Rating K+
Word Count: 200
Challenge Given: Series 3: Beyond Words: Write 100-300 words as a response to this prompt, making sure you don't go above 400 at the absolute maximum. You may use whatever genre, characters, pairings, ratings you like, but you MUST include the word below in your drabble.
Word: Magnetic
Definition: exerting a strong attractive power or charm. You may also use: magnetically, magnetism
A/N: Instantly came to mind with all the S1 and S2 research I'm doing for 'All Our Secrets'.
Magnetic
Morgana was accustomed to men getting too close to her. Some lord or another, and not always a young one, would take a step forward into her personal space with a lecherous smirk, and Morgana would gently take an answering step back with a polite smile; an automatic reaction, as if something invisible had pushed her away from him.
She never sought such attention, never moved herself close to a male unless he was escorting her officially.
With one notable exception.
Merlin wasn't that important or remarkable; just a servant. Which meant that she should have even less reason to be intimate with him than with the nobles and yet, when she'd first seen Sophia, Morgana had moved right up to him before she'd realised, almost grabbing Merlin's wrist in her haste to find out the young woman's identity. Then, in her chambers whilst looking after the druid boy, the pair had been so close at times that anyone watching would have thought it scandalous.
And yet, she couldn't seem to help herself. There was something about Merlin that drew her in. She had no idea what the strange force was, but it was almost as if he were magnetic.
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