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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Graphic_Depictions_Of_Violence, Major_Character_Death, Rape/Non-Con,
      Underage
  Category:
      F/M
  Fandom:
      Homestuck
  Relationship:
      John_Egbert/Jade_Harley
  Character:
      John_Egbert, Jade_Harley, Dave_Strider, Terezi_Pyrope, Karkat_Vantas
  Stats:
      Published: 2017-11-12 Words: 2368
****** Long Live The King ******
by Athena413, More_Than_Four_Quadrants
Summary
     A horrible fanfic made by like 3 people.
Once upon a time, there was a gun.
The legends said this gun was not one that shot the body, but one that shot the
mind, being able to kill memories.
People pursued this myth for decades. They sought it, for reasons, unknown to
many.
The legends were false, it was litterally just a regular fucking gun. It shot
bullets.
But this story isn’t about the gun, it’s about the people who pursued it and
traversed the ancient dungeon where it was said to be guarded by vicious
monsters, one of these people was Dave Strider.
Dave, err, ‘persuaded’ the guards with his wicked sword. He sought it for one
reason, to forget about the past.
Dave then entered the next area of the dungeon, it was large, dark, and full of
small holes dug by indigenous creatures that lived there, in those holes, eggs.
Dave attempted to sneak by not to get caught, unfortunately, what he hadn’t
realized, was that the eggs were the creatures, so he was quite surprised when
they sprung to life and jumped at him.
Dave then stabbed one of the eggs, then dropkicked another egg. They were
overwhelming him, so he sped into the next room. He really needed the universal
specibus badge.
A bunch of the eggs had found a way through a hole above, and were about to
drop down on dabe
Dave, unaware, kept running for his goal.
Then he noticed the descending egg’s shadows.
Dave then muttered “shit”. He then stabbed one of the falling eggs, and kept
running for it.
Seeing one of the egg-bodies, Dabe noticed that the eggs has two penises.
“Ah, fuck me” he muttered as he ran into a dead end, of course, years of being
totally badass had taught him how to do sick parkour bro, so he ran up the wall
and did a backflip onto the egg swarm, killing most of the eggs.
Dave, however, left himself open. He was attacked by one of them. Recoiling
back, he pushed a egg to the ground, breaking the eggbone, and straight up, ran
THROUGH a wall.
An egg latched onto daves 100 percent smelly bum and stuck his two penises in
both Dave’s urethra and anus.
Dave then blacked out from the pain of having a fucking penis slammed into his
fucking penis, he woke up five minutes later bound and gagged in a weird throne
room looking place, with his penis removed.
Dave then just struggled fruitlessly. Outside, he could hear pistol fire.
However, he was currently in too much pain.
He then blacked out again, only to wake up again in another area, with an ache
in his anus, inside some prison looking area. The gunfire cannot be heard now.
Dave realized the dull ache in his anus was the only pain he could feel, and he
was glad for a second.
Then he remembered the implications of this and he wasn’t glad anymore.
“Oh hey, it’s a new fuckstick, who would have guessed.” then he realized he
wasn’t alone in his cell.
“Fucking great, now i have to deal with some fucking nookchafe human who thinks
he’s business”
His cellmate appeared to be a short troll with nubby horns, the sign of cancer
in grey on a black shirt, and a very pissed off atitude.
Dave then replied back with “So, who are you?”
“A PERSON WHO GOT CAUGHT BY THESE EGG THINGS.” the cellmate shouted.
“geez no need to be like that”
“Not sorry.”
A voice came from the hallway, obviously female “Hey, be quiet you two!” A
woman came into view. Wearing a black robe, round glasses, she revealed herself
to be Jade Harley.
“1 DON’T KNOW, 1 W4S 4CTU4LLY K1ND OF 3NJOY1NG TH3M B1CK3R1NG” Sad yet another
troll, this one with some shiny red shades and the libra sign on her shirt.
“Well, just be quiet.” Jade  said to the prisoners.
“well maybe if you tell us  why we’re here”
“TO F4C3 JUST1C3  FOR YOUR CR1M3S”
“what”
The pistol gunshots started again, closer this time, though. “Y34H, DON’T YOU
R3M3MB3R?” “no.” “YOU K1LL3D TH3 3GGS. D1DN’T YOU KNOW NOT TO K1LL TH3 3GGS?”
“Why in the everliving fuck would we not kill the eggs when they attacked us
first, besides, if you knew not to kill the eggs why are you here?” Dave
questioned
“TO OV3RS33 YOU FOR S4F3TY” Terezi answered
“whose’s safety” Dave questioned
“TH3 3GGS” Terezi replied
“Self defense.” Dave answered
“Oh, be quiet, prisoners.” Jade said
The Gunshots are getting louder.
“W3 SHOULD PROB4BLY GO
B3FOR3 W3R3 D34D”
“I agree.”
Footsteps are heard, gradually fading away. Meanwhile, the shots were getting
louder.
“Why, you three should be quiet, before you get puuunished!” Jade then turned
on the light. This revealed a dead Rose, naked, and drenched in cum. Dave
gagged.
“Oh my gog did these bitches just leave us here with some random bitches
corpse?” Karkat asked, in an exasperated fashion.
Dave mumbled something.
“Oh and what the fuck do you have to say” The troll questioned condescendingly.
“That was. My sister.” The Strider said quietly.
“Oh, fuck, uh, sorry dude”
“Anyways, we should probably find a way out.” Dave said.
“I AGREE, for once.” Karkat replied, before the lights went out, and the room
was drenched in red light.
“What just happened”
“Power outage. Someone’s breaking IN, or OUT.”
Gunshots and slicing could be heard. Either someone with a universal Specibi,
or two people were coming towards them.
Two guards, wearing similar clothes, dragged the body of a very mangled corpse.
It was a troll, for sure, but there wasn’t anything very identifiable in that
mess. He did know that he saw what might be 2 pairs of small, stubby horns, but
that was all.
Upon closer inspection, the guards were more like Janitors, taking out the
“trash”.
They threw the dead troll into Dave and Karkat’s cell and walked off whistling
an upbeat tune.
“So, uh, what do we do now? My sister’s dead, and we’re stuck in the garbage
depot.” Dave said.
“Break these cuffs?” Karkat said. In fact, he was already doing that. Atleast,
trying to.
The gunfire and slashing was getting louder. In fact, Karkat heard the sound of
laser blasts.
“don’t think that’s gonna work” Dave said.
“IT WILL WORK.” Karkat said, in a, rather loud/slient way. Footsteps got
louder, and the familar visage of Jade and Terezi appeared. Karkat hid his
withered cuffs.
“COM3 ON L3TS GO PR1SON3RS” Terezi said. The cell door opened, and Jade came in
with a rifle, pointing it at Karkat and Dave.
“Nice and easy. Get up, and follow me.”
Jade knocked both Karkat and Dave out with the butt of her rifle. When Dave
woke up, he was on one side of an arena, of sorts. Karkat was on the other,
just woken up. Jade overlooked the entire arena, and announced that the winner
would take on John Egbert in a one on one fight.
“Go.”
Dave froze up at the mention of John’s name, they’d gotten his best friend?
He’d heard that John had gone missing for months now and had been worried sick,
he’d never imagined that he’d ran off to the Dungeon, but it made sense.
“I told you to move!” Jade shouted, punching Dave in the back, pushing him
forward, he stumbled and tripped.
Jade took offense to that.
She aimed her rifle at the back of his head and shouted “I swear if you don’t
move i’m gonna fucking shoot you, 5”
she began counting out the seconds to Dave’s demise as he scrambled to get up,
and kept pushing him down.
“4”
“3”
“2”
“1”
She fired.
Dave looked up in astonishment, she’d missed? From this range?
Then he noticed the gun had been pushed off to the side, so it barely missed
him, and was wrapped in an ethereal blue glow.
“Now now, let’s not be so hasty dear Jade, we haven’t even made them fight to
the death yet”
And that was John.
In a red cape, his underpants, and an expensive looking crown with blue gems in
it.
And Jade had hastily apologized to him and called him king of the eggs.
What the fuck was going on
John then flew back to, somewhere. Where had he been hiding, all this time?
Dave was going to ask him that, then he flew away, leaving him dumbfounded.
