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On their way back to Camelot, Merlin and Arthur get ambushed by bandits. Arthur gets hurt in the fight, and Merlin—instead of acting like a proper servant to the king—shuts down all of Arthur’s protests and makes them share a horse so that Arthur can rest. Now, for the remainder of their way home, Arthur is seated behind Merlin in the saddle and given nothing but time to contemplate the longing in his heart.
The warmth that Merlin offers in the crisp air—Arthur’s arms wrapped around Merlin’s middle, his chin on Merlin’s shoulder—might just finally make him act on his feelings.
Written for Fluffalooza 2025 and my Merlin Bingo card 2025.
Prompt: first kiss
Square H2: horses+ ART
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- Part 6 of My Fanart 🎨
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Arthur, his knights, and merlin are on a quest. Interrupting this quest is a magical beast, who gains their attention rather quickly.
As they follow this beast, there is more to this encounter that meets the eye.
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I wish we got a more in depth look at how Arthur felt about the whole slaughtering a druid camp when he was freshly knighted.
I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR MY WORKS TO BE USED TO TRAIN AI.
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Guilt wears many faces.
There is the kind you inherit — before you ever speak a word.
The kind you forge yourself — in blood and haste.
The kind born of silence — when you should have acted and didn’t.
And the kind that lingers longest — when love is offered too late.
Most people carry one.
Some carry all of them.
Guilt does not fade with time.
It simply waits — quietly — to see whether you will carry it like a burden, or let it carve you into someone worth becoming.
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- Part 7 of A to Z titles but mostly unrelated
- Part 1 of Of Guilt and Grief
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The war between Camelot and Balinor’s kingdom has been devastating their lands for Arthur’s whole life. It was his duty to fight for his people and lead them to victory, and there was only one way to do that—to take out Balinor’s most powerful player. His own son, Merlin.
Yet when Arthur finally meets Merlin on the battlefield, he is nothing like what he had expected.
Then when Merlin messes up an attack spell and sends them both into an unknown, lifeless world, Arthur has more time than he would have liked to truly contemplate if killing Merlin is the only way forward and out of this war. What more, they will have to work together to escape. Here, it is just them, their own prejudices, and a strange, magical house that offers to cater to their needs but demands their deepest secrets in return.
Arthur might have to face some uncomfortable truths to get out of there, and perhaps, even open his heart.
Written in 24 hours for the Tournament of Champions for the Merlin Fic Book Club server on Discord.
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- Part 31 of Merlin Fic Book Club Fics
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Merlin has not reported in; without an easy way to contact him and no real way of knowing where, exactly, he's ended up, Arthur finds himself at a loss.
Luckily, Gwen and Gaius have some ideas...
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- Part 4 of A Comfortable Exile
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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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“It’s all talk, Merlin, and that’s all it can ever be.” He breathed out, suddenly losing the fire that had just been blazing in him.
Merlin took another step toward him. “When you’re King, you can change that.”
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Took a stab at rewriting bits of series 2 episode 4 "Lancelot and Guinevere" to make it a merthur love confession.
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who could ever leave me, darling? (but who could stay?) by JustASimpl3Girl
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
27 Aug 2025
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Growing up, Arthur always knew that the peculiarity of his family had affected him in some way, yet he staunchly tried to not think about it, or else he feared he’d never stop finding the lasting scars. He assumed that if he ignored it, it didn’t have to be something he had to worry about.
But as the years passed, he realized he couldn’t ignore it, and he could only be hurt by his family so much until he was sure he’d never recover.
Luckily for him, there was someone who was very determined to make sure Arthur never doubted he was loved, and that made all the difference.
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"'I'd feared you'd kill me, but much, significantly, more so, sire, I'd feared you'd hate- leave me.'"
"And, will you?"
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In a kingdom where magic is banned, knowing you have a fate-bound soulmate feels like a curse. But fate cannot be fooled; what's written will come true, even if it seems unbelievable at first.
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Let's take a moment to thank whoever decided that Camelot is warm enough for Arthur Pendragon to sleep shirtless.
This fic is basically me simping for Arthur going to sleep in a bunch of red and gold sheets like a five-star meal.---
Inspired by that one scene in Episode: s02e01 The Curse of Cornelius Sigan
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Noun. iactūra f (genitive iactūrae); first declension. a throwing away. throwing overboard, jettison quotations; (figuratively) sacrifice.
That night in the cave, a man was supposed to have been pushed off by his possessed best friend and potential love interest and land in front of his other love, whose memories would be erased of him to save her from the trauma of seeing him die. That man was also supposed to come back a vengeful wraith, determined to get revenge on the friend who he thought betrayed him, the one who lost his arm to a kitsune disguised as a dog.
