CHAPTER 2

Rhaenyras POV

I hate these dresses sometimes, specially when I'm wearing them unnecessarily like tonight, if its only family and fathers new wife's family why do I have to dress like I'm going to a formal dinner, makes no sense to me if it was about being comfortable around each other maybe we should all wear something less 'in your face' everyone knows who the royal family members are due to the fact that we all have blonde almost silver hair and purple eyes, except my uncle daemon and father they both have blue eyes like grandfather but mother and I share the purple eyes that only Targaryen's have.

Father constantly says how glad he was to see the resemblance between mother and I when I was born, he secretly didn't want me to have blue eyes like him because he has always said purple eyes make the Targaryen woman look more unique. To me, eye color makes no difference is what's in your heart that makes one unique, even when I was raised to be 'hard to read' and strong willed it has always been important to me.

I was with Syrax all morning and half of my afternoon and now I'm definitely late for this thing, my maids have been working as fast as they possibly can, I in the other hand I'm not even worried, this is just my family so they won't be surprised if I'm a little behind, its been a habit of mine since I started attending dinners, meetings and conversations I don't want to be a part of , I swear I'm working on it but today I'm not worried at all, father will be the only one mad but mother will be there too so she will calm him down, she thinks its funny that I do everything father wouldn't permit other people, I'm his only daughter and my job is to drive him crazy before he drives me crazy with all his 'King rules', he might be the king and I the princess but we are still just a hard headed father and a even more hard headed daughter, Mother is definitely what balances out this family with all her perfection, I don't know how she does it but it seems like she was born to be Queen she makes It seem so effortless like being royalty isn't hard.

I'm sure mostly everyone is either already at the dinner hall or on their way and I'm not even fully dressed yet, mother insisted I wear this very elegant Black dress that has little touches of red all over and gold and a huge Targaryen sigil embroidered in the back with a gold outline, it's absolutely beautiful and it gives me a strong look but do I need to be dress like this to meet fathers soon to be wife and her family probably not but mother always says the first impression is the one that stays, like we have to worry about making impressions, we are Targaryen's people worry about what impression we will get of them not the other way around, but to mother dressing like I'm the next Queen in line is a big deal and I wouldn't dare challenge her, she's the sweetest and all but mother has a strong character and not everyone knows that, she's well respected around Westeros and everyone in kings landing loves her because they sure haven't seen her mad, she has dragon blood just like me we can be strong and fierce when its needed.

Alicents POV

I'm extremely nervous about this dinner, I hate that I always get really nervous before any important event, father wants us to make a good impression specially me since Teana is pretty much already engaged to the King, he hasn't said anything but I know father wants me to end up married to someone from the royal family, he worries about me and wants me to have a good life but I cant help but think that I'm being used to bring our family's rank up, Ashten isn't interested in marrying any time soon If he was father would do anything to get Asthen to marry the princess, but according to Westeros tradition no respectful lady should be married before her seven and ten birth day, a tradition that was not always like that, years ago girls would get married as young as two and ten which is crazy to me keeping in mind i'm only 2 years older and have no intention of marrying, this age rule came to be because it was established that any girl under seven and ten is not physically mature enough to bear children, and also because according to everyone in Westeros when girls turn seven and ten they are no longer consider children the day a girl turns seven and ten she's considered a young lady meaning she has matured enough to start bearing children.

Also if we consider how many suitors the princess already has, Ashten has no chance of marrying her, im sure the king will want a honorable knight or someone from another royal family to marry his only daughter and heir to the throne, I've heard that every year for the princess birth day countless flower arrangements and gifts come from all over Westeros and most of the cards on them point out the great beauty of the princess, I only heard this from my maids when they were talking about it while getting my hair ready, it turns out her birth day is next month and everyone is already trying to plan ahead for the celebrations, I also heard that the princess doesn't care for this many flowers and gifts and that she made a deal with the king to have a say on who she will marry when she turns seven and ten, according to my maids the king loves his daughter too much to not let her be a part of the decision making when it comes to her future.

I'm just waiting now for Taena and father to come get me, father insisted we all walk in the dinning hall together, since I have to wait for them I've been reading this book that was in the bed when first arrived this morning, turns out it's a welcoming gift from the Queen Aemma herself , in the card that came with it she explains how a book was the one thing she thought would make me feel like home since she's heard I read a lot and actually enjoy it, most people get bored when reading I find it very interesting specially when you want to escape from reality and embark in the different stories that made Westeros history, most of them are real but here and there I like to read romantic novels just for the fun of it, I cant help but wish that whoever I end up with loves me as much as those knights in the stories love their ladies.

As I'm reading I hear a loud knocking and two seconds later the door opens and there they are father and Taena, Father wearing his formal clothing with a touch of green which I love because it matches perfectly with my dress, Taena in the other hand is wearing a stunning wine color dress, it's a kind of red with a deep tone to it, she looks absolutely beautiful and it makes her look like she is part of the royal family.

