Bran
He had been meeting with doctors for a month now. He had been poked and prodded and scanned so many times he had the whole routine memorized. The tumor in the front had been easy to cut out, and he still had his eye sight. But the second one was larger and in a much more difficult position to get to. They had attempted to cut it out, but were unable to the first time in. So what they were going to do was try to shrink it down and start again. He had spent his 14th birthday in the hospital starting chemo to shrink it down. He had been sick the whole day. It was a day that he wished that he could forget.
But he was back again for another treatment and a scan. He hoped that this time showed some results. Bran had a feeling that Dr. Baelish did not know what he was doing and was just showing off for his mother. He had pleaded with her to find him a new doctor, to take him back North to be treated but she refused, saying that Dr. Baelish was an old friend and she could not leave Sansa.
So he was stuck with the pompous Baelish and had to suffer. Every time he had a treatment he was sick and weak. Then he had an appointment to see the shrink to talk about his "feelings" about having cancer. It was so stupid. He just wanted them to cut it out of him.
The one thing that he was hoping for when they started to fight back against the tumors was that he wished that the visions would go away, but they had not, if anything they got more intense and came more frequently.
"So what was this one? Was it new or an old one?" Jojen asked Bran as he sat beside his friend as he got his treatment.
"Old. Arya and her stocker. I still don't know who it is. But I think I can see a when. It looks like spring. There are flowers growing around. Now I just need to find a closer date. And who it is that is watching her."
"I have been trying to see what you are seeing. I think I am close to seeing. I keep having visions out of Gendrys eyes, and you do not want to know what he is feeling making out with your sister."
"Yeah if you could keep that to yourself I would appreciate that." Bran smiled at Jojen.
The nurse came and checked the progress of his treatment. She was young and friendly. Bran liked her. She was a nursing student named Dany. She was so pretty that Bran and Jojen could do nothing but watch her as she worked with the equipment. She smiled and tried to get the two boys to talk to her, but they were to shy. One time when she had been bending over Bran to get him hooked up for his treatment he had seen a dragon tattoo on her cleavage that he suspected went up her shoulder and around her ribs.
"Almost done for today Bran. How are you feeling so far?" Dany asked as she checked the speed of the medication.
"Fine, considering what it is that is being pumped into me." Bran said sarcastically.
"Don't think like that. This stuff is saving your life. Think of it that way." She smiled at him and ruffled his hair.
The first time that he had met her he knew that she would be the kind of girl that his older brothers would get in a fight over. It had amused him to think if that situation the first time he had had the chemo. Now it was not as amusing. He then got a crazy idea and snatched up his phone and took a picture of the hot nurse and sent it to Theon, Robb and Jon.
Bran why are you sending me a picture of a stranger? She is hot, but who is she? –Jon
I want her number. Bran go ask her what her number is and tell her it's for your oldest, wealthy, attractive oldest favorite coolest older brother. I will get you buy you whatever you want. –Theon
Who is that? She looks like a goddess. Is she real, or did you make her on the computer? Real people don't look like that. –Robb
Bran showed Jojen the texts from his brothers and they both liked Theons the best. He sent them a mass text in reply.
She's my nurse. Her name is Dany. I think she is single. –Bran
If that is what the nurse's look like for people with brain tumors I want one. –Theon
She is real? Whoa. I really thought that you made her up on the computer. I might catch the next plane down for a visit on the next long weekend. – Robb
A nurse huh? She looks like she has a good bedside manner. I bet she is the only bearable part of your treatment. She looks like she is worth being sick. Robb wants to come down next week. Did you send him a picture of the hot nurse? –Jon.
"Okay Bran, this round is all done. Let's get you unhooked and out of here." Dany smiled at him. "Who are you talking to there?" She peered at his phone as he put it on the table so they could detach the lines from him.
"My brothers. I sort of told them that I had the prettiest nurse looking after me. I sent them your picture. I hope you don't mind." Bran blushed. He should have lied, but he couldn't.
She laughed and shook her head. "What do your brothers look like? Are they as cute as you are?" She smiled at him as she put the BP cuff on his arm.
"They are better looking and all older. Want to see?" Bran picked his phone back up and looked in his pictures for one of all three of his brothers.
He handed her his phone and pointed out each of his brothers to her. She nodded her head and looked at each one. Then she looked at Bran then back at the picture, then back at Bran.
