Title: Tales from Westeros

Summary:

Pairings: Arya Stark/Gendry Waters, Sansa Stark/Aegon Targaryen

Characters: Arya Stark, Gendry Waters, Sansa Stark, Aegon Targaryen

"Long live the king and queen!" The crowd exclaimed when Aegon pressed his lips to Sansa and presented her to the people as Sansa Targaryen, the queen of Westeros.

"Do you think, they would be happy?" Arya came to stand beside Gendry Waters now legitimized as Gendry Baratheon, her husband. They were looking at the young couple as they had their first dance. All eyes on the young monarchs.

"I suppose they will," Gendry surmised. With the dragon queen, Daenerys Targaryen back in Meereen to destroy the slave trade. She kept true to her name as the breaker of chains.

"But they are far too young? Just like us?"

Looking at the crowd, he looked at Jaime Lannister standing between Brienne of Tarth and his brother, Tyrion before giving his opinion, "I do not think I would have to worry," Gendry observed. It was now known that not only was Jaime a kingslayer but a kinslayer, having strangled Cersei Lannister to protect Sansa from the old queen. The very one who ordered the death of his half-siblings and the attempt of his own life. Given a chance, if Cersei would have been kept alive, she would have escaped and plotted against Sansa. There was no other way but to let her die and Jaime knew it.

Yet even before Cersei's death, it did not prevent the death of her son or of his queen. Margaery died trying to escape King's Landing together with her husband. Two tragic pawns that had to be dealt with to clear a way for the victors.

Yes, even now he could see that despite the hardship ahead there would be many who would support their king and queen and put the past behind. Watching at the young couple, Gendry grinned at see the king doting at his wife. "Look at him he is smitten with her." He said as a matter of fact.

"But she doesn't love him?"

"Don't you think all marriages are rooted out of love?"

Arya shook her head. "I suppose not." She knew that her father did not love her mother from the beginning and that they grew to love each other later on. If she knew her sister, she would grow to love him. For the sake of their children and for the realm, she would make her marriage work.

"Still, to rule six kingdoms, is a feat in itself," her husband said.

Arya grinned, the North's independence from the Iron Throne was the bargain for the brave men of the Vale, the Riverlands and the North to fight for Aegon and place him as king of Westeros. The very thing that Sansa fought to claim, never forgetting that Robb died for the North. With Daenerys still in the free cities, Aegon was desperate to make other alliances aside from Dorne. And despite, Jon Connington and Lord Varys' objections, they had no choice but to agree on the terms of the agreement. The very gift she gave to Bran and Rickon for them to rule the North as a free and independent kingdom.

"I guess, it is only right that they rule Westeros for they were taught to do so. They may stumble along the way but with time, they would mend the wounds of the realm. "

Arya agreed, "So much blood for that bloody throne. Come stupid bull, dance with me." Arya took her husband's hand and they joined her sister and new brother-in-law in a dance.