Day 2: Lannister Gold

Tyrion

Exhausted Tyrion walked onto the school grounds.

He had large bags under his eyes which he tried to hide underneath a pair of designer sunglasses.

People were staring at him but he had gotten used to that.

He wasn't unfamiliar with the words "dwarf" or "imp" but today no one was calling him that.

He could however hear them whisper tough.

"Jaime's brother" they all said and he was, even though Cersei tried to forget that.

Tyrion had stayed with his older brother at the hospital when Tywin and Cersei had already gone home.

Jaime had broken his arm in several places and they had to insert a big, iron pin in the bone.

He wouldn't be able to play football for a few months which meant he couldn't compete in the competition, which meant he wasn't getting his scholarship.

Tyrion had never seen his brother so desperate and it had kept him up all night.

Cersei however looked as impeccable as ever and she acted like nothing had happened.

Tyrion saw Bronn who was leaning next to the double doors that lead to their school hallway.

A cigarette was hanging from his lips as he raised his hand to show Tyrion he had noticed him.

They didn't greet each other but Bronn followed him inside nevertheless.

Tyrion didn't know exactly how they had become friends.

He had always been a loner, observing the rest of his class mates from a safe distance but this had changed at a peculiar class trip.

Tyrion had stolen some of his father's wine and was more than a little tipsy before they had even reached their destination.

In a rare moment of recklessness he had offered Bronn some and they had spent the rest of the trip drinking.

By the time they had reached their school again they were so drunk they could barely stand.

Tyrion had expected that Bronn would ignore him again the day after that but he hadn't.

From that day on Bronn always waited for him outside school and they sat together during lunch.

Sometimes Tyrion would sneak in some alcohol and sometimes Bronn would sneak in some weed.

"How's your brother?" Bronn asked who like usually was slowing down his pace so Tyrion could keep up with him.

"He broke his arm" Tyrion answered.

"I'm sorry, man, I know football is his life" Bronn said and Tyrion knew he meant it even though he was trying to sound casual.

"And your sister?" Bronn asked after they had both been quiet for awhile.

"You know how she is" Tyrion said sighing.

Bronn said something but Tyrion wasn't listening anymore.

He had spotted Shae near her locker.

She looked so beautiful just like every day.

Her long, dark hair and brown eyes drove him crazy.

She turned her head and spotted him down the hallway.

She smiled at him and Tyrion tried to smile back while looking handsome.

Something he had never succeeded at.

"Why don't you ask her out?" Bronn asked who had noticed that Tyrion had stopped listening.

Tyrion laughed bitterly and he shook his head.

"She would just laugh" he answered.

His brother would have asked her out instantly and of course she would have said yes to him.

Every girl said yes to Jaime even though he didn't seem to care.

Most girls didn't even say hello to Tyrion let alone agree to go on a date with him.

"I'll bet you a silver stag that if you ask her out she will say yes" Bronn said.

Tyrion laughed again but less bitterly.

"You're on, my friend" he said and he approached Shae fully aware of his stunted legs and how grotesque he must look to her.

"Hey, Tyrion" she said smiling when she saw him approaching her.

"Hello, Shae, you look absolutely stunning today" he said smiling.

He could only imagine how horrible he looked but this time it would be to his advantage.

"Thank you" she said and he could hear her enchanting foreign accent.

"I was wondering if you would like to go on a date with me?" he asked without fear.

Why would he be nervous?

He already knew what she was going to say.

She was going to laugh, or she was going to be disgusted or worst of all she might feel sorry for him.

"I would love that" she said instead still smiling and she bent over so she could kiss him on his cheek "I'll call you tonight"

Tyrion just stood there with his mouth open.

Did that really just happen?

Behind him he could hear Bronn laughing.

"Told you so"

Daenerys

Dany entered the studio and sat down behind one of the drawing tables.

She was early and only a few other students were already sitting behind their desks.

She opened her backpack and retrieved the drawing she had been working on yesterday.

It was a dragon or at least it was going to be when she finished it.

Whatever she put her mind to drawing she always ended up drawing a dragon.

Black, green or white with glowing eyes and fiery breath.

Tomorrow they would get a trainee teacher and they would start working on an actual assignment but today she was free to work on it again.

She wanted to roll up her sleeves but she was afraid that someone would see her scars.

She told herself to stop thinking about it and concentrated on her drawing.

The school bell rang again and the girl who usually sat next to her rushed into the class room.

Daenerys believed she was called Shae but she wasn't sure.

She hadn't talked to anyone since she had arrived at her new school.

Everyone already seemed to belong to a group and she didn't seem to belong anywhere.

A bitter smile spread over her face.

