100 Themes Challenge, Merlin: Part Three by RomaMarufixx
Merlin does not belong to me, sadly.
Warnings: Fem!Merlin, Fem!Merlin/Arthur, Merlin/Arthur, main character death, murder, Modern AU, Parked AU, Other AU's.
76. Broken Pieces
She regretted leaving work early today. She had wanted to get home and surprise her boyfriend by making him a lovely dinner for his birthday but came home instead to see Arthur and an unknown blonde woman in the middle of having sex in the bed that only this morning she and Arthur had also had sex in. Arthur had seen her and had instantly thrown the woman off of him and tried to speak the Merlin but she had ran, got in her car and drove for hours to her mother's house.
What Arthur had done to her had left her heart in pieces, broken pieces that would not be able to be fixed for a very long time.
77. Test
Arthur was beyond nervous for his driving test, he had already failed it three times and if he didn't succeed this time, his father wouldn't buy him the car he waited by his practice car for his driving instructor, he had no idea who the teacher was as the teacher who had taken his first three tests was ill and someone was filling in for him.
"Arthur Pendragon?" A voice behind him questioned. He turned around to see one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen. She had ebony hair, which was tied up in a ponytail and the front of her hair was separated into a middle parting and reached her chin. Her eyes were a beautiful shade of blue, almost like sapphires and her skin was so pale it shined.
"I'm filling in for your driver teacher, my name is Merlin Emrys, let's go shall we?" Merlin said pointing to the car and then walking around to sit in the passenger seat. Arthur groaned to himself, this test was going to be hard and now he had seen how hot the driving instructor was, he knew he was going to fail.
78. Drink
Merlin was fifteen when she had her first alcoholic drink. She was out with her friends and they met up with a bunch of boys, who Merlin had no idea who they were. The blonde boy passed her a bottle of beer and she looked at it before looking back up at the boy who encouraged her to take a sip, so she did. And she hated it. It made the boy laugh, and from that moment onwards she had a crush on him.
79. Starvation
One of the first things Merlin asked Arthur to do after they got married was to take her to Africa. She had always wanted to helped the children in Africa, who were starving and didn't have clean water to drink and now she had money, she could help them and Arthur was more than happy to help his wife and the children. Merlin was a very kind hearted person, and helped so many children and ended up donating a large sum of money to African charities, Arthur was a very lucky man to have someone like Merlin in his life.
80. Words
He was always very good with his words. One word could bring you out of reality and into a world of pure bliss, another word could bring you to your knees, another could make you melt like butter, and another could make you slither into his bed, which is exactly what he made her do and she didn't mind one bit.
81. Pen and Paper
Arthur had spent the last seven hours trying to think of a way to begin his book. He had so many ideas but actually writing them was proving to be very hard, he just could not put pen to paper, that was until he saw his wife playing with their young children in the front garden from the porch he was sitting at his table on. They gave him the perfect opening to the perfect story. His story.
82. Can You Hear Me?
Arthur panicked as the rocks blocked the way between him and Merlin. He hit his fist against the rocks and called out for Merlin.
"Merlin!" he said, hitting his fist on the rocks again and again. "Merlin, can you hear me?" he called out and after hearing no response after an hour he broke down and cried out for his lover, he had no idea what was happening to Merlin on the other side of the rocks or if Merlin was even alive…
83. Heal
Arthur was going to die, Merlin was 99% sure of it. Well, he would die if Merlin couldn't save him with her magic, but doing that would show Arthur that she was a witch, a warlock, a sorcerer. But she did it anyway, she couldn't have Arthur suffering and then die because she wouldn't show him who she truly was.
After whispering a few words of magic Arthur's wound healed and his eyes slowly fluttered open to stare at Merlin who's eyes were slowly turned back from gold to blue. "Merlin, what, you?"
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you Arthur." she sobbed but Arthur said nothing more, just looking away from her. "I'll get you something to eat, to boost your strength." she said and walked off into the forest to look for some berries or something that Arthur could eat as she had brought no food with her.
