XII

"I can't begin to imagine having ever been put in a situation like this before."

Hellen said watching Tywin from behind. He looked at her reflection in his mirror as he was changing into his new clothes. He was going to be crowned king later this afternoon and give the announcement that Hellen of Tarth was to be his wife all in the same day.

"Most young girls your age have dreamed of this moment their entire lives. To marry one of the richest and most powerful men in all the Seven Kingdoms. Not to mention becoming queen while she was at it."

Tywin spoke pulling the deep red coat that was covered in a black bears fur up and over his shoulders. Hellen watched standing behind him in his chambers. She watched in her dress that Tywin had chosen for her. A deep red dress that perfectly matched Tywin's attire. She watched as her future husband - an old man that was the age to be her own grandfather - dawned himself for what was to come.

"I'm not most girls."

"So I've noticed. If you were, I wouldn't have."

Hellen sighed through her nose quietly. If she had been like every other common woman she wouldn't be in this position is what he meant. She understood. She might have been young, but she understood.

"After the announcement then what? Will you be needing me or -- "

"I want you by my side the entire evening."

Tywin spoke up looking at Hellen in the reflection of thr glass. He noticed the small shocked look she gave him, causing him to know that she hadn't expected that at all from him. He turned from thr mirror and looked to her.

"After I make this announcement you and I are forever bound together."

He said approaching her slowly.

"And once we are married, you shall be with the most powerful man in all the Seven Kingdoms and upon my death you shall remain Queen -- if we just so happen to have a child together."

Hellen for once didn't stiffen as Tywin's fingers came up and underneath her chin causing her head to be tilted back ever so slightly and her deep blues starring back at Tywin's own golden-green.

"Tonight is the night that will change your life forever."

"And what about yours? You're going to become a king. That's a step up from being the Hand of the King isn't it?"

Tywin could only chuckle as he leaned forward a bit more, his face closer to hers.

"You honestly believe a crown gives you power?"

He whispered causing the hairs on Hellen's neck to stand up. She swallowed looking back at Tywin.

"I've been in power in Westroes for twenty years without a crown. It makes no difference for me after today. But for you, it makes all the difference."

He said with a soft kiss below Hellen's left ear before he pulled away completely and finished preparing for his ceremony.



Hellen had stood idly by as Tywin was crowned King. It seemed as if the emotions in the room were not happy as they had been with King Tommen.

The emotions for that we're happy and joyous. However the emotions for Tywin Lannister seem to be that of fear and silence. After he was crowned King before all of the Seven Kingdoms Tywin Lannister then turn to Hellen holding out his hand for her.

She had stood down to the left of Tywin on the stairwell looking up at the man. The whole room seemed to be confused as to what time when Lannister, the new king of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms, was doing. Helen hesitantly took a few steps up onto the platform beside Tywin taking his hand.

"Shall it be known that from this day forth, Hellen of Tarth is to become my wife, and the Queen of Westeros."

There was a slight silence almost as if it was hesitant before the room started clapping just as they had done for Tywin's initiation.

Hellen gave a forced smile and a small curtsy to Tywin playing along with his game. She remembered his words perfectly in his Chambers prior to their arrival. Once the clapping stopped Helen looked out into the crowd of people having noticed that there was a slight disturbance in the crowd.

Her bluish green eyes met with a similar pair when she took a gander out into the crowd. It was then her whole body stiffened as she looked into the shocked eyes of her sister, Brianne.

Her sister had been found and have returned just in time too find out in the worst possible way about her sister's engagement to Tywin Lannister who is now king of Westeros.

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