[A/N]: In response to day 5 prompt for AxG week - beauty. It's only short but I'm finding it hard to keep up with it all! I'm not sure if I'll be able to write anymore for this but I'll try.
Pregnancy didn't agree with Arya. At least that's what she told everyone, him included. She would curse at him for doing this to her. For making her belly rounder, her steps more sluggish and her emotions unpredictable. She hated that she couldn't sit atop a horse without assistance and that she was constantly hungry for the strangest things. She despised it when the men would decline to spar with her and when her feet swelled up to the size of melons. He tried to comfort her as best he could, but that often lead to an even more frustrated Arya.
It was the morning after she had given birth. Her screams and wails could be heard throughout the town centre. Gendry sat intently by her side, sitting idly as the profanities towards him slipped out of her mouth. He knew she didn't mean it. She would always apologise straight after, telling him she loved him. He would just smile at her and squeeze her hand in understanding.
So when her painful howls ceased, and the cries of another could be heard he saw the change in her take effect. He watched on as the Maestar placed the child in her arms. Their child, he thought, his eyes shining with tears. She motioned for him to join her, patting the spot on the bed next to her to allow his bulky frame to fit in perfectly. He looked on in awe as bright blue eyes looked up at him, the cries no longer ripping from the infant's mouth. Glancing to the side he found his breath catch as he watched his wife's eyes sparkle with joy at the sight of their child. Their little girl, who would one day grow up to be as wild as her mother no doubt.
Even with her hair in disarray and her features tired, Arya looked beautiful. Something about the moment making her even more so than usual. His fierce little wolf, who had done nothing but whine about the child growing within her, was now enthralled by the bundle in her arms.
So yes maybe pregnancy didn't agree with Arya but motherhood certainly did.