‘Nyra you know you have to study, I can’t keep finding you doing nothing’ eleana told her sister firmly as she watched her and alicent roam the corridors. ‘Sister, Don’t you ever feel the suffocation of being trapped between four walls?’ Rhaenyra asked as her and Alicent lead eleana between them, ‘technically a castle has more than four walls but she is right, you are always working eleana can’t you just rest?’ Alicent continued ‘after all it seems like all the palace workers are busy with the queen’s labor at any moment, we could just easily walk out’
‘I can’t believe she played with your head too alicent I thought you were the mature one between he two of you’ eleana scoffed as she was trying to free herself from their holds, ‘ I need to keep the both of you in check more often you do nothing for your studies’
‘Sister you know studying won’t get us anywhere, the fate is set; we’d get married off to powerful old men who will make us their birthing machines till we don’t have the breath to pop out any more!’ rhaenyra exclaimed cheerfully as she was trying to reach her sisters footsteps ‘plus no one expects us to know where the narrow sea is located on the map because frankly I don’t believe the kings table would even let me see one!’ ‘But your dad the king HIMSELF expects you to know that nyra.’ Eleana continued ‘And you too alicent, don’t listen to her. no matter a man or a woman, you need to be the smartest in the room if you want to survive’ ‘alright alright sister we’ll go but I’ll have to see uncle daemon first, I just heard he got back I have to see him’ eleana’s heart flattered when she heard his name. She hasn’t seen him in 12 months when he left to the narrow sea. Eleana didn’t quite understand what she felt for daemon, he always left for months if not years without news but when he came back she always had the same reaction; eager to be the first to see him. Sometimes he wrote to her when he’d return or how the battle is going and sometimes he never did. And this was one of these times. Rhaenyra and alicent rushed to the halls to meet him but eleana thought she couldn’t bare seeing him, not because she didn’t want to see him but because she knew exactly how he’d treat her, daemon knew full on well his effect on eleana and sometimes he took it for granted. She followed quietly behind the gate and watched as rhaenyra greeted her uncle. He greeted rhaenyra enthusiastically and continued to search the room. When he saw no sign of the other sister he frowned.
‘Where is your sister, I thought I’d been gone enough for a warm welcome no?’ Rhaenyra and alicent shared glances ‘lady eleana said she had to be alongside the queen as she is due any moment’ said alicent. ‘Oh,’ said daemon as he continued to roam the hall ‘well,how dare I forget to greet my dear sister in law! How foolish’ he said as he started walking to leave the hall. Alicent and rhaenyra shared glances again and started to walk behind daemon. ‘Now girls I don’t want to keep you from your whereabouts please feel free to go on’ they stopped just as he said.
Eleana quickly started picking her pace to leave the corridor before daemon sees her sneaking. Just as she reached an empty hall and started to pick up on her breathing a voice interrupted. ‘If I didn’t know you so well I’d say you are angry with me’ he said. Her breath stopped again, ‘uh uncle daemon, I-uh you are back welcome back’ she said with her back still to him. She was staring at absolute nothingness in the wall but her face was too red to turn around.
‘What were you running from?’ He started to get closer and tried facing her but she quickly turned to the windows. ‘No no I wasn’t, I was just, I-uh oh right I was with the queen and then thought I heard something here and I had to check the halls. The queen is almost due I’m too paranoid there would be foreigners in the courts.’ She said but daemon cut her off by grabbing her wrist. He turned her around towards him and for a moment the two of them just stood in silence. ‘I got you something,’ he said and started to search his coat ‘it caught my attention on the way here,’ he took out a necklace. It was a golden necklace with a Red diamond chain. ‘May I-‘ she turned around and felt his arms around her neck. He tenderly locked the necklace but he hands stayed there. They stood like this for a moment with his hands gently strolling her neck before a man came into the Hall. ‘Oh I’m sorry your majesty the king would like to see you’ the man said as daemon started to leave your space. He left without a single word. Eleana stood her ground still trying to process what had happened.
She has never been touched by a man. Nobel Men from all around the realms were seeking for her hand in marriage from the king but she was not of age yet but eleana knew the moment she turned of age the king wouldn’t let her a day in the palace. He’d marry her off to someone as far away from him as possible, sometimes she even felt like if he could he’d marry her off to the crabfeeder across in essos. Eleana had hoped that the king would be too occupied with the queen’s labor to remember that in a weeks time she would be of legal age to marry. It’s not that she wanted to marry by love; she knew she’ll never have the opportunity to meet a good man anyways as they were reserved for rhaenyra, it’s the fact that she wanted to atleast stay in property of herself. She didn’t want to marry, the reality was as rhaenyra joked earlier, the woman are sold off as political gifts of power and name and she would dread the day a man use her to his advantage, she’d rather die.
