🪴𝖕𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖘🪴
[GEO SUBARU OOGAMI X CALM READER]
I HAD TO GEO IS SO BBG, IT MIGHT BE KINDA OOC 😭😭 anyway, [mc] goes to the same yk school as geo and the other fellas but they also work at a small plant shop (geo totally didn't follow them) and geo comes to buy some plants gender neutral reader, slight delulu & slight yandere geo
also I'm trying new art style thingies so ye
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GEO HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN A CERTAIN SOMEONE FOR A LITTLE WHILE, THAT SOMEONE BEING [MC]. He didn't really know why, but he just found himself extremely somewhat fond of them. He found himself relieved when they sat in front of him instead of Deryl at lunch, he felt relaxed whenever their calming voice spoke to him, and he adored the fact that they were calm and composed. He'd never admit it, but he definitely enjoyed their company.
His blue chill eyes immediately landed on [MC] once they came into his sight. He tilted his head as he saw them texting someone in what seemed to be a hurry, their expression slightly irritated.
Geo's eyebrows unknowingly furrowed in unwanted curiosity. Just who was the person [MC] was texting? He had to know. He had to know who was sooo important.
His eyes followed [MC]'s figure as they rushed out of the school. Geo didn't have to think twice before he started to follow them. He made sure to walk at a distance, so it didn't look like he was following them. After a few minutes of walking, Geo stopped in his tracks once he noticed [Name] entering a small plant shop. His head tilted as he squinted his eyes, trying to figure out why exactly [MC] would come here. Was it for something?... someone....?...
His jaw clenched in frustration, just the thought of them buying something for someone other than him was more than enough to make him pissed. He quietly took a deep breath to calm down and walked towards the plant shop. Geo took one of his hands out of his pocket and opened the door, looked in, and froze on the spot. [MC] stood behind the counter, watering a few plants that were placed upon the window stool.
Geo's eyes slightly softened, quietly admiring the gorgeous person in front of him, not realising he was starting to space out.
".....o?"
".....eo?"
"Geo?"
[MC]'s voice called out, breaking him out of his little dream world. Geo blinked and looked at [MC], his eyes immediately shifting back to those usually intimidating ones. "What are you doing here? Don't you have archery today?" [MC]'s calm voice questioned, their head tilted with curiosity. Geo's face remained stoic, but on the inside, he almost screamed at how adorable that little action they made was.
"..." Geo remained quiet for a few seconds, staring down at [MC]. "I came here to buy a potted plant." Geo spoke, his tone stoic and cold as always. [Name] nodded and offered a small smile, one that melted Geo's icy heart. "Well, is there anything specific you have in mind, or would you like for me to pick for you?" [MC] politely asked, their head tilted once more.
Geo had to resist the urge to just take out his phone and take a million photos of them, I mean, who wouldn't after seeing someone so adorable?
"You can choose." Geo replied, making sure he sounded like he was uninterested. [MC] nodded and walked around the shop a few times, then walked back to Geo, a bunch of potted plants held by their arms. "Alright,so I brought a few that are common with beginners." [MC] calmly stated with a closed eye smile, then placed the potted plants onto the counter.
"Alright, so this one is a jade plant. They require a minimum of 6 hours of bright light every day and are best kept in dry areas that reach around 18 to 24 degrees Celcius (65-75°F)." [MC] explained, pointing to one of the plants. Geo occasionally nodded to show he was listening.
[MC] pointed to another flower. "This one, I think you already know, an orchid. They require high humidity levels, and it's also necessary to-" [MC] continued to explain the flower and it's necessities, but Geo's mind was in another world.
Orchids... don't they symbolise.... love? Was... was [Name] trying to tell him something?
Geo could feel his heart rate pick up its pace, his body temperature rising. "For the next plant-" [MC] was about to speak, but Geo cut them off. "I'll take the orchid." Geo spoke in a dull and blunt manner. [Name] blinked once, then nodded. "Alright then, just give me a second to put the rest back." They said, picked up the other plants and rushed to place them in their assigned places, then came back to the counter. "You know what, this one is on the house." [Name] said, a small smile formed on their face.
Geo furrowed his eyebrows in disagreement, but on the inside, he was on the verge of breaking down in joy. "Let me pay." Geo demanded, his wallet somehow finding its way into his hands. "I said it's on the house, just this once, just because you're my favourite person." [MC] gave a small wink.
Geo's hand unconsciously moved to linger above [MC]'s head, then lowered to gently patted the top of their head. "...thank you." Geo quietly murmured, continuing to pat their head. A soft chuckle escaped [Name]'s lips. "Well here you are, see you at school tomorrow." [MC] said, holding out the bag the orchid was placed in. Geo retracted his hand and picked up the bag with one hand. He walked towards the door of the shop, opened it and walked away, not before waving though.
