The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
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None of us can change our destiny, or choose it. In that, they were the same.
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- Part 1 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
- Part 1 of Holds Us Together, Pull Us Apart
- Part 16 of The Four Faces of The Godess
- Part 18 of Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth [Canon Compliant & Canon AUs]
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For the first time in his life, Mordred wondered if he had been wrong, if Merlin wasn't a failure, but just someone desperately lonely, crushed by destiny and yet trying to play his part.
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If Arthur was the other side of his coin and Morgana the darkness to his light, Merlin’s destiny was footprints in the sand and Mordred was the sea, washing it all away.
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- Part 5 of Lyrics and Melodies
- Part 3 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
- Part 3 of Holds Us Together, Pull Us Apart
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His life was perfect.
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- Part 9 of Prompt Me a Prompt
- Part 4 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
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So, if his heart raced when their shared a look, well, it was adrenaline, not love. [Mild 511 spoilers]
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- Part 5 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
- Part 8 of Holds Us Together, Pull Us Apart
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In Between Our Bodies Lies a Blessing (And Yet We Choose The Doom) by Diana_Prallon
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
23 Dec 2012
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They were not free – they had never been free – to feel as they did.
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- Part 11 of Lyrics and Melodies
- Part 6 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
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The others would accept him, the King would praise him, but there was no warmth in a world in which your kin deserted you.
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- Part 17 of Lyrics and Melodies
- Part 7 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
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But You Always Kept Me Away
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- Part 20 of Prompt Me a Prompt
- Part 8 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
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It all comes back to you oh-so-quickly; because how could you forget? How could you not know? His face is still the same as if the decades, centuries between your last meeting and now have passed him by – but no.
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- Part 9 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
- Part 25 of Holds Us Together, Pull Us Apart
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The thing about being a teenager, really, is that everything feels more complicated than it actually is. Confessing is out of the equation, honesty is easier said than done, and pining is like breathing - what you truly need in order to survive.
Anything and everything else is overrated - something we pretend to be truer than it is.
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- Part 5 of History Books Forgot About Us [Non-Canon AUs]
- Part 10 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
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Not that he had it in him to deny Merlin anything he wanted – except, maybe, space. It puzzled him that the warlock shunned all his attempts to help and share; he had never given him a reason to treat him like he did – with cold contempt.
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- Part 11 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste
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It was not his fault that he was staring.
It might be the tequila’s fault, though.
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- Part 12 of The Sweetest Words Have the Bitterest Taste