But that didn’t happen.
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Arthur and Merlin inspired by Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma.
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- Part 10 of Merlin and Arthur OneShots
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Prince Arthur did not intend to bring Merlin on patrol, he didn’t even know his manservant could ride a horse. But he can’t say no to that grin, not when Merlin has gone and packed and saddled up a horse for himself without asking. It’s a dull, routine patrol along the border, almost a formality at this point. Even if magic is legal in Escetir, they’ve held a shaky peace treaty with Camelot for over a decade; it’s unlikely they’ll see any danger.
But what Arthur does not know is that the recent spike in deaths of magical creatures in Camelot has not gone unnoticed. There are whispers that King Uther is a liar and a hypocrite, now secretly rebuilding his magical defence. And to bring sorcery to the border - well now, that would be an act of aggression tantamount to declaring war.
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Arthur is worried about Merlin because he's acting strange. He's... jumpy. Like he has something to hide. He's especially lost and disoriented around other people - around Morgana, Arthur's noticed. Is the man who harbors most of his affections in love with his sister? The man is so on edge that he manages to fall off a horse when Morgana squeezes his arm in a comforting manner.
Oh how wrong he is.
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A hunting trip cut short.
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"He can’t believe Merlin had a thing for his sister! He wasn’t jealous or anything, why would he be? Merlin is his own man.
It’s not like he was interested in Merlin; Merlin is a man. Even though he had just come to terms that he was in love with him, Arthur’s mind flickered to denial to shelter himself from the wounds he’d receive from processing Merlin didn’t love him back.
So, he didn’t love Merlin. And he obviously wasn’t interested in his sister. He cut this abnormal feeling to the fact that he was annoyed Merlin liked his sister and he’s over protective over Merl- Morgana. He’s over protective over Morgana."
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- Part 2 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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What's about the bouquet Morgana thought was from Arthur? Set just after the episode.
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When Merlin sets out to teach mindspeech to Arthur, he couldn't have known just how much it would affect the friendship between King and Court Mage.
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- Part 6 of Podfic
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Sequel to Of Sorcerers and Nonchanters
BBC Merlin but not like you know it.
A role reversal.
What if not having magic was illegal?
What if Merlin was the prince instead of Arthur?
What if Arthur was Merlin’s manservant?
How would all of this change the story that we all know and love.
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Mordred had gotten what he had wanted.
He had spread his hatred, his death and his destruction, killing and tearing down those that were in his way to the throne. He had slain countless of innocents including Ygraine, a loss that lay heavy inside of Arthur’s chest. He was barely holding on since his return to the world of the living he was sure that soon he was going to break. However, he was not going to let anyone see, he had to be strong, he had to be stoic and he had to be brave. He was Arthur Pendragon, the supposed King of a broken kingdom and supposed king of a dying race. The weight was on his shoulders and he did not have time to stop and think. If he did that, he probably will never return to his feet again. At least not whole.
.There was a great fight ahead of them that they were going to have to be ready for.
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- Part 2 of Role Reversal
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The wind changed.
There was something unright about the black wolf. Golden-eyed, whip-thin. Too long of snout and limb. Among the trees, he might have been a shadow thrown by a wholly different creature–or, from the angle of the light, by Arthur himself.
Arthur had never seen him; Arthur knew him. It couldn't be, and wouldn't be beneath the sun. But it was Wolf Moon now, and Arthur's pack was somewhere in the woods, going on without him, while Arthur stood frozen as a deer, naked paws on the leaf litter, naked fur beneath the white moon, too exposed away from the safety of the brush–because he was a fool who charged in, because he was the apex predator in these woods, until he wasn't.
As prince of the Camelot wolf pack, Arthur has fought his entire life to be worthy of his title and his father's pride. When he meets a strange wolf with a too-familiar scent on the first full moon of the new year, he must decide what's really worth fighting for.
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No matter how many times he is reborn, it seems his fate is always that he's to be some sort of a Rather Important Person. Well, aside from that one lifetime, but apparently that involved some sort of birth-switching drama that should be reserved for the telly. Like, seriously. So when his memories were inevitably returned to him, so did the feeling that he really ought to be doing something Rather Important - other than what he already was.
With the mix of memories in his head, it's truly a wonder he hasn't gone off the rails yet.
Arthur sighs.
Well, there's always the next life.
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Arthur and reincarnation.
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- Part 4 of a lifetime is never enough