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“Perhaps we are doing her a favor then,” he says, pausing to chew the inside of his cheek before adding in a measured, careful voice. “I wouldn’t want to live without my love, either.”
Arthur whips around in the saddle to stare at him, eyes hard and dark, like the storm clouds building on the distant horizon. “What love? You haven’t got a love,” he snaps, like he’s the sole keeper of all Merlin’s secrets.
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Then Arthur stands up, strides over, and sits on Merlin. He pins him to the floor of the cave and covers his mouth with his hand, like he cannot stand another word to touch the air. “Stop,” he begs, eyes wide and glistening, mouth a trembling thing. The loneliness shines in the black of his gaze, and Merlin stares up at it, stricken, silenced, astounded. “Just shut up. I do not need to be reminded that it’s different for you than it is for me,” he says fiercely, eyes welling so much a single tear drips down onto Merlin’s face, somewhere beneath his eye and above the clamping pressure of Arthur’s hand. Arthur wipes his face furiously into his own shoulder. “ I know you're not mine the way I’m yours. I know I am only your duty. But don’t rub it in, Merlin, let me just—let me have these fucking hunting trips where I can pretend I have all of you.”
(Layl: 7/10)
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Arthur is cursed to obey Merlin’s orders.
Obviously this has very little impact on their lives, since no servant would ever dare give orders to a prince.
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LMAO
(Layl : 9.5/10)
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In many ways, things are the same as ever.
It’s only… Well, back when Merlin still had things like secrets, or privacy, or self-respect, he would have thought that of the secrets, the magic would have been the one to truly catch Arthur’s interest.
But no. It’s the other secret that Arthur picks and plucks at.
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“Merlin doesn’t lie to me,” says Arthur, clear and even. “There is no doubt—”
“Of course I lie to you,” says Merlin, choosing this terrible, horrible moment to become lucid. “I’ve been lying to you since we met.”
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- Part 2 of author’s faves
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Four times Arthur doesn’t notice Merlin kissing him – and one time he kisses Merlin first by greymantledlady
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
26 May 2016
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Self-explanatory title! Four times + one time.
Because I've always wanted to do one of these. Pure self-indulgent fluffiness!
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- Part 5 of Merlin/Arthur Fics