One of my friends sent me one of this emails and while I read it with absolutely no intention of passing it on in any form, I found myself thinking of scenarios and hence this Fanfiction was created. Sorry.
SLASH references: Merlin/Arthur
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Merlin had never really considered being less than a person. He was the strange son of Ealdor. The sorcerer. He had been raised by his mother who had sent him away from home to Camelot after things became too ackward. He had come to Camelot to work as general dogsbody and unoffical apprentice to Guias, the court physician. He had broken his unoffical promise not to use magic almost immediately when Guias had fallen; but in all this he had considered himself a well-rounded individual. He had his highs and lows, like all people. He had his secrets, admitidly proberbly a greater secret than most, but most people had them. Merlin was just like anyone else.
But then Merlin had saved Arthur's life and he set in motion a great many things, one of which was his realisation that maybe he wasn't quite as whole as he thought he was. After Uthur in his unconcious wisdom practically forced Merlin and Arthur to spend more time together Merlin started to notice certain things.
Like how they complimented each other perfectly; not quite as freakish as finishing each others sentances, but their personalities seemed blended. Arthur was the passion and the fight, Merlin was the quieter, more causious; together they fitted. Seperated, they both sufferered. Arthur was too rash and invariably rushed into a situation too quickly and got hurt; and Merlin was just a servant. No one paid any attention to a servant. It was good for sneaking about but once he found something no one listened. Only together were they any good.
And steadily it got deeper than that. Merlin genuinly cared for the prat and Arthur had never felt such loyalty for a servant; possibly because no servant had ever shown him such loyalty before. But Merlin had realised that loyalty shown to yourself was not quite so surprising, it was more selfish. But this also wasn't quite enough. It was closer, more intimate, purer. Arthur was part of Merlin and Merlin was part of Arthur. Together, and only together, could Camelot be led into a Golden Age.
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