#s4ep2 the darkest hour
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i've had this au idea for a while and have tried writing it but i don't get far into it before abandoning it so ill post it in case someone else wants to write it or take some inspiration from it or what have you. s4ep1/2 au.
merlin uses his magic to just latch arthur's feet to the ground as well as lancelot's when he sees him creeping towards the veil. merlin turns to face them as he walks backwards, revealing his gold eyes and magic to arthur which barely registers in his mind as he understands what merlin's doing and Panics. he's yelling and almost begging and demanding merlin to get back here you idiot. i'm the king you listen to me
and merlin just smiles and is like when have i ever listened to you? and steps into the veil, sacrificing himself and closing it. with his death, his magic releases arthur and lancelot who are just like. what the fuck. and grief-stricken. and angry. anyways they go back to camelot and lancelot stays with gwen and they mourn together. gwaine is. a wreck. the knights are all grieving. arthur is just. gone. like. he closes himself in his chambers for like two weeks. he doesn't sleep, he doesn't eat, he can barely function. anyways merlin watches him from the veil as a spirit, he watches all of them and is a little guilty about causing them so much grief and heart ache but he rather them be sad and alive than dead so he doesn't regret it that much
magic lore i made up - since merlin gave his life in an exchange, he gets to remain conscious and aware within the veil. the other spirits that roam around are focused on whatever's keeping them there (and keeping them from moving on to the afterlife). there's a lot of sorcerers in camelot who are angry and crying because they were executed by uther - their heads cut off, their bodies charred, or their necks bent at odd angles. they wander around calling for justice. anyways ygraine's life was also taken in an exchange so what i'm saying is ygraine and merlin best friends arc.
they both watch over arthur with worry and then one day arthur just storms out of his chambers and down to the library and buries himself in books, searching desperately for a way to bring merlin back. with how little he's eating and sleeping, arthur ends up passing out and has a nightmare. merlin reaches out on instinct wishing to comfort him and ends up getting pulled into his dreams, only with his intention being to comfort, his arrival shifts the dream from a nightmare into something a lot more pleasant - merlin and arthur together and alive and...courting? it looks like? arthur leans in to kiss him but the dream dissipates right before their lips meet.
anyways, that happens a few times with a few different dreams as arthur searches for a way to open the veil again and bring merlin back. i have two different endings for this though. one is, since merlin is emrys and immortal, after some time the cailleach comes back and is like "immortal asshole. i took some of your eternal life force but you're still immortal but the veil is still sealed. i can't keep someone who still has all this life. get out." and just pushes him out of the veil and into his body again. OR arthur finds a way to bargain with the cailleach and sees his mother with merlin and bada bing bada boom (i forgot to add that arthur at some point finds out about his uncles treachery lmao) trades agravaine's life for ygraine's and then his father's (he can't stand to see his father wasting away and sees this peaceful death as mercy) for merlin's. and he gets his mom and bf best friend manservant back.
after everything settles down, arthur finally has time to focus on merlin's magic but with the trauma of almost losing him, he finds he really can't care about it and just repeals the ban to keep from even thinking about executing him so merlin will never be in danger again. ygraine is also happy about this bc i hc she had a little bit of magic. she learned from her gf nimueh. bonus hc bc i feel like it - ygraine and uther were married and loved each other, yes, but ygraine took nimueh as her consort and uther took balinor as his consort.
okay thats all. if anyone actually writes this or anything similar to it, it'd love to read it. pls tag me or dm me <3
#bbc merlin#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#fanfiction#fanfic#merthur#fic ideas#prompts#ygraine pendragon#ygraine de bois#cailleach#s4ep1 the darkest hour#s4ep2 the darkest hour#lancelot lives and we get gwencelot#haha merlin and arthur are so happy to be reunited and have wild sex#after a bath#merlins been watching arthur from the veil for a while#he knows that mf REEKS#also he wants to take care of him again#he forces him to eat and bathe before fucking him to sleep#okay okay im sorry im done
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outtakes that are important to me personally
BBC Merlin + live commentary by @gabbaghouls @witchboykit and I from our Merlin re-watch
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#kit: lancelot is the final girl i know it#mac and I: haha 😬#if only :((#i became far too attached to these outtakes so. here's their own post!#bbc merlin#merlin memes#shitpost#the adventures of merlin#merlin bbc#merlin emrys#live commentary meme#merlin rewatch#bbc merlin re-watch#merlin 4x01#merlin 4x02#the darkest hour#bbc merlin s4ep1 the darkest hour part 1#bbc merlin s4ep2 the darkest hour part 2#gabbaghouls#pyjamacryptid#textpost meme#live commentary#live reaction#liveblog#ren and friends watch merlin
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Merthur Moments from Every Episode S4Ep2 The Darkest Hour Part 2 Prev | Next
#merlin#bbc merlin#merthur#merlinedit#merthuredit#s4ep2#the darkest hour part 2#arthur is practically in tears as he sends merlin off#imagine it though#arthur believes this is the last time he'll see him#either arthur will die going through the veil or merlin will die from the attack#and that little look of relief when merlin reappears#and the looks they give one another#god they're so in love it hurts
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Lancelot you turn this self-sacrificing attitude around, you hear me, mister?
BBC Merlin + live commentary by @gabbaghouls @witchboykit and I from our Merlin re-watch
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#bbc merlin#merlin re-watch#live commentary meme#merlin memes#merlin#the adventures of merlin#merlin 4x02#bbc merlin s4ep2 the darkest hour part 2#the darkest hour#merlin emrys#aka merble from my legends#bbc merlin rewatch#merlin bbc#gabbaghouls#pyjamacryptid#witchboykit#swearing#ren and friends watch merlin
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