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The Attic of Portland Row by sunny_plays
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
27 Aug 2025
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For the first month, they kept saying he’d wake up ‘any day now’. That everything looked good, and it was likely just the exhaustion from years of agent work that was keeping him asleep. That this might actually be good for him in the long run.
Lucy Carlyle finds her way home in a world where nothing seems right anymore. How do you find your way back to normal when everything has changed? What do you do when the one thing you thought you’d always have is just… gone?
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30 Aug 2025
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Anthony J. Lockwood was born in 1839. He was presumed dead after a ghost hunt in 1855.
By all accounts, Lucy Carlyle should have never known a thing about him unless he showed up in a history textbook. But during a ghost hunt in 2023, the Fittes agent is shocked by the young man's sudden arrival. And with Lockwood comes a new world of danger and mystery Lucy was not prepare for.
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20 May 2025
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Home is where you make it by WindsAroundATreeLikeAVine
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
17 Mar 2023
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“That’s not my home anymore.”
Barnes felt like he was going to be sick. The incident that cost Carlyle her entire team was hard enough to read through; it was always painful to lose young agents. But the way in which the system and every adult in her life had utterly failed her? No wonder she had thrown in with Lockwood and was so distrustful of Barnes. Too many people – too many adults – had failed in their duty to protect her.
In which Barnes digs into Lucy's past and learns exactly why she would choose to stay with Lockwood rather than take the travel pass he offered her.
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18 Dec 2024
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The Immortal and the Revenant by RileyWilliamsJr
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Merlin (TV)
18 Apr 2020
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As usual, Merlin has utterly failed in keeping a low profile by inadvertently getting himself dragged into a mess of a situation that appears to have something to do with a seemingly unkillable snake man, a toad woman, an order of phoenixes, and a boy named Harry Potter who, he quickly finds, is equally bemused by his current predicament. When he discovers how lost the boy is, he resolves to help him and his friends get rid of this dark lord--as well as their malignant (and worse, ineffectual) new teacher.
Translation by EstherM available on AO3 and at: https://www.lofter.com/front/blog/collection/share?collectionId=16968473
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09 Sep 2024
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"Arthur won't be interested in seeing me after tonight."
The uneasiness grew. "Arthur relies on you." No response. Mordred swallowed and tried again. "He was nearly mad with worry when he realized... when..." There was no delicate way to say when he forgot you and left you behind. "He went out looking for you. We all did. We didn't come home for weeks."
His words faded into silence. Then Emrys said, softly, "Home." He sounded as though he was tasting the shape of it. "Home, yes. Not my home, though. Not anymore."
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- Part 1 of Confession
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20 Oct 2023
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When Merlin discovers that his father was an estranged prince and he himself is now the only heir to the throne of a magical kingdom, he is forced to leave Camelot for the perils of a royal court. Will Merlin be able to win Arthur's favor again before Morgana launches an attack on a defenseless Camelot? Will he be able to defend his own kingdom at the same time or will all be lost?
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- Part 1 of Merlin Ambrosius, King of Carthis
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07 Aug 2023
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To fortify their ties after his rescue, Rodor offers Mithian’s hand to the one Arthur respects above all others. For power comes not with rank, but from one’s connections. AU immediately following Arthur’s duel with King Odin in Another’s Sorrow. Series 5 AU
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16 Jul 2023
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When King Uther gets word of a dragon sighting, he sees a chance to finally get his hands on Balinor’s son, the last dragonlord. Prince Arthur is determined to prove himself and makes it his personal mission to slay the beast and capture its master. But amongst rising tensions with Mercia, Camelot’s hunting party is attacked and Arthur ends up alone in the forest, severely injured. He stumbles upon Merlin, who has been on the run with Aithusa ever since his father’s death. Merlin, oblivious that the injured stranger is the Prince of Camelot, ends up helping him – a fateful decision…
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14 Jul 2023
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Tom the Blacksmith gets so much more than he bargained for when he decides to adopt the baby he finds floating down the river in a basket. Eighteen years later, Merlin has grown into quite the proficient swordsman-- and quite the powerful sorcerer. When Crown Prince Arthur Pendragon convinces his father to hold an open melee with a knighthood as the prize, Merlin, his brother Elyan, and a ragtag group of commoners decide to enter. They soon discover that there is much more at play in the tournament than stuck-up knights and a contemptuous king. As Arthur becomes smitten with Merlin-- whose skill with a sword is unparalleled-- he discovers that there is so much more to this strange, mouthy blacksmith's son than he had initially imagined.
