The next day, Aldarra was in Sansa's room with Shae helping her with her dress.

Sansa asked,"Do you think people will like it?"

Shae said, "I don't think they will even notice it."

Sansa said, "You're right. It's not my wedding, it's Margaery and Joffrey's wedding. Anyway, Aldarra's dress will look far superior to this. They'd never make you anything as dull as this for the wedding."

Sansa, showing how naive she was, asked, "Will they let me invite my family?"

Shae shrugged and said, "They haven't asked my opinion."

Aldarra said, "We are your family here, Shae and I." The door opens.

A maid said, "Lady Sansa, Lord Tyrion to see you. Should I…" Tyrion just barges in, catching Sansa partially dressed.

Tyrion's eyes got big and he turned around saying, "I beg your pardon, my lady." Shae and Aldarra help Sansa to recover her decency.

Sansa meekly said, "Good afternoon, Lord Tyrion. I was just trying on a gown for King Joffrey's wedding."

Tyrion said drily, "Yes, it should be quite a wedding. I need to speak with you, Lady Sansa." He looked at Aldarra's eyes. Aldarra cringed knowing what the look on his face meant.

Sansa said, "Of course."

Tyrion asked, "Alone, if I may."

Shae asked, "Why do you need to speak to her alone?"

Sansa giggled, "It will be fine, Shae. I trust her, even though she tells me not to."

Tyrion said with hidden meaning, "Sometimes we think we want to hear something and it's only afterwards when it's too late that we realize we wished we'd heard it under entirely different circumstances." Aldarra takes Shae's hand and they both walk out the door. Tyrion closes the door behind them.

Tyrion sighs and says, "How to begin? It's- this- this- this is awkward. I'm just going to blurt it out."

He took a big breath and said, "You and I have to get married because my father and the crown is making us." Sansa just looks at him like she is trying to understand what he just said.

Sansa said slowly, "We are arranged to be married? When?"

Tyrion winced, and said, "In a fortnight before the royal wedding." Sansa's eyebrows go up in a surprised look at it being so soon.

Sansa said subdued, "Not much time to plan much."

Tyrion said, "I'm sure Aldarra and Shae will help. I'm sorry, Lady Sansa." He cringed on mentioning Shae. Sansa was in shock.

Out in the hall, Shae said, "I wonder what he is telling her?"

Aldarra said, "I know but we haven't been alone long enough for me to tell you." Shae looked at her.

Aldarra said, "Tywin is forcing Tyrion and Sansa to be married. I yelled my head off and he wouldn't change his mind because the Tyrell's are wanting her to marry Loras who doesn't like women. I know Tyrion is mad about it because she is too young for him. Cersei had her maids tell her when Sansa flowered, the bitch. I hope this doesn't make her run away with Littlefinger. I'll leave and run after her."

Shae shook her head and said, "What a mess."

Aldarra nodded and said, "It is. I think all of us need to talk together and work this out somehow." Shae nodded agreeing. Tyrion opened the door to leave and Shae went in and Aldarra grabbed Tyrion by the scruff of his collar and said, "I just told Shae and now we are all going to talk together so no escaping for you."

Tyrion whined as she dragged him back in the room by his collar, "Ok, mother, not so rough." She closed the door.

Aldarra let go of Tyrion smiling at him and said, "Get comfortable because we are all going to be in the same place together before we walk out of here."

They discussed it and came to the conclusion that it would be an unconsummated marriage. Shae would still be with Tyrion when Sansa was not around. Aldarra said that if Sansa even thought about leaving to come to her because they would run away together before she should ever go near Littlefinger or trust him ever. They all agreed that Shae will stay their handmaiden.

—--

That night, Aldarra was reading on the couch with the cat in her lap when she saw Shae coming in and being brought by guards and followed by Cersei. Aldarra knew this was bad and quickly went into the study behind them all standing at the door watching.

As the door closed, Cersei noticed her and said, "Get out! This is nothing concerning you!"

