That’s basically them every time they have to say goodbye to each other, y’all know it.
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Gifset: Jaime x Brienne - The Net AU
Brienne is a freelance computer programmer who works from home, enjoying her own little bubble where she can be herself without having to put up with co-workers who only ever have mockery for her to spare. Brienne made that experience before when she got into the business, but can now safely say that she rather does without.
Brienne of Tarth doesn’t need anyone, after all.
When one of her online colleagues sends her a copy of a glitch he wants her to take a look at because he does not have the time, Brienne is eager to get down to the bottom of the code – and crack it.
The glitch, a green flame on one of the clients’ websites, leads her down the electronic rabbit hole as suddenly confidential databases of all kinds of government agencies flicker across her screen. Brienne saves a copy of the website’s code for later, because she wants to leave it until after she returned from her holiday.
She wants to focus that with all of her mind, because that may prove to be her biggest job until now.
Little does she know…
On her vacation to Dorne, Brienne enjoys some silent days in a hotel, which is gladly not at all crowded. The advantage of someone working freelance is that you can go on holiday when most others are already back in the offices or have to return to bring the kids back to school. Thus, she has the hotel almost entirely to herself, and Brienne relishes the silence and tranquility of this place, even though her mind keeps circling around the glitch.
One day, sitting by the bar, Brienne finds herself curiously being hit on by some random man whom she believes to be way out of her league. Brienne got her fingers burned often enough by now to know that she has to be weary of a man’s advances on her, because she is not pretty to look at, so she rebuffs him rather quickly. While she finds it queer, she thinks nothing of it.
Stranger things have happened, like that code that just won’t leave her mind.
That same night, Brienne suddenly has someone knock on her door. Irritated, she opens, only to come face to face with the guy from the bar who tried to hit on her, staggering around drunkenly.
He tells her that no one is at the lobby, that he forgot his key card and cell phone in the room, and asks Brienne to use her phone to call up his friend with whom he shares a room to bring by the key card.
Brienne is suspicious, and instead suggests that he may write down the number for her, so that she can call from the phone in the room in his name while he can wait outside. “I don’t have good experience with strangers in my room.”
However, the man insists, which only ever assures Brienne that she doesn’t want that man inside. She tells him to lay off, but that is when the man basically falls into her arms before Brienne can move away. She staggers backwards. The door falls shut, and suddenly, she is forced to revive all of her mixed martial arts skills as she has to fight with the man who turns out to want to kill her.
A battle of life and death ensues.
They fight their way through the room, wrecking it in the process, until they come out on the balcony. Brienne manages to knock against the man’s head, momentarily knocking him out. As she is about to lock him out on the balcony to call police, the man grabs her leg, makes her fall over, and the two wrestle once more. Somehow, the man manages to cut past her defenses and push her off the balcony below. Brienne hits her head on the side, but then rolls into the pool, out cold.
Brienne wakes up in a Dornish hospital some time later, in pain and confused. The nurse taking care of her explains that she almost drowned and that they do not have her ID to confirm her identity, which confuses Brienne a lot, because she checked into a hotel, and she almost drowned in their pool, so they should have her contact information.
She wants to call the hotel, but thanks to the head injury, she has a hard time remembering either the number or the name, but once she does, it is claimed that Brienne of Tarth checked out a couple of days ago. Brienne is in shock.
Not knowing what else to do, she sets out to the Embassy, releasing herself from the hospital early, but she cannot acquire an ID with her actual name due to the lack of papers. Brienne manages to go by the name Jane Snow and at least get an ID to leave Dorne. She hopes that once she is back home, she can clarify this whole mess.
But far from it.
Back home, her entire life is lies in ruins. Her apartment is up for sale
though she never did it, and increasingly, her squeaky-clean record gets
stained with sudden charges for theft and drug abuse.
Not having any friends or
support to turn to in King’s Landing, Brienne finds herself on the run, all the
while fearing that the man who meant to kill her was not alone.
