reinforce my clarity

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

Written for the Transformation challenge:

In Turning We Come Around Right. 12990 words (hence the not-quite-flashfic), Merlin/Arthur, R. Arthur wakes up changed, and that changes everything else.

"Arthur?" Merlin said, closing the door and then setting the tray on the table and taking a few steps nearer. "Is everything –" he began and cut himself off as Arthur stood up and turned around. "Arthur?" he squeaked, suddenly very glad that he'd put the tray down.

Part One and Part Two at merlin_flashfic.

Figured I'd post a link to my answer to the Bad Magic challenge over here as well:

The Evil We Make

Gen, 300 odd words and Nimueh's POV. Very strange to try and do since she hasn't been in the show that much, but that was the idea I had so I went with it.

I think that Merlin could do with having a bit of a stronger Big Bad to be honest, or giving the Big Bad (or the series I suppose) a more consistent arc. It's unfair to compare I suppose, but by this point in, for example, BtVS or Doctor Who we would have been seeing the build up to the finale as the whole storyline of the last couple of episodes. But with Merlin, we're at the season finale and the last episodes have still felt like standalones.

Not that I'm not absolutely dying with excitement at seeing the finale, mind.

So I felt it was time to write the classic plot of "X gets really cold and Y has to warm him up (with naked snuggling)" and Merlin and Arthur volunteered themselves for the job.

PG-13ish for innuendo, language and the aforementioned nakedness, and beta as usual by the lovely torakowalski (who is getting darn good at that awkward question thing).

Arthur looked so white now he was undressed and he still hadn't woken up, though he had made a few small noises. It was unnerving to see him unmoving and helpless like this.


( A Little Fire to Warm )

Somehow I wound up with two boys from the Dark Ages in my head and they wouldn't go away. Eventually I wrote it down and ended up with a little scene between Merlin and Arthur after the feast in The Dragon's Call. Roughly 1300 words and about as gen as the show itself (take that as you will). Many thanks to rivier for the beta.


( First Night )

For the 100crossovers challenge again. A prequel to A Holiday Humour, slash, PG-13. Ta to torakowalski for the beta.

"Oh, very amusing" Rodney shot back sarcastically, "with lines like that surely it should be Captain Kirk, not Harkness,"


( A Brief Encounter )

First fic for my 100 Crossovers deal! Gen, ~2000 words. Betaed by the most excellent torakowalski

Summary: An unexpected encounter on Earth.

Teyla felt the back of her neck prickle with the sudden awareness that it was too still and a thread of unease seemed to work through the night around her


( Something New Under the Sky )