This is an AU one-shot, similar to the last one where Arya met up with Robb but in this one Yoren took her all the way to the wall because he didn't want to leave her with the northern army but he did want to leave her in the protection of one of her older brothers. In Winterfell she would only have younger brothers and they people looking after them as protection…idk its just something that keeps running through my head, especially since Arya and Jon seemed to have an understanding of each other, being the odd children out. In this one-shot, the night watch ppl haven't gone north of the wall yet, or got back or something.
Arya sat in the wagon staring off to the side. They were back in the north now, heading towards the wall. Yoren had pulled her aside a few days ago and told her that he wasn't going to leave her in Winterfell he wanted to leave her with one of her older brothers, and since the northern army was moving south with Robb leading them, the other option was Jon.
So to the wall they went. Arya was getting tired of having to watch her back constantly trying to hide that she was a girl. Once they got to the wall it wouldn't matter if the men and boys she was traveling with knew. But on the road, out in the open it would be easy for one of the men to grab her and take her back south as a bargaining chip for their freedom or pardons for their crimes. Or to rape her. She shuddered at that. The only bright side was that she was going to get to see Jon soon. She wished she could've seen Robb and her mother while they traveled north but they were too far east of the army to stop by, and it would've given her away. It wasn't safe in the south for the stark girls and Sansa was stuck in Kings Land. Poor Sansa, her wolf was killed instead of Nymeria, she had to watch dad get executed and now she was one of the queen's pawns.
"There it is" one of the boys exclaimed pointing ahead. Hot pie sat up and had his mouth hanging open in awe.
Arya turned to look. She had never seen the wall before but her uncle and father had told her stories. And then Bran had told her that on the day they found the Direwolf pups he had watched dad execute a night watch deserter. One that was claiming he saw white walkers. The wall was huge and its was getting colder and colder the closer they got to the wall.
The gates opened as soon as they neared them. Yoren's wagon went through first and the one she was on pulled up beside it. Boys and men started hopping down all around. Arya just stood on the wagon her eyes scanning the area.
Night watch men were walking out from all over. She was looking for Jon.
Jon was in the dining area when one of the men said that the new recruits had arrived with Yoren. Everyone was spilling out into the yard. Jon followed at a slower pace, he had no desire to see the criminals that Yoren had found to work at the wall. They were probably a bunch of scum and rapists. He walked out into the yard and saw a lot of boys and several new men.
Arya was still scanning all the nights' watchmen when she saw one straggler come out of a building. He had long dark hair and a fur cloak. A Stark cloak. He was looking around at the new recruits with a slight frown.
"Jon" Arya shouted out of excitement, everyone in the yard turned to look at the little squeaky boy who was shouting things.
Jon's head snapped up to see a little boy standing on top of a wagon. The boy was scrawny and covered in dirt. But then he saw the hilt of a small sword in the boy's belt and walked closer, that sword looked familiar.
As he got closer he saw that it wasn't a boy at all. It was his little sister. He could feel the eyes of everyone in the yard on him and his sister.
"Arya?" he asked confused. He was standing closer to the wagon now, but still a good ten feet from it.
She hopped down, everyone was staring at her, especially the boys and men she had been traveling with. All the time they had traveled together and Gendry was the only one to find out she was a girl. She grinned at him and then ran for him and jumped into his arms.
Jon scooped her up in surprise, holding her tight.
"What happened to your hair?" was the first thing that came out of his mouth.
She pulled back to look at him but was still in his arms.
"Yoren chopped it off" she said turning to look at the man.
"Where did you find her?" Jon asked holding Arya close as she hugged him again.
"The streets" Yoren said "at your father's execution"
"The streets?" Jon asked appalled.
He set Arya down and knelt to her level.
"Why were you on the streets?"
"When they seized dad they came after me and Sansa. Dad had hired a man named Syrio to teach me how to sword fight and I was in a lesson with him when the guards came to get me. He held them off and told me to run" she said "I had almost gotten out of the castle when a stable boy grabbed me and tried to take me back. I killed him with needle and ran to the streets."
"Robb wrote to me, there was no word of what had happened to you" Jon said
"Sansa couldn't get out of the castle, but I did and I lived on the streets for days" Arya said "they probably didn't mention me because they didn't want to admit that they had let a little girl slip through their fingers" she said with a grin.
"Ay then it's a good thing that I gave you needle" Jon said with a grin.
"When I heard Dad was going to be on trial I ran for the castle, and when Joffery passed the sentence to execute him I tried to get to the stage to, well I don't know what I was going to do, maybe kill Joffery himself" Arya said and then turned to Yoren "but Yoren grabbed me and wouldn't let me go, he told me not to look" Arya said looking at the ground.
"When they brought your father out of the dungeons, he must have spotted Arya in the crowd because when the guards walked him past me he told me to get her" Yoren said "I didn't want your little sister to see her father's head roll so I grabbed her and held her tight so she couldn't watch."
"After they killed dad he took me to the servants quarters and chopped my hair off, told me he was taking me north with the rest of the boys he had rounded up" Arya said
"I had to get her out of the city, your father was a good man and they had him executed because he knew the truth" Yoren said "I figured I'd leave her with one of her older brothers" he added "Your brother Robb was heading south with the northern army, and I didn't want to leave her in Winterfell with no protection, so I brought her to you"
"You're a girl?" Hot Pie exclaimed suddenly.
Arya turned to him "of course I'm a girl" she said "I'm surprised that Gendry was the only one to notice" she smirked at the stupid fat boy.
"And you better address her properly" Gendry added "m'lady" he said with a smirk
"Shut up Gendry" she said with a frown.
She felt a tongue run over her hand and turned to see Ghost sitting beside Jon.
"Ghost" she exclaimed and threw her arms around him "you're so big"
"Arya" Jon said looking around at the wagons "where is Nymeria?"
"I don't know" Arya said with a sad look.
"What do you mean you don't know, how could you lose a Direwolf?"
"I didn't lose her" Arya snapped. "I'm sorry" she said in apology for her rude tone. "it's just, you gave me a sword and I wanted to learn how to use it. So on the way to Kings Landing I asked the butchers boy to fight with me, with sticks. But Joffery came across us and he attacked the butcher's boy, so I attacked him with my stick. But then he turned on me with his sword and tried to kill me for hitting him. Nymeria attacked him and nearly tore his arm off, but she saved me." Arya said scratching ghost behind his ears.
"I made her leave," she said "they were going to kill her for attacking Joffery, but the queen said that they should kill Sansa's wolf instead."
"At least she got away" Jon said "that means there is a good chance she's still out there in the woods somewhere," he said standing up "I'm sure when Robb returns north he'll take you to find Nymeria"
Jon stood and turned to Yoren. "Thank you" he said "I nearly deserted to go look for her and help Robb get her and Sansa back" he admitted glancing at the commander.
"Come on, let's go get you cleaned up" he said looking back to Arya and leading her off to his room.
Just another oneshot! Leave some reviews? Ok thanks! lol
