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“Are we waiting for your Arthur to have an audience? I'm sure my men will have captured him by now,” the man continued, crossing his arms with amusement.
It was Merlin's sceptical sneer that broke Arthur's train of thought. He moved closer behind the rock wall to look at his face, and what he saw made him swallow hard. Merlin's gaze was lowered, but a bitter smile played on his lips as if the other man's words were the stupidest thing he had ever heard in his life.
“For the last time...” Merlin finally said, raising his head and staring at him arrogantly. “He's not coming. He doesn't care about me.”
Arthur's heart sank.
The man just smiled and took another step towards Merlin. The belt holding his boots fell to the ground.
“We'll see.”or
Merlin has been kidnapped by Cenred’s men. Even though they haven’t spoken for weeks, Arthur goes to look for him.
Struggling with resentment, they will both have to set aside their beliefs to find their way back to each other. -
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How Merlin had ended up dancing with Arthur in his chambers, he truly had no idea.
Yet there they were, with an extremely patient Arthur – more patient than Merlin had never seen him - guiding him and offering him gentle tips on how to move with the rhythm of the ballad. Although Merlin had landed on Arthur’s feet several times and had nearly throwing them off balance at least three occasions, Arthur hadn’t once scolded him or teased him.
He seemed relaxed, Merlin realised, catching the soft, encouraging smile on Arthur's face. It was strange to see him like that, especially since he had become king and his duties had multiplied. Yet now he looked unguarded, carefree.
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After years of struggle, Arthur has finally done it—magic is once again free in Camelot.
As the kingdom celebrates, the only thing Arthur wants is to be with Merlin, to share this victory with the man who had given up so much for him. In the quiet of their chambers, surrounded by the distant echoes of joy, Arthur finally allows himself to embrace what has always been there between them.After all, it was only a matter of time.
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He had followed him in silence to the edge of a tiny clearing in the woods. In the middle of it was a rock high enough to almost sit on, but Arthur had ignored it and stopped a little further on, his arms folded.
He had his back to him, which Merlin was momentarily grateful for because it had given him a way to catch his breath and hide any emotion from his face before the other began to speak.
It didn't take long. Only a few seconds of silence passed before Arthur's voice reached him in a painful whisper.
"Is this how it will be from now on? Will we ignore each other while pretending to enjoy someone else's company?"
Merlin closed his eyes, feeling the usual boulder weigh on his lungs. He wondered if he would get used to that feeling sooner or later. Probably not.
"Is this what you were doing? Pretending to enjoy Gwen's company?"
Arthur's shoulders stiffened, but he didn't respond.
"And let me guess," he continued, now blabbering on. "You think that's what I was doing too, right? With Lancelot?"
There was a moment of silence, and then Arthur answered, in a flat voice.
"Was it?"
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The second time Arthur noticed something was really wrong with Merlin was the next day, during the banquet in honour of Queen Annis's last day of her visit, and it seemed like a perfectly normal and thoroughly enjoyable evening.
It was just as Merlin poured the wine into his glass that Arthur noticed something that immediately caught his eyes and that made his bowels twist in a painful grip. The sleeve of Merlin's tunic had risen slightly and Arthur's attention had shifted to his servant's right wrist, where there was a purplish-yellow bruise that looked a couple of days old.
“What’s that?”, he asked abruptly.or
Arthur notices that something is wrong with Merlin and decides to intervene.
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Modern AU: Everyone keeps assuming that Merlin and Arthur are together, so as a joke, they start pretending it's true. And then, suddenly, it is.
A story of giant teddy bears, meddling sisters, nonexistent homoerotic subtext (or is it?), and accidentally falling in love.
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28 Jun 2026
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When Arthur comes home for the holiday bringing his significant other with him, he's braced for the mandatory torment of prying and embarrassment by his family. What he isn't expecting is the presence of his ex.
Cue meddling relatives, a handful of flashbacks, soul searching, and the happy ending we all deserve.
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08 Jun 2026
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It was secret: behind closed doors they were closer than what people saw them to be. No one knew that the two had been courting for years, no one knew that Arthur had proposed underneath a willow tree, no one knew that Merlin said yes.
No one knew until it was too late.
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08 Jun 2026
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Arthur is nine-and-twenty when he wakes by the lake alone. His first thought is of Merlin and he knows, immediately, that something is wrong.
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08 Jun 2026
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As a teenager, Merlin Emrys had been completely in love with Arthur Pendragon. Merlin was the happiest he had ever been until Mordred Flint. What followed Mordred's arrival in Ealdor was a string of bad luck. By the time of his 18th birthday, Merlin has been left broken by those he had once cherished.
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Almost 14 years following the events that led him to flee Ealdor, Merlin lives a comfortable life in London. The arrival of a familiar face threatens to undo all of Merlin's hard work in forgetting his past.
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05 Jun 2026