All these years she had tried to get back home and now she finally was and it didn't feel like home anymore.

"That's really beautiful"

Dany looked up from her drawing and noticed Shae smiling at her.

"That's really beautiful" Shae said again.

"Thank you" Dany said blushing.

She had started to colour her dragon cream with golden horns and the large dragon was sleeping curled up around a little girl.

Dany looked over at Shae's drawing and noticed that she had drawn herself... naked.

Shae was laying on top of a bed with her eyes closed.

Her dark hair was spread out over her pillow and she looked like a Greek goddess.

"Your drawing is really beautiful too" Dany said full admiration.

"Thank you" Shae smiled and they both went back to work.

She coloured the little girl's hair silver just like her own and if she had opened her eyes they would have been purple too.

The little girl was naked tough but the large tail of the dragon covered her up.

The class room was completely silent apart from the scratching of pencils on paper and the jangling of Shae's many bracelets.

They stayed like that for the rest of their class until the bell rang again.

Dany packed her backpack and quickly left the class room.

It always took her awhile until she had finally found her next class so she was always in a hurry.

Dany rushed through the hallway while she checked her schedule to find her next class room and she accidently bumped into someone and fell down.

"Are you, okay?" the boy asked and he offered her a hand.

A blush spread over her face as she noticed how handsome he was.

He was dressed in all black and his grey eyes were so dark they seemed black too.

"I'm fine" she said and suddenly she felt very naked in her ripped jeans, white t-shirt and her loose red chequered shirt.

"Good" he said smiling "I'm Jon by the way"

"I'm Dany, Dany Targaryen" she said introducing herself.

Viserys had made sure that she never forgot to mention her last name.

"You're new here, aren't you?" he asked kindly "Let me help you"

Before she could say anything he had already taken her schedule from her hands.

"Wow you're taking High Valyrian!" he said still looking at her schedule "that's on the second floor, the third class room at you're right"

He handed her back her schedule and she stuffed it in her backpack.

"Thank you" she said smiling shyly.

"Any time" Jon said before turning around "see you around, Dany Targaryen"

Cersei

Cersei Lannister was standing in front of the bathroom mirror and admiring her own reflection or at least that was what it must look like to others.

Every hair was in place and she had never had one zit in her life but she was missing something.

She let out a sigh and Margaery stopped applying her lip-gloss.

"What's wrong?" the girl asked her.

Cersei hated Margaery to be honest but she was rich and popular and Cersei needed that in a friend.

"Nothing" she answered.

She hadn't told anyone about Jaime and she wasn't going to start with Margaery.

"Does this have anything to do with Jaime?" the Tyrell girl asked.

Seven hells, how did she now that?
Cersei hated it when Margaery tried to meddle in her business.

Why did she always have to try to be her friend?

"No, Jaime is fine" Cersei answered and she hoped the girl would leave it at that.

She couldn't stand watching Jaime like that.

So vulnerable and desperate.

Their father had always taught them to be strong and Jaime couldn't right now so she had to be strong for both of them.

"He's not fine, Cersei" Margaery said in a soft voice and she tried to take hold of Cersei's hand.

"Don't touch me" Cersei said and she quickly moved her hand.

She didn't need anyone's pity and especially not Margaery Tyrell's.

She had lived through her mother's death and Melara's and she would live through this.

"He will be fine soon enough" she told Margaery and somehow she managed to fake a smile.

Margaery smiled back at her.

Cersei hated that smile.

It made Margaery look dumb and fake but Cersei guessed that's how men liked their women.

Margaery had long, curly brown hair and big doe eyes and she was very pretty indeed though not as pretty as Cersei.

She knew that for sure.

Still some men seemed to prefer Margaery and that stung.

She would never tell Margaery that tough.

"You need something to take your mind of Jaime" Margaery said while the girl tried to decided how many buttons she could leave unbuttoned before Stannis would call her to his office.

Cersei didn't like to but she had to agree with Margaery but what would suffice?

Suddenly the door swung open and Sansa Stark entered the bathroom followed by a girl whose name Cersei could never remember and honestly didn't care to either.

"Hi" Sansa said greeting them with a bright smile.

Cersei was already starting to hate that smile too.

"So the party is going to be in the backyard" Sansa told the brunette who gave her a confused look.

Cersei already knew Sansa was only stating something obvious so they would ask about the party.

Oh what the hells she thought.

"What party?" Cersei asked after she gave Margaery a meaningful look.

"My sweet sixteen" Sansa said smiling because her plan had worked.

"Oh a sweet sixteen? How lovely!" Margaery said and a plan started to form inside of Cersei's head.

