Who: Brienne and Renly What: Meeting Where: Coffee shop When: Backdated to the 15th Rating: G Status: Complete
Brienne decided that she wanted to meet the man in person who was in her dreams. The one that she went to war with and became one of his guards. The one that she would call King. It was odd, because she didn’t actually live in a world with a king but whatever. She still wanted to know him.
So she asked to meet him and get some coffee. She was waiting in the coffee shop with her coffee. Clearly she was easy to spot.
Renly had yet to dream about this woman, but he hadn’t dreamt about his death yet either and that no longer weirded him out as much as it had when Loras had first told him about it. So meeting Brienne didn’t seem so strange. He was curious about when she would appear in his dreams and what exactly was going on in hers. Perhaps they could put their current dreams together and figure it out.
So, when she’d asked to meet him, Renly had agreed and made his way over to the coffee shop on the day and time they had decided upon. Entering the shop, he glanced around, looking for Brienne.
Every time she met someone from her dreams, it was more than a little awkward. Still when he came into the shop, she waved him over. Thankfully she knew what he looked like, even if he didn’t know what she looked like. “Renly? I’m Brienne. Thanks for coming.”
Seeing the woman who was waving him over, Renly could only assume that she was Brienne and it was confirmed when she introduced herself, “It’s nice to meet you, Brienne.” He took a seat across from her, smiling. He hadn’t thought that women could be knights in their world, but apparently he’d thought wrong.
She stood up and held out her hand, shaking it before sitting back down in her seat. Maybe she was just a little too formal. Ah well. “It’s very nice to meet you as well, Renly. I’m sorry that it’s um.. one sided. I mean that this is a little weird since I know of you, but you don’t know of me.”
Renly shook her hand before he sat down and sat back in his seat, “I’m actually used to it. The first time I met my fiance, he knew about me already and told me some things from the dreams right off the bat. So, it’s not too strange.” Well, it would be to other people, but Renly didn’t really think it was so strange anymore.
“Oh? Actually I met Loras before I had dreamed about him or you for that matter. So I know how that feels.” Sort of. “Apparently he tends to do that a lot.” It was a little amusing. “You’re getting married though? Congratulations. That’s lovely.” She didn’t think much was that strange anymore. “Anyway, I just wanted to meet you in person. Sort of to make sure you were .. real and an actual person.” Which sounded silly, but whatever.
Renly couldn’t help but chuckle at that and nodded, “Yeah, he does that. It was for the best in our case.” Renly didn’t think he’d change anything about his and Loras’ first meeting, because if he didn’t know that he would die in the dreams, he wouldn’t have known why Loras acted the way he did in response to certain things and wouldn’t have known how to help him during those times. “So, you’ve dreamt about Loras too then?”
“I guess there’s nothing quite like a pick up line about how much someone falls in love with you from just a dream.” It would have worked on her, she had no doubt. Not that she ever went out on dates. She hadn’t had a date since.. well before her tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. Twelve years maybe? Something like that. “We’ve met each other, talked a bit but I know he’s in the guard with me, serving you.”
“It was something like that,” Renly smirked as he recalled his and Loras’ first meeting, “I’m not at all surprised to hear that he was in my guard. We were together there as well. In King’s Landing it was a fairly poorly kept secret actually. We tried, but it was hard to keep a secret there.”
Brienne ah’d a little. She didn’t remember dreaming anything like that, but maybe they were really good at hiding it. “I can only imagine. Sadly nothing I could ever do there could be hidden. I stand out.” Just a little bit.
“It was probably the worst kept secret in King’s Landing,” Littlefinger’s comment about Loras came back to Renly then and he was once again grateful that they didn’t have to hide their relationship here and now. “I take it you’re the only woman in my guard?” Why else would she stand out as much as she claimed after all?
She seemed a bit amused by the whole thing. “I’ll keep that in mind when I have my dreams.” Maybe she would hear a rumor about it. Brienne nodded a little. “I’m the only woman who seems to fight at all.” She didn’t know any of the others.
Chances were Brienne might look for clues in her future dreams, now that she knew. If they hadn’t been very subtle in King’s Landing they probably weren’t very subtle in general. And he still didn’t know exactly how Margaery had known, but chances were it had been Loras who told her. “Ned Stark’s daughter seems to want to fight. In the dreams that is. Although, I think she’s more or less the same in the real world too from what I’ve seen of her.”
Brienne was looking forward to her dreams, even if they were violent. She had a good head on her shoulders. She went through actual wars. Wars in her dreams were nothing. “His daughter? Which one? I met Arya. Haven’t met any of the other Starks. I don’t think I’ve met any in the dreams either.” Though maybe that would change. “Perhaps she is. You three are the only ones that I’ve met. I don’t know who else is around.”
“Arya.” Renly might not have seen Arya Stark in a very long time, probably the last time the Starks came out to England to see Robert and Cersei, but he recalled her from the dreams where she was much younger and last he’d seen her was running around King’s Landing, “I’ve met quite a few people considering my family and Loras and the Starks and now you are all featured in my dreams.” Well Brienne would be once he actually dreamt about her.
“I look forward to meeting everyone from my dreams then.” She paused a little and sipped her drink. “What do you think of it? I mean that you’re dreaming about people and then it turns out they’re alive. What do you think it is?”
“In my case, I’ve known just about everyone in the waking world first. So, in that case, it’s more interesting having seen them in real life then in the dreams. How different that are there than they are here.” Renly explained.
Brienne ah’d a bit. “I suppose then it’s a bit just like anyone else. Dreaming things and putting people you know in the dreams.” It wasn’t like that at all for her. How interesting. “Well I should get back to work. It was nice meeting you, Renly. If you ever need anything.. let me know.”
“It was really nice meeting you too, Brienne. I’ll be sure to let you know when you’ve made an appearance in my dreams,” Renly smiled and got to his feet as she did, “If you don’t mind my asking, what is it that you do for work?”
“I’m a cop,” she answered with a small smile. “I just joined the force. I was in the army for.. forever.”
“That’s fantastic. I feel sorry for any criminals that cross your path.” Renly looked forward to dreaming about Brienne to find out exactly how she’d wound up in his Guard as well as hoped to see her again soon.