Throne of Tears and Duty

Heaven Couldn't Wait

Inspired by Beyoncé's "Heaven"
                Slight warning for non-descriptive non con

Alicent felt as though she was going absolutely insane. Everyone was acting like nothing was going wrong.

She had just walked out of her husband's chambers after his meeting with Lord Lyonel Strong who had come to resign from his position as the Hand of The King. He was embarrassed from his son's fight in the yard today.

The King forced him to stay as the Hand but he could escort Ser Harwin back to his seat at Harrenhal.

Alicent found it to be extremely frustrating. So she left almost as quickly as Lord Lyonel was dismissed from the chambers.

The Queen walked all the way to her apartments where she had a scheduled appointment with Larys Strong. She did not know exactly when these talks of theirs started but it was sometime after Aemond was born. It was the time when she felt like she thought she needed to know everything about everyone in The Red Keep. Larys was the exact person to help her.

As she opened the doors, he was right there and he had already begun to eat. When he looked right up at her, Alicent instantly noticed a chill reach her body.

She breathed in and strode to the seat that was across from him. She adjusted herself to get comfortable in way possible. He stared at her before he started to make small talk.

The conversation led from what happened in the yard today with Ser Criston and Ser Harwin and how Lord Lyonel tried to resign to Alicent speaking on the things that brought a thorn in her side. How she just wanted someone to be on her side and that someone was her dad. He would be partial to her. Larys Strong took note of that want in a way that did not ever expect.

The clever man would use it against the Queen.
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Something in Rhaenyra urged her to leave Kingslanding. She knew she had to listen. After what had transpired throughout the whole of the day, her decision was made.

She would take her and her family to Dragonstone. The Heir could not care to hear if her father would object because it was a choice she was making for her boys.

So that they could be raised away from the stares and whispers of the courts. She informed all of them where they were going. Lucerys was the most apprehensive of it but she had said they would not be so far that if he wanted to visit he could to convince him,

Later in the day, they were all ready to depart and they moved to Dragonstone. King Viserys was not the happiest with her sudden leave but what could he truly do but sulk about it.
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Daella was helping her husband pack a handful things for his short time away. Arien was going to assist in taking Lyonel and Harwin Strong to Harrenhal and returning with Lyonel. He had formed a friendship with the knight after Ser Harwin had completely bested him in the training yard.

"Do you really have to go even if it is for a short time, my sweet?" Daella always called him by that nickname when she particularly did not desire for him to do something. There was a feeling in her about him going to Harrenhal that did not sit quite right with her.

"Flower, I want to go. It will be the last I get to see Harwin before he is confined to his duties at Harrenhal in the Riverlands.. He is my friend." Arien beamed at his lady-wife as he continued to pack his clothes.

"Alright but make sure to not get too at home there. The children will miss you too much. I will as well." The Princess sauntered over to her husband and wrapped her arm around his. Arien stopped what he was doing and looked down at Daella. He placed his touch onto the ring she had gifted him. He removed it from his finger and positioned on to hers.