This doesn't suck at all, it's perfect. :D I love how Cersei is trying to achieve something useful, but Stannis just looks right through her. And Jaime laughing his ass off is wonderful. And you did great with Stannis - how her advances just make him more uncomfortable, how he's completely deaf to her flattery, how he's polite in this really cold, awkward way.

All she receives in reply is a harsh sweep of dark eyes over her face, that ascetic, contemptuous glare that can make even the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms feel like the lowest harlot in the whorehouse- she feels her cheeks burning, and her jaw clenches until her own teeth begin to grind together-
I love this line more than I can possibly say. It's so in character for both of them, and I love how Stannis makes other people as uncomfortable as they make him. And Cersei drinking at the end is very nice foreshadowing.

Thank you so much for writing this. :D It's absolutely perfect. Stannis will probably run off to talk to Davos now and complain to him about the decadence of the court. ;)