15 Works in Arthur Pendragon Has PTSD (Merlin)
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Merlin was part way through his degree in medicine when war broke out in 1914. Not meeting the criteria to join up he became a doctor for the soldiers with injuries severe enough to be sent home with little hope—the stately home he inherited from his late uncle Gaius serving as a hospital. It’s here he meets a grievously wounded Arthur Pendragon whose scars are not all physical. As Arthur heals bit by bit in both mind and body, learning to walk on his prosthetic leg and all the frustration that comes with it, Merlin sees the good, the bad, and the downright ugly sides of him. Despite this—or perhaps because of it—they grow closer.
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Arthur notices that he hasn't seen Lancelot walking down the hallway like he does almost every afternoon, and that's strange, very strange. This thought triggers a feeling of uncertainty in Arthur and the need to check what has happened.
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Arthur is sick and Merlin is tired. Merlin makes some mistakes, but does everything he can to fix them.
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- Part 6 of MERTHUR SAD AND SOFT
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“Think about it, ladies and gentlemen,” the auctioneer crowed. “Just imagine! A prince bowing at your feet! Serving you. In any manner you wish!”
The implications of the last statement sent shudders into his body and the crowd rose in volume and even more in price.
Arthur shut his eyes. This was him now. A slave. His past life forgotten save for the appeal of selling him off to a new master. He had tried to escape so many times and had the scars to count them, but he could escape no more now. He had accepted it months ago.
Suddenly, a voice rose.
“Twelve hundred gold pieces.”
And the crowd fell into a hush.
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It’s been over a year and a half since Arthur died. Or, more accurately, woke up. Technically, he dies in eight and a half years. Well, if he messes up, that is, and he is determined not to.
But Arthur feels the grip of the king tightening with every passing day. Morgana’s magic grows under a father that would not accept it. And if his growing attachment to Guinevere would only bring more harm to her than good, then it should be best to let her go.
Merlin, of course, is of no help while Arthur continues to keep the secret of his resurrection. But should Merlin find out, he fears that his friend will be too young to understand his actions.
So Arthur waits. For it is written that the Once and Future King will take his throne. He only has to decide when.
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- Part 3 of Rewind
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This is a different take on an old story.
Merlin and Arthur develop the friendship of a lifetime. But someone attempts to break it - a mysterious Master - leaving Arthur to grow up under the cold hand of his father, Uther Pendragon. without his sister or best friend
On the day his betrothed, Princess Mithian, is set to arrive, Morgana returns after all these years to propose Merlin's hand in marriage to Arthur instead, as an experiment that those with magic can coexist with normal people.
In this change of plan, Agravaine has to rearrange his players in the game of revenge against the royal family. Could he be working with this Master as well in the pursuit of power?
Can Merlin earn Arthur's trust again after leaving? Or will Camelot fall into the hands of a corrupted Agravaine seeking vengeance if Arthur can't see that those he loves came back for him?
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He clawed out of a coma, and everyone was dead. A double drabble and free verse poem.
Written for Merlin Micro Fic 2024, for the prompt, 'Sunlight'.
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- Part 17 of "Untitled" (Merlin Drabbles)
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Arthur can recognise the way the small gaggles of his men pick themselves up and look towards him, glance in his direction and cast their eyes across the weary figures of his closest men as they come to stand beside him. He sees the way that eyes divert and choose instead to dance across the bodies below as the understanding comes that one is missing.
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Following the Battle of Camlann Arthur loses track of Merlin, he cannot find the Sorcerer that exposed himself only hours before but he will not stop searching until he find him, even if he runs himself into the ground in the process
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Revenge will surely come (your hard times are ahead) by DotDragonDot
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
20 May 2024
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Balinor falls for Arthur’s sword.
It is not him who wields it, but his father. It happens in the throne room before a small audience. The head rolls a few steps before it stops at Uther’s feet; the blank eyes staring into the depths of Arthur’s soul. There is no faint look of surprise or horror on the dead face. Nothing to suggest that this was something the Last Dragonlord hadn’t expected. It is sickening. Arthur can still hear the sound of metal against flesh and bone, not once, not twice, but thrice. Beheading someone takes a lot more physical power than one is led to believe.
- Or the one where Merlin is Emrys: A prince, the Last Dragonlord, a powerful sorcerer, and wanting Uther's head on a silver platter.
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Arthur died. He knows that. Arthur woke back up. He knew that, too. Except he woke up ten years ago, his time, which was only a year ago, now. Arthur's still trying to get his head wrapped around that one.
Still, it appears to all be going according to plan. Or, it would be, if Merlin wasn't such an ass, Arthur could stop dreaming about Gwen, and Morgana could stop yelling at him for *one second.*
When all is said and done, however, Arthur was more than willing to face those obstacles. His Knights were a different story.
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- Part 2 of Rewind
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Arthur died. Then Arthur wakes up. One week after Merlin begins his service as his manservant. Ten years worth of future knowledge is at his fingertips and the chance to make everything right: to rediscover Merlin, magic and all; to be the brother Morgana needed him to be; to spend more time with Guinevere and be the man she knew he could be, the man he aspired to become; to confront his father and change Camelot for the better.
But Arthur’s a prince again. He hasn’t known Merlin for one year, let alone ten, Morgana has no idea they were friends let alone related, Guinevere still thinks he’s a prat, and he has to act the part of a prince if he doesn’t want some poor sod getting killed in the hopes of lifting a fake enchantment Uther thinks was cast on his son.
Things are about to get a whole lot more complicated.
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- Part 1 of Rewind
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TIME TRAVEL
Arthur is alone in a forest. When he hears suspicious sounds, what he finds in front of him is his younger counterpart, a still alive Merlin and his Knights. He feels sick.
While they travel back to Camelot, the group will uncover some dark truths about Arthur's future. Why was he alone? Why does he look at Merlin with so much sadness and longing? Why does he look at his Knights like he was seeing them for the first time in years? -
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Arthur has a nightmare, and Merlin's there for him; as always:)
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- Part 1 of Merlin feels
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It never got dark here in the future, and he could never see the stars. Arthur missed the dark—was that stupid, considering the thousands of years he had apparently spent in it?
Arthur returns from the dead: lost, traumatized, and out of his depth. Not even Merlin is familiar anymore.
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For merthur week 2021 day 5: "you actually thought I loved you?"
Arthur has seen and lived so many horrors in his young life. Some nights those horrors come back to haunt him.
Merlin is there for him every single time.