Waking up — still drunk and naked — was also something Gwaine had long since grown used to.

You can't stand to be powerless, and waiting is mostly made of not being able to do anything.

Could them – or anyone, really – ever understand what it was like to be Arthur and Merlin?

Even when you had little idea about his troubles, you never left.

It just seems so obvious: Merlin is in love with him. But perhaps even a prince shouldn't assume such things, especially when he unwittingly stakes their friendship on it. Co-written with Mapplepie.

Step 2030: Hopes to All-Gods-that-Ever-Were he says yes.

He was a man that would bow to no one, a man to rule and not to follow.

Arthur wants to rake the leaves, Merlin wants to play with them - and then everybody wins.

The thing is, being a knight? Totally overrated.

It is only fitting that she, who devoted her life to destruction and hatred would become witness to the ultimate ruin of the world they had once lived.

It couldn't go on – she couldn't handle it; she couldn't handle Camelot thinking about it. And Camelot deserved better than an unsteady Queen.

There was nowhere they could claim to belong, but among the trees and the dirt, the leaves and wells, the birds and flowers, in the midst of nature, wherever it was.

He was a man that would bow to no one, a man to rule and not to follow.

Gwen would never know if what pulled her heart down was the weight of the crown or the absence of Arthur by her side.

For Arthur, his name had always been at the same time a deep irony and a strong burden.

He speaks as if it is nothing, to have three years of her life missing all of a sudden.

Merlin's life wasn't his own to offer, and she knew the law would claim him something just as precious as he saved the man he was bound to serve.

How was he supposed to explain to Arthur that his sister had decided to go out with him, a man? [MorganaxLeon]

(Traduction) La seule chose que Merlin faisait, c'était de prendre sa dose quotidienne de café. La "Princesse" d'à côté n'avait aucun droit d'être aussi désagréable. Ni d'être aussi vaguement familière. Merlin ne pensait pas revoir cet homme, mais il le destin semblait ête en marche une fois de plus. (UA Réincarnation et Café)

The year is 2017, and King Arthur is back. He finds Merlin- who comes with a couple surprises- and tries to understand how modern day life works. But with Arthur's return came the forces of evil rising again. Will Arthur triumph over evil? Or will events play out as they did once before? This is the story of The Once and Future King.

She had become a nightmare for no one had listened to hers.

There was no comfort to be had when a distraction might cost her very life.

So much had happened since she had met Mordred for the first time – things she could never forget.

(Please, God, have mercy – not like this, not again, not without a goodbye, not without so many things left to say…)

He had loved her once.