Merlin Recs: Canon Era/Canon Adjacent

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inhiare ardens (9,600 words) by microcomets
Rating: Teen+
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Summary: Merlin starts a courtship, and Arthur’s fine with it. Completely fine with it. (In which Arthur discovers that he’s not fine with it, and some other things about himself.)

Kneeling In Doubt While All Skies Fall (2,500 words) by Nympha_Alba
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Summary: Sooner or later Arthur will have to tell Merlin that he knows about the magic, but he keeps putting it off - because the magic does things to him, things he can't explain.

Loyalty in Seven Scenes (8,000 words) by i_claudia
Rating: Teen+
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, Guinevere/Merlin/Arthur
Summary: Arthur is not often furious. Frustrated, yes; irritated, most certainly; even angry when the occasion arises; but he rarely indulges in the full glory of rage, the hot rush of fury beneath his skin.

The King is Dead; Long Live the King (588 words) by i_claudia
Rating: General Audiences
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Summary: Merlin finds Arthur on the battlements.

Stolen Moment (633 words) by i_claudia
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Summary: Merlin slides lower on the wall, knees buckling, before he catches himself, digging his fingers hard into the cracks between the stones of the wall

We Can Only Move Forward (651 words) by i_claudia
Rating: General Audiences
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Summary: Arthur’s searched nearly the entire battlefield before he finds Merlin.

As Falling Snow (5,279 words) by i_claudia
Rating: General Audiences
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Summary: Arthur could never be lost in Camelot, not on these lands he’s ranged over since boyhood, this soil he’s fought and lost and bled for.

Celebrations (4,500 words) by i_claudia
Rating: Teen+
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Summary: Arthur has never really understood birthdays.