Well here is my second chapter, hopefully you guys like it and thanks for the awesome reviews. Let me know what you think of this one. Chapter 3 will be up soon.

Chapter 2

She was riding on the back of the wolf leaping over logs and debris in the ruins that were once Kings Landing. She could see Cersei leaning over her son Joffery`s dead body she kicked the wolf in the side and it began to run even faster. Arya unsheathed Needle and as they drew in on top of Cerei she made one quick swing with Needle and her head came rolling off of her shoulders. The wolf began to panic and fuss. Arya had to grasp her fur tightly with both hands to keep from getting thrown off. She took her eyes off of the beautiful sight that was Cersei Lannister`s head rolling in the blood soaked dirt and looked up to see what had the wolf in such a panic. Coming at them from the Ocean was a black wall of what seemed to be smoke. Arya screamed commands and pulled desperately at the creatures fur in a desperate attempt to get her wolf to turn around, but it refused to listen to her the wolf would not move, it had frozen in fear. She knew she should run for her life, she should get off the creature but she could not. She was frozen to the frozen wolfs back. Before she could think the black smoke wall washed over them and Arya couldn`t breathe. All of the warmth in her body was sucked out of her. She began to shiver violently and tried desperately to scream but no sound came out. Suddenly she heard someone saying her name.
Arya! Arya!

She looked around but all she could see was black. The voice sounded so familiar. She spun in circles shivering looking everywhere frantically the cold was taking over her body, she couldn`t think or breath when suddenly.

Arya! Someone had her shoulder. She spun around to look and…. "Arya!"

Arya opened her eyes to see Gendry`s ice blue ones staring back her.

"What are you doing?" She asked groggily.

Gendry was throwing his fur over her as well as himself as he slid in behind her. Arya froze.

"Gendry wha.."

He cut her off.

"You were shivering so hard that your teeth were chattering. You need to stay warm and this is the easiest way to do that." He said as he put an arm over her and pulled her in closer.

Arya wiggled to get free of him.

"You aren`t sleeping with me!"

She turned just in time to see Gendry`s face flush red.

"I`m not sleeping with you stupid! I am sleeping next to you to keep you warm but if you want to freeze. I am not in the mood to fight with you!" He got up and walked to the other side of the fire throwing himself down on the hard ground leaving his furs laying across Arya.

Arya stared at him across the fire. He had his back to her. For some reason she had a guilty feeling in her stomach.

"I don't want your furs" She got up and packed it over to him dropping it on top of him.

She turned to make her way back to her own bed when he grabbed her ankle and pulled her down on her stomach. She kicked and fought against him but as always he was to strong. He drug her into him and held her still with one arm.

"I hate you. You stupid bastard" she spat at him when she finally gave up resisting.

"Be my guest. I will keep you from freezing to death so that you can keep hating me."

Arya laid still fuming thinking of how easy it would be to kill him. She knew she would never do that though. He was the only friend she had, the only one she actually trusted and she couldn`t afford to lose the only person she had left in the world.

Eventually Gendry adjusted and removed his arm from around her. Arya had a brief thought of moving away from him but she was warm and didn`t feel like fighting with him again if he were to wake up. So instead she rolled onto her side with her back to him and scooted close to him. He was like the sun the way his body radiated heat.

"That's why he is blacksmith" she thought silently to herself. "He is immune to the scorching heat."

Arya heard footsteps coming toward them and snapped her eyes shut keeping her ears open.

She could hear Thoros but she could not make out what he was saying as they got closer she heard another voice reply to the unheard question,

"We could use him, we need a good blacksmith and as for that the boy isn`t going to leave us and she won`t leave without him." The other man sounded to be the Baric

"It aint right the way he looks at her. She is just a girl. He`s been a man since his tenth year"

She heard could hear Thoros say. They had stopped walking and were standing just a few feet away from Arya now who was pretending to sleep.

"He protects her, Beric said. "He knows who she is and he knows nothing can happen between them. He is a smart boy for being a blacksmith apprentice, but even then we don`t choose who we love. If he wants to love the girl let him. It is the only happiness that boy will probably ever know. Beside she is no little girl. She would kill the first man that tried to take him from her."

"Of course I would but the doesn't mean Gendry loves me you fools. I am all he has and he is a protector, a survivor that's why he and I are so close. So why don`t you shut your cunt mouths!" She was shouting at them in her mind as she listened to their footsteps disappear.

Arya sat up on her elbow to look at Gendry to be sure he was still asleep. He seemed to be, his large chest rising and falling while his ice blue eyes were covered by his heavy eyelids.

She had hoped he was asleep the things she had just heard had made her rather irritated and a little uncomfortable she didn`t wish to have to discuss it with Gendry but as he seemed to be asleep she laid back and closed her eyes yawning.

"Gendry loving me? What a stupid thing to say." She said quietly to herself.

She wanted to forget what she had heard, she wanted to return to her dream land, where Jofferey and Cersie were dead. Where she was a warrior on the back of a wolf. When she did finally fall asleep though her dreams were not of killing or of wars or wolfs. It was of the smithy in Winterfell. She was watching Gendry hammer out the imperfections in the silver metal. She didn`t say a word or move a muscle she just watched. She watched as he put the hammer down and wiped the sweat from his face with the back of his hand. He stood up straight and lifted the shield to study it. When he had looked it over to his satisfaction he smiled and turned to her. His eyes were like stars in their sockets and his smile was blinding. Arya couldn`t help but feel the smile stretch across her face. Gendry lifted the shield up so that Arya could see it properly. Engraved in it was a dire wolf head with her father`s sword Ice below it.

Gendry stepped forward and laid it down beside her. She couldn`t breathe it was beautiful. She reached her hand out to touch it, she ran her fingers across it feeling the warm metal.

"As long as you stay with me you will stay safe, but if for some reason you ever lose me this will keep you safe."

Arya looked up into his brilliant blue eyes.

"I won`t lose you" she said quietly

She reached a hand out shakily to touch his bare chest and his skin scalded her finger tips, she let out a small squeal and she was awake. Lying on the hard ground next to Gendry.