16 Works by katherynefromphilly

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    Author Notes:
    - This is the final installment of the We Begin Again series. Yes it will have the wedding. :)
    - I'm posting this as a WIP (apologies) with no posting schedule so brace yourselves.
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    Story Summary:
    Now that Merlin and Arthur have dealt with Arthur’s return from the dead, and with their mutual love for one another, and also with that mild inconvenience of having to save the Northern Hemisphere from an ancient magical foe, they're finally able to live their lives like any two normal people in love.

    All they want is to forget the past, to have a long indulgent holiday road-tripping around the world seeing the sights together as a newly engaged couple, and to get married in Avalon the coming summer on the Solstice.

    Surely, that’s not too much to ask. I mean, things always went totally to plan for them before, right?

    Story contains: Banter, humor, misadventure, old friends and new friends, canon-level peril, fluff and feels, a happily ever after at the end, and love. Lots and lots of love.

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    Rome is even more the majestic city Arthur imagined centuries ago, as he’d listened to his tutors’ lessons.  Imperial antiquity breathes from every stone, somehow made even more grandiose in comparison to the modern buildings among them.

    Unlike their trip to London five months ago, Merlin is comfortable amid the modern chaos. Despite cars speeding past on too-narrow stone roads, and tourists clogging pavements beneath towering monuments, Merlin shows no signs of distress.

    Arthur, to his own surprise, is at ease as well. Not bad for a man born fifteen centuries ago, he thinks, more than once.  It’s an immodest thought, one more befitting the king he was, or perhaps still is, depending upon your point of view. 

    He knows he should let go of such arrogant old habits. But on this one topic, he thinks he’s entitled.

    It isn’t many people, after all, who could handle being murdered as a king only to emerge from a lake fifteen centuries later, to discover a land he no longer knows. To say nothing of having to prevent a predestined apocalypse days later. Or deal with being in a relationship with Merlin, who he's apparently been in love with since the first day they met.

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    Artwork to go along with Sweet Dreams of Mistletoe, a canon-compliant story I wrote for WinterKnights 2016, in answer to the prompt of: "Magic Mistletoe takes over Camelot Castle".

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    (Updated 5/16 with a text transcript of the images!)

    If you've read "And Like The Cycle of the Year We Begin Again", and its sequel "Our Destinies Our Own", you'll enjoy this little text exchange, in which Merlin and Arthur share the news of their engagement with their friends in Avalon...

    ... with some unexpected -- and humorous -- consequences.

    Well. Perhaps not so humorous for Heath. But that's what you get, when you mock a sorcerer. :)

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    In the few weeks since Arthur stepped out of Lake Avalon, he's been confronted by perplexing technology, ancient prophecy, and belated epiphany about his true feelings for his manservant turned friend turned sorcerer turned- god help him- lover.

    With prophecy fulfilled, Arthur and Merlin now face a new adventure: Finding their place in the modern world.

    This is a story of what happens next. After Arthur and Merlin save the world and find each other. Of how an immortal sorcerer and an ancient king learn to move away from the past, and on toward the future, in love and together.

    *** Art by the lovely lao-pendragon ******

    Story contains:
    banter, sass, mockery of mobile usage, cuddling, verbal abuse of technology, flirting, bedsharing, jealousy, a lot of sex, and even more fluff

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    Tumblr Drabble, from the prompt:
    I bet “let’s have you lazy daisy” is something Merlin’s mother Hunith would say to him

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    EXCERPT:

    “What are you doing?” Merlin asked, sounding tired. “The war is over. Magic is no longer banned. Take your men and go home. Live your lives in peace.”

    “There can be no peace so long as that castle stands!” the sorcerer yelled.

    Merlin ignored him, addressing the three others by his side instead. “This isn’t what magic is for. You know it isn't. If you listen to people like him, you will be driven into the same darkness that forced me to end Morgana’s life. Is that really what you want?”

    The three men glanced at each other.

    Uncertain, Gwen thought.

    The sorcerer in black let out a yell, and thrust his arm forward, a fireball flying from his hand.

    Merlin barely spared it a glance.

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    SUMMARY:

    A year after Arthur's death, and magic is permitted once again in Camelot. But Uther's legacy lives long, and many want revenge for his crimes, now with magic at their disposal.

    As Camelot stands faced with an army lead by four sorcerers, there is but one who can save them all -- if only he can be persuaded to leave his silent vigil, upon the shores of Avalon.