"We love parties, is there anything we can do to help?" Cersei asked knowing that Sansa would immediately say yes.

"Really? That would be amazing" Sansa said with that same dumb smile.

"It's settled then" Cersei said "call us if you need anything"

After that Cersei linked arms with Margaery and guided her out of the bathroom.

"So why are we going to Sansa's party?" Margaery asked as soon as they were out of earshot.

"Because, my dear Margaery, we are nice people"

Margaery started laughing loudly and for the first time it sounded genuine.

"And why are we really going?" Margaery asked.

"Because the bigger your parties are the more popular you get" Cersei answered "and the Stark parties are becoming frighteningly big"

"So we're going to take credit for it?" Margaery asked and there was nothing left of that dumb smile on her face.

The rose was starting to show her thorns and on moments like these she actually did like Margaery at least as much as Cersei was capable of liking anyone that wasn't her or Jaime.

"Maybe" Cersei answered "but we'll make sure it's memorable at the very least"

Jeyne

Sansa was still smiling when they entered the cafeteria.

"I just can't believe it" she said again "everything's going exactly like I planned"

Jeyne didn't even want to respond to that.

She had a bad feeling about this.

"Sansa, over here!" a voice called from the centre of the cafeteria.

They turned around and saw Margaery waving at them or at Sansa to be precise.

"Come on" Sansa said and she linked arms with Jeyne just like Cersei and Margaery had done.

When they reached the table they were greeted by a smiling Margaery who immediately offered Sansa the last free chair.

"Come sit next to me, Sansa, I was just telling the others about your fabulous party" Margaery said.

Sansa sat down without thinking twice and left Jeyne behind.

She could feel the girls at the table looking at her and judging her.

She felt uncomfortable and didn't understand why her friend wasn't helping her.

"Oh dear it looks like we're all out of chairs" Cersei said in a flat voice "I'm sorry"

Sansa looked up from her seat to Jeyne who was about to cry.

Was Sansa really going to leave her like this?
"You don't mind sitting somewhere else, do you?" Sansa asked her with a guilty look on her face "Just this once?"

Jeyne shook her head and tried to fake a smile.

"No that's okay" she said softly "see you later"

That said she turned around and walked away from the "popular table".

She could hear Cersei and her friends burst out into laughter and she was certain they were laughing about her.

She looked around the room to find a place to sit.

She spotted Theon sitting with Robb and some of their friends and they were laughing about a story Theon was telling.

Apparently the story included juggling or something entirely else according to Theon's gestures.

She realized that without Sansa she didn't really belong anywhere and she was also fully aware that she had been standing in the middle of the room for a while now.

She felt tears burn in her eyes until she felt a hand on her arm.

The strong but short girl dragged her to a table at the other side of the room and pushed her in a chair across from Gendry.

"Thanks" she told Arya softly with a warm smile.

Arya made a gesture with her hand as if she was trying to wave her thanks away and gave her a smile instead.

"No problem" she said while flicking her long fringe out of her eyes.

Jeyne already knew the two boys sitting at Arya's table but suddenly she realized that she had never actually talked to them before.

"Guys, this is Jeyne" Arya said gesturing at her "and these two idiots are Gendry and Hot pie or better known as The Outlaws"

"Nice to meet you" Jeyne said.

The larger boy was half way through a roll of Oreos and offered her one too.

"No thank you, I'm trying to lose weight" Jeyne said folding her hands on her flat stomach.

A piece of Oreos fell from Hot Pie's lips as he watched her in utter amazement.

She noticed that Arya and Gendry were looking at her funny too.

"Why?" Gendry asked eventually.

"Sansa read about this really good diet so we're trying it together" Jeyne said while a blush spread over her face.

Before she could do anything Gendry had already forced an Oreo into her mouth.

She was starting to get angry until she tasted the divine taste of the cookie.

"That's so good" she moaned closing her eyes.

Hot Pie and Gendry started laughing and the Outlaws shared some more food with her.

Apparently Hot Pie loved baking, hence his name, and he was all about spreading the love.

"So what do you guys play anyway?" she asked after eating her third Oreo.

"I play the bass and Hot Pie drums" Gendry answered "and little Arry is our lead guitarist and singer"

"Temporary singer!" Arya sighed "I suck at it"

They all laughed including Jeyne.

"We mostly play covers of the Brotherhood without Banners but we're trying to write or own songs too" Gendry said.

Jeyne's heart skipped a beat when she heard the name of her favourite band.

"The Brotherhood without Banners! That's my favourite band EVER! Beric Dondarrion is the best guitarist that has ever lived and ever will live and when he sets fire to his guitar, he sets fire to my heart" This all came so quickly out of her mouth that at the end of the sentence she was actually out of breath.

