Gendry[to Arya] You shouldn't insult people that are bigger than you.
Then I wouldn't get to insult anyone.
Gendry
Well, I don't care what any of them want. No good's ever come of their questions.
No good's ever come? Who asked questions before?
Gendry
How can someone so small be such a huge pain in my arse?
Gendry
The Hand of the King, er... Hands of the King. Lord Arryn came first, a few weeks before he died. And then, Lord Stark came a few weeks before he died.
Gendry
See? Asking me questions is bad luck. [walks towards the river while Arya follows him] You'll probably be dead soon.
Gendry
My mum.
Gendry
Just my mum. Worked in a tavern, died when I was little.
Gendry
He could be one of those gold-hatted bastards for all I know. What about you, anyway? You thought they were after you. Why? Did you kill someone, or is it just because you're a girl?
Gendry
Yes, you are. [starts walking back to the camp fire] You think I'm as stupid as the rest of them?
Stupider. Night's Watch doesn't take girls. everyone knows that.
Gendry
That's true. You're still a girl.
Gendry
Well, pull your cock out and take a piss, then.
I don't need to take a piss... Lommy and Hot Pie can't know. No one can know.
Gendry
They won't. Not from me.
My name's not Arry. It's Arya. Of House Stark. Yoren is taking me home to Winterfell.
Gendry
He was your father. The Hand. The traitor.
He was never a traitor! Joffrey is a liar!
Gendry
So you're a highborn, then. You're a lady.
No–I mean, yes. My mother was a lady, and my sister—
Gendry
You were a lord's daughter and you lived in a castle. [brief pause] Look, all that about cocks–I should never have said that. I've been pissing in front of you and everything. I should be calling you, m'lady.
Gendry
As m'lady commands. [Arya pushes him] Well, that was unladylike.
Gendry
[nods] Mmm.
Gendry
Never seen snow before.
Beautiful, eh? I can breathe again. Down south, the air smells like pig shit.
You've never been down south.
[Tormund scoffs]
Gendry
How d'you live up here? How d'you keep your balls from freezing off?
Got to keep moving, that's the secret. Walking's good, fighting's better, fucking's best.
There's not a living woman within a hundred miles of here.
[smirks] We have to make do with what we've got. [Gendry walks away] This one's maybe not so smart.
Davos says he's a strong fighter.
Good. That's more important than being smart. Smart people don't come up here, looking for the dead. So, you met this Dragon Queen, huh? And?
And she'll only fight beside us if I bend the knee.
You spent too much time with the Free Folk; now, you don't like kneeling. Mance Rayder was a great man, a proud man. The King-Beyond-the-Wall, who never bent the knee. How many of his people died for his pride?
[Gendry nods and hands her the spear. She looks it over, spinning it around experimentally.]
Gendry
Last time you saw me, you wanted me to go to Winterfell. [grins shyly] Took a long road, but-
What did the Red Woman want with you?
Gendry
She wanted my blood. For some kind of spell.
Gendry
I'm Robert Baratheon's bastard. [Arya stops, surprised] I didn't know until she told me. Then she tied me up, stripped me down, and put leeches all over me.
Was that your first time?
Gendry
[sarcastically] Yes, that was the first time I had leeches put all over my-
I mean, your first time with a woman.
Gendry
What? I wasn't with her.
[taking off her gloves] Were you with other girls, before that, at King's Landing? Or after? [Gendry sputters] You don't remember?
Gendry
[sighs] Yes. I was.
Gendry
I didn't keep count!
Gendry
Three.
[Arya draws near to Gendry.]
We're probably going to die soon. I want to know what it's like before that happens.
[They stare at each other.]
Gendry
Arya, I-
[Arya cuts him off by kissing him, which he returns. She pushes him down on the bed and starts to undress. Gendry looks startled by the scars on her hip.]
[noticing his gaze] I'm not the Red Woman. Take your own bloody pants off.
[They make love.]
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