As Geo slowly walked home, his mind completely drifted off again.
i touched their head. i touched their head. they smiled more than once at me. they gave me this flower for free.
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Geo sat upon his bed, the hand which patted [MC]'s head cradled up to his chest, right next to his pounding heart. Geo's head was tilted down, hiding a rare smile full of love and adoration. He felt warm, fuzzy, and happy. He made so much progress in the span of barely ten minutes.
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I.
“Princess, is there anything I can fetch you?” Alysanne Strong asked.
“No. You return to morning prayers.” Bad enough she must suffer this disappointment, once again, she had no desire to subject herself to pity. Pity was useless to her.
Could she use pity to make her willful womb welcome a child?
“Vey well, Princess.” Lady Alysanne curtsied deeply, before exiting Rhaenyra’s chambers to return to the sept where the rest of the princess’s ladies remained, singing hymns.
Lady Jeyne Hunter was the most thoughtful of Rhaenyra’s women, Lady Jeyne Templeton the most proper, and Lady Elinda Massey the most sensitive, but it was Lady Alysanne Strong who was the most efficient. It was a trait the Riverlander took advantage of, as she used her position as the daughter of the Hand to take precedence among the future queen’s circle. Oh, Rhaenyra was fond of her ladies and would do well by them. But it was hard not to feel oddly lonely sometimes.
Rhaenyra had wondered whenever Alicent Hightower sometimes fell prey to the same feeling, among her own ladies-in-waiting.
Sometimes this loneliness would ease whenever she invited Lady Alysanne to read to her. To the girl’s credit, she had a voice made for reading out loud, both clear and rich. It reminded Rhaenyra of whiling away lazy afternoons in the gardens of the Red Keep, listening to another girl….
But that was another time, and Rhaenyra was here.
Even once alone, she could not weep.
She had been such a fool, to raise her hopes. But she hoped, she prayed, that she would have something to show for her efforts.
But then half an hour ago, when Rhaenyra went to relieve herself before departing for the sept, she was confronted by the blood there. Mocking her.
II.
Over the past two years, Rhaenyra had endured the indignity of several examinations. Growing up, Rhaenyra was regularly checked by Grand Maester Mellos, at her mother’s behest. Queen Aemma was solicitous about her only daughter’s health, and ready to guard it against any foes. She need not have worried. Rhaenyra had always been a hale child.
Just as she was a hale woman, said Maester Tommen. Her courses were regular. There was no need to fear that she would never give her husband children. She was young still, and better yet- not too young that childbed would be even more of a danger.
Rhaenyra bit her tongue at this. The maester no doubt was trying to soothe what he saw as some anxious woman, but why must she be the only one whose fertility was in doubt in the first place? It took both a man and a woman. Who was to say that Ser Laenor wasn’t afflicted in some manner, and thus that prevented his seed from quickening? Rhaenyra knew her husband’s ways. Perhaps her troubles would not have troubled them otherwise if her husband had been made like other men. Like Harwin Strong, or…
“It does not always happen on the first try, or even the thousandth.” Maester Tommen told her when Rhaenyra asked how long she should expect to fall with child. That was after six moons of Rhaenyra and Laenor chasing an heir, and six moons he had been in Rhaenyra’s service. As soon as the idea took hold of her, Rhaenyra requested from Father to permit the use of her own private maester.
“So, I do not distract Grand Maester Orwyle from his attentions to you, Father.” Rhaenyra lied when asked for her reason. Father accepted it readily enough, but Queen Alicent raised an eyebrow. Well, let Alicent have her suspicions. Rhaenyra would not have a maester that attended to the queen as well.
Still, sometimes Rhaenyra felt like she would have gotten more help from a woods witch.
III.
Rhaenyra and Ser Laenor were wed three years Corlys Velayron was presumptuous enough to write to his son and remind him that he and Rhaenyra must not neglect their duty.
Duty, of course, meant silver-haired sons. One for the Iron Throne, and one for the Driftmark Throne. Rhaenyra wanted so badly at that moment to mount her beloved Syrax, fly from the Red Keep, and demand Ser Corlys defend his words while atop her dragon. Corlys had forgotten himself because he’d forgotten that while the Velayrons could boast Valyrian descent and he could boast dragon riders for children, he was not one himself.
Rhaenyra and Laenor had done their duty. They wed, just as their fathers commanded. Rhaenyra could not control the timing in which the gods gave her children.
Still, Rhaenyra knew she was not entirely faultless. Laenor and she drunkenly consummated their marriage weeks after their disastrous wedding night and Laenor wept afterward.
Rhaenyra hadn’t known how to react. “It is normal for women to weep on their wedding nights, not knights.” She blurted out. Laenor stared at her, before throwing off the covers and pulling on his trousers. He left the room, leaving Rhaenyra feeling ashamed and guilty. That was not worthy of her.
