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Merlin accompanies Arthur on a quest to find what brought a dying man to the gates of Camelot.
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- Part 2 of Son of the Old Religion
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09 Jun 2025
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“Mordred, right?” Arthur asked, kneeling in front of him. The boy nodded, eyes wide as he looked at Arthur as if he might bolt at any moment. “What are you doing back in Camelot? My father won’t like seeing you again.”
“He’s hurt.” Mordred whispered and Arthur glanced over at where Merlin was unconscious. A sudden realization dawned on him.
“You healed him,” He said slowly “With magic.”
Mordred nodded. Arthur’s mind raced – thinking of all Merlin had survived in his encounters with bandits and sorcerers. Before he could ask if Mordred had been responsible for all of it, there was a groan as Merlin shifted, eyes flickering open.
“Arth – you!” He choked, sitting up quickly to grab Arthur’s arm as if he could yank the prince away. Mordred grinned.
“You’re awake!” He beamed and launched forward to hug him. Arthur watched as Merlin stiffened at the action – eyes widening before desperately trying to push him away.
“Arthur. Arthur, get him off of me-”
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After sneaking Mordred out of Camelot, he occasionally returns to make sure Merlin is doing okay. Arthur isn’t sure why this child is so concerned about the wellbeing of his servant… Nor Merlin's vehement attempts to ignore it.
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04 Jun 2025
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The Time Merlin and Lancelot Almost Destroyed Camelot (as told by the Knights of the Rountable) by CaffeinatedFlumadiddle
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
25 Nov 2019
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"It's true then?" Elyan frowned as he peered out the door into the hallway Lancelot had just exited through. Gwen bit her lip before nodding. "Damn. What would Lancelot and Merlin even argue about?"
"Please," Gwaine rolled his eyes before flicking his hair out of his face "This has got to be some new battle strategy. Maybe Morgana is trying to throw us off with this so we won't notice when she tries to invade again." He shrugged. The others seemed to consider this.
"That somehow makes more sense." Percival muttered. Gwen wrinkled her nose before putting down the basket with a sigh.
"I'm telling you," She said "George heard them both yelling. It sounded very intense."
"Maybe they were having sex. Sometimes people yell during sex." Gwaine suggested. Everyone turned to him.
"Is that more likely than having an argument?" Leon asked dryly. Gwaine pointed his glove at him.
"Between Lancelot and Merlin? Yes. Absolutely, you ignorant fool."
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Lancelot and Merlin get into an argument. All of Camelot loses its goddamn mind trying to figure out what's going on.
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03 Jun 2025
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When the King is attacked in his tent on patrol and falls into an unending sleep everyone is worried. What they don't know is that Arthur is fine. In fact he is standing right here next to them, watching them all fret over his prone body. To stave off the boredom whilst a cure is found Arthur takes to wandering the castle and soon discovered a hidden side of Camelot he never knew about.
Or: Arthur's soul gets trapped outside his body and takes to following his servant around. He gets an interesting insight into Merlin, his servant's life and just how much Camelot needs the man.
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01 Jun 2025
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Merlin locks himself into a cell, sneaks out to defenestrate sorcerers and has magical parties to celebrate. Arthur takes a while to catch on.
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31 May 2025
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The best-laid plans of mercenaries and magicians...
In the aftermath of the rout at Ealdor, a mercenary leader tries to hold his small band of survivors together and extricate them from the mess he got them into. He thinks he’s come up with a simple plan to save them all, but things soon stop going according to the script. And then they meet with a group of knights, led by a knight who calls himself Sir Andrew of Dollop Head.
Arthur decides, for who-knows what reason, that he wants to spend his honeymoon chasing a gryphon all over Camelot. Merlin, as ever, is tagging along behind Arthur, but his usual plan of pretending to be a simple servant isn't working. Arthur has been behaving strangely ever since their return from Ealdor, and Merlin is worried. On the road, they meet with a small band of riders who insist that they are also Knights of Camelot, and Arthur comes up with a strange new plan all of his own...
Finally finished!
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30 May 2025
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The world is falling into winter. Camelot is falling into war. Arthur will do anything he can to keep his kingdom safe, and he will use whatever weapons are at hand - but, to his horror, his decisions turn out to have severe consequences for Merlin. Naturally, Arthur decides that it is his duty to protect his loyal servant from the shocking truth...
“Let me see if I’ve got this straight,” Lancelot said, beginning to grin. “You want to teach Merlin to use magic – without letting him notice that he’s using magic?”
“He must not find out. If he finds out he has magic, he’ll – why are you laughing? This is no laughing matter, Lancelot!”
Set soon after Season 3.
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30 May 2025
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Merlin's ability to calm animals has Arthur noticing patterns, and making conclusions
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- Part 1 of Merlin Prompts
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29 May 2025
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Five times Arthur asked about magic and one time Merlin answered.
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25 May 2025
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Day 15: “Every Time I Faced Off A Bandit Or Dealt With A Murderous Sorcerer, I Just Fainted And Emrys Did The Actual Work, Did He?” by cactuscandle
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
15 Feb 2025
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“Sir Leon, are you hearing yourself?” Arthur tried his hardest not to groan and patiently listened as his First Knight explained eagerly that…
“Mordred is a god, Sire!” nodded Leon. Behind him, Merlin snorted.
“Anything to add, Merlin?” asked Arthur, knowing full well he did indeed have things to say. Arthur just wanted to sleep. He had had one hell of a day filled with back-to-back meetings with nobles and townspeople complaining alike. Being king meant he could never catch a break, it seemed.
“Merlin, you would know who Emrys is, right?” asked Leon, shifting his focus to him. The knights also leaned in, waiting for Merlin’s answer. He took his time folding Arthur’s clothes before finally looking up.
