wanna be your end game (my youth is yours)
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Merlin grows up in Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, so does Arthur.
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hold on to the memories (please don't ever become a stranger) by ladililn
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
17 Oct 2018
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This is not a singular moment, despite the heaviness in the air between them, the heat, the extra layer of expectation. There have been moments like this before.
Merlin grows up in Buckingham Palace. Unfortunately, so does Arthur. One night, a moment comes along. This time, they take it.
(can conceivably be read standalone)
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an indentation in the shape of you (our secret moments) by ladililn
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
30 Oct 2018
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Merlin has frozen in place, like a prey animal trying the you can’t see me if I don’t move trick. To be fair, it’s not like he has anywhere to hide; with the covers kicked off almost all the way, there’s no way for him to cover up that wouldn’t expose even more in the process. Arthur clears his throat.
In retrospect, he’ll wish he said something cool and suave, James Bond-y, like Need a hand? In the moment, he manages to force out “Can I—please—” Merlin keeps staring, and Arthur swallows hard, takes another step forward. “Can I touch you? Please?”
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looking through your timeline (say you fancy me, not fancy stuff) by ladililn
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
12 Nov 2018
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“Merlin.” Arthur’s voice is—well, still tinged with amusement, but ever so slightly more serious, more urgent, like he’s having to constrain himself to stay in the realm of lighthearted teasing. “Really, tell me.”
Merlin’s heart is beating a little quicker. He can feel the same war within himself that he hears in Arthur’s voice, a possibility swimming to the surface that he could—they could—take this out of the realm of lighthearted teasing. If they so choose.
Or they could just keep going, laugh it off; that’s still an option, and if they do it now it would be fine. They’d move on, take the next bend in conversational road, easy. If that’s what they want.
It’s not what Merlin wants.
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