17 Works by Awfullylongtime
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one less temptress, one less dagger to sharpen by Awfullylongtime
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
28 Jun 2026
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The ancient keep of Harrenhal was rumored to be haunted ever since the Conquest.
Ghost stories, nothing more. Or so Daemon believed, until he started to dream of a past version of his wife.
A young princess haunting him day and night, reminding him of all the times he had let her down.
Slowly losing his mind, Daemon knew there was no escaping this fate.
For no one was coming to save him - or so he thought.
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All is fair in love and war.
And Rhaenyra’s heart was both at once.
In which Daemon takes the crown, and firmly intends to make his niece his queen.
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Twenty years ago, Rhaenyra was tricked, captured by her uncle, and chosen to be his bride on the hellish island he took for himself - or so King Viserys claimed.
Half of the year there as his wife, half of the year in Westeros, the Old King decided when she was found - the only way to content a man bound to her by blood, and a king without an heir.
Yet Daemon grows weary of sharing his niece, for this deal needs to come to an end.
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After daring to ask for Rhaenyra's hand, Daemon was banished - but he did not give up. One way or another, he would have her, he would claim her.
Even if it required him to spark a war between two houses to steal her in the night, and let the whole world suffer the consequences of his crime.
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daisies on a grave by Awfullylongtime for luthien_under_bough
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
28 Jul 2025
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Three years after their marriage, Laenor and Rhaenyra finally visit Driftmark. Though Rhaenyra avoided Daemon for years, as her good sister is ready to give birth, she cannot escape him, anymore, nor his clever games.
Come, Daemon quietly whispers. Come back to me.
They’re here for a birth - they might stay for a funeral.
or: the dance of dragons if daemon targaryen slaughtered every pawn on his way to both rhaenyra and her ascension.
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you've got your demons and darling, they all look like me by Awfullylongtime
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
15 Dec 2024
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“Did you bring me here to kill me?”
“What if I did?”
She trailed his jaw with her fingers, biting on her lip.
“Then I trust you to be kind about it.”After years of exile, Daemon returns to King's Landing, and takes his niece for a night out. Only he isn't the same, and she has heard the rumors about his cursed nature. She chose not to listen.
Perhaps she thought he was only here for a night of fun - when really, he was here for a bride.
In which Daemon makes Rhaenyra a vampire, but didn't fathom how dark and obsessive her needs and desires would grow.
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For the ten years that Daemon has been king, he never ceased to hunt his enemies down.
Now he has found them, and even more - his darling niece, in the clothes of a servant. He thought that she was dead, murdered at the same time as her father.
The fairest of them all, I used to call you.
Yet his love feels like a curse, for he isn't the savior, in her narrative.
He’s the villain.
A fairytale coded love story where Rhaenyra believes Daemon murdered her father - but the man she learns to know is nothing like the monster she has feared.
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On the night that followed her night at the pleasure house, Rhaenyra disappeared.
Along with Daemon.
Viserys is convinced that his brother abducted her, and haunted by the last time he ever saw them both.
But what kind of lives are they living, master and prisoner, or valyrian lovers?
Will they ever come back?
A different tale of the Dance of Dragons if Daemon and Rhaenyra had disappeared for many years.
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if I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too by Awfullylongtime
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
16 Jun 2024
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A son for a son.
A daughter for a daughter.
Or, Rhaenyra being involved in Blood and Cheese to make her enemies pay for more than Lucerys' death, but for Visenya's as well.
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𝑠𝑒𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 (𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠) by Awfullylongtime
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
13 Jun 2024
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It is a myth, a legend, that women of their family could be mermaid once love would burn.
A thing Daemon had stopped to believe in - until red scales appeared on Rhaenyra’s thigh.
He wants to avoid the curse - she only wants him.
And her chant cannot be resisted.
In which Daemon refuses to let his mermaid niece slip through his fingers.
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“It scares them,” she said. “Men used to look at me with envy, imagining that they already own me. Now they always look away - they don’t even dare to ask me for a dance.”
As if my gaze could turn them to stones.
“Is that all it would take to win your heart, dārilaros? A dance?”
Daemon returns from the Stepstones, only to find out that Rhaenyra now wears a golden mask to scare her suitors away - one that she shall only take off for her husband.
It only drives him mad, for he needs to see her face.
He needs to win her hand.
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“You’re right, I am not a penitent,” he smiled, content to let his fingers stroll on her cleavage as she gritted her teeth. “But you are, aren’t you? So do what penitents do. Kneel.”
After that fateful night at the brothel, Rhaenyra ran away, found sanctuary in Asshai and became a priestess. She took a simple vow - to never know the touch of a man.
Until Daemon finds her.
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“Daemon drew her face to his, taking advantage of her stupor. For a second, she believed that he would kiss her – yet his lips merely lingered on her temple, close enough to whisper.
Cut through my father’s guard, you said.
The gold cloaks of the men helping her uncle crashing the sacred ceremony had been stained, she had noticed.
It was suddenly harder to breathe, yet she didn’t struggle in his arms.
Take me to Dragonstone and make me your wife, you said.”
After Daemon crashed her wedding and took control of the castle when her father fainted, Rhaenyra feels like a prisoner. He won't hurt her, she knows.
He wants to marry her - she might make him fight for it.
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the shadow of a white rose (in a mirror of silver) by Awfullylongtime
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
21 Mar 2024
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The words echo in Rhaenyra’s head, as her husband rises his cup, and drinks to her health.
Her father’s command was clear. Daemon has gone too far, this time. The king has a forgiven nature - but his brother has become too much of a threat.
You will marry him, Viserys said. And on your wedding night, you will kill him.
But the princess’ heart is traitorous, and her hand might falter.
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“Good evening, my love,” he said. “I have been waiting for you.”
Rhaenyra swallowed as he slowly turned his face to her.
She quietly stared, both at her baby and the man holding him, with more tenderness that she had ever fathomed him capable of.
The rest of his words made her shiver.
“You never told me that I had a son.”
Almost a year ago, Rhaenyra ran away while carrying her uncle's child - but the chase is over. Daemon has found her. He would always find her.
The devil always comes for what he is owed.
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the echoes of your faithless prayers by Awfullylongtime
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)
13 Sep 2023
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“I need more,” she asserted. “A gift that would make amends for all of those years you’ve left me empty handed.”
Though Daemon already expected her answer, yearning to ensnare her within his ribcage, close to his heart, he couldn’t help but ask.
“And what would that be, princess?”
Inches from his mouth, his breath tickling in her ear, the princess exhaled.
“A child,” Rhaenyra said. “You’ll give me a child.”
Rhaenyra keeps Daemon prisoner in a tower, to prevent him from marrying another.
She won't allow it. The princess needs an heir, he will give it to her.
The devil has other plans in mind.
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“You tried to run away again.”
Rhaenyra swallowed, softly tugging her wrists in an attempt to release a bit of strain, the knots around her bones too tight to get loose. Damp rope made the ties even tighter, she had learned over the months.
“I’m sorry.”
Daemon arched his brows, his hands strolling on her collarbone, her arms, rubbing dirt, chasing sweat.
“Are you?”
After a vain escape attempt, Daemon has his niece back in the chamber they share, far away from King's Landing. He wants to keep her safe, caged in his arms.
Rhaenyra cannot fathom safety, if he stays with her.