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“Something’s wrong,” Merlin announced, descending into the lower room and looking at Gaius.
“Don’t tell me.” Gaius said, keeping his eyes fixed on the book he was reading, rather rudely, if Merlin was allowed to express his opinion.
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- Part 29 of Merlin Bingo 2025
- Part 2 of Merlin Fluffalooza 2025
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Another present-day Merthur fic, where Arthur returns!
*Not related to Once & Forever*
When Arthur reappears 1500 years later, both he and Merlin have to adjust to their new reality. But what happens when destiny tries to intervene? -
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Arthur Pendragon is a wealthy and successful corporate lawyer who suddenly meets Emrys, a low class escort who is hired to be Arthur's company for several business and social functions. However, things will get complicated during his week-long stay with Arthur because, as they will find out, feelings can't be control, and sometimes they are inconvenient.
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- Part 3 of modern retellings
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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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"Sure. Do I know you?" Arthur replied easily.
Merlin held out a hand for Arthur to shake. "I'm Merlin."
"So I don't know you?"Merthur Spider-Man AU
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- Part 1 of Your Bright Blue Eyes
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Merlin is younger when he goes to Camelot. Gaius wasnt able to care for him so Morgana volunteered.
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There’s a new knight-in-training in Camelot who takes a sudden interest in Merlin. Arthur is jealous and Merlin is obtuse. Both are dumb and bad with feelings.
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Arthur is relieved when Balinor the Dragonlord agrees to help, but dismayed when he refuses to come back to Camelot. Instead, Arthur is stuck waiting in the middle of nowhere while Balinor calls the dragon. To make matters worse, Arthur’s idiot manservant clearly has a massive crush on the guy: despite him being a grumpy, straggly, cave-dwelling sorcerer, who makes terrible cabbage pottage, Merlin hasn’t taken his eyes off him! Arthur will tolerate this nonsense for a couple of days, but only because he must save Camelot.
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“Don’t be so stubborn,” Arthur huffs, placing his crossbow to the side, “I’m going to help you.”
“Help me? With what?” Merlin babbles, jaw hanging a bit slack.
“The problem that’s been plaguing you.”
“I don’t know what you could possibly mean—”
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A tale as old as time, Merlin breaks his arm and Arthur decides the only solution to Merlin's pent up energy is to offer him a helping hand. In the woods...during a hunting trip. -
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It has been some time since Uther's death and magic is still forbidden in the Kingdom of Camelot.
After Merlin is forced to use his magic to save Gwen's life within the castle's very walls, Arthur finds evidence to convict an innocent woman of sorcery.
Gwen finds out that Merlin was the one responsible for the act that saved her, and offers to support Merlin, along with Lancelot and Gaius, in coming up with a way to help the wrongfully accused from meeting an undesirable fate.
When they can't think of a timely solution, Merlin forces it upon himself to take matters into his own hands and reveals his magic to Arthur.
Follow the story and watch it unravel as Arthur decides if he will follow the path of his father or become the once and future king Camelot deserves.
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“Never wander alone, my darling, or Jenny Grinteeth will get you,” Hunith used to say. “Or if you forget, make sure you say the rhyme - that wards her off.”
Jenny Grinteeth leave me be, my mother loves me, leave me be.
Jenny Grinteeth is a game they play. But as Merlin is sucked into life at Camelot, he wanders alone more than ever. He is surrounded by people, but he doubts they love him; they can’t really even know him. The loneliness becomes so routine, he forgets his mother’s warnings and the funny, little rhymes, which might otherwise have saved his life.
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Merlin never expected to die at the hands of the two people he trusted most: his wife Nimueh and his best friend Mordred. But when he unexpectedly awakens after death, he finds himself ten years back in the past. Before the betrayal. Before the lies. Before the marriage.
This time, he’s going to change everything. He knows he can’t escape fate. But if he can’t change it, he can give it to someone else. If Nimueh and Mordred were so eager to destroy him together, then they can live with each other instead. To make things right, Merlin must make sure Mordred marries his wife.
And somewhere along the way, the crown prince of Camelot starts looking at Merlin a little too closely.
Or: Marry My Husband but make it Merthur :)
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Merlin visits Lake Avalon every year on the anniversary of Arthur's death. Every year, he makes the same wish - that he would once again be reunited with Arthur.
