Leaving Camelot
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Merlin decides that he can no longer stay in Camelot after what happened to Gaius.
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- Part 1 of Leaving Camelot
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Merlin, feeling so many things he can't make sense of, leaves to clear his head. He gets lost in the beauty and wonder of nature and loses all sense of time as he wanders among the woods and animals.
The wolves he's with want to show him something strange, and he follows. He finds hordes of people around a strange tower in snowy lands where he meets an unusual blue creature that talks to him in his mind. Having been surrounded by animals so long, Merlin has forgotten what speaking normally or telepathically feels like and stumbles over words and phrases that feel unfamiliar.
Gwaine convinces him to return to Camelot even briefly.
Merlin likes Gwaine and decides that he will be his.
He speaks to the gathered people in the council chambers briefly before retreating back to the woods with his partner happily in tow.
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- Part 2 of Leaving Camelot
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Merlin decides he needs to leave so he doesn't take his anger out on his friends, nor let it fester away like it did Kilgharrah. Lancelot refuses to let him go alone and tags along. Instead of just planning to stop and see Hunith in Ealdor, she decides she is joining them and Merlin can't tell her no.
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- Part 3 of Leaving Camelot
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Hurt by a confrontation with a drunk Arthur, Merlin decides he's had enough and leaves Camelot. As he's leaving, Agravaine follows him, determined to kill him so he'll no longer cause him further issues. So Merlin reveals his magic and kills him instead before taking the man's horse and leaving. He travels for a while, playing music at taverns to earn food and shelter before he ends up helping an injured patrol of Caerleon Knights. Queen Annis takes him in and assigns him to train her physicians before discovering his heritage and naming him a knight and reinstating his father's name.
Along the way, Merlin becomes embroiled in courts and councils, three stubborn and playful princesses, and attends King Arthur's wedding at his Queen's side.
Before long, Merlin is lord of his own township, conducting magic lessons, and locating Morgana to try and bring her to his estate as a peace offering to the court of Camelot.
He really wishes he'd found a cave to hide in instead of joining Queen Annis some days....
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- Part 4 of Leaving Camelot