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The horse that might not be an actual horse cranes its neck all the way around to - seemingly - stare at Merlin. It’d be quite funny to watch, actually, if it wasn’t for the clear, conscious contact of its milky eyes. Or Arthur’s hand being stuck to it. Or its voice.
“Oh. This is interesting.”
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“Oh look, the new kid is back.”
Merlin freezes. Someone is in the sex lavatory. Someone is in the sex lavatory where he also is, banging around into walls and not hearing anyone open the door. How did he not hear them open the door?
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how to stay conscious when you drown by theobjectlesson
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
31 Oct 2025
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If Perseus were human, this would be patent desire. If he were human, the rough palm laid on Nico’s face, seeming to suck at his skin as Perseus pushes up from the water between Nico’s knees and leans over him, staring with those huge, strange eyes, would be blatant affection.
Perseus isn’t human, but Nico is, and so is prone to forgetting why that would make any difference.
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Seems Steve was always meant to fall.
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How to Take a Fall by theobjectlesson
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
21 Sep 2025
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Percy sighs, envious of how peaceful Nico looks out there when his own heart is in his throat every time he picks up his skateboard in this place. Then he realizes he’s probably been staring for a borderline creepy amount of time at this point, which is of course the moment Nico looks right back at him.
Percy feels a spike of… something in his chest, in that second of eye contact. Competition? Curiosity? Fear? Except, Percy doesn’t do fear. Doesn’t get scared, or nervous. Never backs down from anything, never quits, even midway through a trick he knows he's not going to land. It’s the one thing they get right about him on the news: Percy Jackson does not bail.
So he swallows it, and drops in.
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It's 2008, and Merlin's in college while Arthur's stuck in the valley working for his father's company, wondering why the hell he relates to every single one of Blink 182's songs about being brokenhearted, when his heart isn't even broken. At least, he doesn't think it is.
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21 Sep 2023
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I don't even care that it's not finished, this is my favorite fic I've ever read in my damn life.
Update: it's finished!! if I think about it too much it makes me cry!!! I'm fine!!!!
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A Hard Day's Night by Yare_yare_Yukina
Fandoms: Given (Manga), Given (Anime), Given 10th Mix - Fandom
13 Sep 2025
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It’s silly, really, to miss someone who is just down the hall. Maybe he does need a break soon—like everyone, Mafuyu included, keeps telling him he might.
Soon.
Hopefully.
Better not to think about it.
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Suddenly he remembers how young Merlin looked in their bed, how he trembled and how he blushes. How he’s dressed in those old rags of his servant days that he hasn’t seen in bloody years. Groaning, Arthur ends the kiss and leans his forehead against Merlin’s. “Please don’t tell me I’ve been sent back in time and took you to bed like a brute.”
Basically a PWP one-shot with a dash of time travel.
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09 Jan 2026
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Slow, It's Earthquake Weather by antistar_e (kaikamahine)
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
06 Jul 2010
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His mother warns him, she says, don't let that boy get too attached to you.
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09 Jan 2026
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sometimes i think i forget to bookmark things bc i think about them so often i don't need to save it anywhere. i just look it up by name every time.
this would be one of those.
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It's the first Christmas after his father's death, and Arthur is spending the holidays in Ealdor, visiting an old university friend for the first time in years. With his father gone and his sister unreachable, he isn't expecting much joy from the festive season, but it turns out this might just be the beginning of something wonderful after all.
Written for Winter Knights 2025.
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05 Jan 2026
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Tis the season for me to be obsessed exclusively with fics about bone-crushing, paralyzing grief, apparently. This one also cute, though.
*ugly crying*