This chapter is Elia's Pov. I wasn't sure about it so you will have to let me know what you think in the comments. I promise next time you will get more Cersei and Oberyn! Thanks for reading please enjoy!


As my ladies dressed me for Rhaegars horrendous celebration of his mother dying, I had thought I would be showing by now but the only thing that really seemed to have grown was my breasts they were usually small but they had atleast grown expecting my child. I felt my stomach maybe a little I thought, I supposed it did not matter, this babe would kill me and Rhaegar could remarry a healthy bride, he had agreed when I sent him my letters to give me one more chance and if I died he could remarry without bastardizing his son and daughter, poor Lyanna Stark must have been heart broken when she found out he did not love her either.

She stood in the back of the room with her belly that grew every day. Just another thing for me to be jealous of, she felt very awkward in my service and usually stood in the back of the room and watched, we were both comfortable enough with this arrangement.

Cersei slipped my shoes on and I picked up the necklace around her neck a beautiful golden sun pieced with a spear, her green eyes looked at me while I examined it and she could not hide her smile and the blush that stained her cheeks.

"What a beautiful necklace princess." I told her happily.

"Oberyn gave it to me." She said like she was in love with him.

"Did he tell you it was my mother's?" I asked and she her eyes opened wide.

"I had no idea you should have it." She said quickly going to take it off before I stopped her.

"I am glad he gave it to you, he was always very close to her, you are his wife it belongs to you." I told her it complemented her hair just as I had thought it would when I had given it to Oberyn when he told me he wanted her to have a piece of Dorne with her.

"I never want to take it off." She admitted.

"Young love." Ashara mused.

"Do you even recall your first love?" Larra asked and Ashara hit her lightly.

"My husband never gets me anything." Lysa sighed she was such a small girl she looked awkward pregnant, like a snake that ate a large rat.

"Did your husband get you those earings?" Cersei asked Larra and it made me smile at first, she was rather abrasive to female companionship and now she fit in with us perfectly no longer hiding behind polite manners like she had in the garden when she arrived.

"No these were my mothers, all I need my husband to do is keep my bed warm." She said making us laugh.

I saw Ashara turn away I know she had fallen for a man who was now married.

"Let's not forget that someday some man will be lucky enough to be the beautiful Ashara Daynes husband." I said, and she smiled softly, we both knew who she wanted and that he was now married to the other Tully girl.

"May I stay and look over the little ones your grace." Lyanna said so softly I barely heard her but all the eyes in the room went to her. The people down stairs would be talking about her for some time whether or not she was there but I granted her reprieve from their stares and the gossip and the horrendous words I could never escape from.

"Very well." I told her with the fake smile I had been practicing so often lately it seemed to go naturally to my face. Followed behind my ladies I went down stairs to this celebration, this was the first night of it and there would be dancing before a feast. Rhaegar looked glorious in red and gold but I wore black because I was morning my dear friend and at one time before Oberyn and Cersei arrived and after my ladies had been sent away she was my only ally.

Ashara and Cersei were the first to go dance, Oberyn asked Cersei he was a great dancer and so was she they were the loveliest pair together I wondered if they saw how happy they were how he smiled this smug grin when he saw her and her eyes lite up when she looked at him like she was star struck, I wished a life time of happiness for them.

Ashara danced with Barristan Selmy one of her many admirers.

I found myself near Jon Arryn who was a polite sociable man I often enjoyed conversation with and I would have been to content to talk to him safely for the rest of the night, but I saw poor pouty Lysa.

"What a beautiful tune." I hinted to him looking over to his wife.

"Lysa would you like to dance?" He asked, and she nodded happily it was not love but every lonely girl longed for attention now and then. That I could understand so very much. Rhaegar was like fire, warm and comfortable but easy to wound you without a thought and when you are away from it your left cold and empty. He danced with Mina Tyrell with a flock of other highborn girls watching and wanting.

Larra grabbed my own uncle Lewyn to dance she said no other men besides Dornishmen were any use in a dance, it always made me laugh thinking about it.

Lord Baratheon made his way over to me.

"My lord, I am sure you are looking for Lyanna I will send for her." I said if I knew he was here I would have made her come down but maybe that was the reason she wanted to stay upstairs, and I felt for the poor foolish girl once again.

"No!" He insisted, he drank out of his goblet like there was gold at the bottom.

"I wanted to talk to you my queen." He said taking my hand and kissing it leaving my hand wet, a gross westeroei tradition we did not have in Dorne, just one of the many ways Dorne was ahead of the other kingdoms.

