Merlin -- It Started at the Frat Party

[tierfal]

Title: It Started at the Frat Party
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,540
Warnings: underage drinking; a mostly off-screen hookup; American college AU-ness; run-on sentences I am too lazy to fix
Summary: When Merlin comes back at six-thirty Saturday morning, he has quite a story for Gwen.
Author's Note: Apparently my

Comments

[callowyn]

This was deliciously perfect for a quick pick-me-up at two in the morning. You managed to hit all of the characters perfectly!

Gwen, who was already filling the next glass from the tap, said something that sounded suspiciously like, “God help us.”

SO GWEN.

Lancelot was the only person Merlin had ever met who had joined a frat for the brotherhood instead of for the booze, and he tended to spend the parties hanging out and taking care of people, helping them find their way to sanitary places to vomit and then usually walking them home afterwards.

SO LANCELOT.

He wasn’t a good dancer by any contortionist-worthy stretch of the imagination, but he liked burning off energy by flailing around in a way that had once garnered sixty-five separate “LOL!!!!”s on YouTube, so he figured he might as well allow himself the outlet.

SO MERLIN. (I pictured his particular conjunction of knees and elbows flailing about to Daft Punk and I think LOL is an understatement.)

even if they were frat boys who paid attention in class and took notes in a

[tierfal]

Aww, I'm so glad to hear it! :D Not that you needed a pick-me-up at two in the morning, of course, but that this helped make life suck less, which I tend to view as my mission in the larger universe. XD

Unbridled passion is so inconvenient. :D I can just imagine what'll happen when Arthur discovers that half of the clothes in his closet have giant hearts with "A+M" drawn on them with magic paint.

Thank you for reading! ♥

[callowyn]

♥ Directive achieved. *salutes*

I imagine he'll be even more thrilled when he discovers that no force on God's green earth can remove the pink sparkles that now festoon his every belonging. Not to mention the cloud of rose petals that trails behind him as he walks, or the way he now appears to glow.

[tierfal]

\o/ :D

Haha!! Yes, exactly that! XD And birds will spontaneously start singing when he walks past, and the flurries of butterflies, and the way it stops raining above him and keeps on everywhere else...

[arrghigiveup]

Hee =D. I just...
HEE =D

[tierfal]

:DDDDDDD

[girlofjuly]

♥

[tierfal]

Thanks for reading! ^^ ♥

[lusimeles]

THIS IS SO FANTASTIC I HAVE NO WORDS TO EVEN EXPRESS MY LEVEL OF LOVE FOR IT.

[tierfal]

YOU ARE FANTASTIC, SO THAT'S FAIR. :D

[dk323]

This was pure win. ♥ ♥ I enjoyed reading this so much. Loved Merlin in this - lol at how he used magic to have Arthur lose so he'd take off his shirt. :p I like Merlin and Gwen's friendship here - it was so sweet. :) And also how noble Lancelot was - no matter what time period, I could definitely see him always trying to take care of others and doing the noble thing. I liked how Merlin had the idea that Gwen and Lancelot should date each other so they could take care of people together - lol (ok, so he was pretty drunk when he suggested that, but still...).

I'm glad that Arthur came afterwards...awww at the flowers he got for Merlin. ♥

Thanks for a fun story. :)

[tierfal]

Thank you!! :D I'm so glad you enjoyed it; I had a ton of fun translating relationships into their modern-day equivalents and stuff. And I am all for Lancelot and Gwen getting together and having adorable, helpful babies, haha. XD

Thanks for reading it! :D