Mastermind // Aemond Targaryen (1)

37. Never Mine

"Married?" Uri asked.

"Yes." Alicent agreed she stared at the dragon on Uri's shoulder. "Where did you-'

"I don't understand." Uri told her.

"You have a dragon." Alicent remarked.

"I do. Why did you call upon me?"

"There is word that you are a witch." Alicent remarked.

"I'm not.' Uri assured.

"NO?" Otto questioned coming up behind them.

"I'm not a witch." Uri said honestly.

"Rhaenys seems to think otherwise." Otto remarked. "Same as daemon."

"I don't know who those people are." Uri remarked. "So them thinking one thing doesn't really mean anything to me."

"They say we have a witch on our side, if that is true. If you hold this power..." Alicent remarked stepping towards her but her dragon screamed out and Alicent took a step back.

"Show us." Otto demanded and Uri chuckled.

"I don't take orders from you." Uri remarked.

"Please, if you have what they say, we can win this, Aemond could be free of his union before it ever begins.' Alicent reasoned. Uri held up her hand her eyes flickered and a flame glowed. Otto reached out but pulled immediately feeling its heat she fisted her hand and it went out immediately. She stared back at them.

"This is good, you can do more than that? Bigger? More power?" Otto questioned. "We don't need more dragon riders if we have a dragon herself.' Otto told Alicent as though Uri wasn't even in the room.

"If you swear allegiance to the true crown now." Otto began and uri withheld the urge to groan. "You would always have a place in this court."

"You just sent Aemond away as a marriage bargaining chip. I have no place here without him." Uri corrected.

"Many princes take lovers." Otto said nonchalantly. Uri stared back at him.

"We can end his union, but you must swear loyalty-" Alicent began again.

"I'm worth more than being someone's side piece." Uri informed him.

"With your power a union with you would be greater than the storms end." Otto assured.

"I'm not a bargaining chip or a weapon either." Uri hissed.

"But you are. They will use you if they get their hands on you. You care for Aemond, might as well join the fight. If they win, they will kill everyone of my children." Alicent told her.

"You side with the crown and true king Aegon Targaryen or..." Otto didn't know if they could contain or even kill the witch. She needed to side with them willingly.

"Fuck off." Uri spat marching away.

"So you are a witch?" Otto called after her.

"I'm your worst nightmare." Uri called over her shoulder. "Careful Hightowers or you might open Pandora's box."

+

Uri waited for Aemond to return. She stood on the beaches right where she landed the first time. Then she saw Vhagar coming. Aemond slid down happily but his smile faltered when he saw her pinched face. Then he noticed her dragon.

"URI!"

''So... are you married?'' Aemond stared back at her. ''Your mother put me on house arrest and said you were leaving to the storms end to make a deal for their alliance that you were going offer a marriage union.''

''Uri-''

''I recall you tossing around the word forever and soulmates and love and I dont know those mean something to me.'' Uri informed him

''I do love you.' Aemond confirmed

''We rushed into this I get it.'' Uri assured ''but im disappointed all the same.''

''Uri-''

''While you were gone I hatched a dragon.'' Uri remarked. She held it out to him. ''He bit me when he came out. Im calling him Hannibal Lector.'' Aemond stared back at her as he took slow steps towards her. ''Are you engaged?''

Aemond couldnt answer her. He might be, but he had pawned Daeron off so he was hopeful.

Uri opened her mouth but nothing came out she just nodded her head as she pursed her lips.

"Damnit Aemond I fell for you and that was my fault but you made me feel special. Made my flame shine brighter and then you do this?"

"Uri I do love you. I want you. I was serious about that. I want you forever." Aemond assured "How did you get a dragon, how did it hatch so quickly?"

"Your family thinks I'm a witch and want to use me to win this war, you left to agree to a marriage and they sent me to your room like a child in time out to keep an eye on me!" Uri shouted. "Do you know what its like to feel so used. Like my only purpose in life is this dragon flame. This power I hold no matter where I go." Uri sobbed out.

"You are more than that to me and you know it, Uri." Aemond told her getting closer.

"It doesn't matter what realm I enter. As soon as anyone knows I become... a weapon not a person." Uri told him. "that's what your family sees. They don't see someone worth love or capable of compassion they see the power it could bring them." Uri exhaled deeply as Aemond brought a hand to her cheek. "I love you." She whispered. "But you were never mine."

''Uri! Uri!'' She turned to see silva waving back at her. ''Uri! Dont close the fucking gateway.'' He snapped running through.

''Silva?' Uri couldnt believe her eyes. Aemond had heard uri talk of silva but seeing him here and not another magical world. Uri ran towards him hannibal squawked on her shoulder as she clung to him.

''Are you alright?''

''How did you find me?'' Uri questioned

''Everyone thought you were dead. But they dont know you like I do.'' Silva informed her. "Oh my God... what the fuck is that?" he questioned at her dragon. 

"Hannibal Lector Jr." Uri said as though it was normal for her to have a baby dragon. 

"Right..." Silva agreed before looking to Aemond.  ''Lets go home.'' Silva grabbed her hand but her feet refused to move. She glanced back at Aemond.

''Don't go.' Aemond begged.

''Come on Uri. Lets go home.'' Silva encouraged.

''Don't go Uri.'' Aemond begged. She looked between them. Her best friend the home she had known forever and the man she so easily fell in love with.

'Come home.''

'Don't go.''

''Come home.''

''Don't go....''