Story Index: Journey Through a Broken Soul

[nyxelestia]

Title: Journey Through a Broken Soul
Summary: It has been months since Arthur's capture and disappearance, and Merlin has spent that time looking for him - and finally found. What he found, though, was a broken prince.
Rating: R (may bump up to NC-17 later on, depending on where the story takes me goes)
Accumulative Word Count: 18,100
Pairings/Character: Arthur/Merlin, Lancelot
Warnings/Content: Violence, (past) non-con, mental trauma, mentions of slavery,
Beta: none
Notes: Written here for this prompt at kinkme_merlin: Arthur/Merlin, Arthur/Other, where Other is a villain. kidnapping, hurt/comfort, non-con if anon wants to write it.

A spin on the hurt/comfort rescue fic: Arthur is captured and sold into slavery while everyone believes he's been killed (magic, kidnappers leaving a defaced body in Arthur's clothing, something like that, IDK). Merlin knows better, and hunts Arthur down and rescues him, but finds him broken, abused, violated, and not the prince that Merlin once loved. Refusing to abandon him, Merlin slowly but surely nurses Arthur back to physical and emotional health, then returns him to Camelot for a happy ending.


Journey Through a Broken Soul

Chapter	~Word Count
Chapter 01	1500
Chapter 02	2700
Chapter 03	1900
Chapter 04	1700
Chapter 05	2400
Chapter 06	3900
Chapter 07	4000

Maps

Map	Notes
Overall Geography 1	Kind of the general places where things are. I imagine Camelot as being between Mercia and Northumbria, leaning slightly west.
Overall Geography 2	Fortriu is a broken/war-torn kingdom, so this one shows that reality. Also, I include Lindsey, though the other one doesn't.
Orkney Islands: Isles	Just the general locations of the various islands.
Orkney Islands: Cities	The main cities that I used.
Fortriu	I base pretty much my Fortriu geography/story off of this.
Eire	A very rough map of Ireland c.800.

(Okay, yes, I have a thing for maps. :D)