5/5 Favourite Fics (Merthur)
A collection of all the Merthur fics I have rated 5/5
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“I’m surprised you’re even still alive, sire,” Merlin hears one of the knights saying as he approaches, completely innocent. “You know, considering the constant attempts on your life and all. I mean—”
Merlin still doesn’t know why the words affect him so much, but they do nonetheless; the bundle of firewood falls out of his arms, unbidden, and he isn’t able to hear the clattering sound it makes over the sudden ringing in his ears.
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“Please, no,” Merlin begged. His ankle burned like a torch set against his bones, a hot poker in his marrow, like the pyre licking from his feet up to his heart. Instead, he dragged his lower body across the ground, scrabbling with his bare hands, crawling. “Please, Arthur, I didn’t do it to hurt you. I couldn’t tell you—I’m scared. Please, don’t! I never meant, oh goddess, I never meant to—”
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Arthur meets Merlin’s eyes again. “My whole life, I have been groomed to be the Prince, the future King of Camelot. I have never had a father, I have only had a Sovereign to serve and appease.”
“That’s not true.” Merlin argues, though even he doesn’t sound convinced. “Your father loves you, even if he doesn’t show it.”
Memories from his past, of lectures and reprimands, words of advice and words spoken as orders, rise up. There had been anger and disappointment, stern severity and empty, false pride. Never affection, never softness. Not even when he was a child.
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After disappointing his father, Arthur is shipped off to Mercia to compete in a tournament, with the orders to bring back honour for the Pendragon name "or else". While there, away from his father's watchful eye, he allows himself to question a few things that have always been there in the back of his mind. These questions may just be the ticket to setting him free.
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You can hold my hand (if you let me hold yours too) by amithia, ElizaStorms
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
17 Jul 2021
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Arthur has long since begrudgingly admitted to himself that his feelings might run a bit deeper than just a harmless case of infatuation. But it isn't until Merlin's mortally injured in an ambush that Arthur learns to what lengths he's willing to go to save him.
Especially when it turns out that his manservant is also a sorcerer and has magically bound himself to Arthur.
And why is it that Arthur doesn't exactly mind?
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Operation Dollophead(aka when Lance spent all his money on the tavern) by lightningbugqueen
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
09 Jan 2021
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Have you ever had two friends who can’t stop dancing around each other? Gwaine has. Gwaine has lived this way for months. And Gwaine will have no more. That is why Gwaine, the gorgeous genius that he is, has concocted a plan.
Gwaine’s five step plan to get the Clotpole and the Dollophead Together
1. Get Merlin to admit his feelings for Arthur
2. Get Arthur to admit he doesn’t hate Merlin
3. Have Arthur heroically save Merlin’s life
4. Set the two up on a date
5. Buy yourself a drink for a job well doneMaybe this one will actually work out....
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“I’m surprised you’re even still alive, sire,” Merlin hears one of the knights saying as he approaches, completely innocent. “You know, considering the constant attempts on your life and all. I mean—”
Merlin still doesn’t know why the words affect him so much, but they do nonetheless; the bundle of firewood falls out of his arms, unbidden, and he isn’t able to hear the clattering sound it makes over the sudden ringing in his ears.
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After all Merlin's gone through, you'd think it would take some world-ending magic spell or an almost successful attempt on Arthur's life to shake him properly.
It isn't one of those, and Merlin has no idea why.
He just knows he can't be weak.
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- Part 23 of Quarantine Drabbles