"Only one of them looks like you. I think you said his name was Bob?"
Jojen snorted at that. Bran shot him an angry look and Jojen laughed harder.
"What? Did I say something funny? Let me in on the joke." Dany looked from Bran to Jojen.
"The one who looks like Brans name is Robb, not Bob." Jojen said laughing some more.
Danys face colored, clashing with her pale face and hair.
"Oh, I guess I put my foot in that one."
"It's okay, really. Robb is my biological brother, the other two are adopted. Jon is really my cousin and Theon is the son of a friend of my parents. They both are orphans." Bran said explaining. He had had to explain his oldest brothers to people his whole life so he had a short explanation already ready.
"Oh. I know what it feels like to be an orphan. Your parents were very kind to take them in." Dany blinked in a rapid fashion. Her eyes were glistening. "So just so your brothers know I am dating someone. A cage fighter in fact. He is big and strong and could break them in half with a flick of his pinky finger."
Bran blushed and Jojen laughed again.
"Good to know. This will change their plans." Bran texted his brothers this news and got sad replies from all three.
"I will be back in a jiffy. Just sit tight and I will bring you a popsicle." Dany walked out of the room.
"Well that is good to know." Jojen smirked.
"Oh shut up Jojen." Bran threw his puke bucket at his friends head. Jojen ducked and they both laughed. "Thanks for coming with me Jojen. Things are pretty boring around here when I am alone."
"No problem Bran. This is what friends do. Be there when things are shitty as well as the good times." Jojen shrugged.
"It still means a lot to me. You and Meera are the best friends that I have ever had. I don't know what I would have done without you two."
"Went crazy and tried to take the tumors out yourself. You are smart, but not that smart pal."
Bran sat back in his chair as a wave of nausea washed over him. He closed his eyes and then the vision came over him
Arya and Gendry were sitting on a blanket overlooking the city. The view carried all the way to the ocean. There were wild flowers scattered around them and the pair sat on a blanket making out. He watched as Gendry lifted Aryas shirt off and he felt a combination of rage and lust stir under the surface. He put his hand in his pocket and he slid his hand around the cool metal of the gun. He pulled it out of his pocket and looked at it. He had been carrying it around with him for weeks and he felt that today was the day, the one that he would use it.
He watched for a moment longer. He wanted the couple to have this last moment of happiness before he changed all their lives. He would shoot Gendry first, then confess to Arya and let her have a choice. Die with Gendry or live with him. If she chose Gendry they would all die, if she choose him the two would live happily ever after. The time was now. He stepped out of the bushes and walked over to them, the gun extended in his hand.
Bran came back to reality and was violently sick. His nose was bleeding and he was shivering.
"Bran, Bran are you okay?" Nurse Dany was standing beside him holding a basin under his face and a cold compress on his head.
"Yeah I am okay. Just a bad reaction to the treatment." His voice came out weak. He looked at Jojen and tried to tell him with his eyes that he had another vision. Jojen nodded his head once Bran knew that he would have to relate this one to him. More of the puzzle was falling in place. He just hoped that he would have all the pieces together before it was to late.
Gendry
The last month had been crazy for him. The band who decided to call themselves the Five Kings of Westeros, rehearsed all the time and worked not only on the weekends at the club but they also did odd parties sometime too. Gendry had hardly seen Arya outside of school or alone in weeks. She had been busy as well. She had started to pull away some when they learned that Bran had brain cancer and being supportive of Sansa during her ordeal. Gendry had been so worried that she was going to break with him.
He had shared his fears with Jon. The two had become close and Jon had even talked Gendry into applying to some of the schools up North. It would be great if he got into one up there because the Stark family was moving back North at the end of the school year.
Jon had told Gendry that Arya was frightened about Bran and everything that was going on with Sansa and Joffery. Gendry had figured that, but was shocked to hear that she was lashing out at their relationship in that fear. Jon had told him that Arya felt guilty for being happy while her brother and sisters lives were so messed up. She was determined to even things out and that meant she had to dump Gendry. Jon had told Gendry and had told him not to let Arya do that. So being warned Gendry had confronted Arya about the whole thing and had told her that he was not going away. They had had a big argument about the whole thing, but in the end they had not broken up, had great make up sex and things were better then ever for them.