Eleana stood to watch her reflection in the window. The necklace was exactly how she liked. Subtle yet extremely eye catching. As the days went by she couldn’t take the necklace off she treasured it more than anything daemon has ever given her..not until the day the queen passed away. That day was dark and cold. The king’s heir didn’t survive either. To eleana’s horrors she watched as the king ordered for the nurses to cut the queen’s flesh to free the child for maybe he was still alive. They did as they were told and eleana was sick to her core, the queen wasn’t her mother but she treasured her like one. She was a kind soft spoken woman who included eleana just as she included rhaenyra. She treated her like a daughter. As the nurses took the child to wash and the king left the room, eleana started to quietly wash the queen herself. She picked a cloth and started to put as much of her back so rhaenyra wouldn’t see her mother like this.
As the traditional funeral ended and all went back as if nothing had happened the king called for eleana in his chambers. ‘Yes, my lor-‘ ‘You witch!’ He yelled as his hands firmly and coldly smacked eleana across the face. ‘You wretched witch! You couldn’t bare to see rhaenyra have what you don’t!? You had to go as far as curse my beloved wife? My son too?’ He yelled as he and was frantically roaming around his room. Eleana stayed on the floor, she feared if she stood up the king would hit her again ‘you are just like your mother! I never loved that woman they forced me to marry her do you understand!? She didn’t belong here! She was a nobody I made her a queen!’ He continued and started to throw things around the room.
Sir harwin, eleana’s personal body guard stood by the door unable to interfere. It was the king after all but he felt reluctant to atleast shield the princess. Eleana gave him a look to stay where he was as she slowly started to stand against the wall ‘I loved the queen more than you ever did I could of never hur-‘ ‘I Can’t bare with your existence! I’ll marry you off to a bastard if I need to! No one would marry a cursed child like you, I should’ve let your mother take you with her! I should’ve let her slit your throat’ he drunkly yelled and threw his alcohol bottle at eleana who dodged it away. ‘I’m sorry my lord’ she said quietly holding back her tears. He stopped and slowly sat on his chair. He seemed to calm down then he stood up and started to walk towards her. Sir harwin becoming more alert started nearing the middle of the room in case the king had any violent thoughts. The king instead pulled her hair down,he held eleana’s cheeks and whipped her tears off. For one second eleana felt comfort until the king let her go and walked away. A sight of relief left both sir harwin and eleana. Sir harwin approached the princess and looked for any signs of bruising but thankfully she wasn’t hit by the bottle. ‘Princess I’m sorry I couldn’-‘ ‘no no it’s ok I understand don’t worry, just promise me no one finds out about this ok?’ ‘Of course my princess’ the two of them slowly left the chamber insuring no one was around to hear or see what took place.
The next day princess eleana had a blooming red mark across her face. Not to mention a couple of bruises on her leg as well. She took a deep breath and decided to not leave her chamber until the red Mark on her face calms down atleast. One day turned into two then three and the princess did not leave her chamber. She rejected visits from both rhaenyra and alicent saying she has a bad case of the flu and it would be a bad idea to stay with her. Until one night a knock came and sir harwin slowly came in. ‘Princess I apologize but there seems to be quite an inconvenience I must let you know’ ‘sure sir harwin come in.’
‘The princess rhaenyra is missing from her chamber, it’s been almost an hour and she hasn’t returned, I thought I’d rather tell you first before the king’ ‘oh no don’t tell the king,’ she quickly left her bed and searched for her black cloak ‘no she could be just roaming around the palace don’t tell the king now, I’ll find her’ ‘yes princess but I have to accompany you’ ‘no no if you came with me people will know and the word will spread to the king, just stay a couple of feet behind me and no matter what don’t let anyone suspect us’
Eleana and sir harwin left the palace discreetly and roamed the city for a while. A few hours in sir harwin returned to find princess eleana and informed her that he just ran into rhaenyra, ‘the princess was disguised as a boy and prince dameon was accompanying her, he told me to inform you that she is in good hands and he’ll just shows her around his favorite place’ eleana knew PRETTY well what daemon’s favorite place was and she was not about to let him take rhaenyra there.
She quickly ran to the city brothel and started searching for them. Sir harwin and eleana separated in their own passages trying to find rhaenyra before anyone sees her face. As eleana cautiously walked in a dark alley a hang gripped at her wrist and pulled her into a chamber.
