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@wulfmaed said : ❛ how about a kiss goodnight? ❜ 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
what was this? the witcher turned his head, creasing his brows and narrowing his eyes as he peered over at sansa as she lay between the comfort of a thick woolen blanket and a bed — the only bed in existence as they made their stop to rest at yet another seemingly abandoned home. not only did geralt surrender the luxury to her, but he insisted that she take the bed. after all — although there had been no present dangers in some miles now — someone had to keep watch, and geralt was glad to do it. he was built for it.
and although he had been well trained to always expect the unexpected, a kiss good night was certainly a suggestion that went far beyond anything else that could have been unexpected.
❝ surely you have some more mercy in you than to suggest such a thing. ❞ the tone he used and the way that his lips slowly curved into a slight smile left no doubt of the playfulness in his words.
in fact, he was already closing the small gap between them, hovering his large frame over hers as he sat on a vacant spot at the edge of the bed, moving to bring his face closer to hers. it wasn’t so much that he felt obligated to grant her request, but there was also a part of him that wanted this. but what kind of a noble lady would ever ask such a thing of a witcher?
but for reasons in which geralt still could not bring himself to understand, sansa was different; more courteous than he truly even deserved. he could still remember how she had thanked him; his heart still burning madly at the memory. she made him feel decent; made him feel human in ways that no one has ever done before.
and what’s more, if she with even slightly repulsed by the yellow slitted eyes of the mutant, the gruesome scars on his face, or the stink of his clothes, then she gave no sign of it. she didn’t flinch, nor cower away when he leaned down far enough to softly press his rough lips on her softer and delicate pair. he didn’t even take the time to consider the socially wrongness of what he was doing. everything else be damned, this was what he wanted.
❝ sleep well, ❞ his voice was delivered in a soft whisper as he retracted his face from hers. ❝ i’ll make sure that you can. ❞
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maybe that was a stupid question to ask, thought the witcher. or perhaps not a stupid one, but one that was poorly crafted and timed. one that was of innocent intent and, well … bearing results that were far from intentional.
geralt cursed under his breath.
if one thing could be taken from all that, it was that sansa had been correct in her presumption that witcher’s tended not to keep up at all with current events — let alone do it well. why would they need to? true, they ventured out east and south of the wall in search of work far more than any other northerner. but in the end, coin was coin, and so long as they were earning some, why should they care a shit about where or how that coin was coming from? it all smelled just as foul; of murder, blackmail, and deceit. southern politics reeked of lies and horseshit.
but it was obvious that he had touched a nerve — awoken and stirred some memories within her that she had been keen on keeping buried. not only could the witcher see it in the subtle changes in her body language, but he could also hear it in the soft sobs that would have easily fell unheard to mere human ears. he reached out involuntarily to rest a consoling hand on her shoulder, but he stopped himself when he was only within a hair of reaching her. what consolation would your touch, that of a witcher, possibly offer? and probably not for the last time today, geralt cursed himself and his momentary stupidity.
❝ i’m sorry. i didn’t mean to — i was only — ❞ he stammered, obvious in his struggle against his own words. fuck. how would he even begin to explain what he had been trying to do? i was only joking. it’s not my fault that my words decided to make the wrong turn and alter its course of delivery. ❝ and you trust that i’ll take you there, right? i promise i’ll get you to castle black, and then, if the gods are good, you’ll never have to see me again. ❞
he realized then the beauty in silence, the often unsung hero. the gaze of his yellow eyes quickly shifted from her to the hearth, where he stared idly at the flames, dancing without a care in their brightness and warmth. he was staring at nothing at the same time. the mutual silence that existed between them seemed to pass by awkwardly — for the few moments that it existed until geralt took it upon himself to break it. ❝ if it’s any consolation, i don’t think you did it. ❞ he shook his head. still without looking at her. ❝ i hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but you don’t seem the type. i know killers — being one myself — and you just don’t seem the type. poison or no. ❞
her fingers curl around his water skin, and then freeze there. momentarily held in time by the ease of his question, the lighthearted nature of his tone – the joke she all but hears in the narrative of the stench of the city. sansa wishes she could minimize her distaste down to something so minute, so inconsequential. instead, her jaw clicks – a heavy swallow of dry air in her throat as her lips press together, and she reminds herself to breathe. to move. to do anything other than stand so still. once upon a time, she might've managed to crack the semblance of a smile, to play the part expected of someone of her status – women like her were not meant to know the danger that lurked in the world, nor were they supposed to know the bruising touch of a calloused hand on a cheek. it is all she can do now to gently tug the skin of water to her mouth and swallow a mouthful down before she presses it back into geralt's hand, all without raising her gaze up from the fire.
