[Brother Lancel and a group of the Faith Militant accost Littlefinger and his guards]
BLBrother Lancel
Lord Baelish.
Petyr BaelishLancel Lannister.
BLBrother Lancel
Brother Lancel. We abandon our family names.
Petyr Baelish
Quite a family to abandon.
BLBrother Lancel
The city has changed since you were here last. We've flooded the gutters with wine, smashed the false idols and set the godless on the run.
Petyr Baelish
Well done. [Lancel bars his path as he moves to leave] I'm here on urgent business for the Queen Mother. Should I send word I'll be delayed? [Lancel and the Faith Militant move aside]
BLBrother Lancel
Step carefully, Lord Baelish. You'll find there's little tolerance for flesh peddlers in the new King's Landing.
Petyr Baelish
We both peddle fantasies, Brother Lancel. Mine just happen to be entertaining.
Petyr Baelish
Do you think it's wise, your Grace? Arresting the heir to Highgarden?
The Faith arrested the heir to Highgarden.
Petyr Baelish
Of course. And the Faith were armed on your orders.
The King's orders. Is the King to blame for Ser Loras's perversion?
Petyr Baelish
[Shakes his head.] House Tyrell won't tolerate this insult.
House Tyrell won't tolerate it? I'm the insulted party, Lord Baelish. Ser Loras was promised to me, instead he chose the company of boys.
Petyr Baelish
One's choice of companion is a curious thing.
If there's nothing else...
Petyr Baelish
There is another matter, your Grace. Something so urgent I couldn't trust the words to a raven. You once charged me with finding Arya Stark. To my shame, I failed you. But I have found Sansa Stark. Alive and well. At home again. Living at Winterfell.
Petyr Baelish
My sources are well placed. They tell me Roose Bolton plans to marry her to his son Ramsay, a bastard recently legitimized by King Tommen.
Roose Bolton is Warden of the North by the grace of my father.
Petyr Baelish
Indeed. His reward for stabbing his own king in the heart.
We were fools to trust a turncloak.
Petyr Baelish
Marrying his son to the last of the Starks gives him more legitimacy in the North than an alliance with a hated southern house.
I will skin him and his bastard like that wretch on their bloody sigil!
Petyr Baelish
I would counsel patience, your Grace.
Patience!? Sansa helped murder my son, Roose Bolton is a traitor!
Petyr Baelish
Stannis Baratheon is also a traitor, marching with his army on Winterfell. Let Stannis and Roose battle. Let the enemies of the Throne slaughter each other, and when they're done, seize Winterfell from whichever thief survives.
Winterfell is a thousand miles away from here. The weather has already begun to turn.
Petyr Baelish
That is why it is critical to strike soon while the victor still licks his wounds. Surely, your uncle Kevan could muster a force.
My uncle Kevan has all the courage of a kitchen mouse.
Petyr Baelish
Ser Jaime then.
Jaime is away on a sensitive diplomatic mission. I have no idea when he'll be back.
Petyr Baelish
Perhaps I can help. The knights of the Vale are some of the best fighters in Westeros. Trained to battle in the ice and the snow.
Forgive me, Lord Baelish, your reputation is a moneylender and profit-keeper, not a military man.
Petyr Baelish
You wouldn't risk a single Lannister soldier or a single coin from the royal treasury. What do you have to lose? A brothelkeeper?
Petyr Baelish
Name me Warden of the North?
I'll speak to the King this evening. Have an issue of royal decree.
Petyr Baelish
I'll not rest until the lion flies over Winterfell.
And I'll know you're a man of your word when I see Sansa Stark's head on a spike.
Petyr Baelish
As I said, I live to serve.
Petyr Baelish
Sansa. Lady Brienne. When I heard you'd escaped Winterfell I feared the worst. You have no idea how happy I am to see you unharmed.
Unharmed? What're you doing here?
Petyr Baelish
I rode north with the knights of the Vale to come to your aid. They're encamped at Moat Cailin as we speak.
To come to my aid? Did you know about Ramsay? If you didn't know, you're an idiot. If you did know, you're my enemy. Would you like to hear about our wedding night? He never hurt my face. He needed my face; the face of Ned Stark's daughter. But the rest of me, he did what he liked with the rest of me as long as I could still give him an heir. What do you think he did?
Petyr Baelish
I can't begin to contemplate...
What do you think he did to me?
Lady Sansa asked you a question.
Petyr Baelish
He beat you.
Yes, he enjoyed that. What else do you think he did?
Petyr Baelish
Sansa...
Petyr Baelish
Did he cut you?
Maybe you did know about Ramsay all along.
Petyr Baelish
I didn't know.
I thought you knew everyone's secrets.
Petyr Baelish
I made a mistake. A horrible mistake. I underestimated a stranger.
The other things he did, ladies aren't supposed to talk about those things but I imagine brothel keepers talk about them all the time. I can still feel it. I don't mean, "In my tender heart, it still pains me so." I can still feel what he did in my body standing here right now.
Petyr Baelish
I'm...so sorry.
You said you would protect me.
Petyr Baelish
And I will. You must believe me when I tell you that I will.
I don't believe you anymore. I don't need you anymore, you can't protect me. You won't even be able to protect yourself if I tell Brienne to cut you down. And why shouldn't I?
Petyr Baelish
You want me to beg for your life? If that's what you want, I will. Whatever you ask that is in my power, I will do.
What if I want you to die here and now?
Petyr Baelish
Then I will die.
You freed me from the monsters who murdered my family and gave me to other monsters who murdered my family. Go back to Moat Cailin. My brother and I will take back the North on our own. I never want to see you again.
Petyr Baelish
I would do anything to undo what's been done to you. I know that I can't. Would you allow me to say one more thing before I go? Your great uncle, Brynden, the Blackfish, has gathered what remains of the Tully forces and retaken Riverrun. You might consider seeking him out. The time may come when you need an army loyal to you.
Petyr Baelish
Your brother's army. Half-brother.
Petyr Baelish
Lady Sansa, I have known you since you were a girl. I have protected you...
Protected me? By selling me to the Boltons?
Petyr Baelish
If we could speak alone, I can explain everything...
[quoting Petyr] "Sometimes, when I'm trying to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst." What's the worst reason you have, for turning me against my sister? That's what you do, isn't it? That's what you've always done. Turn family against family, turn sister against sister. That's what you did to our mother and Aunt Lysa, and that's what you tried to do to us.
Petyr Baelish
Sansa, please--
I'm a slow learner, it's true. But I learn.
Petyr Baelish
Give me a chance to defend myself. I deserve that. [to Yohn Royce] I am Lord Protector of the Vale and I command you to escort me safely back to the Eyrie.
Petyr Baelish
[kneels before Sansa] Sansa, I beg you! I loved your mother since the time I was a boy!
And yet you betrayed her.
Petyr Baelish
I loved you. More than anyone!
And yet you betrayed me. When you brought me back to Winterfell, you told me "there's no justice in the world, not unless we make it." Thank you for all your many lessons, Lord Baelish. I will never forget them.
[Arya steps towards Littlefinger]
Petyr Baelish
Sansa--
[Arya slits his throat, killing him]
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