An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Roy Harper/Koriand'r, Stephanie Brown/Tim Drake
Characters: Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Roy Harper, Kon-El | Conner Kent
Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Alternate Universe - Vikings, Non-Sexual Slavery, Captivity, Priest Jason, Viking Tim
Summary:
When Jason is captured, taken from his village, and carted off across the sea by a bunch of savage Northmen, he’s convinced that he’s about to be killed in some kind of ritual. But, as it happens, they’ve got other plans for him; more long-term ones (and ones that maybe, he can learn to live with).
Jason just manages to keep his feet as the man drags him further into the building, past the curtains that apparently serve as doors and a couple wooden thresholds that he all but trips over. Panic, as much as knowing that he wouldn’t be understood anyway, stops him from trying to say anything in protest. He just tries to breathe, to keep on his feet, and not let the rope around his neck choke him.
The sounds from the main hall, or whatever it is, slowly fade, and finally they enter a small room with what looks a lot like a wooden tub in the middle of it. The man holding his rope tugs him off to the side before he can really take any of it in, pulling him close enough that Jason would balk, if he had the slack to, before pulling him to the wall. There’s a high loop on the wall, near the ceiling, and the man loops his rope through it and ties him there before just… walking out. A surreptitious yank against the metal doesn’t produce any result.