⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING! This chapter has talks of miscarriage, torture, PTSD, mentions of violence, mentions of r@pe and depictions of death. ⚠️
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Aelinor woke up, blinking her eyes as she wined, feeling one of her eyes swollen more than the other.
She winced, remembering the feeling of being kicked and punched all over as her eyes scanned to see her mother's familiar russet-coloured locks.
"M-Muña?" Aelinor asked, her voice soft.
"Aelinor! Oh, thank gods you're awake!" Alicent hugged her daughter, tears falling from her dark eyes as she clung to her child.
"Get the maester. Tell him Princess Aelinor is awake!"
"Kepa?"
Daemon turned his head from the doorway to see his daughter and broke into a smile, joining his wife to hug their daughter, kissing her brunette locks as he embraced his two darker-haired Targaryens, "We're here, byka vīlībāzmio." little warrior
"Do you remember what happened?" Alicent asked, her eyes filled with hope mixed with worry.
If people could breach Dragonstone and attack a Princess, they could do far worse.
As bad as the horrid things Alicent had seen done in her dreams. Unimaginable horror to anyone, alive or dead.
"Two men entered my room. They said they were going to take me to Rhaenyra. Make me a hostage, then one said he was going to..." Aelinor paused, sighing deeply as she tried to recall the events before.
Daemon curled his hand into a tight fist while Alicent grabbed his other hand and clung harshly to it, sharing a look between her Targaryen husband and daughter.
"He didn't. The Maester checked, and you weren't raped, thank the Gods." Alicent said, turning to see her daughter relax upon hearing that sentence.
Aelinor continued, "I fought them. I used those steel stars you got for me, Kepa, but one of the men began kicking me and punched me in the belly after I scratched his hand when he threatened to 'break me'. I pretended I was falling unconscious when they panicked and left, and I came to you and Mũna."
Alicent covered her mouth as Daemon grabbed his wife, holding her against him as Aelinor spoke once more, "Rhaenyra ordered them to take anyone from our family. According to the men, she said that the men could use Muña, me, Alyssa and Helaena as... whores, as if we were from the Streets of Silk."
Alicent saw red upon hearing that Rhaenyra had ordered an abduction that she'd sanctioned the rape of her former friend, her female cousins, and the death of an unborn babe.
"Muña? What's wrong? What did Maester Geraldys say?" Aelinor asked, worried when she saw her mother had begun crying softly before swiftly wiping her eyes to clasp her daughter's hands in her own.
"Maester Geraldys said that you will recover, and..." Alicent stopped, still trying to make sense of the knowledge that her daughter miscarried due to fighting back against two assassins.
"What?" Aelinor asked, and for a moment, both Daemon and Alicent saw the little girl Aelinor had been. A scared little child who begged her Kepa to protect her from meanie Rhaenyra and her meanie sons.
It broke Daemon's heart to see his warrior have such a look.
"I'll go and tell everyone you're awake. I'm sure they'll be relieved," Daemon said, moving away from his wife and daughter and leaving the room. He offered his two brown-haired girls a sympathetic look and closed the door behind him, leaving Alicent and Aelinor.
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