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Jon looked at the old woman before he looked at Lady Catelyn, a completely unconscious decision. The woman was silent, eyes lowered and gnawing on her lips.
"No, we can't" Jon finally said. "I have few plans but it will take time to implement them they should be enough to strengthen the riverlands to make them strong enough to defend themselves. And after killing Joffery we would have taken care of the Lannister's leaving the two Baratheons to fight among themselves and whoever wins won't be able to conquer Riverlands that easily."
Olenna Tyrell hummed under her breath.
"I don't know."
"You're fighting to overthrow a king, and yet you have no plan for what comes after?"
"First we have to win the war."
[Frustrated, TALISA climbs onto a horse's cart, and signals it to start.]
"She's going to be a problem for the young wolf" Jaime noted.
"All women are during war" Tyrion muttered.
[KING'S LANDING, THRONE ROOM]
[KING JOFFREY BARATHEON aims a crossbow at a kneeling LADY SANSA STARK while SANDOR "THE HOUND" CLEGANE stands by.]
Ned Stark's eyes hardened, gazing at the bastard that had his daughter as a hostage. He was the one to state clearly that one should not be punished for acts they are yet to commit... yet he wanted to see this bastard dead more than he wanted Rhaegar to die. Which was a lot considering how he wished he'd been the one to kill Rhaegar.
Before he knew of the truth, of course.
"You're here to answer for your brother's latest treason."
"Your Grace, whatever my traitor brother has done, I had no part. You know that. I beg you, please"
Sansa looked at her elder brother pleadingly and received nothing but kind looks from him.
"Don't worry" he mouthed to her, and she nodded smiling.
"Ser Lancel, tell her of this outrage."
[SER LANCEL LANNISTER addresses the room, which is taken aback by his recounting.]
"Using some vile sorcery, your brother fell on Stafford Lannister with an army of wolves. Thousands of good men were butchered. After the slaughter, the Northmen feasted on the flesh of the slain."
"He can't seriously think people would believe this" Myrcella muttered, feeling her jaws slacken.
"He took his mother's words to heart it seems" Tyrion muttered, a strange sharpness in his voice.
"Killing you would send your brother a message."
[Sansa cries.]
"But my mother insists on keeping you alive. Stand. So we'll have to send your brother a message some other way. Meryn."
[SER MERYN TRANT approaches SANSA.]
"Leave her face. I like her pretty."
[SANSA looks aghast at JOFFREY. MERYN punches her full force in the stomach and she doubles over in pain. JOFFREY looks on cruelly as MERYN cuts SANSA's legs out from under her. She falls to the floor, wailing.]
Sansa began to shake as she watched what Joffrey was subjecting her to.
"Meryn, my lady is overdressed. Unburden her."
[MERYN rips SANSA's dress from the back. She cries in anguish.]
Of all people to act out violently to this, nobody expected Joanna Lannister to suddenly slap her eldest across the face.
"Mother-"
"You and your vile sister made that!" the woman seethed and Jaime did not find the words to reply to that. "You are the father and you allowed that thing to become that"
"Mother I-"
He was slapped across the face again. She grabbed him by the collar and pulled him in close.
"I have never been as ashamed of anything in my life as I am of you and your whore of a sister for making the second coming of Aerys!"
Then she let him go, before falling in her chair with her hands covering her face. She was sobbing.
Jaime, shocked and shattered, fell back in his chair. Tyrion called to him but he was in too much of a daze to hear what his brother had to say. All he was aware of was that he had changed seats with his brother.
Over to the Stark's side, Sansa was the worst she'd ever been. Shaking, crying and close to throwing up, she held onto her mother like she was a lifeline, that if she let go Joffrey would appear and beat her again.
Catelyn held her daughter tight, comforting her the best she could in her own horrified condition. Beside her, Ned looked stoic, but his eyes were anything but calm and kind. They were like chips of ice, and a storm was brewing behind them. Nobody had seen him this infuriated before, not even Robert who had known him the longest. Arya was too horrified to speak, Bran as well. Robb and Jon were not shouting insults, but nobody doubted that both sons of Ned Stark had already killed Joffrey a thousand ways in their heads.
"It's like father was born all over again, but evil from the very beginning" Rhaegar muttered darkly, being reminded of the things his father would do to his mother.
Elia glanced at her brothers, Oberyn specifically. No words were spoken, but the message was clear.
"If you want Robb Stark to hear us, we're going to have to speak louder."
[MERYN raises his sword to hit SANSA.]
"What is the meaning of this?"
[MERYN holds, while LORD TYRION LANNISTER and BRONN enter the throne room. JOFFREY looks worried.]
"What kind of knight beats a helpless girl?"
"The kind who serves his king, Imp."
"So not a knight at all" spat Brandon the Elder.
"I shouldn't have let Cersei talk me into putting that monstrosity in the Kingsguard" Robert muttered, truly repentant about all the choices he's made.
"Careful, now. We don't want to get blood all over your pretty white cloak."
"Someone get the girl something to cover herself with. She is to be your queen. Have you no regard for her honour?"
Ned gave Tyrion a stiff nod. That was more than Tyrion expected from the man.
"I'm punishing her."
"For what crimes? She did not fight her brother's battle, you half-wit."
"You tell him, Uncle Tyrion!" Tommen cheered.
Myrcella patted him on the knee and shook her head at him.
Tommen pouted but decided to listen.
"You can't talk to me like that. The king can do as he likes!"
"The Mad King did as he liked. Has your Uncle Jaime ever told you what happened to him?"
"No one threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard."
"I'm not threatening the king, ser. I am educating my nephew. Bronn, the next time Ser Meryn speaks, kill him. That was a threat. See the difference?"
[MERYN stares daggers at TYRION. TYRION approaches SANSA and offers his hand. She takes it and stands. They walk out together.]
"My Lords and Ladies, I wish to take a break. For my daughter's sake," Ned Stark stood, his features still tittering on the edge of a breakdown.
Nobody denied him this.