Title: What's in a Name?
Rating: G
Pairing/s: none
Character/s: Merlin
Summary: Merlin had no use for names.
Camelot_drabble Prompt: pt 433: Call me by your name
Over the centuries, Merlin had gone by many names. In the beginning, Wyllt, Ambrosius, Myrddin, then more prosaic names, Charles, Alfred, Henry. It didn't matter. He was nameless anyway, a shadow, a legend, a myth, someone who flits in and out of history, each time a little more distorted, a little more ridiculous.
But there were certain names he never used.
Will, Lancelot, Gwaine… Arthur.
It hurt too much. To use those names, especially Arthur's, felt like betrayal.
Yet he longed for someone, anyone to call him Merlin again. To know who and what he was.
But they never did.
