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"Did you know, Merlin, that you have the most distracting mouth in all the five kingdoms?"
A clatter sounds through the room—Arthur's half-polished hauberk falling to the stone floor—and Merlin squawks, "I have what?"
"And not just because of the nonstop prattle that's always coming out of it," Arthur grouses. "It's just too goddamn pretty. Incompetent manservants are not supposed to have pretty mouths, I'm quite sure there's a rule against it."
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“Perhaps we are doing her a favor then,” he says, pausing to chew the inside of his cheek before adding in a measured, careful voice. “I wouldn’t want to live without my love, either.”
Arthur whips around in the saddle to stare at him, eyes hard and dark, like the storm clouds building on the distant horizon. “What love? You haven’t got a love,” he snaps, like he’s the sole keeper of all Merlin’s secrets.
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So the heart becomes bound with the roots, the lungs filled with the vines and the flowers. Thorns will maim and cut where they grasp hold. The solitary heart bears not the strength to banish the maladie. Coughing and vomiting may dislodge the barriers but only for so long as it takes for more to grow. Witches' briar consumes all in time. Thirty days from the fall of the first petal are granted unto the sufferer. Hanahaki is the curse of those with magic in their veins. No man devoid of magic’s song shall suffer this bite.
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Merlin knows he was condemned from the moment he found the first petal on his pillow, because there is no way that Arthur Pendragon, the King of Camelot, can ever return his love.
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In the few weeks since Arthur stepped out of Lake Avalon, he's been confronted by perplexing technology, ancient prophecy, and belated epiphany about his true feelings for his manservant turned friend turned sorcerer turned- god help him- lover.
With prophecy fulfilled, Arthur and Merlin now face a new adventure: Finding their place in the modern world.
This is a story of what happens next. After Arthur and Merlin save the world and find each other. Of how an immortal sorcerer and an ancient king learn to move away from the past, and on toward the future, in love and together.
*** Art by the lovely lao-pendragon ******
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banter, sass, mockery of mobile usage, cuddling, verbal abuse of technology, flirting, bedsharing, jealousy, a lot of sex, and even more fluffSeries
- Part 2 of We Begin Again
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08 Dec 2024
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Eight people sharing a uni-flat. Merlin and Gwaine are such good friends, Arthur misunderstands their relationship.
WRITTEN IN AND ORIGINALLY POSTED ON 11-21-2012. This fic disappeared off my dashboard in 2024, and I found it on WayBack Machine and re-uploaded. So, all likes and comments are gone.
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20 May 2024