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Under My Left Ribs by SeeThemFlying for resthefuture
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
11 Sep 2020
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He shone. He smirked.
He's despicable, Brienne would tell herself, just so she did not forget.
Despicable.
A Jaime/Brienne Jane Eyre AU.
Bookmarked by Serpringleknight
19 Jul 2025
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And become nothing more to you than a statue in your collection, made to watch as you play at love? Do you think I have so little feeling to be able to bear that, especially considering all the emotion you have inspired in me these past months? I may be ugly and poor, but I have my will and my independence, and you cannot expect me to stay here and consign myself to an afterthought! It may break my heart to leave you and, by the gods, I wish I had the beauty to make our parting as painful for you as it will be for me, but I cannot stay if I have even a scrap of self-respect."
Chapter 4
"And it is not fair to hold me as your angel, your celestial judge, as the person who will help you be better," she said, her resolve growing stronger with every word. "My whole life I have been mocked and derided, made to feel as if love were as distant as the stars. For a moment, you brought it closer, but I now see that was a mirage too."
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House Tarth has a big secret shared only with House Stark. Selwyn Tarth sends Brienne to Winterfell after her three failed betrothals and his uncertainty over what to do with his only living heir who fancies herself a knight. Unfortunately, that visit occurs at the same time King Robert is set to visit with House Stark. Secrets are discovered and deals are made between enemies.
"If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend." - Benjamin Franklin
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- Part 1 of Hidden & Chosen Family
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03 Aug 2025
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READ UNTIL CHAPTER 71 OR START FROM CHAPTER 71
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Called to a Home I Never Had by miera
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
19 Mar 2021
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The first time Captain Jaime Lannister met the princess of Tarth, it would charitably have been described as a trainwreck. Modern royalty AU.
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Bookmarked by Serpringleknight
28 Jul 2025
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"Oh, right, she told me about him. He thinks she should keep going, maybe get her PhD and teach." Tarth shook his head. "Our dad would definitely be happier if she did."
"Was she thinking of doing something else?"
Galladon's next words shocked Jaime completely. "She wanted to enlist. We used to joke about serving together."
Brienne in the Army? There were plenty of women Jaime served with, including Private Mormont in his own unit back in Braavos. Somehow he could see Brienne in fatigues and slinging a rifle over her large shoulder just as easily as her brother.
Galladon glanced around the dark room and shook his head. "My Dad doesn't want her to do it, though. He didn't really want me to join up, even if it's exactly what he did, but things were different back then."
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A Star Within the Mere by isavedlatin
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
28 Feb 2018
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Victorian gothic romance Jane Eyre-fusion AU in which Brienne comes to Casterly as a governess - you know the deal. But where Jane would be a stoic, Brienne is a boss.
Arson, attempted murder, mystery, mayhem, a mad woman in the attic, and lots and lots of slow-buildy eventual smut. (This will be earned smut, people! Earned through sweat, tears and character study!) Posting every few weeks.
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20 Jul 2025
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Chapter 8
You stupid whore!” He shoved her again, “He is dead because of you!”
“Unhand me, sir!”
“Tyrell!” Another voice thundered from between the arches, and in an instant the Colonel had emerged, and shoved Mr. Tyrell into the parapet, seizing his jaw in one hand and nearly forcing him off the ground. He spoke low, but with ferocious menace, his nose nearly against the trembling man’s cheek.
“You will apologize to the lady. You will make your excuses to your sister and you will leave my house at once. Do you hear me?”
Loras Tyrell was now weeping openly, twisting his face in the Colonel’s grasp.Chapter 13
“Well, if there is truth in what Mrs. Frey has related, I am glad for you. You had thought yourself indifferent to the society of the Tyrells, but I congratulate you on having determined to join the fray. Not to keep yourself apart and alone any longer. Miss Tyrell is a fine lady, I am certain she will..” her voice trailed, and she dared not look at him, for she did not trust herself, “-and I shall be ready to go whenever you give word, only give me notice that I may seek a new situation. ”
“Are you so determined to leave me?” He said quietly.
“I imagine Miss Tyrell will want to send Myrcella away to school, there will be no place for me.”
“Brienne, is that all? I have not offended you in some way? My...hasty actions, the burden of my secrets have not wearied you?”
“I am proud to bear your confidences. Proud to be...to have been..of service to you.”
Summoning all her might, she glanced up at him then, and he at her. For a long while they merely held each other’s gaze. She wanted only to remain near him, but could think of nothing more to say, nor anything to do. Why did his face hold such sorrow? Could his thoughts bear any resemblance to her own? For those moments, she allowed herself to be as free to hope as she had ever been before, and the harsh voices of doubt were quieted as she thought only of how he continued to look, to hold her there, to want her in his sight.
ALL OF CHAPTER 14!!!!
“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling in regard to you -
especially when you are near me, as you are now: it is as if I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted in a similar fashion to you. And if you were to leave - if too many miles of land or sea were to come between us, I fear that cord would be snapped, and I would bleed inwardly.” -
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Jaime didn’t really expect things to go well when he rode north, but after all, they hadn’t been going well otherwise, so it wasn’t that much of a change.
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Bookmarked by Serpringleknight
23 Jul 2025
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“No,” he said. “You wouldn’t have.” It came out thin and bitter, pathetic really, and he couldn’t meet her eyes. Because it was true; she wouldn’t have been there. She wouldn’t have said yes, that first time: Cersei looking up at him with her hand on his cheek, golden and beautiful, so much more beautiful than any other woman he’d ever seen, the other half of him with all the memory of pleasure he had in the world wrapped up in her perfumed arms, saying, join the Kingsguard and we can be together again, Jaime, nothing else matters. Brienne wouldn’t have let herself be pulled down into a kiss with that promise, with those words. And she wouldn’t have said yes that night Cersei had come to him, two days after she’d been married to the king, and kissed him savagely and told him I’m yours, I don’t care what the world wants, what right do they have; I want you and you want me and we’ll take what we want no matter what; Brienne wouldn’t have said yes to that, wouldn’t have opened her bed and her arms and made her lover into a whore and her children into secret bastards. So she’d never have had to murder a ten year old child to save their lives, she’d never have had to murder the man who’d given them his name, she’d never, ever, have been there in the first place, but he had; he’d been there in the first place, and he’d stayed, he’d stayed for all of it, so it was perfectly reasonable for everyone to ask him why he’d left now, what had made him go now—