Who Is Tied to Someone Else's Glove. (Merlin. Gwen.)

[allira_dream]

Title: Who Is Tied to Someone Else's Glove.
Fandom: Merlin.
Warnings: Darkfic.
Characters/couples: Gwen/Arthur. Heavily implied Arthur/Merlin, Gwen/Morgana and Gwen/Lancelot.
Summary: After Camelot falls, Gwen stayed by Arthur's side because there was nowhere else she could be, nowhere else where she could turn.
Rating: PG13.
Notes: Of course I

Comments

[oximore]

This is wonderful and so very canon!

"It matters not that they won't sleep together, not with the way they look at each other, with the way they see each other. It matters not with the way Arthur has come back to life, his voice loud once more, the charisma that made people love him so much burning brightly in front of everyone. Now Arthur smiles at her again and Gwen could almost hate him for that, if she didn't know she had missed that as well."

I love this. And Gwen voice sound just right! :)

[allira_dream]

Thank you! I wasn't expecting Gwen's voice to come so easily, but it did and I am so very glad of that.

Thanks for reading!

[thriae5]

*Ouch* ♥

"There's a moment when Arthur, still next to the throne and Merlin, three or four steps away from it, just look at each other. And then - it's hard to know who reaches for whom first, all that Gwen knows is that they're hugging, and that one of them (perhaps both) is sobbing worthlessly, and they both cling to each other as if they were drowning."

That'll teach me for reading Merlin fic at work! You got me all worked up and teary eyed!!

And then this line....
"But they've all changed, fitting into the roles as if they were playing with dolls."

Perfectly - Ouch!

[allira_dream]

Eheee, sorry about the tears, but thank you for reading!

[tigger_01]

*heart is broken into lots of itty bitty pieces*

The angst. The heartbreak. The relationships. Totally in canon, and so beautifully written. I don't think the show will go this far (in my mind they all live happily ever after; screw the legends) but this was plausible, well constructed and it fits in with both the legends and the versions of the characters we've seen on the show - in particular an Arthur who is much more sensitive and compassionate than many legends portray him to be.

I loved the way you created some very powerful images that stay in your mind....
Merlin and Arthur's reunion, Gwen and Arthur just sitting over makeshift graves.

They are not together, Gwen is sure of that. Arthur is too honorable to cheat on his wife, even if it's a wife he loves but isn't in love with, a wife who has failed to give him a child still, a wife who could only wait with him those nights when the dreams where almost real. And for all his flaws, Gwen knows that Arthur would rather hurt himself than hurt her. *heart is breaking*

“This is

[allira_dream]

Thank ou! I do hope that the show doesn't go here and it continues being happy, somehow (it's already anachronistic and it doesn't follow the legends that well! It can change!) but well, I wanted the chance to explore how it could get to be like that.

And thank you for the heads up about the typos!

[nyaza]

wow. that was so heartbreakign and yet so marvelous. ♥
it makes me feel sooo sad for gwen, and yet, such a marvelous piece ♥

[allira_dream]

Thanks for reading! And, yes, I really hope that the series don't go here. ONE CAN DREAM.

[fadagaski]

Oo, what a fabulous look at the future. I love the personification of future!Arthur, especially.