#he gets this crazed look in his eye and lunges for gwaine and percival has to hold him back

[justahumblecabbagemerchant]

Headcanon that this is in an everyone-lives-nobody-dies au and the letters are from Lancelot, Percival, Mordred, Elyan, and Leon, and everyone’s like “wait did Gwaine not write one? We told him it was today, didn’t we?” And then Merlin walks into his room and Gwaine’s naked on his bed with a rose in his teeth bc “why tell when you can show, eh Merlin 😉😘”

Anyway he startles Merlin so badly that he trips and falls down the stairs leading up to his bedroom and gets a nasty bump on his head and Gaius has to look over him with Merlin going “it’s not that bad, honestly” while giving major eyebrow to Gwaine, who’s wearing a sheet and has a slightly sheepish expression and a bloody lip bc it didn’t occur to him to cut the thorns off his rose and he accidentally bit down on it when Merlin fell

Arthur walks in, ready to yell at Merlin for being late for SOMETHING, stops, takes in the scene, decides he really doesn’t want to know, and walks back out again

(Mordred is sad that Merlin was too busy getting a head wound to start reading his letter bc he wants Emrys to see all the pictures he drew of them hanging out together doing magic)

the knights: we don’t know if he’ll notice, but we each slipped a little note in merlin's bag to let him know that we love him.

merlin, pulling five 100-page letters out of his bag: what the—