SITTING IN SOMEONE'S LAP PROMPTS.

She'd offered to take a taxi, to walk home, to go get a bus. But they'd all had too many drinks - and, in truth, it made a nice difference to not be able to think as sharply as usual. She'd just been worried about her friend... yet in the weeks she'd been around Lucas, on and off, she'd had no answers from him at all. Just endless questions and suffocating charisma. 

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She'd hoped it would take longer, or that maybe it'd never happen. Nine months of marriage, eight of pregnancy, all before her next birthday - a date now to be forever marked as their anniversary. He seemed… well, she still couldn't really read him. At the very least he didn't seem unhappy he finally had an heir almost here, making use of her as often as he had when trying to make the child. Their child, a permanent anchor between them.

He did expect her to be a loyal and dotting wife, though, one who knew her place. That was something he made sure she learned very quickly. He was pleased when she finally carried an heir for him, now they were to wait and see if it was the son he wanted or a girl he would not care to terribly for.

𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟐 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐓𝐖𝐎: 𝐑𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐍𝐘𝐑𝐀 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒

All   sentences   are   taken   from   HBO's   House   of   the   Dragon   season   two   second episode, rhaenyra the cruel.   Change   names,   pronouns,   locations   as   you   see   fit.   Caution   for   foul   language, implied death of a child,   sexual   acts   implied   and   everything   that   is   associated   with   A   Song   of   Ice   and   Fire. Includes spoilers from the trailer of upcoming episodes.

There's to be a funeral for Jaehaerys. We've been asked to ride on a wagon behind his body.

But when a thing like this happens... a blow to the King is a blow to the realm. When the people share our grief, they draw closer to us.

I don't want them closer. I don't know them.

Sometimes, we have to pretend.

We are representatives of the throne. We have a duty.

Beware how you speak to your king, my lord.

The king is my grandson, and my grandson is a fool! He's worse than a fool! He's murdered innocent men!

And hanged them from the walls of the city for all to see!

 Plot against the king, and I will pay it back a hun...

They are fathers and brothers and sons! And their wives and children gather now at our gates to weep and curse your name! 

With your child's blood, we bought their approval. With your mother's tears, we made a bitter sacrifice against the deprivations to come. And you've thrown it away.

Instead of judgement, you display impetuousness and diminish us in the eyes of our enemy! 

Do you never think of your father? His forebearance? His judiciousness? His dignity?

Fuck dignity! I want revenge. My father is dead.

He is, and we are all the poorer for it. He was right about you.

He made me King.

[laughs] Is that what you think?

It must be said that the damage to our position is immeasurable, at a time when we most need loyalty to our cause.

Having lost my own son, that I would inflict such a thing on Helaena, of all people... an innocent.

The death of Prince Lucerys was a shock and an insult. A mother so aggrieved might, naturally, seek relief in retribution.

Are you suggesting, Sir Alfred, that my grief drove me to order the decapitation of a child?

I merely thought, perhaps, an action taken in haste.

Mind yourself.

 Do you accept me as your queen and ruler? 

Do you cling, even now, to what you think you lost?

Because you thought only and ever of your own glory, and not of my father in his grief, who needed you.

Your father was a coward who knew I was the stronger son, that I was the leader of men and he was afraid to be seen in my shadow.

Is that what you understand of your own brother?

Oh, you know him better than I do, who was raised by his side? 

Do you believe he made you heir because of your great wisdom? Because of your virtue?

Or did he merely use you as a tool to put me in my place because he was afraid of me?

He was not afraid of you, Daemon! He could not trust you any more than I can trust you.

He was a fool who sought greatness but shrank from spilling blood to achieve it. And I see you will suffer the same fate.

I can’t tell which is which!

We are one soul split into two bodies.

My son is my legacy!

I wish to spill blood, not ink.

I mistrust this silence. Daemon flies when we most need his hand at the oar.

Devotion has never sat well with him. Where he goes, he wishes to be his own master.

He is the king consort.

But he is not the king.

When princes lose their temper, it is often others who suffer.

I cannot be responsible for a mistake.

You struck down a child.

He must follow his own path.

Where were you when Jaehaerys was murdered?

Believe me, I had no choice.

You’ve wounded me....Weakened my claim to the throne!

They’re accusing me. But it’s a lie!

Did you send assassins to murder children in their beds?

I’ve never trusted you wholly.

You think me some kind of monster?

We can afford no further mistakes.

Not dragged. Honored! Escorted to the dragon pits to be honored as a Targaryen prince.

Let them look upon the works of this pretender to the throne.

He’s gone…a week or forever, I do not know.

You’ve so easily sullied our ancient honor.

The Hightowers still have strength and you have a son there who will take more kindly to instruction?

You thought ever and only of your own glory!

The darkness you sheathed inside yourself like a blade.

it wasn't me.

you must be mistaken.

i didn't do that.

i don't love you.

that wasn't a kiss.

denial is a river in egypt.

please just tell me the truth.

you've got it all wrong.

i don't think you're lying to me.

i never said that.

you're imagining things.

when did i ever tell you that?

that never happened.

i was in the other room when it happened.

i heard everything, but i didn't see it.

that was someone else.

just tell me what you know.

you know what? i believe you.

i didn't lie to you.

are you sure it was me that said that?

i swear, i didn't do anything.

if you didn't do it, you need to tell me who did.

on my mom's life, i didn't do it.

someone is setting me up.

who told you i was here?

the truth will set you free.

i wasn't here to do that.

you're making a big mistake.

they're blaming me for something i didn't do.

i didn't say that to you.

technically it wasn't a lie.

i was fast asleep when it happened.

i didn't hear anything.

you've mistaken me for someone else.

maybe you saw someone, sure, but it wasn't me.

they'll tell you where i was.

i never touched it.

if it's missing, it's not my fault.

i thought someone else was watching it!

i didn't promise you anything!

when did this happen?

you're shitting me.

this is a frame job.

who are you covering up for?

why don't you just tell me the truth?

i never said we were exclusive.

you didn't tell me you were going out.

it slipped my mind.

i didn't mean to lie to you.

i don't know how else to tell you i wasn't here.

they said i did it? when?

when are you going to quit lying to me?

yesterday you told me one thing, and today you're giving me a whole different story.

so what is the truth?

that's never been the case.

you made that up.

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She'd been hoping he'd sleep later, that she'd have more time to pull herself together. Slender form was covered in marks - bruises and bitemarks alike as she flinched under hot water. He'd drunk enough it would surely kill a horse... but, poor horse clearly would have had less practice than him. Girl barely biting back curse at the sound of bathroom door opening: even through steam having no doubt who it was.