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    A prompt caused by Eoin Macken's interview with SyFy Now, in which he says:

    “I actually don’t think he died.” He tells us, “I think it’s more Percival had to go and do this thing and Gwaine was just unconscious, he would have woken up and everything was fine. I mean, obviously, he didn’t appear in the court after that so in my opinion he woke up with no memory and went on his travels again."

    This story takes place some years after that, when Merlin tends to Gwaine as an older man, and Gwaine is given a choice:
    If you could remember a life from long ago, would you?

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    Per lunghi anni Merlin aveva atteso. L’altra metà della sua anima, l’altra metà della sua vita. Era nato per servire Arthur. Quindi ciò significava che era nato per aspettare. Anche se ci fossero voluti mille anni. Anche se l’attesa dovesse sembrare non avere mai fine. Finché un giorno, improvvisamente, finì.
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    Ambientato dopo l’episodio finale della 5 stagione “Il diamante del giorno”.
    Fedele al Canon. In Character. Ritorno di Arthur Pendragon.
    Quando Arthur risorge dalle acque del Lago di Avalon 1500 anni dopo la sua morte, trova un mondo diverso da quello che aveva conosciuto. Dovendo affrontare la perdita di tutti coloro che amava e la minaccia di un’imminente profezia, Arthur deve imparare velocemente cosa significa non solo essere re, ma il Re del Passato e del Futuro. Merlin fa tutto ciò che può per guidarlo in questo viaggio, anche se lotta per nascondere l’amore per il suo re e per combattere la sua paura di perderlo ancora una volta.
    La storia include ironia, lunghe chiacchierate, giochi sfrenati e... Vero Amore.

    This translation by Elly78 also posted to efpfanfic.net

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    Artwork created for Merlin Reverse Bang 2017. Fic written by SleeperGeyser.

    Summary of For Yourself Alone: Arthur has a thing for touching people. Especially their hair. Even more so when it's long. He rarely touches Merlin though, and Merlin wants to change that.

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    Was könnte die Winterferien schlechter für Arthur machen, als den mürrischen König Olaf und seine noch verzauberte Tochter Lady Vivian zu unterhalten? Das zu tun, während eines Ausbruchs der magischen Misteln ganz über Camelot Schloss, selbstverständlich!

    Canon konform (-ish), zwischen Serie 4 und 5 eingestellt.

    Original englische Version dieser Übersetzung: Sweet Dreams of Mistletoe.

    Beta read (with german corrected!) by the wonderful Plutonia. Danke sehr!

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    What could be make the winter holidays worse for Arthur than having to entertain the surly King Olaf and his still-entirely-love-smitten daughter Lady Vivian?

    Why, doing it during an outbreak of magical mistletoe all over Camelot castle, of course!

    Canon compliant (-ish), set between Series 4 and 5, full of lots of banter and general shenanigans.

     

    Thanks as always to my lovely beta reader BlueSimplicity.

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    Set after the Merlin Series 5 Finale "Diamond of the Day".
    Canon Compliant. In Character. Arthur Pendragon Returns.
    Cover art by Lao-Pendragon

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    For many long years Merlin waited.

    For the other part of his soul, for the other half of his life. He was born to serve Arthur. So that meant he was also born to wait. Even if it took a thousand years. Even if the wait seemed never to end.

    Until one day, suddenly, it did.

    When Arthur stumbles from the Lake of Avalon 1,500 years after his death, he finds a world unlike the one he knew. Faced with the loss of everyone he loved, and the threat of impending prophecy, Arthur must learn what it means to be not just a king, but the Once and Future King. Merlin does all he can to guide him, even as he struggles to hide his love for his king, and his fear of losing him again.

    Story includes sass, banter, horseplay, & True Love.

     

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    Short poem inspired by a reading of "221B" by Vincent Starret written during the Series 3 Hiatus.

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    As she approached the actually rather unremarkable looking young man, she felt a swell of doubt. Was he really who she’d thought he was? Spider-Man had been a giant of a man, someone she could easily imagine at the front of her train, gripping hundreds of webs with power enough to crush the train car into the shape of his body.

    This boy looked barely able to carry his overstuffed backpack. With his Oxford shirt and jeans and neatly combed hair, he could have been the poster child for a 1950s science scholarship. Not someone you imagined facing down an eight-armed psychopath on a speeding train.

    Half convinced she’d imagined the whole thing, Maggie crossed the diner and stepped up to his table. After a moment he noticed her, lifting his attention from an open book full of equations and cracker crumbs to look right at her.

    All doubt vanished when Maggie looked into his blue eyes and round face. It was him. No question. It was Spider-Man, right here at her table, waiting to order breakfast from her.

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    Originally posted on FanFiction.net. Based upon the beautifully written "train scene" in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2.

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