Dave seemed, conflicted, as if he was about to ask Jade something. Then, he
decided, 'fuck it. One of us is going to leave this round alive.’ He steeled
his expression, and took out his sword.
Karkat did the same with his sickle. They were both in agreement. One of them
was going to leave this round alive.
Jade counted down again. When were these idiots going to move? She raised her
rifle.
“5.” Jade said. Dave gritted his teeth.
“4.” Jade said. Karkat got ready.
“3.” Jade said. Dave prepared to charge.
“2.” Jade said. Karkat got ready to charge.
“1.” Jade said, readying to fire at Dave, when suddenly, they both began to
move.
Both of them charged at each other, without even a word. Jade put her weapon
down. Dave went for a heavy sideslice, Karkat went for a light jump roll, slice
thing. They were getting close to each other now, almost in sword fight range.
Dave went for a slice. Karkat blocked that, and went for a stab. Dave then
jumped back, and lunged at Karkat. Karkat sidestepped it, and then sliced Dave
in the back, catching him off guard, inciting a burning cry of pain from Dave,
whose red shirt was bleeding red.. Enraged, Dave then went faster. He abused
time, and used Timeclones, 4 copies of himself went for a slice, a lunge, a
stab, and a headshot, while he went for a stab. Karkat, who didn’t have time to
even scream, was shish kebab’d instantly, in the chest, the arm, the head, and
the crotch. Blood oozed out of every wound. His body fell to the ground, in 4
pieces. The crowd went wild. A you win banner dropped in front of Dave, who was
currently using his sword to stand, while Karkat’s decapitated body parts then
were carted away. One audience member prepared to shoot Dave, then relented. He
sat back down, putting his rifle thing away. It was time for round 2. Dave got
ready to fight his childhood friend, John. Dave then realized, exactly just
what he needed to do. After all, it’s what he’d always do.
Jade, readying her rifle, aimed the gun at John.
“Five.”
“Four.”
“Three.”
“Two.”
“No.”
John looked up, sad.
“I’m not going to kill him.”
Jade lowered the rifle.
“Well, if that’s the case, I might as well enjoy you. Dave, you can walk around
or whatever while I do this. I’ll teleport you when I’m done.” Jade smirked,
then teleported her and John away, with Dave being teleported outside the
prison cells. Dave ignored Terezi’s words as he walked away.
Around 5 minutes of wandering later, and around 20 stern looks from guards,
Dave heard talking from Jade. He walked closer to the door, labeled “DO NOT
ENTER, QUEEN ONLY.”
“Well then, John. You made a mistake, doing that.”
“p-please, no”
Dave looked through a window, oddly placed, and saw Jade, naked, towering over
John, robes ripped up, laying on the ground. Jade began to crouch down.
“Too late, breath boy.”
John squirmed as Jade’s dog dick slithered its way into his anus. He obviously
didnt like it. Jade watched as John’s penis began to extend higher and higher.
She proceeded to take out a long, thin metal rod and push it down his urethra.
John cried out in pain and blacked out as the rod went in. Jade kept going,
until orgasming into a massive volcano of cum, rupturing his asshole. When jade
was done with him, John was dead. He had been fucked to death.
Dave was utterly enraged and disgusted by this.
So disgusted, in fact that a guard had decided to check up on him.
“Hey! You can’t do that, that’s only for the que-…” The egg guard trailed off
as he saw his king dead on the floor, queen standing over him.
And then the riot began.
Egg corpses were splattered all around, Jade was sporting a few injuries
herself and he was pretty sure Terezi died.
It wasn’t hard to get lost in the crowd.
Twenty-five minutes later and Dave had somehow found it.
The gun.
It came with a gunkind strife specibus actually.
It was a normal gun though, no mind powers or anything.
Dave took it anyway.
It was a revolver, seven shots.
He stashed it in his subspace storage.
He heard what sounded like someone opening a tear in spacetime.
“Hello there David” The queen said to the knight, he idly noted that she was
wearing the crown john had been wearing, the gems were black now.
He had a plan.
“I don’t see the gun anywhere, oh my, did you take it?” she giggled.
“It’s not like that puny thing will help you, I don’t need memories to know
when to kill a bitch”
He drew his sword.
“A sword, really Dave, is that the best you have? Such a shame”
She pointed her rifle at him.
“Well, it’s been fun knight, but i’m afraid you have to die now.”
He shot towards her.
She fired.
It hit him in the shoulder, his dominant arm, that would make things a bit
hard.
He lunged for her, sword held high.
Little did she know, the lunge ruse was a distaction.
She shot him next to the heart, barely missing any vital blood vessels, he shot
her in the head, right between the eyes.
He they landed in an awkward position, her laying on her back in the ground,
dead, him on top of her, barely in better condition.
She came all over him.
He let out a weak chuckle, took the crown off her head, and placed it on his.
The jewels changed to red rubies.
“Long live the king.” He said weakly.
And then he died.
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most beautiful girl in the Seven Kingdoms. Olenna, however, is not. Her
splotchy, white and grey hair has been pulled back into a single braid and she
hasn’t bothered to even fake a smile. Her saggy skin makes her look even more
angry than she probably is. Sansa takes her spot beside Margaery, and Cersei
glares at she sits down beside both Olenna and Sansa.
“Isn’t it lovely out today?” Margaery asks, and Sansa murmurs her assent. Then
she realizes that that isn’t a very kingly thing to do.
“Why yes, Lady Margaery,” She says, trying to amend her mistake, “the weather
is lovely today.”  
“I can feel the autumn winds rolling in,” Olenna grumbles, “it won’t be summer
much longer.”
“Grandmother,” Margaery says.
“Those Starks are right about one thing,” She says, sending Cersei a shit-
eating grin.
“And what is that?” Cersei asks, thinly veiled irritation and true anger in her
tone.
“Winter is coming,” she says, and Sansa laughs. She’s shocked to hear her house
words spoken here, and for some reason, it seems a natural reaction. Margaery
giggles too, a lilting, musical sound, and Sansa’s heart does a somersault.
Apparently, Cersei notices. The woman sends Margaery a thinly veiled glare, and
Olenna Tyrell puts on a smile so false Sansa could have seen through it at
Winterfell, before she learned how to read people the hard way.
Then, they make more awkward small talk, and Olenna sends toxic insults in all
directions. Sansa thinks that the queen of thorns might be too light a
nickname. Her thorns are toxic, and if Sansa had not grown a thicker skin, she
suspects that they would have broken it.
As they finish up dinner, Margaery Tyrell sends her a smile.
“You seem different today, your grace,” she says. Sansa’s heart stops beating
for a moment, certain that she’s been discovered.
“No,” Margaery says, almost soothingly, “it’s a good sort of different.”
“Perhaps you just bring out a different side of me,” Sansa says with an almost
cheeky grin. She’s seen the way that Margaery flirts with Joffrey, playing on
his ego, and perhaps she can play off of that.
“May we walk together, Lady Margaery?” she asks. She’s unsure if the tremble in
her voice is from fear of being discovered or from nerves brought on from
talking to Margaery. Cersei sends the both of them a glare.
“Why would you want to do that, your grace?” the queen asks with a saccharine
smile. Sansa can’t believe she was ever unable to see through the queen’s
façade.
“I would like to speak to my betrothed,” Sansa says. She thinks that Joffrey
would have sounded snippier, or perhaps he would have feigned more charm. It
would probably have depended on his mood that day.
Joffrey’s mother grits her teeth and glares at her as she says, “of course,
your grace.” Sansa knows how proper lords behave towards their betrotheds, so
she holds out an arm for Margaery to take. Margaery takes it, almost gladly,
and Sansa’s breath hitches. She’s not sure if her feelings for Margaery will
make this easier or harder.
 
