Knights Captured, Merlin to the Rescue

[Cathy Cam]

I found this fic a while ago, and I tagged it for a future read. The thing is, I forgot to save it and lost it in the meantime.

The Premise of the Fic:The knights and Arthur (always Arthur) were captured in a tower/dungeon(?). Anyways, Merlin was alone and needed to rescue them. The kicker was that the knights were watching everything Merlin was

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[ext_6390640]

Hello, did you ever find this fic? I'm pretty sure I've been looking for the same one. As far as I remember, the Knights + Gwen get locked in the throne room and are forced to watch a sort of spell that shows Merlin looking for them. Merlin is hella BAMF in this and goes on to this like... dungeon/fortress area in the fortress while looking for them, and he has a lot of physical skills one would associate with a spy/assassin. He doesn't care much about what he's going, and the entire time he's there, he doesn't need to even use magic.

I remember at some point, Gwen says she is relieved because it turns out Merlin can defend them and himself.

He goes back to the castle and into the throne room and still doesn't know the knights have been hidden by an invisibility spell, and has this long fight and argument with the sorcerer that trapped the knights, while they're all bound to their chairs and watch. At some point during the fight, Merlin does reveal he has magic. I don't totally remember how it ends other than the fact that everyone is kind of amazed and the sorcerer is killed. Merlin in it is very efficient and while all his friends are surprised by him being cold because he's very nice to them still, he is a very good killer.

I cannot for the life of me remember the title and I haven't been able to find it anywhere on A03. I wondered if maybe it had been deleted, which would suck because it's really good. If this is the fic you're talking about and you've come across it at some point, please let me know!!!