Cake And Coffee
Hello guys Ceci here. I have started a Merlin fic and this one is Merlin/Arthur it's a modern AU and i have read a few and it's normally it's Merlin who has the problem and Arthur is the one who helps him out so instead i have made it that Arthur has a problem but so does Merlin.
This will be slash but it will be developed in the chapters as i go along.
As Arthur sat in an empty cafe, watching the rain pour down on the windows he couldn't help but think what his life would be like if he hadn't left home at such a young age. His mother had been put in the hospital because of her illness, his father had began to be even more distance if that was even possible and his little sister was so upset that she hadn't stopped crying for the past week.
That all happened around ten years ago and now Arthur was now at the ripe young age of 25. He visited this empty cafe every time he was feeling down and wanted some space to think. He lived in a big apartment alone he did have neighbours but he would rather sit in this little cafe than speak two words to them.
Arthur was a rather how to say it a shy person. If he didn't know someone well enough then he wouldn't speak a word to them unless they spoke to him first. He had heard people say a new guy had moved into the apartment just across the hall from him.
Arthur had thought about going and introducing himself to the new guy in an attempt to make a new friend but the whole concept of it made Arthur feel sick to his stomach, so after overcoming the urge to spew his guts up all over his new carpet that sat under his sofa, Arthur took his jacket and walked out his front door.
He had been sitting in this cafe for a good hour and a half and he hadn't noticed a tall skinny man with longish black hair had sat down next to him with two cups of hot coffee. As Arthur finally realized the man sitting next to him. He looked shocked at first as the man simply handed him a coffee.
"Erm thanks."
"You're welcome."
The two men just sat there drinking the coffee in silence. In the three years that Arthur had been coming to this little cafe he had not once seen another customer in the shop, he wondered how the shop managed to stay in business with just him coming in for coffee and maybe a slice of the owner's homemade cake.
"I'm Merlin. I just moved in to the apartment block that is a few minutes away from here."
Arthur jumped at the man's voice he didn't think the man would so openly talk to him but then again, this man had just went and brought Arthur a coffee without even knowing him.
"I'm Arthur you must be the new guy who moved in across the hall from me. Room 295 right?"
Arthur found himself talking to Merlin easily, maybe it was the fact that Merlin had started the conversation with him first. Why had this Man that he didn't know at all just start up a conversation up?
"Yes so you're in 280 then?"
Arthur nodded as he drank his coffee, as he went back to looking blankly out the window, the rain had let up and the sun had came out he just sat there as the door bell ring, he hadn't heard it the first time because he was so lost in his thoughts.
Arthur was shocked to see the owner of the shop walking through the door with nothing more than a dress and a very wet looking jacket.
"Arthur! Oh Hell I haven't seen you in a while!" The girl said as she found Arthur looking shocked.
"Wait Einin if you're just now coming in who's running the shop?"
"My sister, well sister I mean best friend that I count as a sister. I had a few things that I needed to do today so I asked her to open the place up."
"No homemade cake then."
Arthur let out a small sigh and he went to looking out the window again, he really did enjoy Einin's homemade cakes, she had spent around seven years of her life studying and working to become the best pastry chef out there and she ended up opening a little cafe in a small rundown neighborhood were more people were stabbed than came in the shop.
"I made the cake this morning before I went to do the things I needed too. So two slices with extra sauce?"
Two? What did she mean by two? Arthur suddenly remembered that Merlin was sitting next to him.
"Oh yes two please Einin, Merlin here brought me coffee so I may as well buy him cake."
"I Swear Arthur C Pendragon you live off Coffee and Cake."
Einin laughed at herself and walked towards the kitchen taking off her soaking wet jacket and muttering things that Arthur could only assume were profanities about her clothes been wet.
"You know her?"
"Oh yes Einin and I go back about five years we meet when I first moved into the apartment. Two years later she opened this place up."
"So she's your girlfriend then?"
