Fic: Merlin: Crépuscule, 3/4

[emei]

Title: Crépuscule, part 3
Author: emei 
Rating: R
Length: 2300 words.
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Warnings/spoilers: Modern AU. No specific spoilers. Some darker themes in this part.
Summary: Paris!AU. Merlin is a struggling writer living in a bookstore. Arthur's an exchange student. If they hadn't met, Arthur's life would have ended under the wheels of a

Comments

[phantomreviewer]

Yes! You updated!!!!

*goes to read*

[emei]

*awaits your reaction with bated breath*

[phantomreviewer]

How dare you break my heart and then patch it up together again!

Oh Merlin isn't going to be happy about the book manuscript but it should be published.

I don't get the car crash/Will thing though. Will was beaten to death... did Merlin just crash because he was depressed or am I missing something?

But I'm worried now... you've fixed my heart... that means you'll break it again!

EDIT: And oh my god, I thought that Merlin had actaully commited suicide in this chapter. You are trying to scare me. It's working.

EDIT2: 3 out of 4? Only one more? Do I trust you not to break my heart with it?... no. Will I read it anyway? Yes.

[emei]

I'm very very pleased to have managed both heartbreaking and patching together again. (Also pleased and sorry for scaring you!)

Well, possibly I left to much between the lines, because I want it to be open for interpretation. But Merlin feels responsable for Will's death, and in a way he is - tell me if you want me to elaborate more on why/how exactly. And the car crash - I don't think even Merlin himself really knows why it happened (depression, exhaustion, guilt, suicide attempt?).

Thank you!

[archaeologist_d]

I don't think Merlin will be too happy with Gwen or Morgana about this. Well done. Loved the way you portrayed Merlin's guilt.

[emei]

He definitely won't. Thank you muchly, I'm relieved you think it worked!

[emei]

Interesting is good, I hope. :) Thank you very much!

[emei]

Fascinating! Now I understand - you drew very logical conclusions from what I'd written, and they're all things I never imagined. And based on that, interesting is a good thing indeed. Thank you so much for elaborating (and for having patience with the over-worrying writer.) :)

[myrimidryad]

*scream* The messages Merlin left for Will and the bit about the sirens at the end completely broke me! I mean damnation! And zomg, Merlin's manuscript. I'm so bummed about the lack of gay wizards (lol), but the mystery of what he did write totally makes up for it.

[emei]

Yes! That was just the reaction I wanted, I'm pleased as punch. Haha, sorry for the lack of gay wizards - does it help if I tell you Merlin's actually written quite a lot about the gay wizards, as well as the mystery manuscript? They're just not very important to the plot.
Thank you!

[ne0nlazytights]

I don't know what to say to this.

Normally I wait until stories are finished to read and comment, but for some reason I decided to give this one a try...

Now I don't really have words for you.

I love the way it's written, all broken up and following perfectly. The balance between short little interjections and the meat of the fic is perfect.
I will be honest, I had apprehensions about this one. Writer and exchange student- this has the ability to become the most cliched thing ever. But it's not. It's completely original and refreshing and though I read it in twenty minutes tops, I feel like I just read the most epic fic imaginable- like I just read Tolkien and Hemingway and Lewis and Austen. I loved it. I need more of it, I need the resolution.

So, yes. This was awesome and my tiny comment does not do it justice.

[emei]

Oh, but you do have words - wonderful ones, and you made me delighted.
To have managed to overcome apprehensions & cliched premises, and to feel epic, and be compared to such classic things - just wow.
Thank you so much. ♥