The Love Of Dragons || Daemon Targaryen

VII. Deserved Better

//The title is all I could come up with because, ahem,

HELAENA AND HER KIDS DESERVED BETTER//

"HELAENA'S... HELAENA'S SON IS DEAD?" Raewyn asked as she sat in her black robe sitting down looking at Rhaenyra who just got the news and barged into her chambers where only Raewyn was resting. Daemon was off somewhere probably planning the war.

Rhaenyra nods staring down at the raven scroll that she held loosely in her hands, "yes... Someone in our camp hired assassins; Blood and Cheese, they snuck into the Red Keep, they took her sons from them, and demanded a debt was to be paid..." 

"Who... Who did this?" Raewyn asked.

Rhaenyra just looked at her, "I actually thought... You could have."

Raewyn shook her head, "you actually thought I could have?"

Rhaenyra sat down next to her, "at first a part of me did wonder but I know you, Rae, you are my Aunt and I believe in you just as much as you have always believed in me."

"But we both know who did," Rhaenyra then states.

Raewyn looked at her, "who?" She asked obliviously.

"A child for a child," Rhaenyra told her, "that is what Helaena told the guards that they said."

Raewyn's eyes widened.

That's when Raewyn felt a tightening sensation as she tensed up.

"Daemon..." Raewyn took a deep breath, "Daemon hired Blood and Cheese?"

Daemon then walked in.

Rhaenyra squeezed on Raewyn's hand who just closed her eyes and thought about the boy who was killed in front of Helaena...

"Wife... What did I miss?" Daemon asked.

Raewyn didn't answer and neither did Rhaenyra as the Queen just tossed the raven scroll to him.

Daemon read it as he just nods.

"I see..."

Raewyn then winced again, "Raewyn?" Rhaenyra asked her.

Raewyn shook her head, "i-it's nothing," she stood up touching her baby bump, "you- you went behind my- our back and hired Blood and Cheese to terrorize and murder a child?!"

Daemon just nods, "they did the same thing to us."

"So an eye for an eye then?" Raewyn asked as a tear fell.

"Exactly-"

"No!" Rhaenyra's voice boomed.

"Ah!"

Raewyn felt her bump as she stumbled back, it was a labor sensation, she's been in labor three times before. She knows what this feels like... 

She reaches up her dress as she feels the wetness of her water breaking.

"Fuck," she whispers, "the baby is coming."

DAEMON CARRIED RAEWYN TO HER CHAMBERS but Raewyn was still mad at him and Daemon was shaken up for a different reason.

"Daemon..." Raewyn whispers, "why?"

Daemon looked down at her, "I did what I had to do to avenge our children."

Raewyn shook her head before she cried out in pain, "it hurts!"

"It's okay, shh, shh," Daemon whispers as he tries not to be too triggered by this and he sets her down on her bed, "Maester," he turned to their Maester, "tell me she'll be okay or I'll cut your fucking hands off-"