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Merlin loves Arthur. Arthur loves Merlin. So why can't either of them say it?
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02 Aug 2025
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The taxi driver stares at Lan Wangji like he's insane and for a self-conscious moment Lan Wangji wonders if his pronunciation is so bad the man simply didn't understand him. He knows he reads and writes nearly flawlessly, but he's never been much of a talker and that has always hindered the verbal aspect of his language studies.
"You don't want to go there, man," the taxi driver tells him.
"I do," Lan Wangji replies.
"That place - that place is haunted."
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Wei Wuxian has moved far away, to a haunted house on a hill with loads of ghosts. Lan Wangji goes to visit him.
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28 May 2025
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“I won’t,” Arthur finally chokes out, his grip still too tight on Merlin’s waist. “I know you have no reason to believe me, I know you haven’t for months, but I’ll prove it to you. I don’t care how long it takes, I don’t care what my father or anyone else has to say about it. I won’t—I can’t give this up. I can’t, and you don’t have to believe me now, but at least give me a chance to prove it.”
Or, five times Merlin wants to kiss his roommate but doesn't, and one time his roommate kisses him.
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- Part 18 of Merlin Stories
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04 Apr 2023
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“I never believed that you would betray me,” Arthur says, because Merlin knows him, even if the same might not be true the other way around. Merlin could tell when he was lying, when he was lashing out to protect himself, long before a bond tore down all the defences Arthur so carefully erected around himself. “Do not pretend that you ever believed me capable of truly hating you. I could not, no matter how much I may want to.”
The way Merlin’s face twists reveals that there is another story there, and words echo within Arthur’s head, guttural and ancient—a half cannot truly hate that which makes it whole.
He wants to laugh at the truth of it, at the absurdity of it all. Here they are, a prince and a servant, Uther Pendragon’s son and one of the most powerful sorcerers to ever walk the earth—caught up in a fight over who possesses more devotion, who is going to ruin themself for the other’s sake first.
One hot summer day and an ill-advised kiss leave Arthur with an incomplete soul bond, panic about all his secrets coming to light, and the question of why Merlin is so afraid of Uther. Actually, scratch that—why is Merlin afraid of him?
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- Part 42 of Merlin Stories
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29 Mar 2023
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A fragile, reckless kind of hope replaces it in the hollow spaces between Arthur’s ribs. He lets it grow, lets it twist around his bones, and then he keeps it there.
Merlin is still going to leave in less than two days, and something might have changed between them, but Arthur—
Well, perhaps, Arthur has missed his chance. The hope that things could have been different, the bittersweet regret of it, is better than the risk of rejection, of jumping now only for twelve months and an entire ocean to destroy it, after all.
Five times Arthur thinks that he and Merlin could have something amazing but doesn't make a move, and one time Merlin finally does.
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- Part 45 of Merlin Stories
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26 Mar 2023