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Arranged marriages were usually quite the cold and formal affair. So, when Merlin Emrys had walked down the throne room towards him and Arthur had fallen in love on the spot, the Crown Prince of Camelot had felt… perplexed, to say the least.
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"So" Lestrade says in an encouraging voice, playing with a napkin. "How's it going with… Sherlock?"
John takes a sip from his beer and stares at nothing in particular.
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"I think myself in love, and I dream myself out of it."
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The one in which Sherlock and John talk about bridge. Well, not really.
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“Oh, how would I have wanted to disappoint you. To make you miserable because of me. Only for once. But I wasn’t able to do it back then, and I’m still not able to do it now. Breaking your heart is a high privilege reserved to John Watson alone.”
(edited, corrected and - hopefully - improved)
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Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
17 Jan 2021
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Arthur is under the (mistaken) impression that Merlin's neckerchief is a token of love. Merlin is under the (mistaken) impression that Arthur is in love with somebody else. It's a good thing neither of them is the jealous type, otherwise things could end up getting pretty awkward...
Written for Merlin Holidays 2020.
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18 Jan 2021
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It is days like today when Merlin realizes how very grateful he is to be best friends and flatmates with the very wealthy and very generous Arthur Pendragon, even if it makes him feel literally insane most of the time. Even if the writer’s block is sort of Arthur’s fault in the first place because Merlin finds it increasingly demotivating and depressing to try to write emotionally satisfying gay romance novels when he suffers the misfortune of living in a rather emotionally unsatisfying one, with endlessly building tension and no fucking climax.
Or, Merlin is a romance writer secretly and pitifully in love with his best friend and flatmate Arthur. To unstick his writers block he decides to date Gwaine and Elyan, a poly couple. Turns out nothing unsticks except Arthur's sanity.
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13 Jan 2021
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"Did you bring me flowers, Merlin?"
"Uh, no?”
Arthur gestured to a spot on the table behind him. “What’s that, then?”
Merlin slowly twisted around to see what he was pointing at, dread curling in his gut. Primly placed on the tabletop was a bouquet of red roses.
“Er, someone else must have left them there. I have no idea where they came from,” Merlin lied awkwardly.
As if on cue, a rose fell out of his jacket pocket and Merlin's stomach dropped a thousand feet beneath the ground.
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It's Yuletide, the newly appointed Court Sorcerer of Camelot is pining and his magic decides to do something about it.
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07 Jan 2021
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Merlin doesn’t actually mean to get stuck spying on a very wet, very naked Arthur. And yet somehow, that's exactly what ends up happening.
First place winner for Kinkalot 2019 Challenge #1: Being Watched.
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- Part 188 of Merlin Fic
- Part 1 of Kinkalot 2019
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07 Jan 2021
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Bradley wants to come on Colin's neck. Colin lets him.
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05 Jan 2021