Flight

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Pairings: Arthur/Lancelot/Guinevere, Gawain/Galahad

Spoilers: None.

A/N: AU, a world where Lancelot lives.

Warnings: SLASH and polygamy.

Flight

They all think that he's not perceptive, and by all means, he's hardly as sharp-eyed as Tristan was, but Galahad's not blind either. He sees what he needs to see and, he thinks, that's enough.

His mother once told him that people were made with just one wing so that we could help one another fly and that, one day, he'd find his other half. And he believes that, because he's found Gawain.

But Arthur, he thinks, is an exception to that rule. Arthur is different. Arthur is an angel – an angel without wings.

His salvation, his only chance at flight, lies in those around him – in the two people he loves most. One sits, brave and loyal, at his right hand: his closest friend, his best knight and his lover since he was twenty: Lancelot. On his other side, sitting proud and deadly, is his companion, his queen and his wife: Guinevere.

And Arthur cannot be without either.

If they ever left Arthur behind, for each other, or for others, they would condemn Arthur to a cursed eternity wandering the Earth or deep in the pits of Hell – Galahad is not sure which he believes the most, but he knows that Arthur will never know joy. They are his wings and, without them, Arthur cannot fly.

But Lancelot would rather face an eternity in hell than leave Arthur's side, and Guinevere would be damned before she let herself be outdone by the arrogant knight. Although Lancelot has loved Arthur longer, Galahad thinks, Guinevere's love for her king is just as fierce.

And so, Arthur soars.

He stands tall, commanding the loyalty of the whole country, united under him, and, at either side, stands his heart and his soul.

All angels – all people – have wings, Galahad corrects himself; Arthur's wings are just not connected to him. But they are still very much a part of him as any other person's; very much a part of Arthur as Gawain is to Galahad. Yes, Galahad thinks, Arthur has wings because he can see that joy of flight in Arthur's eyes whenever he holds Lancelot and Guinevere close – and Galahad knows what it feels like to fly.

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