Chapter 10. Gendry

Part 1. Love at First Sight

Gendry had escaped Dragonstone with help from a man whose name he did not know. Neither did the gold cloaks or the King's Guard know what he looked like. The only man in King's Landing he had to avoid was the smith Mott. He got work as a smith with Mott's competitor to save enough gold up to leave the capital for good. It night and the sun had set. Gendry was on his way to his room at the inn called the Journeyman's Inn. That is when he was grabbed by the gold cloaks. They gagged him to keep him quiet and took him up to the palace.

When they were in a room the men untied him and removed the gag, "Who are you? What do you want?" Gendry asked nervously, but the men ignored him and left the room. Not long after they left two women entered with four men carrying a tub of water. The women stripped him and then gave him a bath.

"You are very handsome!" Sansa said entering the room while her personal servants on her payroll set food out for them.

Gendry felt a bulge in his pants when he laid eyes on the redhead, "And who are you supposed to be?"

"I'm Arya's sister Sansa…" Gendry gasped as she took a seat.

"Why I am here?"

"I felt a need to protect you especially since you knew my sister…Do you know where is or where she might be going?"

"Braavos! The man who rescued us from Harranhal gave her a coin and told her to tell a phrase to anyone from Braavos and give them the coin…He was some type of Assassin…"

"Was she well?"

"Better than you might expect…She can take care of herself…She is planning to kill all those who wronged her family…"

Sansa smiles, "If anyone can it is she…Am I one of those people?"

"No!"

"You are lying…My sister and I are as different as night and day…She likes swords, bows, and horses…While I like lemon cakes and needle point…"

"You do know that the King is killing Robert Baratheon's bastards?"

"I know, but they think you are dead…"

"So why did you bring me here?" Gendry listened as Sansa told him of her plan of revenge. "You are more like your sister than you realize…" Sansa stood up and walked around the table and kissed Gendry on the lips. "What are you doing?"

"Kissing you!"

"Aren't you married?"

Sansa sighed, "I told you…Lord Tyrion and I were forced to marry…He is in love with someone else and they will be together when my plan works…As for I am still a virgin…I have never been with a man…I thought I loved Joffrey, but he turned out to be a monster and a bastard…"

"I'm a bastard as well…"

Sansa backs away, "Then you don't find me attractive…"

He smiles standing up, "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen…" He takes her hand and kisses her. Sansa his breathing heavy as her hand wonders down to his groin. Gendry catches her hand, "Are you sure you want to do this?" She responds by taking her other hand and grabbing his butt. Gendry slowly raises his hand and cups her breasts. They fondle and kiss each other passionately. Then Gendry scoops her up and caries her to the bed.

"Be gentle with me…"

He caresses her hair and face as he slowly undresses her. Then he slips his hand in between her legs. Sansa responds by runnig her hands through his hair and plays with his ears. As the two of them kiss Sansa spreads her legs and allows Gendry to enter her.

Sansa's suit

As usual Sansa and Tyrion lay in the same bed to pretend they are having sex every night. A septa enters their room. 'What is the meaning of this?" Tyrion asks.

"I have been sent by Lord Tywin to make sure that your wife isn't a virgin anymore…"

"Get out of here!" Tyrion demands.

The woman folds her arms, "If I leave Lord Tywin will check himself…"

"It's alright!" Sansa says grabbing Tyrion's arm.

"But!"

Tyrion waits outside with Brienne, Bronn, and Podrick. Josen is off on a mission for Sansa. The woman emerges from the suit, "Well!" Tyrion demands.

"She is not!"

"Leave us!" Tyrion says when they enter the room, "Did you pay her off?"

Sansa smiles, "A lady does not kiss and tell…"

Over the next few days Sansa meets with Gendry to make love with him. They sometimes lay in bed talking about family and life. Eventually Sansa takes Gendry to her secret treasure chamber. "By all the gods new and old!" Gendry says standing at the top of the steps to the treasure room.

Part 2. Lord Staton

In order for Gendry to move freely through the city Sansa made him a false identity. He was now a rich and powerful Lord name Gellim Staton. She bought him a mansion in the city and lots of gold to hire guards, servants, and have whatever his heart desired. To keep suspicions low Sansa would visit him at his mansion at least once and he would come up to the palace to see her. So they saw each other twice a week.

"May I present Lord Gellim Staton of Braavos…" A hired man said announcing Gendry at court.

"Great King I give you greetings from across the sea…And the free cities of Essos."

"Welcome Lord Staton…" Joffrey said.

"If I may present his majesty with a gift?" Gendry's men brought in two iron chests of gold, blankets of fur, silk, golden statues, and ivory. "The free cities wish to entreat his grace to help us raise armies to put down the pretender Daenarys Targaryen…"

Joffrey had accepted and when Gendry and Sansa met up they laughed at how they played Joffrey and how Gendry held the court in his hand. The next day Gendry met with Tywin Lannister to discuss details, Verys was there as well pretending to be an old friend of Lord Staton's family.

The Gardens

"How can you put up with that ulgress?" Margaery asked looking back at Brienne.

Sansa stopped and grabbed her, "I will ask that you show Lady Brienne some respect…She is the bravest woman I know and was a trusted friend of my Mother's…"

"I am sorry I meant no offense…"

'Don't apologize to me apologize to Lady Tarth."

As Margaery apologized Sansa bent over and heaved, "Are you alright?" Margaery asked comforting her.

"I don't know it just suddenly came up…"

"You are pregnant!" Shae said as she was with them as well, "I have seen that look many times before…"

Tyrion had to pretend to be a proud father with Tywin there gloating and fussing as a proud grandfather, "Let's just hope that it's a boy and that he inherits his mother's height…"

"Lord Tywin…I was forced to marry Lord Tyrion who is my husband…He has made a mother and for that I love him…Whatever height my children will be…Will not matter to me!" He just stared at her for a few minutes then he left.

"Thank you for defending me…" Tyrion said.

She kisses him on the cheek, "You are my friend…What hurts you hurts me…"

That night Gendry came to see Sansa, "Is it true you are pregnant?"

"Yes! I hope you are not angry with me…"

He shook his head, "Never…It's just that…"

She grabs his chin, "When this is all over and the Lannisters are defeated you and I will be husband and wife…"

"But I am a bastard! I have nothing to give you and you are a high born noble and the richest woman in the world…"

Sansa smiles, "And I love you…If I cared anything about that I would have never spread my legs for you…" They started kissing and ripping each other's clothes off.

"So when your plans are done and you have had your revenge will you marry me?" Gendry asks as they lay in each other's arms.

She kisses him, "Yes! Gendry Stark."