Without Words

Post series Vikings AU. Ivar and Hvitserk return to Kattegat after their defeat in England, and for a time life returns to a kind of normal, until Ivar's brittle bones begin to affect his hearing. Faced with the terrifying possibility that he will lose his ability to hear, and with it his ability to communicate and the words that have always been his power, he does what Ivar does best, and ignores the problem. Luckily for Ivar, he has a brother that cares. When Hvitserk introduces him to a woman who has been deaf since birth, Ivar's whole world changes for the better.