she quiets for a moment, contemplation writ between her brows before she sighs, soft – sweet and airy. “ aloneness does not always beget a lack of formality, i – would you prefer i call you something else? ”
hand raises, palm poised flat as if urging silence - it's far from the case, however, which becomes quite apparent with the idle soften of features. " there is no need for such formality. we are alone, after all. "
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Hannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton in BRIDGERTON (Season 3)
" is your mom here ? " a sharp turn of her head , gaze shifting along countless other airline passengers , attempting to find one that shares any sort of resemblance to him before coming up short & shrugging her shoulders. instead she shifts closer , still intending for him to pick up her carry - on , while her own hand drifts down to interlace their fingers together. " you're cute , don't worry , i won't tell your mom all the bad things i'm gonna convince you to do. "
“ i mean . . . . it felt like it , but maybe i’m just being dramatic. “ there was alot of things i wanted to say , yet i didn’t want to come across as 𝗧𝗢𝗢 𝗘𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗥. she definitely was confident , so confident that i was shocked at how she wanted me to touch her that fast. [ NOT THAT I WOULD BE COMPLAINING ] , but it was also our first time meeting in person. maybe that could be 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒅 for later. “ if my mom found i was grabbing your ass this quick , she’d smack me upside the head. HOWEVER - i’m not gonna say it won’t be out the question later if the night goes well. “
i really need to do my carrd, i REALLY need to do my carrd
she should not have spoken, a fact that rings so painfully within her temples as she watches his attention turn to her – as she watches eyes that had forgotten about her flicker back with life at remembrance of her in the corner. it was a mistake she made often enough now, the reminder that as a bastard she was meant to be not seen nor heard, whereas the position she'd been so used to had been anything but; a lady of her standing was used to being present and in center, used to having eyes upon her . . . sansa would've given anything to slink back into the shadow of the corner of the chamber now, back into the forgottenness of her seat, to where littlefinger had told her to play her role as little mouse to listen and little else.
“ father does not wish for me to sit with you. ” she replies coolly, placid as her gaze shifts back to her embroidery. it was easier to not look at him, to not acknowledge features that held a sickening familiarity she could not explain – looking at him made her think of robb. of bran and rickon. in her trailing thoughts, she forgets the placement of her needle; forgets that which her hands know better than all else, and before sansa can stop it from happening, her needle plunges into the soft flesh of her index finger.
embroidery clatters to the floor as if it's bitten her, metal sticking from porcelain digit, before she plucks it out and sticks the pad between her lips, brows wrought together. a shake of her head, a moment – or is it several? before sansa, no, alayne, lifts blue eyes to meet maron's once more. “ my opinions hold no weight here, they are as useful as the difference between whether you choose to do something based off of your indiscrimination or your indifference, lord greyjoy. which is to say . . . not at all. ”
she shifts up from her seat, stretching long legs from where they'd been tucked so gracefully underneath her as she stands to full height before bending just as carefully to retrieve her embroidery. with it in hand once again, she sits down in the chair petyr had previously occupied. “ what has he promised you? ” no fineries, no sweet, simpering smile; she doesn't play that game anymore. “ in his letters to get you here, what deal has he offered that you found so entrancing to brave the probability that he would not simply have you thrown from the moon door? ”
HE SHOULDN'T BE HERE . far removed from all he knows and all he's comfortable with , strangely in the hands of a man he knew not to trust . what had driven him to answer Baelish's invitation , the young Salt Prince couldn't say anymore . curiosity , perhaps . the scent of a chance he'd be stupid not to take ; the scent of an offer he might benefit from . home was far behind him , usurped and out of reach , and allies were few and far between . . . and while he only vaguely remembered the man from the few times Stannis had brought him to court , he knew better than to underestimate Littlefinger . a man with a liar's tongue and the morals of a sewer rat didn't survive in the world without cleverness . and it was the clever people , one shouldn't insult .
all the way through the long and daunting conversations , he had shoved the notion from his head that nothing but thin air lay below his feet for miles upon miles . he had swallowed the unease and erased the memory of his fall , down , down into the abyss the day Robert Baratheon had laid siege to Pyke and life as he knew it had ended . to say the Eyrie unnerved him would be an understatement . and still , the Greyjoy sat , apparently calm , listening , conversing . . . breathing a sigh of relief at Baelish's laughter to his last statement and the view of his back leaving the room , to find a servant . more wine . more food . more everything .
what he had not expected , was a voice piping up from a corner of the room he had almost forgotten about .
