Holidays with Merthur

by alixxblack

This collection of one-shot stories are just my visions of Merlin and Arthur's relationship during holidays (with which I am most familiar). Each chapter does stand alone and can be read in any order. Most chapters T for mild language or mild suggestive content. Individual chapters will be rated at the beginning if there's deviation.

7. Reasons to be Thankful (Merlin's List)

10 11 (Because why not?) Reasons to be Thankful

(For You Specifically)

By

Merlin "Emrys"

the CEO's Personal Assistant / Secret Business Warlock

and maybe boyfriend?

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1. I really like how you looked in the suit you wore to that meeting yesterday, which is superficial and shallow, but hey, I have eyes, and you were really easy to look at;

2. The way you laugh is contagious because of how exaggerated and ridiculous it is, but I can hear your innocence in it and that is purer than the bottled water you make you buy every morning before work (seriously, it's all a scam);

3. The job that I have here because your father bullied you into hiring on of the interns and I was the only one that wasn't smart enough to quit before I was in too deep and had no other career paths to follow;

4. I know you'll ignore how rude that last one sounds because you know that I make fun of the job for appearances and that I'm actually really happy to work with someone that I really love to be around all day;

5. Our new coffee machine is absolutely bomb and it makes me job a little bit easier after lunch because you get boring sometimes rambling on about whatever lunch meeting made you miserable today;

6. Also I really like the plaid shirt you're wearing today because you look like this scrawny lumberjack sort of fellow and it's working out;

7. That you are as shallow as I am sometimes and that we can honestly make fun of each other for our appearances without any worry in the world that it's actually going to affect our friendship;

8. Your text messages at five in the morning are the best and worst thing to happen to me because usually they make no sense but you send the greatest emoji combos which never fail to wake me up with a smile;

9. The smile that curls your lips whenever I walk into a room because I feel a little less crazy for liking you so goddamn much;

10. My cologne mingling with yours because we always hang out jackets up in your office because we always drive together which means the only time we don't spend together is when we go home and go to sleep, but sometimes we sleep in your office here because we lose track of time and figure we might as well crash on your sofa bed rather than leave the building; and

11. How you're always telling me that we really need to go on a proper date sometime, because honestly, I really want that too and I think that maybe, just maybe, we can finally have that drink we're always joking about…

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A/N: I split the Thanksgiving story (late, I know) into two chapters because I didn't like how it looked all together in the same chapter.