a/n: Set in the Modern World of NWHS, alternate.

Index:
NWHS = North Winter High School
NW(H) = North Winter (High)
SSHS = South Summer High School
SS(H) = South Summer (High)

Ages are as listed:

Robb - 17
Jon - 17
Sansa - 15
Arya - 14
Bran - 10
Rickon - 8
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Gendry - 17
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Joffrey - 15
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North Winter High School
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South Summer High School

Epilogue: —
Mission November: The Come Down

Thursday night when the two Starks and their brother Snow came home, they did it quiet and in the dark (bar their flashlights on their dim setting); they hugged, said goodnight and went straight to bed, the scolding forgotten. Tomorrow afternoon mother and father would be home, they had to get up for school in the morning. Arya didn't think that she could sleep after what her two brothers and Gendry had just done, still high on the success of it—but when she changed out of her mission clothes and into her pyjamas and laid in bed, sleep claimed her almost immediately—and she dreamed of wolves concurring the lions.

When she woke up, it was like any other morning. She showered and changed into her NWH uniform, but before she went downstairs for breakfast, she hid the varnish jar and brushes in her bottom desk drawer and texted Gendry. Saying: good morning - did u make it home alrite? It was nearly ten minutes before he texted her back and she was already downstairs getting a bowl of cereal. Jon, Bran and Rickon were already in the dinning room eating breakfast, Sansa was still in her bathroom, and Robb probably doing the same.

Mornin. Yea, got bck jst fine. Didn't even kno I wasn't there. U?

Yea. Parents bck 2day. U take / pics?

Y. Took them aftr me & Jon finished. I'm going 2 schl anyways, they won't even notice that I'm not supposed 2 b there. I cn post them under dick's login at schl, shw evry1 how / lions really take it up the ass! I'm gonna have a front row seat & it will b glorious. :() tu.

lol. sux we can't b there, ur gonna have 2 cum by l8er.

I'll b vry descriptive don't worry! lol

ttyl

dito

Arya put her phone away and started back on her cereal before it went to complete mush as Robb and Sansa finally came down, both in their uniforms.

"Gendry's going to come by later," she told her older brothers.

"Mum and dad are coming back today." Robb said as he sat at the table with some toaster waffles.

Arya just shrugged. "It's not the first time you've guys have had friends over."

"Our friend?" Robb repeated.

"Yes, your friend. How do you supposed mother and father might react if I say he's my friend?" she raised a brow.

"She wouldn't exactly be happy about it," Jon agreed.

"So then we're all in agreement then," she left the table.

Xx

Mission Oscar: Silent Triumph

It was during first period break that Gendry texted her, but it wasn't until lunch time that she was able to look at them and answer back.

She and Jon and Robb claimed a picnic table outside during lunch to themselves, crowded together as they looked at the small screen on her phone, their heads together.

Check it! U r going 2 rotfl! ;)

Was all the text said, but there was a video link and she selected it. Since it was a cell phone video, the sound was sketchy and the video slight blurry, but everything was clear enough for them.

Arya could see part of the mural that they had painted on the first floor, the one that they had replaced with the Stag mounted behind the big cat buggering the Lion as it roared with in not triumph but gratification—the wolf nowhere in sight. There was a crowd of boys in the disgusting uniforms all talking loudly, pointing and laughing because in front of the mural was Joffrey, screaming furiously, clawing at the wall as if he could scrap it away and the other boys who were laughing. He was red in the face and it was the most awesome sight because Gendry and Jon had altered the lion's face slightly so that it almost looked like Joffrey.

"You better send this to me!" Robb laughed, grinning at his brother and sister who had the same looks of glee on their faces as Joffrey continued to go crazy, the students just stepping back and watching and then Robert charged in and it went from just simply awesome to tremendously-awesome. It was better than any of them could have hoped for.

Arya would have thought that as soon as Tywin came to SSH this morning, he would have saw the mural on his way to his grand office and shut the school down until Monday immediately, but the Gods were shinning their favour on the little foursome because Tywin had a board meeting with the small shareholders of SSH and was away at the Highgarden Country Club. So this video was unexpected, the best surprise that she had ever had.

When the video ended, she texted it to her brothers, and as they watched it again and forwarded the video to all their contacts, she texted Gendry back.