It helped that Beric had started dating. He had become more lax about other people, namely Myrcella and Arya, watching them work since he had someone that he wanted to see all the time now. Beric's new girlfriend was a groupie of sorts that they had met at the club on their third show. She had just walked up to Beric when he was barking orders at his band mates and kissed him. They all had stood there and then the girl had started to lecture Beric for being a tight ass. Gillian was perfect for Beric.
So they were at practice five days before Valentine's Day working on some new songs when the girls showed up. Thoros and Hot Pie had started joking that they were just going to date each other if they didn't find the right woman for them in the next week.
Arya had Sansa with her and Myrcella was on her phone when they walked into Aegons house.
"Hey there handsome." Arya sashayed over to Gendry in a tight sweater and even tighter jeans.
"Hi sexy." Hot Pie answered stepping in her way to Gendry, wrapping her in a bear hug and swung her around the room. Arya laughed and swatted his shoulders. He finally put her down and Arya stumbled over to Gendry.
"Hi hon. Glad to see that Hot Pie would share." Gendry gave her a kiss on the lips.
"He probably wouldn't have given me back to you if I was a pastry of something like that." Arya said as she kissed him back.
"I have an announcement to make!" Myrcellas voice broke over the small talk of the group. "My father has agreed to let you guys use the studio in the old guest house to rehearse in."
There was stunned silence all around. Then cheers and demands for more information.
"Well since my dad kicked my mom out of the house he has decided to make some changes. Loaning out that studio is one of them. My mom didn't like the idea of strangers coming and going on the property so she had always said no. And the best part is is that you won't have to pay to use it. How cool is that!" Myrcella smiled, pleased that she could help out the band.
"This is great! Myrcella I want to kiss you right now," Beric said, "but Gill would probably hurt me."
"It is okay. I think Aegon can do the kissing for all of you." Myrcella smiled around at all the guys.
Gendry just stood there holding Aryas hand looking at Myrcella with his mouth opened. Arya reached up and closed his mouth for him.
"I only want to see that look on your face when you see me naked." Arya whispered in his ear.
Grendy looked down at her and blinked a few times and then laughed. The rest of the rehearsal was unproductive. They all drove over to the Red Keep to look at the studio. Robert was there to talk with the guys. It was the first time Gendry had seen Robert Baratheon up close before. He looked nothing like Myrcella, but there was something familiar about the man's face, but Gendry couldn't put his finger on it.
"Thank you sir, for letting us use the studio. It means a lot to us." Gendry had said shaking Roberts hand when it was his turn to shake hands with him.
Robert stood there shaking his hand and looking into his eyes the longest. "You are welcome my boy. When Myrcella showed me a recording of you all playing I knew that I could help out. You are all talented. I might even find you boys a producer." Robert smiled at the group assembled.
Arya and Sansa stood off to the side. When Robert was done talking to the guys he went over to the Stark sisters and had a quick conversation with them. When he walked away he had the girls laughing. Gendry was happy to see Sansa smiling. The only time he saw her smile in the last month was when Sandor was around them. She had stopped hanging out with the cheerleaders and started "slumming" with their group.
The girls went to look at the instruments while the guys were in with the sound board. Beric was making all sorts of plans as they stood around. Then he noticed that Gill was on the key board, Myrcella was on the base and Arya was playing his gaiter. Sansa was singing into the mike with Arya. Gendry looked down to find the switch that would let the sound booth hear what was going on in the other room. The girl's voices floated into the room. They were singing a Sheryl Crow song.
"God I feel like hell tonight. Tears of rage I cannot fight." Sansas voice was amazing. "I'd be the last to help you understand. Are you strong enough to be my man? My man."
Then Arya started singing. Gendry was shocked that she had such a smoky sexy voice. He looked around at the guys and they were standing there in stunned silence.
"Nothings true and nothings right. So let me be alone to night. 'Cause you can't change the way I am. Are you strong enough to be my man."
Then all the girls started singing the choirs. The guys just stood there waiting for them to finish the song. Once they were done they broke out into applause and cheered. Sansas face turned redder then her hair and she started laughing. The other girls followed suit. Gill and Arya took bows. They walked into the other room and received more applause.
"That was really great ladies. I didn't know that you knew how to play." Gendry kissed Arya.
