![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmk418So I haven't officially seen season 8, episode 4 of "Game of Thrones" but I did read through the spoilers for it and then wrote a drabble based on the spoilers, so if you watch it and something swerves some direction it shouldn't, just consider it an AU.
Spoilers for season 8, episode 4 of Game of Thrones behind the cut
The “Milady” falls from his lips before he can stop it.
That she doesn’t bother to correct him worries Pod more than her anger.
“That’s what I am, isn’t it? I pretend at being a knight and, underneath it all, there’s…” Brienne stops, letting out a frustrated sigh.
“I have seen you on the battlefield, Ser. You are the bravest knight I have ever met. You’re not pretending anything. You are who you are, a knight, and also a woman.”
“I now see why women aren’t knights, Pod. All these damn feelings.”
“Which you will set aside when you need to. How long did you weep for Renly?”
“This is hardly the same.”
“Because you didn’t fuck him?”
The look that Brienne shoots Pod is as cutting as a dagger. She turns and begins to walk away from him.
“Forgive me, milady,” he says, following her. “I spoke out of turn.”
“Just leave me, Podrick.” The “everyone does” hangs in the air, unsaid.
“I am sworn to you, Ser Brienne of Tarth. Allow me to defend your honor.”
Brienne stops and stares at him, then she begins to laugh.
“Dear Podrick, thank you for your kind offer. I’m not the maid of Tarth any longer. I’m a knight of the Seven Kingdoms and my honor does not need defending. I have done nothing wrong except to see things that were never there.”
“One day, milady, you will see something that has been there.”
“Perhaps,” she muses. “But that day is not today.”
Spoilers for season 8, episode 4 of Game of Thrones behind the cut
The “Milady” falls from his lips before he can stop it.
That she doesn’t bother to correct him worries Pod more than her anger.
“That’s what I am, isn’t it? I pretend at being a knight and, underneath it all, there’s…” Brienne stops, letting out a frustrated sigh.
“I have seen you on the battlefield, Ser. You are the bravest knight I have ever met. You’re not pretending anything. You are who you are, a knight, and also a woman.”
“I now see why women aren’t knights, Pod. All these damn feelings.”
“Which you will set aside when you need to. How long did you weep for Renly?”
“This is hardly the same.”
“Because you didn’t fuck him?”
The look that Brienne shoots Pod is as cutting as a dagger. She turns and begins to walk away from him.
“Forgive me, milady,” he says, following her. “I spoke out of turn.”
“Just leave me, Podrick.” The “everyone does” hangs in the air, unsaid.
“I am sworn to you, Ser Brienne of Tarth. Allow me to defend your honor.”
Brienne stops and stares at him, then she begins to laugh.
“Dear Podrick, thank you for your kind offer. I’m not the maid of Tarth any longer. I’m a knight of the Seven Kingdoms and my honor does not need defending. I have done nothing wrong except to see things that were never there.”
“One day, milady, you will see something that has been there.”
“Perhaps,” she muses. “But that day is not today.”
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2019-05-06 10:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-06 02:35 pm (UTC)But, in light of things, I was glad to be given a bit of an opportunity to go back to my Pod/Brienne shipping.
I swear the writers have started to read all of the copious amounts of fanfic.
They better stay away from Jon/Sansa though, because, that's almost as icky as Jon/Dany.