Second half of the Gendry side of the story. I have decided to go further than where I left off with Arya in chapter 3 before I go back to her side of the story so hopefully it isn`t confusing or hard to follow. If so let me know. Also I read the reviews about Gendry`s pov being repetitive and I agree I hated rewriting everything but I wanted to make sure his actions and thoughts were brought to attention, but I will make sure from now on that he gets his own point of view but it will just continue with the story and not repeat what you have already read. Thanks for the love however you guys are great.

Chapter 5

Gendry awoke the next morning as he usually did to Arya breathing heavily from her dreams. Her nightmares plagued her and she always woke up drenched in sweat and breathing heavily obviously shaken, but this morning was different. This morning she woke but did not jerk awake and he couldn`t feel her trembling like she did all of the other mornings. He waited for her to get up or move away from him but to his pleasant surprise Arya remained beside him. He felt her body tense followed by a gasp of pain and in a second he was sitting up beside her.

"What is it?" he asked trying his best not to sound too concerned.

"Nothing I just slept wrong and kinked my neck I`m fine."

"So you slept here all night. I`m surprised. I figured I would wake up to you gone with both the furs and my clothes." He let a little smile creep across his face.

"You`re stupid, why would I do that? Why would I go to that much trouble just to let you freeze to death? If I wanted you dead I would just kill you."

Gendry just shook his head and got to his feet, rolling up one of the furs.

"Did you stay warm?" He smiled up at her as he saw her glare at him.

"Yes, but I swear if you ever grab me like that again…"

"You will kill me, or cripple me, or cut off my cock." He was too accustomed to her threats to believe them anymore.

Arya rolled her eyes and started for the cave where the trial was the night before, and where he knew Beric and Thoros would be.

He felt his stomach drop. Why did she need to talk to them? She is going to speak to them about last night about what they said. No that meant they would speak to him about it, he didn`t want to speak about it. He wanted to pretend it never happened and that they were reading too far into what was between him and Arya.

"Oi! Where are you going?" He shouted after her, like he didn't know.

She spun around her eyes like daggers as they met his.

"Look I don`t ask you where you disappear to do I! No I don`t so if you don`t mind I don`t need you concerning yourself with my every move all the time. People are starting to say things about us, and I don`t appreciate it so back off!" She spun around and disappeared into the mouth of the cave and Gendry was sure he was going to be sick. He just stood there watching the spot where she had just been. He didn`t understand why she was so angry at him, and what had she meant by that? She was more than welcome to ask where he disappeared to.

"Boy! Hey Boy!"

It took Gendry a few seconds to realize that whoever was shouting was shouting at him. He turned around to see a large red bearded man making his way toward him.

The man stopped in front of him allowing Gendry to see the fact he was missing his left ear and that his eyes were a strange misty color with very little pupil. He hadn`t met this brother before.

"Are you deaf boy? I have been trying to find you all morning! Me names Rowan and I have something for you, follow me." A grin was stretched across his face as he nodded for Gendry to follow, him but Gendry didn`t move.

"Why?" He asked.

"You want to be a part of the Brotherhood don`t you? So the Brotherhood got you a little something. Now let`s go before one of the men spoils it before you get to enjoy it."

Rowan turned and walked away, Gendry looked back over his shoulder but Arya was still inside the cave. He would find out what she wanted to speak to Thoros and Beric about soon enough, so he followed the Rowan past his sleeping spot and toward the large group of men that was gathering around the fire. They made their way past the men and into the only tent the brotherhood had that they used to store their pathetic weapons cash.

Gendry looked around the tent confused.

"Alright so why am I here?"

The man smiled at Gendry, "We have heard that you have yet to lay with a woman. How does a strapping lad like you not have women falling all over you?!"

The man let out a deep hardy laugh and Gendry felt the blood drain from his face.

"Never had time too busy I guess, and most decent woman don`t hang around forges."

The man laughed again. "What kind of a man is too busy to enjoy a woman? Who cares if they are decent? A woman is a woman boy! But no matter we found something in the woods last night and we think it might be just perfect for you. Tell me how do you feel about fire haired women?" Rowan winked and grabbed Gendry by the shoulder leading him out of the tent.

Gendry tried to find words to argue with the man but his mouth had grown dry as he was being pushed toward the cheering brothers. Finally he found his voice and turned to face the man.

"Here? In front of everyone? No that isn`t right. Look I don`t want your whore get off."

Gendry tried to shrug away from the man but to no prevail. They reached the circle of brothers and several of them stepped aside for him as he was pushed into the middle. All of the men were cheering his name and yelling things at him. His eyes looked around praying that he wouldn`t find Arya but of course she was there, with a confused look on her face. He just stared at her as she looked around and traded words with the man next to her. He was forced to tear his eyes from Arya`s face when he saw the movement of red in front of him.
The woman had hair like fire and even from where he stood he could see just how green her eyes were. He didn`t let his eyes travel from her face as he noticed that whatever it was she was wearing was not much. He could feel the color rising in up his neck and toward his cheeks as the woman made her way to him. She stopped when she was so close to him that he could feel her breath against his skin, but Gendry refused to look at her. He looked past her to Arya.

