The Maiden and the Drowning Boy

EmilyKaldwen

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Reads 2,293
Votes 65
Parts 22
Time 15h 8m

EmilyKaldwen

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Canon Divergent Fix-It Fic Trilogy with a HEA. Multi-POV. Show/Canon merging. Not only romance-centric.
    
    They weren't even giving her to him, not to love like he wanted. No, they were taking his Maiden and turning her into a pawn just like him, placing her on the board beside him to move them both as his mother and grandfather pleased.
    
    It felt like something sacrificial; dark and maybe sacred in whatever deals had been made, whatever machinations brewed behind the curtains that he could not see.
    
    As the kingdom teeters on the edge of chaos, Alicent Hightower swaps the pieces on the board: Aegon will marry Abrogail Strong, Larys' younger sister and heir to Harrenhal. Caught in the web of intrigue and political machinations, the pair must figure out where their loyalties lie, and what they mean to one another.
    
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Canon Divergent Fix-It Fic Trilogy with a HEA. Multi-POV. Show/Canon merging. Not only romance-centric.
    
    They weren't even giving her to him, not to love like he wanted. No, they were taking his Maiden and turning her into a pawn just like him, placing her on the board beside him to move them both as his mother and grandfather pleased.
    
    It felt like something sacrificial; dark and maybe sacred in whatever deals had been made, whatever machinations brewed behind the curtains that he could not see.
    
    As the kingdom teeters on the edge of chaos, Alicent Hightower swaps the pieces on the board: Aegon will marry Abrogail Strong, Larys' younger sister and heir to Harrenhal. Caught in the web of intrigue and political machinations, the pair must figure out where their loyalties lie, and what they mean to one another.
    
    [crossposted from AO3]

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