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In the Midnight Hour - Chapter 28: Ready or Not

Moodboard by @justwandering-neverlost​

It was mornings as peaceful as the following one, that Arya desperately needed in her life. Being a Sunday, Gendry had her promise the night before that she would spend the morning with him, for once not worrying about her studies. It had irked her at first, but now she was glad he had insisted.

There would be no alarm sounding today. She woke up to the soft rhythmic stroke of Gendry’s fingers on her bare back, as she lie on her stomach on the bed. She didn’t open her eyes, relishing in the soothing sensation. Every few minutes, he would take his hand away from her skin briefly, as she could hear the flutter of pages before he would resume his caresses. It was so peaceful, the light morning breeze filtering through the open window, the birds chirping in the distance, the peace of being with him.

When she was with Gendry, Arya could let her walls down. She could just be, without worrying of being vulnerable, without worrying of what he would think of her, because he saw her for what she was. 

the lady & the bastard

the she-wolf & the stag

the stranger & the smith

the forest lass & the forest love

NO FEATHERBED                                                                                            a.k.a the collection of my favorite gendrya fanfiction as of June 2020

Hello, fellow gendrya shippers! Please celebrate my birthday with me by reading one (or two, or twenty) of the fics below. All of them are absolutely beautifully-written, heart-warming breaking, in-character depiction of Arya and Gendry and I hope they will bring you as much joy as they did to me. Huge shout out to all the fic writers mentioned - I cannot be thankful enough for your contributions to this fandom. Also, if you have your own favorites/recommendiations, PLEASE leave them in the comments! The more great fics the better. 

CANON UNIVERSE 

Arya of the Thousand Days by DrHolland/// the official, canon ending of asoiaf, period. Also the greatest unfinished fic known to the humanity

The White and the Grey by  crossingwinter // aka the smut we all deserve, kingsguad!gendry au

The Tourney of The Dawn by apolla// again, D&D can go fuck themselves. Great post-canon 

all secrets sleep in winter clothes by  wintersun  // featuring nymeria as the best matchmaker north of the neck

No Featherbed For Me by  vixleonard // epic fic, but they do marry other people, just a heads up

If the summer of our lives could just come again by TheDameintheRaininMaine  // time travel fix-it, gendrya is NOT a main focus, but whenever they appear it’s absolutely adorable

The Return of the Wolf by  Kittenshift17 // faceless woman!arya, one of the best gendrya fights i have ever read

Warrior, Maiden, Smith and its companion drabble  by  madaboutasoiaf  // ned takes gendry with him to winterfell

Stranger by  shinelikemillions AND  you made a slow disaster out of me by  i-revel-in-chaos // two version of the same beautifully heartbreaking ANGST

Like Wenda by  Furious_Winter // outlaws au

Count Your Blessings, She’s Coming For You by akingdomofunicorns// reunion fic

Rain by  therearenousernameleft// arranged marriage au

Bound by  NRGburst // your name/ kimi no na wa au, lovely as HECK 

Born in Fever by elephant_eyelash// wonderfully angsty. Arya and Gendry survive the winter in the North

for my wild by vixleonard// forge baby propaganda still going strong

A Dream of You by acornsandravens// the ‘dramatic love confession as she’s about to marry somone else’ fic you’ve been looking for

Dig by acornsandravens // pretend marriage smut, honestly, what more you can ask for

meet me in the afterglow by vixleonard// Arya grows up at the Crossroads Inn with Gendry and BwB. Just do yourself a favor and read this fic

The Tilt by acornsandravens// literally EVERYONE IS ALIVE AND HAPPY AU

i'll follow you (even by accident) by scrubclub// post-canon, time travel fic

At Storm's End a.k.a. the Uncleverse series by joinedunderprotest // gendrya growing family at Storm’s End

River children series by  Space_Samurai // Arya marries Elmar Frey

Beyond The End by  crossingwinter// Arya and Gendry go beyond the Wall to bring Bran home

