Here is the fourth. Sorry it took so long to update this one, my classes got the best of me…damn you accounting! Anywhoo so the next one I think will have the prompt of Gwen, Merlin and the Knights playing some sort of prank on Arthur. Shout out to whitecrossgirl for the prompt, anyone else who has a prompt or what not SHOUT IT OUT!
So a little about this one, I really imagine the "Quick" bro hug kinda like the hug Drake and Josh do…like on the tv show. Sorry if you haven't seen it but it's literally like a 2 second hug. Also I didn't intent for this to be Merthur at all, I was really basing this whole drabble on the parts in the show where it reaches that line between bromance and Merthur. I don't know its whatever.
The One and Only time
It was afternoon in the town of Camelot and Arthur was laying on his back, enjoying the comfort of his bed. He knew he should be doing work but the night before he had returned from yet another death defying quest of sorts and honestly did not feel like doing a single thing but laying there.
The door opened and Merlin walked in carrying the armor in which Arthur instructed him to clean. "I got your armor done."
"Really?" Arthur's left eyebrow quirked up in astonishment but didn't even bother to turn his head. "Good work." It almost sounded like a question than a compliment from the king.
Merlin busied himself straightening Arthur's chamber, more like tripping over everything, but Arthur was too deep in thought to notice.
He sat up and climbed off the bed. "Merlin, over the past few days you behaved rather." He thought for a moment. "Bravely."
"Well ya, I pretty much saved everyone's ass." Merlin grinned.
"Don't push it." Arthur walked over to his friend. "But thank you." It was almost a half mumble.
He began to walk back over to his bed. "Arthur." He turned around to see Merlin with his arms out. "Come on, ya know you want to." His goofy grin was back. Arthur slowly walked over and stood in front of his friend.
There was a moment of hesitation before they slowly came towards each other, each with one arm up the other down, so each had an arm around the others shoulder. They stood for a minute. The fire crackled in the background. The silence turned awkward.
"This is awkward." Arthur stated with his face scrunched up.
They pulled away. "Let's not do that again." Merlin equally agreed.
"Maybe if we approach it differently," Arthur suggested.
"Quick bro hug?" Merlin suggested back.
They nodded in agreement, in one fluid movement they grabbed each other's hand, threw an arm over one another, their hands hit each other's backs and they pulled away.
"Right then," Arthur turned and walked over to his desk to busy himself. "Don't forget to muck out my horses before the end of the day."
"On my way right now." Merlin grinned. "Hey Arthur?"
"What Merlin?" A smile was on his face as he put his emphasis on the front part of the name.
"So just checking, every time I do something of importance do we bro hug?" Arthur rolled his eyes before snatching a goblet off his desk and throwing it at Merlin. Merlin quickly excited the room and walked down the hall towards the stables.
So there you go, just something short. I am thinking about doing another series, each chapter will be a different creature of myth that the work of Merlin comes across and such. Just for fun, again any prompts shout them out!