The Hype / Gendry Waters (2.8)

9. Kill It

The man / Khal drogo out now

Houdini/ aemond / laenor out now!

"I lost my first boy, a little black-haired beauty. He was a fighter too... Tried to beat the fever that took him. Robert was crazed, beat his hands bloody on the wall, all the things men do to show you how much they care... The boy looked just like him. Such a little thing... A bird without feathers." Cersei recalled softly as she looked gendry over. "They came to take his body away and Robert held me. I screamed and I battled, but he held me." Cersei recalled blinking away tears as she looked at her boy. "That little bundle. I was holding his hand. That birthmark... the last thing i saw of him before they took him." Cerseis chest felt heavy. "They took him away and I never saw him again. Never have visited the crypt, never. I couldnt."

"Why would someone steal your child?" Rieka countered. "Steal roberts heir? Your heir?"

"Because in the world that is the capital the castle the king has many enemies. The Lannister name had many enemies. But i never once suspected..."

Cersei got up rushing out. Rieka and gendry shared a confused look before chasing after her.

"Where is she going?"

The crypts.

The crypts to check on the babe she hasnt seen or visited in years. To see if he was down there.

Cersei held up a torch as she walked the crypts. Confused she paced back and forth looking and looking for a tiny little crypt. Her lips pursed getting more and agitated.

"Cersei," rieka called out following the sound of her footsteps.

"Here." She whispered freezing at a small crypt. "Open it." She instructed

"It will just be bones." Gendry remarked. Rieka pried it open and cersei turned away unable to look. Yes the years that had passed would have turned the body to bones  but what rieka saw surprised her most.

"Cersei-"

"Tell me."

"Look." Rieka demanded. Gendry peered in. Cersei spun around a hand to her heart. She had lost all her children. She couldnt do this. She couldnt see his little body just a pile of bones.

"Cersei look." Rieka commanded. Cerseis breath hitched closing her eyes as rieka and gendry shared a look of awe and confusion. Cerseis eyes fluttered open only to see an empty crypt. Nothing. No bones no cloth nothing. Cersei reached out touching the clean crypt. No debris beside some dust.

Cersei turned to Gendry. He stared down at his birthmark.

"Did you sing to me?" Gendry questioned

"Yes." Cersei agreed. "I sang to you. I spent every moment with you. Holding you. Kissing your perfect little face ." She eyes fluttered holding back tears. "I sang to you day and night. It helped you sleep."

Gendrys eyes watered taking this all in. He wasnt a bastard. He wasnt the kings illegitimate son. He was Gendry Baratheon- Lannister. He was a true born prince.

Gendry moved closer to cersei as rieka sealed back up the empty crypt. Gendry looked cersei over. Her face filled with pain and love and happiness. Regret. Regret that she didnt find this out sooner. That they had wasted so much time.

Gendry reached out hugging her. Cersei sobbed holding him. Rieka turned giving them a moment of privacy but almost walked into a spider web and she swore that the spider she saw growled at her.

"Ahh!" Rieka screamed jumping back tumbling into them. "Spider! Kill it!"

Gendry swatted a hand at the spider and it scurried away. 

"My hero." Rieka declared kissing his cheek. Joffrey would have set the fucker a flame, watched it squirm, Tommen would have been just as nervous about the tiny being. Gendry showed the tiny many legged beast mercy and still 'saved' rieka. Cersei stared back at him. He was her perfect boy, her last chance.