I want to thank everyone for reviewing my last chapter. I am the first to admit that it was not the best chapter as i never really cared for Stannis and it was hard to get him incorporated in my story but i did not want to leave him unfinished. Well i am greatfull fr them and i hope that you enjoy this chapter more. Please review and tell me what you think.
Chapter 19: Of talks and homecomings
Jon woke up with a groan. He was sore all over his body. He opened his body and saw his wife sitting at the vanity brushing her wearing nothing but her night dress.
"What are you doing out of bed." Jon said with a raspy voice. Margery looked at him as she finished braiding her hair and smiled at him.
"I did not want to wake you up, you need your sleep my love." Margery said and walked over to him and kissed him softly on the lips.
"I would rather have you in my arms when i wake up." Jon said turning on his side and looking at Margery who was also on her side.
"How are you feeling my love. Are you still so sore." she asked. It was just two days since Stannis attacked and they were all recovering from it. Margery moved a strand of his hair from his eyes. Jon caught her wrist and kissed it. Margery closed her eyes and took a deep breath. This man had a such an effect on her. He left her breathless no matter what he did.
"I am the luckiest man to have you by my side. I am so glad that I had met you. I love you so much Margery." Jon said and Margery laughed as she played with his hair.
"I love you too Jon. I knew from the moment that i met you that you were a spacial man. You are very easy to fall for." Margery said and Jon leaned in and kissed her.
"Just one more battle. One more and it will define if we will live or die." Jon said and Margery lifted herself on her elbow and looked at him with a frown.
"You will win this war Jon. You and Robb will crush the Lannisters to the ground. You have no other choice. You have to stay alive for me Jon and for your child." Margery said and Jon looked at her with wife eyes before bursting into a fit of laughter. He never laughed so hard in his life. He felt his eyes watering. Jon looked at his wife and kissed her hard in her mouth. Margery laughed and kissed him back.
They stopped kissing when Jon was hovering over her. Margery wiped his tears and kissed his nose.
"Thank you so much Margery. You have no idea how happy you make. Thank you so much my love." Jon said kissing Margery all over her face and telling how much he loved and and thanked her. Margery laughed and cried at the same time.
"There is nothing to thank me for my darling. I want a family with you Jon. I want many babes with your beautiful eyes. I want a babe with your sense of honour. You will be the best father i child could ever want cause you are the best husband a woman could ever want." Margery said and Jon looked at her with a small smile and kissed her lips. he began kissing her neck and went down until he reached her stomach. He kissed it tenderly.
"I cannot wait until i meet you. I promise i will make this world a better place for you. I promise nothing will interrupt your life my sweet. You will be the most loved child in the world. My little Princess." Jon said and Margery chuckled
"How do you know that it is a girl." Margery said playing with is hair.
"I just have a feeling my love that a little Princess in inside of you." Jon said. Margery looked at him.
"Will you not be angry if it is a girl and not a boy?" She asked him and Jon looked at her.
"How can i be angry with you. You are bringing our child to this world. No matter if it is a girl or a boy i will love them all the same." Margery said.
"What if we only have girls?" Margery asked with worry.
"Then we will have beautiful daughters that we will be the envy of all of the court." Jon said
"What about the an heir. You would need one." Margery said.
"We will cross that bridge when we will we get there. Margery stopped worrying. I wil love the child no matter if it a girl or a boy. I will love them because they came from the beautiful mother." Jon said and Margery smiled.
"I love you Jon" Margery said
"As i love you Margery said."
"Are you sure you are all packed. Are you sure you have everything with you." Naida asked. She was standing in front of a wheel house. Sansa Arya and Catelyn were departing from Riverrun to Winterfell today and Naida was worried about them very much. Robb was standing there holding Eddard.
"Yes Naida i have everything ready. Please not stress so much." Catelyn held Naida's hands and smiled at her.
"I just want this journey for you to be as comfortable as possible." Naida said making the girls laugh.
"We will be fine. I just want to go home and see my boys and i will be praying that soon you will be joining me and the country will be once more in peace." Catelyn said and looked at Robb who was smiling at his mother. They all wished that it would soon become reality.
"I am so exited to go home. I missed it so much. I never thought i would be going back there." Sansa said with a beautiful smile on he face.
"And you will not live there until i say so." Robb said making everybody chuckled.
"I am in no hurry to go leave home Robb do not worry." Sansa said and taking her nephew in her arms. She will miss him so much.
" I do not want to go back home. I want to stay and fight." Arya said and Catelyn gave her side look.
"Arya this is very dangerous, you need to go back home. I cannot thing about you in the batterfield. I will not focus on what i am doing." Robb said and Arya nodded with a dejective tone.
"Fine but i am not happy about this. Not one bit." Arya said.
"At least you will be safe." Catelyn said and went to kiss Robb and hug him tight.
"Please be safe and come back home to me." Catelyn whispered to him.
"i will mother. It is all i think about." He whispered back.
Catelyn went over to hug Naida who was crying and wiping her eyes. She was going to miss them so much.
