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Fourteen-year-old Arthur is not yet king.
Fifteen-year-old Morgana is not yet Avalon’s emissary.
And Gwen has not yet learned what it costs to love someone marked by prophecy.
When a midnight visit to the frozen gardens turns into something far stranger, Morgana speaks with a voice that is not her own, foretelling a crown, a sword, a betrayal by blood, and a king borne back across hidden waters. By morning, she is ill. Soon after, she is taken from Camelot to be trained in the old magic.
Years later, Morgana returns changed, with Merlin at her side and Avalon’s will at her back. Her task is simple: ensure Arthur takes up the crown meant for him.
Her heart has other plans.
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Arthur has always taken Merlin on every mission — unarmoured, untrained, endlessly reckless.
It never used to matter.
But lately, every danger feels sharper. Every close call lasts too long.
And Merlin is starting to notice the way Arthur hovers… and how the prince’s worry is beginning to look a lot like something else.
A slow-burn story about devotion disguised as duty, love revealed through quiet choices, and the people who become home when the world turns dangerous.
Love wins — even when it has to fight for it.
Written with a companion playlist (linked in the notes) :)
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Arthur is saying things. Strange things. Gwaine thinks it’s the best council meeting he’s ever attended. Merlin is increasingly concerned. Everyone else is doing their best to survive it.
I apologise for this in advance. This is the result of being awake for 28 hours straight and having a very questionable idea at some point in the middle of the night. “what if Arthur Pendragon came back from the future and immediately started talking like this.” It is not meant to be taken seriously in any way.
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King Uther is dead. Long live the king.
When an old enemy crawls from the grave and cuts Uther down, an inexperienced and grieving Prince Arthur is forced to take the throne. As king, Arthur will be tested by regular magical attacks, his father's conservative council, and his own self-doubt. Yet he faces an even greater foe: Uther's shadow stretches long and dark across the land of Camelot, and if Arthur wants to forge a golden future for his people, he must first unravel the sins of the past.
Merlin is used to living in shadow, but serving the new king thrusts him out into the light. Torn between a need for secrecy and his budding friendship with Arthur, Merlin does his best to protect Camelot the only way he knows.
But no one can hide forever in a place they call home. Arthur lacks his father's zealotry, but he's no friend to magic either. Can Merlin hold on long enough to soften Arthur's heart? Or will he be forced to spend the rest of his life fleeing the way he fled Ealdor, too strange and wild to ever feel safe?
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BBC Merlin if Kilgarrah never whispered destiny in Merlin's ear.
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Loneliness is an insidious thing. When Merlin looks at Arthur, he sees not just a prince waiting for his time to rule, but a young man struggling to find his place in the world, with little help from anyone else.
The truth is, Arthur needs more than the friendship Merlin can offer. He needs people he can trust: men and women who will become his court and his confidants, and if he is going to survive to take the throne and lead Camelot into its golden age, he needs them sooner rather than later.
Finding loopholes in Uther’s laws is no easy feat. Court life is a dangerous game, but it’s one Merlin has every intention of winning so that Arthur can have knights of his choosing by his side.
And then there is the matter of his magic…
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After Arthur lifted the ban on magic, Merlin decided that the kingdom to actually embrace magic, needed to not just allow it, but to shelter it, so he has invited some magic users to the castle, to become his apprentices.
Indeed, a bunch of teenage magic users in the castle, what could go wrong?
Sammy, whose most praised possession is a jester hat and lives in the middle of the woods in a tree house, just received a letter from Consort Merlin Emrys to go to live at Camelot as his magic apprentice.
it could be a trap, but also his chance to be free, and he decides to take it.
Accompany him and his new friends on an adventure that will take them to places they never thought, making more friends and allies, finding love, learning about their magic, reconciling with their pasts, and fighting enemies, not just Morgana, but also a new group of rogue magic users who want to make their own purge to kill all those with no magic.Series
- Part 2 of Do you believe in magic?
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It had been a year or so now, since the magic ban had been reversed, months since Merlin became Court Sorcerer. And a few more weeks since Merlin's injury.
Arthur had finally given Merlin the Court-Sorcerer chambers he was promised, that just happened to be down the hall from the kings own .
Arthur would insist this was not on purpose, but everyone had seen them around the castle, holding and kissing each others hands, teasing each other as usual but with the addition of grinning at each other.
There had been a shift in their relationship, and it meant they were more protective of each other than usual. If it wasn't terrifying, it would probably be sweet.
But of course this is Camelot, not everything can stay perfect for too long. Destiny would never allow it.
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A continuation from the previous fic in this series. (read if you want context for Merlin's injury or their realtionship, but not needed)Merlin and Arthur begin courting, Merlin knows nothing about noble courting rules, Arthur will do anything to protect Merlin.
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- Part 2 of Merlin has Chronic Pain
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What if Merlin almost dies and Daegal lives?
