#bend it

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Bend it (Or Break) (Chp 3/3, 5379 words, T)

Just thinking of her makes him smile- she's beautiful, talented, smart. And she likes him back the same way, which makes him the luckiest bastard in Ba Sing Se. He keeps recalling how good it felt to kiss her, to hold her close and feel her hands on him. Picturing her quick, wicked smile and that irrepressible spirit she seems to approach everything with.

He can't wait to see her again. And he doesn't want to just be her penpal when the Northern Water Tribe goes home.

Incredible fanart by @captainironnerd ! (Thank you so, so much!)

Read from the beginning here

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Ayisha Cottontail

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When you realize you forgot to include your own Gendrya rivals to lovers fic in your rivals to lovers meta months later. 😅

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Water. Earth. Fire. Air.

Bend it (6449 words, T, Chp 1/2)

Arya’s a Waterbender, Gendry’s an Earthbender, and they’re about to meet at the Great Bender Tournament in Ba Sing Se.

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GIF by @scoundrels-in-love! @lyrawhite I’m at 2000 words now, hopefully I get this published by the weekend?

Her eyes widen.

The gossips had delighted in pointing out how much Gendry had looked like the Earth King, so she'd been mentally drawing the image of some fat, lazy hulk with a ruddy complexion and an overloud laugh.

He's got black hair and blue eyes like the king, and he's tall. But that's where the resemblance ends.

He doesn't have an extra ounce of fat on him, which highlights just how muscular he is- especially as he hammers the red-hot blade on the anvil. He's handsome in a rough and unpolished way, covered in sweat and coal dust. Her mouth falls open involuntarily when he crouches powerfully and reaches out, bending, sending a new cluster of coal into the open mouth of the forge, before expertly turning the red hot coals inside with a twist of his hand, sending sparks flying across the floor.

Arya doesn't know what she finds more disturbing- that King Robert must have looked like this hardworking, manly specimen once upon a time, or that she's just realized how attractive she finds smithwork.

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From (Or Break) 

Part of him had thought he could afford having a girl after the tournament. Just in the abstract- he could wank himself just fine and there was nobody he actually fancied. But having the option to; being able to rent a place with privacy, somewhere he could actually bring a girl, had been something he'd thought he'd like. And now she keeps invading his thoughts: that crook of challenge in her brow, the fluid way she’d moved while Waterbending, that horrified outburst when her sister got hit in the ring --and how he’d instinctively reached to hold her back.

But if a Northern Water Tribe girl could reject a rich noble like the King, surely he doesn't stand a chance with Arya Stark at all.

Gods, does it feel good when she smiles at him though.

GIF by @scoundrels-in-love