A Union of Stags and Wolves

Civil war a song of fire and ice AU where Arya has run away to fight for the Union and Gendry is a light skinned escaped slave passing as a white man in the north until he is conscripted.

a/n unfortunately I don't own any of these wonderful characters, they all belong to GRR Martin or HBO. I apologize for any historical or grammatical mistakes, this is my first fic so I hope you all enjoy

Chapter 1 – Gendry 1849

Gendry's mother had always reminded him of the sun, with her bright yellow hair and golden toned skin, only her large brown hinted at her slave heritage. She had been purchased by Robert Baratheon when she was only fifteen and taken to the Kings Landing plantation in northern Georgia where she worked as a house slave. Gendry had been born less than a year later. It was an open secret that he was one of the master's many bastard sons among the slaves of the plantation. Gendry had been told he was the spitting image of his father at his age, his black hair and blue eyes were clearly from his father, as was light skin tone. Gendry was so fair he could easily pass as a white man. This illusion was aided by his clear blue eyes that were identical to his father.

Gendry loved his mother dearly she was a sweet women who would sing him to sleep and tell him stories of the north. She told him it was a land of freedom where there were no slaves. The first nine years of his life they lived together in relative peace. His familial relation to the master earned little special treatment, and Robert Baratheon wasn't a particularly cruel man thus conditions on the plantation were better than most.

Gendry worked as a house slave and his life went smoothly as long as he avoided the Mistress Cersei Baratheon and her eldest son Joffrey. Cersei was the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner Tywin Lannister and her marriage to Robert Baratheon had more economic than romantic motivation. She had an antipathy for her husband and was enraged by his dalliances with the slaves. Having little power to retaliate against her husband for his disrespect, she vented her anger on the slave women he took to bed and the illegitimate children he produced. She seemed to care little whether the women her husband slept with were willing participants or not.

When Gendry was nine her wrath turned on Gendry's mother after Cersei walked in on them at together in the master's study. Gendry was too young at the time to fully understand the implications of what was going on, but the entire household heard Cesrei's shrieks of rage followed by Robert's pounding footsteps as he ran from the house fleeing his wife's rage. His mother was taken outside and beaten for her supposed transgressions. Gendry did not understand why they were hurting his mother and tried desperately to intervene causing one of the older slaves Tobbo restrain him. The beating seemed to go on forever and the sound his mother made with every stroke was seared into his memory forever. The next day his mother was sold, he never saw her again.

Gendry had grown up hearing the horror stories of families torn apart, but losing his mother hurt more than he ever thought he could have imagined. After that he was sent to work in the fields. The work was harder, but Gendry was glad to be away from the dreadful people who had cost him his mother.