"Well I have known how to since I was 12. I learned at summer camp. And Myrcella has been getting lessens from Aegon. Sansa has always sung. Gill is a trained pianist. We were just fooling around while you guys salivated over your new toys in here." Arya shrugged as if they had not rocked.
"Can you do that again? You could be our opening act." Beric was making plans already.
"I don't think so pal. We only play for ourselves, not the public." Gill spoke up. She gave Beric a stern look, but then smiled at him.
"Just think about it. We Kings are going places. Stick with us girls and you can rise to the top with us!" Thoros joked.
Gendrys phone rang from his pocket. It was Sandor.
"Pineapple is a go. I repeat Pineapple is a GO. Meet at the diner." Sandor hung up before Gendry could get a word in.
"Um, guys, it looks like we are having Pineapple tonight. We have to go now."
Sandor
The last month had been torture for Sandor. They had decided that he was going to stay close to Joffery to stay in his confidence and find out when the best time to put Pineapple into effect. That meant that he had to be mean to Sansa and not hang out with his friends. So he had to not sit with Sansa in class, not sat with Gendry and the others at lunch. If he wanted to see them he had to make sure that no one was around. He just wanted the whole ordeal to be over with. Then he could be with Sansa and they could stop this tension filled flirtation that they had going on.
Every time he went over to the Starks to work with Sansa on homework he had to stop himself from making out with her. He liked everything about her. She was brave and tough for standing up to Joffery. She was attractive and smart and funny. He wanted her so badly. He knew that she needed time to deal with the whole Joffery thing so he did not want to pressure her into a relationship before she was ready. So he had kept busy with school work and looking for a job. He found one with the observatory. So every day after school he was in a ticket booth trying to not get to board out of his mind.
Then he got a text from Joffery one day telling him that he was going out on a date that night. Sandor figured that it would be the perfect time to put plan Pineapple into effect. He got the info of where Joffery would be. He was going to the movies. That would be perfect. They could steal the car and then blow it to hell, where they should be sending Joffery. Sandor told his supervisor that he had to leave work early because of a family emergency and called Gendry.
"Pineapple is a go. I repeat Pineapple is a GO. Meet at the diner." Sandor didn't wait for a reply. He just hung up and drove to the meeting place.
His nerves were humming and he felt alive. For the last month the only thing that had kept him from killing Joffery was the knowledge of Pineapple. He had to put up with Jofferys bitching about being arrested and then being brought up on sexual assault charges. Then when Jofferys father had kicked him and his mother out of the house Sandor had had to hear all about the injustice of that. Sandor could put up with the bitching fine. Things became really hard when Joffery started to bad mouth Sansa. Each time Joffery said something about her Sandor wanted to kill the pig. But he would be giving Joff his payback. It would be perfect and they all would enjoy it.
Sandor was the first to arrive to the diner. He got the biggest booth in the place. He sat with a cola in front of him thinking about how by next week he could stop pretending to be Jofferys friend. Then he saw the rest of the team pull into the parking lot and walk into the diner. They came in, all ten of them. Sandor had to count twice to make sure that he had that right. There were ten people walking to him not four.
"What is with all these people Gendry? Are we selling tickets and you just didn't tell me?" Sandor looked at Gendry not pleased with this new development.
"We are your alibis. Because Joffery is going to suspect that it was you guys and will tell the cops so you all will need alibies. But if you wanted to record the explosions I would for one give you five bucks to see it." Thoros said as he slid into the booth.
Sandor's expression changed from anger to pleasure. He had not thought about an alibi. This would be perfect. Then he saw Sansa. She stood there looking at him. They locked eyes and then she winked at him sliding in next to him. He smiled as her slim body pressed against him so that they could make room for everyone to be able to sit. He tried to be smooth and put his arm around the back of the booth so that it rested on her shoulder. She looked at his hand then up at him and slid even closer. Sandor felt her small hand in his knee under the table and closed his eyes for a second. He pulled her closer still and they waited for everyone to get settled in a bubble of sexual tension.
The two were unaware that the rest of the table was watching them until he felt a foot connect with his shin and Sansa jumped and said ouch.
"What was that for Arya? Did you have to pinch me?" Sansa sounded annoyed as she turned to her sister.
