Snow // Willas Tyrell // Oberyn Martell

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'You have decided to drop the attitude and realize I'm not top bad?' Tyrion questioned

'Yes. I'm sorry.' Josie told him she had a knee curled up to her chest and her chin rested on it as she stared at him getting closer.

'You are protective over your sister. It's understandable. I mean I don't understand it personally speaking because i loathe my sister but-" a single laugh escaped Josie's lips as she looked to tyrion. "You trust me now?"

'I think so.' Josie told him honestly. 'I like you tyrion. You're not bad. Probably the best of the Lannisters.'

'Isn't that a horrifying thought,' he teased.

'I'm sorry I was kind of a jerk.'

'Blackmailing me? Is that jerk behavior?' Tyrion countered

'I was never going to tell cersei anything,' josie assured him

'Yet you threatened-'

'I don't think I make threats... what was it a brave little man said to a pompous king about threats?' Josie recalled smiling over at him.

'How is sansa?'

'Shaken but she will be fine.' Josie assured him. 'Got her some essence of night shade and she drifted right off. I wish I could take away her pain. I wish I could make her see sense to all this and save her.'

'If i could get her out of this union...' tyrion began

'Is that something you could do?' Josie questioned

'I will try.' Tyrion told her

'Thank you tyrion. As I said you are the best of them.'

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'I'm sure you'll come up with something eventually,' Cersei told him

'Joffrey needs to start acting like a king. The city is coming to our doorstep the entire city wants Joffrey dead.' Tyrion reminded her.

'I'm not the one with a cause to abuse!'

'I thought the girls might help him I was wrong.' Tyrion admitted his name day present of a few whores turned out to be a very bad idea, so much for listening to Bronn, for Joffrey beat the girls, had them beat each other bloody.

''if we can't control him-' Tyrion told her.

'Do you think I haven't tried?" Cersei questioned. 'He does not listen to me'

'It's hard to put a leash on the dog once you put a crown on its head.' Tyrion told her.

'I always hope to be like Jaime. He looks like him... in the certain light.' Cersei added awkwardly.

'The boy is more like Robert' Tyrion told her

'Robert was a drunken fool,' cersei reminded Tyrion.

'but he didn't enjoy cruelty.' Tyrion added.

'Sometimes I wonder...'

'What?' Tyrion asked

'If this is the price for what we've done for our sins.'

'Sins?' Tyrion questioned.  'Targaryen's-' He began.

'Wed brother and sister for years I know so Jaime and I... we say to each other in moments of doubt that is what I told Ned stark when he was stupid enough to confront me. Half the Targaryen's went mad. what's the saying?' cersei questioned thinking it through 'Every time a Targaryen is born the gods flip a coin.' Cersei recalled.

'You've beaten the odds, Tommen and Marcella good and decent children, both of them.' Tyrion reminded her.

'I miss Jaime.' Cersei sobbed out.