Snow // Willas Tyrell // Oberyn Martell

61. Am I queen?

'Your brother is dead. Do you know what that means?' tywin questioned Tommen as they looked upon Joffreys corpse. 'I am not trying to trick you.'

'It means I'll become king.'

'Yes you will become king. What kind of King do you think you'll be?'

'A good king?' tommen suggested.

'I think so as well.' Tywin agreeed 'you've got the right temperament for it. But what makes a good king? What's a good king single most important quality?'

'This is hardly the place or the time.' Cersei muttered,

'Holiness?'

'Baylor the blessed with holy and pious he built the sept he also named a six year old boy high Septon because he thought the boy could work miracles he ended up fasting himself into an early grave because food was of this world in this world with sinful.' Tywin told him

'Justice.' Tommen said

'A good king must be just ORYS the first was just everyone applauded his reforms nobles and commoners like but he wasn't just for long he was murdered in his sleep after less than a year by his own brother. Was that truly just of him? To abandon his subjects to an evil that he was too gullible to recognize?' tywin questioned.

'No'

'No' Tywin agreed

'What about strength?'

'Yes strength King Robert was strong he won the rebellion and crush the Targaryen dynasty... And he attended three small council meetings in 17 years. He spent his time whoring and hunting and drinking until the last two killed him. So we have a man who starves himself to death a man who lets his own brother murder him and a man who thinks that winning and ruling are the same thing. What do they all lack?' tywin questioned.

'Wisdom'

'Yes.'

'Wisdom this was makes a good king.'

'Yes. But what is wisdom? A house with great wealth and lands asks you for your protection against another house with a strong navy that could one day oppose you. How do you know which choice is wise and which isn't? You've any experience of treasuries or granaries or shipyards and soldiers?'

'No' Tommen admitted.

'No of course not.' Tywin told him 'a King knows what he knows and what he doesn't. You are young. a wise young king listens to his counselors and heads advice until he comes of age. And the wisest kings continue to listen to them long afterwards your brother was not a wise king. Your brother was not a good king. If he had been perhaps he'd still be alive now...' cersei glared over at her father, 'as the king you will have to marry. Do you understand why?'

'A king needs a queen' Tommen answered as tywin led him away.

'Yes but why?' tommen didn't answer. 'To further the family line do you know how that happens?'

'Yes' tommen said slowly.

'Yes but did anyone explain the details to you?' tywin questioned.

'I don't think so.'

'It's all relatively straightforward.' Tywin told him.

''How are you?' Jamie questioned as they were leaving the sept

'I'm all right.' Tommen answered

'You are, you will be, I'll see to that,' Jamie encouraged

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'JOSIE!" Sansa declared Josie reached through the bars of the cell clutching her sisters hands.

"I will get you out of here. I promise.' Josie told her.

"I don't want to die!" Sansa sobbed.

"You wont I promise, I promise.' Josie told her. They should have left with Sandor, they should have left, snuck away a million times since now, now Sansa was in a cell trying to be executed for Joffreys murder. Josie knew Tyrion hated Joffrey not as much as sansa but still Sansa would never murder Joffrey.

'Josie I'm scared.'

"I know, I know, but I'm going to-'

"Youre not supposed to be down here.' A guard said coming up behind them. Josie slipped the wood and water through the cells turning back to the guard.

"Says who?" Josie countered.

"No is supposed to be down here.' The guard told her.

"Oh...' Josie glanced back at sansa. 'Well now I know. Thank you.' She turned back to sansa quickly. 'I will be back.' She assured. Sansa's sobs echoed through the black cells josie hated going but she couldn't help if she was in a cell along side sansa.

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'So am I the queen?' Margaery questioned Olenna.

'More than you were with Renly less than you would've been if Joffrey had of done you the courtesy of consummating the marriage before dying,' Olenna told her 'in any case this would not be an opportune moment to press the issue.'

'clawing at his own throat looking to his mother to make it stop,' Margaergy said shaking her head 'it was horrible.'

'The world is overflowing with horrible things but they're all a tray of cakes next to death they brought me your grandfather's body when they died and made me look at it.' Olenna told her.

'What was it like?'

'They took me to the great Hall and there he was the man I married and suffered to father my children a great doughy lump. I'd sat next to through useless dinners and tedious gatherings,' Olena told her 'and there he was lying on the table.'

'One of my husbands preferred the company of men and was stabbed through the heart, another was happiest torturing animals and was poisoned at our wedding feast I must be cursed.' Margaery told her

'Nonsense,' Olena declared 'your circumstances have improved remarkably you may not have enjoyed watching him die but you enjoyed it more than you would've enjoyed being married to him I can promise you that.'

'I would've been the queen.' Margaery reminded her

'Our alliance with the Lannister's remains every bit as necessary to them as it is unpleasant for us. You did wonderful work on Joffrey the next one should be easier.'

'Are you the queen?" Josie questioned running up to them. "Tell me you are and you can get sansa out. You know she didn't do this. She is not capable of murder!' Josie reminded them. 'Please tell me you are the queen.'

'Less so then yesterday.' Olenna informed her and Josie slummed down to the ground.

"What can I do then?' Josie questioned. 'I need to get her out, she can't stay in there, she wont survive down there. she doesn't have the skin for this.' Josie told them and Margaery knelt in front of her, hugging Josie as she shook in margaery's arms. 'I feel so useless.' Josie remarked. 'all my training, swords and archery, yet I was helpless to save my father and I was helpless to keep my sister from a cell.'

'Her fate is not sealed.' Olenna informed her.

'I need to get her out and disappear.' Josie muttered.

'You,' Olenna said offering her a hand up. 'You need friends, the capitol you shall find none. You get sansa out and you go to High garden, you will find sancutuary there.' Olenna assured her.

'Thank you, but I need a plan to get sansa out first.'