Sacrifice

I jumped down passed the rubble before pulling the rubble off her body studied her figure and slapping was met by her eyes shooting open, “What happened?” “Drogon destroyed the castle and the roof caved in on you both, I’m sorry Cersei, Jamie is dead!” she wept seeing the body crushed under multiple beams and seeing the fire start to consume the room she started to panic, “James... the fire, the child!” “I know Cersei, I know!” I started to remove my armour and put it on her person until every inch covered her, “Cersei follow me!” I rushed forward using my shield barged through the wooden obstructions feeling the fire consume my body as I tried to roll it out, “Haytham water!” Cersei snapped he nodded grabbing two of the buckets that were to be used for extinguishing the fire in the castle ruins. He grabbed a third to make sure and looking down saw the burnt face and side of James whose body was now covered in burns and molten armour pieces, the body remained still as he moved painfully to face her, “How bad is it?” “I... I don’t think he is going to survive!” Haytham muttered for Cersei not realising James heard him, “Help...help me up!” “You shouldn’t be moving!” Cersei spoke, “I am not going to lay here watching as I slowly die the kingdom fall. The people...” he coughed before wheezing finished, “The people need to be protected!” Haytham nodded before holding him up James reached out to grab the Apple of Eden before being helped out by Haytham who tried his best to not grab or apply pressure onto the man’s body helped him past the crowds to the gates to face the crowd.

“James?!” Daenerys and Sansa shrieked seeing the scarred body, “What happened?!” “Burnt protecting my Queen and my unborn child!” “If... I would have never put the child in danger if I known!” “Cause you would Daenerys! Another rival to your throne!” “No!” James wheezed as Haytham pulled out a canteen of water to pour the water in his mouth before speaking, “I have seen your eyes, the darkness in them, you have changed all for that throne! So I must do this!” he whispered into Haytham’s ear who nodding backed away dropping the Apple onto the ground as James in great pain slammed the other Piece of Eden (the sword) through it, they stood there in shock unsure of what he had down but handing the sword over to Haytham who walked away, James cried coughing leaning over to reach for the Apple but falling down Sansa rushed to him, “Is there anything I can do?” he leaned into her ear before saying, “Go to Cersei and tell her: I’m sorry, I love her and Red Wine! Now go!” she nodded before walking off looked back as the ground shook and the screams from the men whilst there was a thud and seeing the golden light she watched in horror as the remainder of the United forces were put to the sword before a hand pulled her back, “You want to talk to me?” Sansa looked at the teary-eyed Queen before nodding followed her in.

“Cersei...” “I know!” she spoke looking down wiping the tears away, “He saved us both you know! That blast would have likely killed you if you remained!” “This should have never happened!” “No it shouldn’t have and yet nothing will change; I remain queen until our child is old enough and then they rule. All they had to do is let it happen! Now he’s gone!” Sansa hugging her enemy equally distraught spoke, “He said for me to tell you that he was sorry, that he loves you and Red Wine!” Cersei nodded before walking over to the throne grabbed a parchment signing it before handing it to her, “What is this?” “I wanted you all executed but I agreed to Red Wine... his wish was for you and Arya to live. If our child is a boy then Arya will be his wife whilst the North; your homelands remains yours. Like I said I wanted you dead but that’s the James affect!” “Queen!” “What?!” “Thanks. We both loved him but I didn’t expect his widow to be as accepting as you were!” “He always thought about you, even when he shouldn’t have been and Arya, Missandei and their child which she will live here with us but it doesn’t matter now. He’s gone. I... I... need to arrange stuff!” Cersei snapped returning to her cold expression, “It’s okay to show sadness!” “I won’t give anyone the satisfaction of it!” Sansa nodded as they saw the prisoners bleeding being walked in and smiling Cersei snapped, “Time to get revenge!”

The prisoners were thrown in to the thrown room hands cuffed and faces half bloodstained, “Sister please! Listen to reason!” Tyrion spoke trying soothe the Queen, “No!” “Cersei I know you are hurt but this won’t help!” “Hurt? Hurt?! I am angry that the one good guy has died, he always told me nice people finish last and now I have to bury him!” she looked down seeing the burnt body be carried in on the shields of Lannister’s soldiers who lowering him to the table looked down respectfully covering him a sheet his shield on top, “He just made me so god damn weak!” Cersei whimpered wiping the tears from under her eyes, “I...I... loved him, even more than my brother!” Tyrion walked up to her chained before trying to hug her was pushed away by her, “Haytham!” Haytham nodded struggling to carry the heavy blade of James, “Let me try... it’s too heavy; the baby!” but shaking her head she gripped the handle to reveal the sword illuminate exactly like when it did with James and adjusting her grip held it up with no strain and now the golden lines occupied her body and her eyes tainted slightly golden, “Greyworm you will get off lightly as a gift from Missandei!” and whispering into his ear spoke, “She carries his child and when I last spoke to her... she begged him to get on the boat with her... maybe she needed a functioning cock after all to be happy!” he growled but being met with one cut his body fell apart, “Daenerys and Jon for what you did I will show you no mercy... you challenge my rule when I offered you a deal, you plotted on our lives, committed treason by leading a rebellion and killing the king and have lead a series of mass slaughters on civilians!” Jon forced himself up but being smacked back down by Haytham Cersei growled, “Daenerys he warned me about you, he always did... I never did admit to agreeing with him but what is a mother of dragons with no dragons?” “A slave” Daenerys responded and shaking her head Cersei pulled her knife out, “No... first I am going to remove your god damn tongue for speaking your lies, then I am going to remove your eyes so you can’t see anymore of your made up lies. I am then going to remove your hearing to you out of any trouble and then to finish off remove your hands and your feet to keep you out of anymore mischief... better than that, James liked to keep wolves in the grounds if any are left they can feed on your squirming carcass. Jon I sentence you to be hung, drawn and quartered... your parts will be sent to different parts of the seven kingdoms and buried!” they were pulled away as Tyrion looked around spoke, “Cersei please!” she grabbed her crossbow and firing it between the eyes of her brother sighed slumping against her throne weeping, “My queen the others!” she looked up and seeing the remainder spoke, “Release them... James would have!” Haytham nodded before stopping two from being removed stated, “Arya Stark. You are to stay here, James had it written that you will marry our child and rule alongside!” “But” “No buts, the facilities will be yours but your marriage is binding!” she nodded being taken away and studying the armoured knight spoke softly, “You are the only other thing I have left of him” “Cersei... what do you mean?!” “He talked openly about wanting to impregnating you. To keep others away, he told me openly about your first night and several others together and how you refused soo many to bed you, he even wanted you to live whatever the result!” “So what are you going to kill me?” Cersei shook her head before with the help of Haytham shook her once again, “No, I want a hug!” she walked to her before wrapping her arms around Brienne’s body lowered her head to Brienne’s shoulder burying it as deep as possible before crying letting the tears flood over the armour of Brienne spoke, “I can’t believe he is gone!”

