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Story Title: Beside Me
Chapter: 0.3 - The Fall
Rating: R
Summary: X-Men AU: For many downtrodden mutants, rejected throughout a lifetime of unwelcome blood dictating their lives, Camelot Academy is not just a school - it's a home. But something dark is brewing, and Camelot is no longer as safe as it appears.
Word Count: 4400
Characters/Pairings: Arthur/Merlin, Gwen, Lancelot, Morgana, Gwaine
Story Warnings/Content: violence (including scientific experimentation), sex (including references to forced intoxication and non-con), character deaths, self-harm, mentions of prostitution, torture
Chapter Warnings/Content: mentions of accidental violence, severe injury (including spinal), anti-mutant hatred/bigotry (and some language related therein)
Beta: none for this chapter, as I have all the patience of a hyperactive toddler on crack
Notes: You know one of those days where no one thing is bad but everything goes wrong, anyway? Yeah, I just had one of those. Some I'm posting some fic early to cheer myself up.

( Beside Me, 0.3 - The Fall )

Story Title: Beside Me
Chapter: 0.1 - In Nomine Patri
Rating: R
Summary: X-Men AU: For many downtrodden mutants, rejected throughout a lifetime of unwelcome blood dictating their lives, Camelot Academy is not just a school - it's a home. But something dark is brewing, and Camelot is no longer as safe as it appears.
Word Count: 33,350
Characters/Pairings: Arthur/Merlin, Gwen, Lancelot, Morgana, Gwaine
Story Warnings/Content: violence (including scientific experimentation), sex (including references to forced intoxication and non-con), character deaths, self-harm, mentions of prostitution, torture
Chapter Warnings/Content: violence, character death
Beta: lasvegas_lights
Notes: So this was originally for reel_merlin waaaaaaayy back. But then I missed the deadline and shoved this onto the back burner, and I'm slowly pulling it back forward. This AU is based almost solely off of the X-Men movie trilogy, but only a basic knowledge of the premise (aka teenage mutants being kickass with some grown-ups thrown in here and there :P) is necessary to really understand this fic.

Primogeniture

##	Chapter	~Word Count
0.1	In Nomine Patri	2500
0.2	Angel Blood	750
0.3	The Fall	4400
1.1	Trust Me	3000
1.2	This Could Be Home	6250
1.3	Hello, There	4400
1.4	Vene Vidi Visa	2900
2.1	Class V	4200
2.2	Talking Cure	4950

Title: Lineage, Chapter 2: In So Few Words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Thanks to his magic, Merlin always knew he had a weird heritage that his mother did not liking talking about. What he didn't expect was to find out she was a princess of the kingdom of Dyfed - making him heir to the throne. This changed...everything.
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, Gwen/Morgana
Warnings: mentions of violence, swearing, mentions of sex
Episode warnings: Post-S1 AU, but draws heavily on elements of S2 and S3
Beta: arithilim
Notes: Yes, it's back!

I know I abandoned it, and I was all but ready to give up on it myself, but I finally got myself to just write the last the damn bit, get it beta'd, and post it! :D

I'm getting back to all the things I've abandoned over the years, slowly, working my way backwards. For now it's Lineage, Euphoria, and my old Tarot Project! Later, I will also bring in my older fics, older fandoms, and my original fiction into my main focus as well.

Important notes:

1.) This story is still a post-S1 AU, but draws heavily on elements of S2 and S3 (basically all the events of those seasons, minus the evil!Morgana and Arthur/Gwen story archs, and compressed into one year)

2.) In light of Merlin's father's identity being revealed, the earlier chapters have been edited to fit that in.

Now - to the story!

( Chapter 02: In So Few Words )

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
Word Count: 3900
Pairings/Character: Arthur/Merlin, Lancelot
Warnings/Content: Violence, (past) non-con, mental trauma, mentions of slavery
Beta: none D:
Notes: Enjoy!