She had just picked up a few berries when a branch cracked behind her and went to turn to see what had caused the noise, but before she could, a steel blade cut through her lower abdomen and straight through her back. She could feel blood going up her throat and coughed up some as she fell to the ground. She looked up slowly at the person who had stabbed her and she sobbed as she saw Arthur above her.
"A...Arthur..." she muttered through the blood in her mouth. His expression was cold as stone but his eyes shone with sadness. "Why?" she sobbed through the blood.
"I'm sorry Merlin." he said his voice wobbling. "But I have to do this."
"Why?"
"You're a sorcerer."
"I would...never harm C...Camelot, you know that..." she sobbed, tears running down her face, and blood pouring out of the corners of her mouth, she knew it was a matter of minutes before death would pull its veil across her.
"I can't take that risk, Merlin, I am sorry." he held her cheek in his hand and slowly began to pull the sword out of Merlin and she panicked, knowing the sword, although killing her, whilst it was embedded in her, it was keeping her alive for slightly longer.
"No..Arthur, please." she begged.
"Why don't you just heal yourself?" He shouted at her.
"Why would I heal myself, where would I go? I've lost you, you'd banish me or kill me, I wouldn't be able to go back to Camelot, I would lose all my friends, there is no point." Merlin said, her face covered in blood and tears and she pulled the rest of the sword out of her body to let herself bleed out.
Merlin felt the blood pour out of her wound and her mouth and nose. She took one more look at Arthur, who was also crying before closing her eyes and greeting death.
84. Out Cold
Merlin had always been very clumsy, tripping over things, dropping things and hitting people or knocking over things by accident so when Gaius had called for the King to come and check on his lover Arthur wasn't surprise to find out she had knocked herself out cold...again.
85. Spiral
Arthur had always hated magic tricks and illusions, so when Merlin took him to an illusion house in London he was not happy. Spirals and lights everywhere, things shining in his face and everything in the house making both his eyes and his head hurt.
"Merlin, can't we leave now?"
"No, Arthur, we have so much left to see!" he said and grabbed Arthur's hand dragging him down another corridor, making him groan.
86. Seeing Red
Arthur hadn't thought they would be ambushed, his weeks of planning for this trip down the drain as bandits ran out of the forest and attacked the knights, the King and his maidservant. Some knights had even been killed, but a few had escaped, including the king and his maidservant.
They had got far away from the bandits when they were attacked by another bunch of bandits, Arthur withdrew his sword and made to protect his men and most of all, his maidservant, little known to the kingdom she was more than just his maidservant.
Before he had a chance to attack the bandits, three of them had grabbed Merlin and threw her to the ground. One of the men chuckled as he grabbed her chest and then realised that she was in fact a girl and not a boy as they had thought before.
"Oh, looky here boys, the servant is a girl!" one of the bandits said as the other two snickered.
"Don't you dare touch her!" The King growled, as he saw red.
"Give yourself up and we won't do anything with the girl." The bandit threatened.
The King threw down his sword and the bandits ran over to him, holding him against the ground as Merlin was let go.
87. Food
Growing up in Ealdor, Merlin didn't eat much, not because her mother didn't feed her, but that they were so poor they often didn't have food or very much of it. Even when she came to Camelot she didn't have much food although a lot more than she had in Ealdor. It wasn't until Arthur had invited her to eat with him one time at a feast that she had, had enough food that she had felt full for once in her life.
88. Pain
Merlin had never been in so much pain in her entire life. As she pushed and pushed the pain only got worse, she hoped that the pain would go away quickly and she would finally have her child instead of this horrid pain.
She gripped the blanket beneath her and pushed and pushed. If childbirth was hard with a physician present then it was going to be worse for her as she was on her own, in an abandoned cabin in the middle of some woods. She screamed as she pushed again and again and finally the pain was gone as she heard the cries of her child hit her ears and she smiled, happy for once in a long, long time.
