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This publication will be a collection of one-shots & short stories that feature my main OC (Kenna Arryn) from my story "Dance of the Falcon" and Tywin Lannister in various AU scenarios that could be platonic or romantic in nature. You don't necessarily have to have read that story but it will probably help situate you more and you will recognise the easter eggs I have written in each individual story.

I think it will be better just to have all the Kenna and Tywin stories in the one place so chapters will not be posted concurrently, for example the next chapter might not be a carry on of the below story (The Family) but be the beginning of another story featuring Tywin and Kenna. The chapter names should make it fairly obvious how to follow a certain story e.g The Family Part 1, The Family Part 2 etc.

Any questions just let me know!

The Family Part 1

The Year 2000 AC

Harrenhal Prison, Riverlandshire, The United Kingdom of Westeros

Tywin heard the heavy steps of the guard and the jingling of the keys on his hip. He had no doubt that the guard was coming for him. There were no other prisoners housed near him and that was the way he liked it.

The footsteps stopped right by his large and furnished cell.

"Mr Lannister, you have a visitor."

Tywin put down the book he had been reading onto the wooden desk he was sat at and swivelled in the chair to face the bald guard.

"Who?" he demanded through the bars.

"I don't know," the guard replied in a respectful tone, "Some woman. Warden Bolton doesn't want her name on any official visitation documentation. Would you like to see her? She is waiting in an individual room."

Tywin nodded as he stood from his chair and made his way over to the iron bars. He reached out and pushed the iron gate forward. It swung effortlessly away. Tywin was housed in the older part of the jail, away from the general jail population. That made it easier for him to conduct his business away from prying eyes.

Tywin raised his hands, "Let's keep up appearances Mr Payne."

The guard nodded slightly as he cautiously placed metal cuffs around Tywin's wrists and escorted him down the empty corridor, through multiple security gates to the individual visiting room that contain the mystery guest.

Kenna Arryn sat at the metallic white desk and focused on keeping her heart rate down. She spread the palms of her hands on the cool metallic surface in front of her so the cold seeped into them. She needed to be at her most alert for this next conversation.

The door to the visitor room was pushed open to reveal the person she had come to see.

Tywin Lannister, former leader of the crime syndicate known as the Lions was escorted into the room, cuffed to the metal bar in the middle of the table. If he was surprised to see her, he didn't show it. Instead, his devouring green eyes never left her face and Kenna could feel the heat from his stare. It had always unsettled her.

The guard left without a word and closed the door to leave his prisoner standing before the desk he was now attached to.

"Please sit Mr Lannister," Kenna said trying to take early control of the conversation.

Tywin stood for a few more beats taking in all he could from his elevated position over her before he lowered himself into the flimsy chair beneath him. Somehow it felt as if he had dictated the choice to sit, not her.

"Alyssa Stone or is it Kenna Arryn?" Tywin growled across the white plastic table.

The last time they had seen each other was at his trial five years ago where she revealed herself to be an undercover police officer and the main witness against him as the leader of the Lions.

"It is Detective Kenna Arryn."

"Did you get a promotion after my trial?" Tywin mused; he was a big fish after all.

"Not immediately, the higher ups were actually displeased I couldn't provide enough evidence to lock your entire family away. Just little old you."

Tywin snorted at her bold reply, she had no idea the danger she was in or the fact she had walked into a lion's den. She wasn't even officially here. It would be so easy to make her vanish without a trace. Truth be told Tywin was sorely tempted to do just that but his curiosity at why she was here won out against his ruthless nature.

"You're brave coming to see me. The last people who deceived me and my family so thoroughly as you did were found with cement shoes and eels in their throats."

Kenna resisted the urge to gulp.

The story of what happened to the Tarbecks and the Reyes families were well known to law enforcement and the criminal community alike. The divers who had discovered the submerged bodies of the two renegade families in a lake in the county of Castamere were still traumatised by their find decades later.

The Tarbecks and Reyes crime was challenging the Lannister family's control over the Lions. Something that wouldn't be under-threat for generations to come such was the severity of the put down. Not even the family dogs or little children had been exempted from the wrath of the man that currently sat opposite Kenna. A man Kenna had spent five years of her life undercover to bring down.

"I have an advantage they didn't," Kenna said quietly.