stumbling upon geralt had been a boon in the aftermath of being abandoned on the road by petyr baelish; or rather, sansa supposed it was abandonment, considering he had disappeared and not returned . . . despite the fact he'd left half his coin purse with her. nonetheless, the details mattered little in the grand scheme of it, only that sansa had recognized geralt as a witcher in less than half a second after spotting him inside of an inn. only that sansa had seen what was likely to be her last hope visualized before her in the form of the north's protectors.
“ witchers do not keep up well with current events, do they? ” sansa remarks softly, shifting from one foot to another, leaning into his larger frame almost absentmindedly before swaying away just as quickly. there is a sniffle from her nose as she inhales, her mind working ever faster in an attempt to find the best way to explain it all to him. “ i was not supposed to be alone, i don't think. littlefinger created . . . crafted this plan to aid in my escape, they – put the poison in the gems of my hairpiece, i didn't know. not until after, not until he was already . . . ” the memory of joffrey's death is a vivid nightmare that springs to life before her eyes, something that forces her hand out from her side to clutch at geralt's forearm for balance as a sob trembles forth from her lips. “ i shouldn't, i don't – feel terribly for him, he died as he made me live. suffering. in pain. but it wasn't my fault. ”
scapegoat, sansa had merely been the one to take the fall for the action. she, alongside with the husband she'd been forced to take. and now tyrion was the one paying for it. she'd yet to decide if she felt bad for him any, a matter of conscience that would take much more consideration than she could currently muster. none of that changed the fact that cersei wanted her head as much as she did her brother's. none of that changed the fact that being a stark in times such as these was a dangerous position to find herself in. perhaps that had played a part in her unwillingness to divulge further with geralt previously, wholly, about her position. about everything.
“ the only thing that matters is that you've agreed to get me to castle black safely. ”
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@wulfmaed said : [ CARESS ] for sender to kiss one of receiver’s scars 😤😤😤
there was just something so incredibly smooth thing about baths. the witcher couldn’t quite put his finger on the cause, but that didn’t make them any less enjoyable. for a moment he couldn’t help but sit there, eyes closed lazily as he leaned back with both arms hanging on either side of the tub, — large enough to allow him to capture the full extent of relaxation — taking in the feeling of the warm water against his skin. it was enough to relax muscles and soothe aches that geralt hadn’t even really realized existed. the perfect antidote for walking for … the fact that geralt couldn’t even count how long was telling enough. while sansa sat prettily atop his mare, roach, he walked, pulling on the reins as he guided them to the inn where they stopped to take their rest as the sky grew darker.
could the tub that was provided for them upon arrival have been because they had declared themselves as man and wife to the nosy innkeeper or was that simply all they had? a minor detail with little to no convenience, geralt consoled himself with the thought. why worry about the cause when he was so enamored of the effect?
there was no telling for how long he remained in that state. the straight line between his lips slightly tilting up into the lightest of smirks at a new feeling just behind his shoulder. though it came at him from behind, there was no way that the witcher couldn’t recognize the softness of lips offering their distinct caress. his heightened sense of smell letting him know that it was sansa without even having to pry his eyes open. he could even have wondered then why she was doing so in the first place — why she was kissing him there when his body had been perhaps nothing more than a museum of grotesque scars? a reminder that he wore every day of the monster he truly was.
but those thoughts didn’t even find a place to stick; they were gone as quickly as they formed in his mind. now got about me couldn’t even focus on the tranquility of just being in the water — that when sansa was there; her lips effortlessly giving geralt a feeling in which the one provided by the warm bathwater paled in comparison. ❝ mmmm ❞ and if that wasn’t already clear, then the low moaning that came from the witcher was more than enough to get the message across. ❝ that makes it feel better already. you must be some kind of natural healer. ❞ he teased, as if there had been any kind of pain or injury for her to heal. the scars on his back were as pale with age as his own skin was.
