Rec list: Merlin Modern AU (with Magic)
My favourite magical modern AU fics.
Complete
Title: Drastically Redefining Protocol
Author: rageprufrock
Length: ~45k
Rating: R/NC-17
Summary: In which Prince Arthur meets Merlin and all hell promptly breaks loose.
Extras:
Honeymoon
Throw-In
Keepsake
Services Rendered
Five Secrets That Ought to Be Kept (and One for the Road)
DRP Wedding
Title: The Student Prince
Author: FayJay
Length: ~145k
Rating: R/NC-17
Summary: A Modern day Merlin AU set at the University of St Andrews, featuring teetotal kickboxers, secret wizards, magnificent bodyguards of various genders, irate fairies, imprisoned dragons, crumbling gothic architecture, arrogant princes, adorable engineering students, stolen gold, magical doorways, attempted assassination, drunken students, shaving foam fights, embarrassing mornings after, The Hammer Dance, duty, responsibility, friendship and true love...
Title: Radiant Under Every Sort of Light
Author: zarah5
Length: ~57k
Rating: R/NC-17
Summary: Just your everyday Circus AU. Or: In which there are aerialists, decorative metal flowers, prejudices, artsy books and magic. Obviously.
Title: Defenders of the Realm
Author: lamardeuse
Words: ~57k
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Arthur and Morgana are Metropolitan police officers drawn into a strange case involving robbery of ancient artifacts. Merlin is a graduate student at Imperial College studying the healing plants of Ancient Britain under Gaius - or at least that's what he tells everyone. Soon they, along with Gwen, Lancelot and Uther, will be facing a battle for the future of the country. Can they defend the realm from those who would seek to destroy it?
Title: Hypothetically, Yours
Author: itachitachi
Words: 6k
Rating: R
Summary: Arthur and Merlin are best friends, and neither of them is a member of the Magic Club. All is as it should be, until it isn't.