89. Through The Fire
Arthur coughed again and again as he make his way through the currently on fire, burning to the ground building. There was one person missing from the building, one woman, his neighbour, Merlin, who was not safely outside.
"Merlin!" he called out through the smoke and fire and caught a glimpse of a feminine figure moving through the fire.
"Merlin!" he called out again, running through the fire to save the woman he hardly knew.
90. Triangle
Arthur have never been so confused in his life, he was in a very happy relationship with his long term girlfriend, Gwen, but a few weeks ago she had introduced Arthur to her university friend, Merlin, who was now always on his mind, what was he to do? He was fighting with himself inside and was very afraid he was going to make the wrong decision.
91. Drowning
Merlin looked behind her as she heard someone call her name and saw Arthur along with two FBI agents running towards her, she was going to turn around completely when someone pushed her forwards and into the pool, the clear material that was wrapped over the pools surface, wrapping around her and blocking her supply of oxygen and she began to struggle, popping it around her, splashing into the water, only making things worse.
She heard two splashes in the water round her as two people dived into the water to save her but nothing else was heard or even seen by Merlin as darkness closed in around her.
92. All That I Have
He'd lost everything, his home, his possessions, his job, his mother, his father, his sister, his wife and his daughter and now all he had was Merlin, but that was all he needed.
93. Give Up
The sword was pressed against his chest with more forced this time and Arthur bit down on his tongue to keep him from screaming out in pain at the sword nicked at his skin and blood began to appear.
"Give up, my king, and we will let you live." one of the bandits hissed through his rotten teeth and Arthur continued to bit down onto his tongue to distract himself from giving in to the bandits, but he didn't know how long he could hold out.
94. Last Hope
It wasn't often that Arthur and Merlin got to spend time together just doing something quiet like watching Star Wars like they were now. Since beginning their family five years ago, their time had been focused on their three young children and not on each other, so something like this was nice to do, even though they knew it wouldn't last long.
95. Advertisement
Times were hard and Arthur had splashed out £1,000 for a billboard advertising his company which catered for any event and it all seemed like a waste until a very rich woman came to him asking for him to cater her friends wedding and her father's funeral. And within the next month Arthur was one of the most successful men in the city.
96. In The Storm
"I told you this was a bad idea!" Merlin screamed at Arthur through the storm.
"Yeah, yeah, you told me, now get under deck before you get yourself killed!" Arthur shouted at Merlin through the stormed and she glared at him before marching off under deck leaving Arthur to try and tame the boat through the storm.
97. Safety First
Merlin and Arthur were just a couple of teenagers fooling around in Arthur's bed while his father was away on a business trip. Things were going very far and soon they were both naked and rubbing up against each other.
Arthur pulled back and reached into his draw pulling out a box of condoms and taking one out, placing the box back in the draw before turning back to Merlin.
"Safety first." he said making Merlin chuckle and she pulled him in for another kiss.
98. Puzzle
Merlin sat in her favourite armchair, her brow creased as she look down at the sudoku puzzle in the newspaper on her lap. She was normally very good at them, but today she just seemed to be failing.
"The 3 goes there." Arthur pointed to one of the boxes.
"Thanks." she muttered, scribbling a 3 into the box that Arthur had pointed to.
"And the 7 goes there." she rolled her eyes and scribbled the 7 in the box.
"Thanks." she said again.
"And the 1-"
"Arthur, can you please leave me alone? I can do this on my own." she said, glaring at Arthur who put his hands up and walked away into the kitchen leaving Merlin to finish her puzzle alone.
99. Solitude
Since being banished from Camelot, Merlin had been left on her own to wander around for another place to live and was very surprised to find Arthur following her and joining her in solitude for as long as he could without the king and people of Camelot finding him and her.
100. Relaxation
Merlin was told by her counsellor that she needed to find a way to relax otherwise she was never going to solve her inner problems. Who knew that little bit of advice would lead her on to meet her future husband and father of her children.
