As Good A Reason || House of the Dragon

Prologue~

Ali POV~

"I'm alive? How am I alive?" I ask myself, my voice, quiet as it may be echoing throughout the chamber.

I breathe heavily looking around in confusion, an old styled room surrounds me and as I look closely I see my body is small, almost like a child's, no scratch that, exactly like a child's.

Standing up, I see a mirror in the corner and head towards it, wincing as I put weight onto my feet, wobbling slightly I this weird body.

Getting over to the mirror slowly, I look into it, wide green eyes staring back at me with reddish brown hair flowing neatly down my back despite just getting out of bed.

Looking at myself, I bring a hand up to my face to confirm my suspicions that this is truly me staring back at me in the mirror.

Gasping in alight disbelief as the mirror copies my actions, I turn around, padding back towards the bed, but barely make it before wincing, clasping my head in pain as a sudden sharp pain attacks it.

"What's happening?" I whisper to myself, whimpering at the pain my head is giving me.

Memories appear, short snippets only a few, due to being so young I don't remember much, or well the old me doesn't remember much, only a few months, barely that.

"I'm four?" I whisper in shock, "And I'm Alicent Hightower? How is that possible? She's a character from a book or a TV show, I dont- oh Gods." I whimper, jumping up onto the bed and curling up into a ball.

"Why me?" I ask silently, the words barely escaping my lips.

In a few years, barely more than a decade, I'll be stuck in a loveless marriage with a king. Why must this happen to me? And without any friends, only with my children to rely on.

And the old Alicent only really focused on her younger ones. If that, she had a complicated relationship with her eldest. She always associated him with her loss of innocence.

Well, if I'm forced to marry the King like the past Alicent, I will make sure all of my children are loved no matter what.

And I will make sure Rhaenyra is loved as well. She was always one of my favourites, Daemon coming for a close second.

Viserys, however, and Otto. They both ruined a girls life, a young innocent girl who just wanted to be loved, but they took that from her.

I won't be as naive as the past Alicent, I'll make my Father think he has control over me, but the moment I become who he wants me to be, I'll make sure he never sees a speck of that power in his life, or after.

Otto Hightower will not be a king's grandfather. His blood may be around the throne, but be assured he will never see it again after I'm finished with him.

"Lady Alicent?" A voice calls through the door and I relax my body from a fetal position, if I am to be child once more than I shall embrace it, after all in my past life I didn't get to be a child for very long, and I can tell in this life it will be the same, so I should enjoy it whilst I can.

559 words~