THE KING AND QUEEN

CERSEI – FIVE MONTHS AGO

She left after the reading of the will in a bitter rage. While proclaiming to love her Jaime rejected her advances as they traveled to Casterly Rock and then again in the solar. She takes twenty thousand gold dragons with her out of her inheritance. After a week on the Golden Road Cersei decides to go through her plans to have Robert killed. Joffrey would be King and she Queen Regent.

With Jaime as Warden of the West, the legacy her father always spoke of will be set in stone. Tyrion had decided to stay at the rock, not that she cared for her youngest brother. Still she couldn't shake the idea that Jaime might be hiding something from her. She came up with multiple plans. She could seduce the fat Stag and poison him. She could have the King's Squire Lancel do it.

Cersei works out the pros and cons of both plans and decides to do it herself. Now she needed a poison that make it look as if the King had a heart attack. Soon King's Landing came into view and she is one step closer to freedom from Robert and having everything she wants. As Cersei enters the city via the Gate of Royals from the North side a hawk is perched on the gateway watching the royal entourage enter.

When she enters the courtyard Robert is waiting to her surprise. She is surprised even more when he greets her with a kiss and takes her to his solar. "Oh gods help me he wants sex." She whispers. It wouldn't be the first time he took her in the solar.

"So…How are the children, coping with everything?"

"Joffrey wants to be like his Grandfather…Feared…Myrcella is sad, but coping. And Tommen, his emotions are all over the place."

"I'm sorry I didn't come with you…I wanted to go North and introduce Joffrey to Ned's daughter and make the betrothal…"

"Are you feeling ill?"

He sighs, "I had a dream."

She frowns, "About what?"

"Us…Our wedding night." Her anger rises on the inside, but he surprises her when he says, "I got really drunk that night…And then we came to the bed chamber and I…"

"Called me Lyanna!" She says angrily raising her voice. "Robert I don't want to talk about this."

"I am sorry Cersei." She wanted to say something and opened her mouth to do so, but what could she say. "I am sorry for that…and everything that followed. I thought I loved Lyanna…But the more I thought about it…the more I came to realize, that I wanted her because she saw through me and rejected me. I wanted her because I couldn't have her. I wanted her because she was Ned…Lord Stark's sister and he was the brother I chose. Marrying her would tie me to him.

I know I have hurt you and we have had some knock down drag out arguments…I ask for a second chance between the two of us."

She leaves the solar with her head in a spin and wondered had all the men in her life gone mad. First Jaime and now Robert; and while he owed her an apology, it was too late and her heart is set and mind made up. Then Robert started spending time with the children, which worried her. One evening they all had dinner together. After they ate he followed her to her room, she wasn't ready for this. "Joffrey is not the Prince he should be."

"How do you mean?"

"He's mean and arrogant. I have talked with Ser Barristan and some of the servants and what I have had heard worries me."

"What have you heard?" As he tells her she gets angry. How dare he say that about her son. "Ser Barristan she couldn't touch, but the others, the servants. "I want names! Who said these things?"
He kisses her on the lips and tries to seduce her and even though she is disgusted with his body, Robert's words echo in her ear and sends chills across her body. When she awakens in the morning she rushes off to bathe and then put on clean clothes. Then she sends for Pycel, "You wanted to see me your Grace…"

"I need moon tea and I need a poison that acts like the user had a heart attack."

"At once my Queen."

Ever since her father died Cersei made use of the old man, making him hers. Another week passed before she decides to seduce him and have sex. They eat alone, drink, and then they have sex. She had slipped the poison in the wine and took the antidote for herself. To her shock the next morning he was still alive.

KING ROBERT

After Cersei left Robert started drinking less and even stopped sleeping with whores and maidservants. So he decides to train every morning and start swinging his war hammer. When news came that Jaime decided to take his place as Warden of the North he became shocked. Then Robert dreamed about his wedding night and then he started thinking about the past. That is when Robert came to the realization that he did not love Lyanna. He wanted her because his charms and tricks did not work on him and he wanted her because she is Ned's sister, not because he loved her.

Then his mind went to his own children, so when they returned Robert started spending time with them, as he did he realized that he had nothing in common with his children and Joffrey to his horror was a Mad Prince in the making. So preparations are made to travel North to speak with his old friend Lord Eddard Stark. Just before he is ready to leave Jaime Lannister comes to Capital to swear his oaths to Robert.

Jaime or Lord Jaime now did not stay long he left the following day, so Robert leaves for Winterfell the next day. He travels by ship to White Harbor, then by land. As he travels he notices Cersei is eating more and is heavier in her breasts. "Cersei are you pregnant?"

She looks at him, "No! Why?"

"You are eating more…Your breasts are…well bigger…They swell like that when you are with child. And your more agitated than usual."

"I am not pregnant."

"Perhaps you should let the Maester check you out when we reach Winterfell." He secretly hoped she is with child. Another child meant another chance to be a better father. When they reach Winterfell Robert is disappointed to find that Ned is not there. He had left for Castle Black but would be back in three days.

He found Ned's eldest son to be a very good host. Cat's beauty had not diminished with age she is just as beautiful s she was when Ned married her. Sansa was just as beautiful as her mother and would make a great Queen, if Joffrey didn't mess things up. Arya was a young version of Lyanna and just as wild. The two younger children had the makings of becoming fine Knights one day.

CERSEI II

"Pregnant" She thought to herself, the idea was repugnant. She had not slept with Jaime since before their Father died. And those three times she had been with Robert she drank moon tea afterwards and yet; she had not had her moon's blood this month. So she goes to see the Maester as she is too young for the change older women called it.

"You can get dressed my Queen." Maester Luwin says.

"Well?"

"And you say that you have not had any morning sickness/"

"No."

"But you had with your other children?"

"Yes…Maester am I with child or not? Am I going through the change?"

"Yes you are with child Your Grace…and no you are not going through the change."

She had been so careful how could she be pregnant. "Maester Luwin…I had not told my husband, but secretly I did not want anymore children…Um do have any moon tea?"

"No I am afraid not Your Grace…I used the last of my Moon Tea on a servant a few days ago…I have not had the time to make more."

"How long does it take to make?"

"Oh weeks, by that time it would be too late."

She frowns, "To late?"

"Yes moon tea should be taken within the first two weeks of conception…After that you put your life and the baby's life in danger."

"Thank you Grand Maester…I guess I am going to have another child. Please keep this between us."

"What about the King your Grace?"

"I will tell him in my time."

ROBERT II

Ned had come home with his men and a pregnant Dire Wolf in toe. "Welcome Home Ned."

"I am sorry I was not here to greet you your Grace."

"Think nothing of it." They head to Ned'd Solar.

"My son has been a great host."

"An excellent one. I am jealous of him and his betrothed… The Lady Talisa Maegyr…Seeing the two of them makes me wish I had found love at his age."

"What of Lyanna?"

He sighs and tells him the revelation he had in King's Landing. "Well enough of that. You know why am here don't you?"

"Aye I do and I cannot allow it Robert."

"Why the hell not?"

"Your son is not right."

"How so?"

"The incident with the Cat."

"How do you know about that?"

"I have eyes and ears in the Capital as well." He actually had a dream about it given to him by Arya among other things. "He bullies his brother and sister. Takes pleasure in tormenting servants…This is not the Prince for my daughter. I am sorry Robert."

He sighs, "We have other children." He desperately says.

"And we shall wait to see what kind of people they will be."

Two days later Robert leaves to return to the Capital. His disappointment tempered by the news that Cersei is with child. As they leave Arya smiles to herself.