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To Be Strong by LaylaTarg0105
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
25 Jun 2026
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Summary
"My Love"
Those were the last words King Viserys I Targaryen, the Peaceful, ever whispered — and the first he heard when darkness gave way to something else entirely.
He was not alone. Rhaenyra stood before him, her dress scorched and ruined as though she had walked through dragonfire. Helaena bore wounds across her body that no father should ever have to witness.Jaehaera, too. And his grandchildren — all of them wearing the same faces he remembered, as though time itself had refused to move. They should have been older. They should not have been there at all.
Where were the others? Where were Rhaenyra's little Aegon and Viserys? Where were his sons — Aegon, Aemond, Daeron? Where were Alicent and Otto?
And then came the answer he was never prepared to hear.All of it — every burned gown, every broken body, every missing face — had happened because of him. Because of his silences. His blind eye. His gentleness mistaken for peace.
Now Viserys stands at the threshold of something he doesn't deserve: a second chance.
The question is no longer what he failed to do.
The question is whether Viserys I Targaryen, the Peaceful, will finally choose to be strong.