p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Jaime smiled as he watchedspan class="apple-converted-space" /spana style="color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline;" href=" "Evelynspan class="apple-converted-space" /span/a run up and down the beach with Lady and Zinzi on her heels. The two wolves would run past her whenever she came to a stop and would tumble and roll together, obviously having no brakes. Evelyn would laugh and crouch down to their level, letting them come and rub their noses against her before she would run back to Jaime./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Enjoying yourself?" Jaime asked, smiling as Evelyn sprinted over back to him, her cheeks flushed from running but a huge smile on her face and her amber eyes shining./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""It's so beautiful," she told him, spinning around, admiring the ocean, "I had never seen the ocean until we came here."br /"Seriously?" Jaime inquired, his eyes widening, "And I thought I needed to see the world."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Evelyn playfully socked his arm, "Hey!"br /Jaime chuckled before wrapping her in a hug from behind and inhaled her scent, "Are you happy here?"br /Evelyn hugged his arms to her chest and turned her head to look at him sideways, "Why? Is something wrong?"br /"No…" Jaime admitted, taking her hands in his, "It's just that what you told Jon about the evil of the world…. And how you're afraid of the power have…. I just… I don't want you to be unhappy with me."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Evelyn gently pulled away from Jaime before turning to face him and taking his hands, nestled them beneath her chin, "Yes I'm happy."br /She slowly lifted her eyes to see the widest grin on Jaime's face which caused her to laugh. He looked like a little schoolboy looking at her with wide, happy eyes. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Chuckling, the girl released his hands before running off toward the water and going ankle deep. Zinzi and Lady followed her, barking and splashing in the water. Jaime laughed at the sight before he cut himself off. There was something… eerie. There was not a noise other than Evelyn and the wolves in the water and that was what was worrying him. It was too quiet…. But something was causing his hair to stand up on the back of his neck and the chills to hit his spine…. Something was wrong./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Jaime carefully wrapped his hand around the hilt of his sword and removed it slightly from the sheath. Did he imagine things, or did he hear footsteps? /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Evelyn!" Jaime called, forcing his voice to not sound alarmed./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The girl didn't hear him for the waves were crashing too loudly and the wolves were still barking. Jaime glanced over his shoulder and squinted his eyes. He was sure he saw something reflect the sunlight./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""EVELYN!" he yelled, sprinting toward the girl who had begun to come out of the water./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Evelyn looked up and saw Jaime sprinting at her faster than she had ever seen him run./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Get down!" He yelled./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The girl couldn't register what he was saying for his voice was muffled. "What's wrong?"br /She didn't get a reply except Jaime wrapping his arms around her and almost knocking her over…. Then his body became a dead weight. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Jaime?" she whispered, realizing that he was leaning greatly on her and not standing up, "Jaime!"br /The man's body slipped from her arms and splashed into the shallow water…. The water turning red./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""JAIME!" Evelyn screamed, dropping to her knees in the water and turning him onto his stomach… there was an arrow in his back!br /"ZINZI! LADY! Get him!"br /The wolves didn't need further commands, having already charged out of the water and leapt into the thicket. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Jaime," Evelyn cried, carefully pulling the arrow out before turning him onto his back, cradling his upper body in her lap, "Jaime, stay with me! Stay with me please!"br /She didn't realize tears were falling till they began to triple between her lips and off her chin, "Jaime…."br /"EVELYN!" A voice yelled from the shore, causing the girl to look up./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Tyrion, Ned and Podrick were sprinting in his direction, Lady hot on their heels having alerted them to the situation./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Ned reached Evelyn first and was about to ask her if she was already when he saw the tears pouring down his daughter's face and how she was clutching Jaime's limp head in her lap./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""What happened?" He asked, pulling Jaime out of her lap./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""No! Don't touch him!" She cried, about to tear Jaime out of Ned's