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    Buck doesn’t think that if he were to say, “I’m in a bad place”, that anyone would turn him away. Really, he doesn’t. The 118 has too many good, kind people for that.

    But every time he wants to open his mouth, to say something, to reach out to Eddie or Bobby or Hen or Chim, he hears Eddie yelling, “you’re exhausting.”

    —you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting—

    So each day he does his job and he laughs and he jokes and he pretends he’s the care-free goofball he’s always been. And each day he packs away his bruises and his worries, takes them home to his empty loft with its quiet rooms, and licks his wounds in silence.

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    “I told you to go,” he says, voice rough but quiet. If Merlin were to guess, he’d assume that Arthur has been crying. But that can’t be. Arthur never cries.

    He sets the food down on the table. “Would you rather me leave you to starve?” Merlin attempts at a joke. Surely Arthur will laugh, or get so annoyed that he lifts his head from his knees and proves that he’s indeed scowling, not pouting.

    “Yes,” he replies with a devastating sniff. “Now go away.”

    After a harsh scolding from Uther, Merlin notices that Arthur is acting a little… strangely. Younger, even. At first, he suspects that Arthur has been cursed— but maybe that isn’t the case.

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    Uther is a jerk, Arthur just wants to be loved, Merlin was just trying to sleep, but now he's planning to commit murder against the king, but first he has to take care of his prince and remind him how much he is loved.

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    Arthur buried memories and nightmares well below the castle. Something has dug them back up again.

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    This is some of the more darker stuff I've written but I promise none of the yucky is explicit except for uther hitting arthur like once but all yuckies are just implied

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    “I need to take off your shirt. Do you think you can sit up for me?” He really didn't want to make him move, but things would go much more smoothly that way. “At least long enough to get it off, then you can lay back down, I promise.”

    “Okay, but only because you promise,” Merlin never expected such a cheeky answer from him in this state, but Arthur rose up. It was a slow process, but he made it with Merlin's help.

    He was unsteady, and he looked to Merlin like he was his one and only guide. His gaze told Merlin that he was listening, watching, and waiting. Waiting to do whatever Merlin told him to do. Which was so unfathomably unlike Arthur.

    *I've made the smallest edit here, I just lengthened the scene where Arthur gets slapped a little. I had a scene in my head that I couldn't get out, but it wasn't enough to make a whole second fic for*

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