[F4M] The Viking raider and his new pet
Edith lives a simple, peaceful life. A young woman of nineteen years, she resides in a small fishing village along the cold, wet Northumbrian coast. One of ten and the only girl, she spends her time tending to the home with her nagging mother, fighting with her brothers and dreaming of more.
She is slim, pale, freckled; her hair is black and long and thick and her eyes are icy blue. A wide-eyed elfin sort of beauty.
She is also a rough and tumble tomboy, loud and cocky; marriage and children are usually far from her mind. What little Edith wants is *excitement*. Something other than scratchy linens to wear, fish to eat, and ugly farmboys to fumble with.
Viking raiders sacking her village was not the sort of excitement she had had in mind. But, nevertheless, they take her anyway. She’d been by the chicken coop. It had taken two of them to restrain her. If she was to die she’d want to die at least with the knowledge she’d done as much damage as she could.
They decided to spare her - mercifully, or not. And, despite what she’d anticipated, they hadn’t raped her. Kicking and screaming over a raider’s shoulder, it was hard to pretend the comments the two men exchanged weren’t perverted in nature, however. She, along with the handful of other women in the village of child-bearing age were rounded up, penned like sheep in the hold of a grand boat the likes of which she’d never seen.
During the journey, she’d eventually noticed him watching her on occasion.
He wasn’t the one who’d taken her. But he looked at her as though she was his property already. The men often took liberties with the captive women, jeering as they cried or wailed, did their best to make them feel scared for what was to come when they made port. But Edith never cried. She had come close. But when she’d noticed *him*, watching her with dark eyes, she did not want to give him the satisfaction of seeing her like that. If that was what a man like him would want of her, which she assumed he did.
Weeks later, they arrive. Skinnier and a little dirtier than before, the captives are once again herded onto land. The air feels different here, and it most certainly does not look like home.
She sees him again - still staring. Except this time, he speaks. She does not understand his foreign tongue but she does understand the sentiment of the words. Then he corrects himself in her own language, broken but clear.
“Come.”
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An age old tale - a young village maiden stolen away by a horde of Vikings!
Would be happy to make this as wholesome or as dark as you like. There is something appealing about a slow-burn unlikely romance with dubious consent leading into full willingness, with the two of them finding common ground despite everything.
Kinks: age gaps, size/strength differences, traditional gender roles, breeding/pregnancy, sexism/misogyny, pet names, dubcon, Stockholm syndrome
Limits: hard noncon, beast, watersports/scat