With the last stags she has, she goes to a cyber café. She wants to get into
contact with her employers to somehow work out this mess, but the revelations
just keep coming, since it appears to be that they are somehow involved into
this whole mess, when suddenly her employer demands of her that she gives him
the information on the stick, which she saved before leaving for Dorne, and
that only then he can help her.
As she gathers more information by digging deep into the dark net, Brienne suddenly receives a mail by the ominous “Slayer-King”.” A person she has never heard of or spoken to. In the email, the person claims that she is in severe danger, that she has to get out of that cyber café or else they will track down her location via the IP address, and that he can help her.
Brienne, naturally, does not want to trust that person, after she was already screwed over twice in a short amount of time, but she eventually agrees to meet with Slayer-King – because, what other choice does she have if Brienne ever wants to get her life back?
They plan to meet up at a train station. Brienne is supposed to only speak to a man approaching her, knowing the password, which he sent to her via email, so that she doesn’t end up talking to the people after her.
Once at the station, a man approaches her, and he recounts the word listed in the appendix of the email. The two start to talk and the man explains to her that he can get her to safety so long she hands over the information for the “Wildfire Code.”
“Once I have that, I can get you to a safe house, I can get you bodyguards, and then we can get the bad guys. You will get your old life bac. I promise you. But I need that hard drive to start, or else my agency won’t make a move, sorry.”
Brienne tells him that she will give him the USB stick, but that she hid it away in the lady’s bathroom before coming here, reckoning it may have been unwise to bring the one thing that may be worth a bargain right to the negotiations.
They make their way to the restrooms, which are vacant, so the man follows her inside. While Brienne is inside one of the stalls, she keeps talking to the man in black suit. When he grows impatient and means to head into the stall as well, Brienne smacks the door right in his face, snarling at him, “Wrong password.”
Brienne looks around, trying to figure out what to do next, when suddenly she finds herself being strangled, the guy having moved in as silently as a cat, seemingly an assassin sent to execute her now in all earnest. Brienne already fears that this is the end for her, but that is when the man strangling her is hit over the back of the head with the back of a gun. The assassin falls over to the side as the third man now in the room keeps smacking him until he is most definitely out of it. Brienne staggers away, removing the zip tie around her neck. She already wants to get away, but the bearded man suddenly yells out the right codeword.
“Those assholes have yet to learn that an email is not the same as a code,” he mutters, looking back at the passed out men on the ground, before dragging the two into the stall and closing the door.
“We have to get out of here,” he says, urging Brienne to take his hand and leave, but when he sees her hesitance, the man adds, “You have no reason to trust me, I know, but for now, I am the only person standing between you and those guys. So we will have to agree on a truce.”
“You need trust to have a truce.”
“And I trust you,” he replies, suddenly holding his gun out to her. “You really think they would have done such a reckless thing?”
Brienne takes the gun and puts it away, fearing that the man has the rights of it and that she has no other choice but to come with him.
“Who are you?” she asks once they are in the car and driving away from the train station.
“Jaime Lannister. Former agent for the Westeros’ Bureau of Investigation, cyber crime division. And you have stumbled over an old enemy of mine, sadly.”
“Who?”
“What is the appropriate question. The code that you discovered, that is the enemy. The Wildfire Code may potentially run havoc and throw all federal government agencies into a spiral of chaos.”
“Because it can reveal all data, who is undercover, who is who, where there are raids or attacks planned…,” Brienne recounts as it dawns on her just what she stumbled into.
“Exactly.”
“But how does that appear as a glitch on a website for some random bank?” Brienne asks.
“I don’t know, but we will have to find out.”
“We?”
“Well, you don’t have the luxury to choose another partner. For now, I am the only person you have, sweetheart.”
“I am not your sweetheart.”
“Would you rather have me call you ‘wench?’”
“No!”
Jaime Lannister hoped to put that old demon to rest back when he killed Aerys Targaryen, which earned him his nickname, because it was his former boss who sold the Wildfire Code to the guys now after Brienne, or rather, parts of it, and they now want to get the rest, some of which Brienne accidentally brought back to the light.