his next movement came suddenly, almost unexpectedly as he turned his upper body around just enough to catch a glimpse of her behind him. the sight of her alone was comforting enough, yet geralt still found himself frowning. ❝ aren’t you gonna come in? i don’t want to selfishly what all of this water go to waste. ❞
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time seemed to unfold from one shocking event to the next, with each growing in its severity, all in rapid succession. so much that geralt could scarcely even believe who he was the moment, much less what was going on around him. sansa’s initial request for a kiss good night had been enough to cause him to tremble, but now this? the hint of shyness in her blue eyes, resting upon delicate features. sweet as honey. tinged with an innocence that made her even more alluring. pretty, but that seemed too gentle of a word.
the same could be said for her words, and the unspoken ones that screeched to him in their silence as she reached out to grip the ends of his cloak, asking him to stay without so much as parting her lips.
but why? the war waged by his own doubts began to rage in his mind. what she had been asking, and who she was asking it couldn’t be any more obvious — albeit unfathomable — with the two of them being the only occupants in the otherwise desolate home. but that did little to help geralt understand why she sought his presence — why he brought her comfort when the only thing he was used to bringing anywhere was death. the noble lady and the witcher. did she know how much life he had taken with the sword he carried on his back? she should been repulsed instead of inviting.
yet she wasn’t. and it was that fact that seemed to fan the flames created by the doubt in his mind and heart. as confused as geralt was by her request for him to stay, he made absolutely no sign of it as he unslung his sword in its scabbard from his back, leaning it against a nearby wall, and moving to settle himself down on the bed beside her like an obedient dog.
❝ as you wish. ❞ though that wasn’t why he was doing it.
selfishly it was because of the way she made him feel human. the same way he had been made to feel that he is not all his life. he was also doing it because he wanted to. because how could any man — mutant or no — not want to curtain his arm over the shoulders of a pretty woman, who shivered against the cold as he held her close against his chest, the way that geralt held sansa?
if such a thing could truly be considered selfish.
❝ I’ll stay for as long as you’d like me to, of course. ❞
perhaps a proper noble lady would not have asked for such a ��thing. perhaps sansa had, somewhere along the road, lost the manners and the teachings that had made her the highborn daughter she'd been since birth. and yet, there was something to be said for the fact that in every fairytale she had heard since childhood, there was always the fair maiden and her knight. always the damsel in distress, and the large, burly man who came along to rescue her – always the man in armor with his heavy blade and his tired eyes, who did not look nearly so exhausted when his gaze shifted onto hers.
and perhaps if sansa held the mercy with which geralt had spoken of, she would not have asked him for such a thing. and yet she could not stop herself for asking for it. could not stop the way her eyes had lingered upon his face, wide and hopeful, her own lips parted and prepared to pout at the mere insistence that he wouldn't agree.
fanciful, a little too whimsical, maybe, to entertain the ideal that somehow in the snow covered lands they'd found themselves in the midst of one of sansa's story books. nonetheless, geralt provides something to her she had not thought she would know again. a comfort and safety that encompasses her in a way that feels like home. a warmth even in the coldest of days, even in the serpentine yellow glow of his eyes. and when he kisses her, the feeling blooms – radiating within her chest as her lips meet his, and her nose wrinkles just a little as it grazes against his cheek.
“ thank you. ”
her porcelain features are flushed pink in the dark glow of the room, a hand moved to brush stray hairs from her face as she shifts against the furs of the bed once more and offers a sweet smile to him, before her hand grips to his cloak. “ don't – i know you don't feel things the same, but you're warm, better than any fire. ” an almost embarrassed look upon her face as she attempts to find the words to ask him to stay, to beg him to not take his leave to stand by the door all night.
“ just for a while? ”
#wulfmaed#would she like an extra heartbeat too?#bc he will gladly lend her his own heart atp#––– ❛ interactions 【 sansa stark ; wulfmaed. 】#––– ❛ verse 02 【 westeros. 】
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two words that were as foreign to him as if they were spoken in a different tongue. he heard her words, and understood their meaning well enough, but when was the last time that geralt heard them directed to him? when was the last time anyone has ever taken a moment to look into his serpentine yellow eyes, — and with all the sincerity that they could muster — thank him the way that sansa had? years? decades? ever? geralt shuddered to venture down that train of thought for fear that if he reflected on it long enough, that he would have no choice but face the fact that he was unable to properly show emotion. they made sure to wipe away that bit of his humanity when he was mutated as a young boy.
he knew that he couldn’t, but gods, why did he feel so strongly now? like he was fighting to hold in the single tear that threatened to run down his scarred cheek.
