An authors note that was kinda long:
Touché my friend, DeucesAreWild. Imaginary cookie to you for noticing the dumb as fuck plot hole I will now try to explain and band aid.
Truth be told that scene didn't go how I wanted it to, I wanted Tywin to hold a sword to her throat so she couldn't get it back, but then we are faced with the same problem of "she's military she should have some experience on how to get out of a situation like that." My problem was I just couldn't think how to fix the plot hole and still have Cersei with control of the gun. Also, I needed Ariana to play smart here. A lame excuse, I know. I contemplated Oberyn being held by his throat instead of Ariana by Tywin to get Ariana to stop trying to get the gun back with assault, but then I realized that 1) Oberyn would not go without a fight, 2) Neither Tywin or Oberyn are stupid enough to just brawl it out. Even though they can both clearly stick someone with the pointy end, they hash it out with words, for the sake of their houses if not their own. Oberyn doesn't stick a dagger in Tywin in the scene where he's asked to be a judge because even though he's pretty impulsive and usually doesn't care he knows he'll be killed later for it. And 3) Im not sure who'd win between the two. Oberyn is younger and his fighting style is much different from Tywin's, which I don't know if its a good thing or a bad thing. But Oberyn let's his emotions control him, whereas Tywins pretty collected.
But back to the scene. The way I basically did this scene was like: ok. Fuck. Oberyn and Tywin can't fight. Ariana isn't just going to let her keep it, for fucks sake. And she could physically best Cersei. So why not give the Queen what she has coming?
Ariana may be from the future but she's smart; she knows that getting back what the Queen stole by physical force can end in her death. If it came to a trial everyone would take the Cersei's side because they don't trust a stranger, and/or Cersei bribed/threatened whoever would testify.
Ariana knows she's out of her element here, she senses something bigger is going on, that there are multiple plays being carried out at once. She knows she doesn't know how to play the game of thrones. Her first small hint that clues her in that this is actually a dangerous place is meeting Varys (sidenote: and although Littlefinger feels out of place here I personally wanna give him some plans of his own later.)
Obviously being military, Ariana's first response would be to attack Cersei. She's thinking, "she's such a dumbfuck she's gonna get someone killed." That's definitely what's going through her head.
But she doesn't try very hard to physically take the gun back, even though she could. Her subconscious stops her, because of Oberyn's edginess, but mostly Sansa. Sansa and Tyrion talking to her about what most of Tyrion's family did to her.
I know there was no mention of Sansa and Cersei's relationship in that scene, but it will be in the next one, because even though her subconscious thinks, "wait, no, stop, don't," she herself is wondering, "why the fuck didn't I get my gun back? Why didn't I try harder, I could've done it. " she had no problem shooting a guard, why does she not put a bullet between her eyes or at least get her weapon?
You know when you do something and you feel completely justified in doing it, but have no verbal explanation for it? At least not right away? I feel like Ariana's mind was saving her here. She's used to fighting on impulse, but her mind here is like, slow down, we gotta pick our fights wisely. And again this is because of Oberyn being on edge, and Sansa's talk.
In the next chapter, we're gonna see more of her thoughts beyond her inital repsonse, which is basically calling Cersei a dumbfuck.
A plot hole I'm aware of, but trying to work around it. Thank you for the review, it's pretty sweet that you're into the story. Also thanks to irenia for reviewing chapter 5.
I know the time between updates is long, however I post a chapter as soon as I finish writing it. And chapter 5 was my longest which I hoped satiated you guys for the time being. I've got other stories in the works; I'm editing one of my others for those who like Criminal minds it's there, and another one currently on hiatus which I would like to take off, (both are Reid-centric) and for those who are marvel fans I am participating in Coulsons cakewalk on tumblr, where people write one shots about bae #2 (first is Oberyn,) Phil coulson. Tumblr user lets-talk-about-Clark-baby has all the info on it, and my username is thedeadlovemcdonalds if you want to read that when I submit it.
All of that being said I will continue writing as fast as possible with this story, because my muse for it has definitely not faded and I love getting to develop characters more. Lemme know what you think of Oberyn and Ariana, and how their relationship is progressing too, kay? I'm a pretty uneducated person as far as love an romance go, I would be down to here suggestions or whatever you'd like to say.
Thank you all so much for the support
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