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The Old Religion (don't let it find me) by waxcloth_din for JamieLaNelle
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
13 Nov 2025
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After an accident, Merlin's injuries render him almost completely blind. He decides to move back home. This goes about as well as one might think.
(Enter, Arthur Pendragon.)
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When the war ends, Arthur finally captures Emrys — the sorcerer who burned Camelot and shattered the life they once shared.
Merlin is chained, starved, and defiant; Arthur is haunted, furious, and unable to decide whether he wants answers or revenge.
Between threats and silences, the past claws its way back.
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Merlin has been wandering for centuries. Waiting for the exact, unknown time that Arthur shall rise again.
He becomes a lady of King Henry VIII.
He meets Robin Hood and they share a fondness that once reminded him of a certain Prince.
He bumps into Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, more times than he would like, dying a different death each time.
But he always comes back.
He falls in love and, in turn, becomes a father, a grandfather, and a lonely old man still waiting, waiting, waiting.But this is Matty's story - Merlin's granddaughter. And the ghost of Arthur follows her everywhere.
This fic is completed, so don't worry about me not updating it. All in due time :)
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In all Merlin’s long years of waiting, he never thought he’d re-meet Arthur in North America taming the Wild West. Let alone with everyone else from his past along for the ride.
And he’s stuck as a horse.
This is going be problematic isn’t it.Or
Merlin in a Wild West AU because I can.
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- Part 4 of The Ark of Merlin
- Part 1 of The Drafty Crypt
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"Wooden wheels creaked over the barren earth."
When Merlin is kidnapped on his way to a druid camp, he is at the mercy of the elements as a new villain subjects him a new deadly truth serum.As the rest of the knights rush to his rescue, will they make it on time?
Or will blood loss along the bitter cold catch up to the Court Sorcerer?
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To leave Leon would be to cut a thread with which Merlin had been weaving a tapestry. In cutting it, in completing it, they would be left with a stunning piece of craftsmanship, but they would no longer be the working thread with which the beauty was made.
When the Camelot that they knew falls, Leon and Merlin part ways. A decade on, an arrangement is made to meet each year when the leaves change colour. As the world around them begins to alter, they both find themselves grasping for a familiar face. Immortality may skew the perception of time, but even they can't keep one another at arm's length forever.
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Another time by HadrianPeverellBlack
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Merlin (TV)
11 Nov 2025
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Merlin knew he wasn't okay.
How could he? He'd just watched his partner die, and he'd realized he'd lost him. Forever, this time.
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- Part 36 of Merlin Bingo 2025
- Part 32 of Merlin & Percy adventures
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Merlin can’t remember the last time he’s locked his bedroom door, if ever. But he chooses not to think about it. He merely sulks his way back to his bed, taking a moment to contemplate taking off his trousers and tunic from the night before. He decides not to think about that either.
Instead, he decides not to think at all. He just falls back into his bed, covers up his body more so in shame than for warmth, and closes his eyes.
Basically Merlin is sexually assaulted and this story follows how he and everyone else deals with it.
Spoiler alert: THEY DON'T HANDLE IT WELL.
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Merlin has magic,” Uther’s words hit Merlin like a ton of bricks, the spirit disappearing as if it was never there.
Merlin closes his eyes, letting out the breath he’s been holding. He feels his back hit the door behind him, holding himself up against it. He doesn’t look at Arthur, just waits.
One breath, two breath, three breath. Nothing.
Merlin opens his eyes, looking up, half expecting Arthur to have disappeared to alert the guards. Arthur is staring at him, he is stock skill, breath coming out ragged and uneven. He looks crushed and not just from expelling his father’s spirit but that must also have contributed to it.
“Arthur,” Merlin tries, swallowing when his voice shakes with the anticipation of Arthur’s reaction.
“Is it true?” Arthur asks, his voice quiet but stern, he still holds the horn tightly in his grip by his side, his knuckles white with the force.
“Arthur I-“
“Yes or no, Merlin,” Arthur interrupts, voice suddenly louder in the empty corridor, he looks Merlin in the eye while he nods wordlessly before looking away, “you-you do. You would betray me? You?”
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In which Arthur find out from spirit Uther about Merlin's magic. -
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"Merlin can’t relax without air and thinks Arthur Pendragon might be the biggest idiot in Albion at that moment. He shakes his head again, making sure to glare at Arthur as well, because it is the only way he knows how to communicate that it simply isn't possible to relax since he can’t breathe and everything hurts too much..."
Arthur helps Merlin through a difficult moment in a very unexpected way.
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Arthur catalogues things he notices about Merlin. It's second nature for him, alright? But, even Arthur can admit that he perhaps is too familiar with what Merlin's expressions mean.
one-shot where Arthur begrudgingly realizes he has feelings for Merlin.