They walk to the gardens, and Margaery talks about the weather and the castle
and mundanities as Sansa tries to listen attentively. Her heart beats in her
chest at a war horse’s speed, and when they finally arrive in the gardens Sansa
is almost as frightened as she was when she woke up. She doesn’t think that she
can pretend to be Joffrey much longer, much less do it effectively. People are
bound to realize that there is something strange about Joffrey acting
completely different at the same time Sansa Stark decides that she’s King of
the Seven Kingdoms. No one can be that blind.
The rate of her breathing increases, and as they walk through the gardens Sansa
feels as though she might suffocate right where she stands.
“Are you alright, your grace?” Margaery asks softly, sending her a concerned
look.
“Of course, my lady,” Sansa says, “I’m just feeling a bit under the weather
today.”
“At least the weather’s lovely today, though,” Margaery says. She sounds
confident, but Sansa can tell that she’s just trying to apply balm to the
awkward situation. Sansa understands.
“Yes,” Sansa says, her throat tight, “it is.” Sansa takes Margaery’s hand in
hers, and it feels surprisingly small. Sansa had almost forgotten that she had
Joffrey-sized hands. They walk for a bit longer, and though Sansa starts to
feel more comfortable, she doesn’t know what to say. Margaery has always been
kind to her, and she feels like she needs someone who knows who she really is,
but she knows that speaking things aloud is dangerous.
There are so many people that she cannot trust, but she wants to believe that
Margaery is not one of them. Margaery grasps her hand a little bit tighter, and
points to a rose bush on their right. The flowers are yellow with red edges.
“That rose symbolizes friendship falling into love,” Margaery says. Sansa’s
breath hitches.
“My mother said that those were the perfect roses for weddings,” Margaery says,
“because nobles never love their betrotheds when they wed. But they grow to.”
She sends Sansa a soft smile, and Sansa’s heart leaps in her chest.
Margaery’s hair curtains her face in tight, brown ringlets. Sansa gently
brushes it out of her face, behind her ear. She knows that Joffrey would never
have done something so tender, and she fears that she has given herself away.
Margaery sends her a look that’s almost knowing, and Sansa makes an impulsive
decision.
“Margaery,” she says, Joffrey’s voice little more than a whisper, “I’m not- I’m
not Joffrey.”
Margaery sends her a kind smile and says, “I know.”
“You know?” Sansa asks, her voice trembling so badly that it barely sounds like
Joffrey’s.
“Yes, Sansa,” she says, “I’m not blind. Perhaps if you were the only one acting
strangely, I could overlook it. But Sansa Stark going mad at the same time,
claiming to be Joffrey Baratheon? That isn’t a coincidence.”
“Do you think the others know?” she asks, daring not to think of what they’ll
do to her for impersonating the king.
“I think that Cersei suspects,” Margaery admits, “but there isn’t much she can
do. You’re the king, Joffrey or not.”
“But I’m not Joffrey,” Sansa says frantically, “I’m not the king.”
“You’ve got his body,” Margaery tells her, “it isn’t like they can prove you
aren’t him.”
“You won’t tell anyone,” Sansa asks, “will you?”
“Of course not,” Margaery says with a dazzling smile, “I’d much rather be wed
to you.” It feels as if an entire flock of butterflies takes flight inside
Sansa’s stomach. They walk through the gardens for the entire afternoon,
running beside the rose bushes, giggling like children and laughing while
guards trail them from a respectful distance. Being Joffrey provides her a
freedom that being Sansa cannot, and she appreciates it.
The sun starts to set, and Margaery decides that it is past time that she
returns to her family.
“Can we do this again tomorrow?” Sansa asks.
“Of course,” Margaery says, sending her a smile, “it’s only proper that we get
to know each other. We are betrothed, after all.” Margaery’s hair twirls
quickly as she leaves, and Sansa wonders if perhaps this is just some strange,
wonderful dream. She desperately hopes that it is not.
===============================================================================
 
