Just Picked Him Up...

[bullamongstags]

Stop tellin' people you just took me out of a rowing boat in the middle of the ocean. That's not what happened, an' you know it. Even if you think the image is hilarious, it's not where I am, and not what I'm doing. He's not me, and I'm not him, even if we're both the same person. I think. You know, suddenly dropping all this.. stuff on a person means it's a lot for them to take in.

And I know what we've got to do. We need to find her and make sure she's okay, that she's ... she's alive. I let her go off on her own and if she's dead, it's my fault. Nothin' can make up for it, but I can try.

...I'll give the other version one thing. It's nice to know. He was a fat bastard, and even in Flea Bottom people knew he fathered more than his true-born... but it's something. Knowing where you come from. It's something.

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[waterdancer_ofwinterfell]

Gendry? What are you even talking about? [Because she's confused about the whole rowing boat thing.]

[bullamongstags]

Just... something. [He gives a vague gesture upwards] Somethin' the mun finds funny, but I don't. [He looks at her and she looks like she did while they were marching with the Night's Watch. Has he left her then? When she's from?] Something to do with... other version. [He scrunches his nose up, confused] Hells if I know.

[waterdancer_ofwinterfell]

Other version? What on earth are you talking about? You're making no sense. [She crossed her arms over her chest and frowned. Why did boys have to be so complicated sometimes?]

It's good to see you again. I didn't think I'd find you here within this place.

[bullamongstags]

It's just something [Did her mun person tell her? His told him. Mostly to laugh but still... Maybe it's better not to know. He's confused with it all]

Again. ... It's been a while, m'lady.

[waterdancer_ofwinterfell]

[She shoved him at that remark.]

Don't call me, my lady! I told you about that, remember? What if the other boys here? I'll get kicked out of the Night's Watch and then the gold cloaks will take me to the Lannisters and have me killed.

[bullamongstags]

An' I told you! They won't find out. Not from me. [He means it] Gods, why are you such a pain in my arse?

[waterdancer_ofwinterfell]

Good. Because I don't want any of us to be found out. [She let her anger cool and then poked him in the ribs playfully. She wasn't ever really angry with him.]

I'm not a pain and you shouldn't swear around a lady. [Now, she was just teasing him.]

[bullamongstags]

[He ignored the poke, but gave her a look] Oh, so now you are a lady? Thought that wasn't you?

[waterdancer_ofwinterfell]

You know what I mean. I am a lady but you're to keep quiet about it. Just call me Arya if we're together or Arry when we're around everyone else. I'll keep your secret too. [Because that's what friends were for, right?]

[bullamongstags]

Again with the being a pain. As m'lady commands. [Does a teasing little bow]

[waterdancer_ofwinterfell]

Shut up, Bull! [She elbowed him in the gut and wondered if he would hit her back.]

[bullamongstags]

[He gives her a shove - a small one 'cause he don't stand for picking on little ones - and a smirk]

[waterdancer_ofwinterfell]

[She doesn't mind the shove at all. Gendry has acted like an older brother to her since they met at the camp.]

So, who's the girl you're talking about?

[bullamongstags]

[...Ah] No one for you to be worryin' about.

[hearme_roar]

Well, well. Look what the cat dragged in. Lost your peasant father, boy?

[Because Jaime is rather pleased sat upon his white steed, dressed in his gold Lannister armour. The prick.]

[bullamongstags]

[Gendry looks up briefly, sees the face - the Queen's brother - and averts his eyes. Lannisters want him dead. He'd be better off not lettin' this one get a reason to do it here]

Been gone a while.

[hearme_roar]

How would you know anything about that? [He shot the boy a glower and wondered who he was.]

What's your name?

[bullamongstags]

Somethin' I remember from my Mum. She told me my Dad was gone. She's gone too. Died when I was little.

[He's still looking down, trying not to catch the eye of this Lannister]

Gendry, m'Lord.

[hearme_roar]

Gendry? [The name did not ring any bells with the Lannister knight, so he just shrugged, as if the boy were a piece of dirt on his polished boot.]

Are you a farmer? A boy who works in shit for a living?

[bullamongstags]

Apprentice smith, m'Lord. At Master Mott's shop. [Still keeping the gaze averted] We done the armour for the castle guards.

[hearme_roar]

A smith? A worthy job. [He looked at the lad for a while, before answering. Was he afraid to talk to him?]

Where do you hail from, boy?

[bullamongstags]

Kings Landing, m'Lord. [Afraid to talk to him... yeah, technically that would be true. Sort of

[chivalrouswench]

What are you talking about?

[ Young man, you are barely being coherent. ]

[bullamongstags]

A girl, a high-born. I know her. Knew her. [He frowns, and oh look - doesn't he look like Renly Baratheon?] Don't know if she's alive or dead. Heard some things but it can't but true. [More to himself] Arya wouldn't let herself be married off, not like that. Not to some bastard that took her home.

[no_longer_caged]

These muns seem to have little regard for things going on in our canon worlds. Like the damn war we are fighting for humanity's survival.

[bullamongstags]

Well, it's not happenin' to them so...

another Lannister added to the mix

[alwayspays_hisdebts]

I'm curious to know who this fat bastard is you speak of so highly.

[bullamongstags]

[Why the Lannisters? Why are they popping into his life now?]

No one, m'Lord.

[alwayspays_hisdebts]

[They pop up annoyingly because they can.]

You know, I think you might be lying to me, which is a rather pointless venture. I'm rather good at lying myself, so trying to lie to me is rather meaningless. The fat bastard.....is he perhaps someone royal?

[bullamongstags]

[Well, stop popping up annoyingly in his life!]

Know not to speak out of turn about m'betters.

[alwayspays_hisdebts]

[Sorry, he can't do that.]

Of course, of course. A mild mannered lad, aren't you? [Or was he? Tyrion guessed there was something about this boy.] Why don't you just spit it out, hm? Tell me who this fat bastard is. I won't tell. Promise.

[bullamongstags]

[Bloody high-borns. Pains in his arse. All of you]

No one, m'Lord. Like I said.

[Yeaaaah. Gold cloaks want him dead on order of the Queen. He's not just going to open his mouth to a Lannister.]

[alwayspays_hisdebts]

[Oh, a tough one, hm?]

Like you said? You've so far told me nothing, so you've not said anything. Rather contradictory don't you think? [Beware of this annoying Imp, Gendry.]

[bullamongstags]

[No one is more irritating than Arya when she wants to be. No one]

You asked me earlier and I said no one. Don't that count as sayin' something, m'Lord?

[alwayspays_hisdebts]

Perhaps. You are a clever one, aren't you? Tell me, Gendry, what occupation do you dabble in?

[bullamongstags]

Apprentice smith, m'Lord