Fire and Blood

Chapter 47

I was in a hallway. I wish I spent more time memorising the way out of here. Not that it would be any safer out in the real battle. I hear growling, I quickly put the twins down.
"Stay behind me." I order, they don't say anything. The growling gets louder. I quickly pull out Robb's sword. I don't know what I would have done if he didn't steal this. I watch as two corpses come towards us, I have to kill them. They come closer and I rise forward, they growl and I used what I had learnt. Stick them with the pointy end, I hit one, it crumbles. Somehow all of the rest of them crumble too. I was safe. I collapsed onto the ground, the twins look shocked.
"Mummy you killed them!" Alicent says as I scoop them both up into a huge hug, no children of mine are dying today.
"You made it." Sansa says from behind, she's holder her sword too.
"I made it." I say as she joins in the hug.
"Did anyone we know die?" I ask, she shakes her head.
"Are they all dead?" I ask, she nods.
"Let's go outside." Tyrion says from behind us, i nod.

As soon as I enter the courtyard I see the destruction. Bodies are being carted around. I try and spot the only body I care for. I watch as Theon's body is carted infront of me. He was a good man. I can't find him. I need to find him. I watch where all of the bodies are carted off too. It's a huge crematory. Hundreds of bodies are secured on logs. I quickly run over and check if he is any of them.
"Roslyn." A voice says from behind. I quickly turn around and see him, alive.
"I thought you were dead." I say running into his arms, sobbing uncontrollably. The twins are also in the hug, hugging his leg.
"I thought I lost you." He says kissing my head.
"They broke into the crypt. They tried to kill the twins." I say not breaking the hug.
"Did you kill any?" He says and I laugh.
"Yeah, one." I say holding up my Dragonglass sword.
"Where did you get that?" He says and I look down at Robb.
"He stole it." I say and Jamie finally breaks the hug and gets down into their level.
"Your both so brave!" He says as they jump into his arms.
"Mummy lost me." Robb says I look at him shocked.
"You weren't lost you were with Uncle Tyrion." I say and Jamie laughs.
"Sounds like you lost him too me." Jamie says and I shove him.
"It's not funny!" I say and Alicent joins in.
"Mummy killed that dead person!" She says tugging on my hand.
"Your mummy's really brave." He says getting up into my level.
"Oh shush, I just stuck it with the pointy end." I say as Jamie kisses me, a kiss I had been holding out for. We survived. Our whole family survived.
"It's time." I say as I hear a horn go off.
I watch as Sansa goes over to Theon, they had a good relationship. He helped her escape her second marriage. I watch as she takes off her stark pin and places it on him. He truly was a stark. Jon and Daenerys lived. So does Arya and the hound. Theon is the only person I truly knew and loved who died.
"We're here to say goodbye to our brothers and sisters. To our fathers and mothers. To our friends. Our fellow men and women who set aside their differences to fight together and die together so that others might live. Everyone in this world owes them a debt that can never be repaid. It is our duty and our honor to keep them alive in memory for those who come after us and those who come after them for as long as men draw breath. They were the shields that guarded the realms of men. And we shall never see their like again." Jon says as torches are passed around. Sansa is the one to light Theon. The sky alights in thick smoke. They all died today. The rest of us won't die anytime soon. Unless Cersei got her elephants.

That evening there was a celebration, for the living. I wasn't invited to the head table. I mean I didn't expect it. So I decided to sit with the hound, I liked him.
"What should I call you now?" I ask as I sit next to him.
"Whatever the fuck you want." He says handing me over a drink.
"Thanks Clegane." I say and he grunts. Jamie sits on the seat next to me, nobody looked happy about that.
"Gendry!" I call out as I see him looking lost, scanning the room.
"Roslyn." He says as I get up to hug him.
"Sorry about my son, he stole one of your swords." I say and he laughs.
"It kept you alive I wouldn't worry." He says and I laugh.
"Have you seen Arya?" He asks I shake my head.
"She hates celebrations like this." I say as he turns to Clegane.
"You can still smell the burning bodies, and that's where your head is at." Clegane says, why does he hate everyone so much.
"I just want to thank her for." Gendry starts.
"I'm sure you do." He says back, I finally realised what Robb meant when him and Arya were busy.
"My son saw you and Arya by the way." I whisper into my cup, he does red.
"Look, it's not about that." Gendry says Clegane rolls his eyes.
"Of course it's about that, you twat. Why shouldn't it be? The dead are dead. You're not." He says taking a swig of his wine. Gendry looks insulted and walks away. I watch as he's stopped by Daenerys.
"Gendry." She says, the hall does quiet.
"That's right, isn't it?" She says as he faces her.
"Yes, Your Grace." He says.
"You're Robert Baratheon's son." She replies, I see what she is trying to do. Gendry does not as he nods.
"You are aware he took my family's throne and tried to have me murdered?" She says, trying to take away all claims.
"I didn't even know he was my father until after he was dead." Gendry says, he think she's going to kill him.
"Yes, he's dead. His brothers are too. So who's Lord of Storm's End now?" She starts.
"I don't know, Your Grace." He says.
"Does anyone?" She says and nobody in the hall responds.
"I think you should be Lord of Storm's End." She says to Gendry. He looks happy, really happy, but he shakes it off.
"I can't be. I'm a bastard." He says, I forgot that part.
"No, you are Lord Gendry Baratheon of Storm's End, the lawful son of Robert Baratheon. Because that is what I have made you." She says, I have respect for her at that part. I decide to stand.
"To Lord Gendry Baratheon of Storm's End!" I say raising my glass, everyone in the hall stands.
"To Gendry!" They chant.
"To Gendry!" They chant,
I take there chanting as an opportunity to grab Jamie and take him out of the hall.
"Come." I say as he watched me confusedly. I drag him too the courtyard, I make sure nobody is there.
"Do you see what she just done?" I say and he shakes his head.
"Made him a lord, gaining loyalty." He says.
"She's trying to get rid of all of her claims." I say and he nods.
"So?" He says.
"By the book, Robb and Alicent are children of Joffrey Baratheon. There Robb and Alicent Baratheon in the books. We have a claim!" I say, Jamie looks confused.
"What are you trying to say." He says.
"If everything goes wrong. Maybe if Cersei wins. Or they both die. We have a claim!" I say and Jamie nods.
"You want to be queen?" He says.
"I was meant to become queen. I was almost queen." I say and he nods.
"There not Baratheon's. There Lannister's" he says and I nod.
"Your not even a Lannister yet. We will never be king and queen." He says and I nod.
"It's a good claim, it's worth a try." I say and he shakes his head.
"We have no army, no way of doing this. This is a stupid idea." He says.
"That's all it is, an idea." I say before going back into the hall. I knew it was stupid, it was just an idea. I didn't think he would shoot me down like that.

Jamie enters behind me, sitting at Brianne's table. He must have took that as a fight. So I decide to go to the head table. I wasn't invited but who cares?
"Tyrion move over." I say and he looks surprised.
"Decided to join us?" He says and I nod, taking a seat next to him. Bran had just left making space for me.
"Lovers quarrel?" He asks, nodding over at Jamie, who's laughing with Brianne.
"No." I reply as a server fills me a cup.
"Come on. Let's join them, It's boring up here. All I have seen in Jon chug wine and almost throw up for that ginger giant." He says and we both get up.
"Room for two more?" He says as we go over to the table.
"Always." Podrick says pulling over a chair.
"Let's play a game." Tyrion says, i roll my eyes.
"Not that game again." I say, I see a glimmer in his eyes.
"Always that game." He says.