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He moves quickly. Cleanly. Efficiently.
And he strikes the sorcerer down where he stands.
___Arthur believed Dragoon had killed his father. So when the sorcerer raised his hand, Arthur struck first — quick, clean, and fatal. Now Merlin is dead by Arthur’s hand. But something ancient has begun to wake in his place.
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"Arthur had known something was up the moment he had woken up late to a meeting. Merlin, despite how much of a bumbling idiot he was, never failed to wake his king on time."
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aka, Merlin gets kidnapped, and a frantic Arthur would do anything to get his manservant back.
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It wasn’t the first time a visiting noble had vented their frustration with a slap or a punch. Hell, even the occasional knight had done so. It also wasn’t the first time that said slap or punch had sent Merlin to the floor. Despite how used to it he had gotten, the embarrassment always came flooding in. As if Merlin should have expected it, steeled himself better, and gained the strength to stand tall when it happened instead of crumbling to the floor like a fainting maiden. The humiliation scalded.
It will hurt. Then it will be over. It will hurt, then it will be over. It will be over. Merlin chanted it repeatedly in his head; the motto of his whole life in Camelot.
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Arthur is still staring at the innkeeper like she’s sprouted antlers, mouth half-open in a mix of confusion and barely concealed alarm. He swallows hard, clearly trying to piece together a response. Merlin’s hand tightens helpfully on his shoulder to keep him from doing something stupid. Finally, voice cracking slightly, he manages: “Isn’t... isn’t magic outlawed?”
The woman shrugs, entirely unbothered. “Maybe where you’re from.”
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Or, where Merlin and Arthur go on a hunt and wind up very, very lost.
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It had been a year or so now, since the magic ban had been reversed, months since Merlin became Court Sorcerer. And a few more weeks since Merlin's injury.
Arthur had finally given Merlin the Court-Sorcerer chambers he was promised, that just happened to be down the hall from the kings own .
Arthur would insist this was not on purpose, but everyone had seen them around the castle, holding and kissing each others hands, teasing each other as usual but with the addition of grinning at each other.
There had been a shift in their relationship, and it meant they were more protective of each other than usual. If it wasn't terrifying, it would probably be sweet.
But of course this is Camelot, not everything can stay perfect for too long. Destiny would never allow it.
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A continuation from the previous fic in this series. (read if you want context for Merlin's injury or their realtionship, but not needed)Merlin and Arthur begin courting, Merlin knows nothing about noble courting rules, Arthur will do anything to protect Merlin.
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- Part 2 of Merlin has Chronic Pain
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Camelot has no king. All that remains is Queen Guinevere and Sir Leon. His steady friendship is all she has left, offering her a hint of... love? Then Merlin turns up—he didn't die as feared and has returned. Instead of joy at his return, Gwen is angry. She assumed him dead—now it seems he abandoned her. Merlin never meant to leave her, he needed time, but it seems she can't see it as anything else. No matter how hard he tries, he isn't enough—maybe Gwen needs something else. Someone else. Can he resurrect the past for her—or should the past stay in the past? As if tensions in Camelot aren't enough, a seemingly trivial error has morphed into a threat lurking outside the kingdom. Time reveals the threat is already within the castle—close to the queen. It seems the past can't let go of Camelot, and with the Cup of Life falling into the conflict, past mixes with future. Camelot needs a new start. The old ways versus the new. Fear. Respect. Magic. Fear alone can't lead Camelot, respect must be earned and magic's future is uncertain.
They'd all begun to think they were safe—but is Camelot even meant to have a future? Or is it doomed to the destiny of its past kings? To die—and leave them all devastated amidst its ashes. -
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Arthur lifted his eyes to the Knight, finally. “Why did you kiss him?”
“I already told you. We spoke.”
“Of whoring?”
“Of choice. And the difference between having one, and having none.”
“And he couldn’t come to me,” Arthur sighed sadly.
“Not with *that* word in his mind, in his ear. Not knowing the fury it could invoke in you. He didn’t want to hurt you.”
“So you kissed him instead, thinking that would hurt less?” Arthur accused harshly.
“No, I kissed him so he’d take me seriously. Words weren’t getting me anywhere. The two of you have been fighting this battle for *years*- so they haven’t gotten *you* anywhere, either. I knew it was time to be done with words. And I didn't overly much care at the time how *you* would feel about it. I cared about what *he* needed.” Gwaine chuckled, shaking his head. “He threw me clear across the Garden.”Series
- Part 8 of The Bond Series: Merlin
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Taryan always felt she pulled the short sticks in life, but walking out of a dirty and unkept lake was a new low, even for her. Taryan would emerge from the water and stumble in the beloved story of “Merlin”.
After coming to terms of transitioning worlds, Taryan begins to think about her survival. This proves to be challenging with suspicious glances coming her way, mostly falling from the protagonist, Merlin. A secret conceiver himself, that is convinced more is at play with Taryan’s ploy of being a servant girl with “amnesia”. Taryan decides she won’t limit herself to being just a “background” character and involves herself in changing the story.
