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"I just feel lonely sometimes. Being a king is a lonely job. I can't trust anyone, or I can't meet someone in the way other people do. Everyone wants a piece of my kingdom, while the only thing i want is to love and be loved." He said, feeling dizzy with emotions and alcohol. It made him weak. I should stop drinking, he thought to himself. Not tonight though. He was allowed to drink and pity himself as much as he wanted tonight. Tomorrow, he will be the strong King of Camelot again, the man his people respect and trust.
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Arthur is having emotions and doesn't know how to deal with it, so he does the most reasonable thing: getting drunk.
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all along there was some invisible string (tying you to me) by orangemoons
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
03 Oct 2025
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One hot summer evening, Arthur returns from Avalon. He and Merlin navigate the passage of time and their relationship as Arthur adjusts to a world he wasn’t around to build.
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Come back to me by HadrianPeverellBlack
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
03 Oct 2025
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“I comforted him, told him that I’d never leave him if Arthur came back…” Merlin sighed. “He was Arthur all along, and I… It’s the sickest game they ever did to me.”
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- Part 27 of Merlin Bingo 2025
- Part 31 of Merlin & Percy adventures
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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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Merlin is a stressed out nursing student. Gwen and Morgana drag him out of his flat to have a fun night out, but when Merlin gets home, drunk and frustrated by how easily Morgana and Gwen express their love for each other he decides to call Arthur. He’s had a crush on Arthur for a long time, but tonight the alcohol and loneliness get to him so he makes the decision to finally tell him how he feels hoping to get his voicemail and thinking he does, he lays everything out (sort of).
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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.
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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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Hold my love (on the wings of a butterfly) by GabsTriesSomethingNew
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
23 Sep 2025
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A girl.
A small, tiny, young, cute, little, sobbing girl.
That was what Gwaine was left to deal with. In a mess of fire and ash and tortured dead bodies. A practically untouched little one with tears dragging mud down her face.
i.e Author finally getting to their Merwaine accidental child acquisition because Merwaine fest forced their hands
Written for Merwaine fest 2025 Day 1: accidental child adoption + h/c
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Under the wide skies of Montana, Merlin Ambrose arrives at Pendragon Ranch a broken, runaway sixteen-year-old with nothing but secrets and scars. What he finds is more than shelter — it’s a family he never knew he needed, a wild mustang stallion that answers his untamed spirit, and a bond with Arthur Pendragon that begins in fire and stubbornness but grows into love.
Through storms, loss, and trials of faith, Merlin discovers that home isn’t built from blood alone but from trust, forgiveness, and the courage to love. Together, he and Arthur carve out their own Camelot — a place where destiny, family, and forever are written beneath wild Montana skies.
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Merlin hated working for Arthur. He hated every second of it. But not because it was exhausting or because Arthur was an annoying, self-absorbed prick. No, it was something else that made being Arthur's servant equivalent to torture.
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Merlin has troubles going about his every day life, because unfortunatley Arthur is very easy to fall for.
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albion's greatest need is finally here (and merlin is fucking ecstatic) by Benji (benjico), benjico
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
13 Sep 2025
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After centuries of waiting, Merlin is given a chance to correct his greatest failure. But some weights are too heavy to put down, and some loves are too vast to hold without crushing everything in their grip.
The question is no longer if he will save Arthur Pendragon, but what will be left of the world—and of Merlin himself—when he does.
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I was there ~ for all the pining by HadrianPeverellBlack
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
11 Sep 2025
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Merlin and Percy are cute.
They found another reborn soul.
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- Part 24 of Merlin Bingo 2025
- Part 29 of Merlin & Percy adventures
- Part 32 of MultiFandom Flash Bingo 2023
- Part 8 of Fandom Bingo
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Merlin, recently appointed the Court Sorcerer, and Arthur have finally started courting, but Merlin has some retroactive jealousy regarding to how Arthur had been with his other lovers in the past.
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Merlin only meant to light a candle and check on the prince. He didn’t expect to find Arthur disheveled and distressed. Of course, Arthur being Arthur, his pride won’t let him admit he needs anything — least of all company. Good thing Merlin is just as stubborn as him, as well as patient and understanding.
aka, Arthur is hurting and in need of a hug and Merlin is trying to be there for him.
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Arthur survives the battle, but Merlin is left wandering the halls of a castle that no longer feels like home. Empty rooms stretch on forever. The tether between them frays in quiet, invisible inches. Merlin keeps choosing him, over and over—and wonders if he’ll ever be chosen back.
or, the exact opposite of the only 1 bed trope but it's angsty
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- Part 17 of Devils and the Details Works
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Born with many inherited health issues, Merlin Emrys had dedicated much of his life to environmentalism and vigilante hacking. He is hired as a token environmental adviser for Albion Enterprises LTD in the aftermath of a tell-all book published by the CEO’s daughter. There, he meets Arthur, the CEO’s son, and is swept up into a whirlwind friendship and blossoming romance. It’s something he never intended — especially since he plans to hack the company from the inside. And, most especially, because Merlin is determined to be single for his entire life. But, he is drawn to Arthur, and Arthur is drawn to Merlin. They fit together. It's almost like they are two sides of the same coin. With so many things separating them and yet so many things drawing them together, Arthur and Merlin's destiny remains uncertain. Even as, once again, the future of Albion (Enterprises) rests on both their shoulders.
This fic is dedicated to those of us in the Merlin fandom who deal with serious chronic illnesses, whether mental or physical.
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- Part 2 of Tansy's Non Series Merlin Longfics
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Red Fated Strings overlapped one another all the time. In this very room, webs overlapped and passed through each other without creating any physical tension to the people they were attached to.
Except Merlin's string is not tangled on anything. Anything at all. It’s short. It’s cutting directly across the throne room, through the alley of tables, to the hand of—
Prince Arthur Pendragon is looking at him. He seems to be in the exact same process of realizing what Merlin sees…but by the expression on his face, Merlin isn’t sure if the prince is ready to kill him or throw him out of his ball.
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The rain beat against the glass of the windows, filling the apartment with the strange yellow light of the storm. It was peaceful, the sound of the rain soporific as Merlin worked. He sat at their dining table, books and papers spread out across infront of him. He had been working since the morning, and with his headphones on he was lost to the world around him. He always worked best when it rained, when the world suddenly felt a whole lot less urban. He got so lost in his studies, sometimes it felt like he had been there, like he had lived through it all. Sometimes it was hard to disconnect, when he had first started his masters he’d been plagued by dreams, some he could have sworn felt like memories, but now they came and went, like some great wrong had been amended.
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Merlin is getting something ready, Arthur is too tired to deal with it now.
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- Part 24 of MERTHUR SAD AND SOFT
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Life’s a drag, especially for a servant. by lyssabridgerton (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
31 Jul 2025
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Merlin is the greatest sorcerer ever known, King Arthur’s Manservant, and a physician in training to Gaius. He has also turned himself into a woman to participate in a monthly performance down at the Tavern. If he cannot fully showcase his Powers as Merlin, he can at least have some fun.
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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.
The sun had disappeared the day Arthur died, exactly four months ago, and never returned. They called it: The Grey.
A tale of loss, supernatural meddling, time travel, hidden identities, and love.
(Not Season 5 compliant.)