Drabble originally posted on tumblr, was a prompt from an ask meme. I no longer use tumblr.

in vino veritas means: under the influence of alcohol, a person tells the truth.

I didn't know this until a commenter here told me!

"I think I'm in love with you and I'm terrified," confessed Cersei.

Jaime eyed his fourteen-year-old sister warily. Had she been snooping in his room and found the unsent love letters he had never given to her? Was she messing with him now?

She approached him, stumbling along the way and stopped in front of him. 'She's drunk', he realized.

"Cer-" She cut him off with a kiss, brief but full of passion. Afterward, he remembered a saying he had once heard: "Drunk people always tell the truth."