Merlin fic: Winter's Trial

Written for the merlin_flashfic Winter challenge - approx. 8000 words of winter, Arthur being intrepid and mild slashiness of the Merlin/Arthur variety. Thanks as usual to torakowalski for the beta work (one day I will put commas in the correct places, one day...)

Summary: The first snows of winter have fallen and Arthur has Merlin to find and a test to pass out in the cold, or neither of them will make it back to Camelot.

Winter's Trial

well that was depressing

I was going to do the End of Year Fic Meme for 2009 - and then realised I only posted two fics total in 2009 so there's not much point! (In Turning We Come Around Right and Fear Not, Fair Prince!)

That is so pathetic and I am disappointed in myself.

The only consolation is that in terms of actual written words in 2009 I'm not too bad at around 61000, but since this is due to the ongoing Merlin AU that I haven't added to for, um, a while (4 months) the consolation is a small one.

Mojo, where did you go?