He would rather just get Brienne to safety, but since he was thrown out of the agency and discredited for Aerys’ murder, Jaime knows that no one will believe him unless he delivers the evidence, and for that, it takes more than Brienne’s bit of the code, he needs all of it.
And so, Jaime has to propose to work together with Brienne to get the remains of the code, because he knows he cannot do it alone, as much as he dreads putting the woman any more in danger than she already was thanks to his own mistake of not having managed to put down the code the same way he put down Aerys.
Over the course of the events, the two develop more than a begrudging respect for one another, which makes all of this ever the more dangerous and complicated for the two programmers on the constant back and forth between chasing and being chased.
Jaime finds himself forced to leave his cyber rabbit hole, his home, where he hid away from the world after Aerys, leave his self-loathing and blame, simply his past, behind in favor of getting the bad guys, and most importantly, protecting Brienne.
Brienne, at the same time, has to learn to accept help from a man she still barely knows, has to stop being the lone wolf, and apparently follow the same advice she gave to Jaime, which is to leave the rabbit hole.
However, danger is only just
a click away as the two get more and more entangled in a net of thievery,
murder, and treason reaching up to the highest ranks of federal government, and
it is yet to be determined whether the two will manage to crack the code…
Gifset: Jaime x Brienne - Mission Impossible AU
Jaime Lannister is one of the top agents for Westeros’s IMF, despite his bad reputation after he shot his team leader Aerys Targaryen in the back. Brienne of Tarth is a secret agent always going by the handbook.
However, after a gig gone terribly wrong, handbooks do not seem to hold any answers. Jaime and Brienne, who always had a relationship mostly based on constant fighting and bickering, suddenly find themselves confronted with the possibility that there was a mole in the team and/or the IMF Westeros has been infiltrated and corrupted. In the wake of those devastating news, the two agents have to make a daring choice to trust one another when the first rule of the IMF is to never truly trust anyone at the IMF.
In order to regroup after initial disagreements between the two on how to handle the situation, Jaime and Brienne keep a low profile by visiting “an old friend” of Jaime’s, who turns out to be Tyrion Lannister, the former technology expert of the IMF. Even though that man is supposed to be dead.
Brienne struggles to trust a man she still believes is too easy pretending to be someone he isn’t, an agent without honor. After all, Jaime also kept the “old friend” from her. Jaime realizes he has to do something to show her that she can have faith in his word. Thus, he offers a truce: Jaime gives her his harddrive, which contains all personal information about him, and particularly what happened behind the scenes of the Aerys Case. Brienne dares to build on that trust as the two, now three, have to figure out a way to get to the bottom of what is going on at the IMF, who is friend, who is foe, and most importantly:
Who can you trust in a world where you cannot trust anyone?
Gifset: Jaime x Brienne - Reach’s Kiss
Brienne of Tarth tries her best to live a life that comes as close to perfect as possible. After all, everything has to be perfect for when the decision is finally made on whether she and her fiancé Hyle finally get to adopt Podrick.
Her relationship with Hyle has seen some hardships, but over the course of her father’s death, she came to realize that she can count on him when it matters. And so, she is busy prepping up for the move into a larger house.
However, things turn around when Hyle goes on a business trip to Highgarden
. He suggested her to come along on a whim. Of course, Brienne refused, having more important things to do with the adoption and the house. And anyway, she is not exactly spontaneous. Oh, and she hates planes. For obvious reasons. She won’t ever board a plane in a lifetime, that’s for sure. Brienne goes irritated at the lack of contact, but then he does call back, late at night, clearly drunk on wine from the Reach. But he brings no happy news: Hyle, teary-eyed and lulling, tells his faincée that he met another woman and can’t continue their relationship. He won’t return from the Reach. This is over. With the Reach, this relationship reached its end.