Winter Storm by  Kittenshift17 // arranged marriage au/Gendry is trueborn au 

Winter Heat by Kittenshift17// as abover but in Winterfell

Encounters by jeeno2// AWESOME baseborn!Arya, prince!Gendry au

sword and smith by honey_wheeler// incredibly lovely first time fic

 AU-s

i feel my pulse quickening (when your name lights up the screen) by  JustATinyTurtle // a phone swap fic

manor/estate series by  scrubclub// uptown girl au basically

Did it hurt? by scrubclub // superheroes/superpowers au

The Dating Game by scrubclub // matchmaking au, college au

re: weapons (and you) by  scrubclub // historian!gendry and archeologist!arya

You’ve Got That Medicine I Need (Fame, Liquor, Love, Give It To Me Slowly) by  akingdomofunicorns // band au

we can pretend that they don't know our name by scrubclub // forbidden romance au

Spoken in Haste by  joinedunderprotest // regency era au

love, war, and a few things in between by  scrubclub // absolutely delightful idiots to lovers hogwarts au

hope will put the colors in the sky by  monroeslittle // forbidden romance au

took the long road by  lightninginabottle0613 // the most beautiful roadtrip au you’ll ever read (+ the best sequel ever)

let me help by  lightninginabottle0613 // friends to parents to lovers. HONESTLY.

maybe it's intuition by  lightninginabottle0613 // dog-walking au, do i even need to say more? 

The Stripper AU No One Asked For by  crossingwinter // the title speaks for itself. EXCELLENT smut and way deeper than you may think

Six Feet Beneath the Moon by  Dalzo // hogwarts au

arya, please by  scrubclub // ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE falling in love in a record store au

Tell Me by  Persuade_me // friends to lovers smut, god bless, honestly

Obligations by  Persuade_me// modern royality arranged marriage au

to love with a rough abandon by  Debate // the fairytale/red riding hood au that will make you SCREAM

the overstay by  fictionsofthemind // the quarantine fic we all wanted/needed/deserved

what am I supposed to do?  series by chasingforeverandaday // the robin hood au

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out by acornsandravens// Hero and Leander au, Arya and Gendry meet on Braavos 

oh, brother by scrubclub // blind date au

The Last Time by  yanak324// THE BEST, THE MOST REALISTIC AND WELL-WRITTEN FRIENDS TO LOVERS TO STRANGERS TO LOVERS YOU’LL EVER READ

the trouble with secrets by yanak324// adorable bffs to lovers au

you undid me like a fairy tale by yanak324// god bless, we stan ned dayne in this house

love on the brain series by  yanak324// a collection of modern au drabbles

Fall by crossingwinter// god, i love this story so much. It’s so good and so important and just... go read it pls

Dream Until Your Dreams Come True by crossingwinter// soulmates au/university au

different types of friends by Debate// Hot Pie being the Oblivious Pie

A Bad Oak Tree by crossingwinter// coffee shop au

autumn again by crossingwinter// the most in-character discussion of marriage ever

𝓚𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓘𝓷 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 by @foxxandbeanz

Gendry has been hiding in plain sight for three years. Smithing. Biding his time. Alone. Someone is about to find him and set him on a new path to familiar faces *or* Gendry finds out Arya is alive and they start a new journey together.

“𝙰𝚛𝚢𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙.”

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚢 𝚋𝚞𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚝 𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚊 𝚖𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚑𝚎’𝚍 𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚋𝚘𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚢 𝚆𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜. “𝙰𝚛𝚢𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍.”

“𝚂𝚑𝚎’𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝. 𝙽𝚘𝚝 𝚢𝚎𝚝.”

𝙷𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗. 𝙶𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍. 𝚁𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚙𝚞𝚕𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚟𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗 𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚞𝚗. 𝙸𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍. 𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖, 𝙲𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚊 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗. 𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎, 𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛, 𝙰𝚛𝚢𝚊’𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙. “𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚃𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚜. 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜.”

“𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚃𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚜. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚛 . . . 𝚃𝚠𝚘 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚝𝚘 𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚜.”

