Arthur is already King and he and Gwen are engaged and everyone in Camelot knows this. Merlin is secretly in love with Arthur (obviously) but is very good at hiding it so Arthur thinks his very deeply buried feelings aren’t reciprocated (he might not even be aware he has them, maybe just subconsciously doing things like looking for Merlin’s reaction to him and Gwen and being disappointed that there was none. Meanwhile Merlin’s dying on the inside.). Anyway, Arthur is holding a hearing for peasant complaints or whatever that’s called, and it seems like no one is left. Then a women walks in and yahda yahda yahda, she’s a witch and Uther killed her husband, her soulmate. So in revenge, she has found out through a spell that Arthur has a soulmate, but she doesn’t know who, just that he has one. (It is obviously, canonically Merlin). She assumes that the soulmate is his soon to be Queen. (She is saying all this out loud by the way. She has done a spell where everyone in the room can’t move except her, even Merlin. The people in the room are some guards, the main knights, Gwen, Merlin, and Arthur.) She also explains what a soulmate is, how they complete you (maybe she says two sides of the same coin), how it is rare to have them and that the son of the person who killed her’s doesn’t deserve to have one. So to get her revenge she has figured out a spell to kill Arthur’s soulmate. It will be a long and painful death. Anyway, she does the spell and disappears. Everyone can suddenly move again. Everyone turns to Gwen shouting in fear. Now I have two ways this can go, you can choose. First is Arthur is included in the people who turn to Gwen. And if he does rush to Gwens side then she would say, looking shocked and scared, that she feels fine. Arthur and the main Knights are surrounding Gwen when they hear a small, pained gasp from behind them. They all turn to look at Merlin, who is clutching his chest, right over his heart, with a pained look on his face. He starts to fall and no one is there to catch him. Arthur rushes over to him. (Just like in the poisoned chalice). The other way it can go is everyone rushes over to Gwen as soon as the witch disappears. But Arthur stays still. Then he looks at Merlin and Merlin looks at him. Arthur says Merlin’s name in a fearful voice. Merlin suddenly gasps, hand on chest, and falls, but this time Arthur is there to catch him. So after either set of events, Merlin is now in Arthur’s arms and in deep pain. Arthur calls out to the guards to alert Gaius while he picks Merlin up bridal style. The rest of the Knights look surprised but not that surprised that Merlin is his soulmate. Maybe Gwen has a sad, but knowing look on her face. They all go to Gaius and angst happens, confessions happen because they think Merlin is going to die, confessions of love, maybe Merlin confesses to having magic and all he’s done for Arthur and Camelot, maybe Arthur gets upset, maybe he has already figured it out. It’s up to you. Then the ending would be something like Gaius finds the cure is true loves kiss, maybe it’s a potion, maybe there is no cure and Merlin dies and his last words are “I didn’t do any of it to save my prince or my king. I did it to save my Arthur.” And then he dies. So sad. Arthur cries, Gaius cries, Gwen cries, Gwaine and the knights cry. But little did they know that Merlin is immortal. So he wakes up in a couple of minutes all healed. Merthur share a loving kiss. Arthur apologizes to Gwen and breaks off the engagement. Maybe she gets together with Lancelot. Everyone lives happily ever after. The End.
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