 
The days pass, and Sansa keeps pretending to be Joffrey. Every day, the fear of
being discovered lessens a little. It is far from being completely gone, but
her heart no longer feels like it’s about to burst. She doesn’t feel like she
might be discovered for every little thing that she says, so she supposes that
is a step in the right direction.
 
Joffrey’s mother (her mother?) comes to visit her early that morning. She
knocks on the door, and Sansa rushes to answer it. She realizes, by the time
that she has it open that the real Joffrey would have taken his own sweet time
doing that. She doesn’t think that she’ll ever be able to perfectly mirror his
mannerisms. Sansa doubts if she’d want to.
“Hello, mother,” she says. Sansa does not even have a doublet on yet, and she
feels horribly naked, exposed. She’s still not comfortable with her flat,
muscled chest. Everything about this body feels wrong.
“I spoke to Sansa Stark yesterday,” Cersei says, “and I learned some
interesting things.” A chill passes through her, but Sansa tells herself to
stay calm. Just because her chest is exposed, that does not mean her identity
is.
“Like what, mother?” she asks.
“You aren’t Joff,” Cersei says, simply.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Sansa says. Cersei glares at her.
It’s a harsh, cold glare that would have withered Sansa only a few months ago.
Today, she knows that she has the higher ground.
“Mother,” she says, and she thinks that she sounds genuinely concerned, “are
you well?”
“You aren’t my son,” Cersei declares.
“Mother,” Sansa says, “you sound a little… unsound.”
“Somehow,” Cersei says, “you stole away my son’s body.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Sansa says emphatically. She doesn’t
know what Joffrey would say in this situation, or how he would say it. She’s
too afraid to put much thought into it.
“I’ll prove that you aren’t my son,” Cersei says, a mad, maniacal gleam in her
eye, “and after that, I’ll make you pay.”
“Mother-” Sansa says, but Cersei Lannister has turned away from her before she
can finish her sentence. Her blonde hair flows behind her like a lion’s mane,
and Sansa’s breath hitches in her throat. She’s once again afraid of Cersei
Lannister.
 
She sends a servant boy to ask Margaery to meet her in the gardens.
 
“Your grace,” Margaery says, sending her a smile and holding out her hand for
Sansa to kiss. Sansa does so quickly and in a perfunctory fashion, which puts a
worried look on Margaery’s face.
“Sansa,” She says softly, “is there something wrong?” Sansa glances around, and
sees that the guards are still far enough away that they will not hear their
lowered speech.
“Cersei knows,” Sansa says quickly and fearfully, “Cersei knows and I don’t
know what to do.”
“We’ll send her to Casterly Rock,” Margaery says, as though it’s the most
obvious solution in the world.
“How?” Sansa asks frantically, “how will we just send her away.” Cersei is the
queen, and Sansa’s just Sansa, just a little dove like Cersei always said.
“You’re the king, Sansa,” Margaery says, “you can do whatever you like.”
“Cersei’s the queen regent,” Sansa says, “I haven’t got that sort of power
until we wed.”
“Do you honestly think that anyone will believe Cersei over you?” Margaery
asks, raising her brown eyebrow, “especially when she’s spouting nonsense about
skinchanging witches and Sansa Stark?”
“But it’s the truth,” Sansa says.
“It doesn’t matter,” Margaery says, “you’re the king, and unless she can prove
it beyond a shadow of a doubt, Cersei will just be your crazy mother. The
people will see it as your civic duty to make sure that she is safe and out of
the way.”
“Do you really think that I have that sort of power?” Sansa asks softly,
fearfully. She’s been so powerless for so long; the thought of having the power
to send Cersei away is almost intoxicating.
“Joffrey had the power to kill one of the highest lords in the land,” Margaery
says, and Sansa shivers, “and have his daughter abused before all of court.
Joffrey certainly has the power to send his own mother away.” No matter how
many times Sansa reminds herself that she is Joffrey, that all of his power is
now hers, she never quite gets used to it. She squeezes Margaery’s hand.
“We can do this,” Sansa says, and Margaery squeezes right back.
===============================================================================
 
 
Sansa tries to steady her breathing as she marches over to Cersei’s chambers.
The door, surprisingly, is wide open. Sansa decides that she ought to just
enter. She feigns confidence and nonchalance as she waltzes into Cersei’s
chambers.
“I think that after the wedding,” Sansa says, remembering something that
Margaery had suggested a few days ago, “you should go to Casterly Rock.”
“You’ll send me away,” Cersei says, a mad sort of glimmer appearing in her
eyes, “but you can’t. You aren’t my son.” She grabs Sansa by the shoulders,
digging her fingernails into her soft flesh, “you aren’t my king.”
“Or maybe earlier,” she says, “oh mother, I’d hoped that we could wait until
after the wedding-”
“Shut up,” Cersei demands, “shut the fuck up-”
“Mother-” Sansa says, but the guards around them close in on them before she
can say anything else.
“Mother-” She says, but the guards around them close in on them before she can
say anything else.
“Your grace,” the guard says, but he says it to her, to Sansa, “what should I
do about your mother?” This guard, at least, believes her over Cersei. She
almost lets out a sigh of relief.
“Help her prepare her things for her journey,” she says, “but be gentle. She is
my mother still.” The knight nods his head in understanding, and Sansa feels
something like electricity course through her veins.
Margaery’s right; they can make this work. She, Sansa, can pretend to be
Joffrey, and she can steal the realm right from underneath the Lannisters. They
can rule the kingdom, and most of all, they can be together and safe. That’s
the only part that Sansa finds herself caring about.
===============================================================================
 

 The wedding comes to pass, and Sansa finds that she means the words the second
time that she says them. She desperately wants to be married to Margaery, even
if she has to do so under false pretenses.
 
Sansa has outgrown much of her love of frivolous things, and ensures that the
spending for the royal wedding remains in an almost reasonable range. They coat
the small, familial sept where they wed in Baratheon yellow and black, daring
anyone to question the legitimacy of any of it.
The septon proceeds over the short, intimate service, and then Sansa’s breath
hitches in excitement when the ceremony gets to the most important part. Sansa
clutches the bright yellow bride’s cloak, and then drapes it triumphantly
around her new wife.
 
They proceed to the great hall after the ceremony, and it is considerably less
small and intimate. Olenna insisted on inviting half of the Reach, and Cersei
had to invite certain people to maintain appearances. All that Sansa knows is
that this probably drained the Crown’s assets dry. She was never as good with
keeping books as her sister, but she knows that things like this cost large
amounts of gold.
It’s a good thing that the Lannisters are rolling in it. The Rains of
Castamere, Seasons of My Love, and Alysanne ring through the halls as the party
goers dance and dance to their heart’s content. The wall of the hall are coated
not only in black and yellow, but in Tyrell green and gold as well.
It looks tacky, almost garish. Sansa would never have approved of it when she
was younger. Now it’s a symbol of houses coming together, and Sansa can’t be
against that. Even if Joffrey is solely a Lannister, and she’s a Stark deep in
her heart, in all the ways that matter. But in the eyes of everyone else, this
marriage will be a  union between houses Baratheon and Tyrell, and she wants it
to look like that. All she wants is to keep the people and her bride happy.
Bride, wife, she still hasn’t gotten used to the idea of marrying a woman, of
being, for all intents and purposes, a man,  but she certainly wants to be
married to Margaery. Since Robb’s death, there’s never been anything that she’s
wanted more.
 
