This is based off of the song by Sir Sly names "&Run".
Also there is no specified gender.
Enjoy my loves!
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War never really changes, you knew that as much as everyone on that battle field. Only problem was you didn't wanna be there.
You wanted to run, run as far as possible and go back to when you all were little again. When Bjorn would watch after you all and Sigurd was still alive.
Here you were though, staring as good men and woman killed one another over a feud between brothers.
You stood with Ivar only because he had no one left. He considered you his friend and best warrior, but you also knew it was because his others brothers cared a lot for you.
You knew it would come a time when he would use you as a way to defend himself if his brothers tried to kill him. He would simply throw you in front of him because they wouldn't lay a hand on you.
A scream of a man running at you pulled you out of your thoughts as you dodged his hit and sliced his stomach open, watching him fall.
By the gods the urges were becoming more powerful, a lone horse stood all by itself on the edge of a woods practically calling out your name.
Shaking your head you continued to fight, blood covered you but it wasn't your own. Even though you had yet to of been hurt, your body ached all over.
This fight was pointless, it would bring you all nowhere and almost everyone on the field knew it but they still fought anyway.
You looked back at Ivar and he had a grin on his face as he watched the fight, you looked opposites the field and saw no one. All their leaders fought with them, not watching from afar.
As you stood there, time practically froze as you made eye contact with Bjorn, the man who raise you when your parents left you.
Blood covered him as well and you were sure it wasn't his own. He cut a woman down and made his way to you and you simply slumped to the ground.
He caught you and looked at you concerned.
"I cannot do this Bjorn. You all are my family, to watch any of you die would be torment ." You cry out and Bjorn hugs you.
As he does so, he also helps you stand and you watch as a wall of warriors blocks you, they were his own.
Typical of Bjorn to sacrifice his life for another.
"Little one, you have nothing to fear, you know none of us would hurt you." Bjorn speaks kindly as screams of pain fill the air.
"Then let me run... let me leave this battle and live my own life." You beg and he shakes his head.
"You know I cannot or Ivar will go crazy. I need him a little sane for any of this to work." He speaks and your expression drops as you feel a tear run down your cheek and you push him away.
"Then I will die knowing the man who raised me, cares little for me and only for this war." You his and walk away as the warriors depart and go back to killing others.
Bjorn stands there and watches as you take down more and more people with anger.
As more time passes, you see 2 of the other brothers and you all nod at each other, not wanting to fight. The battle was winding down though at this point and few warriors were still alive and fighting.
Ivar blew a horn and you watched as women on horses flooded in from the surrounding forest, all bearing his colors.
You watched as Lagertha, Bjorn, Hvitserk and Ubbe were surrounded, bows drawn at them and you made your way over to them.
Ivar had the same idea and you watched as his chariot pulled up next to you and he smiled as he looked at them.
"Do you give up?" Ivar asks and they all stare at him and then you.
They don't answer and Ivars mood seems to heighten as he watches.
"Fine then, you know what to do." He smiles playfully and holds his hand out to you and you take it, getting on his chariot and watching as the women draw their bows back and release the arrows.
Instantly Ubbe falls and Hvitserk holds onto Bjorn before dropping and you yell.
You jump off the chariot as the women draw their bows again and run to the brothers, Ivar staring at you in shock.
They had only aimed at Ubbe and Hvitsek. Why? Why had they only shot them.
"Let's go." Ivar growls and the women leave with Ivar.
You sat there with Hvitserks head in your lap and Ubbes hand in yours. Bjorn dropped down next to you and Lagertha held your shoulder.
"Let me run Bjorn." You whisper as tears fall from your face and onto the now dead brothers.
"Run little one...run as far as you can for Ubbe and Hvitserk. We will pray for you every night with the hope you will return to us." Bjorn whispers back and hugs you before placing a kiss on the top of your head.
Lagertha drops down to you too and looks you in the eye.
"You left Ivar and you will leave us too if it is what the Gods will." She smiles at you as your hands shake and you hug her.
Taking one final glance at the dead brothers, you close their eyes with your hands and find that horse who had been calling to you and run off into the woods.
You ran, ran as far as possible from the family you loved and lost.
