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Author: fifty_fifty
Title: Of Kilts, Rainbows and Happy Endings
Rating: Mature
Pairing/s: Merlin/Arthur
Character/s: Merlin, Arthur
Summary: It’s Arthur’s first ever Pride and Merlin is wearing a kilt.
Warnings: None
Word Count: 1707
Author's Notes: Written for the Camelot Drabble Prompt #368 - Pride

I took the prompt pretty literally. But hey, it was Pride month when this prompt was set, and I felt in the mod to post this on AO3 around the time of my local Pride, so I gave it an edit and posted it.

This basically a bit of a continuation of A Moment of Pride, but you don’t need to read it to understand this fic.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Venti for her adorable art of Merlin and Arthur at Pride ♥
( Of Kilts, Rainbows and Happy Endings )

Title: here is the deepest secret nobody knows
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Character(s): Merlin, Arthur Pendragon
Word Count: 581
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Merlin wanted Arthur to know all of him, and all that he had been through. But Arthur couldn’t, how could he? He hadn’t lived Merlin’s life. He hadn’t waited. And Merlin didn’t know how to express it in words himself.
Notes: On AO3 here.
Written for Prompt #352 - i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) for Camelot Drabble. Sorry, this drabble is a bit lazy, but I felt the poem itself screamed post-canon Merlin with a newly returned Arthur. The poem Merlin recites is [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e. e. cummings.

( here is the deepest secret nobody knows )

Title: Clouds and Silverlinings (Chapter Six)
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur, Elena/Gwaine
Character(s): Merlin, Arthur, mentions of Elena, Gwaine and Morgana
Word Count: 1,000
Rating: Teen (Some previous chapters are Explicit)
Summary: After being left alone with Merlin, Arthur flees to the safety of his room. Of course, Merlin follows and Arthur tries to get him to face some harsh truths about their situation.
Notes: Written for the Camelot Drabble prompt #345 - Whispered. You can find the previous parts on AO3 here.

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5

( Clouds and Silverlinings - Chapter 6 )

Title: Sail Thou Forth
Link to Work Remixed: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1004451
Pairings: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 37,070
Warnings: Infidelity (Consenual, not M/A)
Summary: Trapped in a marriage of convenience, Merlin Emrys doesn't believe in love at first sight - or true love at all, for that matter.

That is, until he meets Arthur Pendragon, an extraordinary man whose courage inspires him to begin the career that he has always longed for, and in whose arms Merlin begins to hope for better things.

But society isn't kind to men like them, and both must overcome tremendous obstacles before they will be free to live the life they've been dreaming of.
Notes: Cookie, I hope that you have as much fun reading this, as I had writing it. It was a joy to read your work (although I had already read many of your stories before) and when I happened upon this story I knew that I had to chose it for remix.

A huge thank you to my beta reader!

As Cookie notes in the original fic, their story is based on Now, Voyager (1942), starring Bette Midler and Paul Henreid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035140/, which in turn is inspired by a novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty (Inception enough for you yet?) who borrowed her title from the Walt Whitman poem “The Untold Want”.

I will confess, I have never seen the film, nor have I read the book, so I am basing my story on Cookie’s fic (and Whitman’s gorgeous poem). But maybe I will have successfully channeled both.

As with Cookie’s fic, there is a strong theme of infidelity (consensual) running through the story (not between Merlin and Arthur). And also period-typical homophobia.

( Sail Thou Forth )