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Arthur asks Merlin to learn magic to see if it can be trusted in defeating Morgana.
"We want to ask someone to learn magic to see if it can be used without corrupting the soul of the person who uses it. Lancelot suggested you be the person we ask."
Merlin's lips parted a fraction, "He did?"
"Indeed. Something about your heart being pure." Arthur brushed the compliment off with a wave of his hand and straightened in his seat, "I know you're scared of magic so you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to but-"
"I'll do it."Now complete with added prologue and epilogue!
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15 Jun 2026
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“I didn’t know!” Merlin’s voice rises in pitch now to match Arthur’s. “I didn’t know what you would do, not at first—”
“And what about after I helped you get the druid boy out of the castle? Hmm?”
Arthur has Merlin there, or at least he thinks he does. Certainly, Merlin deflates a bit, and the strange, heavy atmosphere that had settled over them seems to lighten slightly. But the next words out of Merlin’s mouth are, “So I was supposed to just let you make me leave too? I couldn’t do that, Arthur, I wouldn’t. Not then, not ever.”
“I wouldn’t have sent you away,” Arthur protests before he can think better of it. He’s struggling to hold onto the anger, the betrayal, but in the face of Merlin’s own evident pain, his overwhelming instinct is to make it go away. “I would have never sent you away, Merlin!”
“Why not?” Merlin demands.
“Don’t—” Arthur swallows hard. “Don’t pretend you don’t know,” he goes on, barely more than a whisper. “Not now.”
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In which Arthur finds discovers Merlin's magic due to Merlin's own bleeding heart, they acknowledge the bond they share, and Arthur realizes that he never had to know about Merlin's magic to truly know him anyway.
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13 Jun 2026
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“I’m losing my senses, aren’t I?” he said quietly. He clenched his hands on the armrests of the chair. “One by one. I’m losing them.”
He wanted Merlin to make a joke about it. Something deadpan and snarky and so typically him, like, “You never had any sense to begin with, you prat.”
But Merlin didn’t make any jokes, and Arthur almost felt like he couldn’t breathe.
Arthur's world is turned upside down when he's cursed to lose a sense every day.
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13 Jun 2026
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I Could Look After You by STARSdidathing
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Mar 2017
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When Anthony is injured in battle, all Loki wants to do is help. But he's barely accepted as a member of the team when he's useful, let alone the rest of the time. Anthony might treat him differently than the others, but Loki has no reason to think he’d want a former enemy around when he's vulnerable and wounded.
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03 Jun 2026
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Stories that begin with banishment, brainwashing and imprisonment don't normally end with coffee shops, moonshine and day-trips into Tuscany. But Bucky and Loki are hardly normal.
AKA, The one where Loki gets captured by Hydra. But it isn't really about that. He and Bucky bust out of there by page two.
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27 May 2026