"Keep him safe. I love you so much Naida, you are my daughter." Catelyn whispered to her.
"You are the mother i never had. I am so glad that i am a part of this family." Naida said letting her go. She hugged Arya and Sansa and watched as they all took off with a small party of knights. They were getting smaller and smaller by the second and Naida held onto Robb as tears rolled down her face.
"They will be safe and soon we will join them." Robb said kissing Naida's head.
"I really want this war to be over soon i want to put this all behind me. For our son and our future children. I want them to grow up in a peaceful world." Naida said looking at the infant in Robb's arms.
"Me too my love. Me too." Robb said and they went back into the castle.
"You need to get my father's attention. Do something that will unravel him." Tyrion said looking at the map that was laid out in front of him. He was thinking how they can attack the castle that would not be as obvious.
"You need to attack from another gate. They will be expecting the attack from the Muddy Gate but you have to attack from another gate. Send some of your forces there to distract them and Bam you attack from somewhere else." Tyrion continued and both Stark boys looked at him with big eyes.
"How do you know all of this?" Jon asked.
"I am new at strategy your Grace but i read a lot of books, i know what they did in previous battles and i want to improve on that. I was the Hand of the King on behalf of my father and i liked the job and i was good at it. I made sure that my the people in Kings Landing will be safe." Tyrion said and Jon nodded impressed. It was no use hiding that Jon liked the little man. She was witty and funny. They got along very well.
"Well i want to know why are you helping us and dooming your own family." Robb said. He did not like the half man very much and did not trust him like Jon did. He was still trying to figure this man out. Tyrion looked at the King in the North.
"Family mean something to my father. There is no love between any of his children and him, especially me. He only uses us as his pawns. He wed me to your sister to make sure that we have an ally in her when treating with you. He hates me blames me for killing my mother. If he could he would kill me any day. I am not fooling myself that my father or sister will leave or even my brother who is your prisoner. I know what he did to your brother. I only ask of you that you save Tommen and Myrcella. They are innocent in this war and they could not help this situation." Tyrion said.
"I am not your father dwarf. I will not kill innocent children and for your brother, he will be dead by tomorrow and i will send him his head. He will see what it is like to lose someone who means something to you." Robb said. There was no reason to keep the Kingslayer alive now. He could kill him, like he wanted to do at the very start.
"I understand. It is your right to do so. I only ask of you if i can speak to him one last time before he perishes." Tyrion asked and Robb was about to decline but Jon cut in.
"With supervision i believe that it will be all right. Do not try any funny business because i will kill you." Jon said and Robb just tighten his jaw. Jon was also a King but he was far to trustful for his taste.
"Thank you your Graces. I promise i will not do anything to betray your trust." Tyrion said. Robb walked out of the Hall. He needed to prepare himself for what he will do later on tonight. It was not an easy task killing a person. In battle you do not think. You just want to stay alive but like this. This is different. You are sentencing a person to die and it will stay with you for the rest of your life.
Tyrion entered a cell and it stank of piss and shit and dirt. It was dark very dark and the torch that he was holding did not help him to see very much. In the corner he saw a figure. It was a very different figure than he was used to see as his brother.
"Tyrion, is that you." Hos voice was horse and it was barely above whisper but Jamie moved over to Tyrion and the light lighten up his face to reveal hi brother who was once the image of beauty. The desire of every woman look horrible. His hair was long greasy with dirt it in. He had a beard that was mattered and very dirty. He was all very dirty and Tyrion felt so sorry for him. He was a shell of a person he was.
"Yes brother it is me." he said walking closer to Jamie.
"What are you doing here? How did you get here? What is happening?" Jamie asked.
"Our father is losing this war Jamie. He will lose to the Stark and he will perish in the war. I am am selfish Jamie. I did not want to die. After father wed me off to Sansa Stark i ran away and brought her back here. I wanted to stay alive Jamie." Tyrion said and Jamie chuckled.
"I do not blame you brother. Death is such a boring place. Yet i fear i will die soon. Is that right brother. Will the Stark boy finally kill me." Jamie asked knowing what his fate was already.
"Yes he will kill you later today. Before sundown." Tyrion said sitting next to his brother. He passed him a flagon of wine and Jamie drank greedily from it.
"Well i lived a full life. I do not regret anything. It was a great life brother." Jamie said and looked at Tyrion with a small smile.
"Do you really not regret anything. Even the boy who became a cripple because of you?" Tyrion asked him brother who looked at him.
"Do not get me wrong. I feel sorry for that boy but in that moment all i could think of was it was either me or him and i chose myself." Jamie said drinking his wine again.
They sat in silence for a couple of seconds before Jamie looked at him.
"They will not let Cersei leave will they. The Stark boys?" Jamie asked and Tyrion nodded.
"Myrcella and Tommen will be spared other than that everyone else will die." Tyrion said with a small voice.
"Then i am glad that i will die tonight. I cannot leave in a world where there in no Cersei Tyrion. I love her more than i do anything else in the world. She is my everything." Jamie said taking another swing from the flagon.
