Tainted // Tyrion Lannister

98. Cersei

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It felt like an eternity walking to get to the queen. Tyrion got to cersei quarters only to see Jaime outside her door.

'You spoke with her?'

'At her.' Jamie corrected 'until she kicked me out... cersei always called me the stupidest lannister'

'I'm about to step into a room with most murderous woman in the world who's already tried to kill me twice that I know of... Who's the idiot?' Tyrion questioned

'Then I guess we should say goodbye one idiot to another.' Jamie suggested. Before allowing his brother to pass he pat his back.

'I shouldn't be surprised I suppose she is your type of woman.' Cersei remarked 'a foreign whore.'

'A foreign whore you cannot abduct beat or intimidate that must be difficult for you.' Tyrion told her.

'So you bring her here with her pet and you bow down before her'

'I didn't know-' Tyrion tried

'We are both working towards the same goal the goal you worked towards your entire life-'

'Cersei I did not know.'

'-Obstruction of this family.' Cersei told him

'I am the one preventing that from happening!' Tyrion said 'Daenerys did not want to debate and negotiate she did not want to bring you word she wanted to bring you fire and blood until I advised her otherwise.' Tyrion said 'I don't want to burn our family, I never have.'

'You killed our father.'

'After he sentenced me to death for a crime I didn't commit.' Tyrion reminded her 'yes I killed him hate me for it if you want I hate myself for it despite of what he was, in spite of what he did to me.'

'Oh poor little man, people are always mean to you. Do you have any idea what you did when you fired that crossbow? You left us open the pf the Lannister, the vultures and the vultures came and tore us apart.' Cersei spat 'you may not have killed Joffrey but you killed Marcella and you killed Tommen. no one would've touched them if father was here no one would've dared.'

'I've never been more sorry.' Tyrion said coming up to the desk.

'I will not here it.'

'Cersei-'

'I will not hear it!' she shouted 'not from you'

'All right. You love your family. And I have destroyed it. I will always be a threat so put an end to me.' Tyrion suggested Cersei looked over at the Mountain. ' if it weren't for me you would have a mother, if it weren't for me you would have a father, if it weren't for me you would have two beautiful children, I have thought about killing you more times than I can count.' he marched over to the mountain 'do it say the word'

Cersei sat back down though and tyrion could breathe again, Mabel's sad face etched in his mind as he expected the mountain to end him. Tyrion poured himself a drink drinking it down before pouring Cersei one as well he put it on the desk in front of her.

'I am more sorry about the children and you can imagine.' Tyrion told her

'Liar.'

'I don't care you know I love them, you know it in your heart if there's anything left of it.' Tyrion said

'It does not matter your life doesn't matter your love doesn't matter, your feelings do not matter. I don't care why you did what you did. I only care what it cost us. It cost us our future.' Cersei spat.

'If there is no future than why are we here why would you allow me to come?'

'Not helping my enemies collaborate against us!'

'Yes, no, not what you hoped for but you must've hoped for something.' Tyrion remarked

'What did you hope for?' Cersei asked 'to make Jon Snow submit to your queen?'

'Not like this.'

'But eventually you wanted him to bend the knee to her?' Cersei remarked

'Yes.' Tyrion admitted

'Why?' cersei sneered

'Because I think she will make the world a better place.'

'You said she would destroy Kings Landing.' Cersei reminded him. 'That doesn't seem like a better place to me.'

'She knows herself... she chose her council, people are who would check her worst impulses instead of feeding them that's the difference between you and me.'

'I don't care about checking my worst impulses.' Cersei told him 'I don't care about making the world a better place. I am the world.' she said a hand on her stomach 'that thing you dragged here I know what it is I know what it means and when it came at me I didn't think about the world not at all... as soon as it opened its mouth the world disappeared right down it's black throat. all I could think about keeping those mashing teeth away from the ones that I care about most, away from my family...' Cersei told him slowly. 'maybe Greyjoy had the right idea get on a boat take those who matter...'

'You're pregnant.' tyrion remarked.

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Tyrion came walking up alone and Mabel ran up to him hugging him tight.

"You are alive.' She whispered not really believing her eyes.

'did you doubt me?" Tyrion mused kissing her again and again. Happy tears, tears of relief in her eyes.

'No of course not, that's why I look like a crying mess because I didn't think she would throw your head down here.' Mabel remarked not letting him go.

Then more footsteps could be heard coming up the path Cersei, and Jaime and their army marched with them. cersei approached Danny, everyone turning to face the two queens. While Mabel leaned into Tyrion not wanting to let go again.

'My armies will not stand down I will not pull them back to the capital I will march them north to fight alongside you in the great war' cersei told her 'the darkness is coming for us all we will face it together and the great war is over perhaps you remember I chose to help no promises or assurances from any of you.' Cersei told them, she turned back to her men. 'Call our banners, all of them.'