Tales from the Loathly Lady

Title: These Inconvenient Fireworks
Wordcount: ~13,000
Summary: Gwaine offers to let Freya stay in his flat for the week before Merlin and Arthur's wedding. He doesn't expect to fall in love, but it's definitely a bonus.
Warnings: Some kissing while intoxicated. Other than that, just some strong language.
A/N: Written for this prompt on the meme (raise hands if you already guessed it was me. I am frightfully obvious). And I totally do not know who the OP is. At all. (non_island, I am looking at youuuuuu.) But anyway, it is sort of an accidental Gwaine Quest fic and the title is from Vienna Teng's "Stray Italian Greyhound." The idea of books about winged cats is stolen from Ursula K. LeGuin.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin. Or Catwings.

( Part One )

Part Two

Title: No People Like Show People
Wordcount: ~1200
Summary: Arthur and Merlin discover fanfiction for Kilgharrah's Adventures. Set in the No Business Like Show Business 'verse.
A/N: The last request-a-fic, for hermette. This is so meta, I can't even.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

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Title: Live Unbruised
Wordcount: ~3,000
Summary: Merlin dreams about telling the truth.
Warnings: Angst. In dream sequences, references to character death and suicide. Please let me know if you think I need stronger warnings.
A/N: Mostly gen despite the pairing-tag (tag added because those two are the most important characters in the fic). Title from "Sigh No More" by Mumford & Sons. This is the last piece of my post-s3 head-canon, most closely related to "Fix the Twist in You." I AM SO SORRY ABOUT THIS ANGSTSPLOSION, YOU GUYS. I promise you, the next thing I have planned is back to my ridiculous fluff.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

( Merlin wakes up. )

Title: The Boy Next Door
Wordcount: ~6,800
Summary: In which there is pining, Merlin bakes, Arthur borrows batteries he doesn't actually need, and did I mention the pining?
Warning: I know how fluffy most of my fic is. So take it seriously when I say that this may do some serious sugar damage to your teeth.
A/N: Written for this prompt at the meme, which I am not anoning first since there is already a perfectly lovely WIP fill over there already. There are a few more notes at the end of the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

( The document I typed this in is entitled 'Rot Your Teeth Out.' )

Title: Just Holding Your Hand
Summary: In which there are copious jazz and 40s references, Elena is Arthur's BFF, and Gwaine is Jane Bennett. Yet it's somehow not crack.
A/N: Spoilers for 3x04 and 3x06! For this prompt on kinkme_merlin . I wanted to write Elena/Gwaine but didn't trust myself to write it in the foreground, so ... um, have a jazz-bar-Pride-and-Prejudice AU?
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

( I am your knight in shining armour and you know it. )

A/N the second: There will be no fics posted to this journal in the month of November! (NaNoWriMo, how I love thee.) Hopefully I'll be back in December sometime, though then I'll be off my hiatus from original fiction so there will probably be less fic as a result.

Title: Isn't it Lovely How Artists Can Capture Us?
Summary: Arthur buys a painting at Gaius's antique shop, only to find that the subject is a wizard who's been trapped for over a century.
A/N: For this kinkme_merlin prompt: Arthur is an art lover or dealer or something, Merlin is a warlock/sorcerer cursed to live in a painting that Arthur acquires. My abject apologies to Forster, Wilde, Rowling, Mussorgsky, Nietsche, and anyone else I reference in this insane thing. Title from "Children and Art" from Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

( The painting stares at him. Arthur suspects Nietzsche would have something to say about that. )

Read the epilogue here: http://lady-ragnell.livejournal.com/4426.html

Title: No Business Like Show Business
Summary: In which Merlin is promoted from production intern to talent, is easily mortified, and has Post-It arguments with Arthur while the art department watches in glee. Also, there are gay dragons.
A/N: I had so much fun writing this one, but I should warn you that I have NO IDEA how the TV industry works, let alone the animated TV industry. For this prompt on kinkme_merlin: They're both voice actors for a show where their characters are in love/in a relationship/sleeping together but they've never met. They meet at a press function or passing each other in the studio and find that life imitates art.
ETA: There is now art for this fic (oh my gosh, you guys)! You can find it here (an entry on this journal that leads to four pictures) and more of Kestrel, Gary, Amara, and Aithusa. Heap love upon the artists!
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin. But I do own Kilgharrah's Adventures.

( You accepted a part in a show about gay dragons and this has never occurred to you before? )

Title: Safekeeping
Summary: Merlin, realizing how many people he cares about have almost died, withdraws to keep it from happening again. Arthur notices.
A/N: Post season 2, so 'ware spoilers if you haven't seen it. For this kinkme_merlin prompt: Merlin notices that everyone he gets close to dies, so he starts to withdraw from everyone, becoming silent and blank to push people away. Arthur tries to bring him back.
Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.

( And Merlin thinks <i>Enough. Enough now.</i> )