The Targaryen Jewel

Ch.14

Visenya's POV

When we got to Dragonstone, I had a maid draw Rhaenyra a bath. Sitting in beside her tub I grab a sponge and help clean her.

"Aegon doesn't wish to be king." I tell Rhaenyra. She looks at me shocked.

"Alicent told him a lie, Alicent and Otto rule Kingslanding in Aegons name, he knows he is not fit to rule he does not want to." I tell her.

"Daemon is planning for war." Rhaenyra says with a sigh. "I am hoping this does not get that far. I wish for no bloodshed only peace." I help Rhaenyra out of her tub and into a night slip." May we speak about this another time, I am exhausted." She tells me and I nod grabbing her brush I stand behind her as she sits by the fire and I brush through her hair.

I hum a song as I brush through her hair only to gasp as I feel something inside me move. I clutch her chair with one hand and my belly with the other.

Rhaenyra turns to me only for her eyes to widen." Visenya are you alright?" She asks standing and I gasp once more and wince in pain.

"Something is happening." I tell her panicked. Rhaenyra sits me down in the chair she was sitting in and places a hand on my belly only to smile as the pain comes back once more.

"The babe is kicking Visenya, this is something good." She says and smiles up at me softly, I groan.

"This doesn't feel like something good." I retort and she chuckles.

"No, it does not." She eyes me as I wince at the babes kick sent to my ribs." Visenya, you still look pretty sick, and you are still thin, are you feeling alright?" 

Tears come to my eyes." I was always terrified to get pregnant." I tell her and she sits at the short table in front of me taking my hands in her." I was with your mother trying to bring her comfort when she was having Baelon." I tell her and she looks shocked at the news.

"I never knew." She says in amazement.

I nod." I held the babe through the night, he died in my arms." I tell her with a sad smile and a tear travels down my cheek that she is quick to catch with her delicate fingers.

"I never wanted to be married, I never wanted children, and this pregnancy is everything I have feared." I cry out." It's horrible! My body hurts all the time, Im tired all the time but can never rest comfortably, I am nauseous all the time, and the headaches." I sob." And now my babe has started to kick me in the ribs." I let out a sob that I immediately tried to stifle. I wipe my tears as it hits me, this woman has lost two of her children.

"Im sorry!" I shout and stand up." Im here complaining after you-" I stop myself and she stands too.

"It's okay, I can't lie and tell you that I know what you're going through, my pregnancy was easy, it was the birthing that was hard, I was never sick while pregnant, though I remember a time when Alicent puked at the site of a cooked pig." I chuckle with a nod.

"Yes, she is always terribly nauseous in the mornings while with child." I giggle at the memories.

"Truth be told?" I ask Rhaenyra and she smiles at me with a nod.

"I married Aemond for your father, he wanted to know I would be taken care of after he passed, so I showed him I would be. I knew I would regret it and I do, it's why I insisted on marrying him in the faith of the seven, I do not see them as my gods so I saw it as illegitimate." I told her.

"Well, then as queen I confirm that it was an illegitimate marriage and Aemond is not your husband, you can remarry whomever you want, or not marry at all." Rhaenyra says and I smile.

"Thank you, my queen." I tell her with a soft smile.

She looks around the room for a moment and her expression sadens." Can you sleep here, with me tonight? I do not wish to be alone with my thoughts." She tells me as she plays with her fingers and I nod with a soft smile.

"Of course."

In the morning we dressed back into our riding clothes after eating a light breakfast, this morning I was able to keep my food down and I flew with Rhaenyra to Stormsend once more, we stayed atop of the rocks that overlooked the water but from a distance we hear a commotion and see something laying in a net on the beach, we both hop onto our dragons and fly out, people shout and run away as they notice the dragons landing at the beach, Rhaenyra jumps right off of Syrax as I carefully climb off of Rhaegal.

Rhaenyra kneels down in the sand by the net and I see her shoulders shake as I walk over, I see a dragon wing and cloth, I kneel beside her and take the crying queen into my arms. I rub her arm as she sobs, crying out for her dead son. Syrax moves closer feeling her rider's sadness, Syrax cries out too as her son has died too. Rhaegal moves closer and sniffs at Syrax and then at Rhaenyra, the ground shakes as he lays down next to us his big head staying close to bring us comfort. 

We stayed there for hours, I didn't rush her to mourn and I didn't rush her to leave I allowed her to take her time.

"Your husband did this." Rhaenyra speaks finally, she doesn't say it in anger, she says it as she if she were just now realizing it.

I sigh," He said he didn't mean to do it, he said he couldn't control Vhagar, I know these words are no help to your mourning, and I can't defend his actions as I wasn't there to see what truly happened, all I can offer is my support to you dear niece."

"I want him dead, I want Aemond dead for what he did to my Luke." Rheanyra says and a cold shiver goes down my spine and she looks at me.

"If he is dead you can be free once more. That's what you want, that's what you've always wanted, to be free as the dragons." I sigh and look down.

"The dragons are not truly free either, we keep them close to us, keeping them in a pit until we have use for them, I fear my dreams of being free were just a fantasy I made as a young girl and no one had the heart to break mine with reality." I tell Rhaenyra.

When she was ready we flew back to Dragonstone.

"Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, the first of her name,  queen of the Andals, and the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm. Princess Visenya Targaryen." We were announced as we walked through the doors

Daemon met us on our way in and stood close to Rhaeynra, "Did you find what you needed?" he asked and I walked past them to take a seat.

"Someone please fetch the princess Visenya a snack before dinner." Rheaynra speaks out and a guard leaves the room. Rheaynra rubs my shoulder as she walks past me and stands with her back to the fire.

Daemon offers to go to Harrenhal to take control over the Riverlands, and Rhaenys tells the queen about her husband's Blockaid that I know she has been guarding on Meleys. Rhaenyra says nothing for a long moment.

"I want Aemond Targaryen." The queen speaks, and everyone stares at her and then turns to me as the queen leaves, I watch Rhaenyra walk away sadly.

"You heard the queen." I speak up and struggle slightly to stand as I walk to my chambers.

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