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It's in the middle of the day, a lazy Sunday. Rhaenyra would prefer to call it a naked Sunday, but six years and two children later, they rarely have that sort of privacy anymore.
Alicent was in the hallway by the kitchen, staring longingly at the thermostat that she knows she can't touch. Even though she's freezing, and it's starting to get colder outside by the day.
The girls are upstairs taking a nap, and they, just like their Muna are hot bodies. The house needs to stay cool to keep her dragons from overheating.
So Alicent will just have to make due, and warm herself.
She lit the fire place, made hot chocolate, and when she gets back in the living room she'll cuddle her wife close enough to get under her skin.
My own personal heater.
Alicent walks barefoot in from the kitchen to the living room, carrying two mugs of hot chocolate, with a bag of mini marshmallows hanging from her mouth. She hands Rhaenyra her mug then stands in front of the fireplace, sipping on her own drink.
"What are you doing?" Rhaenyra asks from her spot on the couch behind her.
The smirk that frames her face is only there because she has her back turned. "I'm… warming my hands by the fire?"
"Alicent." she warns.
"Hmmm?"
"Don’t piss me off."
Alicent breaks then, chuckling, she turns around to face her wife. "What?" she feigns innocent.
"You know what. Get over here." She says, opening her arms and Alicent falls into them, and shes instantly feels the heat radiating off of her.
Rhaenyra embraces her, pulling Alicent to lay fully on top of her, body nestled comfortably between her legs, throwing a thin blanket over the both of them. "I'm supposed to be your personal heater, not some useless fireplace." she grumbles.
Alicent laughs, lifting her head from where it was on her chest and looks at Rhaenyra incredulously. "Wasn’t it you, princess-
"-don't call me princess-"
"-who insisted that we buy this grand castle-"
"-It's a two-story house Alicent-"
"-Spending daddy's money-"
"-okay that I won't argue, but-"
"-like the precious nepo baby that you are-"
"-mhmm I think I like princess better-"
"-all because you looooved that ridiculous fireplace with ornate dragon carvings in the mantelll- ah Rhaenyra stop it."
Alicent tries in vain to wiggle away from her wife's fingers that are digging in her side, tickling her relentlessly. It's no use, Rhaenyra has her legs locked tightly around her waist, and both of Alicent's wrists held in one of her hands.
Her laughs were getting louder, though she tries to hush them. "Rhae- Rhaenyra! Stop before I wake your little monsters."
"Hey! Only the bigger one is a monster." Rhaenyra says, releasing her hands and kissing her lips.
"Mmmm," Alicent moans into the kiss before pulling back. "Don't hold your breath on the little one being sane, they both come from your dragon eggs."
Rhaenyra gasps. "Eggs that incubated in your womb, maybe they're monsters because they had to fight to survive in such a hostile environment."
Alicent can't hold back the howl of laughter that escapes her, and not a moment later Rhaenyra's hand is clamped over her mouth, muffling the sound, letting out a few of her own soft chuckles. "Shhh, before you actually wake them up, and we miss out on our movie time."
Alicent lets a few more giggles out behind Rhaenyra's hand before she calms down enough and it's removed. She rests her head back on Rhaenyra's chest and she presses play on Sinners.
Rhaenyra had been excited about the movie since she heard about it, being obsessed with all things vampires, but they had a fresh newborn when it was out in theaters so there was no way they could make a showing. Now that they were entering spooky season, and the movie was streaming, Rhaenyra decided it was time to give it a watch.
They only made it about thirty minutes into the movie before they were interrupted. Alicent isn't too upset. Trying to finish a movie in the middle of the day was pushing their luck honestly, even on a Sunday.
Neither one of them even noticed Visenya until she spoke.
"You know she spits in his mouth?"
As soon as she hears her daughter's little voice, she turns her head to see her five year old leaning back against the arm of the couch with their four month old, Helaena, nestled comfortably in her arms. The sight took her aback until she registered what the girl had said, or what Alicent thinks she said.
"Rhaenyra pause the movie." The room goes quiet and Alicent sits up to look at their girls. "Visenya what did you just say?"
She gestured with her elbow to the tv mounted on the opposite wall. The elbow with her infant securely laying in the crook of, which she will get to- in a moment.