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09 Jul 2023
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Merlin wakes up in Ismere with no memory of who he is after Morgana knocks him out. The Diomare calls him Emrys and, believing that is his name, and that he is a dragon lord, he calls. He's surprised when two show up, healing one, while giving the other a shock.
He's dropped off at an abandoned house where he precedes to make a life for himself. He ends up with more than he bargained for when a woman shows up begging him to take her magical children in. It keeps happening and before he knows it he has six children relying on him and looking up to him.
Along the way, knights pass by on patrol and quickly identify his new home as a sanctuary and take rest there on occasion while passing through.
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- Part 48 of Merlin One-Shots / Writing prompts
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25 Apr 2023
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No one really speaks to Merlin after finding out about his magic, and he snaps.
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13 Apr 2023
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Harry Potter and the Secrets of Emrys by HarmonyOfTheSpheres
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Merlin (TV)
10 Mar 2024
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Merlin generally does his best to stay out of magical affairs, or at least, he likes to think he does. But after one chance encounter in Diagon Alley, a seemly incompetent new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and a fight in a bookstore, Merlin finds himself starting a new position as the History of Magic professor at Hogwarts. Unfortunately, he also finds himself under heavy suspicion from both Harry and his friends and members of Hogwarts's staff when the Chamber of Secrets is mysteriously opened once again.
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- Part 1 of Secrets of Emrys
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03 Apr 2023
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With Priestess Morgause and the powerful warlock Emrys at his side, King Cenred is set on conquering all of Albion. King Arthur is determined to keep Camelot safe from Essetir's power-hungry ruler. After sending Gwaine to infiltrate and investigate the enemy, Arthur manages to strike Cenred an unexpected blow by capturing Emrys, considered a war criminal of the worst kind. But Arthur and his knights soon get an inkling that Cenred's war sorcerer might not be as evil as they thought him to be. Will a quest to save all of Albion be enough for both king and sorcerer to step back on the path prophecies have once foretold?
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- 10/10
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08 Jan 2023
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A different direction for episode 4.7 "The Secret Sharer". Alator goes to Camelot not to find Emrys for Morgana, but with another plan in mind... Why has Emrys failed so long in his prophetic task of restoring magic to Camelot, in guiding and instructing Arthur Pendragon, the Once and Future King? Fate seems to have handed Alator the chance to right the course of history gone awry - and he's going to take it. He's going to use Gaius to find Emrys - and then they're going to have a serious conversation. But even the best-laid plans of a canny warrior-sorcerer can be diverted... Alator finds more than he anticipated, plotting ambush in iron mines of Kemeray...
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28 Sep 2022
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In which Merlin decides it is probably best not to trust the man Julius Borden. Instead, he decides it’s high time he trusts the ones who matter most. Told from Arthur’s POV.
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06 Sep 2022
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Arthur finds out about Merlin’s magic. He’s so angry he banishes Merlin from Camelot and with it destroys the bonds that they had always had. When, ten years later he needs to make a peace deal with a magical kingdom, how will Arthur cope with the King of the kingdom; an infuriating man that he can’t help but feel in his heart, that he recognizes.
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19 Jun 2022
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Synopsis: Gwaine’s POV in the aftermath of Merlin being hit by a Dororcha
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- Part 7 of My Friend, My Love - Merwaine Oneshots
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18 Jun 2022
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What would have happened if Gaius had shown Arthur the amulet that killed Uther? If Arthur believed Merlin and Gwen and Gaius rather than Agravaine?
Arthur knows that his first act as king sets the tone for his reign. And after everything he's seen in Camelot, all the laws he disobeyed or dodged during his father's reign, deciding on his first act as king is easier than anyone believed. Especially Merlin.
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20 May 2022
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What if Merlin gave Arthur different advice and in turn Arthur made a different choice in S5E5: The Disir. Magic would have become accepted in Camelot early in season 5 and changed the entire course of the show.
Magic reveal/Canon end fix/Magic returned to Camelot/In Character/Butterfly effect story/Realistic Alternative Ending.
A season 5 re-written style story as close to what really could have happened in the show as I could get it.
Canon relationships only.
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22 Mar 2022
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After accidentally witnessing Merlin's magic during a bandit attack, Arthur keeps the discovery to himself while he ponders what he thinks about it. Soon afterward, he follows his servant as he slips out of the city one night and hears a conversation not meant for his ears. He realizes Merlin has been isolated, manipulated, and ill-advised, and is suffering deeply from his life of secrecy, all for Arthur's sake. Is it too late for Arthur to bring his friend back to the cheerful, trusting friend he once was?
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12 Jan 2022