My Tears Ricochet // Alicent Hightower

98. Always Have You

Many Years Ago

''Viserys.'' Davina whimpered and he wiped at his eyes looking over at her.

''Davina, my dear..." she collapsed on top of him and he groaned out.

''Why are you trying to get rid of me?'' Davina murmured ''i thought you loved me.''

''Davina. I do i do love you.'' Viserys assured

''So why are you trying to ruin my life?" Davina shouted

''Father-''

''He burned them. He burned the offers because i told him to. He wouldnt do this to me.'' Davina demanded, she knew it was lie, she knew he didnt but it was all she could do to not hate her father, he would have listened to her, stopped this, he wouldnt want her unhappy and miserable. Viserys couldnt let the image she had of their father be tainted by his last wish.

''I'm sorry dav.''

She sobbed into him.

Daemon was married, she didn't even get to go to the union, didn't get to burn Rhae. But Daemon wrote and said he would never love Rhae, he loved Davina. He didn't fuck the bronze bitch, he fled after the union and that gave davina hope for them.

For their future.

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Seamus watched as his family talked and discussed his future. They were so excited but Seamus didn't know what to think.

He wanted to make his family proud but he also heard that Davina had a habit of burning husbands.

He didn't even think he liked girls, but they all kept saying that Davina was beautiful and they were getting a princess. They assured Seamus he could charm Davina into falling in love but he wasn't sure about that.

He went to a pleasure house that night to see if there was any spark, what drew his eyes. He had never been before, he liked his books and his studies, he liked learning and hadnt thought about marriage. He wasn't close with his family, they were a smaller house and their union to Davina Targaryen would really make them known. But they didn't understand Seamus. Seamus didn't understand himself.

So he walked through the pleasure house and looked around.

He stared at a womans very large tits and felt nothing. He moved through hoping for himself to feel normal, be proud like his parents wanted, be a good husband for Davina if he made it past that night.

Or maybe she killed him like the others and he wouldnt be conflicted with such emotions flooding his head. Feelings of unbelonging and longing for something he didn't understand.

He went to the docks and met a man. They spent hours talking and Seamus visited him everyday. He told seamus how he was going to travel the world and Seamus fell more and more in love. He spent every day that moon leading up to the wedding knowing with complete certainty that this was the man, the one, his one.

Seamus had never known anything else to be more true and now he was getting married to a woman and he didn't want to die. He wanted to live and love and travel the world.

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The fourth Wedding... Seamus Seaworth

After the three previous unfortunate weddings the Seaworth family knew they had to step up their game is they were going to win over the princess and her dragon.

'We had to celebrate for 3 days and 3 nights at weeks and we shall have the wedding of the century.' They declared

'3 days 3 nights.' Divina groaned, 'kill me now no better kill you now.'