After the first round of
got_exchange we had a surprisingly successful comment fic meme going for a while (
here's a list of all the fics that were written last time), so I thought it might be fun to do this again. (Like last time, it's posted on the mod account journal because I don't want to enable anonymous comments on the exchange community.)
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Bonus points if you work in Roose, especially if he's criticizing Ramsay.
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Joanna looks down at the polished wood of the tabletop and watches her husband’s reflection as he handles the petitioners. Gilded, she thinks, never able to shake her admiration for his stoic, statuesque carriage.
When she announced her intention to wed their cousin, her brother had laughed, insisting that Tywin was no true Lannister, he lacked the passion and vigor and fire for which the family was known- “Cold-blooded, a serpent through and through,” Stafford had insisted. But that was wrong, so very wrong; Tywin’s was a cool fire, a simmering heat beneath the surface, and his ability control the burn was what drew her attention, what first led her to believe that she could love him ( ... )
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It’s not what it looks like, she tells herself. Just an old friend, risen high. We only speak of the past, and not the present, or what could be.That is a lie, of course ( ... )
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He hands her a small bottle after one of their clandestine meetings, and at first, thinking that it is perfume, uncaps it to daub a bit behind an ear, in her bosom, to show her appreciation. But Petyr stays her hands.
“Take care, my love,” he says, and for once, the lilting note in his voice is gone. “I would not have you come to such an end.”
And then he explains, in a whisper, nipping at her neck between her exclamations of shock, and then, as things progress, pleasure. It is a way for them to be together and isn’t that what she wants. It is the only way, of course. And no one will ever believe it possible.
She tucks the bottle in the corner of a drawer stuffed with fripperies, handkerchiefs and half-spent pomades, tarnished rings in need of a cleaning, a place where no one will bother to look. It will keep there until the time is ripe.
And then she yields, her eyes tightly closed.
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