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Title: Heart Lines

Author: PeaceHeather

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Merlin/Arthur

Warnings: background character death by childbirth, attempted lynch mob, anti-magic prejudice, character injury

Other notes: au, soulmates, romantic & platonic soulmates, world-building, asexual character, fix-it fic, original characters

Length: 47k

Summary:

Everyone is born with a heart line, a pigmented mark running from the heart down the left arm to the palm, which turns color when the person comes of age, telling them when it is time to seek their soulmate. Red indicates a romantic love, while blue is for platonic "heart-friends", as the minstrels called it.

Uther had always told Arthur to ignore his heart line, that it wouldn't matter who his soulmate was; princes did not marry for love, after all. If was lucky, he'd be able to keep her as a mistress, so long as he did not get any children with her. Uther hated magic and would have urged Arthur to ignore the heart line anyway, if he could.

Arthur wasn't sure his soulmate was really a woman despite Uther's assumptions. But Arthur's heart line hadn't even come into its full color yet, which meant he hadn't come of age in the eyes of the gods, despite being named crown prince by Uther. So it really didn't matter: whoever his soulmate was, he wasn't yet ready to meet them.

Then one day his heart line comes in, and it's neither red nor blue.

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Title: For Your Information

Author: reni_days

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin

Warnings: homophobic/ignorant behavior, secondhand embarrassment, discussion of bullying

Other notes: AU, modern day AU, dating, family, crack, matchmaking

Length: 10k

Summary: Merlin sighs. “After your…announcement,” he explains, “your father decided he needed a bit more information. Which is apparently where I come in. I’m sort of like his gay tutor, it’s hard to explain.”

Title: And Nobody Will Ever Remember

Author: crazyboutremmy

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin

Warnings: character death, angst

Other notes: alternate universe

Length: 2k

Summary: When Merlin’s magic falters while he’s floating a pail into his room, he thinks nothing of it.

Title: Drastically Redefining Protocol

Author: rageprufrock

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, Guin/Lancelot

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), hospital setting and related mentions of death and illness (including death of a child), public outing, paparazzi/stalking, angst, infidenlity

Other notes: modern day AU, royalty,

Length: 46k

Summary: In which Prince Arthur meets Merlin and all hell promptly breaks lose.

Title: Natural Selection

Author: minor-hue

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: PG-13 for the main story, NC-17 for the epilogue

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin

Warnings: explicit sex (gay) liberal use of the word ‘crazy,’ creepy stalker-ish dates, creepy religious fanatic dates

Other notes: kink meme fill, blind dates, romantic comedy

Length: unknown

Summary: In which Arthur goes on blind dates, Merlin is his waiter, and everyone takes a ride on the crazy train.

Title: A Persistent Curiosity, or Why Merlin is So Bloody Fascinating

Author: rurounihime

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), some dumb machismo

Other notes: kink meme fill, mostly sex

Length: 10k

Summary: Arthur knew his mouth was open. He knew it and was too affronted to care. “You can’t just put my hands anywhere, you know.”

Title: Coffeeshop Muffins

Author: skellerbvvt

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: R, maybe a light NC-17

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, Morgana/Gwen, Arthur/Sophia, Arthur/other, Merlin/other

Warnings: semi-explicit sex (gay), some rough language

Other notes: crack, fluff, alternate universe, modern day, college

Length: 15k

Summary: For the prompt: Arthur/Merlin, Arthur and Merlin are best friends and everybody knows they will never be as important to the boys as they are to each other…Sophia comes to Merlin to ask how she can make Arthur pay more attention to her and he makes her realize that Arthur gets all his emotional fulfillment from Merlin already.

Title: Come Here to Me

Author: myashke

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Merlin/Arthur

Warnings: explicit sex (gay)

Other notes: pet fic, comedy of errors, magic reveal

Length: 21k

Summary: When Merlin accidentally brings home a dragon egg, his relationship with Arthur is forever changed.

Title: Peach, Plum, Pear

Author: sweetestdrain

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: R (maybe a light NC-17)

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, Guinevere/Lancelot, and sort-of Arthur/Guinevere

Warnings: open/alternative relationship, infertility issues, mentions of past betrayal, angst,

Other notes: future!fic, fix-it fic, alternate universe, trial/tournament

Length: 13k

Summary: How in his tenth year of rule King Arthur chose a man to take the role of Court’s Magician, and how Arthur made his decision.

Title: Let Us Dare

Author: kianspo

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Merlin/Arthur

Warnings: graphic sex (gay), some violence (not much more than the show, though), tattoo kink, angst, betrayal

Other notes: alternate universe, magic-accepting AU, kid fic/growing up fic, family, epic quests, magic, boys being stupid, long-distance relationship/separation, UST out the roof

Length: 29k

Summary: Uther dies instead of Ygraine when Arthur is born. Balinor helps Ygraine secure her position as regent, magic isn’t banned, and Merlin and Arthur grow up side by side. Camelot is different but not cloudless, destiny is still a troublesome thing, and Arthur is still charmingly oblivious when it comes to things that matter most in life.

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Originally posted on tumblr on 08/08/12