Rightfully Mine // Ned Stark

140. Queen we need

'Did you bring any wine?'

'No' jon told him.

'Well... thank you for coming to see me. Our queen doesn't keep prisoners for long. I suppose there's a crude kind of justice, I betrayed my closest friend and watched him burn now Daenerys is going to turn me to ashes...' tyrion told him. 'It just occurred to me I'm talking to the only man alive that knows where I'm going. So is there life after death?'

'Not that I've seen' jon told him

'I should be thankful that it's the best I could hope for, I strangled my lover, I shot my father with a crossbow and I betrayed my queen.' tyrion reminded him

'You didn't'

'I did. And I would do it again now that I've seen what I've seen I chose my fate... the people of Kings Landing did not.' Tyrion reminded him. 'I should have listened to sasha, I should have followed her, trusted her. she would have never let this happen.'

'I cannot justify what happened I won't try' Jon told him 'but the war is over now'

'Is it? When you heard her talking to her soldiers did she sound like someone who is done fighting?' Tyrion asked he stood up 'she liberated the people from slavers bay, she liberated the people of kings landing she will go on liberating until the people of the world are free. And she rules through the ashes of all of it.'

'And you have been by her side counseling her through all of it, until today.' Jon reminded him

'Until today. Varys was right, I was wrong, it was vanity to think I could help her. Our Queens nature is fire and blood.' Tyrion informed him.

'Then I would be fire and blood to' Jon said 'she is no more her father then you are yours'

'My father was an evil man, my sister was an evil woman, of all the bodies of all the people they've ever killed will not be the same as our beautiful queen killed in a single day.' tyrion reminded him

'they left her no choice' jon tried but he knew that was a lie.

'The moment they fell the battle was over'

'She saw her friend beheaded she saw her dragons shot out of the sky' Jon reminded him

'And she burned a city for it!' tyrion snapped. 'sasha has lost and was betrayed by her family, her father murdered by my sister, then she had multiple attempted on her life.' Tyrion reminded him. 'she stayed and fought, but her goal was always to help the people. Help the people not burn them down.'

'It's easy to judge when you're standing far away from the battlefield' Jon said trying to prove Daenerys right trying to defend her in a defendless situation

'Would you have done it? You've been up there on a dragons back you have had that power would you have burn the city down?' tyrion questioned. 'sasha wouldn't. I should have listened to her the moment I kenw she was alive.'

'I don't know' Jon answered

'Yes you do, you won't say because you don't want to betray her to her,' tyrion told him 'but you know.'

'It does not matter what I would do' jon told him.

'It matters more than anything' tyrion told him. 'When she murdered the slavers no one but the slavers complained when she crucified hundreds of nobles, who could argue they were evil men the dorthraki she burned alive, they would've done worse to her... everywhere she goes evil men die and we cheer her on for it. And she grows more powerful and more sure that she is good and right. She believes her destiny is to build a better world for everyone we believed that. If you believed that... Wouldn't you kill whatever stood between you in paradise?' Jon sat down unable to look tyrion the eyes. 'I know you love her, I think I love her too and I believed in her with all my heart. Love is more powerful than reason. We all know that look at my brother.'

'Love is the death of duty.' Jon told him

'You just came up with that?" tyrion questioned

'Measter Aemond said it a long time ago.' Jon said remembering.

'Sometimes duty is the death of love' Tyrion counted 'you are the shield that guards the realms of men you've always tried to do the right thing no matter the cost'. Tyrion took a deep breath. 'Do you think I'm the last man she will execute? Who is more dangerous than the rightful heir of the iron throne?'

'That is her decision she is the queen' Jon reminded him 'I'm sorry it came to this... sasha will live and be free and her and Ned will-'

'just live happily every after. I heard her. she doesn't want to have to deal with sasha. She will kill her.' Tyrion reminded him. 'And your sisters. Do you see them bending the knee?' tyrion questioned,

'My sisters will be loyal to our queen' jon said but he didn't believe it. They had already made their opinion of daenerys very clear.

'Why do you think Sansa told me about you? because she does not want daenarys to be queen.' Tyrion reminded him.

'She does not get to choose' jon told him.

'No but you do. And you have to choose now' Tyrion warned him.

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The iron throne sat among the rubble. The once enclosed walls gone. Letting the snow in. Daenarys approached her throne. She finnally had it. It was hers.

'What about tyrion?' jon questioned

'He conspired against me.' daenerys told him

'Forgive him'

'I cant'

'You can. Forgive them all and make them see-' jon begged

'I cant hide behind small mercies the world we need-'

'The world we need cannot be ruled by cruel men.' Jon told her.

'It's not easy to see what we've never had... a good world' Daenerys told him

'How would you know?' jon asked

'Because I know what is good.' she told him

'What about everyone else? what about all the other people who think they know what is good?' Jon questioned

'They do not get to choose. Lead with me build the New World with me it has been our destiny from the beginning. when you were just a bastard boy and I was a little girl that could not count to 20! we do this together we break the wheel together!' she told him

'You are my queen' he told her kissing her deeply before stabbing a dagger through her. She died in his arms. 'but you are not the queen we need.'