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He ended up falling asleep on the throne, everyone was gone and he was getting up to go to his room when he heard quick footsteps, he followed the noise to find Helaena standing in front of him with jaehaera in her arms.
His wife looked around with pure terror in her eyes, Aegon approached her and put his hands on her shoulders, she gasped and turned towards him holding the little girl tighter, only then did Aegon notice the cut on her throat «Helaena what happens?» she continued to hold Jaehaera close, looking straight ahead.
To Aegon it almost seemed like she didn't even see him "they killed the boy. they killed jaehaerys." Aegon hoped he had heard wrong. He must have heard wrong. His son could not have died.
He made Helaena sit down and called the guards giving orders not to leave her alone even for a moment, he had to see the corpse of his child with his eyes otherwise he wouldn't believe it.
He reached his children's room and slowly approached Jaehaerys' bed, there, on the once white sheets, there was a huge stain of blood, there was the body of his child whose head someone had cut off. Aegon stood still. His son was dead.
He returns to Helaena and the guards with orders to never leave her or the children alone. Meanwhile Alicent and Aemond have reached him, Alicent seems too calm as if they hadn't just cut off the head of her nephew. Aemond leans against the wall and looks at them, as if it were obvious what just happened, and it really is. Everyone in that room knows that it was the Blacks who killed Jaehaerys and Aegon swears to the seven, that they will pay.No one sleeps for the rest of the night, Aegon stays next to Helaena who keeps repeating "no". She didn't say anything else. He wants revenge, but first of all he wants to bury his son.
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The next day no one knows what to do, when the announcement of the prince's death is made, an eerie silence falls on the castle and King's Landing, Aegon in the meantime managed to get Helaena to sleep for at least an hour. During the night two men were arrested who turned out to be the culprits, one of them had Jaehaerys' head in a bag. Now that his son's body can be buried they are planning the funeral, and he feels so helpless. He became a father at 15, he became one because his mother wanted this. But from the first moment he saw those children he felt a love that he didn't think possible, Jaehaerys was the copy of him he was the little one of him who liked horses. And now he was no longer there.
On the day of the funeral Aegon didn't show up, he couldn't say goodbye to his child. He remained locked in his room and the last trace of humanity disappeared from him.