Merleon but in a bathroom cuz some1 (Arthur) is a prat a thought Merlin deffo would not put a spell on him 4 selling Leon's fav sword without telling him and is trapping them both in there until Merlin undoes his donkey ear spell
(they will be trapped in there for exactly 4 hours before Merlin breaks a window 2 escape)
It had started when Arthur got it into his head that he needed to somehow make money to help out. And in his infinite wisdom, he'd decided to declutter Merlin and Leon's home for them, and sell some of the things they didn't need. Though had Arthur consulted them about this? Of course not! Why would he need to?
He'd sold Leon's favourite sword. Not intentionally. But he hadn't even asked if it would be ok to sell any of their things. He hadn't even gotten a good price for it!
Leon was heartbroken, Merlin was pissed. Arthur was pitifully confused. Sure, Leon had a lot of swords. But that had been his favourite! It had been one of his oldest swords still kept in the house.
It boiled down to Arthur being a prat. Didn't it always? Heaven forbid Arthur do something without finding a way to be a bit of a prat about it! Merlin appreciated him, and did in fact consider him a close friend. He was glad he was back!
He just wished he didn't need to go track down Leon's favourite sword and steal it back for him. That was going to be incredibly annoying to sort out. What he could do as he worked on that though, was get revenge on Arthur. Of course he was going to get revenge on Arthur!
"Merlin!" Arthur shouted through their house. They really needed to get Arthur out of their house and into his own one. Merlin doubled over laughing when he saw him. He really suited the donkey ears.
Leon laughed too, not quite as hard, but he certainly appreciated the humour of it. And, well, you couldn't blame him for appreciating his husband for cursing their friend in revenge.
Still, Arthur wasn't going to let them just get away with the revenge. He charged at them, forcing them back into the bathroom. The door was slammed in their faces.
"Well," Leon said through laughter. Merlin huffed.
"I'm not letting you out until you undo this!" Arthur shouted. Merlin could almost see Arthur gesturing to the donkey ears he'd been so lovingly gifted.
Merlin ignored him.
"He shouldn't have sold your sword," he told Leon as he settled onto the bath mat and used their tub as a back rest.
"Do you think he realises we have ways out of here?" Leon asked. Merlin shrugged.
"I'm not particularly in the mood to vanish the door," Merlin admitted. Leon shrugged.
"He'll give up before we do," he decided. Merlin wanted to believe him, but he wasn't actually all that sure.
Outwaiting Arthur didn't seem to be an option. Four hours had passed. Leon was thirsty, Merlin was hungry, and they were sick of sitting in their bathroom. Any moment now, surely, Arthur would fold. But it just didn't seem to happen. They'd heard him pilling furniture up in front of the door so they couldn't open it as easily.
"I'm going to break the window," Merlin said finally. Leon hummed and looked between Merlin and the window. They could break it, with magic or by hand, and they could get it replaced just as easily. It beat sitting on the floor of the bathroom for hours on end.
"Alright," he said. Merlin nodded. His eyes flashed gold and the glass in the window frame vanished.
Arthur was sat on a pile of kitchen chairs, still with donkey ears, when Merlin and Leon walked in the back door. He did a double take, and sighed. There was no choice but for him to accept defeat, at least in that moment
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they get locked in a bathroom after a grindr hookup gone wrong. (maybe they weren't expecting to know the person and did? either exes or ex of friend? political reasons?)
honestly bestie, don't think I can do this one so I'm putting it to the crowd
(i have three bathroom merleon asks?? I'll get to them soon I promise!!)
The door was locked. Five minuets ago it was locked. It isn't locked now, both Leon and Merlin had checked. There's just someone on the other side keeping the doo shut. Arthur's fault. Again.
This trend wasn't going to die. It simply wouldn't. Why would it? All their friend were evil. Cruel, evil friends.
"Come on, let us out," Leon begged, slapping his hand against the door. Silence. No response from whoever it was on the other side, keeping the door shut. Merlin had a good idea though.
"Morgana please," Merlin begged.
"No can do," she said, and Merlin could hear her stupid smirk in her voice. Gods above, Merlin was really considering killing every last one of them.
"Morgana," he whined. Leon sighed and stepped away from the door. It was one thing to be locked in friends bathrooms, another entirely to be locked in their own.
They'd wanted five minuets to themselves in the sea of questions and jokes. Five minuets from the nonstop chatter that was their friends, friends that had been in their house for over a day. They didn't mind it, not really, but they'd wanted a moment to themselves.
