Kings Landing, 282 AC
About a week after the Battle of Dragonstone.
The air in the small council's room was thick as the new king Robert Baratheon watched his younger brother report the news of his failure to capture the last dragonspawn as he called them with
- POV Robert Baratheon
"I knew you were useless" I said after what felt like an eternity
"I gave one order!"
"One fucking order!!!"
"And it was to take a fucking island, an island governed by a boy!!"
"A boy!! Stannis a boy!!!"
"Not Aegon the Conqueror!!"
"Not Daemon Targaryen!!!!"
"But a boy!!!!"
"Had I sent Stark, that cursed island would be burned down by now!"
"Arryn didn't let me down!"
"Stark didn't let me down!"
"Lannister didn't let me down!"
Tully didn't let me down!"
"Hells! Even the Tyrells didn't let me down!And they were our enemies!!!"
"Nobody else let me down but my brother!! My blood!!!"
" I thought I made the right choice by sending you, my brother! My blood!!"
" I gave you one order!! One fucking order!!!"
"Take one fucking island an island that has less than three thousand men!! And what did you do!!!? Tell me, what did you do!!!!?"
- POV Stannis Baratheon
"I failed"
"Is that what you want me to say!!!?"
"I fucking failed!!!!"
"While you were crowning yourself on the corpse of a mother and her children!!!!"
"I was doing my duty!! When my brother my wife my unborn child and hundreds of loyal men were starved for nearly a year in our own home because you started a damned rebellion I did as you ordered!!!"
"I did my duty!! I ate horses and dogs and rats, and I would have eaten the dead too had you fallen in the Trident!! I did as you ordered when you said to sail with the very man who feasted within the sight of my walls!!! While I was starving!!!"
"And I failed not because I was useless but because I was starved for nearly a year!! and grieving my unborn son who didn't even see the light of the world as he died So do as you wish kill me if you wish!! But do not call me useless!!! Because I'm not " With those words I walked out of the small council's room
"I could still hear the shouts and curses of Robert in my head as I was walking out"
- POV Viserys Targaryen
"My prince! these two are Lord Tygett Lannister and Daxter Redwyne!!" said Ser Willam as we were walking on the shores of Dragonstone
"You don't say" I said sarcastically something he barely understands
"It is my prince I have seen them many times in the past"
"Good When we leave the island remind me of it I will be keeping them" I said they might be useful someday who knows I thought
"As you wish my prince"
"Ser Willam you have served me and my family faithfully for many years and I shall not be denied your service in the future"I said
"And I will continue to do so, my prince for you are the rightful heir to the Iron Throne and…"
But I interrupted him mid-sentence.
"I am in need of someone who can help me to make a sellsword company and I don't trust anyone else except you Ser Willam You are going to cut off from the main fleet with our seven hundred men and sail to the disputed lands But the world will not know that I ordered you to do so"
"Because if they do you will not be able to make it Ser Willam you are from this day on a traitor to me and my family who stole the gold from me and fled to the disputed lands" I said to the poor man who was bearly holding back tears from escaping his eyes and failing to do so
"My prince Please I wou..."
"That's what the world needs to know
I will give you about five hundred thousand gold dragons And more when it's needed"
"I need you to do this, my friend There's no one else I can trust with this mission" I said to the knight
"As you command my prince" said the knight after wiping away some of his tears
"Good You are to cut all ties with me and my family And if anyone asks you why you are doing so Say that I abandoned you and your men Say I was a madman who planned to kill me and my man or whatever horseshit you find it hard to believe"
"As you say, my prince"
"Good go and get yourself some rest you will need it" I said to the knight
"As you wish my prince"
"LET US HOPE HE DOES NOT TRULY THINK YOU ABANDONED HIM"
"He will not! He is loyal to our family, unlike you"