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A Long and Irritating Friendship by RileyWilliamsJr
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
01 Mar 2021
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Albus Dumbledore had met some strange and fascinating individuals in his long life, but he had never expected to discover that some of them would turn out to be the very same person. This entity appeared in his life over and over again: to help him out of scrapes, to give him strange but useful advice, to bring him on a new adventure. And sometimes, it seemed that he turned up purely for the purpose of making a nuisance of himself. Years passed before Albus finally learned his true name—a name that, like most magical children, he had heard many times before.
What happened afterwards, though, was not anything that Albus would ever have imagined.
(Companion to "A Brief Re-emergence from the Shadows," but can be read independently.)
(Updated Mondays and Fridays.)
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11 Jun 2026
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Everyone insisted that Arthur needed time to process, to accept that Merlin was gone. The only problem was that Merlin wasn’t.
Arthur didn’t know how to explain it without sounding like Uther when he’d seen Ygraine in the well, like he was losing his mind and looking for ghosts. He didn’t know how to look at his court and make them understand that Merlin had once told him about nature, about the sacred connectedness of the earth, and asked Arthur if he felt it. He didn’t know how to say that he hadn’t felt it back then, but that he did now. He felt it all. He felt Merlin in it.
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Merlin saves Arthur's life at Camlann at the cost of his own. Merlin can't die, so it's not that simple.
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08 Jun 2026
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“We’re running out of time," Merlin said.
“You are already out of time. You always have been.”
Merlin felt the truth of it in his bones. He wanted to kill the old man for it.
“I’ll be back,” Merlin said. “You know I will. And I’ll remember, even when you don’t.”
Merlin woke in the woods, made sure Arthur was breathing, killed Morgana, and summoned Kilgharrah. He reached Avalon, bargained with the Sidhe, summoned Freya, tried everything he could think of. When it didn’t work, he killed himself, woke in the woods, and tried again.
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Merlin cannot die. When he does, he wakes up at the beginning of the day of his death. Merlin cannot die, and he won't let Arthur die either.
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08 Jun 2026
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General resource documenting important dates, character birthdays, etc. in the show
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06 May 2026
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“I’m the king,” Arthur says grumpily, swallowing around the stone that has settled in his throat, “I can wear what I want.”
“What about what I want?”
“I’m the king,” Arthur repeats slowly, since Merlin is being particularly thick, “and so you can also wear what I want.”
Or, Arthur dresses Merlin, which goes about as well as you would expect.
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06 May 2026
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"That was magic," Arthur accuses.
"Oh." Merlin just nods, looking unperturbed.
Arthur fights to keep his expression calm, mind racing and heart pounding. "Sorcery is outlawed in Camelot. On pain of death."
Merlin splutters, finally fixing Arthur with an affronted glare. "It's not like I meant to do it!"
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Merlin gets hit with a spell meant for Arthur and loses his memory. Revelations ensue. Set sometime after 5x02.
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02 May 2026
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A day gathering herbs results in the tragedy of a kidnapped mate and an uncertain fate. When Merlin is abducted both his abductors and Arthur must weigh the value of his return against desire and need, against kingdom and court.
And thus the question becomes: what is the price of royalty?
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- Part 2 of The Ale Barrel
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01 May 2026
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Five times Arthur paints Merlin’s nails, and once Merlin tries painting them himself.
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- Part 40 of Merthur fic
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20 Apr 2026
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Where the birth of a child and the death of a beloved occupy the same instant. Arthur held them. Both of them. The living and the dead. His son and his husband. The beginning and the end.
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- Part 43 of Merthur fic
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20 Apr 2026
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After a heated argument with his son three years ago, Arthur left home, and Uther hadn’t spoken a single word to him since.
That is, until he started receiving some rather peculiar emails.
Now has Merlin's pov. Completed.
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Extra Track 1 - Love Confession
Extra Track 2 - Sentimental
Extra Track 3 - The EmailsSeries
- Part 24 of Merthur fic
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19 Apr 2026
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How much of Destiny is so strongly written that it can't be changed? Arthur is given the chance to find out. Will he and Merlin strengthen their bond, or will the choice mean death for both? Merthur. MerlinWHUMP! Protective/Caring Arthur! Rated T majority (M later chapters). Magic Reveal. Slash. Non Con later in. Triggers.
First time posting in AO3- please forgive mistakes!Series
- Part 1 of The Bond Series: Merlin
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16 Apr 2026
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After saving Arthur from Morgause in a very public display of magic, Merlin must flee into the forest to avoid Uther's men. Living apart from civilization, Merlin loses his mind to the wild magic that teaches him how to survive on his own. A year later, rumours of a magical wild man finally reach Camelot. Arthur convinces his father to let him lead the small troop of knights responsible for hunting down and killing Merlin. Torn between his duty to Camelot and his feelings for Merlin, Arthur must somehow draw Merlin back from the wild magic. However, he must hurry, for Morgana has seen Merlin's hiding place in her visions, and she and Morgause are eager to seek revenge.
