Merlin Oneshots

While You Were Gone

I hope you enjoy this chapter! I saw the idea on Instagram and decided to go with it :)

A warm light danced across his eyelids, welcoming him back. He didn't feel anything at first. Then, there was cold. The coldness of water. And then the heavy chain mail. When he was Awake enough, he opened his eyes. The yards of water above his head were cloudy.

He reached up and pulled himself up by holding onto a branch. Pushing off the ground, he floated to the top.

He broke surface and took a deep breath of air, expending to see Merlin, but there was nothing, no one.

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Two days later, a gust of wind brought a blob of bright colored fabric by one of the trees by the lake. Arthur thought nothing of it, as this new time was dirty, filled with things polluting the air.

Only when it began to move did he walk over to it.

"Freya, that was not a good transport. Look at that! My suitcase lost its London sticker! My favorite one, that was!" The voice was so familiar, was it Merlin?

(Of course it was, who else would it be?)

There was a rustling from behind a small bush, and a woman walked out from an invisible curtain. "You'll just have to go back there, I'm sure that Sherlock wouldn't mind seeing you again." She walked over and threw a granola bar at his face, which he ungracefully caught, "He'll probably be expecting you, tbh."

Now, Arthur was confused, who was Sherlock, who's this person by Merlin? What does "tbh" mean?

Freya laughed as she looked back to Arthur- who had hung back once Merlin spoke- and looked back at Merlin, "Btw, you have an old friend here. He probably doesn't like to be kept waiting."

Merlin turned around and for the first time in years, Arthur saw him in all his glory. He had a bright yellow shirt with red flowers on it. Something around his eyes that was lighting up (LED strip light glasses) with a case in his right hand and a cup of something (mango smoothie) in the other.

"Arthur! I haven't seen you in years! How goes it?" He shouted- even though he didn't need to, as they were only a couple years apart.

"Good, I guess, though, would you mind telling me who this is?" He said gesturing to Freya, "And why you look like that." He said gesturing to Merlin.

"This is my partner, Freya and I'm wearing this because it's summer. And I get hot. And because I want to. Besides, I like them. They're comfy." Merlin walked off, and went inside the invisible hut.

Freya walked over to Arthur and whispered, "He's come a little unhinged over the years, be glad you weren't here for the 70's." She shuddered and walked away. Shouting an invitation inside over her shoulder.

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Sorry it kinda sucked, but I have pretty bad writers block rn, soooo... yeah

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