The Lion Knight and Dragon Princess

10 - Still A Golden Lion

His blonde hair was covered in mud and his clothes were torn and stained too. Yet that wasn't what nearly broke me, it was the fact that his right hand was covered in some bandages but it was really just a stump of where the hand used to be. "Don't look at me, Vaella."

"Do you honestly think I would leave you while you look like this. When I have been terrified that you might not come back and now you have...come on let's get you cleaned and changed." Moving towards him I sniffed through tears before I turned and rummaged around in one of the crates drawing out one of his tunics and trousers.

Slowly and gently as possible I helped Jaime inside the washroom. Running my hands down his tunic shirt I tugged on it hearing him wince since some of it was sticking to him. Untying the strings of his trousers they fell to the floor. "You don't have to help me....I can get this cleaned on my own." He attempted to remain the confident man I knew but he dropped his right stump hand showing me that he couldn't.

He managed to get into the water on his own, giving me the time to untie the laces on the back of my golden dress letting the fabric pool to the floor without a care. Kicking it away I put Jaime's new clothes beside mine since I had started to wear his tunics when I went to bed. "I'm your wife, Jaime. I know you don't want help but please let me help you now." I mumbled quietly seeing his stump hand was still wrapped up like a rag. He didn't respond so I slowly moved the material from his arm sitting it on the side seeing that it had healed a little bit when I ran my fingers over it.

"I'm not who I used to be without my hand...I was that hand. What am I supposed to do now, Vaella?" He shutters, staring at me as I attempted to retie a cleaner cloth on his stump. "If I pass out, pull me out. I don't want to be the first Lannister to die in a bathtub."

Lifting my gaze up from me working on his injured hand where I placed my hands on his bare chest he winced when I started running some water over the wounds on his chest. "Jaime, I know you're avoiding the conversation but who did this. Did Robb Stark take your hand?"

"He kept me prisoner in his camp but it wasn't him. It was this man named Locke..who hates high born. He took it to show me I wasn't as safe as I thought I was. And now because of him I'm not the man I was. You'll probably leave me in the morning because of this disgusting thing." He glared down at the stump of his right hand while I moved my fingers through his hair getting the dirt out of it where it returns to its almost normal golden lion color.

Resting my hands on his shoulders I pressed my forehead making him finally look me in the eye. His green eyes were filled with tears and I could hear the shakiness in his breath. "Jaime, don't put those thoughts in your head. I am not going anywhere. I would never leave you ever. Because I love you...and the little one will too." Placing his left hand on my stomach I sucked in a breath hoping he would pick it up on what I was saying.

"You're pregnant...when did you know?" He knitted his brows together questioning me and for the first time since we had reunited I saw a tiny genuine smile on his face.

Leaning forward I kissed him on his forehead brushing away some of the fallen strands of wet blonde hair that had fallen in from of his eyes. He closed his eyes briefly when I spoke and moved his head to lay against my bare front running one hand through his hair making it a slight mess. "According to the Maester I should be about three months along. I started having morning sickness the morning after you left to go fight the war with Ned Stark's son."

"Do you think I'll be a good father and husband without my sword fighting hand. I want to be the man you deserve..." Jaime lifted his head up slightly where I held his face in my hands seeing slight fear and concern in his eyes that he wasn't worthy of me now.

Without saying another word I gently crashed my lips down onto his tilting his head up slightly when I climbed up into his lap. He pressed his bare back against the tub wall wrapping his arms around my waist tugging my flesh against his own. "Jaime Lannister, you are the best husband I could ask for. I didn't fall for you because of how good you were with a sword or how attractive you are, although you are still as handsome as the night of our wedding. But you are still that golden knight to me. I love you."

"When I was sitting in that shit cell for months I would drift off to sleep and think of you. Think of us laying in bed together after we made love. Or when you insisted I teach you how to swing a sword. You're smiling face...your witty remarks...your smell and when you touch me...everything about you." He buried his face into the crook of my neck placing kisses there until he found a certain spot hearing me moan and throw my head back giving him more access.

Moving my hands to his shoulder blades I gripped them in my fingernails craving for his touch and everything in between. "Jaime I...I need you. I have been miserable for months." I whined into his ear feeling him shift so he could start to make love to me.

"I won't deny you. But not here. Cause once I get you in our bed we won't be leaving for awhile." He responds in a raspy voice shifting his green eyes onto mine intensely where I could feel his desire for me. We quickly stumbled out of the bath and into our chamber forgetting about the fresh clothes we had too focused on our need to be in the other's arms.

Climbing onto the bed throwing my hair around I smiled up at him when he crawled over me crashing his lips onto mine hungrily while he put our bodies together. Gripping his golden locks in between my fingers I felt my heart beating against my chest with him moving against me like this again after so long. "Jaime....I love you."

He broke the kiss with his hair falling in front of his eyes till his gaze dropped to the stump once more., saying the three words I had been longing for. "I love you too, princess." I felt happy tears forming in my eyes not wanting the moment to ever end between him and I.

"Hey, eyes on me." Raising one of my hands I grabbed his chin forcing him to look me in the eye. Leaning upward I pressed soft kisses against his mouth moving my other hand through his hair. "You still mean everything to me. All that I care about is that you are here with me and that you're safe."

The eldest Lannister lion pressed his forehead against mine before he began moving our bodies against each other very slowly again as if he was afraid I might disappear from him any moment. "I just don't want to be less of a man to you. I'll do my best to be a good father to our little lion or lioness."

"I know you will, Jaime. You will always be the same man I fell in love with from this day until the end of our days." I whispered my next words into his ear since he had his head laying on my chest. My fingers were gripping his back while I struggled to not let the entire castle know what we were doing in the middle of the night. "I am yours and you are mine."

The bed was moving against our actions where he kept hitting the specific spot that we both moaned afterwards to. He broke the kiss where I held his face in my hands tracing his cheek with him thrusting into me slowly. "Vaella" He moaned when I pulled his head downward burying my face in his neck nuzzling my nose and kissing into his skin.

Finally we both reached our high and Jaime collapsed onto his back on his side of the bed smiling longingly at me. I was laying on my back still trying to catch my breath while my hair was a tousled mess but I never dropped the huge grin on my face. "You were right about it being so much better after the first time...or it could also be the fact that I missed you like hell. Please don't ever leave me again Jaime." Rolling over onto my side I placed one hand on his , the stump of his right hand giving him a small tearful smile.

"I don't intend to go anywhere, Princess Vaella. You and this baby are my home from now on." Jaime scooted closer to me where I shifted so that his body was laying on top of mine. Running my fingers through his golden hair I planted some kisses onto his head and bare shoulder that I could reach feeling all the nervous weight fade away.

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