“Yes.”
“It’s Mordred, isn’t it?”
Another long pause and Arthur had half a mind to send his useless servant to the dungeons for the very valid reason of annoying him. “It is,” agreed Merlin and instantly, Leon’s head snapped back to Arthur.
Or Merlin will go to any length to make sure he's not revealed as Emrys. Any length.
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24 May 2025
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"Yeah," Merlin started, "no thanks."
The entire court froze.
"I'm... sorry?" The Wicked Villain of the Week™ was flabbergasted from where she sat on the throne.
"You had better be." Merlin scowled. "Come back in four days."
The sorceress stared blankly at him. The members of the court were looking at him like he'd grown a third head. The knights were watching in slack-jawed dumbfoundment. Gwaine looked like he was about to jump in even though he had no idea what Merlin was saying. Lancelot most definitely regretted waking up this morning, and Leon was just tired.
"I don't think you understand what's going on here," the sorceress began when she regained her composure.
"No, I don't think you understand that we have already met this week's quota for magical shit hitting the fan. As I said, come back next week. Or, you know, never, but that's always 'too much to ask'."
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22 May 2025
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Down With Maleagent by invaders_forever
Fandoms: Le Chevalier de la Charrette | Lancelot the Knight of the Cart - Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Mythology & Related Fandoms
12 Apr 2022
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The aftermath of Lancelot the Knight in the Cart from Gawain's perspective as he is stuck escorting a very injured sir kay, an idiotic but well meaning sir lancelot, and Guinevere back from Maleagent's castle.
idk what its about i just started writing and it's kind of all over the place sorry
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17 May 2025
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A young Lucan meets Arthur and Kay for the first time, and stumbles into his destiny - though he doesn't know it yet.
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The first time I met Arthur was not so grand or noble as the bards would have it.They would gloss over all the things that were so important to me, that stuck with me down the years.
The King took a wound in a great battle, they would say , But upon receiving news of the Saxons’ plans he was quick to lead his men into the next fight. Or perhaps they would ignore altogether that he had been injured; they did so often enough.
A bard would never open a tale in the mud and muck of a cavalry camp shortly after a battle, but that is where my story begins.
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17 May 2025
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Knights and Time Travel Don't Mix by invaders_forever
Fandoms: Arthurian Mythology & Related Fandoms
25 Aug 2022
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It’s 12 years after the fall of Uther, and Kay ab Ector is out hunting in a foggy swamp with his brother and father. 20 years later, Sir Kay is on a nostalgic hunting trip with King Arthur and Sirs Gawain and Lancelot.
As is typical of mysterious foggy wetlands, the fey magic is strong here. And thus a slight switch occurs.
Now, Ector and Arthur are left fumbling with a Sir Kay who has seen and in some cases carried Camelot through arguably some of its darkest days yet. And the young squire Kay ab Ector is in the care of an Arthur old and wise enough to recognize him for the scared child he is.
This shall be fun to watch.
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16 May 2025
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A Tale of Two Brothers by LadyAndreth
Fandoms: The Squire's Tales Series - Gerald Morris
05 Sep 2023
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A series of events that follows Kai and Arthur through their childhood and up through Arthur's kingship that examines their relationship as brothers, told from Kai's perspective. It's nothing deep, just cute, fun, and sweet, with Kai being super protective of his baby brother even when that baby brother is the ruler of all England, because the older sibling instincts never really go away.
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16 May 2025
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Arthur scrambled back in surprise as a figure sat up, shaking broken moss and bark out of its hair and sputtering nonsense.
It was a human.
Or Arthur thought it was a human. It had black hair, pale skin, and big ears.
His eyes opened.
They were made of a brilliant gold that looked as though it had survived a hundred centuries and could survive thousands more. Wisdom, unspeakable. Power, unbreakable.
He was fae.
“Why are you dollopheads all staring at me? Is there something wrong with my ears?”
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Merlin claims they've met before, but Arthur doesn't remember the pesky fae at all. He also can't figure out why he isn't dead yet or how to get the idiot to quit following him around.
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11 May 2025
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When he turned around to offer an apple to Arthur, the prince had a strange look in his eye. Sad and almost steely, but naive all the same.
“What? Is there something wrong with apples, sire?”
“I’m not going back,” Arthur declared. “I’m going to stay here with you.”
Merlin stared at him.
He stared back.
Merlin started laughing.
Arthur clenched his fists. “It’s not funny!”
Was he even hearing himself? “You…want to stay with…with me?”
Oh, this was hilarious.
If he had a grave, Uther Pendragon would be rolling in it.OR
In his few thousand years of living, Merlin never thought he would run into Uther Pendragon's child in the woods or that said child would want to live with him.
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11 May 2025
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“I’m a sorcerer,” Merlin turned and announced to the court. “Do you have a spare room I could crash in, perhaps? I walked all the way from Ealdor.”
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Arthur keeps trying to execute the sorcerer who calls himself Merlin.
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09 May 2025
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'It is clear in the law,' Arthur says. 'No magical creatures allowed in Camelot. Sorry.'
Merlin lifts Aithusa up so Arthur can get a better look.
Arthur blinks. 'I will make an exception because she looks very polite.'
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In which Merlin tries to raise a very illegal dragon in a very dragons-aren't-allowed sort of place.
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06 May 2025
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"Arthur used to think he knew everything about his servant, and to an extent he still did. As shocked as he had been about the incident, this wasn’t exactly something that was unlike Merlin. It was dumb and it came from a place of kindness with a total disregard of himself. The action itself, Arthur understood. What he didn’t understand was why Merlin had kept it to himself."
In which Arthur slowly unravels the mystery that is Merlin, and begins to realize just how much he doesn't know.
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- Part 1 of i'm yours
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06 May 2025