Fic: there are only walls to hold me here

[little_giddy]

Title: there are only walls to hold me here
Rating: PG13
Spoilers: entire first series
Warning: language
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur (assumes established relationship)
Summary: Merlin felt his stomach lurch when he carefully and deliberately said, "Lad, I don't think I can save the arm." Not a tag but set a few months after 1x13.

Comments

[skyearth85]

*add to favorites*
bravissima

[little_giddy]

Thank you very much! :)

[voldything]

aw, so wonderful!

[little_giddy]

Thanks! :D

there are only walls ...

[laceymcbain]

This was well done - the descriptions of Merlin lancing the infection away, the realization that Merlin is working against nature and there's a cost. And you got their voices so right with the banter and the understanding between them. Poor Gwen being sent out for water - again. *g*

As someone up above said, it's nice to read a non-first time, non-discovery fic, and you did it exceptionally well.

Re: there are only walls ...

[little_giddy]

Thank you very much! I always worry about descriptive pieces and passages.

Hee, Gwen and the water. I suppose it's nicer than "um, we want to do scary magic. Can you go away?"

Wow, thank you again! It's nice to write something a bit differently paced.

[stealingpennies]

Really, really enjoyed this fic. I liked the overall set-up and the swift transitions from humour to angst, the fact that the words said are not always the same as things meant. (Something that works very well in the series itself.) Also loved the sense that Merlin is often perched on the edge of a cliff with his powers and uses them at a cost.
Some favourite lines/phrases:
this was just where the speech Merlin had prepared for the Pratigal Son's return started
Apparently opening Arthur's door from the inside often enough had transfered some of his powers of insensitivity.
No, it really wasn't the end of everything, just a close and abrasive brush against it, one that filled his ears with a funny roaring noise and made whatever force had been stopping his hands from shaking sadly remiss in its duties. No, it wasn't the end of everything, but what it'd do to Arthur to come through it made something in his chest contract painfully and turned his vision white.
He took a shuddering breath, feeling his heartbeat speed up in a reassuringly

[little_giddy]

Thank you very, very much! I'm incredibly flattered. You picked out things in the fic that I love in the show, which is... well, incredibly flattering. Sorry, I'm not explaining very well, but thanks!

[_profiterole_]

That was wonderful and full of love. ♥

[little_giddy]

Thank you very much! :)