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Title: The Magic Show
Pairing(s): None
Character/s: Merlin, Arthur Pendragon
Word Count: 150
Rating: Gen
Summary: Arthur is absolutely certain that he will win this competition, there’s not a single magician out there who is better than him. Until he sees Dragoon the Great perform. How on Earth did he do that trick!?
Notes: Just an idea I’ve had floating around for ages. Maybe one day I’ll actually write a full length fic of it. The basic premise will be that Merlin and Arthur are competing magicians. But Merlin actually has magic and mixes it in with his tricks. Written for Prompt #279 - 150 words exactly for Camelot Drabble. On AO3 here.

( The Magic Show )

Title: Keeping Secrets
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Character(s): Merlin, Arthur, Gwaine
Word Count: 150
Rating: Teen and Up
Summary: Merlin and Arthur are keeping their relationship underwraps at Arthur’s request, when Gwaine walks in on a moment that’s not easily explained away.
Notes: This was such a tough challenge, I ended up with a few drabbles. Written for Prompt #279 - 150 words exactly for Camelot Drabble. On AO3 here.

( Keeping Secrets )

Title: The Mile High Club
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gwen/Lancelot (Merlin)
Character(s): Merlin, Arthur Pendragon, Gwen
Word Count: 989
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Arthur surprises Merlin by jetting them off to their mystery honeymoon in the company private jet. Merlin is less than happy, lamenting Arthur pulling them away from their wedding reception and completely skipping consummating their marriage. Arthur decides to remedy the situation. It is a private jet after all.
Notes: On AO3 here.

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Title: The Evolution of Friendship
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Character(s): Merlin, Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Word Count: 929
Rating: Explicit
Summary: A fight for the shower and a shared wank change Merlin and Arthur's friendship to something more when they go from best friends to friends with benefits.
Notes: On AO3 here.

( The Evolution of Friendship )

Title: Propinquity
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Character(s): Merlin, Arthur Pendragon, Lancelot, mention of Gwaine
Word Count: 1438
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Merlin stands in for Gwaine to model for Lancelot’s art class. But what he doesn’t realise is that it’s a nude modelling session. Even worse; a couples modelling session. Merlin and Arthur, strangers who just met, find themselves getting close and personal and end up getting a bit carried away modelling ‘intimacy’ for the class.
Warnings: Semi-Public Sex, Mildly Dubious Consent, Barebacking, Unsafe Sex, Top Arthur, Bottom Merlin
Notes: For Kitty_fic. Also on AO3 here.

( Propinquity )

Title: Seasons
Author: wangler on AO3
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 40,000

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I read this quite some time ago and was very happy to come upon it again. I've not always been a fan of modern AUs, but now really enjoy them. I especially love coming of age stories. There's just something so poignant about that transition period between being a teenager and becoming an adult, and this story makes it even more so.

That Merlin and Arthur were torn apart just when they had such a deep bond, that Merlin in his youth tried to do what he felt best, that he cut off contact from Arthur and his own emotions in order to survive the horror of war. Just heartbreaking for both Merlin and Arthur. And then when he returned to 'normality' he found that Arthur was no longer the boy he left behind. Different, changed. But yet still the same.