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Brienne felt angry, sadness all of those emotions and more wash over her for a few days. Lady Sansa is crushed for her, talks to her like she's not broke glass which Brienne is thankful.
All she could think at this moment is that she was a fool for believing in him.
His words, his kisses his everything that she believed in was an utter lie as he set off to be with his twin sister once more.
They'll kill him and then what?
Brienne did now know the answer and she never wanted to know. So, she continued on with helping Lady Sansa construct Winterfell all over again and reconstruct her broken heart as well.
Sansa is a little slow to something, she will admit to that. She was confused at the moment as to why Bran called her and Brienne to the Godswoods in the afternoon.
He was sitting there, a blank mask over her little brother's face that Sansa has gotten used to seeing now. It still sent slight shivers down her spine as if Bran can look into her past and read her like an open book. As if he can read everything like an open book now.
They greeted each other, Bran turned to the tree, Sansa wondered why he called them here.
"Ser Jaime is on his way to King's Landing." He said. Brienne's eyes flickered with pain and Sansa felt the need to hug her pain away. Bran, not knowing of the emotions pouring out of the knight continued. "He has a part to play. there this, I told him that. He's doing what needs to be done."
"Needs to be done?" Sansa asked incredulously. "Bran, what are you talking about? Jaime betrayed us-"
"Because it wasn't that, it was never Jaime leaving for Cersei's side again," He said in a detached voice that Sansa knew all too well now. "He's leaving to keep you safe. Someone was sent to kill him and now that Cersei killed one dragon Jaime feels that he must put an end to her reign, knows that he is possibly one of the few people to put an end to this. He's one of the only ones to do it, well one of two anyway."
"What do you mean?" She could hear Brienne splutter behind her through her tears and anger. "What do you mean Lord Bran?"
"I mean, that Jaime isn't the only one on their way to end this war. There are two Kingslayers in Westeros now after all."
All of the pieces started making sense to Sansa and it was probably making sense to Brienne as they saw the big picture put in to play as to why Jaime Lannister left.
She could hear Brienne swear out loud. "That idiot. That fucking idiot lion."
Sansa didn't blame her for that outburst because Jaime Lannister at this moment was an utter complete idiot but a noble one that needed to be saved before Cersei killed also made her realize that Arya was the other Kingslayer and that she left Winterfell no doubt on her way to King's Landing. She prayed that they both found one another on the road and that they had some rational sense to stick together once Sansa had forces at the ready to march. Because there was no way in the seven hells that she would let those two fight this on their own.
Those two idiots...
Now to find Gendry and sort this mess out.
Jaime spotted two figures up the road. For a moment he thought it might have been Bronn with backup to finish the job but instead what he found was something much more confusing.
Arya Stark and Sandor Clegane, two people that certainly weren't supposed to be at King's road but then again neither was Jaime. Arya looked just as confused at seeing him as Jaime was at seeing her. Sandor kept trotting ahead leaving the Stark and Lannister in their utter confusion.
Arya was the first to speak, well more like yelling at the older man in front of her. "What are you doing here!? You're supposed to be in Winterfell!"
Jaime raised an eyebrow at her. "I can ask the same of you Lady Arya. Aren't you supposed to be with your sister? What are you doing here!?" His voice got louder and so did Arya as they yelled at one another for a few minutes. They cooled off and Sandor looked at them annoyed.
"You two done yelling? Can we get a move on?" He said gruffly.
"I guess you're on your way to do the same deed that I'm going towards," Jaime said as he continued up the road next to Arya. She raised an eyebrow at him. "What would that be?"
"Kill the Mad Queen before more blood is spilled." He said out loud. "Because that's what I'm doing and I doubt you are just taking a nice stroll to smell the flowers." He said sarcastically at the young woman.
Arya snorted. "What flowers? We're in the middle of bloody winter."
Jaime gave her a grin, not a big one but a grin nonetheless. "True but not when we hit the South. So you off to finish this?" Arya nodded, telling him without words that she was indeed going to finish this. "Well, I guess it will take two Kingslayers to finish off a Queen, eh?" Jaime said to her. She nodded, a small smile on her lips that did not reach her eyes.
"You left the Baratheon boy behind?" He asked her. She did not respond with an answer but with a question as they continued up the path, Sandor quiet. "You left Brienne behind." She said it like it was a fact because it was.
"I didn't want her to follow me. I couldn't live with myself if Cersei-" He didn't dare finish those words and possibly for the first time Arya Stark looked at him with understanding and sadness. "I know. Gendry, he would have done the same thing. It's better this way." Her eyes left his face and faced down the road.
"Yes, it is." He said. Jaime let out a laugh and Arya smiled slightly. "Look at us. Both killed kings, yet have our hearts being held in the hands of two people that we hurt. If we live to see them, I wouldn't blame them for being angry at us."
Arya nodded. "Furious would be another word. Do you think I could hide with you when Sansa finally calms down?"
"Only if you let me go to you into hiding when Brienne comes after me." He said. "But first let us finish off a queen and then we can find a place to hide from the fury of both Lord Gendry, Lady Sansa, and Ser Brienne, eh?"
"Deal," Arya said.
"Do both of you Kingslayers have a plan or are you two going to keep babbling about your loves?" Sandor finally spoke. Jaime honestly almost forgot he was there. "Because if we're just barging in they won't take us being there kindly and then both of you won't be yelled at by your loved ones, the guards will kill all of us on sight."
He had a point. His sister would not be too happy seeing his face again and if she spotted Arya, they would be thrown to prison and then executed. They needed a plan to go in without anyone noticing them there. Thankfully, he knew King's Landing well, he knew exists that even Cersei probably didn't know.
"I have a way in, but it's going to be a bit messy and once we're in, we'll need disguises." He told them as the horses kept trotting up the road. "The Targaryen's army is still there, so we'll have to find a way to bypass them as well. Not get caught by either Queens, once we get in, find some disguises we'll end this."
"Whatever it takes," Arya said.