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chaletianTitle: He hopes for a lie
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Fandom: Merlin
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None (except ye olde Arthurian legend)
Summary: Merlin watches Arthur and Gwen marry, and cannot be happy.
The Great Dragon is gone. Not dead, Merlin hopes (knows). Escaped, at the height of Uther Pendragon’s doomed war against magic. When he was younger and magic was new to him, Merlin hadn’t believed much of what the dragon had said. He had disregarded his warnings. Mostly, Merlin reckons, that worked out all right.
But he’s older now, and sees things differently. Now, Merlin thinks the dragon was always, in its way, right. He’s pretty sure that it was right about Mordred. (Merlin still thinks they were right not to kill a child; he has a sinking feeling this sentiment will change in the future.) He’s definitely sure that it was right about Arthur’s importance.
He hopes it was wrong about this. Standing in the great hall, garlanded with flowers and happiness, an occasion more joyous even than King Arthur’s very coronation, Merlin watches as Arthur and Guinevere marry, and tries to ignore what the dragon once told him, many years ago.
“Guinevere will help bring down Arthur and Camelot. You must not let her.”
He hopes the dragon was wrong about this. But he sees things differently to when he was young, and he is very much afraid the dragon is always, in its way, right.
FIN
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chaletianFandom: Merlin
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None (except ye olde Arthurian legend)
Summary: Merlin watches Arthur and Gwen marry, and cannot be happy.
The Great Dragon is gone. Not dead, Merlin hopes (knows). Escaped, at the height of Uther Pendragon’s doomed war against magic. When he was younger and magic was new to him, Merlin hadn’t believed much of what the dragon had said. He had disregarded his warnings. Mostly, Merlin reckons, that worked out all right.
But he’s older now, and sees things differently. Now, Merlin thinks the dragon was always, in its way, right. He’s pretty sure that it was right about Mordred. (Merlin still thinks they were right not to kill a child; he has a sinking feeling this sentiment will change in the future.) He’s definitely sure that it was right about Arthur’s importance.
He hopes it was wrong about this. Standing in the great hall, garlanded with flowers and happiness, an occasion more joyous even than King Arthur’s very coronation, Merlin watches as Arthur and Guinevere marry, and tries to ignore what the dragon once told him, many years ago.
“Guinevere will help bring down Arthur and Camelot. You must not let her.”
He hopes the dragon was wrong about this. But he sees things differently to when he was young, and he is very much afraid the dragon is always, in its way, right.
FIN
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Date: 2009-10-25 08:23 pm (UTC)*sigh* every pairing on this show's so horribly doomed.
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