Rating: PG.
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Warnings: None
Wordcount: 3,400 words.

Notes:  Written for the brilliant kinkmeme prompt “Lady Catherine de Bourgh confronts Merlin about his upstart pretentions regarding her nephew.”   The original prompt is here. People were kind enough to leave some nice comments about it, so I thought I would repost it at my journal!

Lady Catherine is, of course, Mr Darcy's rather terrifying aunt from the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.  I think my Lady Catherine is probably a more distant relative though - that Uther saw once at his wedding and fervently hoped never to see again!!

Written in two parts – because I originally didn’t think I would have time to do an actual Lady Catherine confrontation!

Huge thanks to vensre for not only telling me about the prompt, but beta-reading the finished products as well :)

Written for vensre's prompt, 'hypnagogia', and now posted to ras_elased's kissing prompt (of which I heartily approve) because I thought it fit!

Now i'm just sticking it on my journal as well, where all my fics go to retire.

Word count: 1,174

Warnings: None

Notes: Hypnagogia is (according to the trusty wikipedia) the state between waking and sleeping, otherwise known as 'the borderland of sleep' or a 'half-dream state.' I have interpreted it somewhat loosely... 

 

I have just been on Amazon for the first time in ages, and, because I have possibly searched for Merlin products on there once or twice before, I was immediately bombarded with a huge display of soon-to-be-released Merlin products that I didn’t even know about.  I’ve no doubt this is common knowledge and I have just been living in a cave (making Merlin/Arthur fan videos with the Slash Dragon) – but now I kind of want to buy them, even though I should probably spend my money on more sensible things. But,  there’s an 2010 Annual, Merlin – The Complete Guide, novelisations of the episodes (with a really cute, smiling Colin Morgan on the cover), the Merlin Quest Activity Book (answer the riddles to help Arthur defeat the evil knight and win the tournament!) and the Orchestral Soundtrack…  

Oh dear – I am only human. And possibly 26 years old.  Maybe I will claim they’re ‘research’ for my future fics.

Modern AU featuring Immortal Merlin and loosely based on one of my favourite childhood novels ‘Daddy Long Legs’ by Jean Webster. 


Arthur is at last reborn but, when he is still a baby, he is left orphaned and alone in the world. Fortunately for him he always has Merlin - even if he doesn’t always know it.

 Beta’d by the wonderful  vensre   – without whom this fic would be at least 600 words shorter, so thank you!!

I have such a cool brother. He's at the Expo in London this weekend (he writes for an anime website) and, because he is lovely, he went to the Merlin panel for me and then text me throughout with news.

So I now know that,

 - Lancelot is back in series 2.

 - Arthur and Gwen's romance will start, or move along, or something.  Like I care. (frankly i was LESS HAPPY about this and more happy about the next one)

 - There will be more shirtless Arthur

 - There will be a cartoon series.

 - There will be some novels.

 - Merlin and Gwen become Morgana's chief confidants (but their friendship 'will be tested')

 - There will be more Mordred and more about Excalibur.

 - Colin and Bradley have linked their Nintendo's wirelessly (or something, i'm not good with computer stuff) and play Nintendo DS Super Mario Karts against each other in between filming apparently. Colin said he always won, Bradley disagreed. Or as my brother put it.. "the Merlin one said he always won the games but the blonde one kept shaking his head."

 - Bradley spent some time filming the crowd at the expo.


I think I need to buy him a drink (or three).  Also I think he was a little scared by the fangirls....

Slightly angsty story I wrote in about an hour so apologies if it's a bit random or for any mistakes!

Waiting

It’s almost dark when he sees the man.

I know I said there would probably be no more Percy stories, but this little scene turned up and bashed me over the head repeatedly until I wrote it out. It has no real plot to speak of but I really hope it works alright anyway. I think this can probably be read on it’s own (the reference to potatoes harks back to Merlin being bashed with them while he was in the stocks, and Lord Wyldon is Percy’s somewhat overbearing father). But if you would like to read the previous three, they are….

 The Route To Advancement : 1 | 2 | 3

 Anyway, here it is in all its rather short and plotless (and possibly a bit random) glory - huge thanks tovensre, as always, for her brilliant beta work :)

Merlin goes home to Ealdor for two weeks and Arthur is not at all bothered by this. No really, he isn’t. Assumes kind of established relationship (as in, Arthur’s about to find out just how established it is).

This is a story I started a few months ago before real life got in the way and it got abandoned for a while. Anyway I decided to finally dust it off and finish it  for my friend Rachael's birthday. It’s possibly a bit silly (or very silly) but hopefully not too OOC.   

Now beta'd by vensre - huge thanks as always for her endless patience with my bizarre use of the comma and other grammatical misunderstandings :)

Forsaking All Others