Tyrion Lannister, her former husband staggers over to her about halfway through
the feast.
“Hello, uncle,” she says, trying to put as much disdain in her voice as Joffrey
would have. She was unhappily married to the man, but she can’t manage even a
third of the poison that Joffrey could.
“Your grace,” he says. Sansa doesn’t know what to say, so she doesn’t say
anything at all. Tyrion takes this as an opportunity to continue talking.
“I gave my wife the loveliest dress for the evening,” Tyrion says, sending her
a knowing smile, “but she seemed to think that you’ve snatched up her body and
her bride.” Sansa knows her husband, at least well enough to know that tone of
voice. He knows that she is Sansa as well as Cersei did. He’s just better at
hiding it.
“They say that she’s mad,” Sansa says in a low tone of voice.
“Perhaps she is,” Tyrion says, and then he sends her a self-deprecating smile.
“And perhaps I am an unsatisfying husband, but maybe I could make a better
Hand,” he says. There’s a bit of a bite to his words, but they’re wise. He’s an
ambitious man, and she can see the play that he’s making here.
“Perhaps when there is an opening, uncle,” Sansa says, “we can discuss it.”
Tyrion sends her a look half full of awe and half full of loathing.
“Of course, your grace,” he says. The rest of the feast passes uneventfully,
and soon enough the drunken revellers are chanting for the bedding. The men
grab hold of Margaery, and hoist her on their shoulders as the women usher
Sansa towards her chambers. This is not the way that a young Sansa imagined her
wedding would be, but it is so much better than the first one she got.
The men shove Margaery, half naked now, into the room and the ladies giggle as
they push Sansa in after her.
“Hello, husband,” Margaery says, and Sansa turns red. She never thought that
she’d be someone’s husband. Sansa bites her lip as she sits down on the bed,
naked as the day she was born. Of course, her body isn’t at all like the one
she had when she came into the world. This one has a few different parts, and
the one between her legs is reacting quite strongly to the way that Margaery
looks as she slowly removes her gown.
“Do you like the view?” Margaery asks with a tiny little smirk. Sansa feels her
face flush, and turns away.
“Don’t be embarrassed,” Margaery says, placing a hand under Sansa’s chin and
looking deep into her eyes.
“We’re wed now,” she says, “you can look all you like.”
“Did Renly?” Sansa asks, and she’s suddenly jealous. She doesn’t want to
imagine anyone other than herself seeing Margaery like this.
“No,” Margaery tells her with a hint of a smile, “Renly was too busy looking at
my brother.”
“Wait, Loras?” Sansa asks, “Loras and Renly were-”
“Yes,” Margaery says, “it was highly scandalous. A bit like us, really.”
“If I wouldn’t have swapped bodies with Joffrey,” Sansa says tentatively,
“would you have still wanted- wanted this- with me?”
“Sweetling,” Margaery says as she sits down on her knees, dangerously close to
her erection, ““I wish that we could have done this when you had your body. I
much prefered yours to this one.”
Margaery pushes Sansa back onto the mattress, and bites her lip. Sansa looks up
at her, Margaery’s hair falling around her face like rain. She looks gorgeous,
entrancing even. Sansa knows what her body wants, and she doesn’t think that
she’ll ever want anyone else.
“Kiss me,” Sansa whispers.
“As my king commands,” Margaery drawls, and Sansa almost giggles before
Margaery’s lips meet her own. They move in beautiful harmony, and soon Margaery
guides Sansa’s cock deep within her wet slit over Sansa’s cock. Sansa lets out
a moan into the other girl’s mouth as she thrusts her hips harder into the
other girl.
“This will do, though,” Margaery says as leans in to kiss her. The response in
Sansa’s crotch is immediate and obvious, and she kisses her wife solidly on the
mouth.
Wife, she thinks giddily, Margaery’s my wife. Sansa could really get used to
that.
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Sansa sits, almost comfortably upon the Iron Throne. The ladies of the court
mill about in their vibrant silk dresses and extravagant hair styles as dirty,
sad looking smallfolk petition their problems before her. She tries to make
sure that every man, woman and child leaves with their problems solved, but
it’s not always easy. There are far more smallfolk in King’s Landing than there
are nobles.
After the woman with the matted hair and the missing teeth leaves the center of
the floor, she’s replaced by a girl with flowing, auburn hair and bright blue
eyes. It strikes Sansa that the face is her own.
“Your grace,” she says, her voice steely, mocking, “I don’t think that throne
belongs to you.” Sansa doesn’t think that she could speak if she tried. She
sends a frightened look over to the guards, but they’re just laughing. The gold
cloaks are laughing, and Sansa almost allows herself to feel relieved.
She looks back to where her body stood, but she’s suddenly gone. Standing in
the place of her body is Joffrey’s body, smirking at her and laughing harshly
in turn. Sansa feels hair curtaining her face, and grabs a lock, bringing it
quickly towards her face to examine.
It’s auburn and soft, and it’s the same hair that she had before she stole
Joffrey’s body. Adrenaline courses through her veins. She looks to Joffrey
again, and notices that he isn’t alone. Margaery has her arms wrapped around
Joffrey and is smiling at him with a look of love and longing and Sansa’s blood
turns cold. Joffrey kisses her passionately on the lips, but breaks it soon
enough to come over to Sansa.
She’s frozen to the Iron Throne as he swaggers over, clad in finery and a
devious smirk, like the one he wore when he killed her as a cat. He has murder
in his eyes again now, and Sansa feels her blood turn cold.
“I’ll teach you to steal my throne,” he says, in his own voice now, “to steal
my life-” Sansa tries to back up into the throne, and ends up cutting her back
on the blunt knives. He closes in on her, and soon he’s right in front of the
throne.
“I will make you pay,” he hisses, glaring at her and grabbing her harshly by
the throat. She lets out a high-pitched, feminine scream as the scene changes.
Suddenly, Sansa is being escorted to the steps of Great Sept of Baelor. A cold,
terrified feeling falls over her as she remembers the last time that she was
here. This is where they took off her father’s head.
Sansa screams and flails about in the arms of the gold cloaks, but she cannot
escape. She spots the headsman and then she spots Ice. She can see Joffrey
grinning at her, and Margaery draping herself around him. And she sees Cersei
glaring at her with eyes that say she deserves what she’s getting. The guards
force her to her knees, and the headsman closes the gap between them.
He does not say anything, does not afford her last words or courtesies the way
that her father would have.
“Please,” she says, “Margaery, please.” But her wife says nothing, and Sansa
can hear the sword cut through the air. She wonders, idly, what it will feel
like as it slices through her neck.
 
