Ficcage!
Well, look at me. I wrote (and, more remarkably, finished and typed up) fic! Arthur/Merlin fic! Yes, I know there's always ADD, not to mention the other unfinished/need to be started Merlin fics (and my poor abandoned KH2 fic), but nevertheless! It's a start, isn't it? Even if I did write it at half-past midnight. Oh, the pain.
So, yeah. Depressing double drabble! 3 Ds of Doom. Does that make it actually 4 Ds? Oh, quiet, me.
Title: Never Simple
Rating: Not sure. PG? Probably PG-13 for one mild naughty word.
Warnings/Spoilers: Not really if you know about this show.
Genre: Angst
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Summary: Double drabble. Arthur realises the truth, and doesn't take it well.
Never Simple
It happens so easily. A smile, a few words, an unexpected kiss… A flash of gold, almost too quick to be seen. Except Arthur sees it, because he’s bloody Arthur Pendragon.
And right now he wishes he wasn’t.
Before, it had been so simple. Hadn’t felt like it perhaps, because he hadn’t realised it was `before` anything. He’d suspected his manservant of hiding something from him, but he hadn’t expected… this. Because it’s Merlin, Camelot’s prize idiot.
Merlin, who’s saved his life even more than he’d realised.
His Merlin, who’s taken everything he’s ever known and turned it upside down.
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Why does nothing ever stay simple? Isn't his life complicated enough without magic ruining it again?
When Arthur kisses him (or does he kiss Arthur?), he actually feels happy. Safe. Loved. Then his magic flares up with his emotions, and one look on the prince’s face tells him it’s all over.
That look doesn’t bear thinking about, let alone remembering for the lifetime he knows he will. Surprise, confusion, horror… Pain. The kind of wound even magic can never heal.
For the first time, he thinks that maybe Uther’s right. Maybe magic died for a reason.
Maybe he should too.