"I know Jamie. This war started because you two love each other. Roberts Rebellion Started because of a woman that both claimed to love. Love caused many wars brother and i cannot think why not. Love is worth fighting for." Tyrion said remembering the only woman he truly loved and her beautiful face that broke his heart.
"Tyrion i must confess something to you. Tysha was not a whore that we hid for you. Father just wanted to me to say that to stop this marriage. I believed that she truly loved you. I am so sorry for my part in this. I never wanted to hurt you like this." Jamie said and Tyrion closed his eyes.
"I know all about this Jamie. I read your journal and i tried to be angry at you i really did but i was furious at father. Ne caused an innocent woman to be raped by 50 men and then made me finish her off. That was a cruel thing to do. I wish that he has a very painful death. I hope he suffers like she did. Like i did because of what he did." Tyrion said with an angry voice. He truly hated that man.
"I only wished that i stood up for you Tyrion. At least you would be happy and married." Jamie said.
"Father would never let that happen. He would end my marriage one way or another. He just cannot stand to see me happy. He had to ruin my life one way or another." Tyrion said.
"Look at us. I am about to die and we are talking about the death of our father. You are the only one that deserves to stay alive from this family Tyrion. You really deserve it. You will have everything that father never wanted you to have." Jamie said and Tyrion chuckled.
"That is the best thing out of this. His legacy will die with me. I will father no children and his legacy, everything he worked so hard for will be finished." Tyrion said and both chuckled.
"I wish you all the best brother. May your life be better than it was until now." Jamie said and drank the last of wine.
Jamie Lannister was brought outside for the first time in months. He was being dragged to the execution place. Jamie Lannister was not scared of death. He was glad to end his life as it had not meaning if his sister, his lover and the love of his life as not there with him. He will gladly welcome death.
He was pushed down on his knees and and looked around at the men that were staring at him glad that he was going to die. He had nothing to give to them.
"Ser Jamie Lannister son of Tywin Lannister, i Robb Stark King in the North, the Trident and the Riverlands sentence you to death in the sight of Gods and men. Do you have any last words." Robb asked him. Jamie just shook his head and laid down ready to take his fate.
He closed his eyes and saw the beautiful emerald eyes of his sister and smiled. Rob swung his sword and cut his head off.
Tyrion was in his bedchamber. He could not be there when his brother was killed. He closed his eyes and for the first time since he was a child he prayed. He prayed that his brother could find peace in death.
Catelyn had just arrived through the gates of Winterfell. A place she called her home. Where she raised her children and fell in love with her husband. She was finally home. She could not wait to see her two sons. Her two baby boys she missed so greatly. The wheelhouse did not fully stop yet and she was out of the carriage looking at her sons who grew up so much.
She looked at her boys who grew up so much. Her Bran was a man now. He was in was being held by Hodor and he was smiling at her with a big smile. He grew up so much. Catelyn was chocked at the man she saw in front of her. She ran to him and kissed him all over his face. He had missed him so much. Hodor held him so Catelyn could embrace him and she did. She held onto him crying as she did. She was seeing her son. She looked once again at his beautiful face and kissed both of his cheeks. She was so chocked she was unable to speak.
She then moved her eyes from Bran to her baby Rickon who also grew up. From all of her children Rickon looked the most like Ned. He was so big now yet still a boy. Her little boy. He was standing with his direwolf and was frowning at her. She looked at her with a look that could kill and ran off with his direwolf. Catelyn called out after him but he just ran faster.
"He is angry all the time now mother. He think everybody abandoned him. he is usually in the crypts now a days." Bran said.
"What do you mean angry." Catelyn asked and Bran looked at his mother with a sad look
"He does not listen to anyone mother. He attacked some people with his wolf. He does not take lessons." Bran said and Catelyn covered her mouth with her hand and cried. Her son was out of control all because she had left him here. She needed to fix this. She walked down to the crypts to find her son sitting with his wolf and when he saw her he hissed at her.
"Rickon please come here. Come to mamma. I have missed you so much my baby boy." Catelyn said with a shuddering voice. Rickon just looked at her for a minute.
"No i will not come to you. You left me here alone. You promised you will come back and you were gone a long time. Father died and you were not here. I hate you." Rickon said with a quivering voice and Catelyn's heart broke. She failed her son, she failed her little boy.
"Please Rickon forgive me. I promise i will never leave you again." Catelyn begged her son.
"You all went away. You left me alone. Your promise to come back and so did Robb and he is not here." Rickon said.
"Robb is fighting a war. He will come home as soon as he can. Please Rickon come to me." Catelyn said and Rickon looked at her and before running to his mother opened arms and cried. He cried so hard that he was shaking and Catelyn thought it was all her fault. She did this to her son. She held him close and promised to ever let him go.
Soo how was this chapter? Did you like it? I hope you did. I hated killing Jamie as he is one of my favourite characters but i wrote a story where Lannisters won and now it is the Starks turn no matter how much my heart broke. Well as you can see Catelyn is back at Winterfell with her daughters and sons. Next chapter will the the Siege on Kings Landing. Stay in tune this chapter may take some time.