Sansa screams as she wakes. She clutches the covers, and clutches her wife as
she slowly realizes that the entire scene was a dream. Margaery awakens, and
she sends Sansa a concerned look.
“Sansa,” she says, pulling the girl into a hug, “Sansa, are you alright?”
“I had a nightmare,” she says softly. She realizes the moment that she says it
that it sounds ridiculous. Sansa can barely see Margaery in the darkness, but
she has a concerned look written clearly across her face.
“It’s alright,” Margaery says in a soothing voice, “you’re safe now.” But the
dream rests in the forefront of her mind, the dream where Sansa lost this body,
her power, and even Margaery, and she isn’t so sure.
“I dreamt that Joffrey got his body back,” Sansa says, her voice barely above a
whisper, “and that they had me executed.” She does not mention that Margaery
went back to Joffrey, and she doesn’t think that she ever should.
“You’ve still got his body,” Margaery says, “no one can have you executed.”
Margaery cups her cheek softly, and presses a kiss to her lips.
“Marg-”
“You’re alright, sweet,” she says, and Sansa wants to believe it. But she’s
still so frightened that she doesn’t think she can. Sansa sits up on the large,
feather bed and cradles her head in her hands.
“What if they find out that I’m not him?” Sansa asks, her voice cracking with
the grief and horror of it all. Margaery sits up beside her, and wraps her arm
around her in a small embrace.
“How could they?” Margaery asks softly, soothingly, “you’ve been in his body
for months and no one but me, Cersei and Tyrion has figured it out. Not even
lord Tywin suspects!”
“But if he found out that I impersonated the king,” Sansa says, “that’s a
felony. That’s the sort of thing they take your head off for or- or”
“You are the king,” Margaery tells her, her voice firm and unyielding,
“totally, by all rights. There’s no Cersei to stand in your way, Tyrion thinks
you a better king anyways, and Lord Tywin seems to think that Joffrey simply
matured.”
“Marg-”
“You have the unyielding support of House Tyrell,” Margaery promises, placing a
soft, comforting hand on Sansa’s cheek.
“Marg,” Sansa says, her voice cracking, “I-I’m-”
“You are safe, Sansa,” Margaery asserts, sending Sansa a soft, reassuring
smile.
“No, Margaery,” Sansa says, “I’m not- I can’t be.” No matter how many times she
signs her name Joffrey Baratheon I, she’ll always be Sansa Stark. And being
Sansa Stark has been a dangerous thing for both her and Joffrey as of late.
“Go see him,” Margaery tells her.
“What?” Sansa asks.
“Joffrey,” Margaery says, “Or Sansa. Whatever you’d prefer to call him.”
“Marg,” Sansa says, “I don’t think that I can.”
“It will give you some semblance of closure,” she says, “of safety.”
“I don’t know,” Sansa says, but Margaery rolls her over and crawls on top of
her.
“Give it a try,” she says, placing a kiss to Sansa’s jaw. Sansa thinks about it
for a moment, but soon enough she’s thinking a lot more about Margaery than
anything else.
“I think that I will go to see him,” Sansa says.
“But Marg?” she asks.
“Yes Sansa?” her wife asks.
“I,” she says, “I don’t think that he should stay here.” She pauses a moment
before she works up the courage to add, ““I think that we should send him to
Casterly Rock as well.”
Her wife sends her a sly grin, and says, “I like the way that you think.” Sansa
thought of it less as a genius, political move and more as self preservation,
but she does not challenge her wife’s view. She likes it when Margaery smiles
that way at her, even if that’s the way that’s the way that she looked at
Joffrey in Sansa’s dream.
 
She takes a deep breath, and opens the door to her former chambers. She has
never really seen herself, or her body, at least. She’s seen her reflection in
puddles and in the cloudy looking glass her parents gave her for her ninth name
day, but it’s always been hazy or incomplete. She doubts if she would have
looked quite the same way in her body that Joffrey does, though. He looks an
absolute wreck. He clearly has no idea how to care for the long, russet hair
and has not let his handmaidens assist him. The hair has become a bramble bush
upon his head, and he has curled up in a small, angry ball on top of the bed.
He has not changed dresses in a few days if the angry looking rips and tears
indicate anything, as well as the dirt and stains she thinks might be blood.
“Sansa,” she says in his voice, and he lifts his head from its cradle on top of
his two legs.
“You,” he hisses, in her voice. Her own river blue eyes stare back icily at her
as he rises from the bed.
“Sansa,” she says, “I think that you are confused.” He lunges towards her and
digs his long, unkempt fingernails into her doublet, nearly tearing the soft
fabric.
“You stole my life from me,” he says, anger and grief and frustration flooding
into his words. Joffrey Baratheon is a boy who has never been in a position of
weakness, and he’s terrified now. He’s terrified, and has no idea how to
navigate his landscape. This time, Joffrey is at her mercy. She almost feels
sorry for him.
“Sansa,” she says, and she has to remember the story she and Margaery had
prepared, “they said that you had gone mad, but I almost didn’t believe it.”
“I am Joffrey Baratheon,” he growls, and she wonders if she ever sounded this
angry, if her voice ever went so low when she was using it, “and you are a
pretender-”
“You are Sansa Lannister,” she says, though the words feel like bile on her
tongue, “wed to my uncle a few months ago. You are the daughter of the traitor,
Ned Stark.”
“No,” he growls, “you- you can’t do this to me!” She places an almost soothing
hand over his smaller one. She’d almost forgotten how long and slender her
fingers were.
“You’re going to Casterly Rock to recover,” he says, “clearly, some sort of
mental trauma has brought on this madness.”
“I’m not ill,” he asserts, turning to the guards, “I- I’m the king. I’m in the
wrong body. I’m not Sansa bloody Stark.” The guard looks completely unfazed.
“I’m not,” he says, tears breaking through her eyes, “I’m not her.”
“I’m Joffrey,” he says softly, the voice cracking on the words.
Sansa turns to her guards, and says, “Get her ready.” The gold cloak nods her
way. Sansa turns away from the man inside her body.
“Don’t fucking walk away from me!” he yells. The words sound as though they’ve
come from the depths of his soul. Sansa doesn’t think that she ever shouted
that loudly when she had that voice.
“I’m the king!” he shouts, her own voice ringing in her ears. They were
Joffrey’s last resort, but they won’t do him any good. Sansa is the king now,
and she will send him far away. She won’t let her dream come true, no matter
the cost.
 
