Modern AU | Slow Burn | Domestic Intimacy | Trauma Recovery | Shared Space

Summary:

You weren’t meant to matter to each other.

Aemond Targaryen left his family the moment he was able, cutting himself off from the wealth and influence of the corporate dynasty that raised him. He took a job in accounting, chose anonymity, and built a life defined by routine, distance, and control. The goal was simple: stay unreachable.

Then you became his flatmate.

What began as a purely practical arrangement settled into something quieter and harder to define. Shared meals. Divided chores. Evenings spent in the same room without expectation or demand. Aemond does not speak much about himself, but he notices everything—your consistency, the way you respect his boundaries, the care you show toward Vhagar, his massive monitor lizard and constant companion.

The apartment becomes a refuge.

For the first time, Aemond allows himself to trust someone without bracing for cost. There is no pressure for intimacy, no performance of romance—only reliability, mutual care, and the slow comfort of being chosen daily in small ways.

But Aemond is not unmarked by his past.

He fears expectation. He fears desire. And as his feelings for you deepen into something dangerously close to love, he is faced with a choice he has avoided his entire life: risk wanting more—or walk away before wanting costs him control.

This story begins in the space between safety and longing, where silence protects... and confession threatens everything.