Chapter 9: the Battle of the Blackwater

I walked with Sansa and Shae as we are awaiting Joffrey to greet us, but we are greeted by Tyrion and Bronn. "Lady Sansa," Tyrion says. "Lady Lyra and uh, Sheila."

"Shae," Shae says

"Shae, yes," he adds, he turns to Sansa and says. "Surely my sister has ask you to join the other highborn ladies in Maegor's Holdfest."

"She has, my lord," Sansa says. "But Joffrey has sent me o see him off."

I suddenly see Joffrey with his guards as he calls Sansa over. "He's a great romantic, my nephew," Tyrion adds as Sansa walks to greet her king.

"I don't think so," I mumbled.

"I have to say I agree with you, my lady," Tyrion says.

"Lyra, we must go," Sansa says as she walks back towards me.

"I'll see you after the battle, Lord Tyrion," I said to Tyrion. He smiles as I walked with Sansa.

I notice that Sansa is nearly in tears. "He told me to kiss his sword once Robb's blood is on it," she says. "I hope he dies."

"Sansa, don't," I said. "Anyway, some of these boys will never come back."

"Joffrey will," Sansa adds.

"Shh," Shae says, as she brings us closer and hugs us tightly. "Come my ladies. We must make haste to the Maegor's Holdfest."

Once we entered the Maegor's Holdfest, we found ourselves comfortable as I sat with Sansa, Shailene and Shae. "I don't know why she wants me here," Sansa says. "She always saying how stupid I am. She hates me."

"Maybe she feels threaten," I said. "But I don't know why she likes me."

"Maybe because you have the same personality as her," Shaliene adds, teasingly.

"Yeah, right," I added. "She has a personality as a cruel grandmother not giving a begging child any food and starving them."

"Maybe Lyra's right about Cersei being threaten by your beauty, Lady Sansa," Shae adds. "Maybe she is jealous of you."

"Why would she be jealous of me?" Sansa asks.

"Sansa," Cersei called out to Sansa. "I was wondering where our little dove had flown.

I see Tommen sitting on Cersei lap, looking comfortable. He slips off slightly and falls to the ground bump first crawling towards me like someone has hit him on his bump. "How are you?" he asks. "I haven't seen you since we saw Myrcella leave."

"I'm fine," I said. "I just miss Myrcella and I"m also worried as well."

"Mother too is a bit worried," he says. "She thinks the highborn ladies are going to be raped."

"Joffrey will live," I said.

"Of course he will," Tommen adds. "But between you and me, I hope he doesn't."

I turned to see Ser Ilyn in the room as well. "Why is Ser Ilyn here?" I asked.

"My mother says he is here to kill if Stannis takes over King's Landing," he answered. "There are guards here too to defend us as well."

Ser Graham walks in and announces loudly to the Queen: "The lads caught a groom with two maids trying to sneak away with a stolen horse and some gold."

"The battle's first traitors," Cersei says. "Have Ser Ilyn see to them. Put their heads on spikes as a warning. The only way to keep the small folk loyal is to make certain they fear you." She turns to Sansa and says, "Remember that if you ever hope to become Queen."

I continued to sit with Tommen as we hurdled together praying with Sansa, after her conversation with a drunken Cersei. "Sansa, come here, little dove," Cersei calls out. Sansa walks over to a drunken Cersei.

"My Queen?" Sansa asks.

"What are you doing?" Cersei asks.

"Praying," Sansa answers.

"You're perfect aren't you?" Cersei asks. "You and your sister are perfect. What are you praying for?"

"For the Gods to have mercy on us," Sansa replies.

"Oh, on all of us," Cersei says.

"Yes, your grace," Sansa adds.

"Even me?" Cersei asks.

"Of course, your grace," Sansa replies.

"Even Joffrey?" Cersei asks.

"Joffrey is my-" Sansa answers.

"Oh shut up, you little fool," Cersei interrupts Sansa. "Praying for the Gods to have mercy on us all. The Gods have no mercy. That's why they are Gods."

I saw Shae get up and join Sansa to defend her as Tommen and I play a hand game as we heard Ser Lancel Lannister barging in. "Your grace," he says, huffing and puffing.

"What's the news?" Cersei asks.

"The Imp has sent the river on fire," Lancel answers.

"Hundreds of ships burning, maybe more. Stannis' fleet destroyed but-" I couldn't hear the rest but I knew it seems important.

"Where's Joffrey?" she asks.

"On the battlements with Lord Tyrion," he answers.

"Bring him inside at once," Cersei says.

"But your grace-" Lancel says, looking displeased at her.

"What?" she asks, interrupting Lancel. I felt sorry for Lancel - maybe because he has been through so much with being a squire to Robert Baratheon and now a slave to Cersei Lannister.

"The King's presence is good for morale," he adds.

"Bring him to his chambers now," Cersei says.

"Not here?" he asks. "Not with the women and children?"

"Do you want him to be mocked as a coward for the rest of his life?" she asks.

"No, but I-" Lancel says.

"NOW!" Cersei shouts.

I see Cersei walk towards Tommen and I as I looked to see Ser Lancel exit. "Come Tommen," She says. "We must leave. Lyra, you'll be safer with your sister."

"But Mother-" Tommen says.

"That's fine, my Queen," I interrupted Tommen.

"But Mother, why can't Lyra come with us?" Tommen asks.

"She's safer here," she answers.

"But we're safer here too," he says.

"We must go," she says. "You'll see Lyra again soon."

I sat on the ground cuddling Shailene as I saw Tommen and Cersei leave. Both of us were scared. "Joffrey's not hurt," Sansa says, calming us all down. "He's fighting bravely."

"His knights have rallied behind him," I added. "They'll save the city."

We both sat down still as Sansa says, "Shall we sing a hymn?"

Gentle mother font of mercy save our sons from war, we pray gentle ...

All the ladies gasps as we heard banging from the outside which scared us all. We continued singing save our sons from war, we pray.

Suddenly the doors are open and Ser Bronn enters. "My ladies," he announces. "The battle is won. We won."

This is the second last chapter of season 2. I've deleted my fanfiction called Revenge - I just found it wasn't working out as planned. This is my main fanfiction at the moment. I've also deleted my crossover as well - I found it wasn't working out as well as I thought. This fanfiction is my main focus for now. I'll promise I'll upload more fanfiction soon :)

The 2 whole chapters took 2 hours to write on paper (by the way I was watching Fast and the Furious 7 and I didn't want to watch nor enjoy it so I was basically writing the whole chapter and the last chapter combined in 2 hours)

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