Closed starter for @serbriennecftarth
Jaime sat by the TV, listening to Brienne snore.
She was sprawled out on the bed, long limbs everywhere, head thrown back on the pillows, her mouth open. He watched her. How deeply was she asleep?
He watched her and he tried to hate her.
He tried to hate how ugly she was, how he was far far better looking, how he could have any woman he wanted and she was holding him back. He tried to hate how bad she was in bed, how inexperienced, how big and clumsy. How she smothered him when he went down on her and how it took so bloody long to make her come.
He hated her earnest fucking face. The naked emotion of her every expression right on that dumb cow face. She was not in charge of him but thought she was, thought she always knew what was best for him.
Well, she didn’t. It was freezing cold and his phantom hand was throbbing and the whole of his body itched. Nothing in his body felt right and Brienne would never, ever ever ever understand what that felt like.
He got up. Found his phone. Not his regular phone, not the one Brienne checked every night to keep the temptation away, but the other one he hadn’t told her about, the burner he’d bought while she was at work. The one he’d stashed in a shoe in the back of the wardrobe. Only one number listed in the contacts.
Qyburn, he sent. Back in town, can be with you in 30. I need Cerseine.
He hesitated before hitting send, but only for a second.
He left the bedroom without a backward glance at Brienne. Took her car keys from where she’d hidden them in a jar in the kitchen cupboard and her wallet from where she’d hidden that behind the loose brick in the fireplace. She wasn’t anywhere near as smart as she thought she was.
He went outside to her car. It was a shitheap and deliberately so - she’d had a nice one but he’d sold it to get fucked up while she was at a work conference. It was a manual as well, but he could drive it if he held the wheel with his knee and stump while he shifted gears across his body. She didn’t know that.
He was about to get in when he heard the front door open behind him. There she was, in a long black bathrobe, face white and hair frizzed. He didn’t say anything. Opened the door of the car anyway.