‘I thought I wouldn’t see you’ daemon said as he pinned eleana to the wall. ‘What were you thinking brining a GIRL here. SHE IS NOT OF AGE IF ANYONE SEES HER NEWS WOULD RUIN HER REPUTATION DAEMON’ she yelled at him while trying to free herself from his grip ‘are you still sick?’ He said ignoring her attempts ‘IF THE KING FOUND OUT RHAENYRA WAS IN A BROTHEL HE’d DE THRONE HER IMMEDIATELY DO YOU NOT Und-‘ ‘ENOUGH about rhaenyra I asked your damn knight boy to take her back to palace stop fidgeting’ he said loudly ensuring she stopped talking.
‘Daemon she is just a girl she can’t be seeing all of this’ ‘oh stop it! I said enough. You have been sick for a week, you refuse to let a single soul into your chambers expect SIR HARWIN? Care to tell me what is going on in your head? Do you fancy sir harwin is that why you came here with him?’
‘HE is my guard! You took my baby sister out of the palace!! What am I supposed to do? Leave you to it?’ ‘WHY HIM THEN?’ ‘Because I’m all alone how am I-‘ ‘answer me eleana, I asked you simply. Why won’t you let your own sister visit your chamber but sir harwin can?’ His grip became stronger and eleana started to feel him push closer to her against the wall.
‘Please let go of me’ she said calmly, daemon slowly let her wrist lose but he kept her surrounded against the wall. ‘Eleana, what do you have with sir harwin’ daemon started to slowly lean towards eleana’s neck. She froze completely unable to react to his touch. She didn’t understand what was happening, it was all too quickly and her heart felt like could burst out of her chest at any moment.
‘Calm down darling…you know I won’t hurt you’ he whispered as he kissed just under her ear. She felt her face turn hot and closed her eyes in an attempt to try and comprehend what was happening to her
‘Unc- daemon what ar-‘ ‘you can’t keep pretending to turn me away eleana’ he hands started reaching at her cloak to untie it ‘if you want me to stop you just have to say the words’ he said waiting for a moment. She didn’t respond, instead she knew too well what she wanted. This is exactly what she wanted.
Eleana said she’d never let a man touch her, she hated the idea of a man controlling her or taking advantage of her. But daemon wasn’t just a man to eleana, sir harwin was a man to eleana but daemon was something else. It’s as if she consensually regarded herself his. From the first locket daemon put on eleana’s hand three years ago to the necklace he last put around her neck, it’s embarrassing to think that if daemon asked her to sling a dagger into her guts she’d do it in a heartbeat because unlike anyone else, daemon asks her. He never once touched eleana without taking her permission to do so, something that was clearly not in his nature as he is dominant and reckless with anything else he touches, but when he touches eleana it’s as if he is striking a vase at the edge of a table.
‘Eleana I brought your sister here because I knew you would come after her’ he continued to untie her cloak and pressing kissing on her neck. ‘I’ve been counting the days until now, I’ve waiting for years for you to turn of age so I can finally touch you if you’d let me’ she scoffed at how tinder his lips felt around her ear lobe. ‘I wish you’d let you hair down more often, you are most beautiful with your hair down’ he exclaimed while stroking her hair tenderly. His warm breath sent chills across her entire body and she in regretfully moved out of his touch.
‘Thi- I can’t this is not right..I’m sorry’ she said and tried to leave the room but stopped when she noticed he wasn’t following her. A part of her wanted him to keep insisting or to pull her back to his arms but he didn’t. Instead he stood with his back against the same wall and stared at the ceiling.
She got frustrated and walked to him again ‘are you not coming?!’ She snapped her fingers at him trying to get him to look at her but instead he just sighted. ‘I’m talking to yo-‘ ‘what do you have me do? Take you here and now forcefully? Is that what you want eleana?’ His tone was cold, even the room turned cold not like how it was a minute ago. ‘Where were you for the past week? I expected you to atleast ask about me’ he scoffed and started walking around the Tiny room. ‘Did you really expect I’d beg your sir herwing to let me in your room?’ He said coldly.
Here we go, that was typical daemon he is back on earth again.
‘Right I shouldn’t have, I was wrong sorry’ she said and angrily and started walking out of the room. ‘If I hear once more that you are letting sir harwin in your chambers eleana I will have him eaten by my dragon right in front of you’ he called back at her as she continued walking.
As much as she wanted to go back and forget about her morals and follow her heart, she also wanted daemon to know that he can not just have her when he pleased. A brother is not a place she wants to be seen let alone have her first hug or her first kiss.
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