This includes saving characters' lives, starting (unexpected) relationships, and trying to lessen the burdens Merlin faces, despite his inquiries of her background. Taryan will learn not everything is predictable with neverseen characters' secrets, a reveal of a bastard son, and dark themes Taryan swears never would have seen the light of day in the story. Taryan’s choices are also no easy tasks, no thanks to a certain dragon that advises her own death and a destiny-bound warlock who might heed its advice.(PLZ NOTE- in Taryan’s universe, “Merlin” is a book series)
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MERTHUR AU - Dating Mr. Right For All The Wrong Reasons by writingcreature
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
19 Jul 2026
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After the death of his father, a building tycoon, Arthur reluctantly takes over his father's business. Due to a failed relationship and his ruined plans for the future, he has pretty much shut himself off from the outside world and lives a lonely life in his penthouse. On his fortieth birthday, Arthur's sister, Morgana, gives him a special birthday present - a man for one night. Initially, he thinks it's a joke, but he soon realizes it's not. The man in question is Merlin, an elite escort with the luxury of choosing his clients. Although it was supposed to be just a one-night stand, things get complicated, and both men question whether they have real feelings for each other. They are confronted with their past traumas, threatening to ruin their newfound happiness together. It is a precarious situation in which they walk a tightrope between love and impulsive desire. On top of it, Arthur must fight his uncle Agravaine, who wants to destroy his nephew's reputation at any cost to snatch his position and get Pendragon Enterprises under his control.
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- Part 7 of Modern Merlin
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Years have passed since the Battle of Camlann. Arthur and Merlin have not only brought peace to Albion but have also transformed their bond into a passionate love. However, a curse cast by one of Morgana’s former allies turns everything upside down: Arthur is thrust back exactly ten years in both body and mind.
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Having reverted to his old, reckless youth, Arthur never could have imagined that his once-scrawny manservant would mature into such a breathtaking and sexy Court Sorcerer.
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Merlin has spent fifteen hundred years waiting for Arthur Pendragon to return.
When it finally happens, Arthur is arrogant, spoiled, and convinced that Arthurian legend is a complete waste of time.
Naturally.
As if that weren't enough, the rest of the knights begin turning up, Sir Leon starts writing him impossible letters from the sixth century, and a series of increasingly disastrous events threatens to upend all of their lives.
Merlin always thought the waiting would be the hard part.
He was wrong.
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A curse. A week. An ending before there was ever a beginning.
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Arthur and Merlin keep having nightmares and bumping into each other on midnight snacks and tasks. Arthur needs to check if he's dreaming.
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Gwaine is perfectly happy drifting through exam season with his boyfriend and dear friends by his side. Life isn't totally figured out - is it ever? - but they're happy. Content and together and so very whole; and determined to hold onto that contentedness even as life comes knocking, and they start to quickly realise that they might all be destined for different paths.
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Arthur surged to his feet and began pacing, sword clenched in one hand. He didn’t speak for several minutes. His heart raced and memories crowded in his head.
He remembered letting go. He remembered feeling regret at not being able to see those he loved again. A part of him had known the wound was fatal.
It had to have been healed by magic…right?
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Do you love him? by NotoriousJYT
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Arthurian Mythology & Related Fandoms
19 Jul 2026
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"Do you love him?”
Queen Ygraine asks the question gently, but Arthur knows better than to mistake gentleness for mercy.
He has come to ask permission to formally court Merlin: son of Balinor, Chief Dragonlord of Albion, and Hunith, Ygraine’s trusted lady-in-waiting. It should be simple. It is not.
Because Merlin is not only the man Arthur loves. He is Dragonkind’s future, Dafyd’s blood, Druid-touched magic, and a sovereignty older than Pendragon law.
In a Camelot where Ygraine survived and magic returned to public life, Albion has rebuilt itself around a fragile peace between Crown, Dragonkind, the Old Religion, and the old threshold kingdoms. But restoration is not the same as healing.
As Arthur and Merlin’s courtship becomes public, Ascetir’s roots begin to stir, Dafyd’s tidal arches hum at the wrong tide, Avalon’s mists remember what Camelot forgot, and old roads bend toward the Forest of Balor and the Great Stones of Nemeton.
Something wounded beneath Albion has begun to ask for witness.
Or: Ygraine lives, Arthur loves Merlin openly, and Albion discovers that love is not weakness, possession, or conquest — but covenant.
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Arthur and Merlin broke the bed, but not in the way you might imagine.
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- Part 58 of MERTHUR SAD AND SOFT
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Merlin has been trying to save Arthur for 1,500 years. He gave up hope ages ago that he would rise again. He doesn't even know how or why he's still alive.
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After Arthur lifted the ban on magic, Merlin decided that the kingdom to actually embrace magic, needed to not just allow it, but to shelter it, so he has invited some magic users to the castle, to become his apprentices.
Indeed, a bunch of teenage magic users in the castle, what could go wrong?
Sammy, whose most praised possession is a jester hat and lives in the middle of the woods in a tree house, just received a letter from Consort Merlin Emrys to go to live at Camelot as his magic apprentice.
it could be a trap, but also his chance to be free, and he decides to take it.
Accompany him and his new friends on an adventure that will take them to places they never thought, making more friends and allies, finding love, learning about their magic, reconciling with their pasts, and fighting enemies, not just Morgana, but also a new group of rogue magic users who want to make their own purge to kill all those with no magic.Series
- Part 2 of Do you believe in magic?
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"I'm your King and your Father!" Arthur lowered his head. "You'll show me some respect! You dog was useless,it would have lifelong consequences in his leg and back. A thing with no right body for serving is worst than dust."A thing with no right body is worst than dust.
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The legendary man, upon whose shoulders rests the responsibility of being king for the land's prosperity, survives and returns home. The kingdom of Camelot flourishes under a new reign; magic is permitted, and years of grandeur are the norm.
Years later, Arthur Pendragon realizes he is no longer the magnificent figure he once was; he is merely a shadow.
But in Merlin's eyes, Arthur Pendragon has never ceased to shine.
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