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Summary:

When the family's driver quits, Aerion is unwillingly subbed in as Egg's chauffer to his youth rugby practices. There, he catches the eye of the new assistant coach, one Duncan Tall.

A glimpse into the life of Aerion Targaryen through his text messages.

Notes:

any misspellings or grammar issues are LORE ACCURATE and WORLDBUILDING and ALL are DEFINETLY 100% INTENTED

Chapter 1

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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To: Father

Today 7:33 AM

Character A:

Have you seen your brother?


Today 12:06 PM

Character A:

Have you seen your brother?


Today 1:22 PM

Character B:

no


Character A:

Very helpful.


Character B:

check with Valarr


Today 2:17 PM

Character A:

You'll need to take Aegon to practice after school.


Character B:

why


Character A:

The driver quit.


Character B:

have Daeron drive him


Character A:

His license was suspended yesterday. You’ll need to pick Daella up as well. Have her work on her schoolwork while you wait for practice to finish.


Character B:

i have plans


Character A:

Change them.


Character B:

fine


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To: Daeron

Today 2:29 PM

Aerion:

you owe me


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To: Haegon

Today 2:33 PM

Aerion:

have to come over later. Family nonsense


Haegon:

everything alright?

when u want to meet?


Aerion

yeah

6?


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To: Aegon

Today 2:51 PM

Aerion:

i’m picking you up today


Person A:

text

Character A:

why


Aerion:

ask father


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To: Haegon

Today 2:31 PM

Aerion:

have to come over later. family nonsense


Haegon:

everything alright?

when u want to meet?


Aerion:

yeah

6?


Today 5:44 PM

Character B:

on my over now


Character A:

meet u at the usual spot

u bringing the stuff?


Character B:

obviously


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To: 1 412 3856

Today 5:50 PM

Character A:

Hey this is Duncan Tall, the new assistant coach of the Dragonstone Dragons. Just wanted to introduce myself since coming onto the team after Coach Arlan’s passing


Today 8:11 PM

Character B:

is that seriously the team name


Character A:

Yes?

It’s a bit silly I guess, but it’s the heart that counts right?


Today 10:28 PM

Character B:

did Aegon give you my number?


Character A:

Whose Aegon?

Character A:

Oh

Character A:

Yes he did

Character A:

I asked for it. I hope thats okay? I didn’t get the chance to speak with you during practice. You looked like you were busy on your phone and I didn’t want to interrupt

Character A:

You’re his older brother right? He’s a good kid, just has some growing to do. Has some real potential for rugby far as I can see

Character B:

can’t see very far then, can you?


Character A:

How’d you know?


Character B:

what


Character A:

that I wear glasses?


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To: Daeron

Yesterday 2:36 PM

Character B:

you owe me


Today 12:17 AM

Character A:

for?


Character B:

chauffeuring Aegon and Daella. That’s supposed to be your job


what happened to Petyr?


Character B:

who tf is that


Character A:

the driver?

Character B:

quit


Character A:

ah

still whats that got to do with me


Character B:

I had better things to do than play babysitter


Character A:

lol what “better things” do you have to do


Today 1:43 AM

Character B:

you owe me


Character A:

whatever


 


 

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To: Haegon

Today 4:39 PM

Character A:

i had fun last night


Today 9:09 PM

Character A:

when do you want to do it again?


 


 

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To: Father

Tues 11:54 AM

Character A:

Your uncle wants to know when he is going to be getting his car back.


Tues 2:57 PM

Aerion:

tonight


Character A:

I’ll let him know.


Aerion:

I need 334$


Character A:

Why?


Aerion:

to fix the car


Character A:

Fine.


Today 3:42 PM

Character A:

You will need to take Egg to his practices for the foreseeable future.


Aerion

???

why


Aerion:

what happened to hiring a new driver


Character A:

It’s not feasible at the moment.


Aerion:

if you paid them more to deal with Daeron’s shit they’d stay longer


Character A:

You are not innocent in the matter either. You know full well why we cannot afford a new driver.


Aerion:

this is rediculous. get uncle Baelor to asks Valarr. he’s a kiss ass he’ll do it for free


Character A:

Your cousin has better things to do.


Aerion:

like i don’t??


Character A:

This isn’t a debate. You will drive Aegon. It’s the least you can do for the family.


Today 4:27 PM

Aerion:

i’m not doing weekends


Character A:

I figured as much. Other transport has already been arranged for any weekend games.


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To: Aemon 📚

Mon 2:00 PM

Aerion:

hit them back


Character A:

I can’t. It’s against the rules


🙄

Aerion:

then tell them if they don’t stop I’ll gut them


Character A:

That seems excessive… it was just a couple of books


Aerion:

why do i bother with you


Today 4:56 PM

Character A:

Please stop. I’m trying to study


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To: Daeron

Today 4:57 PM

Character A:

shuthim up gods above some people are hugnober and dying


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To: Father

Today 5:02 PM

Character A:

Where is Aegon?


Aerion:

in his room


Character A:

Unblock his door.


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To: Aegon

Today 4:53 PM

Character A:

LET ME OUT

Character A:

LET ME OUT

Character A:

LETME OUT OR IM TELLING BHOTHER

FATHER


Today 5:03 PM

Aerion:

you’re such a baby you could’ve gotten out on your own if you thought about it for two seconds


Character A:

At least I’m not a bully

Coach Dunk says bullies are the most shit kind of people


Aerion:

oh yeah?


Character A:

And they go to hell and burn forever


Aerion:

coach dunk really said that? maybe I should tell father. little kids shouldn’t be talked to like that


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To: Father

Character A:

Unblock his door.