She lets the door close behind her, and wonders if perhaps what she’s doing
isn’t as bad as what Joffrey did.
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Months pass, and all of the threats to Sansa’s position disappear. Then,
Margaery gives her the most exciting possible news.
“Sansa,” Margaery says, “we’re going to have a baby.”
“Do you think,” Sansa says softly, “do you think that we could give it a Stark
name?”
“Sansa,” she says, “you know that we can’t do that. Joffrey has no reason to
name his child after a Stark-”
“But what about Catelyn,” Sansa says, and her voice cracks on the name. She’s
lost her entire family, and never been properly allowed to mourn them. Now she
knows that she can’t even honor them. The tears are prickling at her eyelashes,
threatening to fall, but she turns away from her wife. She’s not ready for the
other woman to see her cry.
“Sansa,” she says, “you know as well as I do that we can’t do that. The baby
needs a Baratheon name, or perhaps a Lannister one.” Sansa doesn’t say anything
as Margaery gives her speech about the political value of names.
“Perhaps Joanna for a girl,” Margaery says lightly, almost blithely, “it’s a
lovely, Lannister name and it would please lord Tywin.”
For all intents and purposes, Sansa is the king of the Seven Kingdoms. But it’s
things like this, like the fact that she cannot name her own children after her
dead loved ones that remind Sansa that no matter how often she plays the king,
she isn’t truly. She rules through Joffrey’s body and titles, and if she were
ever to lose those things, she’d lose all of her power along with it. She
wonders what Margaery would do if that were the case. She remembers the image
from her dream, and pushes it aside.
Joffrey Baratheon is no threat to her anymore.
“Sansa?” Margaery asks, pulling her out of her thoughts, “what do you think?”
“No,” Sansa says, taking a stand in her mind, “I can’t- I won’t name my child
after a Lannister.” Margaery sends her a quizzical look, but decides against
arguing the point.
“Alright,” she says, “that leaves Baratheon and Tyrell names.”
“What about Robert?” Sansa asks.
“Robert?” Margaery asks, “why would you ever want to name the babe after him?”
“Then we could call him Robb,” Sansa says with a sad, bitter sort of smile. She
doesn’t know what sort of a king Robb was and would have been, but she knows
that he would have been better than Joffrey. She thinks that he would have been
better than her, too.
“Sansa-” Margaery starts to say, but Sansa cuts her off.
“What good is being king if I can’t even name my children what I want?” Sansa
asks. Margaery sends her a sympathetic look.
“Tell me about your family,” she says.
“Why?” Sansa asks. Margaery already knows what happened to them. Why should
Sansa relive the horror in order to rehash that?
“It isn’t healthy to bottle up all of your emotions,” Margaery says, and she
sounds as though she speaks from experience.
Suddenly, Sansa’s telling stories about Winterfell.
Everything from the time that Robb and Jon scarred them in the crypts to her
mother brushing her hair to Arya and Bran pelting her with snowballs. She tells
her of giggling with Jeyne Poole over village boys and about how she carried
Rickon around like a doll for a solid month. She tells her about what a fine
lord her father was and why he always performed his own executions.
“Northerners believe that the person who passes the sentence should swing the
sword,” Sansa says, and even as she says the words she realizes how much she
misses the North. She misses her culture and the cold and Winterfell, but most
of all, she misses her family.
“I never realized how lucky I had it,” Sansa says, “because I was too busy
looking forward to traveling South and becoming a great lady.” Margaery
actually laughs at that, hearty sounding laughter straight from her belly.
“I bet you never dreamt you would become the king,” Margaery says with a grin.
“No,” Sansa says, wiping away the last of her tears and sending Margaery a
ghost of a smile, “and I never thought that I’d get to wed a lovely lady
either.”
“Somehow you got very lucky,” Margaery says with an arrogance so thick Sansa’s
sure it’s feigned. She thinks about it for a moment, and decides that
Margaery’s not entirely wrong. She’s had a lot of shitty luck in her life, but
switching bodies with Joffrey and wedding Margaery are among the greatest
things that ever happened to her. She grabs her wife’s hand, and they sit in
silence for a few minutes.
“On the topic of names,” Margaery says softly, with the ghost of a smile on her
lips.
“Alright,” Sansa agrees, though she’s not particularly happy about it, “no
Stark or Tully names. But no Lannister names either.”
 
Margaery finds a book with the family tree of House Baratheon. The book is a
deep black leather, with beautiful, golden writing and a stag on the front. She
keeps digging, and eventually finds another with the family tree of House
Tyrell.  It’s a soft, grassy green with a swirling, golden rose drawn on the
front. Sansa takes a deep breath, and tries to remind herself that the babe
must have a name, and it can’t be one she would really want. There must be a
name that Sansa likes within one of the two.
 
“Garret Tyrell,” Margaery says, “wed Anya Tarley. The two had Luthor, Gormon,
Garth, and Moryn Tyrell.”
“Anya?” Sansa asks, her heart stopping in her chest.
“Yes,” Margaery says, sounding a bit concerned about her wife’s behavior, “my
great grandmother’s name was Anya.” She doesn’t seem to understand why in the
world this would be important.
“If the babe is a girl,” Sansa says, softly , “I’d like to name her Anya.”
Margaery’s face softens, and Sansa suspects that she knows the reason.
“Anya Baratheon sounds a lovely name,” she says, “now we just need to find a
name for a boy. Preferably a Baratheon name.”
 
They start flipping through the old, tattered pages of the Baratheon book,
starting with the most recent page.
Margaery says, “I suppose that we wouldn’t want to name the babe Stannis, and
Renly is probably off the table as well.” Sansa sends her a ghost of a grin.
Margaery always knows how to make her smile, even when she feels terrible.
“Ormund Baratheon wed Rhaelle Targaryen. The two had Steffon, and Shireen
Baratheon.” Sansa shakes her head, and then Margaery goes further up the family
tree.
“Paxton Baratheon wed Alysanne Tarth. The two had Ormund, Yorrick and Robert
Baratheon.” Sansa shakes her head again, because they’ve already decided that
Robert is not an option and all of the rest of the boys’ names sounded hideous.
“Stannis Baratheon wed Leonette Penrose and had Paxton, Edric and Jon
Baratheon.”
“Either Edric or Jon,” Sansa says firmly.
“Sansa,” Margaery tells her, “we couldn’t call an Edric Ned.” Sansa wants to
cry, but she fakes a smile instead. Margaery can see right through her facade.
“I’m sorry, Sansa,” she tells her, sounding completely sincere.
“It’s alright,” she says, “Jon will work, right?”
“Yes,” Margaery says, “I think that Jon will. It will increase our ties with
the Vale, and it’s a common enough name there’s no way anyone make the
connection.” Sansa breaths a sigh of relief and she squeezes her wife’s hand.
She’ll have a daughter named Anya and a son named Jon. It isn’t the perfect way
to honor them, but it’s the best that she can manage. Jon and Anya Baratheon,
she supposes that it’s only fair. She was never good enough for either of them,
at least she can do her best by them in this one, small way.
 
