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A Love Story by ozmissage (R)
Fandom: A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE
Characters: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth
Length: 2300 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ozmissage
Author website: Fic masterlist.
Why this must be read: Jaime and Brienne’s love story is a gender-inverted fairy tale at the end of the world. Only Jaime Lannister can hold onto to his romantic notions as a zombie (ok, a White Walker) apocalypse comes down around his ears, and it makes for a fic which is loving and poignant and desperate and beautifully in-character.
This is what Jaime remembers of that fateful day in the Riverlands:
She saved his life with sword in hand, his champion and defender in a battle that left her bloody and marked with still more scars. She was still standing when the blades finally stopped their singing, the last golden rays of the sun setting in the distance glinted off her armor as she stood before him, her blade dripping red on the snow. In that moment, he knew he had never seen a truer knight, and never would see one truer than her for as long as he should live, but those are not the words he said to Brienne of Tarth.
“As the maiden in this song, I suppose I owe you a kiss,” Jaime said. “Although, I must warn you, my lady, I am not a maiden of the virtuous sort.”
“No kiss is required, sir,” Brienne replied without a hint of playfulness in her tone.
He kissed her all the same. One hand slipped through her snow and sweat damp hair to pull her face to his. Her body tensed at first, her lips maddeningly unyielding, but then they parted for his tongue, and inexperienced though his maid was, the gods know she tasted sweet.
Jaime remembers this. He remembers it for the both of them. Then he tells it to Brienne as if it were a tale, changing their names so as not to confuse her any further.
A Love Story (NB: You have to join the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
got_exchange community to see this fic, but it’s open membership).
Characters: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth
Length: 2300 words
Author on LJ:
ozmissageAuthor website: Fic masterlist.
Why this must be read: Jaime and Brienne’s love story is a gender-inverted fairy tale at the end of the world. Only Jaime Lannister can hold onto to his romantic notions as a zombie (ok, a White Walker) apocalypse comes down around his ears, and it makes for a fic which is loving and poignant and desperate and beautifully in-character.
This is what Jaime remembers of that fateful day in the Riverlands:
She saved his life with sword in hand, his champion and defender in a battle that left her bloody and marked with still more scars. She was still standing when the blades finally stopped their singing, the last golden rays of the sun setting in the distance glinted off her armor as she stood before him, her blade dripping red on the snow. In that moment, he knew he had never seen a truer knight, and never would see one truer than her for as long as he should live, but those are not the words he said to Brienne of Tarth.
“As the maiden in this song, I suppose I owe you a kiss,” Jaime said. “Although, I must warn you, my lady, I am not a maiden of the virtuous sort.”
“No kiss is required, sir,” Brienne replied without a hint of playfulness in her tone.
He kissed her all the same. One hand slipped through her snow and sweat damp hair to pull her face to his. Her body tensed at first, her lips maddeningly unyielding, but then they parted for his tongue, and inexperienced though his maid was, the gods know she tasted sweet.
Jaime remembers this. He remembers it for the both of them. Then he tells it to Brienne as if it were a tale, changing their names so as not to confuse her any further.
A Love Story (NB: You have to join the
got_exchange community to see this fic, but it’s open membership).