Devotion / Tywin Lannister / Sandor Clegane /GoT

40. Hightower

"The whore is pregnant."

"You're speaking of murdering a child." Ned corrected.

"I warned you this would happen. Back in the North, I warned you, but you didn't care to hear. Well, hear it now. I want 'em dead, mother and child both. And that fool, Viserys as well. Is that plain enough for you? I want them both dead." Robert demanded.

"You will dishonor yourself forever if you do this." Ned declared.

"Honor?! I've got Seven Kingdoms to rule! One King, Seven Kingdoms. Do you think honor keeps them in line? Do you think it's honor that's keeping the peace? It's fear! Fear and blood!"

"Okay, I was looking for Celina and you will never guess what I-" Tyon stopped pushing Con back. 

"What?"

"I'm showing you, its easier that way." Tyon hushed her. "Ned is losing his head no doubt."

"Then we're no better than the Mad King." Ned corrected.

"Careful, Ned. Careful now." Robert grumbled.

"You want to assassinate a girl... Because the Spider heard a rumor?" Ned reminded him.

"No rumor, my Lord. The princess is with child." Varys answered.

"The princess?" Con questioned. 

"The Targaryen." Tyon answered. "They are still dealing with her, they found her. She is married and pregnant, married to a dothraki savage from what I heard from Tywin." 

"They wont cross the narrow sea, they hate water, why does Robert care?" Con countered. 

"Because its his mission to get rid of all the Targaryens."

"Based on whose information?" Ned questioned.

"Ser Jorah Mormont. He is serving as adviser to the Targaryens." Varys answered.

" Mormont? You bring us the whispers of a traitor half a world away and call it fact?" Ned questioned.

"Jorah Mormont's a slaver, not a traitor. Small difference, I know, to an honorable man." Petyr corrected

"He broke the law, betrayed his family, fled our land. We commit murder on the word of this man?" Ned looked around the group. 

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"I was ease dropping." Tyon remarked. Cersei's jaw dropped. 

"It's about damn time we got rid of that man." Cersei chuckled. 

"You should go to Robert, he will be vulnerable." Con added. 

"You are so smart." Cersei agreed. 

"Put on your prettiest smile." Celina added. 

"I'm sorry your marriage to Ned Stark didn't work out. You seemed so good together." Cersei mused as she came into Roberts chambers.

"I'm glad I could do something to make you happy." Robert agreed.

"Without a Hand, everything will fall to pieces."

"I suppose this is where you tell me to give the job to your brother Jaime." Robert mused.

"No. He's not serious enough. My father or my uncles would do just fine though... I'll say this for Ned Stark - he's serious enough. Was it really worth it? Losing him this way?" Cersei pondered.

"I don't know. But I do know this, if the Targaryen girl convinces her horse-lord husband to invade and the Dothraki horde crosses The Narrow Sea... We won't be able to stop them."