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Dragonstone 281 AC
The flames from candles danced around as the wind howled and whistled. Lightening clashed and thunder roared, echoing throughout the halls of Dragonstone.
Viserys jumped, frightened by the storm. His mother Rhaella grabbed onto his hand, and Viserys was no longer frightened from the storm but the possibility of losing his mother tonight. Viserys looked to his mother; sickly pale skin and covered in sweat from being in labour all night while blood coated her lower region.
One of Rhaella's handmaidens came running back with new cloth to wipe her forehead with. She handed them to Viserys.
He grabbed and dipped it in the pale of water, then laid it across Rhaella's forehead. She was getting paler by the minute, and Viserys started to tear up. He looked at the baby bump on her belly.
Rhaella shook his hand enough to gain his attention. Viserys finally met his mother's gaze as a tear fell down his cheek. "Please, do not leave me, mother," his voice cracked.
Rhaella slightly glanced down knowingly. She knew she wasn't going to make it after the babe was delivered. She gave him a gentle smile, violet eyes glossy, "No matter what happens tonight, you need to protect your baby brother or sister. You understand me?" a tear slipped from her violet eye.
Viserys only nodded. His pink lips parted to reply, but the handmaiden interrupted, "You are going to have to push harder, Your Grace," she told Rhaella, urgently.
Rhaella turned to her handmaiden, "Remember what I said." The handmaiden nodded and smiled softly. Rhaella then turned back to her son one last time, "I love you, my son. You have grown into a fine young boy," she told him sadly. "Remember the names I told you," Rhaella brought Viserys's hand to her lips and kissed it softly.
She then gave one big push, screaming in pain as she held Viserys's hand tightly. An infant's cry broke through Queen Rhaella's screams and the raging storm.
The handmaiden wrapped the bloodied baby in a blanket and cleaned her before she gave the babe to Rhaella, smiling. "It's a girl, Your Grace."
Her Grace released the prince's hand, reached for her new born daughter, and held her babe in her final moments. She turned her gaze to Viserys and weakly said, "Stormborn. For she was born in the storm."
"Daenerys Stormborn," Viserys remembered the name of the babe's a girl. Rhaella took one of her son's hands, looked at Daenerys, and took her final breath. Viserys shook her, "Mother. No, mother!! MOTHER!" he screamed, causing Daenerys to cry.
The handmaiden quickly ran to Viserys, "You have to go. Take Daenerys with you and go to the docks. There, you will find a groups of the loyalists that will be there waiting for you two." Viserys kept his gaze on his mother's limp body, heartbroken, and took Daenerys's crying body.
Before he left, the handmaiden had given him some advice on how to raise Daenerys, then he fled Dragonstone.
Later that night, Viserys was aboard the ship that would take he and Daenerys to the Free Cities, but the storm had been so rough, it blew the ship off course to King's Landing.
They arrived in King's Landing about a day later, and the loyalists knew that they were in the wrong place but the ship was damaged and they had no more supplies or money since it was lost at sea do to the storm. So they had to stay in King's Landing until they could afford to sail once again to the Free Cities.
The loyalists taught Viserys how to colour his hair a dark brown so no one would know he was a Targaryen. Lucky for him and his sister, they each had blue eyes and not violet, so it was easier for them to blend once they coloured their hair. The rumour was that The Mad King was murdered, but he still sat on the Iron Throne while they were in King's Landing, but the loyalist thought it was a bad idea to let him know his children were here so they kept it a secret. They survived off stealing some goods and gold and later Viserys started working for a brothel serving food and drinks.
After working there for two years, King Aerys was murdered and the whole city went into chaos. Viserys and them finally have enough gold and supplies to sail to the Free Cities and goes to the brothel to get his last pay before leaving and takes little five year old Daenerys with him. As he's walking there, he over hears the guards talking about a woman, pregnant with King Aerys bastard that works in a brothel. As he gets closer and closer to the brothel he works at, he notices more and more guards. Once he's finally in there with Daenerys, he hears the sound of a woman in pain.
He recognises the painful moans and groans of a woman in labour and no one was helping her. He picks up Daenerys and holds her to his hip and goes to find the woman and finds her in the upper level of the brothel in a room in agony. She looks frightened when she sees the children.
