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Remember The Wanting (And All We Endured) by anniebibananie
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV)
18 Aug 2017
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The plague comes out of nowhere. It infects and destroys, and suddenly in the span of days Arya is no longer sure of the world around her. All she wants is to get to Bran, but she can't do that without the help of someone she never would have thought would be by her side—Gendry Waters. Together, they take on the new normal.
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- Part 2 of not with a bang but a whimper
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Arya scoured the camp, watching the group of men set up tents and a few pull out pots. They were actually living with equipment, which felt so out of place to the life she had come to know. Her eyes halted as she saw a woman in the corner, watching the space with curious eyes before they landed on Gendry. They halted on his frame for a moment, looking him up and down, before finding Arya’s. Stubbornly, Arya refused to break the contact.
She was lithe with deep red hair spiraling down her back in braids. Somehow, her jeans and bright red top looked classier than everything anyone else was wearing. Certainly nicer than the ratty jeans and beat-up sweatshirt Arya was sporting and the backwards ball cap. She didn’t understand how this woman’s face looked so dirt-free.
Arya opened her mouth to make some kind of joke, but as she turned to Gendry she noticed his eyes on her. She snapped her mouth shut. It shouldn’t hurt this much, she thought. Her chest ached uncomfortably. This had never been the sort of thing she cared about. Get to Bran , she repeated, but it didn’t quell the confusing mass of emotions inside of her like it normally did.
He turned back toward her, bowing his head in slight embarrassment at being caught. “It wasn’t—” he began.
But she didn’t want him to explain what it wasn’t like it mattered. Like he wasn’t checking her out because she was a beautiful woman and her just a horse-faced little girl. “Doesn’t matter,” she said. The words sounded a little short to her own ears.
“Arya…” he trailed off, but it was clear neither of them knew what to say. He shrugged, clearing his throat and scratching at the side of his fate. “We don’t have to stay. We could keep going, make camp for ourselves.”
They could pretend that life wasn’t actually different here, that this didn’t change everything. They’d started living like they were the only two people left in the world, but that wasn’t true. Gendry didn’t have to stay with her because she was his best option, he could do a million things.
Part of her wanted to yell at him to just go, get it over with. People were so often disappointments. If he wanted to ditch her, he should just do it. Another part of her, though, wanted to beg him to stay. To never leave her. They could leave this camp and never look back.
“We need to eat,” she said. “It’s fine.”
Gendry nodded and went off to help the men set up, and Arya watched the red woman’s eyes trail after him like he was a fresh piece of meat. Her hands clenched at her sides.
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