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child_of_lions (child_of_lions) wrote in valarlogs,
@ 2013-10-12 13:57:00

Entry tags:

gendry waters, myrcella baratheon

Who: Gendry and Myrcella
When: Sunday 13th October
Where: Cafe
What: Getting to know you
Rating/Warning: Low/None
Status: In progress

Myrcella got off the bus not far from the cafe where she had arranged to meet Gendry. She was excited yet nervous to talk properly to her recently discovered half-brother. She was glad he'd agreed to meet up with her, it had been a shock to both of them to see each other but Myrcella had come around to the idea of a half-brother since then and with her mum back in the UK with her other siblings it seemed an opportune time to get to know each other.

Entering the cafe she looked around to see if Gendry was there yet or if she should get a table for them.

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runsdeep
2013-10-19 05:40 am UTC (link)

Gendry took a swallow of his coffee, not even tasting it, his eyes on Myrcella. He brought the mug back down and tapped a finger against it, shifting a little uncomfortably in his chair. "This is still really weird to me," he admitted.

It wasn't made much better by the thought of his girlfriend sharing the same space as his sister. It only made him think of his dreams again and how young Arya was in them, and whenever he thought about that, he only felt like a pedophile.

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	child_of_lions 2013-10-19 11:19 am UTC (link)
	"I'm sorry" Myrcella said automatically, "I guess I'm just excited at having a nice older brother" she admitted, "I forget how strange it must be to you. And you weren't really given a choice about telling me since I turned up out of the blue" She felt bad that she had, unknowingly. backed him into a corner when she'd gone to her Uncle's house that day. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

runsdeep
2013-10-19 12:54 pm UTC (link)

He couldn't say that he was as excited as Myrcella was. For Gendry, it just presented more confusion and more frustration. She had a better outlook, he guessed.

Still, Gendry shook his head. "Don't be sorry, I don't mind," he said. After a moment, he asked, "How's your dad?" Robert Baratheon wasn't Gendry's dad. The man who'd raised him was his dad and he was certain that he'd never call his actual father by that name.

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child_of_lions
2013-10-19 05:42 pm UTC (link)

Myrcella always tended to see the good in a situation and while her dad may have been a rubbish absent father for Gendry she was determined to be a good little sister.

"He's okay" she shrugged, "I mostly talk to mum. Dad works a lot but he did email me last week just to catch up a bit" It wasn't unusual for Myrcella not to see her dad for a while so she had to admit she didn't miss him as much as she missed her mum or as much as she probably should. He wasn't a bad father he was just busy.

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runsdeep
2013-10-20 06:02 am UTC (link)

What a shocker. It seemed Robert Baratheon was a bit of a stranger to the children he actually did know about. This wasn't to say he was a horrible father, just absent. Gendry didn't know which was worse.

"Do you think I should ever, you know, tell him about me?" Gendry asked, his fingers tapping against the mug, nervous. He didn't know how else to present the question, but Myrcella at least knew the man a little better than he did.

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child_of_lions
2013-10-20 07:09 am UTC (link)

Thanks to her mum, Uncles and grandfather Myrcella and her other brothers had never felt resentful of their father being too busy all the time. She could recall on one hand the times he'd spent playing with her when she was younger but he'd done it all for them. He worked hard so that they could have what they needed, or so she had been told.

Myrcella nodded slowly, "I think you should, when you're ready" she said, "He should know and you should get the chance to get you know him"

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runsdeep
2013-10-20 07:28 am UTC (link)

She was right. It was unfair of Gendry to judge a man he'd never met. It wasn't Robert's fault that he'd not known about Gendry, but he still couldn't help but feel anger and resentment. Maybe he was just directing that anger toward the wrong people.

Idly, Gendry stirred at his coffee some more with a small red straw. It was getting cold, but he didn't care to drink it either way. It was just there. "Any other siblings or anything I should know about?" he asked.

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	child_of_lions 2013-10-20 07:41 am UTC (link)
	Myrcella popped a nacho into her mouth and chewed thoughtfully while Gendry seemed to mull over what she had said, taking a sip of her drink she nodded, "Joffrey's just over a year older than me and then Tommen's a couple of years younger. Tommen is a love, precocious little kid and he loves videogames. Joffrey is...well he's not very nice really" she shrugged. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	runsdeep 2013-10-20 08:01 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, I remember," Gendry grumbled, running a hand over his cheek at the thought of Joffrey Baratheon. "I mean, in my dreams..." he shook his head. People weren't the same as the dreams, it didn't make any sense what he was saying. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	child_of_lions 2013-10-20 09:44 am UTC (link)
	"He's not amazingly different here" Myrcella told Gendry, "He's actually the most similar to the dreams of anybody else I've come across" (Reply to this) (Parent)

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