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hermette – A very quick something as a thank you for my lovely new icon. ♥ I tried to write a 30-word tiny ficlet but ended up with this instead. :)
Title Ten Things Merlin Loves About Arthur’s Hands
Rating: G
Word Count: 400
Ten Things Merlin Loves About Arthur’s Hands
They never stop moving while he talks to his knights by the campfire; they are on his jaw, his cheek, his lips. It’s too much, and Merlin must look away and focus on turning the spit or the rabbit will burn.
One moment they can clench the hilt of a sword like the safety of all Camelot depends on their skill and the next they can stroke the dirty cheek of a child whose father lies dead only a few feet away.
The way they tremble sometimes after Arthur's spoken to his father. Merlin has to stop himself from taking hold of them and whispering, “You are not him. You will never be him.”
On lonely winter nights, when Arthur thinks Merlin is distracted with the filth of the hearth or the endless piles of armour to polish, he takes out his mother’s locket – the one, Merlin discovered, Arthur had stolen from the king’s chambers – and he strokes a finger up and down the ivory with such longing that Merlin’s heart aches.
The familiar weight of them on Merlin’s shoulders as Arthur stands close and whispers something important or something ridiculous.
The way he rubs his ring across his bottom lip back and forth as he stands on the barracks, watching his people. Merlin thinks he can see the king inside, taking shape right before his eyes.
The silver line of the scar on his left index finger that Arthur tells visiting noble women was the result of a bite from an angry boar, but Merlin knows Arthur’s knife had slipped trying to cut the laces of his breeches when he’d needed his chamber pot too badly to fiddle with the knot.
The soft beat Arthur’s fingers drum on the side of the tub while Merlin washes his hair. Merlin figures it's a prince's equivalent to purring.
The way they run through Merlin's hair to pluck out a blade of grass or hay only to hold it out, accusing, in front of Merlin nose while Arthur says, “Idiot,” with his cheeks pink and eyes soft.
Best of all, Merlin sees in his dreams the way, someday, Arthur’s hand will fit into his, strong and gentle. Together their hands will be puzzle pieces slotting into place, perfect and invincible.
hermette – A very quick something as a thank you for my lovely new icon. ♥ I tried to write a 30-word tiny ficlet but ended up with this instead. :) Title Ten Things Merlin Loves About Arthur’s Hands
Rating: G
Word Count: 400
Ten Things Merlin Loves About Arthur’s Hands
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Date: 2010-09-07 01:06 pm (UTC)So sweet and sensual and completely fucking perfect. Oh, Merlin.
&hearts ___ &hearts
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Date: 2010-09-07 01:25 pm (UTC)And I love the icon! I have a tote bag with an octopus!owl on it :)
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Date: 2010-09-07 01:57 pm (UTC)LOL. *hands you a toothbrush*
OCTOPUS!OWL's will one day take over the world!!! It's TRUE.
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Date: 2010-09-07 02:17 pm (UTC)that one might be my favourite, too. :D
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Date: 2010-09-07 02:23 pm (UTC)(Also, my first thought was "Word Count: 400", that can't be right. Shouldn't it be 40,000? Heh. Too much Big Bang! *g*)
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Date: 2010-09-07 02:27 pm (UTC)Also- GAH!!! I've been seeing your recs!!! But I don't know what you are saying!!! *cries* I wanna know. *vows to learn German* :D
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Date: 2010-09-08 01:09 am (UTC)Ten Things Merlin Loves About Arthur’s Hands
Date: 2010-09-07 08:59 pm (UTC)But this one's my favourite: The soft beat Arthur’s fingers drum on the side of the tub while Merlin washes his hair. Merlin figures it's a prince's equivalent to purring.
Re: Ten Things Merlin Loves About Arthur’s Hands
Date: 2010-09-08 01:10 am (UTC)Mmmm... I love Merlin washing Arthur's hair... *happy sigh*
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Date: 2010-09-09 12:12 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2010-09-09 12:13 am (UTC)awe! thank you... it was written very casually in snippets on a rainy Sunday. I was in a rather ... sleepy mood at the time. :)
Thanks for the lovely comment.
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Date: 2010-09-09 12:17 am (UTC)ahaha! YES. :D
Glad you liked it. thanks.
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Date: 2010-09-09 12:35 am (UTC)Thank you!
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