"T, you look absolutely beautiful, this dress is stunning when did you have it made its perfect, it makes you look like any wife of a king should look" I said before spinning her around and giving her a hug.

"I know right. had it made?, a dress like this with these type of materials is too expensive, I would not spend that much of your fathers money in a dress"

"then how?" I ask curiously.

"the Queen had it made for me and sent it to my room when I was taking a bath, she really is the sweetest, look at the card, I brought it with me" she says as she hands me a perfectly cutout card with a perfectly traced AT on the right bottom corner of it with a little Crown drawn on top of the initials.

"Taena I hope your arrival has been nothing but pleasant and that you like our home since it will be your home soon too, I had this dress made for you when Viserys told me you were on your way, I have picked a color that you can only get by mixing black and red, since you soon will be part of our family I figured you could wear the same color as us, you will soon be a Targaryen by marriage and we couldn't be happier to have you, Q Aemma". I cant help but smile.

For things like these is why the queen is my favorite royal, when I was younger I heard many stories about her, she helps the poor, gives little girls gifts to make them feel special, she even came out with a plan to help orphan children so they can be taken by families that aren't able to have children or families that are just looking to help a child alone in the world, Queen Aemma was born to be the Queen she seems to have a beautiful heart and the fact that she wanted my aunt to feel welcome in her castle speaks on how sweet she really is, she could be mean to Taena or not welcoming, T is here to marry the king and give him a son which is the Queens husband. I wonder If the queen is actually fine with the idea of sharing her husband I know I wouldn't be so I don't see how she can be.

"She is the sweetest, look at it T, its not any dress, the type of fabric this is made of is the same as the one the royals wear, she's really welcoming you in her family" I said with a smile on my face

"She really is, I can't wait to spend time with her, I hope we can become friends since we will be living in the castle together, same with the princess maybe you and her can become friends too it would definitely make our stay easier and more comfortable" she says with a tone I've never heard her use before, hope maybe?

"Should we head down already? We wouldn't want to be late" I say completely ignoring the comment about me and the princess becoming friends, she's a princess I'm just me, I'm sure we have nothing in common, plus if she's as any other royal I've ever met then I'm not interested in her friendship, her cousin the lady of Driftmark made clear that there is a difference between "common girls" as she called me and girls of the royal bloodline, she made clear that a girl like them would never be interested in spending time with a simple girl like me, she went as far as to say that instead of reading I should learn something more useful like cooking or something else the maids do, believe me if the princess is anything like her cousin I rather stay away as much as I can.

We just got to the dinner hall and I'm speechless everything is beautiful, the king and Queen were both already here talking at the table, when we walked in they both got up and to my surprise welcomed all of us with hugs, I was expecting the whole official bow and all of that but they said tonight we didn't had to do any of that since we are just having a family dinner. They are both really nice and welcoming even when people aren't watching them which means they aren't being nice just for show this is how they really are, King Viserys is wearing all black with touches of red and gold nothing short of what a king should wear but he's not wearing his crown and neither Is the Queen.

The Queen, she is absolutely stunning I had met her in person the last time I was in kings landing but I was only 4 and I can hardly remember, but I should remember because she's beautiful she has a certain warm to her like a mother should, and she's wearing a beautiful dress that makes her look like she is coming out from a pit of flames, she's wearing a combination between a dress and a cape the dress itself is of a brighter red than Taena's but the cape is black and it covers all around the dress which makes her look like her body is made of fire, and the fire is coming out in glimpses because of the cape, absolutely stunning. The princess is not even here, she's nowhere to be found, I'm not even sure if she will be attending, we got here almost at the exact time they told us, but now after the introduction to the king and queen she's definitely running late.

The Queen asks everyone to get settled in their seats and right when we are heading to the table the hall doors open and there she is.

Wearing a dress that matches what her parents are wearing and seems to fuse both styles in one, a dress that makes her look older than she is and gives her the look of a Queen more than a princess, she smiles at her parents with a smile that says I'm sorry but I'm really not.

As is tradition the princess has to acknowledge her parents first before anyone else in the room, so when she passes by me on her way to them with her perfect black dress with touches of red and gold, for a split second she's looking at me, staring right into my eyes with her purple eyes only then i see how beautiful she really is, im a little shock that her long hair is up in braids it should be down framing her perfect face, as she keeps walking past me, I understand why her beautiful long silver hair its all up, is so she show the back of her dress.

I'm sure i stopped breathing when i saw it, her whole back is covered by the sigil of house Targaryen a Red three headed dragon and to make it more dramatic the outline of the dragon is in gold bringing the dragon out even more and not only that but in a different type of gold one that looks a little more faded to not take attention from the dragon are the initials RT embroidered perfectly to make it look like a shadow on top of the sigil. I know my aunt said the princess is very beautiful but she's more than beautiful, she's perfect! every part of her face is perfect there isn't one thing in her that is not perfect, I've never met anyone this attractive before. It felt like when she walked in the room the whole atmosphere changed, everyone is looking at her because its impossible not to do so, beauty like that isn't even normal, she's the definition of perfect.