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1. like honey, like glass by authors_bane

   Fandoms: The Last Kingdom (TV)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   16 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Osferth (c. 885-934)/Original Character(s)
   • Osferth (c. 885-934)/Original Female Character(s)
   • Osferth/Danish Original Female Character
   • Uhtred of Bebbanburg
   • Finan (The Last Kingdom)
   • Sihtric (The Last Kingdom)
   • Eadith (The Last Kingdom)
   • Gisela (The Last Kingdom)
   • Athelstan of England (894-939)
   • Aethelflaed Lady of Mercia
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • but enemies in the sense that she is a pagan and he's a christian so they /should/ be enemies
   • Friends to Lovers
   • danish oc
   • Mentions of past child death
   • Pining
   • Mutual Pining
   • Jealousy
   • sort of combining book!osferth with show!osferth because they totally nerfed him in the show
   • also a lot of platonic friendship stuff because that's very important to me
   • don't ask me the timeline of anything
   • the book and tv show are muddling in my head and i can't really remember what happens when in the different versions
   • so expect some timeline wonk
   • Found Family
   • Slow Burn

   Summary

   Osferth isn't a monk. Not really. Not anymore. Not since he joined Uhtred's band of misfit warriors to fight for a cause he didn't believe in. But a lot of those ideas stuck around in his head, all of the Latin engrained in his mind. He could recite every scrap of the Bible and every lesson he had ever been taught.

   So he knows. He knows he shouldn't look at her the way he does. Not because he looks at her with lust, God no. It's worse than that. Because she's a pagan. A Dane. He's spent his life killing Danes and for some reason, she's always there killing Danes alongside him.

   Valdis doesn't talk a lot. But she wakes up in terror sometimes and only the whispered words of their shared language from Sihtric can calm her down. Uhtred says that she doesn't need to talk a lot because she kills like no other woman Osferth had ever seen. She kills like she's running from something.

   Osferth hopes one day that she'll be able to speak enough Saxon to tell her what she's running from.

   Language:

   English

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   19,188

   Chapters:

   7/?

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   Kudos:

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