Sue Me / Sandor Clegane / Vaera Targaryen

10. Demon Monkey

'Stannis has more ships more fleets more armies than we have... what do we have?' Tyrion asked as they walked.

'That mind of yours that everyone keeps talking about?' Bronn suggested

'I've never been actually able to kill anyone with my mind.' Tyrion reminded him.

'good thing or else I would be out of the job.' Bronn remarked.

"I got something for you." Sandor remarked. "You didnt eat all day." 

"I wasnt hungry."  Vaera countered as they walked, he stopped her and turned her to him. 

"Open." Sandor instructed. Vaera moaned when he broke off a piece of cookie into her mouth.

"So good!" vaera declared licking the chocolate from her lips. "We should do this every day!"

"Only eat cookies?" Sandor questioned. 

"Yes!" Vaera exclaimed. 

"You are made of sugar." 

"Thats why my daddy says i'm so sweet." Vaera agreed. 

"You are going get a tummy ache if we do this every day." Sandor informed her.

"No, my tummy loves cookies, I only get tummy aches for veggies." Vaera answered honestly.

'What about your father?' Bronn suggested.

'He hasn't sent a raven in weeks he is humiliated at being repeatedly humiliated by Robb stark.' Tyrion told him. 'we won't be able to hold the city not with the way joffrey-' Tyrion began but a speaker shouting, preaching in the streets caught his attention.

"Where to next? Where are those brownie cookies I like?" Vaera questioned but jumped as something shouted out beside her. She flinched into Sandor and he held her closer. He stared down at her small frame tucked into him. She was distracted by the cookies, the taste in her mouth she wasnt focused on everything around her. 

'CORRUPTION! we reap what we sow and it is foul.' The man shouted 'Brother going to bed with sister, in the bed of kings and we are surprised that the fruit of incest is rotten?' A man shouted his people rallying around him. 'A rotten king!'

'Yes a rotten King!" the crowd agreed.

"Maybe we head back." Sandor suggested. "I dont like riots when you are beside me."

"You like them otherwise?" Vaera questioned. Sandor chuckled. "What's fun about a riot?"

"Nothing," Sandor assured. 

"You are laughing." Vaera countered. 

"Waiting for joffrey to die in a riot." Sandor admitted. 

"Oh thats mean." Vaera countered. 

"Yeah well... I never said I was the nicest person." 

"You are though." Vaera countered, sandor laughed again. "You are! You volunteered to be mine." 

"Yours." Sandor repeated, vaera blushed. 

"My... guard." 

"I know what you meant." 

'Hard to argue with his assessment.' Tyrion agreed.

'After what he did to your birthday present...' Bronn remarked

'the king is a lost cause, it is the rest of us I am worried about now,' Tyrion told them.

'To a twisted demon monkey!' the man went on.

"WHo is he talking about?" Vaera questioned. Bronn smirked when he saw Vaera, he leaned over to keep an eye on her.

''You have to admire his imagination' Tyrion said a small grin on his face as he listened to the man ridicule his elder sister.

'he is talking about you they think you are pulling the kings strings' Bronn informed him.

'Blame me? I'm trying to save them.' Tyrion reminded him. Bronn licked his lips watching vaera head back to the castle.

''You don't need to connive me. ' Bronn told him.

'Demon monkey? what are you looking at- BRONN!" Tyrion shouted. "Thats my sister!'

"And she is wasted on the hound." Bronn added. "I would rather be guarding her."

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Myrcella left, and everyone wished it was joffrey on that boat to sun spear. Myrcella held a little crocheted lion that Vaera had made for her as they sailed off. Vaera held to Cersei's hand as she sobbed, her baby girl gone just like that.

"I will hurt you for this. I will-"

Vaera pushed her words from her mind as she listened to the waves crashing against the shores. It was so peaceful out here. it reminded her of home. Of casterly rock. She loved being out by the shores. The gulls wings flapping and sparrows chirping, the boats on the water and in the harbor, the sound of the paddles against the water. Vaera tuned out the cries and whimpers and Joffrey's attitude and focused on home, she could almost transport herself back to the rock when she had father beside her and they were safe.

Sandor reached out touching her arm drawing her back to the present. She turned her cheek to him. 

"Ready to go?"

"Can we stay here a while longer?" Vaera countered. "It's so peaceful." 

"Whatever you want.' Sandor agreed. "I live to serve." 

"Sandor..." 

"Aye?"

"Thank you." 

"It's my job." 

"You go above and beyond your job." vaera corrected grabbing his hand. He smiled down at her, if only she could see it. "You are my friend sandor." 

Nice to have a friend. But staring down at Vaera Lannister now, he wanted to kiss her and the things that raced through his mind were anything but friendly.