"Um yes I did. You were off in another world over there. Gendry asked Sandor a question and he just sat there looking at you." Arya smiled at her sister then leaned around Sansa and addressed Sandor. "So when is this going down? We need to know so the others can have out alibies ready for us."
Sandors face was pink for being caught ogling Sansa so blatantly in public. They would do that in private but that was different. People were expecting him to know what was happening and he was letting them down.
"Oh, well," Sandor cleared his throat. "Joffery is taking some floozy to a movie at Kings Landing Multiplex for some new zombie movie at nine. So we have about two hours to wait."
"He usually parks the furthest from the other cars so no one will scratch his car. That will make things easy for you." Myrcella supplied for them all.
"Damn. I wanted to show off my hot wiring skills." Gendry grumbled.
"Don't worry hon. You can hot wire me instead." Arya said as she leaned up to nibble on Gendrys ear. "Ouch! Sansa you pinched me!"
Sansa just smiled and pulled Sandors hand from off the back of the booth and draped it on her shoulders. Sandor was watching Sansas face as she smiled at her sister next to her.
"We don't have time for that right now. You stopped me, I stop you. Fair is fair."
Arya glared at her sister and Sansa just kept on smiling and holding Sandors hand.
Aegon chuckled and then asked Myrcella what the alibies were going to be.
"The guys and Gill, Sansa and I are going to be at the movies across town and so are all of you. We are having a group date here. Can't you tell?" Myrcella looked around the table and smiled.
Sandor looked around. Everyone at the table had a date, except Thoros and Hot Pie, but the two were acting like they were on a date with one another. Sandor knew that they were not on that team, so he had to smile at them play acting.
"That sounds good. But won't people talk if they see Sandor with me out on a date?" Sansa asked as she looked over at Myrcella.
"Seriously Sansa? We all have been waiting for you two to become official for so long now. It's about damn time that you just came out and said it already. You two are an item." Myrcella looked as if she was going to smack the two of them.
"But they can't start being official now!" Hot Pie cried out.
"And why not?" Arya demanded.
"Because I'd lose the poll. I said that they wouldn't become a real couple for another week and a half." Hot Pie grumbled.
Sandor looked at Sansa and her cheeks were as red as her cast had been. She had it taken off last week. He looked at Hot Pie and then burst out laughing.
"Well since the group approves, Sansa Stark will you go out with me?" Sandor asked Sansa. His head was tilted to the side and his eyebrow was raised in question.
"Um, let me thing. Yes. I would love to date you." Sansa smiled and put a small kiss on his lips.
"Finally!" The entire table shouted at the same time. Then they all dissolved into laughter.
Arya
After watching her sister moon and pine away for Sandor since they had moved South it was so nice to see that they were finally together. And to make the evening even better then it already was they were going to do plan pineapple. The best part of the night had been when the guys had been given the studio at the Red Keep.
They ordered some food to pass the time and then got righto the point of teasing Sansa and Sandor. She had won the poll on when they would get together, 200 bucks. She was going to use that to take Gendry out for a Valentines date.
The group all piled into the cars and drove to a theater on the other side of town. All eleven of them got tickets for some comedy film that was playing. They walked in in groups of twos and threes. It was hard to keep from bolting from the doors and just blowing up the car for pay back but they had to wait and play it cool until it was the right time.
"So what kind of candy do you want? Milk Duds and medium popcorn?" Gendry asked as they stood in line at the concession stand.
"You do remember that we are not really staying to watch the movie right?" She looked at him and watched as he shrugged. "Yeah, Milk Duds are fine. And I want a small soda as well."
"So demanding." Gendry walked over to the register and placed their order.
Arya strolled over to the girls that were off on the side. Thoros was there with them acting like one of the girls while he pretended to be on a date with Hot Pie. He was imitating Renly and had Myrcella and Sansa laughing so hard they had tears streaming down their faces.
"And you Miss Stark," Thoros's voice was slightly higher then normal and he was waving his hands about more then normal. "You are almost hopeless! I mean Arya dear, that hair needs to be styled, and who dresses you? A blind person? Ugh you are a lost cause my darling. But your sister on the other hand, she is a vision. Perfect and lovely. Why can't you be more like her Arya?" Thoros took her hand and patted them sympathetically as if he was telling her how sorry he was that her grandmother had died.
