Blood In The Wine {House of The Dragon}

{~Majestic~}

"That doesn't stop up from what We want."

After a long night, Armadeus had to sneak out, Rhaenyra helped.
"Thank you, Armadeus, for staying over." Rhaenyra said, after she checked if the path was clear. "I'd come over anytime you need to. Send me a raven, I'll be here." Armadeus said.
"I'll see you later, then?" Rhaenyra said. Armadeus nodded. Armadeus and Rhaenrya shared a kiss, then left.
Armadeus smiled and blushed as she thought that night. 'Rhaenyra is simply beautiful. I'm glad I was with her last night.' Armadeus soon ran straight into Ser Criston. He simply nodded and walked past her. Armadeus became jealous once Criston walked to Rhaenyra's quarters, but shrugged it off, Armadeus knew that her and Rhaenyra won't be at this for long. Armadeus walked to where she was supposed to be that morning, and the night.

Ezekiel stood in front of her quarters. "Where were you, Arma?" Ezekiel asked, he was almost worried. "I'm sorry Zeik, I was with the Princess last night." Armadeus walked through the doors, and straight for her closet. She picked out a nice outfit. Red with a splash of black. She thought of Rhaenyra whilst picking out her outfit. She left her room and went where she was supposed to. "Why were you with the Princess?" Ezekiel asked, curious of what his sister was doing, "Nothing, we just talked. There Is really nothing you need to know." Armadeus tried to keep quiet. "Need to know? Arma! Just tell me!" Ezekiel stressed Armadeus.
"Fine! We slept together. That's all, just a little slumber party. Now leave it."
Ezekiel walked in silence the rest of the way, speechless he was.
The two walked towards the council room, where they were going to present what they needed, and when. They walked through the doors, and bowed. "Your Grace, I hope we're not late." Ezekiel said, as Armadeus' eyes moved towards where Rhaenyra was, and a small smile towards her. Rhaenyra doing the same back.
"Your Grace, I apologise, but the Queen has asked for Princess Armadeus" A guard came in. Armadeus sighed, bowed, and left. Leaving Ezekiel to talk alone.
"So, Prince Ezekiel Scarlet, Second of His Name, and Heir to the Red Throne. Welcome." King Viserys welcomed him. "Thank you, King Viserys." Ezekiel spoke, and seemed nervous. "Please sit here, Prince Daemon won't be joining us." Viserys allowed Ezekiel to sit in Daemon's chair. Ezekiel quickly moved to sit down. "You'll just be telling us the specific supplies you need, then you'll be on your way, alright?" Viserys said, then Ezekiel started naming things. The whole time he just thought, 'This meeting seems like it's going on for years, I hope it doesn;t have to be like this the rest of the time we're here.' After a while Ezekiel was dismissed. When he walked out the door, he let out a huge relieved sigh. Rhaenyra followed him out. "Boring isn't it?" Rhaenyra asked him. "Yes, really, really, really, boring. Honestly, is that how it feels being King? Sitting around all day listening to everyones opinions?" Ezekiel replied. "Yes, but I don;t think it's too bad, if you're king then you won;t need to go to those meetings, you can skip them and your Hand would just summarise it for you." Rhaenyra assured him that being king isn;t so bad.