The next day Brienne with her armour on was returned her sword watching the Queen sit at her large table alone prodding her food staring at the empty seat facing opposite her, the room was silent before pushing it away she shook her head putting the fork on top, “Something the matter my Queen?” “No Gilly, it’s fine, I’m just not hungry. I see the chair being empty and it being so quiet!” “I understand Queen. I will fetch your wine!” she nodded before grabbing the parchment wrote down the next set of arrangements for the funeral to take place. “You can sit you know!” “I wasn’t sure you would like it!” “James would have wanted you to, so sit!” “James would have wanted me to do a lot of things a lot unfulfilled!” “Such as?” “A lot were private but one thing was to help free Athena!” “Free Athena? I forget about that, well come and let’s do this for him!”

Cersei grabbed his sword and removing the broken one from the throne slid it inside the now showing gap, next she slid the Apple in the middle of the seat before laying down the shroud over it to see the combination interact and witness the lines glow all over the throne as they heard, “Bloodline detected: Ares and Aphrodite, descendant of General Lannister of Eden Speak the lines of Freedom” Cersei coughed before reading the writing text, “Apeleftheróste ton sofó, tin kóri tou Día kai tou Metí, tin eléftheri Athiná!” the chair lit up in a portal before spitting out the giant figure armoured and covered in golden lines similar to James’. “James you did it!” Athena smiled but seeing the woman froze, “You were meant to be dead!” “James... ummm, James is dead!” Athena looked down and sighing responded with, “I suppose he saved the kingdoms in the process!” “What do you mean?” Brienne questioned and on seeing the Amazon sized woman Athena studied her muscles before stating, “Cersei was meant to die, Daenerys was to rule whilst me and James were to leave together and Daenerys feeling threatened by this destroys the Kingdoms to try and find us. He chose you to rule, therefore saving the kingdoms!” “So you were willing to let the kingdoms be destroyed for you to take James away?!” Brienne snapped back, “We Isu don’t value human life, Cersei who is a hybrid also doesn’t value human life as much as you humans do. You are an expandable resource!” “Where will you go next?” “I think I may stay here for the funeral and then help raise my descendant; your child will be looked after by me!” Cersei nodded before deactivating the throne retrieved his sword and stated, “Come Brienne, we need to finish the preparations!”

The same time the week after was met by the bells ringing as the remaining villagers watched as the funeral procession travelled through the streets the casket covered in the Lannister banner and his shield along with the sword placed on top. The men carried him on up the stairs to the luxurious tomb where Cersei, Brienne and the other survivors wearing black waited and now Athena who stood alone, away from the humans nodded noticing the “human feelings” and the respect he had earned. The tomb was covered in riches with the sword sealed in its casing. The tomb was full of Lannister treasures with inscriptions and memorials of him. In the center of the room laid the massive stone casket half full with the other half being reserved for Cersei who stood there weeping next to Brienne who comforted her with Arya hugging Sansa.

As time passed Cersei ruled coldly for the most part but despite this the people noticed an improvement to their lives and that she was more vulnerable than before. Daenerys’ end was horrific as Cersei promised but at least her head wasn’t used for target practice likes John’s was. When the child was born with the name Charles he was married to Arya who was utterly shocked by the nature of it. However, despite this Arya was crowned Queen ten years later to the young boy; five years after that she gave birth to their daughter; Arya never confessed to be completely in love with Charles but did appreciate that unlike his father he was loyal to one woman; her and spent years after finding out what happened to make it up to her. Charles had the wisdom of and personality of his father with the ability to rule of his mother and the Isu blood remained strong and more awoken, providing him with the ability to do things others couldn’t. Cersei’s life was full of depression and sadness for the first five years of her life similar to Sansa who remained unmarried and solo ruler of the North and in her Will was written that one of Arya’s sons (one of the three triplets) would take her throne on death. Cersei’s life did improve however with Brienne remaining as an advisor, protector and comfort friend to her, they spent hours in the day remembering the man they loved and Cersei’s nightmares were met by Brienne’s embraces. It all changed however when after another familiar nightmare Brienne captured the other women’s lips with her own and stated calmly, “We are both the last of James, whether we like it or not and we both desire to cling onto it. Let’s cling onto him together!” and taking her hand Cersei spoke, “Okay love. Let’s try it!”