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1. To justify and despair by emowitxh

   Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   14 Aug 2023

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Daemon Targaryen/Original Character(s)
   • Harwin Strong/Rhaenyra Targaryen
   • Alicent Hightower/Rhaenyra Targaryen
   • Aegon II Targaryen/Original Female Character(s)
   • Daemon Targaryen/Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys)
   • Daemon Targaryen
   • Original Characters
   • Rhaenyra Targaryen
   • Viserys I Targaryen
   • Alicent Hightower
   • Otto Hightower
   • Aegon II Targaryen
   • Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen
   • Helaena Targaryen
   • Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys)
   • Harwin Strong
   • Laenor Velaryon
   • Corlys "The Sea Snake" Velaryon
   • Rhaenys Targaryen Velaryon
   • OC- Aerea Targaryen
   • OC-Vaella Arryn
   • OC-Alyssa Targaryen
   • Slow Burn
   • sorta but not really
   • Angst
   • It Can Always Get Worse
   • Targcest | Targaryen Incest (A Song of Ice and Fire)
   • Family Drama
   • fluff once in a while
   • Chaos
   • a fix-it fic?? but also not really??
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • minor characterization changes due to canon divergence (mainly on the younger characters only)
   • no beta read we die like every targaryen in this family

   Summary

   When the youngest sister of Prince Daemon and King Viserys returns to King's Landing after the loss of her firstborn son and her husband she is filled with grief and resentment. With Aerea Targaryen reuniting once again with her brother Daemon, an old spark might start a fire once again leading to chaos and scandal that she could've never predicted. Plagued with nightmares and a desire to feel free after her five years in an unhappy marriage, she would be forced to adapt once again to living with her daughter in the Red Keep— where most cannot be trusted and dark plots threaten to end the life she has always yearned for in the quest for power.

    

   (Or the one where Daemon and Aerea keep trying to stay together despite everyone's efforts to keep them apart)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   23,759

   Chapters:

   5/?

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