endure the years of abuse from you and his sister."

"I am not above hitting a woman."

"I have no doubt that."

He looks at Tyrion, "Tyrion sign this…It's an annulment."

Tyrion looks up, "I'm not signing that."

"Neither are you staying married to a whore."

"She is not a whore."

"Oh I'll prove it…I will pay you one silver stag for each of my men you sleep with."

She looks at Tyrion, "Its time you stood up to him."

"Are you a whore?"

Tysha starts crying, "I am whatever you believe me to be." Tyrion walks pass her and takes the document he looks at Tysha, "Go ahead you have already made up your mind."

He signs the document and tries to leave. "Where are you going?"

"Home."

"No you're not. You need to see this…"