Aldarra firmly said, "Oh but I think it does, your Grace. She is my handmaiden and my dear friend and I will stand with her." Aldarra moved to stand beside her and took Shae's hand.

Cersei snapped, "It just figures your friends with whores, just like those in Fleabottom."

Tywin said authorively, "Be quiet, Cersei."

He said demandingly at Shae, "Are you Tyrion's whore?"

Shae said, casually, "I was but am not anymore, my Lord."

Aldarra said firmly, "She is my handmaiden and not a whore to anyone, Lord husband."

Tywin asked firmly, "But you were when you came here when Aldarra arrived originally in King's Landing?"

Shae said, "Yes, I was. He is getting married now and I am just Lady Aldarra's handmaiden."

Tywin asked authoritatively, "When did you find out about it?"

Shae said, "Today, Lord Tyrion told me, my lord."

Tywin said finally, "You will be leaving the capital immediately."

Aldarra said opposingly, "She will not. She has not done anything wrong."

Cersei shouted, "Shut your mouth! How dare you interfere with matters of the crown! I'll put you in a black cell for meddling!" Aldarra narrowed her eyes on her.

Tywin demanded, "You will not threaten my wife! And you will not interfere, Aldarra."

Aldarra said angrily, "Then I'm going with her!"

Tywin shouted, "You will not!"

Aldarra looked at him and said, "You cannot send her away. She is my handmaiden and a great one."

Tywin seethingly said, "She will undermine my son's marriage."

Aldarra said sarcastically, "Oh, you mean the marriage you created out of the air to stop the Tyrell's from trying to steal the North? The one son you hate and can force it on because he was the only one left? Why don't you marry her to Jamie now that he's back and cancel the King's guard. Not quick enough for you? You push your own agenda on my only three friends. How convenient for you both."

Mentioning Jamie being married off got Cersei's hackles up. She yelled, "Guards!" The guards came in the door.

Cersei commaded, "Take both of these whores to the black cells now!"

Tywin shouted, "No, how dare you Cersei!" The guards didn't know what to do.

Cersei shouted back, "I have had enough of your wife telling everyone what to do. How dare she even be involved. She isn't even a member of the small council."

Aldarra shouted, "Fine! I'll leave with Shae then."

Tywin said, getting enraged, "No! Both of you! Cersei leave her alone or I'll pull my funding!"

Cersei said, "Toss this whore out though!"

Aldarra hugged Shae and whispered in her ear, "Meet me at the dock tonight." The guards ripped Shae away from Aldarra. Aldarra left the study grabbing her stowed bags with some clothes to cover them and her sword while Tywin was still with Cersei. She went to her old room and slammed the door, putting the bags in the secret passageway entrance, closed the door well and sat in the bed crossing her arms. She was glad that she kept them ready with her money packed in them too. She was fed up with him over her sword, Sansa, Tyrion and now Shae.

Tywin came in later and closed the door. Aldarra wouldn't look at him. He said, "I know you're mad at me and were before today. That whore was never supposed to be here in the first place and you know it. I told Tyrion not to bring her here back then. You'll make new friends." She said nothing, staring in one place. She refused to talk to him.

He sighed and said, "I'll have two guards in front of this room from now on." He stood up and walked out the door and closed it. Aldarra struggled to get out of her dress. She braided her hair and tied it off and put on her dressing gown and went out the door and into Sansa's room with the guards following her.

Aldarra sat on in the bed with Sansa, "They threw Shae out of the Red Keep."

Sansa asked, concerned, "Who?"

Aldarra growled, "Cersei and Tywin. I'm leaving tonight. Will you come?"

Sansa said, "I am afraid but you're both my friends."

Aldarra said begging, "Then come with us. We will take good care of you. You know that. Tell Tyrion to come to the docks and leave with us. We'll all four go away together for a while. I have two and a half million dragons in Braavos. We will live just fine elsewhere far away from here."

Sansa asked scared, "Won't they come looking for us?"

