Gendrya Sharing a Bed fic rec list

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For Trope Bingo and all other interested parties. LOL


First on the list is the Gendrya fandom classic. I'm sure everybody who likes the AryaxGendry pairing has read it, and it is literally the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the trope. From 2011 and still awesome. Book canon, not show, so they start out younger and do some growing up together. It is a classic for a reason- it's SO GOOD.

Five Times Arya Stark Shared a Bed With Gendry (11870 words) by vixleonard
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gendry/Arya Stark
Characters: Arya Stark, Gendry (ASoIaF), Jon Snow, Sansa Stark
Summary: She is Arya Stark of Winterfell, a girl with four brothers who has always felt more comfortable in the company of men, but Gendry...Well, he's just confusing

This corner of the fandom is actually still veeery active, to the point where the gendrya tag is often overwhelming. So here are some more recs for this pairing WRT this specific trope. I noticed a couple of weird things while I was compiling this list: some authors don't tag for bed sharing even when it is in the fic, while some tag it even when they never share a bed in the whole fic. :/ But here are some well written bed sharing fics that are A+ in terms of cuddly comfort and/or UST with mutual pining and angst. *happy sigh*


Here's a short but sweet "Missing scene" type fic for while "Arry" and Gendry are travelling with Yoren after escaping KL.

Out of the Dark (805 words) by Schwoozie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arya Stark/Gendry Waters
Characters: Arya Stark, Gendry Waters
Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, on the road, Canon Compliant, Canon Genderbending, Friendship, Caretaking, One Shot
Summary: Arya is too stubborn for her own good, but Gendry can tell there's something more beneath it. He gives what little comfort he can.

And at the other end of canon, here is a great fic with awkward bedsharing because it's post GoT canon. 

All roads lead to Qohor (12315 words) by obsessivewriter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arya Stark/Gendry Waters
Characters: Arya Stark, Gendry Waters, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, exes to friends and back to lovers, Search For Identity, Tattoos, Blacksmithing
Series: Part 3 of Qohor
Summary: Arya goes West to find what there is at the edge of the world, while Gendry gives two years to his lordship, and then finally heads East to learn Qohorik smithing secrets. Fate would have that if you go far enough West, and far enough East you are bound to meet.
When they meet, Gendry invites Arya to stay at his place, while she sorts herself out. In the end, she doesn't leave, and they find their way to becoming friends again, they finally talk about all the things left unsaid between them, and they explore the secrets of Qohor, The City of Sorcerers.

This has been recently updated. The last line in the second chapter will give you delightfully angsty pangs.

During the Storm (8286 words) by Scylla87
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Underage
Relationships: Arya Stark/Gendry Waters
Characters: Arya Stark, Gendry Waters
Additional Tags: Brotherhood without Banners AU, bed sharing, Angst, Aggravation, Masturbation, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Vaginal Fingering, Voyeurism, Increasingly Explicit Smut, Wet Dream
Summary: Separated from the rest of the Brotherhood and forced to take shelter from a wicked storm in the nearest inn, things get a little tense when Arya and Gendry are forced to share a very small bed. (Takes place a few years in the future in a world where they both stayed with the Brotherhood. Arya's age left ambiguous, so you can make her whatever age you feel comfortable with. I tagged this underage to err on the side of caution.)

Last but not least, this is a long road-trip fic with lots of UST bedsharing (and then RST bedsharing):

took the long road (95438 words) by lightninginabottle0613
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Arya Stark/Gendry Waters
Characters: Arya Stark, Gendry Waters, Catelyn Tully Stark, Sansa Stark, Jon Snow, Original Child Character(s), various minor characters not tagged for spoiler purposes, Ned Stark
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Road Trip, Hitchhiking, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, References to Depression, Sharing a Bed, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Modern Westeros, Mental Health Issues, Fluff and Angst, Eventual Smut
Series: Part 1 of you and me, sunday driving
Summary:

“You shouldn’t be in here by yourself. The only men that come in here are thieves and creeps,” he said.

If she was put off by his demeanor, Arya was even more taken aback by his tone.

“Which one are you then?”

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(With a graduate degree secured and a dream job waiting in Winterfell, Arya Stark has two months to kill and three-thousand miles ahead of her, before her career begins - until a grumpy hitchhiker causes her to change course, in more ways than one.)