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When Merlin's magic is exposed shortly before season 2 starts, the path of destiny starts changing forever. Now on the run with Arthur, Morgana, and Gwen. Merlin hopes to convince Arthur that magic is totally good instead of him and Morgana just being an exception. Morgana, meanwhile, hopes to convince him to usurp his father. As allies are gathered and Arthur realizes the injustice in his kingdom, it looks more and more like he will have to act in a drastic way. A way he dreads.
Meanwhile, Arthur and Merlin are growing closer and closer and might just have feelings for each other. Something they probably should be better about realizing, considering the example of Gwen and Morgana right next to them.
In a land of myth and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom now rests on the shoulders of four, their names: Merlin, Arthur, Guinevere, and Morgana
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- Part 1 of Different Destiny
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Merlin can’t remember the last time he’s locked his bedroom door, if ever. But he chooses not to think about it. He merely sulks his way back to his bed, taking a moment to contemplate taking off his trousers and tunic from the night before. He decides not to think about that either.
Instead, he decides not to think at all. He just falls back into his bed, covers up his body more so in shame than for warmth, and closes his eyes.
Basically Merlin is sexually assaulted and this story follows how he and everyone else deals with it.
Spoiler alert: THEY DON'T HANDLE IT WELL.
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When Arthur returns to Merlin in 2025, both of them are ecstatic. Merlin helps Arthur getting used to the world by showing him everything.
Or:
Basically Merlin and Arthur being weird tourists around the world. Lots of fluff (no smut, sorry, but you can imagine it, though:D), nearly no angst, just a cute tooth-rottingly sweet story to comfort your soul.
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a new day will follow, there’s always tomorrow by highfunctioningclotpole
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
13 Apr 2026
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Merlin wakes up to the same day over and over again.
A spell gone wrong has trapped him in a loop that won’t break until he tells the truth “from the heart.” He tries everything—confessing his magic, admitting his feelings to himself—but nothing works.
Because the truth isn’t meant for him.
It’s meant for Arthur.
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Merlin didn’t look away.
“She enchanted him,” he said.
Certain.
Immediate.
“A love potion.”
Freya’s gaze shifted back to Arthur and Elena.
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- Part 28 of maybe in another life
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Honestly, Merlin had thought telling Arthur about his magic, and revoking the old laws would be the biggest obstacles to creating Albion. Really that had all been the easy part. After a few teary, but heartfelt conversations Merlin was installed as the new Court Sorcerer and together they set out to unite all the lands in peace.
Apparently the biggest setback was proving to be their marriage status or lack-there-of. Who knew so many people cared about whether a king or wizard had a spouse?
Well, Arthur has an idea to solve both of their problems, if it doesn’t prove to break Merlin’s heart first. Because how was he supposed to let go after getting a taste of the one thing he’d always wanted, Arthur’s hand in marriage.
Or my fake-marriage Valentine’s Day special no one asked me for!
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- Part 32 of Would You?
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Merlin and his mum wans to move away from Ealdor to get a fresh start, to leave his mum's abusive ex-boyfriend behind.
They go to Camelot to look at a flat. His mum falls in love with the flat, and Merlin falls in love with the property manager, who also happens be the landlord's son.
Why can't life be simple for once? -
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When a mysterious sorcerer comes to Camelot, Arthur becomes trapped in his own sword, mere moments after witnessing Merlin use magic. Simultaneously, Merlin is cursed to be mute. The poor warlock is unable to explain himself as he listens to Arthur-the-Sword shout at him, and Merlin frantically journeys to save them both from their curses.
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Boxing is a poor persons sport, while ballet is not meant for the poor to participate in. Arthur had become a legend in the ring, while Merlin's fulfilling a destiny that he thought was unreal.
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Like I lived my whole life before the first light by Once_Im_Reborn
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
28 Mar 2026
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Something was wrong.
Not the “the world is ending, and we’re all going to die” sort of wrong, but an odd, humming some kind of wrong that Merlin could feel threading through the halls of Camelot like an intruder. He reached out with his magic more than once, trying to taste the disturbance, but nothing tugged back. Nothing whispered danger. Nothing even shimmered suspiciously.
Still…Something felt off. As if certain people were keeping very specific secrets. Important secrets.
Normally, that would have been fine. Merlin had secrets too, the kind he intended to keep tucked away until the end of his days – preferably long after that, if fate allowed. But this was about Gwen.
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Where Merlin finds out about Gwens' secret, and it might change everything he and Arthur know about themselves and their feelings towards one another (along some other encounters).
(I'm updating the older chapters as it doesn't quite fit my writing style anymore. But nothing about the story changed :) )
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After his father died, Arthur Pendragon started a new job at a local coffee shop, having never been satisfied with his boring office job. Everything was going well for Arthur, and he was falling into a routine with this job.
But routines do like to be broken.
When Merlin Emrys enters Arthur's coffee shop, his young daughter in tow, Arthur's life is turned upside down.
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A Curse or a Revelation (Probably a Curse) by I_shouldnt_be_given_this_power
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
25 Mar 2026
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The King of Camelot, his Knights of the Round Table and Merlin have had peace and quiet for far too long after the defeat of Morgana and Mordred and everyone became friends n shit (cos I fucking said so). A quiet quest to a small village with problems of the magical kind goes awry when Arthur is cursed. By what, they don't know, but they'll do their best to protect him on their trek home.
Essentialy, Arthur's a damsel in distress.
(no one died except Uther obvs)
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It was then that Merlin heard a laugh. Chills prickled down his spine, and his heart stopped. It actually stopped in his chest – or skipped a beat... or five – because he felt it stutter back to life and pound like charging horses at the sound, because he knew that laugh. He knew it like he knew the gentle squeeze of Gaius’s hand on his shoulder, the loving press of his mother’s lips to his brow, and the ever-present whisper of magic along his fingertips.
When Arthur is killed during a run-of-the-mill bandit attack, Camelot founders beneath a permanent mire of spitting rain and fog. They call it: The Grey. It's everything Merlin can do to keep his head above water... until he awakens one day to find the sun shining. As if it had never left at all.
A tale of loss, supernatural meddling, time travel, hidden identities, crazy twists, and love.
(Set after Season 4)
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Merlin wasn’t looking for them.
That was the thing.
He’d meant to find Freya.
Or Arthur.
It didn’t matter which.
He found both.
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- Part 17 of in every life
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Arthur usually walked the walls before bed.
Merlin often joined him.
Freya did too.
The three of them moved easily together now.
As if they had always known how.
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- Part 14 of in every life
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The dreams began a few nights after.
At first they came in fragments.
Then the dreams deepened.
They stopped feeling like dreams.
They felt like memories.
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- Part 12 of in every life
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“On my thumb,” he said mildly, though his lifting up of the finger revealed a wound of anything but mildness.
Merlin’s eyes widened at the sheer welt of it. “Come here,” he immediately demanded, unthinking of anything that might bar him besides.
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- Part 9 of merlin micro fic prompt fills
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Arthur’s house was only a few streets away.
Morgana knew the route without checking the map.
Freya parked the van halfway down the block.
They approached the house carefully.
The front door stood open.
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- Part 9 of in every life
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Merlin considered that carefully.
“I miss swimming.”
Morgana turned her head slowly.
“You are aware the world has ended.”
“Yes.”
“And yet you miss swimming.”
“Yes.”
Freya laughed quietly.
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- Part 8 of in every life
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Freya was awake.
She watched him with sleepy calm, one eyebrow slightly raised.
Her hair was a little messy from sleep, the sunlight still warming the blankets around her.
For a moment Merlin forgot what he had been doing.
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- Part 7 of in every life