Fic: The Penitent's Journey
Title: THE PENITENT’S JOURNEY
Author: stoplookingup
Fandom: Merlin
Genre: Gen, canon, alternate POV
Rating: PG (violence)
Word Count: ~10,000
Spoilers: Extreme spoilers for 5.11, 5.12 and 5.13. Contains verbatim dialogue from all three episodes.
Summary: On his final journey, Arthur must come to terms with one final betrayal - Merlin’s. The series finale from Arthur’s POV.
Author’s note: It’s not easy to tell a story of transformation, forgiveness and redemption in a handful of lines while barely moving, but Bradley James manages it admirably. He made me want to tell the whole story from Arthur’s POV--so I did.
Read it on LJ:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Or read it on AO3:
The whole story
Author: stoplookingup
Fandom: Merlin
Genre: Gen, canon, alternate POV
Rating: PG (violence)
Word Count: ~10,000
Spoilers: Extreme spoilers for 5.11, 5.12 and 5.13. Contains verbatim dialogue from all three episodes.
Summary: On his final journey, Arthur must come to terms with one final betrayal - Merlin’s. The series finale from Arthur’s POV.
Author’s note: It’s not easy to tell a story of transformation, forgiveness and redemption in a handful of lines while barely moving, but Bradley James manages it admirably. He made me want to tell the whole story from Arthur’s POV--so I did.
Read it on LJ:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Or read it on AO3:
The whole story