The others were all giggling and laughing when their dates walked over to them with their goodies for the movies. They filed into the theater. Their group took up an almost an entire row. The guys that were involved with Pineapple were on the outside of the isle.
The previews started rolling and Arya hunkered down in her seat. She had her jacket on and had slung her boyfriend's arm around her shoulder and tried to secretly place his hand on her chest. It had been way to long since they had had any kind of sex in her opinion so the small contact of his hand on her breast thrilled her. He smiled at her and started to massage her left breast. She placed her hand on lap and wiggled her hand under the popcorn box to start playing with his growing arousal.
"What do you think you are doing? We have a mission to do tonight and I don't think it will be good if I am horny as fuck going into it." He growled into her ear.
Arya smiled and leaned up to his ear. "Go to the bathroom, the handicapped one. I will meet you there in three minutes. We will have enough time to relieve that pressure." Her tongue flicked out and she licked his ear.
Gendry was out of his seat and walking out so fast it was as if the theater was on fire. Arya leaned over and asked Hot Pie to let her know when the others were ready to leave. Arya stood up and walked out of the theater to find Gendry and to get some much needed attention.
Arya knocked on the door to the bathroom and Gendry opened it to let her in. She closed the door behind her and locked it. She was standing with her back to the door and pulled Gendry over to her for a deep kiss. They stood there making out for a second before Gendry could not stand it anymore and picked her up and wrapped her legs around his waist. She was leaning back against the door. Arya fumbled to unsnap his pants. He understood what she wanted so he let her side down and he let his pants drop to his ankles. She had the same idea so she slid one of her legs out of her jeans and he lifted her back up so their pelvises were fused together.
Arya was panting with lust and love as Gendrys hand played with her breasts. His erection was growing and she wrapped her hand around him to get him ready to enter her. She locked her legs around his waist and he was able to enter her. They were panting with pent up need. Gendry started moving his hips and she gripped his shoulders to keep her position. There were so focused on each other that they didn't realize that their phones were ringing. With one deep thrust Arya called out Gendrys name and he came yelling as well.
There was a pounding on the door that they were leaning against. Arya kissed the tip of Gendrys nose as slid out of her and place her Jell-O legs to the floor. They pulled on their pants and walked out of the bathroom. Aegon and Sandor were standing on either side of the door. They both rolled their eyes and walked away from the love birds as they smiled and walked after them.
"So that's where you guys went. It's time to go and you decide to have a quickie in a bathroom?" Aegon tried to sound angry but Arya knew that he was just disappointed he had not thought of it first.
"Yep. Now I can concentrate 100 percent on the mission and I won't have sex on the brain. Now let's go get the boom on." Gendry led them to the taxi stand.
They had decided that they would take a taxi to the theater. They realized that having a getaway driver that couldn't legally drive was not a good idea. But Arya would not be left out. She told them that she was coming and that was that. They had stopped at their cars to change into all black clothing and grab their stuff. They each had a gas can and when they piled into the taxi they asked to be taken to the nearest gas station.
"Out of gas?" The driver asked.
"Yes sir. We ran out of gas trying to get gas to our friend at another theater. It has been a long night." Arya smiled sweetly at the driver.
"Oh that's too bad. There is a station right up here. Where do you need to take the gas?"
"Kings Landing Multiplex." Arya answered. She was in the front seat of the cab.
They filled up their cans and headed to the theater. The taxi driver dropped them off four rows away from Jofferys car. Sandor paid the cabbie in cash. They lugged their cans and Arya had the back pack on with their other supplies. Myrcella had been right. Joffery had parked his car so far away from everyone that they didn't need to worry about getting anyone hurt or anyone else's car getting hit with stuff from the blast.
They all pulled hoods on and they walked over to the shiny gold BMW. Joffery had custom made license plates that read KING JOFF.
"What a portentous ass." Arya muttered as she looked at it.
Gendry and Aegon got to work dismantling the alarm system. Once that was done they opened the passenger door and Sandor started splashing gas on the inside. To any on looker it would have looked like they were trying to get the car started. Arya stood beside it pretending to talk to a tow company and Gendry and Aegon fiddled under the hood. They had dumped gas on the motor. Sandor pulled out of the car and held up his thumb. Arya walked over and put a cotton rag into the tank and nodded her head.