"Oh God No. Me and Arthur, don't make me wet myself with laughter. This guy is as straight as a roundabout."
Arthur spat all his coffee out onto the bench, and started coughing he looked up at Einin who was bright red with laughter and almost dropping the cake on the floor.
She placed the plated down while trying to stop herself from laughing as she also got a cloth to wipe up the coffee.
"I have missed you Arthur, you're so easy to mess with. No but me and Arthur never had anything like that. I liked him when we first met but when he told me his preferences I became like his best friend."
Arthur smiled at the comment Einin had made, she was in fact one of the only people he classed as a friend apart for Gwaine and Gwen. Of course those two were getting married soon not to each other, Gwaine was getting married to Einin and Gwen was getting married to Lancelot.
"How's everything with Gwaine?"
"Okay he's working overtime he wants the wedding to be like everything I ever wanted or something. I told him that if he shows up not stinking of alcohol that will be great."
"Anyway not to change the subject or anything but who is your friend here?"
Einin asked the way she said friend made Arthur want to through the cake in her face, but seeing as he was hungry and wanted cake he though he would rather eat it then through it in her face.
"This is Merlin he just moved into the apartment across from me. You know were Percival use to live before him and his girl got a place together."
"Oh yeah I was wondering who moved in I saw the movers in there this morning before I left for here. Nice to meet you Merlin I'm Einin I live in 268 just near you two."
Einin smiled and put her hand out for Merlin to shack; he took her hand and shook it.
"it is nice to meet you Einin."
As those two got to talking Arthur stuffed his face with a hot chocolate fudge cake with extra sauce, he wished he hadn't because he was feeling like he was going to spew everywhere after he had, after all it had just hit him that Merlin was a complete stranger.
Arthur was brought out oh his thoughts to stop himself from throwing up as Einin suddenly talked.
"Your not eating Merlin?"
"Oh I was thinking if I could take it home to eat?"
"Sure I don't see why not."
As Einin walked off with the plate and began to box it up Arthur couldn't help but notice Merlin wouldn't stop looking at him, Did he have chocolate all over his face? Then it finally clicked in Arthurs head. The reason Merlin brought him coffee when they first meet, why Merlin was been so friendly towards him.
Arthur looked at Merlin and asked the one question he hated asking the most, even though he slightly hoped that Merlin was.
"Are you Gay?"
"Yes and you're canny cute." Merlin answered without hesitation and with a smile.
"Sorry but..."
Arthur was about to say he wasn't looking for anyone right now as he just came out of a bad relationship but Einin walked over with the boxed up cake. She knew right away what had happened and sighed. She turned and looked to Merlin with a look that could kill an already dead person.
"Listen here Merlin. Arthur is taking a down low on the whole dating game, so I am going to tell you not to push the issue. If Arthur comes in here looking like he did last week I know where you live." Einin crossed her arms smiled and walked away.
"Well I'm having nightmares tonight."
"Sorry she's just insane like that... i swear she runs the local gang around here."
Arthur said this and got up the leave before looking back at Merlin.
"Come on since we live in the same place may as well walk home together. "
Arthur quickly left the cafe and waited for Merlin outside. Arthur tucked some of his long blonde hair behind his ear, he had left to grow out since his brake up and he wanted to see what he would look like with long hair. He liked it but hated it at the same time.
Both men silently walked home together not saying a word, not even when Merlin walked though his own front door did Arthur return his goodbye.
Arthur walked into his Apartment and slumped onto his sofa.
"Fuck"
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Ceci ~ well what did you guys think at my first attempt at writing a merlin/Arthur slash. It's only the first chapter but i plan to explain more of everything in the chapter to come. I hope you don't mind i added Two OC'S into this. I couldn't help it at all.
As the chapters go on you will find out Merlin's problem and Arthurs will get worse at the return of his little sister, His family problems with start to affect him even more and will Merlin be able to help at all?