Laenor was gracious enough when accepting her apologies. She knew he had forgiven her after they returned together laughing, from an afternoon flying their dragons. It was a good thing Laenor had claimed his Seasmoke. Rhaenyra could not discount any fools who might think her lord husband weak if he had mastered no dragon. Bad enough in their eyes that it was she who was heir to the Iron Throne, and not Laenor Velayron.
Or better than both, Aegon Targaryen. The king’s first and trueborn son.
Rhaenyra scowled, before turning over. Aegon was a boy of eight. Helaena was six, and Aemond- the boy born seven moons after Rhaenyra’s own wedding, was almost five. No doubt Alicent Hightower would pop out another little son for Father.
Well, it would not help her. Rhaenyra was to inherit her father’s seat, and if she ascended the throne tomorrow while still childless, Rhaenyra would still refuse to bestow the title of Dragonstone upon her half-brother. As the maester said, she was young and healthy. She would not condemn herself just yet.
IV.
Five years pass, and Rhaenyra is not yet a mother.
Because of their situation, Corlys’ relationship with Laenor has soured. The Sea Snake feels cheated of the throne, once again. Rhaenyra thinks him a fool. He has spent so much time apart from one child, must he poison things with another?
Rhaenyra’s father finds contentment in faith. Faith that Rhaenyra will be blessed with sons.
It frustrates Rhaenyra. She wonders if it frustrates Alicent more. If Rhaenyra ascends the throne childless, then by rights Aegon is her heir, with Aemond and Daeron after them. Oh, and Helaena she supposed. But it was not Helaena’s claim that concerned Rhaenyra.
The longer Rhaenyra remained childless, the higher the chance it would be Aegon himself or one of his sons who would rule when she was dead.
Or simply hurry her death along if need be.
The lords were well aware of this, as they brought their pretty daughters to court. Aegon and Aemond would dance with these blushing girls at feasts, with Aemond being the better dancer of the two. Aemond had seemed surer of himself lately, after taking to the skies with Vhagar at Driftmark. He found joy, while Rhaenyra tried to find some in Daemon’s arms.
Afterward, Daemon boasted about how things would change. “One night is all we need to make a son together.”
Rhaenyra gritted her teeth. She had not been thinking of that at all. Evidently, that was not the case for her uncle.
When they departed Driftmark, Baela was to remain behind, as a ward of her Velayron grandparents. This would be her place, one day. Her younger sister Rhaena would have an honourable place among Rhaenyra’s ladies in Kingslanding, where she could look forward to a worthy match one day. Daemon could find his own place, far away from Rhaenyra.
V.
“Princess Rhaenyra. Thank you for joining me.” Alicent smiled warmly at her, as Rhaenyra settled herself within a chair beside the queen. It was the second-best chair in the room, of course.
The courses, on the other hand, were all equally excellent.
Good thing too, for conversation, was awkward at first. It was certainly not as though Rhaenyra and Alicent had never spent time together at all over the past ten years, but they rarely spent it together. Alicent was busy with her children, with Rhaenyra’s father, with her alms-houses, with her ladies. Rhaenyra found comfort in Syrax, in Laenor’s friendship, in the sweet memory of Harwin, in dear Rhaena, and in her father’s promise.
And of course, there was that other matter.
“Rhaena is a delightful girl,” Alicent was saying. “She has been very good for my Helaena.” It was true. Rhaenyra knew enough to know Helaena had liked her own company better than that of other girls, but with Rhaena- Helaena had taken her for a flight with Dreamfyre.
“Even if my egg never hatches,” Rhaena’s eyes shone. “It will have been enough to be on a dragon, just the once.”
“She is,” Rhaenyra agreed. “Perhaps I would wed to my son if I had any.”
Alicent did not pause while eating, but Rhaenyra could sense her keenly listening.
“When I wed, I had hoped that I would have a better time than my lady mother when it came to this. It seems that I was wrong. It seems that Aemma Arryn had a better time than me. At least she had a daughter to show for her marriage. All I have is disappointment and several miscarriages.”
Rhaenyra did not care if she was sounding weak in front of Alicent. She has already looked weak in front of the court for some time. She just wished her father understood this.
Alicent’s eyes were soft. “My great-grandmother was forty when she had her son. Everybody thought she was barren, and when she missed her moonblood they thought the change had come upon her… and then to everyone’s great joy, the maester found her to be expecting. She never lived to see her grandchildren, but the gods were good, and they gave her the blessing of holding her child in her arms.”
Rhaenyra’s lip trembled. “A child at forty. Gods spare me.”
“Spare you?” Alicent smiled. “Spare that poor child, you mean.”
For a moment, Rhaenyra only stared at Alicent, and the queen looked uneasy. Then Rhaenyra threw her head back and laughed. Soon, Alicent was laughing as well, and for a moment they were girls again.
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