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    It’s still the most surreal day of Merlin’s life: Arthur Pendragon, hottest, most talented actor alive, is in Merlin’s house. He says he has a crush on Merlin. He’s willing to try something serious. At this point, it would really just be rude to refuse what fate is offering on a silver platter.

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    It’s 1953, and Arthur is a young, up-and-coming architect working on rebuilding London. All he wants is to be successful and live his life in peace and quiet. All his boss wants is to find a good match for his daughter Elena, and he thinks he’s found that match in Arthur. Arthur agrees to go out with her to get ahead at the firm, but the person he’s really interested in is her friend Merlin, and it turns out Elena has her own purposes for being with Arthur.

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    Merlin is procrastinating on writing one morning when the doorbell rings. The fact that it’s world-famous actor Arthur Pendragon is just the beginning of the most surreal day of his life.

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    This is wrong, this is so, so wrong. He needs to tell Merlin who he really is. He shouldn’t be doing this – whatever it is that this is – when Merlin doesn’t even know the half of what he’s getting into. When Merlin doesn’t know who Arthur really is. When Arthur can feel himself falling in love with a man who knows him better than anyone else in the world yet doesn’t know him at all.

    But Merlin’s hand in his feels like everything he’s ever wanted, and there’s always tomorrow to tell him. Everything was too perfect, too earth-shatteringly wonderful to risk.

    Until it wasn’t.

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    There was a moments silence where Arthur was momentarily stunned, and Merlin caught his breath.

    “Did you just call me a Jabberwocky?”

    or alternatively...
    Magic is a myth. Arthur knows that but every time he expresses this knowledge Merlin always deflates. Sure, Merlin wishes it were real, but it isn’t. Of course, it isn’t.

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    For the prompt:

    Trans Merlin is a struggling university student (medieval history) and to make ends meet, he starts writing short stories and posting them under the pseudonym emrys. Naturally, he starts with his namesake and somehow the character of Prince Arthur appears in them. Lancelot, bless his soul, manages to get him a small space in the magazine he works on that also sends a copy to their university, fully encouraging him about the potential of his short stories. Merlin is pretty sure Lancelot and Gwen (and Gwaine) are the only ones one reading his silly stories that may or may not have homoerotic leanings. It's not entirely his fault. Merlin may be a little bit too queer to write any sort of straight character.

    Arthur finds himself under more pressure each day, with his father expecting him to be a fully developed lawyer at the end of college. Already at his wit's end after being a mediator in another fight between his father and (apparently) half sister, he prays for any distraction and it is Leon that suggests one of the new short stories being posted in the university's magazine. Arthur soon finds himself more than a little dedicated (obsessed) with them.

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    “He was rude to you once, I understand that, but if you truly get to know him you’ll realise-”

    “It’s not about that,” at the incredulous look Lancelot gives him, Merlin rolls his eyes and corrects himself, “it’s not all about that. I just don’t think he has the emotional maturity and vulnerability to play Helos. They can change my story, but I want them to at least get Helos right. For all the gay kids out there. So they can see themselves as the hero in a fantasy story, something I didn’t get growing up. And Arthur Pendragon is not it.”

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    But then, Merlin would have waited another thousand years, if it meant he would get Arthur back. Another infinity, if Arthur was there at the end of it.

     

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    Merlin finds a coffee shop in the 21st century that he adores. It has absolutely nothing to do with the blond man that frequents it.

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    It's nearing Christmas and Arthur is overworking himself. Merlin just wants him to come home so they can spend the holidays as a family.

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    Life as a writer is hard. Life as the partner of a writer, though, that’s a whole other thing. And Arthur knows everything about that.

    AKA

    Merlin is having trouble with his story and Arthur just wants his husband to get out of that damn room for more than to just go to the bathroom, please.

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    “I don’t want anything,” he finally promised. Merlin hummed and went back to typing.

    The sound of his fingers tapping the keys at rapid speed was calming. It could lull Arthur to sleep, if he were honest. “You always want something when you say you love me like that.”

    “I do not!” Arthur scoffed, nudging Merlin in the shoulder gently.

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    or,

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    Arthur does, in fact, want something.

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    This fic is a merlin au about a group of friends who have been friends since childhood two have a bond and destiny far more intertwined than either of them know.

    I’m gonna try and post once a week maybe more but I don’t want to promise that and not be able to deliver

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    Lance watches as writer Merlin and actor Arthur fall all over each other (their respective heroes).

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    Over the years Merlin writes the true tales of his time in Camelot while waiting for Arthur’s return. When he finally returns though Merlin has to deal with feelings he has kept for over 1500 years, teaching Arthur how to live in the modern world, and figuring out why Arthur has returned. And what will happen when Arthur reads the books about Merlin’s time in Camelot and how much his former manservant loves him?

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    Merlin is the author of much-loved novel The Golden Age. Arthur is the actor set to play the main character in the film adaptation. They both have a little bit of a secret celebrity crush on the other.

    So of course Merlin has to go and spill coffee all over Arthur the first time he meets him.

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    It is days like today when Merlin realizes how very grateful he is to be best friends and flatmates with the very wealthy and very generous Arthur Pendragon, even if it makes him feel literally insane most of the time. Even if the writer’s block is sort of Arthur’s fault in the first place because Merlin finds it increasingly demotivating and depressing to try to write emotionally satisfying gay romance novels when he suffers the misfortune of living in a rather emotionally unsatisfying one, with endlessly building tension and no fucking climax.

     

    Or, Merlin is a romance writer secretly and pitifully in love with his best friend and flatmate Arthur. To unstick his writers block he decides to date Gwaine and Elyan, a poly couple. Turns out nothing unsticks except Arthur's sanity.

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    Arthur Pendragon hates Christmas. So when he starts dragging along Merlin to do every festive thing he can think of this year, Merlin's left mystified—and a little concerned. This much Christmas can’t be good for anyone.

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    The last thing Merlin expects when he goes out for drinks is to see Arthur standing in front of him, centuries after he died.

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    Fantasy author Merlin is sick of city life and more than ready to settle down. He loves everything about his new house outside of London — especially the extremely fit delivery man. Before long he’s sending packages to himself regularly just to make sure that he gets his daily fix of blond hair, blue eyes and bulging muscles. He and Arthur have struck up a friendship, but just as Merlin is working up the nerve to ask him out properly, he finds out that Arthur may not be what he seems.

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    “Why? Are you offering to buy me some?” Merlin jokes, letting his mouth run free like the idiot he is (why bother with pesky things, like a brain filter) “You know what they say, a man only buys you clothes so he can take them off you.”

    Merlin hears a thud behind him as he climbs the stairs and looks over his shoulder, to see Arthur straightening up, as if he stumbled or something, “You ok mate?”

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