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Title: Swimming with the Sidhe
Author: gwylliondream
Genre: Canon era
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Words: 53,589
Author's notes: Swimming with the Sidhe was written for paperlegends and as a kinkme_merlin fill for this prompt.
Disclaimer: All Arthurian characters are the property of BBC/Shine and their creators. The Calming Manatee and most of its words belong to HT (the Human Typist) of the Calming Manatee meme.
Comments: Comments are welcome anytime! Thanks so much for reading!

( Chapter 7 )

Title: Swimming with the Sidhe
Author: gwylliondream
Genre: Canon era
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Words: 53,589
Author's notes: Swimming with the Sidhe was written for paperlegends and as a kinkme_merlin fill for this prompt.
Disclaimer: All Arthurian characters are the property of BBC/Shine and their creators. The Calming Manatee and most of its words belong to HT (the Human Typist) of the Calming Manatee meme.
Comments: Comments are welcome anytime! Thanks so much for reading!

( Chapter 5 )

Title: Swimming with the Sidhe
Author: gwylliondream
Genre: Canon era
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Words: 53,589
Author's notes: Swimming with the Sidhe was written for paperlegends and as a kinkme_merlin fill for this prompt.
Disclaimer: All Arthurian characters are the property of BBC/Shine and their creators. The Calming Manatee and most of its words belong to HT (the Human Typist) of the Calming Manatee meme.
Comments: Comments are welcome anytime! Thanks so much for reading!

( Chapter 3 )

Title: Swimming with the Sidhe
Author: gwylliondream
Artist: patria_mori - Art Masterpost
Genre: Canon era
Pairings/characters: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 53,589
Warnings: Implied marital infidelity, brief contemplation of suicide
Summary: No one likes a story that ends with a hero’s death and broken promises. As Merlin watches the wooden boat drift away with Arthur, he regrets that he ever believed a word that Kilgharrah told him about the bright future Arthur would bring to Albion. Fortunately, he is greeted by a new mythical advisor, the Calming Manatee of the Calming Manatee meme. Only this docile sea creature can help Merlin through this difficult stage in his life so he learns to love himself and gets his happy ending with Arthur.
Author's notes: Thanks to the_muppet for running Paperlegends and making it look so easy, to my fantastic and talented artist patria_mori, to lawgoddess for her excellent beta work, to gilli_ann the best cheerleader ever, to the charming Human Typist of the Calming Manatee meme whose words of encouragement and hope I have borrowed extensively here, also to my team of special helpers on whose support I confidently rely: stagarden, archaeologist_d, sandscrit, and bronctastic, and of course to the amazing anon prompter who had the foresight to leave this incredible prompt—Hey girl, you got this!
Swimming with the Sidhe was written for paperlegends and as a kinkme_merlin fill for this prompt.
Artist's notes: I’m rubbish at blurbs!
Disclaimer: All Arthurian characters are the property of BBC/Shine and their creators. The Calming Manatee and most of its words belong to HT (the Human Typist) of the Calming Manatee meme.
Comments: Comments are welcome anytime! Thanks so much for reading!

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( Chapter 1 )