Viserys puts Daenerys down and looks down to her, "Stay close to me Dany," he says and walks over to the woman. "I am Viserys. I will help you. I helped my mother give birth to my little sister," he says kindly.
The woman just looks at him and then widens her eyes when she recognises the name,
"You're the King's son..." she says trailing off then looks to Daenerys, "And she's the child that was born on Dragonstone," the labouring woman piecing together.
Viserys looks to her curiously, "How did you know that? You work in a brothel and are probably a whore. You shouldn't know that much," he states a little rudely. She shakes her head agreeing with him and contemplates on telling him the truth or not. She knows she probably won't survive so she does, for the sake of her child.
"I wasn't just a whore..." she trails off again, "I was your father's," she says. Viserys looks to her bump, then her then back to her bump again.
"The rumours are true then..." he says in disbelief. "You are pregnant with my fathers bastard," he breathes out. She nods her head and starts to get contractions again.
After minutes of hard labour, she finally gave birth to a baby girl. Viserys is there holding her, and wiping her off with a cloth and then hands her to the woman. She looks to him,
"I'm afraid I won't be able to look after her..." she says sadly as she starts to tear up.
Viserys looks at her confused, "Why not?"
The woman lightly smiles at him and then looks down at her daughter, "I'm dying. The labour is taking its toll on me. Even if I was to survive, there are guards everywhere looking for me and her so they can kill us both. You have to take her and go. Raise her as one of your true siblings, not just some bloody bastard. Please," she says looking at him pleading. He gives in and scoops the baby in his arms.
Daenerys comes walking over from her position on the floor and holds her arms up to the baby, "I want hold," she says and Viserys gently sets her in Daenerys' arms and the two girls bonded then and there. They hear guards starting to march from building to building looking for the child and mother.
The woman looks at Viserys and the girls,
"You most go now. Leave King's Landing and never return."
Viserys looks to the woman not wanting to leave her in distress, "We can take you with us. It's not to late!" Viserys shouts to her.
She shakes her head sadly, "I cannot. Since I was King Aerys' whore, I practically lived there. They know what I look like," she tells him.
Viserys just stares at her before curiously asking, "What is your name?"
"Elaena Matthews. Promise me you'll keep the name I give her," he just nods his head agreeing. "Rhaenys. Like your ancestor. I named her after the first one, she is half Targaryen. Now, you must go," she tells them urgently. He just stands there. "Go now. Go!" she shouts at them.
Viserys picks up Daenerys as she hold the babe and he looks to her, "I need you to hold her and hide her, can you do that for me?" he asks her. She nods her head and does as she's told and he walks out calmly then once he's out of the brothel, he races to the docks to find the loyalists. They're waiting for him and notice Daenerys is holding something.
One of them speaks, "What's that she's got?" he asks curiously.
Viserys puts Daenerys down as she holds the babe and uncovers her to see a baby. Viserys looks to the man, "My fathers bastard. I'll tell you on the way. We must go now," he then walks on the ship with Daenerys following closely.
After packing up and setting sail, Daenerys takes the babe to the room on the ship and rocks her with the ship to make her sleep since she was crying and they both soon fall asleep. Not long after they fell asleep, Viserys knocks on the door and comes in to find them sleeping and smiles at them and drapes a blanket over them and kisses Daenerys forehead before looking at the babe.
'She will never have the Targaryen name. She is a bastard,' he thought to himself and snorts before he walks out as they sail to the Free Cities. Viserys knows of the bastard Targaryen House known as the Blackfyre's, but he forbade to even give her the bastard name of a Targaryen. From that day on, she was known as Rhae Waters, bastard daughter to The Mad King.
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Authors note: Hello guys and welcome!! I slightly changed the original Game of Thrones timeframe to fit my story: Daenerys was born five years prior to the Rebellion ending; Season 1 for every storyline that isn't Daenerys' happens much later before the events of Season 2 start. After the time gap in Season 1 that I created (3 years), the rest of the timeframe will remain the same as the original Game of Thrones storyline. Anyways that's all and I hope you enjoy it! Have a nice night or day!