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1. Adoration and Resentment by clementinegreye

   Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, Other
   • Complete Work

   29 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen/Original Female Character
   • Aegon II Targaryen/Original Female Character(s)
   • aemond
   • Aemond Targaryen - Relationship
   • Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen
   • Aegon II Targaryen
   • Alicent Hightower
   • Rhaenyra Targaryen
   • Daemon Targaryen
   • Original Characters
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Jacaerys Velaryon
   • Aemond Targaryen
   • Childhood Friends
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Friends to Enemies to Lovers
   • I have made Aegon II a somewhat likeable individual (so that's very out of character)
   • But he is also still quite shit
   • Mutual Pining
   • Idiots in Love
   • Spoilers for House of the Dragon (TV)
   • Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen is Bad at Feelings
   • Warning: Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen

   Summary

   WORKING ON A RE-WRITE (BY OF AUGUST 2024 IT HAS BEEN RE-WRITTEN UP TILL CHAPTER 27 - ALL CHAPTERS AFTER THIS ARE OLD - THE WHOLE STORY REMAINS ACTIVE BUT BEAR IN MIND MAY HAVE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF WRITING QUALITY)

   An arrangement came to the forefront of the battlefield.

   Rhea Targaryen - daughter to Rhaenyra and Daemon Targaryen - was to return to King's Landing after years away to wed Aegon II and end the war.

   This new marriage brought hope to everyone in the Realm, the last attempt to restore what little peace could be saved. Everyone except Aemond.

   Once, they could have been considered friends, even if for just an afternoon. Now they had turned to strangers thanks to the distance across the narrow sea and years apart.

   But now she was returning.

   Aemond would have to overcome and endure his true feelings. But this time, would it leave him with more of an open wound?

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   English

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