The Outlaws laughed again and she could feel a blush spread over her face.

Sansa had never really liked the Brotherhood's music and the one time they did go to a concert together she had complained about the loud music the whole time.

"If you like it so much you should definitely come to our rehearsal" Gendry said.

"I don't know" Jeyne said biting her lip.

She didn't want to intrude.

"Oh come on, Jeyne, you have to come!" Arya said begging her "and then you can sing too because the boys always laugh at me when I sing, please, please, pleeeeease!"

Jeyne laughed and agreed eventually.

"Fine, but I'm not promising to sing" she said.

Jon

"Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come."

The two freshmen were sitting on one knee like Jon and all the others had done too when they had joined their club.

The Oath had been a joke of some student that had attended their school a long time ago but it had become a tradition.

Jon liked it to be honest.

When someone said the Oath they became an undeniable part of their group and for a lot of students that was exactly what they needed.

To belong somewhere.

Somewhere where they weren't just someone's bastard child; a secret that should be hidden.

Grenn handed the two freshmen each a black polo shirt with the small AV logo on it.

"Wear it with pride" he said.

"So that everyone will know that you're one of us" Pyp added "we keep this school running"

Pyp wasn't wrong.

Every computer, every TV and even Stannis's new high tech system were under their control.

Without them the whole system would fall apart but thanks to Stannis they at least had the most modern equipment the school could buy for them.

Stannis had helped the AV club a lot since he had taken over the school as headmaster even though he didn't know a thing about computers.

More than once he had called Jon to his office just to show him how to open his e-mail.

Stannis would never admit that to anyone tough and it wasn't long before he had started to trust Jon and named him the new leader.

"If you need anything you can just ask your Lord Commander" Pyp told the freshmen who looked at Jon with big eyes.

Jon just rolled his eyes at Pyp.

"That's enough" Jon said.

"Of course, Milord"

"Pyp, seriously cut it out" Jon said and the boy finally shut his mouth.

The ball rang and the freshmen rushed out off the room after having said a high-pitched "bye".

They all laughed and Pyp opened their secret cabinet and retrieved a hidden bottle of wine.

"Are you sure?" Jon asked looking at the bottle.

"What you're gonna tell, Stannis?" Pyp asked teasing "besides it's the end of the school day anyway"

Jon gave in and Grenn poured their wine in a few red solo cups.

He handed one to Sam who was sitting in a luxurious swivel chair since he had broken the cheaper version.

The boy really couldn't help it but he was just so... fat?

Jon drank his wine while they laughed about the jokes Pyp made.

Suddenly the door burst open and a girl with red hair ran into the room.

She grabbed Jon's arm and dragged him to the computer room across the hallway.

"Fix this" she said after letting go of him and pointing at a computer.

Jon took one look at the screen and immediately saw a million error messages clogging up the screen.

"What did you do?!" he asked the girl.

"I don't know!" she shouted banging on the keyboard "THE STUPID THING WON'T WORK!"

"Don't do that!" he shouted and he gently pushed her away from the keyboard.

Jon started to remove the messages one by one while the girl kept a close eye on him.

"I could have done that!" the girl shouted and she tried to push him away again.

"SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!" he eventually shouted and the girl looked at him with a surprised expression on her face.

She sat down nevertheless and stayed quiet for at least a little while.

"What's your name?" he asked the girl while he clicked away.

"Ygritte, yours?"

"Jon Snow" he said and he finally got rid of all the error messages.

He gave her an accusing look as he found the source of her problem.

"You tried to hack the system?" he asked her surprisingly calm.

Her face turned as red as her fiery hair.

"Did not!" she said but he knew she was lying.

"Why? The year just started so your grades couldn't have been that bad yet" he said in an attempt to lighten the mood.

She rolled her eyes at him.

"You know nothing, Jon Snow" Ygritte said.

"Then tell me"

She let out a sigh and rested her head in her hands.

"I'm so stupid" she said "I thought I could erase the grade system"

"What?" he asked laughing.

Ygritte turned red again and shot him an angry look.

"Don't laugh at me! Without the grade system teachers couldn't discriminate students anymore!" Ygritte said.

Jon tried to stop laughing because she was looking at him with an extremely serious face.

"That's indeed stupid" he said.

"Oh you know nothing, Jon Snow" Ygritte said but this time it sounded less angry.

"Listen, I won't tell Stannis that you tried to hack the system but don't mess with this again, okay?" he asked with a kind smile.

Ygritte smiled back at him and for the first time he noticed how pretty she was.

"Fine" she agreed eventually.