quiet , busy with her work until now , he had initially noticed her and still looked somewhat surprised to eventually hear her speak . the name had slipped his mind , but her connection to Littlefinger had not . and that , perhaps had been the most surprising aspect of it all . brows arched , his bright , ocean - blue eyes settling on her petite form in a way most would describe as unsettling , but his voice remained a calm singsong . " ah , but indiscriminately is not quite the same as a lack of thought and care , is it ? " he tilted his head ever so lightly . " just because I'd be willing to kill anyone does not mean I wish to kill everyone . the Vale is quite safe , my lady . no worries . "
those he wished to see dead were plundering the Reach after all . far enough from the kraken's grasp , no matter how long it stretched its tentacles .
" why won't you sit with us ? take part in the conversation ? " a gesture towards one of the empty chairs at the table , and a touch of a smile in the corners of his lips . cocky , no doubt . self - assured . for but a moment , one perhaps could see the likeness between him and Theon , were it not for the fact that unlike his younger brother , Maron breathed and lived Ironborn . he smiled and spoke calmly , washing a feeling of ease and humor into these godforsaken halls , but underneath it all lingered an undercurrent and the unpredictable nature of the sea . " after all , it seems like you have some opinions yourself . "
cont. from here , @sickfcks
her fingers clench at her side, unable to avoid the way they curl into fists, an urge to ball them up completely and swing without a secondary thought. but she was meant to be behaving, a guest there for the night at the behest of punk, it wouldn't do her – or him – any good if she went 'round handing out black eyes to everyone that got on her nerves. instead she lets out a long exhale of breath, willing to allow him to walk away without saying a word, until he continues to speak. continues to poke and prod at her to the point where dark eyes flicker up to his face.
“ he's not the boss of me. ” a careful glance away over to where punk's leaning over the catering table, before she swats his hand away from her chin, and presses a manicured nail into his chest. “ don't call me baby, either. ” dictating her own terms, as her finger drags up his chest, before her fingers curl into his beard and yank at the hair, bringing him down a few inches. “ we can talk now just fine, can't we? doesn't look like you're all that busy right now. ”
continued from here , @eyeofvengeance
there was nothing more terrifying than the sound of dragon wings on the wind. of that sansa had become certain. she had not wanted this position, had not wanted to be the one left behind in the wake of a war that was not hers, nor cregan's, to fight. but duty had called the way it so often did for men, and stark - bound honor meant the lord of the castle had gone to do his part – left behind in his stead the only family who had not turned her back . . . or died. it had meant that when the wind had howled with something more than winter, it was no man who crossed the threshold into the courtyard to meet aemond targaryen, but sansa in her quiet rage.
sansa who had sent her cousin's son into the crypts with the maester and the master - at - arms, and every maid they'd been able to find. had insisted she would do this alone. whatever it was that he wanted, she would handle – and none else would suffer for it.
but as he speaks, she cannot get a hold on him. cannot track the train of thought, cannot understand what it is he's asking for in between the pretty words and complimentary syllables. she knows it is something, to hear a man of his infamy speak of forging something stronger than oaths and service – it is always something.
“ forgive me, prince aemond, i fear i don't . . . quite follow what it is you are asking of me. ” her gloved hands interlace together in front of her, a careful flicker of grey - blue eyes across his features, studying the careful twitch of muscles, each consideration even as his voice softens. “ if you have not come here to kill me, or my kin, then perhaps the northern air has done you well in the fraction of time you have drawn breath within it. ”
red curls billow in the wind, cold encompassing the courtyard, but sansa dares not to allow herself even so much as a hint of a tremble now. not when she must be the voice of those who needed her. nor would she dare allow him inside the walls of winterfell proper, not without a better promise of his intentions. “ your dragon will not like it here. ” she says softly, boots shifting upon the stone path. “ even visenya did not fly so far north with her. i cannot decide whether that makes you courageous or full of folly. " or both. those words go unspoken, though the implication remains as sansa shifts her gaze from aemond to beyond the walls of the courtyard, beyond to where she fears for the worst in seeing large wings of a dragon come to life again.
“ speak plainly of your wishes, and i will allow you both warmth for the evening. else i am just as keen to stand here with you all night, it will not be i who freezes first. ”
me reblogging more memes as they come up on my feed as if my inbox isn't already double stuffed, i haven't finished my carrd yet, and i still have unfinished tags.
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setting up my single muse sansa blog, here to let you all know that wait for it is HER song from hamilton thank u ☺️