Wish You The Best / Jaime Lannister / Tywin Lannister

40. Told Him

"You talked to him?" Zaria questioned. Jaime nodded.

"Wished him luck." Jaime confirmed.

"Oberyn can win right?"

"I dont know." Jaime whispered.

"We need a back up plan." Zaria decided.

"What did you have in mind?"

"Leave it to me." Zaria countered. Jaime pulled her closer. A smile curved his lips before he kissed her. She hooked her leg around his waist and shoves. He let her roll them back to their original position, her straddling him. This time, there's no conflict on her face. Just a hunger hot enough to match his own. Her lips curved as she slid onto his cock.

"After this i want you out of the capital. Jaime already agreed to it." Tywin remarked as they got ready for the tournament

"He said we were leaving." Zaria agreed. "But you wont be coming with." She realized her smile and good mood had quickly shifted. 

Tywin looked tired. He drew a hand over his face. It's a thinking face, but more than that, it's a frustrated thinking face. 

"Tywin I dont want to leave you for good. I know you are hand but... I still need you too." Zaria whispered. 

"I need you." He confirmed. 

XXX 

"Wait. Are you dying? No, no, no. You can't die yet. You haven't confessed. Say it. Say her name. Elia Martell. You raped her. You killed her children. Elia Martell. Who gave you the order? Who gave you the order?! Say her name! You raped her! You murdered her! You killed her children. Say it. Say her name. Say it!"

"Elia Martell. I killed her children. Then I raped her. Then I smashed her head in like this!" Gregor shouted. Tywin rose up.

"The gods have made their will known. Tyrion Lannister, in the name of King Tommen of the House Baratheon, First of His Name, you are hereby sentenced to death."

"Not another word. We've been over this, the matter's closed."

" I'm opening it again." Cersei countered

"You are betrothed to Loras Tyrell. Still betrothed to Loras Tyrell and you will marry Loras Tyrell as soon as Tommen marries Margaery."

" I will not."

"Tyrion's sentence will be carried out tomorrow. You have, on several occasions, made great claims about your commitment to this family's future." Tywin remarked annoyed. Jaime was stepping up and taking care of Zaria and the children now it was cersei's turn to not be a pain in his ass. 

" I don't care. I will stay in King's Landing where I belong with my son, the king." Cersei corrected

"When you were nine years old, I was called to the capital. I decided to take your brother with me and not you. You insisted that you would not be left at Casterly Rock under any circumstances and if you recall-"

" I'm not interested in hearing another one of your smug stories about the time you won. This isn't going to be one of those times." Cersei informed him.

" Do you think you'll be the first person dragged into a sept to be married against her will?"

" When you marched into the throne room to tell me we'd won the Battle at Blackwater, do you remember?! I was sitting on the iron throne with Tommen. I was about to give him essence of nightshade, that's how far I was willing to go when I thought someone awful had come to take my son away. Someone awful is coming to take him away."

"No."

"Joffrey is dead. Myrcella's been sold like livestock. And now you want to ship me off to Highgarden and steal my boy, my last boy. Margaery will dig her claws in and you will dig your claws in and you will fight over him like beasts until you rip him apart. I will burn our house to the ground before I let that happen."

"And how will you do that?" Tywin drawled

" I'll tell everyone the truth."

" And what truth would that be?" Tywin countered

" You don't know, do you? You never believed it. How is that possible? What am I saying, of course it's possible. How can someone so consumed by the idea of his family have any conception what his actual family was doing? We were right there in front of you and you didn't see us. One look in the past twenty years, one real look and you would've known."

" Known what?" Tywin demanded

" Everything they say is true. About Jaime and me." Cersei said as if proud by the vile act. Arthur wanted to gag. To admit it. Out loud, she really was desparate.

"No, no, no, no, no." Tywin demanded shaking his head

" Your legacy is a lie."

"I don't believe you."

"Yes you do."

"You know what would make me really happy?" Zaria questioned. Arthur had told his mother, of course he did, she was disgusted but of course they already knew. 

"Name it". Tywin instructed

"Sending cersei away today."

"It shall be done." Tywin agreed.

"Today?"

"She will be wed to loras soon enough." Tywin assured. "THen she will be gone."

"but so will i." 

"You won. One fewer brother. Must be proud of yourself. There's really nothing you wouldn't do, is there?" Jaime questioned.

" For my family, no. I would do things for my family you couldn't imagine." Cersei offered

' Tyrion is your family."

"He's not." Cersei corrected

"You don't get to choose." Jaime clarified.

" I do, so do you. You can choose the creature that killed our mother to come into this world-"

" Are you really mad enough to blame him for that? He didn't decide to kill her. He was an infant." Jaime shouted. Zaria stopped at the door, she hated this, jaime and cersei together even shouting, she always worried he would slip up again. 

" A disease doesn't decide to kill you, all the same you cut it out before it does. What do you decide? What do you choose?"

"The things I did to get back to you, to endure all that, only to find you-" jaime began but she kissed him.

' I choose you." 

Zaria felt sick but Jaime pushed her away. 

"I choose Zaria." 

"Those are words, Jaime but your heart and mine-" Cersei began.  "Youk know I told him. Father."

"Told him what?" Jaime demanded.

" I told him about us." she agreed

" You told him?"

"I told him I wouldn't marry Loras Tyrell. I told him I'm staying right here with Tommen, with you." Cersei agreed

" You think he'll just accept that?"

" Go and ask him."

"I dont want you cersei." Jaime countered. "You will get tommen killed, that is all you have done because you dont have me." 

Zaria had never felt so proud.