#cause the gendrya energy JUMPED OUT

[psychvamp25]

You asked for it and I think I'm being very strong rn by not just sending all of them 🤣 “I’m sorry that I got way too into playing house and accidentally kissed you passionately.” (Bonus points if it's Gendrya as teenagers.) (But actually, grown up Gendrya playing with their nieces and nephews wouldn't be bad either) (Feel free to ignore all of this)

That Domestic Feeling (AO3)

Arya smiled as she watched little Ned and Rosie focusing so hard on the shoots and ladders board in front of them. Gendry was sitting patiently on the floor with them as they argued whether Ned was going to land on the final slide or miss it. 

“Ned, you got a six, so that means you are here.” Gendry said and moved the correct piece, showing that Ned was indeed going down the slide.

Ned pouted, “It isn’t fair Uncle Gendry!!”

“Do you want to stop playing then if it is so unfair?”

The both shouted up a chorus of “no!” before Gendry laughed and said, “Then Rosie, it is your turn.”

Arya shook her head and went back to stirring the pasta. The children were picky and had decided that they would only eat spaghetti tonight. She wasn’t sure when they had decided to join forces and gang up on her but she thought the cousin were dangerous partners in crime.

She turned when she heard the fridge open, turning to see Gendry grab a can of his energy drink from the fridge. She smiled, “Thank you for coming over and agreeing to help me watch them tonight.”

He shrugged, “I don’t mind, you know I love your niece and nephew.”

She sighed, “When Robb and Jon asked if I’d watch them so they could go out for dinner, I didn’t think it would be this much arguing.”

Gendry laughed, “They know what they want, the little cheaters.”

They both turned to look at the young children in the living room, and sure enough Ned was moving his piece back up to the place it was at before his last turn, while Rosie moved Gendry’s piece back a whole row.

“At least they are the same age, so they have each other.” She said with a smile and turned back to check on the sauce, “Kind of funny to think that Talisa and Ygritte both got pregnant within a few months of each other.”

He knocked her hip with his own, “You love it.”

She nodded, “I do. I can’t wait for Sansa’s baby, only a few more months!”

“Uncle Gendry!!! Rosie is cheating!!!” Ned yelled from the other room.

“Duty calls.” He said with sigh, laying a quick kiss to her lips before walking into the living room.

Arya stood frozen at the stove. Gendry had never kissed her on the lips before, a comforting kiss to the forehead or a drunken kiss to the cheek were not out of the question. But that. Nothing like that had ever happened before and he had done it so automatically. As if the act was one of habit, not something that was currently causing Arya’s brain to misfire.

A sudden beep from the timer shook her back into the moment and she quickly removed the garlic bread from the oven before it could burn. She worked on muscle memory alone to finish making dinner. Finishing the pasta, putting it on the plates, spooning out the sauce. She had already set the table before the life changing kiss and once everything was set, she called them over.

All through dinner, Arya couldn’t help but notice how suddenly domestic everything felt. With Gendry at one end of the table, her at the other, and the children in between them. Only, for a moment, the two redheaded children were replaced by those with black hair, who would call her mama and not auntie.

“I want to watch Moana!!” Rosie said suddenly, glaring at her cousin across the table.

“I want to watch Batman!!” Ned yelled in response.

Gendry caught her eye and shook his head. She sighed, but assumed it was only fair, he had to deal with the shoots and ladders crisis. She cleared her throat, “How about we watch Nemo instead?”

The children started to argue about how their choice was the best choice, she let them go for a few minutes before she said, “Nemo or bed, your choice.”

They both agreed to Nemo very quickly. Arya had them go put on their pjs anyway, as she and Gendry cleaned up from dinner. They didn’t speak, they had dinner at least twice a week at her apartment and had a routine set up for cleanup.

She stayed in the kitchen a little longer to clean out the pot she used for the sauce while he went to check on the kids. She took a few deep breaths, she needed to get control of herself, it was one little kiss. It was not nearly as passionate as some she had in the past, but somehow it still seemed the most intense. 

The kids came running back in, both jumping onto the couch with excitement. Both were holding onto the little stuffed wolves Arya had given them earlier in the day. Gendry grabbed the remote for the TV and got to work setting up the movie. She quickly finished the pot and grabbed a few bottles of water before joining them all on the couch, she had one end, while Gendry had the other and the kids shared the third cushion in the middle. Rosie curled into Arya’s side as the movie started and she smiled, she loved her niece. She turned to see that Ned had taken up a similar position with Gendry. He caught her stare and gave her a soft smile, before his blue eyes looked down to Rosie and he shook his head with a laugh as he looked back to the screen.

Her heart felt like it was in overdrive and it had nothing to do with Marlon’s search for his son, and everything to do with the man in the room with her. She and Gendry had been friends for years, having met by accident one day when she had spilled her coffee over him in a coffee shop. It had been just over 4 years since that day, she had been all nervous because Jon had texted her that Ygritte was in labor two week early. He had sat with her and kept her sane through it all, smiling broadly when the first picture of little Rosie had come in. 

“Hey.” Gendry whispered to her, causing her to look away from the movie she wasn’t even watching, “They are out, I am going to put them in the bed.”

Arya looked down, sure enough, both of them were sound asleep. She nodded and watched as he carried Ned off into the spare room. He returned and grabbed Rosie from her lap, doing it so effortlessly that it caused her heart to flutter again. She reached for the remote and turned off the movie.

Gendry flopped back down onto the couch, “It is only 8 and yet I feel exhausted. I can see why your brothers wanted a night off.”

She nodded and took a sip of her water, she knew that they needed to talk about it, but she didn’t know how to start the conversation.

He frowned, “What’s wrong? Are you feeling alright?”

“You kissed me, in the kitchen.” She said, not daring to look over at him, afraid of what she would see if she did.

He stuttered for a moment before saying, “I’m sorry. I think I got carried away in the moment and it just felt the right thing to do. I don’t even remember consciously choosing to do it.”

She was quiet for a moment, “Have you thought of doing it before?”

He was quiet and that caused her to turn and look at him. His face was flushed and he was rubbing the back on his neck, a nervous habit he had. His blue eyes met her, “I have.”

Her eye’s widened, “Why did you never say anything?”

He shrugged, “When we first met, you were dating Dayne, and I wasn’t going to break anyone up. Then, you two broke up anyway, and I was giving you time to get over, though you weren’t really that upset.” He shook his head, “I don’t know. We just got into this routine and I it was the first time I had ever really been comfortable with anyone and I didn’t want to risk losing it.”

She bit her lip, “I broke up with him because of you.” His eyes widened that time but she kept going before he could speak, “You, even just as a friend, treated me so much better than he did. I was also wishing I could have spending time with you instead of him whenever we were together. He wasn’t a bad guy, just not the right one for me.”

Gendry frowned, “Is that why you haven’t dated anyone since?”

She nodded, “It was like you said. We had this routine and I didn’t want to mess it up.”

“Do you….do you want to mess it up now?” He asked, and she knew what he was really saying, and she nodded.

He smiled and closed the short distance between them on the couch, his lips meeting hers in the most passionate kiss she had ever had in her life. It was everything she had always wanted from him and she never wanted him to stop.

“Auntie Arya, I’m thirsty.” A little voice called to them from the hallway.

They broke apart with a laugh, resting their foreheads against each other. 

Arya smiled, “Be right there Rosie.” She called out without looking and lowered her voice, “Keep those thoughts in mind, I will right back.”

“I’m not going anywhere.” He said, and Arya couldn’t help but think it sounded like a promise.

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