Meanwhile, Armadeus arrived outside on a balcony, where the Queen was standing.
"You needed me, Your Grace?" Armadeus asked. "What were you doing in Princess Rhaenyra' quarters?" Alicent never took her eyes off the sky while talking to Armadeus. "We just talked, Your Grace. Yes we talked all night, I realised this when I saw the sun come up. Then I left immediately." Armadeus said quickly, not wanting to cause suspicion or problems. "Really? I'm sure one of the guards reported to have seen you two share a kiss. Are you telling me they just saw something wrong?" Alicent finally turned around to Armadeus. Alicent was still young, and Armadeus knew this. They were almost the same age. "You realise that is immediate banishment?" Armadeus is aware of the consequences. "Yes, but I assure you, nothing happened. Your guard saw something wrong." Alicent put her eyes back out to the sky, dismissing Armadeus.
Armadeus walked with haste towards the council room, where Rhaenyra and Ezekiel still stood. "Princess, we need to talk." Armadeus said, catching her breath quickly.
"Sorry Brother, I'll return her back to you as soon as possible." Armadeus said, quickly walking away with one of Rhaenyra' hand in hers, "Armadeus! What is going on?" Rhaenyra said, quickly stopping, causing Armadeus to turn towards her. "What are you playing at?" Armadeus asked defensively. "I know that there were no guards around this morning, so how does Queen Alicent know?" Armadeus asked again. "I don't know! I never said anything. I checked for guards myself, I also knew that there was no one around, no maids or anything. We were alone." Rhaenyra said. Armadeus calmed down after this response. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have acted like that." Armadeus said, "No, it's okay. I would act like that too. I said I'd fight for you, this time I would fight the Queen if I have to" Rhaenyra said.
They smiled at each other, it was easy to tell from the outside that they loved each other, but they had to keep this away from the public, which means no kissing in the halls of the castle. "Not here." Rhaenyra whispered. "You're beautiful, Rhaenyra." Armadeus whispered back. There was gasp quickly behind them, they both turned. "Damn it, Ezekiel." Armadeus exclaimed. "So you were telling the truth." At first Ezekiel was excited, then got worried.
"What if you get executed?" Ezekiel asked, "She won't, and I'll make sure of it." Rhaenyra reassures Ezekiel that his sister is safe. "But this can't be told to anyone, not even Father." Armadeus said. "Especially Father." Armadeus took a breath in, "Rhaenyra, if my Father finds out what I'm doing, he'll strip me of my royal title. I'd become a commoner. He'll send me to the North, and I won't be able to come back." Armadeus explained.
"He won't. No one will find out." Rhaenyra said. "Come on. Let's move from here."
Rhaenyra walked away, Armadeus and Ezekiel following. They walked the halls in a v shape.
Many found it intimidating. They walked towards the throne room. They walked in, and it was silent. "Finally! My daughter has arrived, maybe she can tell you what happened. Come here, Armadeus." Easton said, as he did, Armadeus felt her heart drop. It dropped real low.
She stepped up next to her Father, "What seems to be the issue?" She asked.
"I heard from the Queen that you and Princess Rhaenyra have been having an illicit affair. Tell me it isn't true." King Viserys stated. "No. It is not, I've talked about this with the Queen, I told her that the guard saw wrong." Armadeus defensively said.
Sighs from all over the room. "Even the Princess can tell you that we lost track of time while talking." Armadeus looked at Rhaenyra. She moved next to her. "Then tell me, other than talking what else did you do in the room?" Viserys asked the two. "Nothing, King Viserys. We talked. I guess girls can't talk without being accused of romantic intimacy?" Armadeus laughed. "Seriously. These accusations could strip me of my title. Is that what you want? You don't want a girl sitting on any type of throne? Even if it's not your own? Are you really that sexist? Nothing happened last night, and I'll die saying it." Armadeus stormed off.
"She has a point." Ezekiel followed her. Rhaenyra doing the same. "So that's what she needed you for. There was no one around, who could possibly know?" Rhaenyra asked, Armadeus thought hard, but then she realised just how early Ser Criston showed up. "Ser Criston showed up right as I left." Armadeus said. "It had to be him." Ezekiel replied.
"Wait, wait. Ser Criston comes at the same time everyday, and you left about 30 minutes before that. So then there is a chance he did it and reported it to the Queen." Rhaenyra said.

"Let's leave it. If anything gets worse I'd want it to be on me." Armadeus said, "Why?! You don't need to take the blame for anything." Rhaenyra fought back. "Because, Rhaenyra, you're going to be the Queen to sit on the Iron Throne. I don't want that to change." "That doesn't matter right now. What matters is that you don't die because of a mistake that I made."

Armadeus was heartbroken, "Inviting me into your room was a mistake? Is that seriously what you think?" Armadeus said. "I think I'll leave you two alone." Ezekiel then left.
"Yes. It was a mistake, I clearly wasn't in the right mind" Rhaenyra replied.
"Rhaenyra, that was the best thing that happened to me in years. Now you claim it was all a mistake." Armadeus scoffed at this. Armadeus was offended. She didn't even know it stopped raining in Asthornia.

It was the next morning. Easton just got word that there was a horrible flood in Asthornia, and the storms got worse than before. Armadeus was packing her bags. "Is it really that bad? That you have to go too?" Rhaenyra said. "Yes, but I'll be back." Armadeus turned towards Rhaenyra. "I will be back." She said it again.
Rhaenyra closed the door behind her, "I'm leaving soon, Love." Armadeus said, whilst sitting down on her bed. Rhaenyra walked towards Armadeus, and Armadeus put her arms around Rhaenyra' waist, and Rhaenyra put her arms around Armadeus' neck.
"Come back soon then." Rhaenyra said. Kissing the top of Armadeus' head, slowly moving down to her lips. "I need to continue packing." Armadeus said, standing up and started packing again. "I'll leave you be." Rhaenyra said, walking towards the door.
"I'll stay." Aramdeus said. "What?" Rhaenyra turned around. "I'll stay here, with you. My brother and Father would just have to go themselves."

When King Easton and Prince Ezekiel left, they wouldn't come back for another 10 years.
Completely missing out on what's happening.
Rhaenyra ended up marrying Prince Laenor Valaryon, and "having" two children with him. Bastards they are. Their father, Harwin Strong. A knight.

At the wedding of Rhaenyra and Laenor, there was a murder, the murder of Joffrey, Laenor's secret lover. The murderer is Ser Criston Cole. Even though Laenor begged for Criston to be punished, it never happened. Instead he became a part of the Queen's Guard, the Queen being Alicent Hightower.

So here we are, the birth of Joffrey Valaryon.
Armadeus stands at Rhaenyra's side, as she pushes as hard as she can.