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Lily and Severus still manage to talk to each other once a year. Why is Severus more anxious this year in particular?
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- Part 1 of As Time Goes By
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Warning! This work contains spoilers for S04E01. . This is a short series of prognostications about what is happening in the mind of John Watson during and immediately after The Six Thatchers.
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John has a few things he wants to clarify about the events of 2017.
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John invites Sherlock to join him when John brings Harriet to a Coldplay concert. Sherlock agrees, hoping to learn something more about John's childhood. Harriet cooperates, revealing something unexpected.
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John and Sherlock make a detour on the way home from Baskerville. The question is, which is more inexplicable, the rites of human violence or the depths of human love?
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Sailing Deep Waters by PenelopeWaits
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
21 Oct 2013
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“God, but I hate you,” Merlin chokes out, and it sounds horrible. It sounds like a lie, and the shattering truth of the matter is that Arthur has always been excellent at sniffing those out.
There is a reason why he makes a great lawyer. Merlin simply wishes that things were different, at least in those rare moments where he admits it to himself.
Ironically enough, most often that happens when he is drunk, or when he is about to come; ironically enough, it is still Arthur who, more often than not, is responsible for either.
It is bad form to hook up with the competition; it is worse form to keep hooking up with your ex. Somehow, Merlin's questionable life choices might lead to something good—great, even—anyway.
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- Part 54 of Merlin Stories
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Bookmarked by PenelopeWaits
16 Oct 2022
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This packs an entire novel into a few pages and leaves the reader longing for more.
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Only A Dream Of The Grass Blowing by Hum My Name (My_Kind_of_Crazy)
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
02 Sep 2020
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The dreams begin five days after Merlin’s execution.
The dreams— colors and shapes made from the wreckages of Arthur’s memories, as meaningless as words like loyalty and friendship— begin with the gentle questioning of something uncertain of its own right to exist.
And Arthur answers the question the only way he can— with his mind turned away from the thoughts that filled him at night, facing the morning with nothing more than a frown and a promise not to think of his dream again.
There are more important things to face, anyway. Whatever his father has planned each day, it leaves no room for Arthur to think of petty things like a moment of a bad dream.
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Merlin's a traitor. Merlin's a sorcerer. Merlin's dead and no longer a problem.
Or, at least, he would be-- if he hadn't shifted into Arthur's dreams instead. Not a ghost but still not quite there, Merlin fills the place in Arthur's head at night. At first, Arthur does all he can to ignore it. Eventually, though, he has no choice but to speak with the man who broke his trust.
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Bookmarked by PenelopeWaits
10 Jul 2022
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Bittersweet and angsty and beautifully crafted, with the perfect ending in the nick of time.
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You can determine the measure of a man by observing how he treats his lessers, except that, to Arthur, Merlin has (almost) never been his lesser, and Merlin himself (almost) never saw them as anything other than equals. As their destinies steadily intertwine, both young men realize it is more than just fate that ties them together.
A series of firsts and defining moments for Merlin and Arthur...
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Modern AU. For the last twenty two years Uther Pendragon has been waging war on magic. Now his son Arthur has been framed for a magical crime and sent to the prison for magic users. Arthur is instantly targeted by the inmates, but mysterious top dog Merlin takes him under his wing. They form a bond, and Merlin decides to help Arthur clear his name.
(Warnings: non-con and dub-con, though it's brief and not M/A, violence, death of minor characters )- Language:
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21 Dec 2021
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A well imagined, dystopian future where the boys are both BAMFs and together, they change the world
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Bookmarked by PenelopeWaits
07 Jun 2021
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A brilliant series of honor and love and very funny bickering, brilliant!