So maybe they weren't the best at constant company. Centuries basically alone, except for the occasional adoptions and the jobs they took up from time to time mostly out of boredom, left them used to near constant privacy. Five minuets, that was all they'd wanted.
And Morgana just had to come along and continue the damn trend of locking them in bathrooms! Morgana of all people continuing a trend and prank Arthur had started. Oh how the world changed.
They wouldn't be getting out for some time. Not with Morgana standing vigil, and presumably using some magic to help keep the door stuck shut.
Merlin and Leon trapping themselves in a bathroom and pretending it's really jammed just to get some time and space away from the newly returned knights and co that just won't stop asking questions! It's not even that they want some time alone to be a couple like they've had time together alone for centuries, they just don't want to be asked about the tv for the 500th time
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Merlin magically locking him and Leon in a bathroom during a game of seven minuetes in heaven, and acting as if the door got jamed so both him and Leon don't have to A) Reveal their relationship B) Endure the game, and C) Potentially end up trapped with other people for the allotted time
my first fill for @merlinbingo, card under the cut. Written for prompt: Broken Bones
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Ship: Leon/Merlin
Tags: Soulmate AU, Injuries, First Meeting, Modern AU, Mentioned broken bones
Summary: Leon always knew his first meeting with his soulmate wouldn't be idea, it's plain from his soulmark. But did it have to happen in a public bathroom? Really?
Wordcount: 1324
Its a soulmate au, the first words your soulmate will speak to you are forever inked onto your skin, and the words on merlins arm is somthing about being sorry for somthing *getting traped somwere or sayingthat they'retrapped* , when they finally meet they get trapped inside a bathroom awaiting help bc one of them is injured, and it ends with them getting out and hugging
(Sorry it that's too much lol)
It is by far not too much. Also, are you familiar with my love and obsession for Soulmate AUs? Because if not, oh boy you managed to hit the nail on the head blindfolded with this one my friend!
The Pendragons are something like a gang, it's not specified. Leon is injured, injury is not described in detail just mentions of pain, broken bones, and blood.
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You can also read it here, below the cut. But not only is this a soulmate AU merleon in bathrooms for pride month, but it hit me with inspiration for one of my merlin bingo squares :)
Leon was almost certain he knew what was about to happen. It'd been inked into his arm since birth, the first words his soulmate will ever say to him.
'Your leg is broken'.
Leon's no medical expert, but it sure felt like his leg was broken. That, and it's sitting at a funny angle he's sure legs aren't meant to sit at.
It'll make for an incredibly embarrassing story when he goes to tell his friends how he met his soulmate. Getting jumped by a gang that hated Arthur, more so the Pendragon name and had instead taken that out on Leon was one thing. Getting his leg broken by them, and being otherwise injured as well, entirely another but perfectly understandable thing. But being in public bathroom? Unable to leave? Only to have his soulmate find him?
Leon was never living that down. Arthur would laugh at him at every given opportunity for it, he could see it now. It was going to be in the best man speech, when him and his soulmate eventually got to that point, he was sure of it.
Just in case any gods did exist, Leon turn his eyes skyward, and begged for mercy. Mercy did not come. He was stuck in the back most stall, his leg sticking out and broken, and he was bleeding slightly. No gods were going to shine on him today.
At least, he thought distantly, he would get to meet his soulmate from all this. A small mercy in the grand scheme of things, he supposed. Though he'd rather meet his soulmate under better circumstances. Perhaps in cafe, or on a walk. Somewhere almost romantic, so the story would be good.
He supposed it could be worse. He wondered distantly what his soulmate had ingrained in their arm. Maybe a call for help, it would make sense, given Leon's predicament.
The door swung open, creaking on it's hinges. Leon opened his mouth to call for help, but stopped. As the door shut he heard a click. The door wasn't meant to click.
"Your leg is broken," someone said suddenly. A head popped round the corner, concerned blue eyes, slightly messy black hair. Cute, all things considered.
"And we're trapped, bigger things to worry about," Leon replied without thinking. "Ah," he said at the same time as his soulmate.
"Not ideal this, is it?" his soulmate asked. "Is that blood?" he asked, squinting at him. Leon shrugged instead of answering. "And how do you know we're trapped?"
"Door clicked. Not meant to do that," Leon told him. "I'm Leon, by the way."
"Merlin," he said, turning around. Leon heard him arguing with the door, shoving at it, pulling at it. But not once did it creak on it's hinges.