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06 Apr 2026
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In his grief, Merlin makes a deal with fate. He can save everyone in Camelot---right from day one. He is sent back in time, remembering everything that has happened, in the hopes of rewriting his own story.
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He looks around, surprised and more than a little lost. No, this is definitely Camelot, despite the fact that he'd been nowhere near mere seconds ago. A voice speaks, and Merlin realizes three things at exactly the same time.
1. This is a much younger, although still very familiar, version of Camelot.
2. Uther Pendragon is alive, and is unfortunately the one talking.
3. Merlin is much shorter. That might just be the worst of the three.- Language:
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30 Mar 2026
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Merlin's eyes changed when he did magic. He knew that. In the privacy of his own head, Arthur had come to think of that golden gleam as beautiful since he'd discovered the secret of his sorcery. This was different. It crackled like lightning; a storm held in Merlin's gaze. It cast brief light upon his cheekbones, spilling odd shadows across his face.
'What's happening?'
'He is dying,' a woman's voice said, sugar-sweet. 'And he will take you with him, Arthur Pendragon.'
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A routine hunt threatens to become a fatal disaster when Arthur and Merlin are captured and imprisoned in a dungeon used during the Purge. Can they fight their way to freedom, or will Merlin's power be the death of them?
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29 Mar 2026
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"Your manservant is quite devoted" Mithian observed, following his gaze.
Arthur snapped his attention back to her. "Merlin? He's adequate. When he's not being impossibly clumsy or insolent."
"Strange. I've heard others speak of him with great admiration. They say he's fiercely loyal, I even heard that he's saved your life on multiple occasions."
"He exaggerates his own importance."
Mithian tilted her head, studying him. "You watch him quite frequently."
Prince Arthur is in love with his manservant.
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27 Mar 2026
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‘I am a seer Emrys. Not a seer such as the likes of the witch Morgana. But a dimensional seer.’ Gahn began. ‘I have seen this future and it is not what the prophecy foretells.’
‘How do I change this? How can I save Arthur’s life?’ Emrys voice wavered even in his mind.
‘For all those versions that the prophecy goes unfilled, there is only one version that succeeds. Only one version where Arthur Pendragon lives a very long life.’
'What was different about that other version? Of that other realm? Why did we only succeed in one reality?’ Merlin asked desperately.
Gahn turned and walked back to Merlin, crouching to bring their faces closer together. ‘Because in every reality you’ve failed, you were as you are now. Young, naïve…’ Gahn ran a gaze down Merlin’s body. ‘….male.’
Merlin froze at the words, ‘What?’
Gahn tilted his head and gave Emrys a sad smile, ‘In the only reality that succeeded, Emrys was a woman.’
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24 Mar 2026
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21 Mar 2026
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Arthur has never cared about being proper around Merlin because Merlin has never been one to treat him properly. Still, it's rare for Arthur to slip and use his alpha voice, knowing that, even to the beta he believes Merlin to be, it's an overt exertion of power. The few times Arthur has commanded his servant in such a way, he usually orders Merlin to "shut up" or "go away", and Merlin can play it off like he's following Arthur's orders too literally in retaliation, until he's able to find the one alpha that knows about him (thank the Gods for Lancelot!) and convince him to override Arthur's order with his own.
This time he doesn't get the chance.
[Merlin gets stuck in Arthur's chambers without his suppressants or his scent blockers. Things turn out much better than he expects...]
EDITED: 16/4/26 (mostly for tenses, grammer, etc. but the old draft is saved if anyone preferred it)
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- Part 3 of Post-Watershed
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20 Mar 2026
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Everywhere he wanders, Arthur finds ghosts. Each room is a finely decorated box of memories, every wall a sounding board for Merlin’s laughter. Even the courtyard is the stage for the start of a hundred adventures and a thousand more that will never come to pass.
Arthur loses everything.
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18 Mar 2026
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Merlin hisses as the harsh metal digs into his wrists. There are rumours that The Mighty Emrys, emphasis on the capital letters, wouldn’t bend to cold iron’s will…and yet. It’s hard to believe such innocent looking metal – or innocent as chains can be – could be the cause of such immutable pain. Don’t get him wrong, Merlin has been through his fair share of injuries and attempts on his life (some more successful than others, thank you immortality) but this? This is unlike anything he’s felt before.
[Merlin's magic is revealed after yet another bandit attack. Arthur doesn't react well. And as it turns out, cold iron is bad, folks! Way angstier than I expected this idea to be. Would you believe me if I said I just want everyone to be happy? No? Okay.]
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- Part 1 of Merlin vs. Cold Iron
- Part 1 of Someone You Don't Know
- Part 5 of Pre-Watershed
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17 Mar 2026