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“I love you so much that time can’t contain it…”
“…I will wait for infinity, and a little more, just to love you again.”
Or; Arthur is shipped off to France in 1941 to support the Allied forces, leaving him and his boyfriend surviving on stolen fifteen-minute calls, soft ‘I love you’s smothered beneath static. Every word is a risk in a world where their love can’t be spoken aloud, a promise to hold on to each other even as war and the times themselves threaten to burn everything away.
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Did you miss me? by HadrianPeverellBlack
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
16 Nov 2025
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"We're gathered here to celebrate the end of this world's greatest hero," Chiron was saying.
Merlin had judged him too harshly, and perhaps the gods too (Poseidon was there weeping, the world was in turmoil over his loss), but right now he was looking at his boyfriend's burial shroud, and he couldn't care less about any of them.
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- Part 39 of Merlin Bingo 2025
- Part 33 of Merlin & Percy adventures
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Another time by HadrianPeverellBlack
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Merlin (TV)
11 Nov 2025
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Merlin knew he wasn't okay.
How could he? He'd just watched his partner die, and he'd realized he'd lost him. Forever, this time.
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- Part 36 of Merlin Bingo 2025
- Part 32 of Merlin & Percy adventures
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A missing scene after Merlin poisoned Morgana in S2E12 The Fires of Idirsholas.
- Language:
- English
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Merlin has lived a very long life. Until one day he finds a portal which returns him back home to Camelot before everything happened. Now he has the chance to fix everything and save Arthur.
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The Once and Future Professor by Buffoonery
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Nov 2025
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Professor Emeric Ambrose is Hogwarts' new Muggle Studies teacher. His qualifications include a deep, personal animosity towards every major author of the Arthurian legends, an unnerving ability to reason with sentient furniture, and the eyes of a man who has been tired for a very, very long time.
He's also Merlin.
All he wants is a quiet life. But with a king in a painting who won't stop giving bad advice, a magical portrait of his nemesis down the hall, and two red-headed apprentices who are determined to learn the art of "narrative chaos," Merlin is about to discover that the only thing worse than being forgotten by history is having it come back to haunt you. Literally. -
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“Dying is the easy part. Living is what’s hard.” Merlin is having a hard time with destiny and decides he’s had enough. A stranger helps him see the light.
**Crossposted on Wattpad and Fanfiction.net
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The lake lies still.
Merlin expected nothing else. The lake has always lain still, for all these long centuries. No matter how much he longs for it to ripple and break, to surge forth and return his destiny to him.
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- Part 8 of Merlin Micros
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Merlin's emotions are not as easily hidden as he thinks they are, nor are his friends as oblivious as he expects them to be. They can't make Merlin open up to them, but they can find creative ways to help him relieve those emotions. Namely, chores.
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Arthur, Gwen, and Gaius find ways to help their friend who refuses to admit he needs help.
Post season 2 finale, Morgana is still missing, Post dragon attack and Balinor's demise.
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And it feels like an eternity (since i had you here with me) by mxxnleigh
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
26 Oct 2025
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Arthur finds out about merlin's magic, and kills him in the woods
Title is from the song Eternity by Alex Warren
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Arthur is relieved when Balinor the Dragonlord agrees to help, but dismayed when he refuses to come back to Camelot. Instead, Arthur is stuck waiting in the middle of nowhere while Balinor calls the dragon. To make matters worse, Arthur’s idiot manservant clearly has a massive crush on the guy: despite him being a grumpy, straggly, cave-dwelling sorcerer, who makes terrible cabbage pottage, Merlin hasn’t taken his eyes off him! Arthur will tolerate this nonsense for a couple of days, but only because he must save Camelot.
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Harry Potter and the Battle of Excalibur by ExcaliburStuckInMyStoneHeart
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Oct 2025
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This is the last part in a three-part series!
After the death of Dumbledore, the wizarding world feels like it's in shambles, but beneath the surface, the light is moving forward, gathering up their weapons and people preparing for the big battle. Merlin gathers his old friends together to search for Death’s EarthBound items.
While Harry is hunting for Horcruxes, new friends will be found and old ones remembered. It's a battle against who becomes stronger before the final battle commences. Will it be Morgana and Voldemort, or will it be Merlin and Harry Potter? Only time will tell…
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- Part 3 of A Techno Mage
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Merlin and the Whispers of the Past by mysticxy
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Video Game), Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game)
18 Oct 2025
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Certain important occasions in Merlin's life before the final chapter to his destiny arrives.
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“No.” Merlin wrapped his arms around his chest. “I wouldn’t even think about this!”
The other man gave him a tired look before trying to speak, only to be interrupted by Merlin.
“What would people say about me?” Merlin asked, spreading his arms. “I have a reputation to uphold! I can’t let them think I’m capable of…”
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- Part 4 of Merlin Fluffalooza 2025
- Part 31 of Merlin Bingo 2025
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“Never wander alone, my darling, or Jenny Grinteeth will get you,” Hunith used to say. “Or if you forget, make sure you say the rhyme - that wards her off.”
Jenny Grinteeth leave me be, my mother loves me, leave me be.
Jenny Grinteeth is a game they play. But as Merlin is sucked into life at Camelot, he wanders alone more than ever. He is surrounded by people, but he doubts they love him; they can’t really even know him. The loneliness becomes so routine, he forgets his mother’s warnings and the funny, little rhymes, which might otherwise have saved his life.
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I have no creativity but I want to write Merlin angst.
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In the heart of a modern Albion, nestled near the still waters of Avalon, Merlin runs a quiet orphanage—far from the prophecies, far from the crown. It’s a place of hope and new beginnings for the children in his care. But not today.
Today marks exactly 1,500 years since Arthur Pendragon died and killed Merlin’s soul.
While the orphanage bustles with excitement for Parents’ Day, Merlin can barely hold himself together. The sun is too bright. The children’s laughter cuts too deep. And still, he has no choice but to smile for them.
What Merlin doesn’t know is that fate is already shifting. Because Arthur is about to rise again.
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After centuries of immortal solitude, Merlin lives in quiet exile, burdened by grief and the failure of a great prophecy. His reclusive existence is shattered when an unexpected delivery is left at his door: an infant girl, abandoned because she possesses a dangerous and innate magic.
Reluctantly, Merlin takes her in, and the child, Olivia, slowly pulls him back into the world. As he raises her and teaches her to control her growing powers, their quiet life is interrupted by strange signs from a sacred lake—signs that the ancient prophecy Merlin thought had failed may be stirring back to life, forcing him to confront the past he left behind while protecting the future he has found in Olivia.
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Merlin hadn’t done anything dumb or self-sacrificial like Arthur had feared—that was the silver lining. But that left him with one conclusion. Arthur had died by Mordred’s blade. He was no mortal, not any longer. He was a ghost.
or—it's been a few months since Camlann, and Arthur reappears as a ghost, cursed to be unseen and unheard by his loved ones left behind. It's too bad no one in Camelot is powerful enough to see and interact with ghosts . . . right?
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- Part 8 of Living's Standalone Merthur Fics
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There are distant yells, a group of knights gathered at the wall, pointing and shouting in his direction. He watches with little interest, as the group scatters like mice in the armoury, and soon the lower gate is opening. Two knights, riding full speed towards him, and Merlin swallows slowly as he recognizes the riders.
Of course.
It would've been too kind.