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Merlin likes to take care of Arthur.
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25 Jul 2026
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"Gaius sighed, 'That’s the problem, my boy. It’s so rare that it hasn’t been seen in over a generation. The only account I could find was limited. The patient had fallen in love with a married man who did not love her, and she had started to develop a cough that had produced flowers rather than mucus. A post-mortem examination found that a flower had magically planted itself in the woman’s lungs and had wrapped around her heart.'"
In which Merlin develops Hanahaki disease, but mysteriously does not die from it.
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The body of a Prince was not like anyone’s. His hand only ever held others in a firm handshake, and rarely without gloves. Sometimes he would raise the delicate hands of noble ladies to his lips for a brief kiss, but it was all out of propriety. He rarely touched others, but what was even rarer was others touching him. The only ones who dared were his knights, and even they only smacked his shoulder or patted his back in friendly roughhousing. Gripping each other’s arms before battle was the most heartfelt touch they exchanged. Lingering soft touches were not done. Any lingering touch on his person could be interpreted as political movements. After all, Arthur’s body wasn’t his own. It never had been. He was Camelot’s first and foremost. Even above his own needs and wants.
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25 Jul 2026
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They still fought, but now they said what they meant, and that tended to make fights short and intense. They fought in bright bursts of flame unlike the simmering embers of resentment that were practically Camelot’s status quo.
Merlin still sometimes forgot that he could tell Arthur about magical issues, and that the weight of the world did not rest on his shoulders alone. Arthur still sometimes forgot that Merlin could take care of and think for himself. Both of these casual forgettings were done with the desire to protect, and it was difficult for either of them to stay mad at that.
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in a universe where Arthur survived Camlann, he and Merlin discover the joys of honesty.
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24 Jul 2026
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Merlin slept for a week after bringing Arthur back from Camlann. Arthur worried Merlin had somehow imparted his own life force into him, draining himself, but Gaius assured him it was most likely just the level of magic Merlin had used that had exhausted him.
Accounts from the area certainly seemed to confirm that story. People had seen a god, or so they said. When Arthur lifted the magic ban, it passed almost without resistance. Whatever Merlin had done, whatever he’d been, people had seen the divine, and known it was magic itself.
When magic itself woke, he told Arthur never to do that to him again, and called him a variety of names for good measure.
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24 Jul 2026