The Lion Knight and Dragon Princess

4 - We Have A Thing For Knights Don't We?

- mature content 18+

"Vaella. Come sit with me dear girl." My mother opened her arms waving me over to the window that she sat near in her rocking chair. Normally my brother Viserys was in the room with her but a lady in waiting had put him down for a nap with a guard outside his room.

Rounding my way past her bed I sat down in the chair across from her, recalling the gown she wore was a simple gray one with her long hair flowing down her shoulders. "I wish father would allow you to move about the castle or at the very least not have a guard posted at your door."

"I'm afraid I wished many things throughout my life. But I don't regret being a mother to you and your brothers." She admitted to me resting a hand on her stomach.

Letting my curiosity get the better of me I ignored the presence of the guards on the other side of the door. "What's one of the things you'd wish you'd done?"

"There was this one knight that I loved very deeply. His name was Bonifer Hasty from the Stormlands. But he was poor and wasn't acceptable for a princess like me. And it wasn't like your father and I had any choice of saying no to our arrangement."

Putting my hands in my lap I sighed praying the same wouldn't happen to me. "Hopefully that won't happen for me." Running my fingers through my hair I bite my lip gazing towards the window.

"I know that look. Who's the man you want to sleep with?"

I gasped feeling my face turning bright red. "Mother!"

"It's the same look I had. So who's the lucky man to charm you, dear daughter?" My mother Rhaella sent me a look waiting for an answer.

I giggled leaning forward and she leaned closer, sensing I didn't want the guards outside to hear what I was about to tell her. "It's a knight in fathers Kingsguard. I - I hadn't realized it until very recently when he confronted Ser Darry when he brought me to be with you. How he stood up to him worried about me and not about what could happen to him."

"And what is this knight's name?" She asked me.

I smiled brightly at her. "Jaime Lannister."

"Oh I see. His mother was a dear friend to me. Have you told him how you feel yet?"

I cut myself short from answering her question scrambling to my feet and out of her chambers in search of him. My mothers rare laughter could be heard behind me before I had exited her chambers. That was one of the only times I had seen her so happy ever in my whole life. "It couldn't happen mother. He won't forsake his vows for me. Why should I tell him when - oh my gosh I know why I need to tell him. It's because I love him - Jaime!" 

"Vaella?" I watched Jaime enter my room at the tavern while I kept my body hidden in the corner giving the power to slam the door and announce my presence, making him nearly jump up in the air. "You scared the living shit out of me."

"What were you thinking when you attacked Ned Stark in the streets a few weeks ago hmm?" Was the first thing that came out of my mouth rather than greeting him with a smile or a hug like I normally do.

He sent me a confused expression. "What are you talking about? How do you even know about it?"

"I saw you. I had to give out alcohol seller the money and when I was on my way back I watched your confrontation." I slowly stride up to him, hands clenched into fists at my sides. "Issi ao trying naejot rhaenagon nykeā vīlībāzma naejot jiōragon aōha lēkia arlī." - ( Are you trying to start a war to get your brother back )