Best Merlin Fics
My absolute favorite Merlin fics. Truly the crème of the crop fics that left me in awe of the writers!
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A hand grasped his arm, sending a brief thrill down Merlin's nerves as he was forced around to face the person behind him. Armour gleamed in the firelight: supple chainmail glinted, and the solid iron of a pauldron curved lovingly over one broad shoulder. The length of a sword blade separated them. The point hovered, steady and sure, over Merlin's heart, braced to run him through, but he did not care about any of that. He was too busy drinking in the sight of the man before him.
He could never forget him, no matter how many centuries had passed.
'Arthur?'
When Merlin ultimately fails in his destiny, the fading remnants of magic that linger in the modern world fling him not just back in time, but sideways as well. He ends up in a Camelot where all his friends are alive, well and aware of his magic.
He ends up in a Camelot where his alternate self died almost a year ago.
Can he, Arthur and their friends still forge the golden age he was once promised, or will grief and suspicion tear them apart?
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- Part 1 of Hiraeth Universe
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When Arthur is born, Ygraine dies and Uther vows vengeance against all magic.
When Arthur is four, Nimueh decides to take matters into her own hands and casts an enchantment on the prince as penance for his father. One which can only be removed by a magic user willing to undo the enchantment for the sake of helping Arthur, and no other reason.
When Arthur is seven, the truth of the spell's nature comes to light.
When Arthur is fifteen, the rumours of the worsening enchantment spread among the kingdoms until news it has been removed take their place and his father tells Arthur he must never let anyone know the truth of the matter.
When Arthur is twenty, he lives with the firm belief the enchantment will never be lifted.
When Arthur is twenty, a boy named Merlin arrives in Camelot and, by a streak of luck, becomes the enchanted prince's manservant...
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Twenty-two years ago, an ancient creature was called from its dreamless slumber by its master. It was given a goal: watch the child named Emrys. And, when it is time, call him home.
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“Where did you learn to do that?” Gwaine asked, following Merlin up the bank.
“This is how normal people fish,” Merlin replied dryly. “Not trying to stab them with swords.”“This is a knife,” Gwaine retorted, sounding every bit as sulky as he felt.
“Still, you didn’t catch a fish.”
------------------------------------------------------Gwaine saves a young Merlin from a beating and ends up with a new little brother to take care of on his travels.
Or, what would Merlin be like if he had Gwaine influencing him over his formative years?
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With Priestess Morgause and the powerful warlock Emrys at his side, King Cenred is set on conquering all of Albion. King Arthur is determined to keep Camelot safe from Essetir's power-hungry ruler. After sending Gwaine to infiltrate and investigate the enemy, Arthur manages to strike Cenred an unexpected blow by capturing Emrys, considered a war criminal of the worst kind. But Arthur and his knights soon get an inkling that Cenred's war sorcerer might not be as evil as they thought him to be. Will a quest to save all of Albion be enough for both king and sorcerer to step back on the path prophecies have once foretold?
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Magic is almost revealed, but don't worry our clotpole is to dense to put 2 and 2 together without getting 5, their secret is safe.
Read this riveting tale of unlikely friendship, gay panic, and a confused Pendragon
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In which Arthur discovers his godly parentage, attends the strangest summer camp there ever was, and deals with all of these annoying feelings he has for a demigod with terrifying and beautiful eyes. And he thought his summer would be dull.
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Ygraine has her own life to live now; this life and no one else’s. She holds her memories of her past life, especially memories of her son, at an arm's length. She will not be sacrificing herself this time around.
But of all the figures from the past that she's recognized, there is none quite like Merlin. A man who claims immortality. A man who claims to have known her son a millennium ago, and lived to tell the tale.
She doesn't want to know about her son; it will only make this harder. Yet there is no changing destiny.
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“Merlin?” Arthur squinted at the ridiculously attractive, shirtless, twenty-something in front of him and tried to connect him with his toothy, scrawny playmate who would always fight kids twice his size on the playground. “I – I mean Emmett. Emmett Ambrose. You’re Emmett Ambrose?”
“Fuck,” Emmett – no, it wasn’t Emmett, it was Merlin – gaped at Arthur incredulously. "Holy shit."
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“Do that again,” Arthur sounded as if he were a million miles away, a half-smile light on his lips, his eyelids fluttering. “Whatever that was, do that again.”
Merlin stared, just for a second; Arthur cracked an eye open and the hue was golden, golden light, the same light that entrenched both of their bodies.
“Arthur,” Merlin whispered, strangled, forcing himself away from the part of them that said to keep going. “Open your eyes."