The Hound
"Are you ready?" he asked her, she nodded and got out of here apartment with 2 bags in here hands. He took both of the bags from here and gestured for her to go down the staircase in front of him. When they got out of the building Sansa looked at him with her blue eyes and she smiled at him. It was a smile that whispered a small thank you. Sandor could feel his heart jump just a little but he ignored it and kept his straight face. "We are going to drive all night and all day so you'll sleep in the car. We won't stop to eat until tomorrow. Here is some money buy us some food and a big black coffee for me. Hurry up, I'm going to go and start the car." he handed her the money and walked to his car. Sandor put her bags in the backseat and then sat down in the front seat. He could feel his anger boiling in his veins. This wasn't the plan, the plan was to get her somewhere safe not to feel things when the pretty bird smiled at him. He started the car and put on the radio and 'I want a new drug' started playing on the radio station. He wondered if Sansa had ever heard a ' Huey Lewis And The News' song, she was so young only 22 and he was 37.
Sansa opened the car's door and got in the front seat "Here's your coffee, no sugar, no milk, all black." she said and handed over the coffee to him. He took the paper cup with his right hand and for a second his thumb touched the back of her soft hand before she let go of the cup. She didn't look at him nor smile and he could sense that she was uncomfortable. Which was no surprise to him no one was ever comfortable around him, it was one of his few redeeming qualities. "Do you have everything you need?" he asked her "Mhm." she said with her arms crossed. Sandor put his foot on the gas pedal and started driving out of the city.
After 3 hours of driving and painful silence he looked to his right and he saw the little bird's eyes red and shiny with tears. He hadn't noticed her crying and he wanted to comfort her but he didn't know how. This wasn't his kind of thing. "Why are you crying little bird?" she didn't look at him she kept looking down at her lap "I'm just..." her voice sounded painfully broken. She closed her eyes "I'm grateful that you'll help me out of here but I just I don't know. I wish you could be nicer to me and that you would let me be nicer to you." he didn't know what to say, he never knew what to say. He was good at killing and scaring people not this. "Little bird, I'll keep you safe. I don't know what nice is. But I know I can keep you safe. I'll find a pretty place where you can live and start a new life, a nice life. No one will hurt you not as long as I live. I promise you." he said while keeping his eyes on the road. After a couple of minutes driving in silence he felt a hand on his thigh just above the knee and his body tensed "Could you pull in just for a little while?" the little bird asked with her left hand steady on his thigh. He did what she said and pulled in to a little empty space and shut the engine off.
"Sandor" she said with a shyly "Do you have a family?" Her question took him by surprise. Why would she asks him that? "No, my mother, father and sister are all dead. I have a brother but I don't have any contact with him. Why do you ask?" a smile spread over her face and Sandor had to fight the urge to touch her perfect pink plump lips with his thumb. "I wanted to know if you were married." he didn't understand, first she put her hand on his thigh, then she asks him about his family and then she says that she wanted to know if he was married. Was she playing a cruel trick on him? Did she know that he desired her and wanted to laugh at how desperate he was? Was she just like all the other girls. "You don't understand Sandor do you?" her voice was soft but he could hear the anger behind the words. "I like you. Not like a friend more like a woman likes a man." his mouth started twitching on the burned side of his face and he didn't understand it wasn't often he felt so confused. Before he could open his mouth to say anything she pressed her soft lips against his and she kissed him.