*SPOILERS FOR ASoS*

Characters: Catelyn Stark, Tywin Lannister; Catelyn/Tywin

Summary: Catelyn/Tywin - AU inspired by ohmytheon's fic The Winter's Song on Tumblr, where Catelyn is held captive after the RW and Tyrion flees King's Landing without ascending the Tower of the Hand. Spoilers for ASoS.

Sleeves Stained Red – Chapter 1

She wakes in a room filled with light, to the sound of gulls and the sharp tang of sea-salt on the air. The room is furnished in pleasant shades of sunny yellow and sky blue, but all she can see is the crimson blanket that pins her to the bed and blood blood blood.

She tears it off her and tears it up, clawing at the woven lambswool and sobbing as she sees Robb on the ground, blood seeping from the jagged gash in his neck, sees blood on her hands as she lunges for Walder Frey, and blood before her eyes as she's knocked to the ground by one of the Frey bastards.

She must have cried out because her door to the chamber is flung open and Lannister guardsmen pile in, their cloaks flapping – more blood – and though she screams and shies away from them and struggles as they take hold of her, there are too many of them, but she fights against them anyway.

Through the blood rushing in her ears she hears someone call for dreamwine, and she struggles even more. I don't want to sleep, she screams silently, I must go to Robb, I have to see my son-

And then she's crumpling to the floor as her tears defeat her and someone pours something down her throat and blood is all she can see as she's forced into sleep.