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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    “…Do you think I’m hard to love?”
    Arthur doesn’t breathe.
    Because he knows. He knows that Merlin means it, knows this isn’t a question for reassurance. It’s a confession of fear. And it breaks something in him to know why Merlin is asking.
    Arthur turns his whole body to face him. Looks him in the eye.
    “No,” he says, with the certainty of the sun rising — not questioned, not earned, just as a fact.
    Merlin swallows.
    Arthur continues, softer now, “I think you’re hard to read. But never hard to love.”

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    20 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 64

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    "A thousand?” Arthur’s voice took on a steely edge. “What, days? Weeks? You've hardly changed, Merlin, don't exaggerate.”

    "Years.” Merlin gasped. He pushed himself back to stare at Arthur, to run his hands through his damp hair, keep his eyes fixed on Arthur's shocked face, as though he was just a trick of the light that would disappear as soon as Merlin looked away.

    "Years." Arthur said, flatly.

    "Y-yeah." Merlin's teeth began to chatter. "A thousand, five hundred, and-" a particularly violent shiver ran through him and he stumbled on the muddy lake-bed, but Arthur caught his arm and steadied him again.

    "Alright, Merlin, let's get out of the water before we both freeze to death."

     

    Merlin has waited by the lake for more than a thousand years. Finally, his patience is rewarded.

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    19 Sep 2025

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    “How did you find me? How did you know I would be here?”

    “I know you,” Merlin merely says, because it’s true, and he refuses not to say it out loud just because Arthur might want to pretend otherwise. He’s told enough lies.


    Arthur could take Morgana's betrayal and Uther's death, could take the loss of Lancelot and the fact that Merlin had magic. Barely and his days singed with grief, but his kingdom always came first. The revelation, though, that Merlin had been by his side through all these years and hardships solely due to some prophecy? That—well, that is the one truth too bitter to swallow.

    When he leaves for an ill-advised break to his mother's childhood home to get away from it all, more things come to light than the simple and irrevocable fact that no authority—no king, no prince, no destiny—could ever make Merlin do anything.

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    11 Sep 2025

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    Arthur doesn't trust the magical orb that appears to help him in the darkness of the cave as he attempts to retrieve the antidote for his poisoned manservant. He doesn't trust it, that is, until he recognizes the orb as being the same beautiful blue as Merlin's eyes.

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    11 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 23

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    Tell me what hurts you and I will ail it. Tell me what scares you and I will protect you, he tried to say. Tell me what burdens you and I will carry it. Anything to not watch you suffer.

    But no words left his mouth, for he too was afraid to bare his soul.

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    Or: Merlin has spent the last two centuries building the farm Arthur had always dreamed of but when his King returns, he realises that time cannot heal all wounds... But maybe love can

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    10 Sep 2025