Dragon Mothers // Jorah Mormont

85. Whore monger

'Her Grace wants to rectify her mistakes.'

'The queen once gave me a castle and a wife and took them both.' Bronn countered finishing his drink. He couldn't believe that Jaime ran.

'That was ser Jaime's doing when the queen wants some thing she pays in advance and gold which is waiting for you in a wagon outside.'

'So she wants to murder someone but she can't send her soldiers...' bronn questioned. 'if it's a dragon queen she's after-'

'She has other plans for the Targaryen girl.'

'Well good luck with that.'

'Our Queens brothers are unlikely to survive their northern adventures... in the event that they do she has a keen sense of poetic justice.' He held up a crossbow

'That fucking family.'

'In exchange for my service the queen made me her Hand, what would she do for the man that killed her treasonous brothers and sister?' He gave Bronn the crossbow.

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'I'm sorry for what I did to you' Jaime said after moments hesitation staring down at Bran.

'You weren't sorry then, you were protecting your family.' Bran reminded him he looked back at Jaime from the red leafed tree.

'I am not that person anymore' Jaime told him

'You would still be that person if you hadn't pushed me out the window and I would still be Brandon Stark.' Bran told him

'You're not?' Jaime questioned

'No, I am something else now.' Bran told him.

'You're not angry with me?'

'I'm not angry at anyone anymore' bran said

'Why didn't you tell them?' Jaime question

'You won't be able to help us in this fight if I let the murder you first.' Bran assured him

'What about afterwards?'

'How do you know there is an afterwards?' Bran told him.

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'So we are going to die... At Winterfell. not the death I would've chosen I always pictured I would die in my own bed at the age of 80 with a belly full of wine and a girls-'

'mouth around my cock.' Jaime finished with a laugh.

'At least cersei won't get to murder me, cersei... I'm sure I'll get some satisfaction dying from that pleasure well I'm getting ripped apart by deadman.' Tyrion told Jaime, 'maybe after I'm dead I'll go to Kings Landing and rip her apart.' Tyrion teased, but not really. He noticing Jaime staring down at Daenaerys and Deaneel, he was up to something Tyrion thought and he wasn't about to be fooled by his family again.

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'That's what death is, isn't it? forgetting... Forgotten... If we forget who we are where we come from we are not men anymore.' Sam told them 'just animals. your memories don't come from books, your stories are not just stories...'

'we gotta take out the night king.'

' he can find me.' bran said. 'His mark is always on me,' Bran said showing them the burns on his arms from when he was grabbed in a vision.

'We will put you in the crypt where it's safest.' Jon told Bran

'No we have to draw him out or his army kills us all. I will wait for him in the woods for him.' Bran told them.

'You want to use youself as a bait?' Sansa asked

'We're not leaving you alone out there.' Arya told him

'I'll stay with him,' theon said 'with the iron born. I took this castle from you once, let me defend you now.'

'We will hold off the rest of them for the rest as we can' Davos said

'Ser Davos and I will be on the top to give you the signal went to light the trench' tyrion told them.

'Ser Davos is perfectly capable of waving a torch on his own, you will be in the crypt.' Neely told Tyrion

'Your grace I have fought before I can do it again, along with the men and women risking their lives.' Tyrion reminded her

'There are thousands of them and only one of you. You cannot fight as well as they can, but you can think better than any of them... you're here because of your mind if you survive, if we survive I will need it.' Daenerys told him

'The dragon should give us an edge in the field' Davos went on

'If they are in the field they are not protecting Bran, we need to be near him not so near the night King won't come.' Jon said

'Has anyone ever tried to kill him?'

'No one has ever tried' Bran told them

'We are all going to die!' Tormund said 'but at least we died together,' he winked at Brienne.

'Let's get some rest,' Jon instructed 'Your grace' Jon said to danny before making a quick exit.

'hey,' Neely pulled dany back.' Whats going on with you and Snow?'

'I don't know.' She replied through clenched teeth.

'I thought you two were... you know.' Neely waggled her eyebrows suggestively.

'We were.' Danny confirmed.

'But?'

"I don't know, we got here and he's... I don't know.'

'you want me to do some digging?' Neely offered.

'no yet,' dany offered her a small smile as she headed out.

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'Do you need help?' Tyrion asked bran, he sat still while the rest of the room cleared out.

'No' he answered solemnly looking into the fire.

'You've had a strange journey' Tyrion told him

'No stranger than most' Bran replied.

'I would like to hear about it,' tyrion said pulling up a chair

'It's a long story,' Bran told him

'If only we were trapped in a castle in the middle of winter with nowhere to go...' tyrion said leaning in.

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Jaime, and tyrion sat sitting by the fire drinking one last drink before the battle began.

'I wish father were here' Tyrion said surprising Jaime. 'I would love to see the look on his face when he realizes his two sons are about to die defending Winterfell' Tyrion clarified.

'That would be something to see' Jaime agreed,

'I remember the first time we were here, the first time we were here you were a golden lion while I was a drunken whore monger,' Tyrion reminded him, 'It was so simple'

'It was not simple' Jaime told him, 'I was sleeping with my simple sister and you had one friend in the world who was sleeping with his sister

'I was speaking in relative terms' he told Jaime

'Do you miss it?'

'Of course I miss it'

'Oh my golden lions days are done, but your whore monger days...' Jaime teased.