Golden Rose // Tywin Lannister

29. Secrets

'We have been over this the matter is closed.'

'Well I am opening it.' Cersei said

'No.' Tywin answered 'you are to be married to Loras Tyrell, we are still betrothed to Loras Tyrell and you will marry Loras Tyrell as soon as Tommen has married maergery.'

'Father!' cersei pleaded

'I already decided that. it is agreed upon.' Tywin told her.

'not by me! I will not.' Cersei shouted.

'Jaime cannot marry or inherit land, tyrion's trial will be carried out tomorrow you have on several occasions made great claims about your commitment to this family's future your role in this future is more vital than it ever was.' Tywin reminded her.

'I will stay In Kings Landing with my son where I belong.'

'When you were nine years old I was called to the capital I decide to take your brother with me not you that you would not be left at Castlery rock under any circumstances if you recall.' Tywin began.

'I do not want to hear another one of your smug stories about the time you won.' Cersei told him 'this is not going to be one of those times.'

'Do you think you are the first person that will be pushed into a sept to be married against her will?' tywin questioned with a chuckle.

'When you burst into the throne room to tell me you won the battle of the black water, did you remember I was sitting on the iron throne with Tommen... I was about to give him an essence of nightshade that's how far I was willing to go so those awful men would not take my son away someone awful is coming to take him away.' Cersei sneered.

'no.' tywin told her sternly.

'Joffrey is dead.' Cersei went on 'Marcella has been sold like livestock and now you want to ship me off to high garden and separate me from my boy my last boy... Margaery will dig her claws into him and you will dig your claws into him until you rip him apart like a beast you are I will burn our house to the ground before I let that happen.' Cersei warned him.

'And I will give you that...'

'I will tell everyone the truth.' cersei told him, her last defense.

'And what truth with that be?' Tywin questioned ignorantly.

'you don't know do you? You never believed it how is that possible?' He waited silently 'of course it's possible how can someone so consumed by the idea of his family have any conception about what his family was doing... We were right there in front of you and you didn't see us once... look in the past 20 years you wouldn't even looked at your own children and you would've known.' Cersei told him softly.

'Know what?' tywin questioned.

'Everything they say is true about Jamie and me your legacy is a lie.'

'I don't believe you.' Tywin said

'Yes you do.' Cersei said simply walking out.

'How much did you hear?" Tywin questioned.

'Nothing if you don't want.' Taylor offered and a soft smile pulled at Tywin's lips. 'I am an excellent secret keeper.' Taylor assured.

'That's a big secret.' Tywin remarked still processing himself.

'You want a secret for a secret?' Taylor pondered.

'You don't have to, I trust you.' Tywin told her and he did.

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'I can't believe you're going leaving me alone here with these people!' Margaery told her grandmother, Taylor looked between them confused.

"whats happening?" Taylor asked.

"Grandmother is leaving us here, with these awful Lannisters.' Margaery hissed.

'Tywin is not awful.' Taylor told her defensively. Taylor was definitely pregnant now and was going to tell them but now it seemed like a bad time.

'The time has come my dear there's nothing more tedious than a trial except perhaps these gardens, if I have to take one more leisurely stroll through these gardens I'll fling myself from the cliffs. Have you been to see Tommen yet?' Olenna questioned

'No,' she admitted 'have even agreed to the match no one tells me anything.'

'I wasn't originally meant to marry your grandfather Luther you know he was engaged to my sister you're a great aunt Viola.' Olenna told her. 'I was to be given to some Targaryen or another and marrying a Targaryen was all the rage back then but the moment I saw my intended with his twitchy little ferrets face and Ludacris silver hair I knew he would not do so the evening before Luther was to propose to my sister I got lost on my way back to my embroidery lesson and happened upon his chamber.' Olenna said with a smirk.

'Grandmother,' Taylor mused with a laugh

'How absent-minded of me the following morning Luther never made it down the stairs to propose to my sister because the boy couldn't let you walk and once he could the only thing he wanted was what I've given him the night before. I was good I was very very good,' Olenna assured them smugly 'you, Margaery are even better but you need to act quickly.'

'So good,' Taylor mused but Olenna waved a hand at her. 'I don't know if hes anything like tywin-'

'Stop.' Olenna begged. 'Cersei may be vicious but she's not stupid. Cersei will turn the boy against you as soon as she can and by the time you're married it'll be too late. Luckily for you queen regent is rather distracted at the moment mourning her dear departed boy. Accusing her brother of his murder which he didn't commit.' Olenna said indefinitely

'Well he could've done it-'

'Well he could've but he didn't.' Olenna told them and Taylor stared at her.

'We don't know grandmother-'

'But I do know.' She assured 'you don't think I'd let you marry that beast do you?'

'What? I don't... Understand' Margaery said and her grandmother hushed her

'Grandmother?" Taylor questioned.

'Hush my girls.' Olenna said looking between them. 'Don't you worry yourself about all that you just do what needs to be done.' Olenna told her.