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crack_van2012-09-28 01:33 am
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World Enough and Time by alicephantomwise (NC-17)
Fandom: MERLIN
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Length: 18,918 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neathsunnyskies
Author Website: AO3 profile
Why this must be read:
After this started getting posted as a WIP on the kinkmeme, it became really common to hear people around the Merlin fandom grumbling some variation of, "Goddamn Beijing." The sentiment was always echoed by whoever happened to hear it. Every fandom has its phases, and for a while there this fic was pretty much everywhere.
It's an assassin AU, with plenty of angst and pining. Arthur and Merlin have rather messed-up dynamics: they start off on the wrong foot and only get worse. The fic makes you ache with the sheer bloody-mindedness of them.
World Enough and Time
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Length: 18,918 words
Author on LJ:
neathsunnyskiesAuthor Website: AO3 profile
Why this must be read:
After this started getting posted as a WIP on the kinkmeme, it became really common to hear people around the Merlin fandom grumbling some variation of, "Goddamn Beijing." The sentiment was always echoed by whoever happened to hear it. Every fandom has its phases, and for a while there this fic was pretty much everywhere.
It's an assassin AU, with plenty of angst and pining. Arthur and Merlin have rather messed-up dynamics: they start off on the wrong foot and only get worse. The fic makes you ache with the sheer bloody-mindedness of them.
[Merlin] says, “The thing is – I’m in love with you.”
The words are a little bit like the streak of electricity that is a city surrounded by desert: wrong.
Arthur says, “Tell me all the lies you like. Just not that one.”
Merlin doesn’t listen to him. He never does.
“I know it’s not what you pictured. I know you want something more – polite.”
“Polite,” Arthur says.
“Conventional, then. You want a house in the countryside and you want people to refer to us as ArthurandMerlin. You want hordes of little blond children and a wedding in the south of Italy.”
“That,” Arthur says, “is not what I want. Mostly I just want you to stop shooting at me.”
World Enough and Time