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    Then, a realisation hits him, sudden and sharp, and Arthur freezes mid-motion. His breath catches in his throat as the pieces fall together. That’s what had rattled Merlin so deeply… It wasn’t the shock of becoming a servant to a prince or the brief jolt when their skin brushed near the birthmark. No, Merlin hadn’t flinched from a simple spark of static earlier…. It was the mark. This mark. Arthur’s birthmark. Merlin knows what it means.


    On Merlin's first day as Arthur's servant, he discovers that Arthur has an unusual birthmark. Is his subsequent weird behaviour linked to superstition or something much deeper – something Arthur has yet to learn? And what is Arthur to do with this weird pull he feels towards Merlin?

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    “Merlin.”

    His hair, his eyes, his smile. Merlin knew it all by heart, but still it took him by surprise. It— the wonder, the love, the ache— crowded everything else out.

    “Arthur,” he returned, and could not help but smile.

    His name had always sounded like a smile.

    “Hū lange slēp ic?”

    Merlin froze.

     

    Or, Arthur comes home— but what does it mean to come home, when the word for home has changed?

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    There are two beds. Surely both Merlin and Arthur will be normal about this.

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    “Rise, Emrys,” She commanded, albeit warmly, and so he followed. “I take no offence, for I of all creatures know the instinctual fancy of a hunting mortal.”

    Arthur quickly spoke up next to him, giving her a bow of his own, though not as deep as Merlin’s. “I assure you, my lady, that I would not have shot if I knew what you were. I did not think, and for this, I apologise with all my heart.”

    Merlin almost felt the smile coming from the spirit, along with the gentle giggle of the trees that accompanied it.
    “I am not angered, young King. In fact, I wish to help. Though you will not see it that way, at first.”


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    Arthur, Merlin and the Knights are out on a hunting trip. Arthur is much too trigger happy, which once again lands him and his friends in trouble. But maybe it's for the best, this time.

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    “I don’t have a crush,” he says, crashing back to earth with dreadful swiftness.

    “Sure,” Percy says, in such a way as to suggest that Arthur is very lucky that it is Percy in here, and not Gwaine. It is a very expressive ‘sure’.

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