Meetings of the small council are long, boring, and unpleasant. The old
Joffrey, the one that wasn’t Sansa masquerading around in his body, would never
have attended his own meetings. The new Joffrey, the one that is really Sansa
Stark, forces herself to attend every single meeting even though she abhors
them.
“Roose Bolton holds Winterfell,” Tywin says, “and will hopefully levy the rest
of Stark’s old bannermen to our cause. Away from Stannis.”
“Roose Bolton?” Sansa asks, knowing full well the answer to her own question,
“wasn’t he a Stark bannerman?”
“Yes,” Tywin says, “but we promised him the position of Warden of the North-”
“For betraying the Starks?” Sansa asks, hoping that the sheer rage she feels
doesn’t seep into her words. No matter what, she doesn’t want to ally with
people that betrayed her family. She doesn’t think she could stomach it.
“Of course, your grace,” Lord Tywin says, though he sounds a bit more like he’s
talking to a small child than to his king, “it was part of the agreement made
before the Red Wedding.” Sansa has heard of he Red Weddig. She knows that it’s
where her mother and brother died, but she doesn’t know the gritty, morbid
details. She’s not sure that she wants them.
“The Boltons betrayed the Starks,” Sansa says firmly, “how do we know that they
won’t turn on us?” She hopes that she sounds sensible, and unbiased, because
she doesn’t feel that way at all right now.
“Roose Bolton is Warden of the North, with a betrothal for his son to Arya
Stark,” Pycelle says, “how much higher could he aim?” Sansa’s blood goes cold.
“I agree with His Grace,” Tyrion says, “though I don’t think we should back out
of our deal altogether. We need to keep a close eye on the Boltons.”
“How could he have a betrothal to Arya Stark,” she says, “we don’t have Arya
Stark.” There’s a hint of doubt in the back of her mind, hope that her sister
might be alive but fear that they’ll use her as a pawn. She’s not sure which
feeling is stronger.
“Of course not,” Tywin says dismissively, “the girl is fake, but the power the
marriage will have is real. If the people think the girl is Arya Stark, then
she is.” Sansa lets out a breath that she thinks is relieved.
“I still don’t think that we should ally with the Boltons,” Sansa says firmly.
These men should listen to her. She’s king of the Seven Kingdoms, that should
count for something.
“We already have, your grace,” Tywin grits out, “unless, you’d prefer we have
no allies in the North.” In many ways, she would prefer that. There’s still a
part of her that wants the see the Lannisters fail. If she weren’t their king
now, she would still be actively rooting against the Lannisters.
“They aren’t trustworthy,” she says. She doesn’t trust the Boltons, and she
doesn’t think that anyone should. She’s heard enough stories about Roose’s
bastard to give her nightmares for years.
“There is not a trustworthy house in the realm, your grace,” Tywin says, “we
simply have to ensure that they remain loyal to the crown.”
“I will not maintain a bargain with the Boltons,” Sansa asserts. She sounds
surprisingly fierce and sure of herself when speaking in Joffrey’s voice.
“I am your Hand, your grace,” Tywin says, icily, “and I am advising you to
maintain your alliance with the Boltons. It is the only way to ensure our hold
over the North. But if you would like to burn your legacy to the ground and
forfeit the crown to Stannis, be my guest. But you will do it without House
Lannister.” She glares, but she says nothing. She is not as well-versed in
military politics as her brother was, but she understands that without the
support of House Lannister she cannot hold the throne.
“Thank you, grandfather,” she says between gritted teeth, “I suppose we will
have to make do with the Boltons.”
 
Sansa holds her small daughter in her arms. She looks every bit a Tyrell,
except for the bright blue eyes staring back at her that Sansa hopes will turn
brown with time. Her daughter came into the world kicking and screaming, just
like Catelyn always said that Arya did. Sansa supposes that it’s appropriate.
Once she cradles her infant daughter in her arms the girl settles down. 

A new, protective and joyful feeling awakens inside of Sansa as she gazes down
at her daughter. The child is not of her body, not of her blood, but she is
hers in all the ways that matter. Anya is the child of her wife, and Sansa will
raise her with as much love as any person can give a child. That is all that
matters.
“Anya,” she says, softly cradling her daughter in her arms.
“She’s wonderful,” Sansa says, staring down at her small child.
“She is,” Margaery says, “but we’ll need to try again.” Sansa sighs, but she
knows that her wife is right. She wants a daughter, but she needs a son.
Princess Anya Baratheon will grow up loved, wealthy, and royal, but she will
not grow up heir.
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Seventeen months later, another baby is born to the royal couple. Jon Baratheon
comes silently into the world, as quietly as his sister came loudly. He has a
pinched, pink face and no hair at all. Sansa hopes to all the gods that it
comes in chocolate brown, like Margaery’s. She doesn’t know if she will get
lucky twice, though. She might eventually end up with a child that looks back
at her with Joffrey’s eyes, Joffrey’s hair, and Joffrey’s face. She prays to
whatever gods might exist that she never gets one with a soul as sadistic and
dirty.
Sansa runs a soft, comforting hand over baby Jon’s head. She won’t let him
become like Joffrey, not if she has any say in anything. She’s the king of the
Seven Kingdoms. She should at least be able to prevent her son from becoming a
monster.
 
Sansa and Margaery (her wife, her queen, her everything) present their son to
the people of King’s Landing a few weeks later. Sansa almost feels comfortable,
content. Her paranoia about the possibility of being found out has started to
fade. Cersei and Joffrey are at Casterly Rock, the Realm is relatively secure,
and Sansa has an heir. She hasn’t felt this safe since she left Winterfell.
 
She can never have her family again, or her name, or her body, but she supposes
this is the second best thing. She’s rid of Joffrey, and is the most powerful
person in the land. She has a wonderful wife, and two children that she adores.
Jon babbles a little, and the drool drips down his chin. Sansa wonders how
people look at babies and see future kings and queens, lords and ladies. She
only sees her son.
 
“Come on, your grace,” Margaery says, playfully, “your people await.” Sansa
laughs a bit at that, and she and Margaery walk out onto the balcony. She waves
to the cheering small folk as her wife cradles the baby.
Margaery holds their son, their heir in her arms as the smallfolk scream and
cheer. The applause swells into a wall of beautiful, enthusiastic praise and
Sansa holds her hands up in the air. Margaery smiles at her, and smiles at
their babe as the world screams for them.
This-, Sansa thinks dizzily, this is what victory feels like.
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