The Love of a Dragon

Part 32

Aegon's Pov, 

Has... has he lost his bloody mind! Getting out of bed in his state! Then walking into the Throne room and calling them bastards! What if the whole bloody court would have been there! And after that he.... he said that I was not his brother..... because I'm trying to ruin his legacy! 

If he cared so much about his legacy! He would have made sure Rhaenyra and Laenor's heir was taken care of properly not that they grew up in Essos!  Walking into the room I close the door behind me and pass the stone city he's been building for longer than I can remember. 

Making my way over to the bed I see Viserys lay in it and I place my hands behind my back as his head moves around before he looks at me. "How long have you known." I ask him and he releases a groan out of pain. 

"When.... W-when Aemond lost his eye." He heavily breaths out and I nod my head. "You can hate me for what I did, but I was there for them........ for all of my children while you only ever looked at Rhaenyra, there where times before you knew where all you had to be was their father and you weren't........ so hate me, yell at my face that I'm not your brother for what I've done, but I know that my children love me and turnend into good people because they had my love. Who knows that they would have turnend into if you truly where their father. And for the matter of Driftmark that's settled and nothing will ever change that.......... you should rest Viserys, and if you ever dare to speak like that again I will also remember that you claimed to not be my brother, but I am your king." I say before turning away from him and walking out of the chamber again as I slam the door shut behind me. 

"Aegon." The voice of Rhaenyra says and soon she walks over to me. "The matter is done Rhaenyra, you keep speaking to me while Driftmark is passed down by Lord Corlys.... if you had stayed here.... or at Driftmark and let Jace learn this would have maybe never happened." 

"It would have happened because you want your blood to rule, what about mine? What about Jace's right as the firstborn son of Laenor." She's quick to counter and I shake my head at her words. "My blood? My blood will rule over Westeros for many more years to come, Driftmark should pass to one of their blood............. you may look me in the eye and tell me that Jace is the blood of Laenor Velaryon but we both know better than that Rhaenyra." I start as I step closer to her and lower my voice. 

"At least with Rhaena we do know that her mother was a Velaryon. Clearly you build a life up in Pentos I would advise you to return to it." I say before walking away from her. "Aegon!" She yells after me but it falls to deaf ears as I continue to walk. 

That Night.

As the ship disappears into the horizon, I lean against the wall, exhaling a heavy sigh. They depart like thieves under the cover of darkness. My affection for Rhaenyra was genuine... different from my love for Alicent or the way I cherished Laena. Rhaenyra and I, we shared our childhood, yet in these recent years, we've turned into strangers.

Had Jace remained the heir to Driftmark, surely others would have raised their voices in dissent. It's an unalterable truth that the boys bear no resemblance to Laenor, not in the slightest. It could cause for a conflict in Driftmark one that can turn bloody really quick. 

"I loved your daughter, I truly did." I say to Lord Corlys who stands beside me before I bring the cup to my lips. "And yet you fathered other children... with a woman who was not your wife, if Viserys is not the docile and calm man we know it could have started a war, your grace." He counters as he turns to look at me. 

"I will not claim that I chose duty over love when it came to Alicent, but it does not change the way of succession....... your the father of the late Queen Laena and the grandfather of Baela Targaryen your house will always be intertwined with the Iron Throne because of it. For now I think it's time we both return to our beds before your wife comes and castrates me for keeping you away from her." I say and he releases a small chuckle.

"Goodnight your grace." He says and with that we start to part ways as he'll go to the Tower of the Hand. Walking through the halls as Ser Harrold walks a couple yards behind me the only thing that's being heard at this moment are my steps through the empty halls. 

Let them sail back to Pentos and live out their lives there, there's nothing here in Westeros for them.......... does it worry me that they hold dragons? Often times it does, our ancestors where able to conquer Westeros with three of them.... they hold 5 that I know of......... sure they are young but Caraxes and Syrax are not. 

But beside the dragons the thing that truly worries me is Daemon, even after all these years he's still wild and reckless but most of all he's blinded by ambition. And when I was younger and just took the Iron Throne I thought it would lessen... that one day I could welcome him into my council. And yet it has not, he's been playing Rhaenyra from the time she was in that pleasure house with him and now...... now how who knows what he's been whispering in her ear these last years. 


"The beast from where the sun rises will come when the ravens fly out...... when the bells ring they'll come........ fall will the blue queen." A voice says and it makes me turn towards a corridor where I see Helaena pace up and down in clear distress. 

"Helaena." I say and it makes her head snap up in my direction and there's just worry in her eyes, walking over to her I grab her hands and place them in mine. "What's wrong." 


"The beast will come..... the blue queen will fall." She says with a shake of her head and a tear running down her cheek and I pull her into a hug. "It's going to be alright." 

"No! The beast will come........ it will come." She says before practically running away from me and I let a frown grow on my face... the beast? She's spoken more than once about a beast coming and yet nothing ever like that came.  "Helaena." I yell after her but she's already long gone making a sigh leave my lips as I continue the journey to my chamber. 

Times like this when she... when she acts like this it's better to give her some time, if I run after her it won't help her..... I think most of the times she doesn't mean what she says herself. 


"Goodnight Ser." 

"Goodnight, Your Grace," Ser Harrold says, bowing his head as I enter my chamber and close the door behind me, releasing a sigh that seems to have been trapped within me all day. Leaning back against the door, I soon detect the sound of approaching footsteps, prompting me to draw my dagger from its sheath, only to find Allicent before me.

"How did you manage to enter my chamber?" I inquire.

"You've been using your secret passage for about 20 years now; I thought it was time I used it just once," she replies, approaching me as I return my dagger to its sheath. "God's how could he stumble into the Throne Room and just say that. Saying that I'm not his brother, he's been almost bed written for 4 years and now that she needs him he's able to come out of it." I say with a shake of my head while she walks over to me, feeling her hands take mine I puff my cheeks out. 

"Aegon." 

"No Alicent what if the whole court would have heard him, trying to act like he's some kind of saint...... where was he when they needed him? Where was their father when they wished to go to the Dragon Pit? Who was there to.... to tell Aemond that he would one day get a dragon, who spared with them? I did! And he.... he's trying to make me look like the bad guy...... was what I did wrong? Yes. But there where times when he needed to be their father and he wasn't there." I say with a bite to it and she let's her hand move up before it lays on my cheek. 

"I know Aegon, but you are their father and they know that....... they love you just as much as you love them and nothing will ever change that." She says before pulling me into a hug and I soon wrap my own arms around her. 

The Next Morning

Hearing a loud set of knocks on my door I release a groan as I have to force my body away from Alicent's, getting up I grab a robe and wrap it around my body while walking over to the door, opening it I see Ser Harrold stand their with a sad look on his face. 

"Your grace, there is no easy way to tell you this." 

"Tell me what?" 

"Your brother, Prince Viserys has passed in the night." 

Auhtor's Note, 
So nice.... way to nice!

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And I didn't do a dinner scene bc mf passed out, and there won't be anything to celebrate.