Snow // Willas Tyrell // Oberyn Martell

40. Hard work

'May the seven guide the princess on her journey, may the crown give her wisdom, may the warrior give her courage...'

'One day I pray you love someone. I pray you love her so much when you close your eyes you see her face. I want that for you I want you to know what it's like to love someone. To truly love someone. Before I take her from you.' cersei told Tyrion calmly as they watched Marcella sail away to dorne. Tyrion looked back at Cersei for a moment before turning to Bronn, and heading away. Josie looked to Tommen, he was crying. Tears running down his face as he watched a sister sail away. Joffrey scoffed at the sight.

'Is that helmet comfortable?" Josie questioned, she stood next to Sandor, being Joffrey and Sansa. Sandor stared down at her. 'you just wear it all the time I'm assuming its comfortable.'

'Not really.' He admitted.

'why wear it then?" Josie questioned.

'I'm the kings guard.' Sandor reminded her.

'Yeah and other knights and guards don't wear their helmets all the time.' Josie told him matter of factly.

'People don't like looking at me face.' Sandor reminded her.

'That's their problem, not yours.' She told him tapping the cheek of his helmet.

'I saw you cry' sansa said softly, Shae stood behind sansa silently, staring ahead into the void before them as Joffrey sneered over at Sansa.

'What did you say?' Joffrey sneered at her

'My little brother cried when I left for Winterfell.' Sansa corrected.

'So?'

'It seems normal thing' sansa told him.

'Is your little brother Prince?' Joffrey remarked.

'No' Sansa told him slowly.

'Then it really isn't relevant then.' Joffrey told her, walking away. 'come dog.'

'Bye Josie.' Sandor said softly as he followed after Joffrey. Cersei had tears running down her own face, as she watched her daughter sail off. 

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'This is fun, we always feel so at peace and closer to the Gods when we come back from the sept, don't you think Sansa?' Josie questioned as they walked.

'Mmm Hmm.' She agreed gripping to her sisters arm.

At first Joffrey was waving, thinking the people his adoring fans but that quickly changed  when the townspeople started complaining that they were hungry begging the king for help. Joffrey ignored their pleas but then they started throwing dung at him. He became furious very quickly. Joffrey started screaming to kill them all!

'Our king everyone.' Josie said dully. As sandor scooped up the king bringing him quickly back to the palace. The royal family ushered in quickly while Josie and sansa got swept up in the madness.  Sandor dragged in Joffrey but Tyrion looked around for Josie and sansa but she was nowhere in sight.

''Where is sansa?' Tyrion questioned. 'Where is Snow?' Tyrion spun around. 'Do you see them?' He questioned Sandor and he looked among the people. 'where is Sansa and Snow?' Tyrion echoed. Joffrey ignored him his own head spinning from the almost attack. 'If she dies you never get your uncle Jaime back and he did a lot for you!' Tyrion reminded Joffrey. But he ran away scared. 'take some men and go find the stark girl and-' tyrion demanded.

'I don't take orders from you imp, I take them from the king.' Meryn spat.  Sandor stomped back outside to get Josie and sansa.

'Back off.' Josie warned as they were grabbed and surrounded. 'Let us go and no one gets hurt.' She informed them, as sansa trembled clutching tightly to Josie.

"Pretty royal, I wonder if she is broken in yet.' They sneered at the girls but Josie was not afraid.

'Back off, last warning.' She hissed and they lunged. Josie didn't have her blade since they were at the sept but she didn't need it. She punched and kicked sending the men backwards, four of the men and only two of them. Josie could do this. Gouging ones eyes out he screamed falling backwards but two men grabbed Sansa from behind she screamed as josie picked up the rusted blade from the first man crying out hold his face, his bleeding eyes. Josie lunged the blade across and it hit one of the men the blade right through his eye he stumbled back, sansa pulled free as Josie marched forward the second man that held sansa stared amazed but it was too late for him as well. Josie pulled the blade free of one man only to lodge it in the other. She looked back at the final man he dropped his blade and ran to the door but Sandor blocked his path, he took the mans head in his hands and snapped his neck.

"You alright?" sandor questioned looking between them. Sansa clung to Josie sobbing.

'We are alright.' Josie confirmed.

"Let's get you out of here.' Sandor said looking around at the damage Josie had done. 'Impressive.' Sandor told her as he led them away. Sandor kept a hand on Josie's back as she kept her arms around Sansa as they rushed back to the capitol.

Tyrion was pacing anxiously when Sandor came marching back in with sansa and Josie, both seemed fine.

'Little birds bleeding see her back to her cage,' sandor said nodding to Sansa.

'Good work Clegane.' Tyrion said looking over sansa before his eyes settled on Josie.

'I didnt do it for you.' Sandor said, 'Josie here did most of the hard work, aint that right Snow?" Sandor said staring back at her.

'I'm grateful for your help,' Josie told him. 'Thanks for coming for us.' Sandor nodded heading off.

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"I thought they were going to kill us." Sansa was still shaken up about what happened earlier.

"They thought they were." Shae answered as she dabbed a wet cloth to Sansa's skin, Josie lay out on the bed, her head dipped back over the edge watching them.

"They hated us. That man. He doesn't even know us but I saw it in his eyes. He hated us. He never met us before but he wanted to hurt us." Sansa had never been hated by anyone in Winterfell, she was loved. But these people wanted to rape her and kill her, thank God for Josie.

  "Of course he did." shae rung out the rag as Sansa's head was spinning, trying to make sense of everything.  "You are everything he will never have. Your horses eat better than his children. It doesn't matter now. He's dead... " Shae said looking to Josie.

"I would have given them bread if I had it. I hate the King more than any of them." Shae hushed sansa quickly as Josie sat up on the bed.

  "You must not say that." Shae told her  "If the wrong people heard you-" Sansa cut her off though.

"But you're not the wrong people." Sansa reminded her.           

"Don't trust anyone. Life's easier that way."

'She's not wrong.' Josie admitted. maybe shae was going to be good for sansa.