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- Merlin (TV) (5)
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Whether it was because of his bright smile, or his expressive eyes – which tended to beam and dart and flutter about like lively blue butterflies, alighting but briefly on every surface – or the contrast his glowing skin made to his raven hair… Arthur did not know, nor care. Sometimes it was one, sometimes it was all of them. But when he got to that point of reasoning, he forced himself to look away, and tried to think of something else.
The truth was, it was all a bit too much. Merlin was a bit too much.
- Or, the one in which Arthur is attracted to Merlin, and handles it... prattishly.
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Castle maids had sharp eyes; tongues, sharper still: ever ready to cleave what they saw into a hundred savoury pieces, spread throughout the castle for every welcoming ear to enjoy. If they saw him—and they would, if he left the ‘safety’ of Arthur’s chambers—they would know. They would waste no time in spreading the word that the Prince’s silly manservant had been spotted bawlin’ his eyes out when he should’a been workin’—
And then, his secret would be out.
... Merlin doesn't cope.
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“You know I would never take a bride of whom you would not approve, don’t you, Merlin?” The question was uttered gently, so out of the dusky-nightfall-blue that Merlin started at it. His heart picked up speed, “Or one who wouldn’t approve of you.”
- Post-abandonment fic set during Mithian's stay in Camelot.
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There are depths to Merlin’s mind, depths that beg to be explored, and Arthur is never one to turn down a challenge.
- When Arthur finds Merlin’s sketchbook, he makes a jarring discovery.
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Merlin smiled as he passed Arthur on his way out through the door, but when he stepped into the hallway, with his back safely turned, he let it drop. The smile had been for Gaius’s benefit only. Now that Gaius was no longer lying there watching him, but talking to Arthur—and for that prat’s sake, his apology had better be worth Gaius’s time and pain—there was no need to keep up the pretence.
The pretence that all was well. That Merlin was happy now, because Gaius was back and everything could return to normal, as though it had never happened.
But it had happened. For the second time since Merlin came to Camelot, Gaius had been held and tortured.
And it was all down to Merlin.
Merlin goes through some conflicting emotions after Gaius has been rescued.
[Canon compliant one-shot; may eventually become the first part of a canon divergent series.]
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Draco Malfoy has three excellent reasons to get sloshed- a father who won't accept him, a Harry Potter he can't stop crushing on and that damned hippogriff that tried to eat him. And he is going to tell them what's what, because clearly that is a good idea. Fortunately, his new muggle friend seems to have a beef with Potter too.
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Merlin happens to forget something very important when packing for a social visit to a neighboring kingdom. What's a king without a crown?
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In which Arthur ages and Merlin doesn’t. They don’t talk about it for a long time, but they both know what it means. And when it’s Arthur’s time, Merlin cannot bring himself to move on. Arthur rises alone centuries later, with only tidbits of vague feelings and nothing to connect him to his previous life. Until he finds it.
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13 Jul 2021
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One of a kind, with some rare and wonderful twists!
Had this story been woven of cloth rather than words, I would hang it on my wall... -
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Merlin is hit with a curse that gives him an insight to Arthur that he never thought he'd have.
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Gwaine glanced at Merlin, and then across the fire. “In need of a conversation topic, eh?” he asked, a sly smile creeping across his face as he wiped the large knife on a cloth and looked expectantly at his fellow knights. “I have a lively start to conversation in mind. The subject is of an amusing but… crude nature. It goes like this: you have to say who it is you would bed, who you would wed, and who you’d want dead.”
Merlin nearly choked on his stew. Are they really going to do this?
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19 Aug 2023
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Forever rereading this gem. <3