Today 5:14 PM

Character A:

Stop antagonizing your brother.


Aerion:

he’s being a fucking baby. He needs to toughen up


Character A:

Is that what you think you’re doing?

Your mother would be disappointed.


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To: Haegon

Yesterday 9:09 PM

Character A:

when do you want to do it again?


Today 5:22 PM

Aerion:

tonight


Character A:

thought you had some recital tonight?


Aerion:

fuck them


Character A:

the usual spot?

i’ll make u forget


Aerion:

yeah


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To: Daeron

Today 7:46 PM

Character A:

Daella was looking for you

what happened? Father’s sulking again


 


 

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To: Aegon

Today 3:19 PM

Character A:

Hello??

I’m going to be late to practice


Character A:

?


Character A:

It’s starting to rain


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To: Aegon

Today 3:31 PM

Character A:

It’s starting to rain


Today 6:23 PM

Aerion:

where are you


Aerion

?

Aerion:

Father’s going to be home soon


Character A:

I’m at the arcade


Aerion:

alone?


Character A:

No with Dunk

Aerion

I’m coming to supervise

Character A:

What


Character A:

No


Aerion:

you’re not being left alone with a stranger


Character A:

Why do you care


Character A:

You literally left me


deal with it


Person A:

text

Character A:

I HATE YOU


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To: 1 412 3856

Today 6:54 PM

Character A:

You don’t have to hide you know

Aerion:

i’m not hiding


Aerion:

i’m supervising


Character A:

From your phone? In the corner?


You could join us. We’re playing foosball


Aerion:

no


Character A:

Alright then


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To: 1 412 3856

Today 8:34 PM

Character A:

Egg seemed to think you left him at school on purpose


Aerion

he’s an idiot

we usually have a driver that picks him up. I was busy and it slipped my mind


Character A:

You lot have a personal driver?

Wow


Aerion:

not anymore


Character A:

Well it was no hassle picking Egg up. I’m glad he texted me asking for a lift. Poor lad looked like a half-drowned cat walking through the rain like he was, trying to get to practice, didn’t even know it'd been canceled because of the storm

Character A:

Figured the arcade might lift his mood. I hope it was okay that I took him? He said he’d never been before

Aerion:

our family doesn’t usually stoop so low


Character A:

Then why rugby?

If you don’t mind me asking


Aerion

Aegon’s idea

our father is a pushover


Character A:

he’s not like the rest of you, i take it

Seems like he doesn’t like you very much


Had some choice words when he got into the car


Character A:

I wanted to clout him in the ear hearing him speak. Quite the sailor’s mouth on him


Aerion:

gets that from our father


Character A:

Does he get the sulkiness too

Aerion:

yea


Today 11:13: PM

Character A:

You should try it some time, you know

Character A:

Stooping so low

Might have fun


Character A:

My old man always told me that you can’t hear the world when your heads in the clouds


Aerion:

you think it’s my head in the clouds?


Character A:

I think it’d do you some good to get some sun, pale as you are


Aerion:

sounds delightful


Character A:

I’m sure there’s a stool we can find to get you off that high horse of yours


Character A:

:)


 


 

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To: Daeron

Today 1:43 AM

Character A:

You going to the Baratheon house this weekend

Aerion:

don’t know. might have plans


Character A:

you know the new coach Egg wont shut up about? apparently Duncan the Great plays on the same team as Lyonel


Aerion:

small world


Character A:

he’s invited

Aerion:

okay?


Character A:

just though you’d want to know

Aerion

?

why


Character A:

You seemed pissed when Egg brought him up earlier

Aerion

don’t call him egg

you shouldn’t indulge him


Character A:

just thought you might want to know

Aerion:

i didn’t


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To: Haegon

Today 3:53 PM

Character A:

going to be at the Baratheon’s tomorrow

you coming?


 


 

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To: l baratheon

Today 11:51 PM

Character A:

come get your brother befor ehe pukes on anymore of my shit


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To: 1 412 3856

Yesterday 11:59 PM

Character A:

Hey your brothers in a bad way

I think his names Daeron?


Or baron idk it was hard to hear ofver the musicc


i’m with him in th e bedroom


Aerion:

which one


Uh


Idk


It’s gold


Like everytihn ig is just gold


Aerion:

give me twenty


👍

Character A:

Won’t go anywheres

Today 2:04 AM

Aerion

don’t talk to anybody about this

my family has connections


Today 7:49 AM

Character A:

No worries, I’m not the type for gossip

Character A:

Got no one to tell anyway

Character A:

I’d be more worried about what everyone else might have seen though

I can let you know if I hear any chatter from the guys on the team?


Today 12:17 PM

Aerion:

thank you


Character A:

No problem. They shouldn’t be talking about it anyway. Got nothing to do with them


Aerion

no

Aerion

for last night

Aerion

you didn’t have to

and he was fucking disgusting


Character A:

Lol the throw up was pretty disgusting

But I was happy to help. It was the right thing to do.


Character A:

What’d you do with him after you left?


Aerion

left him in the car

the smell should wake him up soon now that the sun is coming out


Right…


Character A:

BTW did you put him on his side? I saw that once on a Reel. It’s supposed to keep them from choking I think


Today 2:41 PM

Aerion

yeah

this wasn’t the first time


Oh


Character A:

I’m sorry


Aerion

yeah

 


 

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To: Haegon

Today 10:27 PM

i saw that shit show last night


Character A:

don’t know how you stand having a brother like that


Notes:

Big thank you to all the folks on twitter for encouraging me to make the fic! The css and html coding was a pain in the ass but worth it

Check me out over there! I post ATOTSK art and talk way to much about my dunkaerionling ocs :)