Drabble: Hemmed In (BBC Merlin, Merlin+Arthur, "Choices")
AN: Written for slashthedrabble's Past Challenges Revisited #192 (Choices #91)
Hemmed In
Perhaps it will be in a dark wood, hemmed in and outnumbered, with no old friend to take the blame; perhaps out on the field of battle, surrounded by a sea of metal and dead flesh and flowing standards trampled into the earth.
Perhaps it will be a long terrifying moment by the hearth in familiar chambers--if he can just trust--if he can just find the right words.
Merlin presses his hands to Arthur's bloody face, feels the frantic thrum of life flowing beneath his deathly stillness, and nearly sobs, wondering how long he can avoid this choice.
Hemmed In
Perhaps it will be in a dark wood, hemmed in and outnumbered, with no old friend to take the blame; perhaps out on the field of battle, surrounded by a sea of metal and dead flesh and flowing standards trampled into the earth.
Perhaps it will be a long terrifying moment by the hearth in familiar chambers--if he can just trust--if he can just find the right words.
Merlin presses his hands to Arthur's bloody face, feels the frantic thrum of life flowing beneath his deathly stillness, and nearly sobs, wondering how long he can avoid this choice.