( Journey Through A Broken Soul, Chapter 06 )

Title: Primogeniture
Summary: Merlin is happy to dedicate his life and soul to Arthur when he comes to Camelot, even though he knows the dragon is wrong, and Arthur will never be king. How can he be, when he is the second son?
Rating: R
Word Count: 7100
Pairings/Character: Arthur/Merlin, OMC
Warnings/Content: violence, non-con, dub-con
Beta: none
Notes: Comments are love!

( Chapter 06: Small Steps )

Title: Primogeniture
Summary: Merlin is happy to dedicate his life and soul to Arthur when he comes to Camelot, even though he knows the dragon is wrong, and Arthur will never be king. How can he be, when he is the second son?
Rating: R
Word Count: 5400
Pairings/Character: Arthur/Merlin, OMC
Warnings/Content: violence, non-con, dub-con, (forced) intoxication, (possible) incest
Beta: none
Notes: The guys at the computer hospital screwed up, and my computer is infected again, but luckily most of this fic was originally written online, anyway, so here's another chapter!

( Chapter 05: Share Thy Burden )

Title: Primogeniture
Summary: Merlin is happy to dedicate his life and soul to Arthur when he comes to Camelot, even though he knows the dragon is wrong, and Arthur will never be king. How can he be, when he is the second son?
Rating: R
Word Count: 4700
Pairings/Character: Arthur/Merlin, OMC
Warnings/Content: violence, non-con, dub-con, (forced) intoxication, (possible) incest
Beta: none
Notes: My computer was infected by a virus and taken to the computer hospital, but now I got it back! :D Now I just over a week's worth of homework to catch up on, though... :(

( Chapter 04: The Second Prince )

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)
Word Count: 1900
Pairings/Character: Arthur/Merlin, Lancelot
Warnings/Content: Violence, (past) non-con, mental trauma, mentions of slavery
Beta: none
Notes: Epically late Episode 308 Review is epically late :( so I give you fic to make up for it! :D

1.) Yes, I intend for this to be epic road trip fic. Medieval epic road trip fic. :P

2.) Eire is the Irish word for Ireland today, and in the past was the single name for Ireland, like Albion was for Britain.

3.) I am also using this map of Eire/Ireland from c. 800, seeing as BBC is already using c. 800 political boundaries for their Arthurian geography, anyway. While Albion would already be heavily under Germanic and Roman influence by now, including the prevalence of the New Religion, these influences are only just seeping into Ireland, which is still under Celtic and Old Religion influences. Look at me and all my geeking out. And maps! I love maps! :D

4.) I'll try to stick to accurate history as much as possible. That said, this is legend, and BBC is already screwing up the timelines, anyway, so I'mna just fudge things up a bit. Mostly, it'll be right events, but wrong time. Hey, if BBC can do it, so can I. :P

( Journey Through A Broken Soul, Chapter 03 )

Every episode, I do a review/analysis of the individual episode and the characters within them. Now that we've hit the half-way mark of the season, I'm doing one for the season/show at large.

Warning: here be spoilers!

( Analysis of the Main Characters )

So, that's where we're coming from.

This is where we're going:

( Season 3 Analysis So Far )

( Wild Cards )

You're playing poker with half the table wearing glasses and a bunch of wild cards in the deck. You know what's supposed to happen, you know the rules of the game, you can glimpse at what your opponent's cards are in the reflection of their glasses...yet you still have no fucking clue what's going to happen.

God, I can't wait.

...in fact, I won't. :) Speculation on the rest of Season 3 is this way!

Feel free to discuss here.

Title: Epic Adventures in King Arthur's Bed
Summary: A Spenserian sonnet of Arthur/Merlin 'love', aka smut.
Rating: R
Word Count: 120
Pairings/Characters: Arthur/Merlin,
Warnings/Content: smut
Beta: None :(
Notes: Written in a letter to my friend arithilim, who is suffering in college and as such needed some professional level cheering up. :)


( Epic Adventures in King Arthur's Bed )

Spenserian Sonnets should not be confused with English/Shakespearean Sonnets.