Mirrorball // Sansa Stark

43. Promise

"What do you say?" Tywin questioned. Sansa tried not to listen but how couldnt she. They were both being married off to lannisters. At least Jae had a choice.

"I think i would like to speak to Cersei on the matter." Jae countered.

"As if your right". Tywin agreed before heading out.

"Our lives are over". Sansa declared flopping back into the pillows.

"I wish I could have saved you sooner my darling girl." Jae whispered. He sat beside her and she crawled into his lap he wrapped his arms around her and she kissed him again and again until her lips were numb.

"No man is ever going to be you." Sansa whimpered.  Jae didnt know what to say so he kissed her again.

'You're a Lord she's a lady.' Bronn reminded tyrion 'and a beauty at that.' bronn remarked

'Shae is not going to like it.' tyrion reminded him.

'Shae is a whore. Are you going to marry her?' Bronn questioned 'How did marrying a whore turn out for the first time?'

'I never should have told you that.' Tyrion said slumping in his chair.

'You want Shae, keep her, wed one bed the other.' Bronn that 'all you have to do is get a son in the stark girl he will be Lord of Winterfell one day and you can rule the north in his name you will have two women and a whole kingdom of your own.' Bronn remarked.

'Two women who despise me and a whole kingdom to join them.' Tyrion corrected

'You can waste time trying to get people to love you, you will end up the most popular dead man in town.' Bronn said pouring them both another drink 'you wanna fuck that stark girl you just don't want to admit it.'

'I do not pay you to put evil notions in my head.' Tyrion said. 'The ones in my head don't need the company.'

'No you pay me to kill the people that bother you.' Bronn told him 'evil notions come free.'

"Promise me one thing Jae." Sansa whispered as he wiped at her teary eyes.

"Anything." Jae agreed, sansa let her fingers trail under his shirt buttons feeling his hot flesh his pounding heart beneath her hand.

"Dont marry Queen cersei." Sansa begged. "Inwould just die knowing she got to hold you."

"I was never going to marry Cersei." Jae assured her.

"You werent?"

"Im in love with you," jae corrected. "Remember? Im a one woman kind of man. I found my darling daisy im not letting her go." Sansa shook in his arms.

"I have to marry... him though." She sobbed out a vicious sob an ugly cry snot dribbling from her nose as her face turned blotchy from tears. There was nothing jae could do to fix this. To stop thid union. To save her. So he held her trying his best to make the pain go away for even but a moment.

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'When I was at Winterfell all I ever wanted was to escape to come here to see the capital see the knights and kings landing after dark... All the candles burning and all those windows.' Sansa whispered maegery sat along side sansa nodding aling. 'I am stupid.' sansa admitted 'stupid little girl with stupid dreams who never learns.' she said sadly tears in her eyes. maergery offered sansa her arm.

'Come walk with me.' Maergery told her 'I remember the first time I saw you in the throne room I had never seen anyone look so unhappy. I want you to be happy and so does my grandmother you would've been happy at high garden.' Maergery said taking a rose off the bush 'but women in our position must make the best of it our circumstances.'

'How do I make the best of my circumstances? I have to marry him.' Maergery held out the rose and sansa took it. Gently twirling the stem in between her fingers.

'Has lord Tyrion mistreated you? Has he been kind to you?' maergery questioned

'He has tried.' sansa admitted but no man would ever be Jae. Not as charming. Not as handsome. Not as kissable. Not as honorable as Jae Gatsby.

'But you don't want him though...'

'He is a Lannister.' she reminded Maergery

'Far from the worst lannister though wouldn't you say?'

'I am sorry here I am complaining to you... you are to marry Joffrey... I am so sorry you have enough on your mind' sansa murmured but margaery was happy to be queen. She didnt care for joffrey.

'My son will be king, sons learn from their mothers and I plan to teach mine a great deal.' maergery told her 'and your son if I'm not mistaken, your son might be the Lord of Castlery rock and the north someday.... what?' maergery questioned seeing sansa disgusted face.

'My son....' sansa said 'with him... I'll have to... We will have to...' She felt sick to her stomach even thinking about it.

'If it is the pain you're worried about-'

'I'm not afraid of pain.' Sansa admitted 'not after what Joffrey has done to me.'

'Then what is it then? He was rather good looking even with the scar especially with the scar.' Margery told her.

'He is a dwarf and....' Sansas mind drifted to Jae.

'Some women like tall men some women like Short men some like hairy some like bald gentle, rough man ugly men, pretty girls. Most women do not get to know what they like until they tried it and sadly so many of us get to try so little before we are old and gray.' Maergery told her with a wink. Sansa knew waht she wanted. Who she wanted. She wanted jae. She didnt need anyone else. "Tyrion may surprise you from what I've heard he was quite experienced.''

''And that is a good thing?' Sansa asked incredulously. Sansa knew jae wasnt whoring about like tyrion was.

''It can be, you know we are very complicated beings pleasing us takes practice.' Margaery told her.

'How do you know this? Did your mother teach you?'

'Yes sweet girl my mother taught me.' she lied.

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"I saw you by the waters. What were you doing?" Sansa questioned

"Im making something". Jae remarked changing out of his wet shirt.

"Something good?"

"Something great i hope. That is the plan my dear." Jae agreed. "A way out." Sansas eyes went wide.

"Will it be ready before my wedding day?" Sansa questioned touching his bare chest.

"I best get back out there then." Jae agreed. Sansa grabbed his hand keeping him closer though.

"Start fresh in the morning. Kiss me tonight."