arms when Podrick and Tyrion gently held her back. "He got shot in the back!"br /"It's alright Evelyn," Tyrion told her, patting her shoulder, "We will take care of him. My brother is a hard one. Little can kill him."br /Evelyn quickly wiped her eyes and sniffled before getting to her feet, finding that they were turning to jelly but shaking it off. She couldn't faint or collapse now. She needed to make sure Jaime was going to be okay./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Come on," Tyrion said, taking her hand and leading her out of the water after Ned, "we need to get him to the physician."br /Evelyn was about to comply when she froze in her tracks, her face going deathly pale, "He…. He never knew…."br /Tyrion looked up at her puzzled when he saw that her lip was trembling, "I never told him…."/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Ned woke from his dead sleep, hearing a knock at the door. Rising from his bed, he found Sansa and Arya standing there, both dressed in their nightgowns with shawls around their shoulders./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""What's wrong?" he asked./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""It's Evelyn," Sansa explained./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""She won't sleep or eat," Arya added. "It's like when Bran got hurt…. She won't even speak."br /Ned nodded before grabbing his jacket and following his two daughters. When they came upon the hallway where Jaime and Evelyn's room was, he found Evelyn sitting outside the room. She was staring at the other side of the hall… listless with tears slowly trickling down her cheeks…. Silent sobs. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Evelyn child," Ned said, rushing to her side and taking her hand, "You need to rest sweetheart. You cannot help him if you are…"br /"Don't say it," Evelyn replied coldly. "Just don't…. if you do…. That's just what he said about Bran…."br /"Well he was right," Ned remarked, wrapping her in a hug, cradling her head against his shoulder. "I know you want to be there for him, but you'll collapse if you don't take care of yourself and you will not be able to be there for him."br /"If I sleep, I won't be there for him either," Evelyn pointed out stubbornly./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Ned sighed and mentally cursed himself for letting his stubbornness rub off on his children./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Suddenly, the door of the room opened, and the physician finally exited. Evelyn jumped to her feet, wiping her face dry with her sleeve./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Is he alright?" she asked./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""The extraction went well," the physician replied. "There was some shrapnel from the arrowhead, but we got it all. Luckily it was not poisoned. It will take two or three weeks for his wound to fully heal… and his wrist will heal in a few days."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""His wrist?" both Ned and Evelyn asked./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""The arrow grazed his wrist on its way," the physician explained. "It's nothing major but it almost touched the bone."br /"Thank you," Evelyn whispered, her voice breaking. "May I see him?"br /The physician nodded before stepping to the side and holding the door open for her. Evelyn slowly slipped into the room and approached the bed so slowly that Ned thought she was going to collapse./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Jaime was lying on his stomach, his shirt gone with bandages covering his back. His forehead was sweating and his hair a mess. His face was slightly soiled…. His cheeks sunken and his eyes closed. Those beautiful sky-blue eyes were closed…./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Evelyn sat down on the edge of the bed and carefully took his bandaged hand in both of hers, bringing it up to her mouth and gently kissing it, "I'm so sorry," she whispered. "This is my fault. If I hadn't acted so childish and oblivious you might be awake right now…. Not dying…"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The girl could not finish what she was going to say for the door flew open and Cersei burst in, Tyrion and Tywin hot on her heels./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Get away from him minx!" Cersei yelled, about to yank the girl away from Jaime but Tywin grabbed her wrist and Tyrion spoke up./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Cersei! She has every right to be here. Probably more so than we do."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Cersei glared at her brother and wrenched out of her father's grip, "It's her fault that Jaime is even here!"br /"That is enough Cersei," Tywin snapped, causing the girl to finally shut up. "Give your condolences then let us leave Jaime in the hands of his wife."br /Cersei tossed her head before shooting Evelyn a death glare. When they finally left, Evelyn drifted off to sleep, lying next to Jaime with his injured hand tucked against her chest and tears seeping from her eyes. Needless to say, she did not get a lot of sleep that night./p
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