Arthur simply tilts his head to acknowledge the guards, just as his father has taught him. He moves slightly closer to Merlin bumping their shoulders together. It is grounding, it feels safe. He can’t pinpoint when it happened exactly, but everything feels easier and somehow lighter when he thinks that Merlin is there by his side.

He smiles to ( Read more... )

There is little space under his bed and Merlin has to hold his breath to fit better, he almost coughs because of the dust. The thought that his mum would scold him for having stained his clothes crosses his mind, but it is quickly dismissed as the door to their small house opens.

The sounds from the street outside come rushing in- people trying to ( Read more... )

Title: As a forgotten continent
Author: ca_te
Artist: madnessisreal
Pairings/Characters: Arthur/Merlin (also Arthur/Gwen, Merlin/Lancelot), Gaius, Will, Morgana, Hunith
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 32k
Warnings: Incest, sexual content, Reincarnation!fic (and hints of future!fic), angst, switching of POVs, too much destiny and too much thinking.Also too much ( Read more... )

 
( The Past Again: Epilogue )

He doesn’t know what he is going to do. He doesn’t even wonder what he could do if Merlin still doesn’t remember. He hopes that he does, though, because now that he remembers how Merlin used to look at him, how he has looked at him for centuries he couldn’t stand not to find that look in Merlin’s eyes.

During the train ride, he tries to remember ( Read more... )

Merlin feels as if unknown fingers are squeezing his heart tightly. The crystal is suddenly hot under his fingertips and it’s as if the gem is calling something hidden inside of him. And that something surges and rises, through his bones, through his blood. It rises until it’s overflowing and Merlin feels it spilling out from the tip of his ( Read more... )

Chapter 14- Of bubbles at the bottom of the soul


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The thought of Arthur finally coming to visit him was pushed at the back of his mind by the whirlwind of exams and Lance and the beginning of a sort of collaboration with the “Glamorgan Gazette”.

He remembers it out of the blue few days before Arthur’s arrival.

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Merlin glances up from his spring rolls to look at Morgana and Lance. He ( Read more... )

Merlin spends the night awake. Lance offered to sleep of the floor but Merlin said that there was no reason at all for him to do that, so they ended up sleeping in Lance’s bed.

Merlin glances at the alarm clock on the nightstand. It says that it’s 2 o’ clock in the morning. He sighs and tries to move closer to the edge of the bed. He can feel ( Read more... )

 
( The Present: Part 4/a )