THE NEW LIFE
A/N : The words are mine but the idea is actually Arianna Le Fay's. So huge shout out to her! Thanks a lot for giving me this idea!
A series of oneshot where instead of Dany and Viserys, Elia and Rhaegar's children escape. Just for this story, Aegon and Visenya actually love each other but nobody else knows about it, not even Rhaenys.
I.
Visenya turns ten-and-a-two when Illyrio Mopatis announces the coming of the Dothraki hoard to claim a bride. They have been living in Pentos for close to eleven years now. Her, her brother Aegon and her sister Rhaenys. So when Illyrio announces such a thing, she knows it is important. He always tells them about important events.
"When is he arriving?", her brother Aegon asks as he bites into his food.
"In a little over a week.", Illyrio replies and then turns to Rhaenys to continue, "We will have a dress of Myrish lace prepared for you by then, my Princess."
Later than night when she sleeps beside Aegon she asks him, "Will Rhaenys be married to a Dothraki rider?"
Aegon turns to his side, his thumb tracing patterns on her hips. "Not just any rider, a Khal. A Khal with a huge army at his back. You will see, my love, he will give us an army and we will take back our home. I will become King and you shall be my Queen. Dragons will rule Westeros again."
Visenya does not even know what home is. All she remembers is her time at Pentos. Of course, Rhaenys has told her of how she was born in Dragonstone, how their mother was heavy with Visenya as she, Rhaenys and Aegon were smuggled out by their grandmother to Dragonstone. Their mother died shortly after Visenya was born and so Visenya had never even been in King's Landing. She had never even been home, how was she to know what it even looked like.
II.
The Dothraki khalasar had arrived and the Khal had accepted his bride. So now Rhaenys sat at her wedding ceremony as one man killed another.
"A Dothraki wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.", Illyrio whispers to her brother, Aegon, and laughs like he made a joke. Rhaenys considers Visenya lucky for she is not attending this wedding.
She looks around at all these Dothraki men and women and feels as out of place as possible. They are all vile and brutes. Something a Princess never is. But she is not exactly a Princess now. Not anymore. Now she is the wife of a Khal, a Khaleesi as people are referring to her now.
Illyrio finally comes forward, two men carrying a locked chest behind him. The men put the chest down beside Illyrio and he finally speaks, "A wedding gift, my Khaleesi." as he opens the chest.
Inside the chest are three oval structures she has never seen before. "What are they?", she asks with wonder because she has been presented with something so beautiful.
"Dragon's eggs, from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai," said Illyrio. "The eons have turned them to stone, yet still they burn bright with beauty."
Rhaenys nods at him and smiles as a token of her thanks. It is true. These stones still burn bright with beauty.
Her own husband gives her a beautiful white mare and she names it Balerion, remembering the cat she had as a child.
When the wedding finally ends, Rhaenys looks at her new husband, copper-skinned, black -haired and dark eyes. More than a decade older than her and really muscular against her thin frame but she is not afraid. She has taken care of her siblings since she was barely five. She is the dragon's daughter. She will never fear a Khal and so she walks bravely for her bedding and stares her husband right in the eye even as she cries. What surprises her is that rather than tearing her clothes and doing as he pleases, her husband wipes away her tears gently. He does not even touch her after that. At least not that night.
III.
Visenya makes her way into Rhaenys' tent for a talk at night and discovers that nobody is there. She decides to wait for her sister to come and spends time looking around the tent. It isn't anything extravagant, which isn't surprising, Dothraki are not known to live in luxury and so the enchanting dragon eggs stick out like sore thumb. Visenya was not there for the wedding, under her brother's command, but she had heard about it.
She finally approaches them and lifts one as pale cream in colour as her skin with streaks of gold. It is a big egg, so huge that she has to use both hands to just lift it. Heavier than it looked, the egg feels hot under her touch.
"Visenya.", her sister calls out from the entrance of the tent and Visenya whips her head around quickly putting down the egg. "Sorry-", she begins meekly, "I was just admiring them."
"It is alright.", her sister answers as she makes her way to Visenya to stand by her side and admire the eggs. "They are beautiful aren't they?", Rhaenys asks her and she simply nods in reply.
"Do you think they will ever hatch?", she asks her elder sister.
"I highly doubt it. They have been petrified for so long and are so cold to touch."
At this reply Visenya's surprised. "What are you saying? They are so warm.", she objects to her sister's observation.
Rhaenys turns to her with a look of disbelief and just as she is about to say something to Visenya, Khal Drogo enters the tent. Visenya has always been scared of him and so she quickly looks down on the ground. But Rhaenys greets the man with a smile and he smiles back in return. She wonders if they love each other just as much as she loves Aegon.
IV.
Rhaenys announces to her husband that she is with child and in Vaes Dothrak the women of the dosh khaleen proclaim that the unborn son shall be the stallion who mounts the world. She claims to the entire Vaes Dothrak that the child shall be called Rhaego, for her father and husband.
Two days later, she and her unborn child are attacked. It is Aegon that comes to her rescue and Visenya who looks after her immediately after the attack. But Drogo's anger knows no bound and so when they are alone in night, he asks her what she wants. He asks her to name anything she wants and he will give it to her.
She simply asks him to claim the Iron Throne for her brother. She has full plans. Her brother will rule Westeros as King. She will claim the seat of Dragonstone for her son and Visenya's son would inherit Summerhall. Dragons would rule like they had for centuries. The King of Westeros, the Prince of Dragonstone, the Prince of Summerhall - all Targaryen seats would be retaken and all the others would bow down to them, would bend their knees to them and they in return would break the lot. The others shall be bowed,bent and broken. Rhaenys will see to it. Drogo agrees and it heartens her deeply because the Dothraki do not ride ships. They never have but for her, for her the khalasar will. Rhaenys has never felt more powerful.
The following morning, Drogo claims in front of one and all that the Iron Throne will be his gift to Aegon because saved his Khaleesi. Aegon and Visenya understand just a little of Drogo's words but Rhaenys understands it completely. A Khal's wife, the Khaleesi of the khalasar, she stands beside her husband and looks down on the hoard because she is the Khaleesi who has made all this happen. She is not a Queen, but she is more powerful than a Queen can ever be.