Author's Note: Hello beautiful readers! I have recently entered into the Merlin fandom and wanted to try my hand at Merlin fic. This fic will be comprised 100 drabbles, short-shorts and one-shots ranging from the normal 100 (for a drabble) to 1000 words. They will be happy, fluffy, angsty and any other emotion you could come up with. I will be attempting to post at least 2 a day, barring holidays. For updates on my other stories I have added info in my profile. Thank you for reading and hopefully staying with me through this! I am very excited, because the more I write, the more my head-canon evolves. There will be some past, present, and future Merlin shorts in this fic.

Reviews and comments are welcome. Because this is the first chapter, this note will be the longest one for the entire set of 100. So no worries, the notes won't always be longer than the drabble :).

Disclaimer: I do not, sadly, own Merlin.

Prompt: Friends: Gwaine and Merlin on the battlefield. (And yes, you might find some LOTR inspired verbiage. It came to me and I just said: Must write!


1. Friends:

"Never thought I'd die side by side with a Sorcerer," Gwaine said a little bitterly, eyes landing on Merlin. "You could have trusted me."

Next to him Merlin felt his heart give a pained twinge, but he offered the man a soft smile anyway, "How about side by side with a friend?"

They both heard the sound of the horns in the distance, alerting them to the coming army, and he could see the anger leaving the man.

"Ay, I suppose I could do that."

"For Camelot then," he said, "for Arthur."

"For you, my old friend," Gwaine corrected.