"Trapped then," Merlin agreed. "Not ideal. Can't say I pictured being trapped in a bathroom."
"Can't say I pictured breaking my leg in a bathroom either," Leon admitted.
"Gwaine's never letting this go," Merlin mumbled. Leon snorted.
"Neither's Arthur. We're hearing about this for the rest of our lives," he said. Merlin sighed. He settled on the bathroom floor by Leon and appraised his leg.
"It's definitely broken," he told him. Leon nodded. He thought he was doing quite well not reacting to the pain. Probably the shock of it all. He'd been able to distract himself at first with thoughts of meeting his soulmate soon, and now here his soulmate was, eyeing his leg.
"We aren't getting out of here without help," he told Leon. "And you need medical attention."
"I know," Leon said. "I'd have called someone, but my phone was stolen." He doesn't add that even if it wasn't he was waiting for his soulmate to show up. Doesn't add that he's at least slightly glad the day had gone as it had. Doesn't tell Merlin that he doesn't mind the broken leg because he's finally met his destined.
Not everyone things about soulmates in the same way. Leon loves the idea, someone destined for him. Someone that will love him, his perfect match as foretold by the universe or maybe the gods he's not really sure. But Merlin might not feel that way. Merlin might not care at all, Merlin might take time to warm up to the idea. Merlin might be the sort to entirely disregard the idea of soulmates, and this might be the only time they interact.
How tragic would that be? Leon with a broken leg, bleeding slightly, pain slowly creeping up him as the shock and adrenaline wear off, trapped in a bathroom. Trapped in a public bathroom, sat in the furthest stall in the heap he'd been dropped in. Tragic, undignified, an awful story to tell in the future. It would be even worse if Merlin decided that was all he wanted from Leon. Just a quick meeting with his soulmate to get it over and done with.
"Here, call someone," Merlin said, holding out an old and slightly cracked phone. Leon took it. He'd memorised his friends numbers, just in case of a situation like this. It's not like he'd call the Pendragons a gang, or anything like that at all. But they were trouble magnets, and Leon was close enough that he might get hit in the crossfire. And now he had.
He dialed Arthur's number. It rang through and hung up. He dialed again. Arthur didn't answer unknown numbers on the first ring.
"What?" Arthur snapped as soon as he picked up. Leon rolled his eyes, and put him speaker without telling him.
"I broke my leg," Leon said, also forgoing any form of greeting. There was silence across the line. No reaction for some time. And then,
"You broke your leg?" Arthur asked. Leon hummed his confirmation. "Leon broke his leg!" Arthur shouted with much more joy than such a proclamation should have, presumably to Elyan, Gwen, and Morgana.
Merlin couldn't help but laugh, and the sound must have carried across the line, because Arthur suddenly shushed the celebration that had started up.
"Is that them?" Arthur asked.
"Yeah, my soulmate is here," Leon told him.
"Oh this is brilliant! Where are you?" he said. Leon winced, the pain finally getting to him. Merlin snatched the phone.
"There's a slight complication," he said, taking over the conversation. "I'd be taking him to the hospital right now, if we weren't trapped."
"Trapped?" Morgana asked, presumably Arthur had stuck the call on speaker too. Leon winced again, this time because of the reality of his situation.
"In a bathroom," Leon mumbled. Arthur started laughing, and Leon sighed. Merlin shook his head.
"I'll hang up and call someone else if you're not going to offer help," Merlin informed them. Arthur calmed down.
"Text the address, we'll be there," Morgana said. Merlin did as he was told, and hung up.
"This is going to be fun," Merlin mumbled. Leon hummed, leaning into the side of the stall.
"Sorry," Leon said.
"Not your fault," Merlin said with a shrug.
Eventually the door was pushed open. Only after a lot of fighting, and presumably help from the staff. Morgana stepped in, and stared first at Merlin.
"You'll do," she said finally, nodding to him. Merlin rolled his eyes. "Arthur, help him get Leon up," she instructed.
Merlin and Arthur lifted Leon together, careful not to disturb his leg too much.
"Gaius is going to kill me," Merlin mumbled. Leon hummed in question. "He's a doctor, taught me a bunch of first aid. Can't remember a lick of it right now."
"Meeting your soulmate does that to you," Gwen said from the door. Leon hummed slightly in agreement. As they made their way out, it felt almost as if Merlin were hugging him. He wasn't, not really, just supporting his weight so they could get him to a car and then a hospital. But it was nice.
Leon really hoped Merlin was going to stick around.
