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Status: Finished • Rated: G

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Every child has its first word, a milestones in a child's life. But for someone so close as a parent, first words can't compare to the special ones children learn to call you with so much meaning and emotion.

pt. 2 of Tales of a Father

Fandom: House of the Dragon

Main Pairings and Relationships: Criston Cole & Aegon II TargaryenCriston Cole & Aemond "One-Eye" TargaryenCriston Cole & Helaena Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aegon II Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Helaena Targaryen

Characters: Criston Cole; Aegon II Targaryen; Helaena Targaryen; Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen; Alicent Hightower

Tags: Found Family; Team as Family; Father-Son Relationship; Father Figures; Parental Criston Cole

Word Count: 1,772

Status: On Going • Rated: T

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Queen Alicent Hightower, Beloved of the Smallfolk, Mother of Three Targaryen Princes and a Princess, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms, died giving birth to her fourth child.

What will be the aftermath of her tragic death?

Fandom: House of the Dragon

Main Pairings and Relationships: Criston Cole/Alicent Hightower; Alicent Hightower/Rhaenyra Targaryen; Alicent Hightower/Viserys I Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aegon II Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Helaena Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Otto Hightower; Alicent Hightower & Daeron Targaryen (Son of Viserys I); Aegon II Targaryen/Helaena Targaryen Helaena Targaryen/Jacaerys Velaryon

Tags: The Dance of the Dragons | Aegon II Targaryen v. Rhaenyra Targaryen Era; The Greens | Aegon II Targaryen's Faction; Not Canon Compliant; Character Death; Angst and Tragedy; Family Issues; Family Bonding; Criston is the father who stepped up; Aegon II Targaryen Needs a Hug; Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen Needs a Hug; Helaena Targaryen Needs a Hug; Daeron Targaryen needs a hug

Word Count: counting

Status: Finished • Rated: G

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The first child of Queen Alicent and her sworn shield meet - and Criston cannot deny that he already adores the spirited demanding child.

pt. 1 of Tales of a Father

Fandom: House of the Dragon

Main Pairings and Relationships: Criston Cole & Aegon II Targaryen; Criston Cole & Helaena Targaryen; Criston Cole & Alicent Hightower

Tags: Father-Son Relationship; Father-Daughter Relationship; Father Figures Parent Criston Cole; Good Parent Alicent Hightower; Soft Aegon II Targaryen; Kid Fic; Fluff; Criston is the father that stepped up; Aegon is around three yo; Helaena is almost one yo; Alicent is cautious but no less loving; The Greens | Aegon II Targaryen's Faction; Team as Family

Word Count: 1,299

Status: Finished • Rated: E

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You're my religion, you're how I'm living.

Fandom: House of the Dragon

Main Pairings and Relationships: Alicent Hightower/Criston Cole

Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot; Porn with Feelings; Declarations Of Love; Forbidden Love; Alicent Hightower Deserves Better; Feelings; A lot of them

Word Count: 2,539

Status: Finished • Rated: G

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Aegon decides what he wants to do with his father's Valyrian Model.

Fandom: House of the Dragon

Main Pairings and Relationships: Aegon II Targaryen/Helaena Targaryen; Aegon II Targaryen & Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen; Criston Cole & Aegon II Targaryen; Aegon II Targaryen & Jaehaera Targaryen & Jaehaerys Targaryen (Son of Aegon II) & Maelor Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aegon II Targaryen

Tags: Team as Family; Family Feels; Bad Parent Viserys I Targaryen; Parent Criston Cole; Good Parent Alicent Hightower; Good Parent Aegon II Targaryen; Viserys I Targaryen Bashing; Viserys I Lego Set

Word Count: 1,904

Status: Finished • Rated: M

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King Viserys loses his eye.

The procedure is overseen by his wife, her knight, and her sons.

Or: justice delays, but it does not fail.

Fandom: House of the Dragon

Main Pairings and Relationships: Criston Cole/Alicent Hightower; Alicent Hightower/Viserys I Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aegon II Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen

Tags: Graphic Depictions of Illness; Catholic Prayers; Prayer; Justice; Social Justice

Word Count: 1,213

Status: Finished • Rated: M

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Dowager Queen Alicent discovers her knight is dead. A brief look into love, promises and despair.

Fandom: House of the Dragon

Main Pairings and Relationships: Criston Cole/Alicent Hightower; Alicent Hightower & Helaena Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aegon II Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen

Tags: Character Death; Declarations Of Love; Emotional Hurt; Hurt No Comfort; I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping; The Author Regrets Nothing; The Author Regrets Everything; Implied Relationships; Graphic Description of Corpses

Word Count: 2,128

Status: Finished • Rated: E

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Respect is fragile, but when it finally breaks, what does it becomes? Upon the realization that her future will be lived with a sword pointed to hers and her children's neck, Alicent Hightower decides to do what she was taught - survive, thrive and win no matter what, doing whatever is necessary.

She does it, for her children, and specially, for herself.

Fandom: House of the DragonMain

Pairings and Relationships: Alicent Hightower/Viserys I Targaryen; Criston Cole/Alicent Hightower; Aegon II Targaryen/Helaena Targaryen; Aegon II Targaryen & Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aegon II Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Helaena Targaryen; Alicent Hightower & Otto Hightower; Criston Cole & Helaena Targaryen

Tags: Out of Character; Poisoning; Porn With Plot; Manipulative Alicent Hightower; BAMF Alicent Hightower; Manipulation; Parent Criston Cole; Good Parent Alicent Hightower; Morally Ambiguous Character; Alternate Ending; Lies; Canonical Character Death; Not Canon Compliant; Alternate Dance of the Dragons | The Greens Win (A Song of Ice and Fire); The Greens | Aegon II Targaryen's Faction-centric

Word Count: 29,651