Inspired by "Everything Has Changed" by Taylor Swift featuring Ed Sheeran. Particularly, the lines:
'Cause all I know is we said hello
And your eyes look like coming home
All I know is a simple name, everything has changed
Takes place, I believe, sometime during the first episode, just after Arthur and Merlin's first little encounter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Merlin or the song that hath inspired this.
Everything Has Changed
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He was a mouthy, disrespectful son of a bitch who deserved to rot in the cells, as far as Arthur was concerned. What right did he have, after all, talking to the prince of Camelot like that? What right did he have to interfere in his business?
None.
If Arthur wanted to use the odd stable boy for target practice, that bloke, that Merlin, didn't need to concern himself with it.
God—Merlin—what a ridiculous name!
Everything about that idiot had been weird. His name, his ears, his eyes, his gall—there wasn't a damn thing about him that didn't rub Arthur the wrong way…
But it wasn't all wrong, now was it? It was mostly just… weird. The way he'd called Arthur "friend," like they'd known each other for years, had stirred something in him, and his eyes, blue and soft, had been welcoming and safe, like they had been made just for Arthur to get lost in. Everything about the bumbling idiot had felt like…
Home.
Like a place Arthur had never been before and a place he'd been a hundred thousand times already combined. It was unnerving and calming all at once, turning Arthur's world upside down. If he never saw that idiot again…
He didn't know if he would be upset or relieved.
So when he found out that idiot was to be Gaius' ward, that he would more than likely be around quite a bit…
Arthur could safely admit to himself that his life would never be the same again.
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