"Mary, that girl on the tv. That's her boyfriend Stack, he has a twin brother named Smoke; like Baela and Rhaena." She shakes her head a little, trying to get back on track. "She's mad at him right now, but later in the movie they're kissing again and then she spits in his mouth." Her little face frowns up, when she repeats herself.
"What?" Alicent says dumbfounded.
"Visenya have you watched this movie before?" Rhaenyra asks, and Alicent is glad her wife is asking the important questions, because she's at a loss.
"Yeah, at Kepa's house." she shrugs, like this isn't a R-rated horror movie about vampires.
"Which one?" Alicent hisses, but she thinks she knows the answer already.
"Aegon." Visenya gives up reluctantly, not wanting to rat him out but also knowing better than to lie on Daemon.
Rhaenyra groans behind her and Helaena starts to whine.
She's probably getting hungry. Alicent thinks.
"Okay lets put a pin in that, Muna and I will talk to your Kepa. But right now you are supposed to be in bed, taking a nap-'
"I wasn't sleepy, and -"
"- not bringing your sister down-
"She shit! I changed her diaper!" her daughter counters defensively. She truly was her Muna's spawn; she has the hair, the eyes, and the boldness, with a potty mouth to match.
Somehow she's ten times worse than Alicent remembers Rhaenyra being at this age.
Rhaenyra stifles a laugh. (Her wife find's her cursing hilarious, especially when it's in front of Otto.)
"Down stairs, by yourself." Alicent continues, voice rising. "You know I don't like that."
"I slid down the stairs on my butt, so I wouldn’t drop her! I was being careful."
Alicent nods. "I know you were love, but accidents can still happen, even when your careful."
"I only brought her down stairs because I couldn't get her to go back to sleep. I rocked her in the rocking chair and everything!"
Helaena starts fussing a little more now, and Visenya shifts the babe to her other elbow like she's been raising kids her whole life, gently bouncing her and shushing her softly. The girl honestly thinks that they had her sister especially for her.
They're constantly reminding her that Helaena is their daughter, not hers.
"She wants a boob." Visenya says, handing the baby over to Alicent's outstretched arms.
"I want a boob." Rhaenyra mutters, leaning forward to start unbuttoning the top few buttons of her sleep shirt.
Alicent can't help but chuckle, at both of them. "And how do you know that?"
"Cause she was crying that boob cry." Visenya shrugs, waving her hand around.
Alicent gets Helaena to latch, as Visenya walks towards the coffee table grabbing her mug of hot chocolate and slurping the melted marshmallows off the top. Rhaenyra pulls her body to lean back against the couch, sliding a pillow under the baby, helping them both get comfortable while she nurses.
Visenya slurps on the drink again and grabs the remote, pressing play on the movie.
"Visenya -" Alicent starts to say when Rhaenyra cut her off, waving her hand.
"Fuck it Alicent, she's already watched it once."
"Three times." Their daughter throws over her shoulder, not tearing her eyes from the screen. "I told Aegon to play it again and again so I would remember how to kill a vampire."
Alicent rolls her eyes but Rhaenyra was already moving on, pointing at Visenya and flicking her finger towards the other end of the couch they're sitting on. "Alright you, sit down- ah ah no ma'am, no drinks on the couch, you know that. You can stay, but I'm sending you to your room if you start talking through the movie and giving me spoilers."
Alicent rolls her eyes again. Her wife's fine with their five year old watching this movie but draws the line at drinks on the couch.
Visenya grabs the bag of mini marshmallows and jumps up on the couch, getting comfortable.
After about fifteen more minutes, Helaena's done eating and her sister immediately stretches her arms out for her.
"I haven't even-"
"I'll burp her. Give me my baby mommy." She says with gimmie hands.
Helaena only lasts thirty minutes and she's asleep on her sisters chest, her tiny hand splayed out on Visenya's cheek and her face tucked under her chin. It makes Alicent's heart melt. She has to wait another thirty minutes for Visenya to fall asleep, to take a picture of them together.
Alicent tosses her phone on the coffee table and resumes her position between Rhaenyra's legs and resting on her chest. She throws the blanket back over them, then runs her cold foot on the back of Rhaenyra's bare calf.
Rhaenyra hisses, her legs jerking in protest. "Fuck baby, your feet are freezing."
"Unh-uh, be still." Alicent grins, continuing to rub her cold feet up and down her wife's legs. "Your supposed to be my personal heater remember?"