Rhaenyra looks up as her mother climbs into the carriage dressed in rich furs and fabrics, she had a gold chain connecting the two sides of her deep green almost black dress as she uses her furs to cover her youngest children.
The people in the carriage where; Johanna, Rhaenyra, Helaena and Rhaena with Aemond while Aegon and Aemond rode behind the carriage as its guards. Cassian and Tommen rode behind their father as Mycella rode with her ladies in the carriage behind them.
Even though Johanna tried to be close to her children she never could manage it. There was a distance she tried to over come, but she never could. Then her children were also distant from their mother.
They don't know why it was like this it just was, every time their mother reached out with an olive branch they shot her down. They could see the hurt this caused Johanna Lannister but they could not help themselves.
"Good morn, mother" Rhaenyra greets her mother who smiles back at her with a soft smile as Ser Sebastian and Ser Arthur mounted their horses in front of the carriage. They yelled for the party to start moving, and the carriage jolted, startling everyone with in before they become comfortable with the rocking.
"Hello, my darling" Johanna smiles back. "How was your sleep?"
"Bitter sweet."
Johanna frowns as she looks up from Aemond and Rhaena who are reading a book together at her eldest daughter. "How do you mean?"
"We are away from the Red Keep, but I do not wish to leave you for Dragonstone" Rhaenyra admits as she looks at her hands as Helaena glances at her sister sitting beside her and puts a hand into her which makes Rhaenyra look at her.
"You are still my daughter, and will never stop being my child." Johanna says with a comforting smile "You and Aegon will be married soon, then Helaena and Maegor and you will have each other. It is the Targaryen way."
"What is the Lord King wishes different?" Helaena looks at Johanna who frowns at her words and Helaena answer the silent question "My dragonflies have reported the King talking about a union between Rhaenyra and Rob Stark."
Johanna frowns displeased with this information as she glances out of the carriage window at her husband who is talking with Ser Barristan Selmy, whom Johanna saw as a traitor. "I will not let such a union stand. Mycella will be offered in Rhaenyra's place."
"You would submit Mycella to such a fate?"
"She is a Princess of the Realm, it is her duty. Rhaenyra is no longer such a woman, therefore why should she be offered in a political alliance?"
Rhaenyra and Helaena glance at each other at their mother's words, they had known that there was tension between Johanna and her Baratheon children but this was something else. Johanna did not seem to move the heavens and hells to protect them the way she did to protect her Targaryen children.
Robert looks around as Johanna walks into his tent as he sits in a bath with two maids cleaning him. She walks over to the bath and kneels behind him as she takes a cloth from a maid and nods for them to leave.
Robert watches them leave as his wife washes the dirt and sweat from his skin as he closes his eyes.
"What do you want, Johanna?" Robert asks groaning softly at the feeling of her soft hands against his skin.
"Why are you suggesting Rhaenyra be given to the Stark boy? She is no longer a Princess, therefore she has no loyalty to the crown. She is a lady nothing more, with no standing bar her mother being Queen."
Robert groans as Johanna's hands slip below the water line, his eyes rolling slightly back into his skull as Johanna's breath flutters against his shoulder.
"Marry her to Aegon. They move to Dragonstone and will no longer be of any consequence to the crown." Johanna whispers softly as she closes her hand around her husband and starts to move which makes Robert groan as he turns to look at his wife who looks back at him.
"Join me."
With a soft smile Johanna stands and lets her dress fall from her shoulders as she steps into the bath and straddles the King who puts his hands around her hips as she sinks down onto him.
Half way through the love making Robert mutters his agreement to marry Aegon to Rhaenyra which makes Johanna smile as she kisses his cheek.
"Thank you" he hears his wife whisper softly.
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Lady Lannister || Game of Thrones
FanfictionLady Johanna Lannister was born to Lord Tywin Lannister and Princess Daella Targaryen his first wife. Lady Johanna held no Lannister looks thus, Aerys II the Mad King demanded she marry his second born son the Prince Daemon Targaryen. 10 moons afte...