with an effort, he managed to maintain a stoic expression, motioning with his wrist on the air as if he was swatting away her gratitude the same way that he would a fly. ❝ it’s nothing. ❞ he said. nothing unlike anyone decent would do.
but regardless of how strongly those words made him feel, geralt was quick to acknowledge the fact that he wasn’t decent. how many times did he have to wash blood from his sword? — the very same blade he had laid out in sansa’s lap moments ago. how many times had he had to strip out of the crimson covered clothes after doing what he knew to do best; kill. monsters, men, innocent, guilty? what distinguished one from the other? which one was he?
to distract himself from being whelmed by such unwanted thoughts, he crouched down and stared absentmindedly into the flames. the cold didn’t necessarily bother him. he could vaguely remember the training he underwent as a boy for survival in these types of conditions. he would often be left on his own in the middle of a desolate forest in the north — the true north — with nothing but a sword. if it didn’t kill him then, it wasn’t going to do so now with all his clothes and cloaks. still, the warmth felt good on his skin.
so much that he made sure not to move too much aside from reaching out for the skin of water that lay buried underneath his thick woolen cloak, and held it out to offer a drink to sansa. ❝ if you don’t mind me asking, ❞ he said, now moving his eyes over to rest on her, ❝ but what’s a girl like you doing out alone in the wilderness? ❞ it was the first time he thought to ask her since they began their venture. he just agreed to take a random noble lady from point a to point b without even asking so much as why? he couldn’t understand it. ❝ was the smell of the capital really too foul for you to bear? ❞
as a younger girl, sansa would not have been so kind. would not have found it within her to jest or find any semblance of a bond with him. she'd been foolish then. but she'd learned, the hard way, how little it mattered to the world that handsome, pretty men were meant to be gallant knights who did the saving, and that witchers were supposed to be the monstrous creatures. how sansa had learned that in the end, the only real monsters that existed in the world were the men who claimed to be above the rest. knights of the kingsguard with their white robes who had sworn vows to the seven and still did not flinch when commanded to harm little girls. who did not flinch when joffrey asked them to rip her dresses or swing upon her with the backs of their hands. geralt, for all his supposed monstrosity, held more knightly valor within the tips of his fingers than any other man sansa had ever met. and for that she had been grateful.
even if the way she showed it was less than satisfactory. even if she could not yet bring herself to utter the words aloud, terrified of allowing any form of emotion that was not the stoicism or the lighthearted jesting she had settled into the further away from kings landing they had managed. but as he settles his heavy great sword into her lap, sansa cannot help but to furrow her brow at him, for fine, porcelain features to settle into an almost pout as she's pinned to the settee beneath the heft of his blade. how he managed to carry such a thing along his back for miles on end, day in and day out, would never cease to leave her curiously confused. how it had not begun to bother his shoulders or cause him to sag, sansa would not ever understand. “i'll be of little use to anyone with this paper weight upon me.” she replies with a huff, her breath creating the same puff of smoke in the cool air of the room.
and yet, sansa sits. pristine lady, legs to the side, her hands upon his sheathed blade, gloves spanned down the finery of the scabbard. waiting. listening. watching. she wasn't her sister, had never held the interest nor the skill for hunting nor swordsmanship, but she was quiet. soft and gentle as a field mouse, and still able to hear the clunking of geralt's boots across the floor for a few seconds. he would come back for her. there is never a doubt in her mind. no momentary fear or worry, in the short period of time that she has known him, he has earned the trust in which she places in him. has carved out a delicate hold in her heart that tells her she need not worry about much. it is almost reminiscent of home, the way geralt withholds a quiet, stonelike strength. he does not mean to be warm, and sansa doubts he intends to be inviting, but it is hard to not look upon him and not feel the draw of home. of winterfell.
she is nearly lost in this thought when his hand curls around her wrist, his sword pulled from her lap with his free hand as he gently tugs her to her feet. it does not take further instruction for her to simply move with him. “good.” a breath, warmer than the last as they shift into the next room, and sansa is all too glad to see a fire beginning to warm the abandoned room. it is only natural the way she drifts closer to the flames, body seeking out heat – and still pulling geralt along with her, as if she is convinced he must feel the same cold ache in his bones. a gentle exhale before the hearth before sansa turns halfway, tilts her chin up to flicker blue - grey eyes across his features. “thank you, ser witcher.” and though her lips curl as if she is teasing, there is a softness to her tone that insists otherwise, gloved fingers still held taught around his hand. “for all you have done, and . . . everything you still intend to do.”
