Game of Thrones: Crossroads

Chapter 34 of my Game of Thrones, enjoy.

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Chapter 34

As they rode to Gendry's house; he glanced out the corner of his eye at her. She was looking out the window; silent, apparently frustrated about something.

"Something you want to talk about Arry?" He asked softly.

He heard her sigh and then she spoke. "No, nothing."

He fought to control his frustrations. "Arry, please, you…"

"Just leave it Gendry; I don't want to talk about it. Now let's go see your family already." She replied sharply.

He silently agreed and continued to drive. He just couldn't comprehend why Arya wasn't telling him anything; it couldn't be that bad surely. The sooner he worked out what was wrong and convinced her to explain the truth to the others, then the sooner they would be able, not only to re-join their friends, but the sooner he could help her with whatever was bothering her. Of one thing he was certain, the means Arya was using were only doing her more harm than good; a fine example being her drinking too much; not to mention her obvious depression as the days had passed. However he noticed that, despite his obvious feelings for her and his demonstration of them whenever he could, Arya seemed only to accept their relationship when they had to keep up appearances, whenever they were out in public for example. Shaking his head; clearing his mind of frustrations, he parked his car and they got out, heading into the house.

When they entered they found Mya and Edric in the living room. When they joined them Gendry's siblings looked up and greeted them.

"Hey you guys." Edric called out cheerfully.

They returned his greeting and Gendry noted, with some relief, that Edric seemed to have recovered fully from the unfortunate incident with their father. He had accepted the truth about what happened and luckily had the rest of his family there to help him deal with it.

Mya smiled and then asked. "You guys wanna join us; we'll be watching a movie?"

Arya smiled and nodded. "Sure, why not; sounds like fun."

Gendry also agreed and they all settled in to watch it. Before it started however Mya warned them.

"I may have to go before it finishes okay. If mum comes to let me know then I'll have to go."

Gendry nodded. "Okay, no worries."

So they settled back and began watching the movie. Arya was sitting next to Gendry on the couch, his arm around her, Edric lay on his front on the floor and Mya sat on the armchair. The other couch was occupied by the clothes waiting to be ironed. Arya fought hard to keep still; irritated by Gendry having his arm around her, she felt trapped like this. But to keep up appearances she couldn't pull away. Finally, about three-quarters of the way through the movie, Alyssa entered the living room and smiled, welcoming Arya, who replied politely.

Alyssa turned to Mya.

"Are you ready?" She asked.

Mya nodded as she stood up. "Yeah."

Arya looked up curiously. "Where are you guys going?"

Mya smiled and explained.

"It's nothing major, just going for a fitting for my wedding dress."

Arya nodded and the two women left, leaving Arya, Gendry and Edric to watch the rest of the movie. Finally the movie finished and Edric stood up; he checked his phone and turned to them.

"I'm gonna go around to Devan's." He told them.

Gendry nodded and Edric smirked as he added. "You two behave yourselves now; Mum and Mya won't be away for that long."

This prompted them both to blush and Arya glared at him. "Just go already, we're not gonna do anything, probably just watch another movie."

Edric merely laughed and then left. Arya sighed, she was now alone with Gendry; there was no need to keep up appearances now. She waited until she was certain none of the rest of the family had forgotten anything and would come back for it. Once she was certain they were quite alone she lifted Gendry's arm off her and shifted over to the other side of the couch. Gendry turned his head towards her, eyes widened in surprise; Arya braced herself, it wouldn't be long now until one of their arguments started and he used the blackmail against her.

Gendry was surprised by Arya's sudden action and asked her.

"What are you doing, why are you pulling away Arry?"

She shook her head and explained. "Your family's not here now, there's no need to pretend while we're alone."

Gendry leapt to his feet; shocked. "What the hell, you think I'm pretending all this Arry?!"

"Well what else do you think we…?"

He cut across her shaking his head. "For fuck sake Arya, I fucking like you…I love you!"

She leapt to her feet too and glared. "Oh yeah, you love me, sure, that's why you're blackmailing me!"

She still couldn't forgive him for that; it was the one thing that completely ruined her chances of saving Sansa. She noticed the pained expression on Gendry's face and realized right away that something about that struck a nerve. She was happy about that; let him suffer for what he had done to her.

What he said next surprised her. "Don't you understand, I was trying to help you, to save you!?"

She glowered, wondering what the hell he was talking about.

"Save me, from what?" She demanded.

"Those so called friends of yours, what they had you doing, what you were doing while with them." He explained. "You think I was blind, I could see you were depressed, and you were drinking too much."

She growled; this was getting out of hand.

She turned away; shaking her head, he didn't understand.

"Yeah, well I had to, it was the only way, but you've gone and ruined that now, with all this!" She remarked angrily; she then blurted out angrily, without thinking. "Now, because of you she's all alone again!"

Gendry caught what she said. "Wait, what, who is alone?"

She shook her head quickly, realizing what she had said.

"It doesn't matter." She said quickly; but Gendry wasn't having that.

"No it does, please Arya, tell me, please let me help you, I only wanna help." He told her desperately, neither of them was yelling anymore.

She slumped down on the couch and sighed.

'Could I really depend on him, what would he really think?' She wondered fretfully. 'I…I've tried so hard to do it alone, but it hasn't worked, maybe I do need help, maybe Gendry can help me.'

So she made up her mind and straightened up as he sat down next to her.

"Okay, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything."

So with that she prepared to tell him just what had been going on, why she had acted the way she had and her reason for it. It was time for her to reveal to the truth.

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