Arthur and the knights are faced with their own ignorance of Merlin’s past trials and current burdens.
Merlin decides to take a page out of Kilgharrah’s book and resolves to do whatever it takes to protect his King.
Mordred and Arthur are given two choices but the prophecy can never be fulfilled, the future will change, no matter what. Merlin will make sure of it. -
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Arthur always told Merlin he was a girl; he just didn't expect to wake up one morning and find out it was actually true. Now Merlin is stuck being a "Lady" while Arthur tries to woo his own manservant. It’s ridiculous, it’s magical, and it’s about to get very complicated.
“I am not a Lady!” Merlin yelled. Arthur only smiled. “Exquisite. Even her anger is... noble.”
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Arthur was born of magic.
Merlin was born magic. Merlin was born because of Arthur. Merlin was born FOR Arthur. Everything he'd ever done and will do, was and will be for Arthur.
Always.
What happens when Arthur starts to appreciate Merlin and his efforts? What happens, when their emotions run wild and they won't be able to hold them back anymore? What happens when Merlin and Arthur finally give in to their desires and accept their true destiny: to be two sides of the same coin?
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In the "Wicked Day", Merlin tries to save Uther's life. As Emrys, he tries to cast the healing spell. Unfortunately, Morgana's necklace contains an *extra* twist. As both healing spell and aging spell go wrong, Merlin is forced to flee. Kilgarrah takes him to safety. Mithian and Rodor grant him sanctuary. There Merlin realizes still more about his secondary royal destiny.
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Rich nepo boy Arthur Pendragon joins his university's queer club. And pretends to be queer, because he needs to write a paper about queer representation. But.... He has not expected this. This being the leader of the club, namely Merlins Emrys, who does not believe a word he says. Will he be able to appear queer enough to his new peers? Or will all of this end up in a giant disaster?
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Merlin has waited beside the lake for over 1,500 years, and when he finally gets a visitor, it's not Arthur Pendragon--but an eccentric English man who arrives in a blue telephone box, calls himself the Doctor, and claims that not only is time travel real, but it's absolutely imperative that Merlin go back in time with him--back to the age of Camelot where Prince Arthur is very much alive.
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Merlin has hanahaki. It's fine, really.
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“Please, tell me that this is a nightmare. Tell me this isn’t true.”
But Merlin couldn’t do that. And even if he did, it was too late. Nobody would believe his lies anymore.
“Merlin. Answer me.”
But he stayed silent.
“Merlin. Merlin, tell me you’re not a bloody sorcerer.”Or, after Agravaine tricked Arthur to lead his troops into Morgana’s trap, Merlin is forced to reveal his magic in order to protect the ones he loves. But what if it means his biggest fear was about to come true ?
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As darkness falls on Arthur Pendragon, as he comes to the end of his life on the shores of the lake at Avalon, he is unexpectedly sent back to the day that he didn't know would change his life.
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Mordred was oblivious to the work of destiny. All he knew was that his father didn't seem to like him much and his brother was constantly criticizing all of the things about him that did not live up to the ideals of a prince. Not that Mordred was a prince. His only hope of a title was becoming a knight and his only hope of honour was winning on the battlefield. He craved a different life, but he never felt he had much choice in anything. Sometimes he felt like he had boarded a train with one brutal stop. But when Merlin arrived in Camelot, Mordred began to see things much differently than he ever had before.
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Arthur remembers everything on his twenty first birthday.
Merlin isn't there.
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“Okay, so let me get this straight,” Arthur said, resisting the urge to bury his face in his hands and scream until the world made sense again. “We’ve all been reborn over a thousand years after our deaths, met one another, seemingly by chance, then all regained our memories on the same day, while wandering around a museum exhibit on our previous lives. Did I miss anything?”
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- Part 4 of Man, Myth, Legend.
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Arthur had heard many things about witchers growing up. They stole children, slaughtered those who did not agree with them, or simply killed for fun. It didn't help that the famed White Wolf had once been known as The Butcher of Blaviken. Would he now have an invading army in the middle of his citadel?
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King Arthur invites the White Wolf, Warlord of Greater Kaedwen, to his wedding to Gwen. This one act changes Camelot's destiny.
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- Part 1 of A Change in Destiny
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Mordred never meant to be knighted while being a teenager. It just sort of, happened. Yes, it was against the law to be a knight and be under 18 summers old, but that wasn't Mordred's fault. On top of that, Mordred was much more than a simple 15 year old.
With Morgana back in Camelot and everyone happier, Mordred can't help but think something will happen. And, something does in fact happen. After an incident in training, everyone finds out about Mordred's true age. After that, the people around Mordred find out more and more about how much Mordred has truly been hiding from them.
Things that all of them wished they could fix.
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The knights of Camelot (+merlin) find out that Mordred is not even 16 years old. They are not amused.
Now, Mordred is being treated like a child by everyone around him. But after he's been through... maybe it's for the best?