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Companion piece to The Morning After, in which Merlin decides he can let Arthur have a bit of a lie-in and still wake him up for some more fun...
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18 Jun 2025
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18 Jun 2025
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My entry for challenge one for the Merlin Summer Pornathon 2015. First prompt was CROSS :P Hope you like it :$
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18 Jun 2025
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What better way to to spend your day off than training with the bae? It just so happens Gwaine wagered that whoever wins the sparring session gets to be on top :P
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18 Jun 2025
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To ensure the new year holds great rewards for the kingdom, the King's court Sorcerer proposed conducting a ritual deep in the woods with the king and a few trusted knights.
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18 Jun 2025
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About 8 or 9 years ago this terrible thing happened called Diamond of the Day. I've been trying to forget it ever since. Here's my latest attempt.
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18 Jun 2025
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A trap in the woods allows a meddling, mysterious stranger to render Arthur and the knights unconscious, leaving only Merlin and Lancelot alone. The two of them must complete 3 trials to get their friends back.
With Merlin's powers it should be a cinch, but unbeknownst to them, Arthur and the knights can see everything they're doing—and Lancelot has decided now is the best time to have a personal, in-depth conversation about Merlin's power and recklessness.
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- Part 5 of Living's Standalone Merthur Fics
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09 Jun 2025
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The next time Arthur doesn’t say thank you, Gwaine puts his hand on Merlin’s back, stroking down the long length of it, from the short curls of hair at the nape of his neck to the neat cinch of his waist.
“Thanks,” he praises, throwing a wink to an agape Arthur as he does. It’s wonderful.
So wonderful, in fact, that for the next fortnight, for every brusque word that spills from Arthur’s lips, Gwaine spills three sweet ones.
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23 May 2025
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Season 4 AU:
Merlin's carried Arthur's sigil around everywhere after being entrusted with it. One day he runs into trouble, where the wrong people discover the sigil, and he gets mistaken as Arthur's husband. While Merlin's life is being ransomed and Arthur is freaking out back in Camelot, Merlin manages to escape but doesn't know that he is now considered the king's consort. Cue shenanigans.- Language:
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06 Apr 2025
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Nobody touches Arthur.
Merlin realizes it slowly, and when he does, he wants to kick himself for not seeing sooner.
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(Or, Arthur and Merlin's relationship with touch over time.)- Language:
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06 Apr 2025
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First, there is the rage, like nothing Arthur has ever known. It’s hot, hotter than anything, hotter than the kitchen ovens and the blacksmith’s forge and dragon’s breath. It fills him to the brim and carries on, washing over him in waves that scald, and, as Arthur looks around him at the carnage, the man at its centre, he has no idea how he is ever meant to let go of it.
“I can explain,” Merlin says, his eyes still blazing as he kneels there, charred by the fires he lit, blood on his hands. So much blood. “Arthur, sire, please, I can explain.”
First, there is the rage, and then there is a knife at Merlin’s throat.
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06 Apr 2025
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"Gaius sighed, 'That’s the problem, my boy. It’s so rare that it hasn’t been seen in over a generation. The only account I could find was limited. The patient had fallen in love with a married man who did not love her, and she had started to develop a cough that had produced flowers rather than mucus. A post-mortem examination found that a flower had magically planted itself in the woman’s lungs and had wrapped around her heart.'"
In which Merlin develops Hanahaki disease, but mysteriously does not die from it.
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31 Jan 2025
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When Merlin returns to Arthur after barely surviving the serket sting, he is met with unexpected concern instead of their usual banter.
Or, how the conversation in 3x02 The Tears of Uther Pendragon (Part 2) could have gone.
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30 Jan 2025
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"He's just a servant."
"He is mine!"
"No." Uther took in Arthur’s unrepentant claim and stormy gaze, and a chill swept through him. "No, Arthur, tell me you didn't."
Dragon blood ran through the Pendragon line. Not enough to taint them with the evil of magic, but to carry through and amplify draconic traits in their human nature that made them better, sharper. It also drove them to hoard one thing above all else. Uther had chosen well to hoard power, but Arthur -
Arthur couldn't have chosen people as his hoard. He'd taught his son better than that.
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30 Jan 2025
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A side effect of Merlin's magical ability is an uncanny connection to the weather, which seems to change accordingly to Merlin's moods.
Arthur, who is still refuses to put two and two together about Merlin's magic, has no idea why the sky changes so often. Until he does.Bookmarked by ConsulOfJoshuas
24 Dec 2024
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“I’m the king,” Arthur says grumpily, swallowing around the stone that has settled in his throat, “I can wear what I want.”
“What about what I want?”
“I’m the king,” Arthur repeats slowly, since Merlin is being particularly thick, “and so you can also wear what I want.”
Or, Arthur dresses Merlin, which goes about as well as you would expect.
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Bookmarked by ConsulOfJoshuas
22 Dec 2024
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everybody needs a place (will you always be mine?) by queerofthedagger
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
19 Aug 2020
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Merlin exhales a soft laugh, hoarse and relieved all at once. He shakes his head before brushing his lips over Arthur’s once more, then trails them over his cheek to his ear. “Then let me take care of you?” he asks again, and another shiver travels down his back.
“Please,” he presses out, his voice cracking over the word and closer to a plea than he has ever heard it. He doesn’t have it within himself to care, has never been more certain in the conviction that Merlin will take all the brittle pieces of him and still find worth in them.
The crown weighs heavy on his head, well-known self-doubts taking their toll. Arthur would never expect Merlin to shoulder some of the burden, but then, Merlin has never been one for doing what's expected of him.
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- Part 4 of Merlin Stories
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21 Dec 2024
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Arthur’s stomach flipped when Merlin began walking away from him. A flash of panic struck him, and he thrust his hand out, grabbing Merlin’s wrist before he could think it through.
Merlin stopped and looked back at him with a frown. “Arthur, what—”
“I can’t remember what a hug feels like.”
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Arthur is just really touch-starved and finally lets Merlin in.
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2021
- Part 118 of Merthur Short Fics & One-Shots
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21 Dec 2024
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"Emrys,” the woman says, impatient, and Merlin, well. Merlin reacts.
Arthur wants to pretend so, so badly that there isn’t a pit opening in his stomach but—
But. Merlin reacts, eyes snapping towards her, narrowing. Above Merlin’s head, the cold iron groans, a sound the way that Arthur’s heart feels.
Merlin and Arthur get kidnapped. Unfortunately for their captors, it really is a tremendously stupid idea to put magic itself into cold iron.
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- Part 79 of Merlin Stories
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21 Dec 2024
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No Hands Had Ever Been So Gentle, Nor So Deadly by queerofthedagger
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24 Feb 2021
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“You really came. It wasn’t a dream,” Arthur eventually whispers, and he sounds so, so fragile.
Merlin has a hard time breathing, and it’s not because of Arthur’s weight; the thought that none of this would’ve happened if not for him hasn’t left him alone all night. It’s all the more tangible with Arthur clinging to the shreds of his composure.
“I’m sorry,” he says, his voice cracking with how much he means it.
Arthur's kidnapped. Of course, Merlin comes to find him, but getting Arthur out might've been the easiest part.
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- Part 11 of Merlin Stories
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20 Dec 2024