"Really?" I asked I could not believe he even wanted to be here let alone talk to me Rhaegar's wife.

"I wanted to apologize for my bad behavior when we treated, it was war and it makes men sour." He said simply, and I used my very practice fake smile.

"All is forgiven." I promised him, Eddard Stark had been very civil to me and tried to reign in his friend as he said every lude thing he could think of, told me the violent ways he would kill my husband and cursed my children to seven hells. I would not give him the pleasure of my terror or allow a tear to fall I did what I had set out to do and treated with them until we found an understanding.

"you were radiant that day, a gentle power about you."

"That's kind of you to say." I told him I was going to walk away but he stopped me.

"It was hard to hear, about Lyanna, the letter ripped up my pride that she had done that."

"I'm sure it was quite the shock." I told him but having known the girl for some months now I did not find it shocking at all.

"I suppose we are the same in our grief, we were both betrayed, perhaps we could find solace in each other." He said getting uncomfortably close to me.

"My lord what exactly are you suggesting?" I asked stepping back.

"Don't you want to make him pay for hurting you?" He whispered in his husky voice.

My eyes opened wide in shock, Robert Baratheon wanted to fuck me to spite my husband if not Lyanna as well. "You over step Lord Baratheon, please enjoy yourself elsewhere." I told him he left quick enough with a few apologize about having drank far too much.

Rhaegar brought me to meet some of his friends and I smiled my fake smile and played the good wife and when he disappeared, I kept smiling being the sole hostess now. But I wondered whose bed he was in.

"Beautiful." I heard from behind me I turned to see a handsome Blonde man. "But you look so very sad when you smile." He said softly.

"And you are?" I asked uninterested.

"Gerion Lannister, I am here to see my niece, but I cannot find Cersei?" he said simply, and I was sure she and Oberyn had ran off somewhere doing something proper ladies did not do during feasts, gods be good I just hoped they were in their rooms instead of in a dark hall or behind a bush in the gardens but put nothing past those two and their lust for each other.

"I am sure she is around somewhere. She is a delightful girl." I said softly. "Clever and strong."

"I'm glad you think so Cersei can be a little, intense. She gets it from her father." Gerion told with a big smile.

"It is called passion or determination. Some call them Lannister traits." I said simply not wanting to offend Tywin he may not be present, urgent business at the rock apparently, but his reach was still very long.

"I thought they were Dornish traits." He teased but then back peddled. "My apologize your majesty, I forgot who I was speaking to that was completely inappropriate."

"Not the worst I've heard tonight I assure you."

He smiled a devious smile. "Do tell, who is misbehaving tonight your majesty." He said making me laugh.

"I simply could not." I said.

"What if I guessed?" He asked he looked around.

"Her!" He said pointing to Ashara Dayne whose brother was escorting her away. "I saw her walk in with you, she has drank far to much bad behavior from a lady?" He guessed.

"She is in heartache, she can drink as much as she would like."

"But it won't mind the heart." He mused somberly.

"Have you lost a love?" I asked forward, but I had forgotten myself by the amusement and breath of fresh air that this golden lion was, I should have known he was a Lannister he looked like Jamie but older with curls in his golden hair.

"Not a lover no, but I've known heartache. The newest one is all but coming, I do want to see my niece but I'm afraid Tywin sent me to give a gift to your husband for allowing my misery." Gerion said.

"I'm afraid I don't follow?"

"Tywin has decided I need to be Lord Lannister of Castamere, on the very likely pretenses I have no heirs it will go to his younger son, the king has approved, and I have brought him a knife to celebrate." Gerion said dryly making her laugh he took the knife from its holster and unwrapped it to show her.

"It's beautiful." I said looking at the gilded dagger, complete with ivory grip and a large sapphire on the pommel, it was breath taking.

"The best hunting knife money could by to arrive and find out your husband doesn't like to hunt." He said, and I had to cover my mouth. "No please don't hold back laugh, it is very very funny." He said laughing himself and in turn I could not stifle a giggle. "I'm thinking of stabbing myself with it to spare the embarrassment and the great reward of the creepiest house in the Westerlands, and I assure you that is quiet the accomplishment." He continued making me laugh and laugh.

"I'm afraid my husband is very good natured and will not take your scary castle away because he does not like your gift." I told him trying not to laugh he snapped his fingers. "Shoot my evil plan seems to be unraveling.