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Merlin has lived a hundred lives. A healer. A chef. An architect. A man lost in the quiet rhythm of the world.
In the year 2025, he works at a small art museum, curating an exhibit of Arthurian legends. The paintings unsigned, half-forgotten are more than historical curiosities. They are memories. His own. Each brushstroke a thread tied to a man he can’t afford to forget.
But even memory fades. After fifteen centuries of waiting, Merlin’s grasp on the past begins to blur until a stranger walks in. A young man with familiar eyes.
But the question was, was it really Arthur returned ? Or just another echo — a face that haunts every lifetime?
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"Let him think I hate him. If that’ll stop him from risking his neck for me over and over again, then it’s a sacrifice I don’t have to think twice about."
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Arthur finds out Merlin has magic. He also finds out how often Merlin risked his life for him and so, he does the only thing he can think of to protect him: banishment.
Hurt and angry, Merlin leaves and swears to not look back.
But, when two years pass and Morgana shows up at Merlin’s door, urging him to fill Gaius’ position as Court Physician, Merlin agrees. He really doesn’t know why, but Arthur is sure Merlin would do just about anything to get on his nerves.
Unprepared for the shock of seeing Merlin back in the castle, Arthur is forced to speed along his plans to lift the ban on magic. But between stubborn councilors, a mysterious plague, a still angry Merlin, and Morgana being Morgana, Arthur is fairly certain he’ll lose his mind before the first year of his reign even ends.
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- Part 1 of All of You
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Arthur has had it! He’s done with Merlin and his stupid self-sacrificing, self-sabotaging bullshit! After a dramatic reveal, and an even more terrifying injury, Merlin finds himself struggling to let his body heal. Enter Arthur who is determined to make sure his new lover gets some proper rest.
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- Part 30 of Would You?
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When Merlin's magic is exposed shortly before season 2 starts, the path of destiny starts changing forever. Now on the run with Arthur, Morgana, and Gwen. Merlin hopes to convince Arthur that magic is totally good instead of him and Morgana just being an exception. Morgana, meanwhile, hopes to convince him to usurp his father. As allies are gathered and Arthur realizes the injustice in his kingdom, it looks more and more like he will have to act in a drastic way. A way he dreads.
Meanwhile, Arthur and Merlin are growing closer and closer and might just have feelings for each other. Something they probably should be better about realizing, considering the example of Gwen and Morgana right next to them.
In a land of myth and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom now rests on the shoulders of four, their names: Merlin, Arthur, Guinevere, and Morgana
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- Part 1 of Different Destiny
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For a split second that lasts eons, Arthur exists in that horribly weightless space before gravity conquers, and then he's falling. Distantly, he hears Merlin cry out his name in panic, and then he’s bracing himself for impact.
An impact that never comes.
Silently hoping, begging, for anything but what he knows he’s about to see, Arthur turns his head to look.
And sees Merlin, hand outstretched, and eyes ablaze with gold.
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Faced with the revelation of Merlin's secret and a sudden internal war between duty and sentiment, Arthur must make a decision that will affect both of their fates. And when Merlin is gravely injured, the time to make that decision rapidly dwindles. Arthur must quickly choose what matters most: the demands of the law, or those of his heart.
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Merlin had thought that being bound with cold iron as Sigan's captive, with a wounded Gwen brought along to ensure his obedience, was the worst fate imaginable.
As the terrifying alpha who'd butchered Sigan by splitting him down the middle curled bloody fingers in Merlin's hair and yanked him closer, the omega now understood that there were much worse endings.
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A gentle hand rested on his shoulder. Merlin turned his head to see Lancelot smile softly at him before addressing the Cailleach.
“I will go.” Lancelot stood, gazing unflinchingly into the portal of light. Merlin’s heart stopped cold as he watched Lance take a step towards his death.
“No!” His eyes flared gold...
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Lancelot didn't die on the Isle of Blessed, but it was at the cost of Merlin's secrets. How will Arthur and the Knight's react when magic is revealed so close to the heart of the Kingdom and the heart of their King?
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This letter was written by Merlin after Arthur’s death as a confession of his true feelings towards the late Arthur Pendragon.
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It is Yuletide in Camelot. On the eve before Yule, Arthur and Merlin profess their love; but then Arthur finds out about Merlin's magic and years of deception. Arthur is angry until the spirits of Yuletide show him the full truth about Merlin. There is some anger and angst along the way, but an eventual happy ending makes for a satisfying holiday story. This tale is, of course, inspired by Dickens' timeless Christmas story: "A Christmas Carol."