“You’ll be better off without me. I am not made of the stuff that it takes to be a father, you see. I just can’t do this. I am sorry. But I know you will be perfect.”
And with that, he hangs up, and with that, Brienne sees her imperfectly perfect future going down the drain. However, Brienne does not easily give up.
Thus, Brienne does the impossible - she gets on a plane, after she swore to herself to never get on such a vehicle again after what happened with her father. Because she won’t give up, not on them, not on this life she worked so hard for. However, the situation is not exactly relieved by the man sitting next to her, making fun of her for being frightened.
Oh, if only he knew…
But of course, Brienne won’t share her personal stories with that snarky, handsome man she finds utterly suspicious. Brienne can’t put her finger on it, but there is just something about this guy who insists to only go by his first name, insisting she calls him “Jaime, just Jaime.”
And Brienne’s suspicion may not be entirely unjustified. Because Jaime may or may not have used an opportunity at the airport in King’s Landing to put something into her bag, so to bypass security. After all, he doesn’t want to be found. He has a future to grow, and it all depends on a certain heirloom now in her bag and a plant secured in his leather jacket.
However, misfortune strikes when Brienne takes off before he can get his heirloom back, forcing Jaime to track down this most annoying woman with mannish features and beautiful blue eyes. Though that may prove more difficult than imagined, considering that Brienne is determined to find her fiancé and convince him of their future before the decision is made about the adoption. Even if that means travelling all around the Reach in search for that man.
All the while, there is a shadow looming behind Jaime, in the shape of a dark-haired man he may be friendly with but knows better than to trust and a past he wants to leave behind for good, so he can start growing his own future upon a hill in the Reach - and start over new.
He wants to be left alone and in peace - and his brother, above all, should better stay out of his way. Though Jaime must admit, he learns to admire Brienne’s stubborn conviction to the future she means to defend, all the more once he realizes that she is not just some woman running after a guy who long since moved on and bangs up and down the walls of Highgarden’s hotels. He still thinks this Hyle-guy is absolutely beneath her, but he realizes that it is that life she wants to have with him and Podrick Brienne is eager to defend.
And honestly? Jaime starts to wonder whether his lonely life on a mountain, making a fine wine, is actually worth as much as he was willing to go during his detour to the Rock. Because his family may be shitty, but Brienne is living proof that you can choose your family, that you can choose family. So maybe he can, too?
What do I know?
Stuck together on this most strange ride through the vineyards of the Reach, Jaime and Brienne are forced to work together to help one another get the future they want to grow. Jaime volunteers to help Brienne win back the man who seemingly can’t see what a great woman he throws away with his actions - and Jaime is determined to make him see that truth. In turn, Brienne will help Jaime make money out of the heirloom he “conquered back” from his family, so to bypass being seen by certain people he has no interest in having back in his life.
But along the way, it would seem, something unexpected grows and comes to bloom, tasting oh so sweet but oh so differently from what they imagined.
But can they hold on to it or will this turn out to be a bitter vintage in the end?
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Moodboard for this French Kiss AU can be found here.
Gifset: Jaime x Brienne - Patisserie AU
Brienne of Tarth, King’s Landing’s most demanded wedding cake baker, meets most demanded broker of the city, Jaime Lannister, who places the biggest order for wedding cake Brienne has ever received. Though, of course, Mr. Lannister wants to be involved in all parts of the creation processes, adding likely very unwanted commentary even when not asked, much to the dismay and annoyance of the pastry cook.
However, all of that would mean nothing compared to her growing feelings for the man also known as “the Kingslayer,” who, after all, ordered for a wedding cake under his name, and has a ring around the finger…
More random Jaime x Brienne gif-ing because I am bored and shippery.
Ignore me.
I’m obsessed with gifs as it appears, or rather Jaime x Brienne gifs.
I love their parallels.
Just like I love their love.
Sorry for the crappy quality, but because of the length of the gif, I had to make it smaller in file size to upload.
But for as long as it’s Jaime x Brienne, right…? ;)