"Will Tywin fund Castamere."

"Not on my life, but Tywin was destroyed the minds and the natural source of income, not that there was any money left to have in them mind you."

"I'm so sorry." I told him softly he smiled bowing.

"Not to worry your highness, cats always land on their feet, and what are lions if not big cats with large egos." He said making me laugh again. "I maybe over stepping, hopefully not more then the person you simply refuse to name but your smile is glorious when you are happy. I will not waste anymore of your time your majesty." He told me simply.

"Wait." I told this was the most fun I had in along time. "Guess again, please." I told him, and he smiled his big devious grin. He looked around.

"As the night goes on it's harder to tell who is not misbehaving." He mused making me laughed. "You caught Pycelle with a whore?" He asked looking at Pycella.

"No that's disgusting, why would you say such a thing?" I asked.

"Because I've caught Pycelle with a whore before and I promise you it ruined my night." He told me making me laugh again.

"Did you see Lord Tyrell eat? That is always the worst."

"No, but I suppose it's good to know." I laughed again.

He named off several more people and several more things before I leaned in close and whispered to him what had happened. Gerion laughed so hard I told him he need to go outside before he drew to much attention which he did still chuckling to himself, I talked to many other people boring tedious conversations and my mind was to Gerion.

I knew it was not proper to seek his company out again and as the night went on and I grew tired. I went to my rooms to find Rhaegar in my rooms feeling Lyanna's stomach and kissing her.

Lyanna saw me first pushing Rhaegar away, my formal husband looked at me with a kind smile. "I'm sorry Elia you were not meant to see that." He said not apologizing for doing it just for getting caught in my room.

"Get out." I told Lyanna and she did.

"Elia-"He started calmly.

"What if someone saw you? Robert Baratheon is downstairs!" I hissed.

"Robert Baratheon is not going to come in your room." He said.

"Who knows what he will do! He asked me to fuck him will we were at your inappropriate party celebrating your mother's death!" I told him angry but smart enough to keep my voice down.

"And what did you say?" He asked in that annoyed way, he was not jealous for love of her Rhaegar just did not like other people touching his things.

His question annoyed me. "Of course, I rejected him, I would never degrade and humiliate you like that, I am the queen of the seven kingdoms and a princess of Dorne, I have my honor and dignity to think about." I said my accent got thicker when I was angry, I knew, Rhaegar liked it better when I talked without my accent so when we were first married, I tried to lose it right away, thankfully it always came back in my rage.

"Well." He said with a polite smile. "I am certainly proud of you." He said before starting to leave.

"Rhaegar wait!" I told him. "If I live, however slight the chance maybe, I want to go back to Dorne, we could live apart and you could have all your affairs, I would raise the children as strong dragons and send them back to you when they are grown." I told him. I went to him taking his hand. "Ours was not a love match."

"It might as well have been the crown putting a cloak over Dorne." He said somberly.

"But we were once friends, you told me you were very fond of me, if you ever have been please, give me this to live for." I begged.

He smiled squeezing my hand lightly. "We are friends Elia, if you want to go to Dorne, you may go, the children stay here. Shall I make the arrangements?" He asked.

I ripped my hand away from his. "I would not leave my children for you or for anyone else Rhaegar, not if your life depended on it!" I told him.

He smiled ignoring the venom in my words. "Perfect we can stay a happy family!" He said before leaving. I undressed in my misery readying for bed for a moment wishing I was as low as Rhaegar when it came to vows. Not that I would ever want Robert Baratheon. I first thought of my first love Arthur he kissed me goodbye before he became a kingsguard, it was our first and last kiss.

I thought of Lord Velyron who was so kind to me and my children during the war, he would often bring his son Monford to Dragonstone and when we were moved to Kingslanding he came and begged the king to put us in his custody, but he refused. The kind Lord came and apologized to me and I cried in his arms and he held me, and I wonder what it would have been like if I kissed the good man who was trying to save us while Rhaegar fucked the Stark girl, but I never did. As I laid down, I realized how much my side hurt from laughing, my ladies were good company, but I could not remember the last time I had laughed so hard. Handsome Gerion Lannister was who I dreamed about that night.


Let me now what you think in the comments! I though someone as lonely as Elia would enjoy talking to the laughing lion. I also wanted to show a private moment between Elia and Rhaegar where Rhaegar still feels very formal and fake and she is really trying to open up to him. Poor Elia does not have the easiest time in this story. :(