Little Devil / Viserys Targaryen / Tommy Shelby

37. Mother Knows Best

I Can See You / Gendry Waters out now!

Rhaenyra's wedding was fast approaching but Alicent was in her own wedding mode. They were trying on dresses. Rhaenyra and Alicent both and Aislynn loved being the mother to them. 

Aislynn shook her head when Alicent tried on a blue dress. Cocked her head at the green dress Rhaenyra tried on. 

"I mean, I dont hate it." Aislynn offered. 

"I like that." Alicent remarked. 

"Rhaenyra stick to red. It's your color. I hate to say it but the its true." Aislynn agreed. "Ali, green is your color. Stick with it." They swapped dressed and Alicent spun around in the mirror. 

"YES!" Aislynn agreed with a clap. "Thats beautiful Ali!" She jumped up moving to her little sister. "You are so beautiful, Michael is not going to know what hit him." Alicent blushed. 

"And me mother?" Rhaenyra questioned reappearing in a red dress. 

"Mother approved." Aislynn agreed. Rhaenyra beamed back at her. She thought she was going to hate this, moving on with her mother. Having a wedding without her mother here but Aislynn stepped up and treated her like a daughter. Aislynn had always been family but this was different. 

"Make Laenor sway back your way." Aislynn added kissing her cheek. Rhaenyra clung to Aislynn like she needed to hold on or else she would float away into the clouds. 

"Hey after your weddings, I really was thinking about dragons." Aislynn went on. "And when we could get me one." She added slowly. Rhaenyra chuckled. 

"I know its a lot." Aislynn assured. "marriage and heir making and blah, blah, and little ole me is just... gone... Aislynn's dreams of dragons just... gone." 

"Stop saying gone like that its so ominous." Alicent decided. 

"I want a dragon. Rhaenyra promised me and a promise to a mother is sacred." Aislynn informed them. 

"Well don't you ladies look lovely," Otto remarked. He was still trying to convince Aislynn that Aegon should be heir. She wasnt having it though. "Aislynn what are you wearing to the wedding?" 

"Green." Aislynn answered simply. "Maybe black because it will be the death of Rhaenyra's happiness as she knows it." Rhaenyra grumbled dropping back into the couch. "I know, I know, mummy's here." AIslynn coed running a hand over her head. "Us girls have to make the best of our circumstances." 

"I tried and failed." Rhaenyra grumbled. AIslynn cocked her head down at Rhaenyra to see her better. 

"What did you do?" Aislynn questioned. Rhaenyra opened her mouth but closed it remembering Otto was here. "Daddio us ladies are trying on dresses that is no place for a man." 

"Of course." Otto agreed pressing a kiss to his girls heads before heading out. 

"Dresses are meant to be taken off with teeth." Aislynn snapped her teeth at Alicent. She laughed out covering her face with her hands. 

"Teeth?" Rhaenyra countered getting up. Aislynn moved towards her  biting down on the string of her dress. Rhaenyra's face blushed crimson as Aislynn dress back the string. 

"Teeth." Aislynn agreed. 

"Has my father done that? I can't picture him- never mind I dont want to picture him-" Rhaenyra decided. 

"Former lovers." Aislynn corrected. "No hands rule was fun, ripped a lot of panties at his impatience though." 

"Who was he?" Rhaenyra questioned as Tommy came in. Aislynn smiled back at him. 

"I got you and Ali a gift," Tommy remarked. "Hello Princess." he added. Rhaenyra waved back at him. Tall dark hair, charming smile, Rhaenyra wanted a warrior that appreciated a womans touch. Tommy placed the necklace around Alicent's neck. "Early wedding gift, Ali." She touched the green gems smiling back at her reflection. "And Amoret," Tommy took her hand in his and slipped on a ring. She looked down at her hand before meeting his gaze. "Just because I love you." Tommy remarked kissing the corner of her lips. 

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"You asked Criston to what?" Aislynn laughed out. 

"You promised you wouldnt laugh." Rhaenyra countered. 

"I'm- its just... I'm-" She failed to stifle her laughter. "You asked him to be your whore." 

"Thats not what I meant but that was what he said too." Rhaenyra admitted. 

"I thought you and Harwin had something." Aislynn remarked. "But hey I see the appeal in Criston." 

"Harwin is..." Rhaenyra's smile softened, her eyes dreamily thinking of Mr. Break Bones himself. 

"Yeah." AIslynn agreed. "Harwin is Harwin." 

"He probably thinks me a child." 

"You are a child but guys like younger women, take me and your father."  Aislynn offered spinning her wine around her glass. 

"Harwin is not that  old." Rhaenyra countered. 

"No but the idea of a princess-"

"Don't diminish me." Rhaenyra sassed. 

"-becoming king one day, a cute thing like yourself, men dont care about the age or the nervous pimple on your nose." Aislynn remarked and Rhaenyra spun around to the mirror. 

"Hells." Rhaenyra muttered. 

"don't pop it-" Aislynn began but it was too late. 

"I made it worse." Rhaenyra realized. 

"Yes." Aislynn agreed. "But dont worry, just listen to me, mother knows best after all."