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And even if getting Rhaenyra in as a soloist was a staggering show of nepotism, she was still the best concert pianist on the planet. It was like when Dmitri Junior recorded Shostakovich’s second. You could get mad about it for a bit, but it was ultimately fair game. Alicent had already reached all these conclusions because Viserys had spoken to her weeks ago about programming the Concerto, which only had the unwanted effect of giving her time to turn it over in her brain like a particularly nauseating Rubix cube. Each solution of the puzzle led her to the same conclusion: she would be seeing Rhaenyra imminently, and there wasn’t a damn thing she could do about it.
After ten years apart, Rhaenyra Targaryen re-enters Alicent's life for a set of solo engagements with her orchestra. Things go about as well as expected (not very).
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21 Dec 2024
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Dr. Rhaenyra Targaryen is a successful Pediatric Surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She's asked to consult on a case by the Chief of Surgery, so of course she accepts, unaware that the other surgeon asked to join the case is Dr. Alicent Hightower, her former best friend (and ex-girlfriend).
They haven't spoken in 7 years, and their ability to work together is quickly found out to be extremely affected by the 12 years of unspoken history between them.
Now reunited, they're forced to comb through their previous grievances in order to help their patient survive.
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18 Dec 2024
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the one time in actual ages that alicent hightower indulges herself in a one-night stand ends up being with a woman who shows up at the other side of the table as opposing counsel in the biggest case of her career.
the universe has a fucking terrible sense of humour.
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16 Dec 2024
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Should Have Jumped (When You Told Me To) by mrdcai
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
15 Dec 2024
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Alicent knows she shouldn’t bite but she cannot stop her reflexive retort. “That’s rich coming from a notorious narcissist.”
She immediately regrets it, is on the verge of apologising, but Rhaenyra is quicker and out for blood now, a dangerous glint in her eye.
“Better a self-aware narcissist than a self-righteous, deluded, parasite. Tell me do they teach charlatanism at the Citadel or is that something you inherited from your father?”
(Modern Academics AU - Alicent, literature professor and noted novelist, returns to King’s Landing after a long absence to take a position at the same university where former best friend Rhaenyra is a member of the history faculty. Why did they fall out and why in the Seven are they teaching a lecture together?)
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16 Dec 2024
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new evidence surfaces in a serial killer case that metropolitan police detective alicent hightower and mi6 officer rhaenyra targaryen had worked on — and reluctantly closed — years ago. a fractured relationship is put to the test, put together with threads from then and now.
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07 Dec 2024