I desperately NEED a fic where Uther executes Merlin after somehow finding out about his magic, and Arthur straight up loses his mind and just... walks away. From his father. From the hatred of magic. From his knights. From his friends. From his people.
He's done. Merlin is gone, and nothing means anything anymore.
Uther burned Merlin while Arthur was in the dungeons for protesting. Uther who claimed to love Arthur's mother, and still bargained with her life for a son.
I want Uther to see his son's devotion (feelings realized too late, too late) to the dead servant boy. To realize that unlike him, Arthur would never have sacrificed the love of his life for a legacy.
I want Uther to realize that Arthur's love for a dead sorcerer is far greater and purer and more selfless than Uther's obsession for Ygraine ever was. (Because Arthur would never take his anger out on innocents. Cannot bear to imagine what Merlin would say if he did. Caring about a sorcerer's opinion, loving the sorcerer -Not really his father's perfect son, eh?)
And I want Uther to realize that he, King Uther Pendragon, has done to his son what he accused Nimueh of doing to him. (And knew, always, deep down that she didn't.)
I want Morgana, so recently "rescued" from the clutches of her sweet sister, to find out that the boy, once a friend, who poisoned her to save Arthur and Camelot and was rewarded with his death for it, was like her all along.
I want Morgause to exclaim in delight to Morgana that with the Crown Prince having taken himself out of the way, Camelot is ripe for the taking.
And for Morgana to hear this and think -none of this makes sense, what even is the point?
I want Arthur's last words ever to his father to be that he would never forgive him for this.
That in killing the sorcerer who had prevented Arthur from ending Uther's miserable worthless life, he's lost his son forever.
Uther Pendragon's young dynasty built on blood and bones and tears and screams and ash did not have it's legacy robbed by magic.
And it will keep walking, wandering, alone from this land to that, until over a thousand years later, when it finds its soul's mate again, in a world forever changed to the both of them.
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