Hey!
Hope you're ok???
An idea for an Aethelstan x Osbert angst prompt(s):
11 “are you ashamed of me?”
39 “is your image really more important than us?”
No pressure if you don't want to!
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Are you asking if I'm okay cause all I do is write angst or because I oooze of neverending existential dread?
Because answer is no, I'm never okay LMAO.
Thank you for this tho, i love writing these morons 😭💜
"Why do you do this?"
"Do what?"
"Make everything about you!"
Osbert stops stomping away and turns around to confront Aethelstan. He's tired and covered in dried blood split from fighting the three assassins who tried to take his life, but rather than go straight to the ale house to celebrate he follows Osbert to the buhr after the youngest Uhtredsson had announced he would not celebrate Aethelstan's victory with the others. He does not like constantly feeling like he's fighting with Osbert over nothing.
He cannot tell if they're growing up or growing apart anymore.
It's driving him mad.
"Nothing is ever about me," Osbert scoffs as he walks back towards Aethelstan, "You've made that very clear-"
"I thought you would be proud of me, I defended myself-"
"You got lucky-"
"What does that matter?! I am alive and I proved myself today," Aethelstan tries to explain as he closes the distance between the two of them, Osbert all but a simple touch away now, "Why can't you just be proud?" Osbert doesn't reply, his eyes glancing down, "Are you ashamed of us?"
"What? No-"
"Do you not..." Aethelstan licks his lips as he speaks lowly, "Do you not love me anymore?"
Osbert stares Aethelstan in the eye for a few moments and then scoffs, "You would ask me that? Truly?"
"You treat me as if I've wronged you, but I haven't," Aethelstan shakes his head, taking one step away, "Whatever grief you may have with your father, I am not a part of it-"
"Must you always bring him up?!"
Osbert groans and starts to walk away again, Aethelstan chasing him to his room as he goes, "I would not feel the need to, if you did not always use him as your excuse to cast your anger towards me!" Aethelstan huffs; angry, and though he cannot see Osbert's face he knows the other man is angry too, "Is your father's image of you really more important than us?"
Osbert stops moving, hovering in a corner as he shakes his head. Aethelstan takes a deep breath, waiting for a reaction, but when none comes he scoffs.
"I do not love you because you are the Son of Uhtred, you know," Aethelstan sighs with a shake of his, turning to leave as he heads for the door. He pulls it open, and turns around one last time to say, "I love you because you are Osbert."
Not giving Osbert a chance to reply, Aethelstan slams the door behind him and goes to the alehouse to celebrate his victory without him.
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