What happens to the Targaryen dynasty when Rhaenyra has an older brother Aerion Targaryen first born child to King Viserys Targaryen and Queen Aemma Targaryen.
Alicent Hightower x Maleoc
All explicit and otherwise intimate relations are done by cons...
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"Wed our daughter Laena to Aerion unite the two great surviving Valyrian houses, with the Targaryen dragons and the Valyrian fleet bound in blood you can show the realm that the crowns strongest days are ahead not behind"
"In Valyria dragons were the size of Viserion quadrupled, the dragon Lords were the highest nobility"
"Your paintings are truly magnificent, Aerion" Alicent said looking at the drawing of Syrax
"They're for my cousin Laena, her egg did not hatch and wishes to know everything she can about the creatures, I know it is not the coolest thing in the world drawing dragons but it makes Laena happy"
"Tis honourable, that you would do this for your family" Alicent said genuinely
"Seven hells" Aerion muttered as he spilled water on his drawing of Syrax "ill have to restart"
Alicent picks the drawing up admiring for a second before slipping it into her pocket unnoticed
"Tell me how is Rhaenyra" Aerion asks
"What do you mean"
"Well these days, I admit that she has not been too happy with me, for reasons I do not know"
"It will take time, she is a teenage girl" Alicent says
"I remember when she was little, she would not leave my side now she barley utters a few words to me"
"When I lost my mother, I just wanted to be alone, I fear that is the same with Rhaenyra" Alicent tells the prince making him take her hand giving her a paintbrush
"Your turn" Aerion spoke trying to lighten the mood
"No, Aerion I do not wish to ruin your drawing you've worked so hard on it"
"Nonsense, ill help you"
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"Its only been half a year since my mother died and already they're trying to marry either my father or my brother off" Rhaenyra told her closest friend "I know those men and how they plot, why cant they just let them grief"
"You can not worry about the matters of lords and kings Rhaenyra, what if your brother were to marry? It would have to happen eventually" Alicent spoke before kneeling down towards the candles "kneel with me I find this as a way to be with my mother, here in the quiet of the sept I feel close to her I know it sounds foolish"
"It doesn't sound foolish" Rhaenyra says
"I brought your brother here a few weeks ago, I thought you might find comfort in it as he did"
"What do I say?"
"Whatever you wish" Alicent tells her "its only for you and the Gods the know"
Tears flood Rhaenyra's eyes and Alicent takes her hand
"I want his to see me as more than a little girl" Rhaenyra tells her confusing Alicent
"Your brother or your father?" Alicent spoke not getting a response "mine own father does not know the language of girls either when I wish to talk with him, I know that I must make the effort"
"thank you"
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"Your Grace, My Prince" Lord Corlys spoke seeing the two Targaryen's
"I'm glad we could meet" Viserys said "I know tempers ran hot today and I wanted to assure you how much I value the bond between our two houses Rhaenys is my favourite cousin after all"
"I wish to apologise for the tenor at the small council today your grace it was not my intent to make offence"
"Your fleet is one of the realms most important assets Lord Corlys" Aerion tells the Velaryon
"But you must understand that as king it is my obligation to avoid war until such time it is unavoidable"
"None among us desire open war, might I speak plainly, your grace?" Corlys asks
"I always welcome your unfettered thoughts of my council"
"I fear that the eyes of our enemies are presently fixed on the red keep, the queen has passed, your son has been named heir after many years of passing over him, the kings brother so disinherited has claimed the Targaryen seat on Dragonstone without challenge and now a foreign power has established a colony in our most critical shipping lane"
"you paint such an aspirant portrait of my fathers reign lord Corlys" Aerion spoke for his father
"An honest one" Princess Rhaenys says "at the moment the crown is perceived as being vulnerable"
"and a blind incursion in the stepstones is the only way to demonstrate that we are not?"
"To elude a storm you can either sail into it or around it" Corlys said "but you must never await its coming"
"do you have a specific course of action to propose my lord?" Aerion asked
"Join our families" Corlys says looking at Aerion
"Wed our daughter Laena to Aerion unite the two great surviving Valyrian houses, with the Targaryen dragons and the Valyrian fleet bound in blood you can show the realm that the crowns strongest days are ahead not behind"
"I must admit, I haven't given Aerion's marriage much thought"
"the realm expects Aerion to take a wife sooner or later why not now your grace strengthen your line and produce heirs, you could not ask for a stronger match than Laena"
Aerion could think of many more girls he would want to marry than his nine year old cousin
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The next day Aerion found himself walking the gardens with Laena due to his father talking with Otto the night before
"What is it like flying Viserion" Laena asked the prince
"It is truly one of the best feelings I have ever had, we have a magnificent bond, one im sure you will have with a dragon soon"
"Vhagar lives somewhere, I wish to claim her but she is too large for the dragon pit"
"You shall claim her even if some say she is too big for the world"
"Do you know where she nests?" Laena questioned
"The dragon keepers believe she made a home somewhere on the coast of the narrow sea"
"The workers at spice town report hearing her song at times, they say it is a sad thing"
"I imagine dragons get lonely"
"I thank you for your drawings and paintings of the dragons here, it brings me hope that i will get a dragon one day" Laena thanks the prince
"it is no problem I find comfort in painting"
"my prince" Laena stops "it would be a great honour to join our houses as they were in old Valyria, I would give you many children of pure Valyrian blood so that we might strengthen the royal line and the realm"
"Did your father tell you to say that" Aerion asks before Laena looks down in confirmation "and what did your mother tell you to say"
"that I wouldn't have to bed you until I turned fourteen"
"Listen Laena, you are a bright girl who I wouldn't mind marrying but you are young, and I have eyes for someone already" Aerion tells the young girl