Bran had told them that they should leave a book of matches in the car on the seat with one of them lit to start the inside. They lit the matches and placed them on the seat next to a small puddle of gas was. Gendry did the same under the hood. The three big guys walked away to get a new taxi and Arya lit the cotton rag. Then she ran like hell to catch up with the guys. They could see the car from where all the taxi cabs were. They were pulling off their black hoodies and shoving them in a trash can when the explosion lit up the parking lot. They hopped into a taxi and watched as the fire ball of Jofferys car lit up the night sky.
"Holy shit." Sandor said as he slid into the cab. "What is that?"
"It looks like a car. What is going on?" Arya craned her head around the cabby to see the burning car.
"A car exploded. Kids we should leave now if you don't want to be stuck here by the emergency people. Where are you heading?" The driver asked.
Arya told the driver to take them to a mall. The guys looked at one another not understanding, but she figured it would look strange to go from one theater to another. He dropped them off at the mall and Aegon paid this time.
"Why are we here Arya? Did you feel the urge to buy some shoes or something?"
"No stupid. It would look weird to be picked up at one movie place and dropped off at another. We have to get a new cab to take us back." Arya looked at the three guys and saw the lights go on for them.
"Oh."
They hailed another cab and made it to the theater where the others were waiting outside for them.
"So what happened?" Beric asked as soon as they rejoined their friends.
"The car went boom." Arya smiled like an angle and she showed them the small video of the explosion.
"That looks so kick ass! I love fire." Thoros crowed.
Myrcellas phone started to ring and so did Sansas. They whipped them out to look who was texting them.
"It just went viral. Jofferys car exploded. Everyone knows." Sansa looked around with the biggest smile Arya had seen on her sister's face since before her attack.
Myrcella
The night that they blew up Jofferys car Myrcella was as pleased as the rest of the group, but she also felt saddened. No matter what Joffery did he was still her brother. She knew how he would react. It was not the first time that she was glad that her father had kicked her mother and older brother out of the house.
Myrcella liked to think back on that day when her dad threw them out. It was the day that Joffery had been arrested. Myrcella had gotten home from school to find her mother in a state of panic.
"Myrcella your brother has been arrested. We have to go get him out. Your father refuses to lift a finger to help. I am calling your grandfather." Cersie had stormed off to call her father for help.
Myrcella had walked to her room to do her homework. By the time she got hungry and went downstairs her father was home. She stopped by his den on the way to the kitchen.
"Hi daddy." She walked over and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"What no kiss for your favorite uncle?"
"Uncle Tyrion! What are you doing here? Are you helping Joff out?"
Her uncle had thrown his head back and laughed.
"No princess, your uncle is here helping me. Myrcella I have decided to divorce your mother. It is no secret that she and I have no love for one another. The only reason we stayed together this long is because of you and your brothers. But after what Joffery did I can tell that I have failed with him. The only way that you and Tommy won't end up like him is to get you two away from her."
Myrcella had been shocked, not with the news that her father wanted to divorce her mother, but that he wanted her and Tommen. All her life she knew that her father loved her, but he never showed interest in her. It had filled her with a warm glow to know that he cared enough for her and Tommen to protect them.
"How do you feel about that dear girl?" Her uncle asked.
"I am pleased uncle that father is finally doing something. He has been unhappy for years. I am glad that he is doing something to make him happy. Mother is not the right one for him." She looked at her uncle as she talked. She did not have the courage to say that to her father, but her uncle was someone she felt safe talking to.
"Is that truly how my princess?" His father's voice was soft as he asked.
"Yes daddy. I truly mean that."
Later that night her mother came home with Joffery. Jamie stood beside her. Robert had stood at the base of the stairs with Myrcella and Tyrion.
"What the hell are you doing with Robert Tyrion? Father and I called you all day. We want you to be Joff's legal representation." Cersie demanded when she saw her imp of a brother.
"Well that my dear sister would be a slight conflict of interest for me. You see I am going to be representing Robert here on a different matter and I have a feeling that it is going to take up all of my time." Tyrion said to his sister.
"Representing Robert? What is the meaning of this? Is there something going wrong with the arrangement with the Starks? What could be more important then protecting your nephew the lies of some stupid girl?" Cersie demanded.
"I am employing Tyrion as my attorney in my divorce case against you, woman. And with that I want you out of this house in two days." Robert said to the angry Cersie.
