Timshel
And you have your choices / And these are what make man great / His ladder to the stars

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MASTERPOST

Title: Timshel
Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and language
Word Count: 34,435
Fandom: Merlin
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Timshel
And you have your choices / And these are what make man great / His ladder to the stars

NAVIGATION
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PART ONE

( Merlin Emrys decides that he may as well just face facts. He has been born under an unlucky star. No, worse than that -- he is cursed. He is congenitally and irretrievably cursed. )

Timshel
And you have your choices / And these are what make man great / His ladder to the stars

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PART TWO

( Despite having never met, Gwen and Morgana have an awful lot in common. Both spend too great a portion of their salaries on glossy magazines and red wine. Both will still go and see any film that Leonardo DiCaprio's in, just because their thirteen-year old selves would never forgive them if they didn't. And both will be delighted by the way the next few months will play out for Merlin and Arthur. )

Timshel
And you have your choices / And these are what make man great / His ladder to the stars

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PART THREE

( Post-massage-and-shopping trip (which quickly turns into a fortnightly occurrence), Gwen and Morgana are delighted to discover they have hit on the kind of friendship that comes completely easily; where affection flows so naturally between them that it's always a joy to pick up the phone to swap gossip and send changing room snapshots for instant new outfit feedback and bitch about Come Dine With Me over a bottle of Merlot. )

Timshel
And you have your choices / And these are what make man great / His ladder to the stars

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PART FOUR

( Merlin takes the tube in to work that Monday morning, it being the first time in about six months he has woken up early enough to do so, rather than ending up in his usual routine of begging Gwen (through a mouthful a toothpaste) to call him one of the company's cars, and throwing himself in the back seat, half-dressed with a piece of toast in his mouth. )

Timshel
And you have your choices / And these are what make man great / His ladder to the stars

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EPILOGUE

( Life doesn't really do happy endings, and it won't be any different for Arthur and Merlin. There will be sadness, and heartbreak, and betrayal, just as in every life. But somewhere in the middle, there will be wonderful things, too, for all of them. )

Timshel
And you have your choices / And these are what make man great / His ladder to the stars

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Acknowledgements | Soundtrack | Full document download
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
( Just as a fair warning, guys, before you jump into this: IT IS RIDICULOUSLY LONG AND OVER-SENTIMENTAL AND GUSHY AND SELF-INDULGENT. As all good acknowledgements are. Tbh, I wouldn't read it unless you know you're going to be mentioned. Even then I'd probably think twice. But if you insist, you insist, so here you go… )

Timshel
And you have your choices / And these are what make man great / His ladder to the stars

NAVIGATION
Masterpost | Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Epilogue
Acknowledgements | Soundtrack | Full document download
SOUNDTRACK

Before I start, I have to confess that you have hermette to blame for this entirely. We were talking about how ( Read more... )