#IS SHE TRYNA MAKE HIM CRY NOW W THAT THANK YOU SMH#bc chances are that he will#wulfmaed#––– ❛ verse 02 【 westeros. 】#––– ❛ interactions 【 sansa stark ; wulfmaed. 】
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his acts of chivalry were met with mockery. his bravery a landing spot for jests, and although not as outwardly obvious as the former, geralt could almost sense the revulsion in the redhaired lady’s heart. you shouldn’t expect more. and he didn’t; he was just merely disappointed. that same disappointment was no stranger to not just him, but to every witcher in this godsforsaken country. it reared its ugly head every time they came into contact with a man or woman, — highborn or low — each time that they carried out their duties of protection, only to be repaid with a muttering of curses. his disappointment wasn’t rooted in sansa herself, but in society as a whole. you can’t condemn one for the sins of all. it reminded geralt of how he longed for a day that he knew would not come. the day when his kind would be treated justly, and not as though they were the dregs of society. the day when he would be offered a sincere and heartfelt “thank you.”
but do you even deserve it?
the witcher sighed, casting a visible puff of frost in the cold air in front of him. he could do without her mockery, of course; but he could do just fine with it all the same. ❝ I do apologize, lady sansa. and i do beg your pardon and forgiveness, from the bottom chilled heart. ❞ he went further to fold himself at the waist, bowing down at her in a way that was obvious in its sarcasm. ❝ i daresay that you are right. you’ve been right all along. it’s not like my mutations have given me a heightened sense of vision, smell, and hearing. it is just as you said, i am tired and it’s making me paranoid, I blush to admit. ❞ he let his cloak fall the floor as he reached behind him to unfasten the sword hanging between his shoulder blades, and thrust the large and hefty blade — safely hidden in its sheath — into her hands. ❝ perhaps you should take watch for the night while i sleep, then. ❞
and before so much as another breath could be taken, geralt swiftly turned around and made for the next room, leaving sansa in a dumbfounded state with his sword clumsily held in her arms. he didn’t really expect her to keep watch. even if she wanted to, geralt would never allow it. but if she wanted to jest and play games, then he saw no harm in doing so right back. if she took him seriously, then all the better.
though he said he was leaving her to go to sleep, he didn’t leave her for too long. only long enough for him to properly scope out the next room of the unknown and otherwise desolate, abandoned home. not that he needed the rest in particular. he scarcely felt as though he had been traveling a few hours, let alone days. sleep? he can — and has — go without it for much longer yet. but her? that was another story altogether. and geralt was determined to find a suitable place for them to stop and rest.
❝ come, ❞ he called out to her just when she had, no doubt, begun to believe that he had all but abandoned her yet again. a pair of witcher yellow and slitted eyes the only thing visible from the shadows he emerged from, softly pulling at her wrist. ❝ there’s a hearth here. ❞
@wiedzm1n said : sound off if you're alive.
she considers extending her silence. considers choosing to stay perfectly still beneath the heavy fabric of his cloak and furs, haphazardly tossed over her frame at his insistence that he was so certain someone had been watching them. so certain that geralt had traipsed off for a few moments into the cold without the additional layers, and sansa had been left in the dim light of the abandoned home they had made into their rest spot for the evening.
when she pushes free of his things, her hair is mussed, tendrils of red hair falling from her braids, her brows furrowed in mock distaste as she nudges his cloak back into his hands. “and here i thought you lacked humor, ser witcher.” theirs was a bond not yet understood, one sansa was still feeling out – a respect ingrained within her for those who had taken their vows at kaer morhen the same way it had been in each of her siblings. the same way it had been ingrained in the starks for centuries.
a huff of breath blown from her lips that sends hairs from her face, billowing up and out as she leans back against the settee and crosses delicate arms over her chest. “did you find the ghost who has haunted your vision these past few miles? or is it as i said, that you are so tired and in need of rest that your mind has begun playing tricks upon you?” it is almost obvious which version sansa herself has chosen to believe, if only because she cannot allow the idea that they have been followed to take root within her. cannot allow the rot of worry to sink its teeth into her again.
“close your eyes for a moment, at least. i won't let the others get you, yet.”
#“play knight to sansa stark shes cool and nice” - a liar#wulfmaed#––– ❛ interactions 【 sansa stark ; wulfmaed. 】#––– ❛ verse 02 【 westeros. 】
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