"Leave he thought to himself, turn away do not watch this." He thought to himself as Arya`s stormy eyes met his. He held them begging her in his head to leave. He could barely hear the men shouting now, his head was going fuzzy as the woman touched the tender parts of his neck with her mouth. A year ago this would have been perfection to have a beautiful woman touching him but now here with Arya watching he could see the disappointment and anger in her eyes. He wanted to break the Rowan`s face for doing this to him. Gendry kept his body tensed and his arms to his side, maybe if Arya saw that he never touched the woman she wouldn`t make his life hell she wouldn`t look at him with disappointment. Then suddenly he felt her lips on his. Gendry`s eyes closed instinctively and he stopped breathing for a moment. The woman tasted of stale bread and wine, he didn`t like it at all it felt wrong filthy to have her mouth on his. He could feel the woman`s hands sliding down his back to the top of his pants. He opened his eyes and pulled his face away from hers, the cheers were there again ringing in his ears, but Arya was gone his stomach dropped. He grabbed the woman`s shoulders and pushed her from him. She looked at him with a confused stare. He walked past her and moved through the men where Arya had just stood.

"Come on boy!" One of the younger men shouted at him as he made his way after Arya. "This one is a real woman, forget about your child and be with a real woman. We can find someone for the little she wolf." He laughed and everyone around him went silent. Gendry turned and found the man who had said it. The stupid smile on his face. One of the men closest to Gendry reached out and grabbed him.

"Come on Gendry he didn`t mean it, he is the stupidest man we have ever recruited."

Gendry barely heard him as he shrugged the man off and walked away. He stopped a few inches from the stupid man and leaned forward.

"If I ever hear you speak of her like that again, I will cut you open and feed you to the wolves. Do you understand?" The words came out as more of a low growl but they made their point, the man`s eyes grew large and he shook his head in understanding as he stepped away backward from Gendry.

Without another word to anyone he turned and walked away other men and off to find Arya.

He wanted to apologize to let her know he had no part in any of that. He knew she wouldn't listen but he needed to tell her anyway. He knew where she would be, by the river where she went any time she was upset and where she went late at night when nightmares of her past would creep up on her. He had followed her only once when she left in the middle of the night. She had gone to the wide river and stripped naked diving into the water. He had watched her for a while until she got out and lied down on the ground the moon shining off the water on her naked body. Gendry had seen her unclothed before but that night it made him uncomfortable to look at her like that so he had returned to camp and pretended to sleep until he heard her return. Every time after that night that she left the camp he knew that is where she went.

He let his feet lead him through the trees without even thinking. Finally he could hear the water flowing up ahead and slowed his movements when he could hear quite grunting noises coming from nearby. Gendry followed the sound until he saw her.

She was dropped into her sideways water dance position with needle outstretched battling an invisible foe. She really did make it look like a dance the way she moved around so gracefully. Gendry enjoyed watching her practice with Needle almost as much as Arya enjoyed watching him at work in the forge. He watched her for several minutes before finally getting up the courage to step out into the open where she could see him.

Arya spun in a circle cutting the invisible enemy in half and stopped abruptly when she saw him standing there.

"Isn`t there a whore back there waiting for you? Or was it that quick?"
Gendry blushed and felt his irritation rising.

"There is a whore back there but she isn`t waiting for me. By now I`m sure one of the other men has taken my place."

"Well that was rude of you, you just kiss her then walk away from her." Arya sneered over her shoulder as she made her way to a large tree and sat down with her back against the trunk breathing heavy from her practicing.

"Look Arya I had nothing to do with that, and I didn't kiss her she kissed me."

"Oh yeah she kissed you and you were fighting her very hard I could tell." She rolled her eyes at him and tossed Needle on the ground at her feet in annoyance. "Look I don`t know why you came all the way out here to tell me all of that. You are a man and you can have all the whores you want it is none of my concern where you stick your cock. Just be certain whatever nasty boils or sickness your whores give you, you don`t touch anything of mine and spread it. I don`t need you going for a piss and spreading whore diseases all over my things with your filthy hands."

The tone in her voice was vicious and cruel. She hand never spoke to Gendry like this before and it made it him angry. Why was she acting like this he hadn`t asked for the woman, he hadn`t even wanted her.

"I wasn`t asking you if it was alright if I had some whores for company, like you said I am a man grown and I will do as I please. I just wanted you to know I would not have touched her not in front of all the men like that." Gendry knew what he was saying was cruel and he wouldn`t have touched the woman no matter what the circumstances were not while Arya was around, but her cruel attitude had made him angrier than he already was at Rowan and the whore and the funny man.

"Oh that is a relief Gendry. To know that you would have waited until you were alone to fuck a woman who has been with more men than she can count. Although I doubt she can count past two." Arya was standing now and she was getting angry. You really are a gentleman. Gendry could tell by the way she balled her fists that this was going to get worse before it improved but he couldn`t help but shout back. She always did this to him.

"You know what! You just looked upset when you ran off so I thought I would come explain to you but you of course have to be a complete pain in the ass!"

"Well thank you for the explanation about your whore Gendry I am so thankful for it! Now go be a pain in her ass and let me alone!"

Gendry let out a frustrated grunt before turning and beginning to storm away from her. She is impossible he thought.

"And by the way!" Gendry turned around to see her advancing on him. She made her way swiftly to stop inches away from him. "I wasn`t upset. I just didn`t feel like puking at the sight of the two of you." With that she pushed past him and made her way back to the camp.

Gendry was vibrating with anger. "Why does she have to make everything a battle?" He shouted as soon as he thought she was far enough away that she would not hear.

"Gods I hate to love that girl!" The words no more than slipped from his lips when he realized what he had said. "Love that girl" he repeated quietly. For the first time since the moment he had begun to realize she meant more to him than he would like he had admitted out loud that he loved her.

But what bastard doesn't dream of loving highborn ladies he thought to himself as the all too familiar feeling in the pit of his stomach returned as he remember who she was. She was someone that could never love him back. She was someone destined for greatness, and he was a bastard blacksmith.