XXIX. The Red Keep

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Summary: A horrible lie could change the war

Pairings: main Harwin Strong x Fem!Targaryen reader

Warnings: cursing, medieval and A song of ice and Fire AU customs, injury, burns, dragon fire, death, violence, armies, death, war and all that comes with it. Might miss some warnings but you know what this is about :) +18, MINORS DNI

Notes: This is a very intense chapter, and for once, we are focusing on one group of people and only one place for this chapter! I've been wanting to write this for a LONG time, like a really long time! So I hope I can make justice for what I have in mind

Notes: This is a very intense chapter, and for once, we are focusing on one group of people and only one place for this chapter! I've been wanting to write this for a LONG time, like a really long time! So I hope I can make justice for what I have...

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When Aemond came back, one week later, he found the Red Keep submerged in madness.

He found maids and ladies crying, he found soldiers running around in distress, something was really, really wrong.

He had been away, leading the Baratheon army that was now outside King's Landing's gates, he ran upstairs, towards Maegor's holdfast, ready to march North, or wherever they needed them to go. With Lord Borros' support

But as long as he was going upwards... he realized something wrong, really, really wrong, had happened.

When he reached the superior levels, he could hear her... his mother screaming... he ran the last hallway to the hall, and froze, right there, in the middle of a private chamber, over four beds, were three bodies. Already prepared as a silent sister was finishing the shrouds on the feet of the last body. His breath got caught in his throat.

They were two women, and two children, and his mother's beaten face could only mean one thing

"No", he whined, as soon as Alicent saw him, she ran towards him, and he embraced her in his arms

"What is this?", he asked, he felt like a glass ball was stuck in his throat, "what happened?"

"They came in the night", she cried, "they...they..."

"Who? who did this?", he said urgently, and her mother weeped even more

"They said that a nephew for a niece", she cried, "they... killed the children, Helaena and Aemma, and took Jahaera"

And something inside Aemond just snapped.

72 hours earlier

Crestan had spent the last two days searching for a way into the Keep, and failing completely at it. He couldn't just ask around people [hey, do you know a way into the Castle?", so he scouted all possible entrances all around the castle, but it was useless...

If he didn't hurry, he was not going to be able to stop it, your child could be in danger.

He didn't have any money, he didn't have any time, he was looking for a secret way in into the biggest castle he had ever seen, to look for a Princess he had never seen or even know how she looks like, and probably save yet another child that he had never seen, nor he didn't even know what he looked like either.

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