Title: The Stablehand
Pairings/characters: Merlin/Arthur,
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 34,980
Warnings: Vet procedure described
Summary: Written for the following kinkme_merlin prompt:
Merlin gets a new job at the Pendragon mansion: He is supposed to care for the horses and keep the stables clean. He doesn't really care about the Pendragons and doesn't spend a lot of time in the mansion, so he has no idea what Arthur Pendragon actually looks like. One day he catches Arthur feeding an apple to one of the horses and mistaking him for the new stable boy, he starts lecturing him about slacking off and orders him to muck out the stable.
Arthur, for whatever reason you can come up with, just goes along with it. And he keeps coming back, never correcting Merlin in his false assumptions, until he's in too deep. Because he's afraid that Merlin would suddenly hate him, if he knew the truth (because Merlin certainly seems to hate everything about the Pendragons, especially all the rumors he hears about Arthur), he does everything to prevent Merlin from finding out.
Disclaimer: The characters depicted herein belong to Shine and BBC.
The Stablehand