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I Will Not Ask And Neither Would You by BeBraveDearHeart for GuiltyScarl3t
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
05 Jan 2025
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Seizing his opportunity when Gwaine looked down to pull off his own boots, Merlin unsheathed a small blade, precise and deadly-sharp. Silently, as swiftly as the Hawk he was so often called, Merlin stepped close, did not do anything so foolish as to raise the knife, but aimed true for Gwaine’s ribcage. He struck once, with force enough to pierce a man’s heart.
It took Merlin a moment to realise what had happened, his body overtaken by intense sensation. It wasn’t quite pain, but it seared through him—radiating out from where Gwaine’s fingers were clamped around his wrist, stopping the knife a hair’s breadth from Gwaine’s unblemished skin. Gwaine’s index finger pressed against Merlin’s soulmark, and Merlin understood all at once.
He glanced at Gwaine's torso, a silvery-white outline just above his left nipple, pale against his tanned skin, the shape of it all too familiar. After all, Merlin saw it on his own body every day.
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The king turns then, finally looking at him properly. He blinks, brows furrowed in an innocent act of confusion, and Merlin’s heart tugs.
It’s been a while since he killed someone face-to-face like this, much less someone this breathtakingly beautiful—
“What are you…” Arthur frowns and takes a single step forward, then freezes.
Finally, he sees the dagger.
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Merlin has been taking jobs for years. His magic comes in handy when tasked with making sure some spoiled fat heir disappears mysteriously enough that people assume he's eloped to leave his client the only remaining in line for whatever inheritance is at stake.
So, when his latest assignment challenges him to get rid of the King of Camelot himself, Merlin doesn't think it'll be any different.
Except it seems that Fate has other plans for him.
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They're both pining idiots and can't stay away from each other but we love them anyway.
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Soulmate AU in which you have a unique tattoo on your back symbolizing something about your soulmate. From the moment you’re born, the tattoo will keep growing, covering more and more of your body in an elaborate tapestry of ink until the moment you meet your soulmate.
Arthur’s soulmark is an elaborate network of golden tree roots that curl to form symbolic illustrations of Merlin’s many powers and even contains some symbols from the Old Religion associated with the prophecies about Emrys. Merlin’s soulmark is Excalibur in the backdrop of an indeterminable body of water, all etched onto his back in that shade of unmistakable Pendragon red.
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Detective Arthur Pendragon doesn’t believe in ghosts – until one starts following him home. A routine investigation at a druid burial site leaves him accidentally engaged to Merlin, a very annoyed, very dead activist with unfinished business. Now, Arthur has two choices: ignore the bond and ensuing bad luck, or get very comfortable being haunted by his sarcastic, spectral fiancé.
(Murder investigations. Unwanted soul bonds. Questionable supernatural bureaucracy. Arthur’s having a terrible few weeks and Merlin is loving it.)
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They thought the bond was between them — the knights and Arthur, tied in battle and destiny. When Merlin touched them and warmth bloomed, they thought nothing of it. Just Merlin. Always there, always loyal.
But soulmates aren't always obvious.
When the bond meant to sustain him begins to rot from neglect, Merlin makes the only choice he can: he leaves. Quietly. Without goodbye. Hoping distance can sever a connection they never wanted — and praying it won’t kill him first.