THE HEALER PRINCE ( House of dragon reincarnation)(OC x Alicent)

Part 37

Chapter 37

ALICENT HIGHTOWER

The sound of a child crying made her hasten her steps as she walked towards the nursery. The exhaustion from the travel had resulted in her sleeping for a bit longer than she had expected, and as she had expected, Aenar had begun crying.

As she stepped into the nursery, she found herself surprised as a smile appeared on her face as she found someone else standing there already, holding a small bundle in her arms lovingly as the nursemaids stood by the side attentively.

Rhaenyra smiled as she saw her walk in and gave her a nervous look.

"I promise, he was crying before I even came in," she explained, and she chuckled as she walked up to her friend and took the crying baby from her.

"Don't worry about it. He always does this in the morning," and the only reason she had even gotten some sleep after the birth was that Aenys had ordered the nursemaids to take him away so she could get proper rest.

She looked at the child in her arms and felt a sense of ease and care flooded her heart. Before his birth. She had been anxious about becoming a mother, yet now, as she held her son in her arms, the sense of love and compassion she felt for it was something completely foreign to her.

As soon as Aenar settled in her arms, he became quiet, much to the consternation of her Rhaenyra, who pouted and looked at the little bundle in her arms with a hurt look.

"And here I had been trying to soothe him for all this time?" she complained scandalously, and Alicent just chuckled as she moved towards the chairs and sat down.

"Now that he quiet, tell me, how are you?" Alicent began as Rhaenyra took the seat opposite to her; they hadn't had the opportunity to talk extensively since yesterday, for she had been exhausted from all her travel.

She saw Rhaenyra hesitate as she slowly nodded.

"It's been tough. I don't think the pain will ever lessen," she spoke in a shaky tone.

"I still miss her, you know. Sometimes I imagine perhaps things might have been different had I not left for Braavos that night," and Alicent reached for her friend's hand, who was wallowing in guilt.

"I know how you feel," she spoke, and she did. She had felt similarly when she had lost her own mother, her own father too lost in the running of the kingdom to pay any attention to her, and her younger brother. In the end, she had learned a valuable lesson.

"And I am here for you, now and always, for anything you need, and so is Aenys," she assured her. For these were the words she had needed to hear then and were perhaps the words anyone needed to hear in such a situation.

Rhaenyra nodded and gave her a small smile.

"I know," she added, "though where is he. I haven't seen him since the morning," asked Rhaenyra, and Alicent replied.

"He went to see your father in the morning. He plans to start him on some new medications he brought him. He thinks they might help in dealing with his illness," and she saw Rhaenyra's eyes widen, and a glint of hope appeared in them.

"He has a cure for father's illness!" she spoke in a surprised tone, but she shook her head, having made the same mistake yesterday when Aenys had talked with her.

"No, not a cure. But he thinks that your father's illness shares a connection with the illness that Lady Maegella had," she began, and Rhaenyra frowned.

"But didn't she have consumption? How could this be related to that," she questioned, and she could only shrug.

"I don't know much, but I believe he said that they both are caused by similar agents. Nevertheless, he has been working on a cure for consumption for some time now. He thinks that some of those medications could help manage your father's illness," she told him, and Rhaenyra nodded.