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

Part 38

Chapter 38

VISERYS TARGARYEN

Viserys saw his brother still as he uttered those ominous words, Aenys closed his eyes and leaned back into his chair as silence enveloped the room. His heart thumped in his chest as he waited for his answer, despite knowing it already.

"Yes," came the reply, and Viserys's eyes widened as his mind raced. He had been right. And everything became clear now. Everything. From his peculiar behavior as a child, his maturity, his abilities, and most of all his stubbornness in certain issues.

And then suddenly, he recalled something else.

"Aune Maegella, she knew about this!" he ventured, and now it became clear why she would leave the capital for him.

And Aenys nodded.

"Yes, she did. After grandfather exiled me for my impudence, she begged him to see reason. And she had nearly convinced him to end my exile when news of me claiming the Grey Ghost came. Grandfather became wroth with me, and in the end refused her plea. In the end, he gave her permission to follow me to Braavos, as he made the High Septon absolve her of her vows," and he recalled the scandal.

Their Aunt Maegella was promised to the sept by their grandmother, and yet when Aenys had been exiled the High Septon would absolve her of her vows and send her on a journey to Braavos so she could spread the light of the Seven in the free city of Braavos.

Everyone knew that it was a ruse, and that she went to Braavos to care for Aenys, yet the reason for it became much clearer.

"Who else knew about this?" he questioned as he tried to reason out just how many people knew his secret. He didn't miss how Aenys hesitated for a bit before he slowly answered.

"Of those alive, you are only the second person who knows about this," Aenys answered in the end, and he frowned as he tried to reason out the other person besides him who knew of this secret, and then suddenly he realized just who it was.

"Alicent," he reasoned, and Aenys nodded as Viserys reached for the wine glass and took a small gulp. It was all just too much. How often had he thought about his dreams, had thought them to be a blessing like that of Daenys himself? Yet, in the end, he had been disappointed again and again.

And now, he learned that his own brother had been gifted with the blessing that had once saved their family.

"You could have told me. You should have told me. The gift of Dreams," he uttered in awe as he placed back the glass, though Aenys chuckled at his words.

"Gift. It seems you have forgotten your history brother," Aenys began making him frown.

"The very gift that saved our family, drove Daenys to madness, her very dreams broke her mind," Aenys cut in and he paled as he heard those words.

"I didn't..." but Aenys was having none of it, as he continued.

"And told you. You. The brother who hated me for my birth, the brother who doubted me, who feared me. The brother who abandoned me!" and he nearly shouted the last words, making him reel back in embarrassment as he realized how true those words were.

"I never hated you," he finally managed to say out loud but Viserys.

"Yes, you did. But I am not here to discuss the past, I have put it all behind me," Aenys said with a sigh as Viserys looked up at him and found him shaking his head.

"What I saw in my dreams shall never come to pass, for in those dreams, Alyssa Targaryen never gave birth to a son. She died in childbirth, her third son stillborn, never took a breath, and yet here I sit," he said as she opened his arms.