Thank u 4 this gift

Xx

When they got home from school, their parents were back, and everyone stayed in for a nice meal cooked by Catelyn. It was a feast, almost rivalling that of Christmas dinner with a whole roasted chicken. It was a nice change after eating Arya's and Jon's cooking for three days, with the exception of Gendry cooking that one night, which was like a Gods send.

It was around seven o'clock when the doorbell rang, and Arya rushed to answer it, knowing it was going to be Gendry. He met the Lord and Lady of Winderfell Manor, though they met him with some reserve, but allowed the four of them down in the den until half past nine where the Waters boy happily told them the tale of Joffrey's complete freak-out.

Arya sat on the couch between her brothers and watched Gendry do a whole re-enactment, and it made the three of them do what Gendry's text earlier had said—roll around on the floor laughing. And as she gasped for breath, laughter tears leaking from the corners of her eyes, tangled in a pile on the floor with her brothers, she wondered if they were ever going to Gendry Waters again.

And then the teen belly flopped on them, and the thought went from her mind as it became a brawl. In the end, they made such a ruckus that Catelyn herself came down to scold the four of them—but as soon as she left back up the stairs they burst out laughing.

Xx

Mission Alert: Code Green—A New Direwolf

On Monday, it was talk of the school, the new murals at SSH. Of course, Tywin was an efficient man, and he had the hard work that the four of them had done erased and a even grander depiction of the triumphant lion on the school walls. Gendry had gotten a picture of it and sent it to their phones. Arya wasn't sure if this one was less insulting or more so than the last. The new mural on the ground floor had the alpha lion with its huge mane at the center, surrounded by its pride, claiming a gravesite scattered with wolf bones. But there wasn't much Tywin Lanniser could do about a video gone viral on the internet, even one as powerful as him.

The Lannisters were despicable people, they got away with doing whatever they wanted—they had money so they had power and they used it to do disgusting things like this. What they had done had changed nothing. It would be one more semester before Robb and Jon graduated, replacing those murals was one of the last thing that those two could do before they left, and it didn't even seem to make a dent.

One thing good did come out of all of this though—Gendry. It was Monday and everything was almost the same—almost. Because when Arya came to school that morning, sitting on the bike rack near the entrance was none other than the dark-haired, blue-eyed Gendry Waters in not his altered SS uniform, but a sharp grey blazer with a direwolf's head on the breast.

"Gendry? What are you doing here? And in NW's uniform?" Arya asked in confusion.

He stood up from the bike rake and grinned down at her. "You like it?" he asked, holding the blazer open and giving her a spin.

"Well, yeah. Anything is better than SS uniforms." Arya agreed. "But why are you wearing it, you don't go here. Where'd you even get that?"

"You're being a real dunce right now, Arya."

She glared at him. "Do you want to fight?" she wondered.

"No, sorry—not today." He held up his hands in surrender, but smiled at her. "But come on, you can't even speculate?"

"You borrowed one of my brothers' unforms and are playing a confusing prank on me." She guessed in a blank tone, he ade a disapproving face at her. "I figured not, so just tell me what hell you're doing so we can get on with our lives!" She exclaimed.

"I transferred." He said simply.

"What? What do you mean you transferred?"

"I don't go to SSH anymore. I transferred over here to NW—as you may see by the uniform I'm wearing." He told her. "Well, aren't you going to say anything?" He asked when she looked at him with a slack jaw.

"Your transferred?" she asked finally to clarify, he nodded. "And Robert let you?"

"Robert had nothing to do with it." His blazing blue eyes went cold for a second, and then he was smiling again. "You pulled me over to the North, Arya. You drew me to the cold and the snow, to freedom!" He spread his arms wide and threw his face back to the sky.

Arya didn't think she'd ever see him more happy than when he was insulting the Lannister name and that of his father's. "Well, then, welcome home." She murmured. "Welcome home."

Of course, not now, but later, it was them who paved the way for others not to turn the other cheek towards the Lannisters and SSH, but returned the favour with a closed fist.

The people that stuck together were the family that stayed together.

-the end-

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Note:

The mural on the first floor had the same background as the first, but the dead wolf at the lions feet was painted over and a stag was painted mounting the lion from behind doing you-know-what, with the lion having similar features to Joffrey. The mural on the second floor had the same background as well, but the trout in the lion's maw was painted over and the water hole was widened; in the end it was the depiction of the lion drowning in the water, helpless and weak. Hope you enjoyed this little fic with its happy ending and I hope that you review as well!

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