Merlin lies down in the grassy outcrop that replaced the dried up lake and dreams of Arthur. He still thinks he's dreaming when Lake Avalon fills back up with thrashing, frigid water and threatens to take him away from the land of the living.
When Merlin is drowning, he dreams of Arthur's face. He dreams that he feels Arthur's strong arms holding him once again, pulling him from the grasp of the lake and onto the safety of the shoreline.
Merlin still thinks he's dreaming when Arthur speaks to him and reassures him that he's here to stay. It's almost too real for Merlin to handle.
But, what if it wasn't a dream, after all?
*updating as I write*
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Merlin's developed a new interest. A hobby of sorts. As if magic didn't make him enough of an outsider he's found a unique interest in crossdressing. The colors, the fabrics, stitching, and embroidery -- all of it has sparked his interest.
Now bring in the fact the soon-to-be king of Camelot, Arthur Pendragon, has just found out about this and things get messy. Let's see how long Merlin can keep this hobby quiet before everyone else he knows finds about it.
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Arthur’s heart dropped to his feet. “It’s too hard, Gaius. I can’t do it anymore.” Arthur had never heard Merlin in so much pain before. Not when they’ve been attacked or kidnapped or almost killed. But that, it sounded like Merlin was choking on his own cries, on his own tears, and it took everything Arthur had for him to not ram the door open in that moment. “I can’t keep lying to him. I can’t keep doing this to Arthur!”
Merlin and Gaius were always so busy running around the citadel trying to stop assassins and sorcerers and everything else in-between that they often forgot other people were around. Whether it was the fact that their door being closed didn’t suddenly mean no one would ever be able to hear them, or the fact that talking loudly in a hallway wasn’t a secret place, the two of them seemed to give out more of their treason acts than they knew.
With the Guards and Knights of Camelot stumbling across these two men in various stages of illegal activities, just how long can Merlin stay off the pyre and keep his head? And just how long will it be until it’s Arthur himself who overhears one of their conversations about all the ways they break the law?
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AU where Arthur has a twin sister, Artesia. Merlin is a knight in Camelot and magic is no longer out-lawed.
“Merls, I see how you two look at each other” Gwaine exclaimed “For fucks sake!”
“We do not look at each other in any way” Merlin replied flustered.
“Oh, come off it, Merls. During training today, you looked like you wanted to be a damsel in distress just so that your knight in shining armor could save you!” Gwaine joked, laughing at Merlin’s fluster.
“I did not,” Merlin laughed, blushing. A detail that didn’t go unnoticed by Gwaine.
“You did! Oh I bet. Your crush on the princess is embarrassing” Merlin threw something at Gwaine, making him laugh even louder.
“Shut it! someone is going to hear you” Merlin said while Gwaine kept laughing.
He didn’t deny his crush. Arthur frowned with a knot on his throat and he walked away. He should have known better than letting himself hope. A new day awakened and Arthur decided to put Merlin and Artesia out of his mind. He really hoped that in some way that he misinterpreted all the situation someway but clearly not.
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Merlin thought he understood why Arthur had come. He had no regrets. He'd said good-bye to his mother and made peace with what his king had to do. He only hoped that one day Arthur would understand all that Merlin had done.
But Merlin had never been more wrong in his life.
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- Part 29 of Would You?
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“All I do know is that I had help. Someone knew I was in trouble and…sent a light To guide the way.”
And so someone had. And that someone seemed to come back, over and over again.
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When a ghost allegedly haunts Camelot’s halls, the Knights of the Round Table embark on a midnight investigation. Leon’s sceptical, Percival’s hiding on top of the table, Arthur’s hunting for snacks, and Merlin…is why there’s a ghost rumour in the first place.
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- Part 4 of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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He grips the reigns in clenched fists, trying to stay mounted as his horse wildly dashes through the snow and underbrush, dodging trees in its panic to flee the beast that had frightened it. Merlin can hear the knights following on their horses, hoof beats pounding into the snow. He tries ineffectively to stop his frightened mare, but it is of no use, she keeps chase deeper into the forest.
“Merlin!”
He peers over his shoulder to see Arthur close behind, chasing the shrieking animal, which upon further inspection, Merlin realizes is another boar, this one overgrown and fiercesome. It’s tusks like daggers, the length of a man’s forearm, and razor sharp. With wide eyes he meets Arthur’s, which are staring back at him with poorly concealed worry.