"Oh?"

"You consider me family."

"Yes," Tywin confirmed leaning back in the flimsy plastic chair, "that is rather lucky for you. How are my grandchildren?"

"They are fine," Kenna said tight lipped.

"I don't even know their names," Tywin lied.

"I'm not going to tell you. They deserve a life away from all this," Kenna said gesturing to the barren white room they were in.

"Sometimes this life chooses you," Tywin said cryptically before noticing the slight tremor in Kenna's hand at discussing her twins.

In all the years he had known her as she pretended to be a loyal solider to the Lions and eventually a dedicated partner to his son, Jaime, she had always shown a fearlessness in everything she had done.

But that was missing now.

"You look tired," Tywin said noting the black circles that hung under her eyes and the pale complexion of her face, "Chief Inspector Eddard Stark been working you to the bone again?"

Kenna swallowed at the mention of her boss. An action Tywin did not miss.

"He doesn't know you are here? Tywin deduced, "Why are you here?"

Kenna let out a controlled breath through her nose then straightened up in her chair to meet Tywin's eyes head on.

"A new gang, the Roses, they found out where I lived. I came home from work yesterday to find poor Podrick shot through the head and my children cowering in the panic room. God knows how they found out where I live."

Tywin pursed his lips, Podrick Payne had been one of his guys, a new Lion recruit that had been tasked with infiltrating Kenna's life as a babysitter for Kenna's children. He had been successful in this endeavour and in his real task to keep his grandchildren safe but it had come at the cost of his own life. Tywin wondered if the Roses's mole in the police department was the same as his own.

Kenna observed Tywin's attention had gone inward but continued, knowing the man in front of her was still listening,

"I found a note on my kitchen table saying that they wouldn't stop coming after me or my children unless I-."

"Kill me?"

"Yes."

"Are you going to?" Tywin asked, his eyes locking onto hers.

"I'm not stupid. The Roses couldn't get you in here which means you own this prison. I know how this game is played. If I kill you, I won't make it out of this prison alive, despite your feelings on family."

"Indeed, but it would never get that far I assure you," Tywin said slipping his hands out of the cuffs that had never truly been fastened.

'You wouldn't have been able to stop me," Kenna growled out, not able to resist.

The corners of Tywin's mouth curled upwards at the strong statement.

"If you didn't come here to kill me, why are you here?" he asked, already knowing the answer but wanting the proud woman sitting opposite him to vocalise it.

Kenna took a deep breath, knowing the man opposite her would enjoy her next words immensely.

"I came to ask for your help."

"To protect your children? The children you hide in the dark away from me?"

"All I want is to protect them; from you, from the Roses, from everything," Kenna bit back.

"You can't protect them from who they are," Tywin replied stoically.

"They are my children!" Kenna roared.

"They are also Jaime Lannister's children and they will forever be in danger because of that."

Kenna slammed her hand down on the table, "And whose fault is that? They will not share their father's fate!"

Tywin narrowed his eyes, "My son died in an accident."

"Sure," mumbled Kenna.

Tywin slowly stood from his chair, "Where are my grandchildren?"

"They are safe."

"Tell me they are not with Eddard Stark?"

Kenna hesitated, making it clear that was exactly who they were with.

"We need to move," Tywin demanded as he made for the door.

"Why?" Kenna asked, not understanding the urgency.

"If I could figure out where you placed your children so can others," he explained, banging on the door.

Kenna, realising what he was insinuating, started banging on the door rapidly and shouting for the guard to return.

Author Notes:

In this story Kenna's children are Jaime's conceived while she was undercover in the Lion's crime syndicate so no twincest. The twins (Yohn & Jorge) are five, I imagine Kenna was pregnant during Tywin's trial and that is roughly the same time Jaime died too.

If you like a particular story let me know and I'll write it more or if you have suggestions feel free to share, otherwise I'll just get cracking on what interests me the most.

This story (The Family) will be multi-chaptered so there will be another chapter coming soon.

RIP

Poderick Payne (Shot through the head by a yet unknown Tyrell assassin after refusing to reveal the location of Kenna's children)

I seem to always find a way to kill this character in my stories but it really isn't intentional. Poderick was one of Tywin's guys sent in to keep an eye on Kenna and her children.

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