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Loneliness is an insidious thing. When Merlin looks at Arthur, he sees not just a prince waiting for his time to rule, but a young man struggling to find his place in the world, with little help from anyone else.
The truth is, Arthur needs more than the friendship Merlin can offer. He needs people he can trust: men and women who will become his court and his confidants, and if he is going to survive to take the throne and lead Camelot into its golden age, he needs them sooner rather than later.
Finding loopholes in Uther’s laws is no easy feat. Court life is a dangerous game, but it’s one Merlin has every intention of winning so that Arthur can have knights of his choosing by his side.
And then there is the matter of his magic…
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Ishrimabî Amrâdu. Death's Blemish. A slow disease with no cure, one that could sweep through a mountain hall in days, felling all it touched.
He closed his eyes, thinking of all those who sheltered from the harsh winter within Erebor's walls. They made do in a kingdom that was more akin to a tomb, tumbling into ruin around them. Repairs were underway, but they would take years to complete. He would never see this place restored to its former glory. Those would not be his days to reign.
His fate, it seemed, was sealed.
When disease strikes at Erebor's heart, consigning Thorin to a lonely death, Bilbo makes a choice that could change the path of their destiny. Can they heal together and find their way to the love they both hope to claim, or are they doomed to nothing but tragedy?
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From Fortune's Wounds (I'm Weeping) by BeautifulFiction
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
25 Jul 2025
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Hans' cry of warning was a useless embellishment upon the air. He saw the moment of teetering balance, there on the precipice. Henry's attacker grabbed at him with greedy hands, grappling, and the first skitter of pebbles were the herald of their doom.
The bandit fell, and he took Henry with him.
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All they had to do was deliver a letter, but nothing in Sir Hans Capon's life is ever easy. The wheel of fortune is always turning, and lately, he has been ill-favoured at best.
Can he and Henry forge an allegiance between Otto Von Bergow and the Lords of Leipa, or will war continue to ravage Bohemia, indifferent to the lives and hearts of the young men who hope so desperately for peace?
(A retelling of Kingdom Come Deliverence 2 from the point of view of Sir Hans Capon.)
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The sob that escaped him was a tiny thread of sound, little more than an embellishment upon the air. He did not wail. It was too big for that, too much, all the more painful for being unexpected. Not Arthur's betrothal, but his own reaction to it. It was as if all the nebulous uncertainty of the day had crystallised into a blade.
Worse, he had no one to blame but himself. He had never told Arthur how he felt. It had always seemed like a step too far, and now it was too late.
Tomorrow, he would pick up the pieces of himself and find the strength to bear the scars of it. He would be the friend Arthur needed, and he would pretend that was enough.
Tonight, he mourned.
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When Arthur announces his courtship to Lady Aveline of Spirehold, Merlin resigns himself to never speaking of his love. Yet the universe has other ideas. Stuck in the same, repeating day, can Merlin find his courage and break free, or will he lose his last chance to speak of what lingers in his heart?
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This will be a collection of "first chapters" of bigger stories I'm working on around King & Court: posted at the request of my readers. Individual summaries in chapter.
Please note that these fics are not updating frequently at all. I tend to focus on one big project at a time. Read at your own risk.
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As days became months, John found himself overlooking the cat-like characteristics or the occasional moments of Felisian behaviour. He forgot about Sherlock's sharper-than-usual canines and the way he could see in the dark. So what if he lived with a rare genetic variant of Homo sapiens, rather than a bog-standard example of the general population?
It was just Sherlock, unique in every respect and captivating for his mind as much as his physical appearance.
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A whore is not someone you attempt to woo or charm. A whore is not someone you should strive to impress. A whore is someone whose opinion matters very little. Someone you rent for a bit of fun and release. You just put money on the table and they get to say yes or no – and for the record, they seldom say no. So a whore is no one to pine for. Which is just as well, because Arthur isn’t pining for anyone.
And certainly not anyone who’ll disappear off with any random knight for the right amount.
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All in all, Arthur was one of those men about whom it could be said that their heart was in the right place, although he did take great pains to hide it. Still, the core of decency made Merlin endure the thick layers of arrogance (and their thin crispy crust of arseholery) with more patience than he’d ever thought possible. There was indeed a promise of greatness about Arthur that Merlin was willing to believe in.
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Merlin learns to live and work by Arthur's side. And vice versa.
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23 Sep 2025
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Camelot Publishing publishes romance novels, and when Arthur founds a new imprint of gay romance and invites his best friend and pet writer Merlin to write for it, it's a bit too easy to miss the fact that apparently he's living in one.
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“I was wondering if you might come home with me.” Merlin stops mid-rant and stares at him, and then down at his panini again, and back at Arthur. This is a panini of lies and pain. He can tell already.
“For Christmas? I’ve got an uncle and a mother and a sister waiting for me at home, in case you hadn’t remembered, I’m not going home with you just because you’re a workaholic.”
“No, it’s. My mum might be under the impression that we’re a little bit married.”
In which Merlin gets conned into spending Christmas with Arthur's family and pretending to be his husband, because somehow this is his life.
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21 Sep 2025
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“We lived together before and we both survived, didn’t we?” Arthur doesn't take the bait.
“Barely,” Merlin answers, picturing their uni days. The first taste of living with anyone other than his mother or sleepovers with Will. It all made for strange, dreamlike memories, for all that it has only been a few years past.
He feels like a very old twenty five most times. He shouldn’t be this age and so tired.
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