Aldarra said, shrugging, "If we change ships three or four times, they can't track us if we have hoods on and are covered up. Tyrion might be an issue but he'll have to pose as a child in a hooded cloak. Norvos, Pentos, Braavos. They will never know. Then once things settle down we will come back so you can go home later."

Sansa said, "Ok. It's better with you now than Littlefinger later when I have no friends. I'll go see Tyrion now." Aldarra hugged her.

That night four people shrouded in black met up on the docks and bought passage to Braavos.

—--

The next day in King's Landing was chaos, they searched the entire city, docks and Red Keep. Not a soul saw where Tyrion, Aldarra and Sansa went. They paid off everyone and disappeared. There were four ships to Dorne, two ships to Volantis, one ship to Myr, two ships to Braavos, one ship to Gull Town and one ship to White Harbor that left in the night to early morning. They could have been on any one of them. Tywin was super angry at the small council meeting.

Cersei said enraged, "They seem to have all just vanished in the night. It was Aldarra that set this up. I know it was her. She has committed treason, kidnapping a ward of the crown. I'll have her head for this!"

Tywin said, "If you do you better cut off your own head then. You take my wife's head and you can try to hold this bankrupt crown up without my support ever again." Cersei looked like she sucked on a lemon.

Tywin asked, "Lord Varys?"

Varys said, "I have sent word out but until I can hear back there's nothing I can do."

Tywin said, "I am sending out six groups of men to each destination to investigate. The one headed to Braavos will monitor the bank. The others will report back if there are no results."

—--

Two months pass, Aldarra and Sansa live in a nice house with a few hired servants with Tyrion and Shae living in the next house over with servants. They were out of the way from town but not too far from Lorath Bay and Braavos. She had pulled two hundred thousand gold dragons out of the bank immediately upon arriving in Braavos then bought their own ship and sailed to Pentos then sailed to Lorath, then Lorath Bay in Norvos.

Aldarra was lying in the back of the house in a field of wildflowers reading a book. Suddenly, a shadow cast over her and disappeared. She tried looking up but the sun was bright. She continued reading when all of a sudden the wind picked up and then it turned into a gale. A huge dragon landed right next to her. It didn't make a sound but shook the ground a bit when it landed. Aldarra closed her book and looked at it in its beautiful black glory. It looked at her cocking its head side to side. She slowly stood up because she didn't want to spook it, being it was about thirty meters away from her.

Aldarra said softly, "Hi, beautiful dragon. Did you come to visit me in my field? It's nice to meet you. My name is Aldarra, what's yours? I hope you want to be my friend." She slowly walked up to him and said, "We could be good friends. All my friends like me pretty well and say I'm nice company. I don't have bad breath or anything and my hair is only scary looking in the morning." She reached out with her finger and touched a scale on his snout as he snorted and she giggled. She smiled and said, "Oh my, you are a very good looking one." She moved around his head and smoothed over his scales with her hand. She asked, "Can I give you a kiss? I know it's a girl thing to do to a big handsome dragon like you, but I hope you like it." She kissed him on the scales below his eye. He snorted again. He backed away and She said sadly, "You're leaving now? You can come back and visit me. I'd love that beautiful dragon if you will. He flapped his wings until he got momentum and flew up in the sky as she shades her eyes watching him.

Sansa, Shae and Tyrion came running out into the field. Tyrion said, "What happened? Were you just petting and kissing a dragon? Are you insane? I wish it were me."

Aldarra giggled and said, "I think it's a boy dragon, I sensed it, so I am not sure you kissing it would go over well, it might not like it, Tyrion. He sure was scary handsome though."

Tyrion said, "I heard that Daenerys Targaryen had three of them. Maybe he will tell his brothers where you are and they can visit. I have always been fascinated with dragons and know a lot about them."

Aldarra took his hand and said, "Let's go inside and you can tell me all about it from dragons to dragonflies."

Sansa asked, walking inside, "Weren't you scared?"

Aldarra said laughing, "Yes, terrified but not of the dragon as much as being sat on." They laughed.