He had never known his mother, but he had his father, and that was alright.

Sansa Stark wonders what it is like to be Sandor Clegane.

It was not right for her to die before him, not from something as falling from a horse either.

"Something about the cloak brought her comfort, and gave her strength. Touching it, feeling it against her skin, was like a small prayer to the Warrior."

One part of him spoke about survival of the fittest, about how if she couldn't fight, she was fated to die anyway. Then the other part, that part tucked away in the deep dark, whispered that he couldn't let her die. (Zombie Apocalypse AU in a Modern Westeros)

After the Hound deserts the Battle of Blackwater, he finds his place on the ocean as a sailor. He'd heard the tales of mermaids, said to be dangerously beautiful and deadly if you got too close. He'd never believed them, but then he began to hear strange noises below deck...