"You do not mean this?" Cersie had yelled.
"I do mean it. You are no longer welcome here in this house. I want you and that bastard rapist out of my house." Robert pointed his finger at Joffery.
"Myrcella go get Tommen. I will not have you in the house with that man." Cersie had shrieked.
"No mother. I am staying here. This is my home. I am not going to leave it." Myrcellas voice wobbled slightly.
Cersie went ballistic. Her mother yelled that Robert would not take her children away from her. It took all Jamie's strength to drag Cersie out of the house. Joffery looked at his father and sister in shock. He then followed his mother and uncle.
That was a month ago. She had seen her mother once since then. Her uncle Jamie had come to see her at school one day to urge her to go to her mother. Myrcella had refused. She did not want to see her mother. Cersie was spreading lies about Sansa. There was no reason for Myrcella to be around someone so poisonous. She told Jamie that. There was a sad look in his eye, but he said that he understood.
So the month had passed and her father filled their house with love and laughter, something that had been missing her entire childhood. Aegon was welcomed to their house and she did not have to hide her love and feelings for him. Tommen had been scared and confused when Robert had told him that he was divorcing Cersie, but then he was happy because their father was happy.
But when she arrived home on the night of the explosion she felt the first twinges of fear. She knew that the plot to blow up her brother's car had been risky. She knew that Joffery would not sit idly by as his car was blown up. He was waiting for Aegon and Myrcella when they arrived at the Red Keep.
"You asshole. You blew up my fucking car. You and that bastard Bull." Joffery threw himself at Aegon when he had stepped away from his bike.
Aegon had easily dodged the swung that Joffery had thrown and landed a solid connection to Jofferys midsection.
"You sniveling little worm. I had nothing to do with your fucking car. I was at a movie with your sister and my friends. Now if I was you I would get the hell out of here before you hurt yourself again." Aegon threw Joffery into the gravel of the drive way.
"I will not stand for this. You will pay. All of you." Joffery shouted as he retreated back to his borrowed car.
Myrcella was shaking with fear.
"Aegon he knows. He knows it was you who did it. How can he know?" Myrcella rushed to his arms and pulled him close to her.
"He is just using his head for once. Any smart person would think that it was us that did it. In this case he would be right. Don't worry my love. He can do nothing to me." Aegon kissed Myrcellas hair and lead her into the house.
Robert was in his office when they entered the house and he called out to the pair to come talk to him.
"I have some disturbing news my princess. The first bit is that there has been some kind of accident with your dear brother's car at some movie. I am all torn up over it." Roberts blue eyes twinkled with suppressed mirth. "The second is that your uncle Tyrion and I have found out that Joffery is not my son. We suspect that he is the son of your uncle Jamie. We ran DNA tests on all you children."
"What about me and Tommen?"
"You are mine and so is your little brother. Tyrion and I suspect that each time I slept with your mother she went and had sex with Jamie. There was a 50-50 chance of who you children's father was, either myself or Jamie. You just happened to have the right father." Robert looked into Myrcellas eyes. She saw sorrow and betrayal in them.
"I am so sorry father. This must be very hard for you." Myrcella walked over to her father and hugged him.
"It is alright my dear. I am just glad that that sick prick is not my son after all. I have one more confession. I believe that your friend Gendry could be my son. I knew his mother around the time he was conceived. I would like to find out more. His mother and I have reconnected recently. She is in fact my sponsor. I have asked her if the boy is mine, but she said she is not sure. I only tell you this in full disclosure. I will not keep things from you. That is your mother's game. And Aegon you are family now. I know Myrcella will tell you what I say, so I figure why not have you present when I tell her."
The two stood there even more stunned then before. They knew that Gendry did not know his father. But the fact that Robert could be his father was something new to them. Then Myrcella stopped and thought about it. She saw the similarities between the two men. They had the same jet black hair and the same dark blue eyes. She realized that Gendry could in fact be her brother. Now she was glad that they had never dated.
-I feel like this one took a while to get done. Life has been super wild in the last two weeks. I wont get into it, but I will say I hate moving. But here it is, up at last. I don't think I will be able to post like I have been able to, I am probably only going to be able to post one chapter a week starting now. But if I get done with a chapter I will post it ASAP. I hope you liked this one. Let me know what you think. Thanks for reading.