Not Just a Kingslayer

Chapter 2

Lady Daena Stormblood walked through the Red Keep. Soon that won't be my name anymore. Soon it will be Lannister. And I will be a lion. So caught up in her own thoughts was she that she stumbled over a girl standing in front of her. She quickly said she was sorry and made to move on when the girl turned around and she gasped.

Queen Margaery seemed a little younger than she had expected. She shakily curtsied,"I'm so sorry, Your Grace. I didn't see you standing there."

"Don't worry about it! It was my fault; I was just standing here. I don't know where Tommen or my ladies have gone. Have you seen them?" She looked inquisitively around the hall again.

"No, Your Grace, I'm sorry, I haven't seen them."

"A pity...Wait a moment, are you the one who is to marry Ser Jaime today?"

"Yes, Your Grace, that is I."

"Well I'd say you are a lucky one. He is very handsome, and a great knight as well," she said, blushing prettily. "And please call me Margaery."

"Yes, Your...Margaery. Anyway, that's what I was thinking about when I bumped into you. I don't doubt that I am very lucky, but I don't know what to do; I have nobody to walk in with me, my family stayed behind at Redcastle."

"Well don't worry one more second; I'm sure I can persuade my little king to walk with you."

"King Tommen?!"

"Why of course! I'm sure he would be pleased to do that for the new wife of his...Uncle Jaime. And I would be ever so pleased. Will you allow me to ask him?"

"Of course, it would be a great help to me."

So Queen Margaery pulled Lady Daena off to find the little king.

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Jaime stepped out of his chamber, looking dashing in a cloak of Lannister crimson, uncommon since he had joined the Kingsguard. Ser Loras Tyrell, his Sworn Brother of the Kingsguard, spotted him and walked over. We cannot choose our brothers, no more than I can choose whether I love Cersei.

"Are you nervous, my lord? The Kingslayer is finally to be wed. I wish I could be married." 

To Renly, no doubt, Jaime thought. "You have yet to prove your loyalty to this Kingsguard enough to even think about that. His Grace, King Tommen, ruled that the Lord Commander could wed, not the other six members."

"His Grace undoubtedly had a lot of help from Queen Cersei on that account."

"No, I'm sure on this ruling she had very little say. She is very protective of her children, you know." And of her rights to me. She was very upset last I saw her. Although perhaps I am wrong and she had finally resolved to wed me herself. That thought made him more than a little nervous. "Anyway, I must get going, don't forget your duty in thinking of the past, Ser." And with that he walked away.

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Cersei stormed back to her apartments in Maegor's Holdfast. "Have a bath made ready," she spat at her servant, who scrambled to obey. She knew when her queen was in a bad mood, and they often came after speaking with her twin nowadays.

When the bath was ready, Cersei got in, and she bade the servant go away so she could sink in to her own thoughts. How dare Jaime marry somebody else! He will never love anyone but me, and we both know it. And now he won't even let me show him my love. He is supposed to be my other half, my good right arm! And now his own right arm is useless, as useless as he is as mine! He and that 'lady' of his may not know what is coming now, but they will soon, I promise that.

And with that, she stepped out of the bath, bade her servant button up her dress, and stepped out into the halls.