“𝚆𝚊𝚒𝚝,” 𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚢 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚋𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚍, 𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜. “𝙱𝚛𝚊𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚜? 𝙸𝚝’𝚜 𝚋𝚒𝚐, 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚑? 𝙷𝚘𝚠’𝚖 𝙸 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚛?”

“𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏. 𝚂𝚑𝚎’𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚓𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚍.”

“𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎’𝚜 𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛?” 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚓𝚊𝚠 𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛.

Sliding to the door on her socks Arya just barely managed to grab the doorknob before Rickon did. He groaned and she stuck her tongue out at him before opening the door just wide enough for her to slip outside, keeping a tight grip on the knob so that Rickon couldn’t swing it open behind her.

“Hey!” she said brightly, turning to smile at Gendry before she caught sight of what he was wearing and her face and her stomach dropped in horror. “I thought you wanted my family to like you.”  

One of my biggest issues with season 8 is that it was so rushed that many scenes of important character dialogue and reflection had to be cut. Therefore I’ve complied a list of canon-compliant cut-scenes or outright fix-its for various episodes. The scenes we deserved to see but were robbed of.

** Last Updated 6/1/19 **

i hope you like this!! prompt: gendry follows arya after she leaves winterfell

“I could hear you cursing half a league away,” Arya says, not turning around to look at her follower. “If you intend to follow me to King’s Landing, you better learn how to ride a horse.”

Gendry struggles to reach her, but is able to keep her pace with his horse when he finally does. “I’m better than I used to be,” he argues.

“That doesn’t mean you’re any good at it.” Gendry shrugs beside her. “How did you know how to find me?”

“I just did,” he admits. “I know you and I remember your list from when we were children. Cersei was always on it. And she’s still alive.”

“You should return,” Arya says and Gendry looks to her face, but she is as stoic as usual. Her face gives nothing away, but the waver in her voice was hard to miss when he had spent the last week memorizing her.

“Why?”

“There’s no place for you with me.”

“You’re wrong,” Gendry sighs. He knows now that he should have waited to propose to her. He never fared well after he drank, but he finally had something that he could have offered to Arya.

Arya doesn’t speak for a long time, and Gendry lets her. She hadn’t sent him away directly yet, and he intended to stay with her until she did.

“I intend to kill the Queen.”

“I know.”

“I don’t intend to live.” Her voice doesn’t waver, doesn’t give any clue that she’s scared, and Gendry wants to sob for her. She had never been scared of anything, even when it seemed she was half her current size, and now she didn’t even fear death itself. She had told him that before the battle, but he had hoped she was only bluffing. The dragonglass she stabbed in the Night King’s belly had proved his hope wrong. Arya wasn’t afraid. She would die for her family.

“I know,” he chokes out.

“Then why are you still here?” She snaps, finally turning to look at him. Her eyes flame with something for a moment, but she shuts it off before he can study her. It wasn’t anger, but it was something else.

“I wanted to keep you company,” he says. “Nobody should travel to their death alone.”

“What do you expect to do?”

Gendry shrugs. “Whatever you need me to do. I can help. I can keep watch while you sleep, and I can settle the horses while you hunt. I can build a fire.”

Arya gives him the smallest of smiles. “Will you keep me warm at night?” She raises her eyebrow and heat floods Gendry’s cheeks. He had thought about keeping her warm again since before his botched proposal, but never with the thought that he would get the chance to do it again.

“If you would like me to,” he swallows thickly.

Arya nods and turns to look ahead of her horse again.

“What else?” She asks.

“I could tend to your wounds.” Her head had not yet healed, and neither had the bruising around her neck. He couldn’t do anything for the marks, though. Arya stays silent. She might have been thinking of the new wounds she could obtain on her hunt for Cersei Lannister’s blood. He didn’t want her to think about that. “And look pretty,” he quips. He had seen the way she eyed him as he worked before the battle and thinks that it wouldn’t be so bad for her to look at him like that again.

“You would tend my wounds and keep me warm and look pretty?” Gendry nods. A small smiles pulls at her lips as she muses, “I suppose that would make you my lady, then.” She turns to look at him again and grins.