He kept trying to speak but everytime he did, his mouth closed as Relena spoke, his eyes stared at his goblet, if he could it’d have burn a hole through it. “You’re right” Was all he said on the matter, realizing he had indeed overstepped his boundaries. He’d forgotten for a moment what this arrangement meant for him and for them in the long run and he grimaced as it came back to his mind and it stung. The realization he would never be able to really make any impact on his home, what should and could have been his kingdom and it made him bitter.
“Of course. Your mother will love having me as company and you won’t have to worry about me after she strangles me to death.” Hand on the goblet as he took a drink from it. “Contrary to popular belief the wife’s happiness is also a matter that people care about.” He added trying to not sound bitter about anything that his brain was reminding him of and trying his best to not let his emotions rule him before he stood up from the table. “I’ll leave you to finish your meal in peace and return to your duties, Queen Relena”
Viserys walked away, making sure he didn’t quicken his pace with every step, the need to get away was getting worse the longer he stayed in the hall and he took a large breath and exhaled once he was far away, his violet eyes locked on the way out of the keep and he made his way to the Dragon Pit and called out for Rhaellion seeing his beast in chains pained the Targaryen. “Just like me, huh?” He asked. “Two great dragons reduced to being chained.” Viserys said as he walked close to him, a hand petting the dragon’s snout lightly before he got up on the dragon with ease enjoying the height as his dragon rose up from kneeling and huffed at Viserys.
“I know, but you can’t fly. You have to stay here. People don’t trust you. They will never trust you.” As he spoke he realized how much of his words held meaning for himself as well and he sighed, hugging what of Rhaellion’s neck as he could. “In time perhaps things will change, Rhaellion.” Violet eyes looked at the sky before his dragon shifted to look at who at entered the area and huffed uncertainly, drawing Viserys’s attention towards the person as he laid a hand on him to reassure the dragon was not in danger. “Shouldn’t you be attending to your royal duties?” He asked Relena, almost having to yell from where he was so she could hear, slightly angered that she was here. Shouldn’t she be bothering Eddard or someone, not being here? Why was she here?
Relena was no fool, she was aware that Viserys didn’t like hearing what she had to say, but she had told him from the beginning that he would only be king in name and nothing more, she had made that decision and as her subject he would have to accept this, therefore she didn’t say anything when he spoke, her eyes just stared at him, teeth clenched together.
The young queen just rolled her eyes upon hearing his parting words. She crossed her arms in front of her chest and shock her head while watching him leave. As soon as he was out of sight, she mumbled something about acting like a bratty child, her gaze still lingering upon the spot where he had just left her view. They weren’t even married yet, and he was already trying to take her duties away from her. This was the reason Relena had not wanted to marry, a wife was subservient to her husband and most man dared to believe that this was the case for every woman, even a queen and as it seemed, at least in the young stag’s mind, her fiancé was one of these men.
Only interested in her hand, so he could play the game in her stead.
For quite sometime the queen remained sitting around the table, before letting out an annoyed sigh, grabbing the napkin upon her lap and throwing it on the table before getting up. Why was she always the one that had to be the adult? He invaded her privacy, and she had to go after him because he had stormed off like a pouty child, he overstepped his boundaries, and she had to go after him because one again he was acting like a spoiled brat who didn’t get what he wanted. The raven haired woman walked around the grounds of the royal home, until she heard a strange sound coming from the dragon’s pit. Of course, he was with these gods forsaken beasts, if only those eggs had remained pieces of stone, then she wouldn’t have this problem now. Hopefully these things wouldn’t procreate.
Arms crossed in front of her chest and with keeping as much distance to this thing as she could, Relena stood on the ground, staring up at the man sitting on top of the dragon. Her foot was tapping on the ground. She had perfectly understood Viserys’ words, after all he had screamed, but she wouldn’t do the same, he could at least give her the courtesy of coming down from there to speak.
She was silent, not giving him an answer and with her foot tapping it made her look like a mother waiting on her child to stop acting as it was, which made Viserys want to roll his eyes. Can’t they have a discussion go wrong and for him to go spend time alone and not have her chase him down after? He kept trying to think of things to say but ‘go away’ ‘why are you here?’ and ‘go back to running your kingdom’ didn’t seem to be wanting to come out of his mouth as he slowly made the descent from his dragon and upon realizing how far away she was from the dragon, stopped. “Why don’t we have this argument up here?” He asked her now that he was on Rhaellion’s mid back, the dragon knelt down once again and got even lower for Relena.
“Yes, you are the Queen. You rule the kingdom. You will have it all and I nothing. Is that what you want me to say? I am being a child and Gods forbid my helping is seen as power over you, because woman are seen as lesser than men and thus it must be the same for the Queen if her….If I do an inkling of something other than the traditional Queen’s work. Shall I wear fancy dresses and do my hair in fancy braids?” Viserys asked, his emotions slowly getting the better of him. “You have men on your council, a man as your hand and now a soon to be consort…Do you not fear them as you do I to threaten your power? Your own brother? They are all men and you, a woman thrust into this by your father’s will. Your surrounded, Relena. Tell me, honestly, do you fear your power being usurped by any of them or is it just me you fear?”
His dragon’s head turned to look at Relena giving a curious sniff as it stretched it’s head towards her, making sure to stay just far enough away to hopefully not scare her. “He won’t hurt you. Just as I won’t hurt you. I could give you the citadel as your own personal library and whatever else you wanted and it wouldn’t matter. I could leave right now, fly away and you would still fear-” He once again began his way down to her but slipped, his words preoccupying his thinking and he was falling, only to be caught by his dragon as it scooped him up and placed his rider down on the ground close to Relena. “-me” He finished as he smoothed out his hair, acting as if he had meant to do that.
“I just wanted you to know that should anything happen, to you, or Eddard can’t stand in your place that I could be of some use. Would you really let Joffery if worse case scenario happened? I have no doubt he would order terrible things during his ‘reign’. I may have been seen like I was putting myself in power but I was doing all of this for you. For your kingdom. It’s not mine. It’ll…never be mine.”
He paused before he spoke again. “Strike me, yell at me, throw me in the cells, do what you wish but I will still stand by my thoughts no matter how wrong you think it is of me.” He told her, gazing at her crossed arms and angered look and he should have been scared yet he just thought she looked stern and beautiful and as he looked away from her for a moment he knew he’d do anything for her just to keep her by his side.
“I care about you Relena. I know it may not seem like it as of late given my actions and words, but i’m still stumbling around these things. I haven’t been in court since I was five, my hearts in the right place but I just…I’ve never loved anyone. Yes, familial love. But not…this” He explained his anger fading away and he hadn’t realized he’d been backing up to his dragon as he spoke seeking some sense of strength and security. “I don’t know what to do or how to act properly sometimes. I proposed to you because I have grown to love you, not just out of need for an alliance.” He rambled trying to find the words but none seemed right and his dragon nudged him back to Relena before leaving the two alone, going back to the shade of the pit. “Please, know that I am trying. Know that what I do is for you and because of you no matter how horrible it may seem to you.”
Goldnwulf 