Fic: Escapement
Escapement | Merlin/Arthur | G
futurefic, 100 words
Sometimes Merlin sits on the stairs, the big ones that lead into the castle proper, and watches the light pass from one side of the courtyard to the other.
"Watching you, one might think you're just a lazy bum, not the greatest sorcerer this world has ever known."
Arthur sits down next to him. Merlin smiles because he's helpless to do anything else. "One might think that," Merlin says, "It doesn't bother me." Arthur touches his hand, entwines their fingers. He doesn't say they're running out of time, but Merlin knows anyway.
That is why he sits in the sun, sometimes.
futurefic, 100 words
Sometimes Merlin sits on the stairs, the big ones that lead into the castle proper, and watches the light pass from one side of the courtyard to the other.
"Watching you, one might think you're just a lazy bum, not the greatest sorcerer this world has ever known."
Arthur sits down next to him. Merlin smiles because he's helpless to do anything else. "One might think that," Merlin says, "It doesn't bother me." Arthur touches his hand, entwines their fingers. He doesn't say they're running out of time, but Merlin knows anyway.
That is why he sits in the sun, sometimes.