hadriel | Video 3 - Margaery's Apartment

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Video 3 - Margaery's Apartment

[The video opens not in the Sewing Shop but in Margaery's apartment where she's sitting in the middle of her bed, a pillow clasped in her arms. she's looking down from the camera and she's in a bathrobe and nightgown, both wrinkled. her hair is disheveled and her eyes are heavily rimmed with red, as though she's spent a long time crying. which she has been. a whole day and night and a new day of crying.

she tries to look up at the camera, clear her throat and speak, but the words don't come. fresh tears well in her eyes and she looks down again, biting her lower lip.

a long moment passes with nothing but Margaery fighting back tears and silent. finally, she looks back up at the camera and speaks]

I--I thought people may want to know that Matt Murdock is no longer among us. His. His help was invaluable in the time before the Null invasion and [her voice breaks] he will be missed greatly.

[she brushes a tear off of her cheek, looking down again. she forces herself to look back up and continues]

I need to apologize to those I promised garments to. I. It will be at least another month before they're finished. I'm--I'm sorry.

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[she dashes more tears from her eyes and nods]

I promise that I wouldn't.

[Abigail checks to make sure it's still private.]

My father was very sick. He wanted to kill me. But he let me live, as long as he could find other girls that looked like me to kill.

[Margaery sniffles and wipes at her eyes.

and whatever she was expecting to hear, it wasn't that]

Oh. Oh my. I'm so sorry. That must have been terrible.

It was.

[Abigail looks down.]

The worst part was that he made me his lure. He forced me to talk to girls, find out where they lived and when they'd be alone, so he could do what he did.

He forced you to--what kind of man would do such a thing? To his own daughter?

[She looks up again slowly]

A monster. He made sure I knew he'd kill me if I ever said no to him.

[Margaery looks at her, shock and sadness written plain on her face]

Did you?

[Abigail shakes her head and wipes at tear at the thought that she might have been able to stop her father and save those girls and her own mother.]

No. I never stood up to him. I only got away from him when Hannibal and Will saved me.

You were his daughter. He should have taken care of you, not forced you to find victims for him.

I think about that a lot, the life I should have had. A normal childhood, then college and a career. Friends. All that stuff. I know I shouldn't dwell on it, but it's hard not to.

You can still have friends. I'll be your friend.

You will? Thank you.

I'll be your friend too.

[fresh tears well up]

Thank you, Abigail. No matter what your father tried to do to you, you're very kind.

That means a lot to me, really. Back home, I don't think anyone would have called me kind.

Perhaps here you feel as though it's safe?

I do, especially with people who understand brutal and terrible things.

Well, Westeros certainly had its share of brutal and terrible things. More than its share.

Do you want to talk about it?

...perhaps. There are so many things I've only told Matt. [she tears up again]

[Abigail frowns.]

You don't have to tell me now, only when you're ready. I don't want to push you.

[she's crying a little]

You're not pushing me. It's just--Matt has such a strong sense of justice. Good and evil. I was. Shocked when he didn't judge me for all the sins done in my name. In the Lannister name.

[Abigail has difficulty with people like who see the world in absolutes, because she feels they'll always see her as evil. And she has trouble understanding that point of view. Was her father evil or sick? Hannibal was good to her, evil to others. It's all too complicated for simple labels to her. Still, she can't comment when her new friend is grieving.]

I'm guessing he was a smart man? It must mean you shouldn't judge yourself for those sins either. He wouldn't want you to.

[well, Margaery has no room to judge when her own past involves the alliance with the Lannisters and complicity in the Red Wedding]

He's a lawyer. From what I've been told, that makes him very smart. And you're right, I shouldn't. It's just hard sometimes.

It really is hard. Sometimes I have nightmares about my father's victims coming back to judge me.

[And her own victims too,though that's even harder to talk about.]

I understand. I had nightmares about the Red Wedding and that was entirely fault of the Lannisters, the Boltons, and the Freys. I can only hope that the victims found peace, just as I hope that your fathers victims have, too.

[she had to countenance much during her long engagement to Joffrey. worse, she had to pretend to like his more perverse urges]

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