bookshop: Look, I just want Arthur to keep ordering Merlin about and making him do things.

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bookshop) wrote,
@ 2009-03-24 13:55:00

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fic, je suis loser

Look, I just want Arthur to keep ordering Merlin about and making him do things.

Arthur throws the battered notebook on Merlin's desk. "Type that up for me, will you, I've got to present it to the board soon." He saunters over to his half of their shared office, leaving Merlin to thumb through three months' worth of notes on market shares and acquisition structures.

"And when you say soon?" Merlin shoots him a dark look from beneath his ridiculous hair. Arthur reminds himself that this would not be a good idea to run his hand through it in the guise of telling him to get a haircut.

"Soon means soon," he snaps instead, though it comes out a bit less commanding than he'd like, and much more like someone who's just remembered his A-levels are the next day.

Merlin's glare intensifies. "Arthur..."

"What? Look, the meeting's not til ten am, you've plenty of time."

"You mean ten am tomorrow?" It's not quite a shriek, but it's still enough to make Arthur wince. Merlin stalks over, backs him against his desk, and shoves the notebook (which granted is less like a notebook by this point and more like a glorified coffee mat, with the stains to prove it) against his chest.

"You haven't even gotten an outline together, have you?" Merlin demands. Arthur purses his lips. "Do you even have a coherent, logical proposal?"

"I'm always coherent and logical," Arthur replies, a bit over-defensively. Merlin rolls his eyes and starts to open his mouth, but Arthur grabs his wrist, pleased when Merlin's voice catches in his throat.

"You know I'd never give you anything you couldn't handle," Arthur murmurs, holding his gaze and leaning in slightly. He loves it when Merlin's eyes flash with that quick shocked look, loves it when Merlin gets surprised by this. And then the shock is gone, and Merlin's eyes drop to his mouth with a flare of interest, and Arthur remembers that the surprise works both ways.

"I'd say I'm quite good at handling what you give me," Merlin says, his voice gone low in that shivery sort of way that crawls up the back of Arthur's neck.

"Yes, I'd say you are," Arthur agrees, reaching up to run his fingertips over the edge of Merlin's collar, on the pretense of straightening it, but really just wanting to brush his fingers over that smooth collarbone.

"It's a good thing I'm not your boyfriend or anything," Merlin says, watching him through his thick pouty lashes. "I could just quit whenever you order me about."

"It is a good thing I'm not your boyfriend," Arthur agrees. "I'd have to fire you for sleeping with your boss." He leans in and follows his fingertips with his lips, brushing his nose against the side of Merlin's neck. "And then I'd never get to harass you."

Merlin lets out a hum of pleasure and moves into him, sliding a warm hand up Arthur's chest. "If this is harassment, my standards of workplace discrimination are regrettably low."

"I'm just getting warmed up," says Arthur, allowing himself one brief brush of his mouth against Merlin's, lingering on Merlin's perfect lower lip - before shoving the notebook back against him and stepping back around his desk.

"You should probably get the final draft over to the printer's before they close tonight," he says, "so have it proofed and bound by nine."

He grins in the face of Merlin's inarticulate spluttering.

Merlin is always so much more fun when he comes home angry. :D

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ETA: FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR OWN 'ARTHUR ORDERS MERLIN ABOUT' FIC. Don't let me hog all the fun.
really. anna_zee's demands are much better than mine. Oh, yes.

ETA 2: More amazing ficlets!!! omg.
- from ghost_lingering, Arthur orders Merlin to leave. ♥
- from derryere (who obvs *is* a wizard), Arthur orders Merlin to make things explode, oh my god *_* and also orders him FIX IT, which Merlin does and how. :D :D :D :D
- from stungunbilly, just who is ordering who (YOWZA).
- from cherrybina, Arthur orders Merlin to give him a backrub!!!!
- from cor_leonis_1961, Arthur orders Merlin to - well.
- from puckling, Arthur tells Merlin to do that thing you do. >:D
- from 2naonh3_cl2, Arthur tells Merlin not to let him... *whistles innocently*
- from berrypop90, Arthur orders Merlin to help him bathe
- from sigmaflare_spaz, Arthur demands too many things to list! :D
- from cor_leonis_1961, Arthur orders Merlin not to get involved <-- !!!! WARNING FOR CLIFFHANGER!
- from nahara, Arthur orders Merlin under the table. :DDDDD
- from 2naonh3_cl2, Arthur orders Merlin *not* to leave. <-- warning for shameless tearjerking!
- from mariana_oconnor, Arthur's order hangs in the balance. *____*

And as a bonus, it's not 100% related but who cares, okay, look, BONUS ART FROM trolleys! ♥_____♥

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I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH"

derryere
2009-03-25 12:10 am UTC (link)

OKAY actual proper response to the challenge. MOUTH PORN, AS IT SHOULD BE.

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"MOTHER F—" Arthur swallows the rest of that exclamation, immediately dropping the apple and the knife to the table and clutching onto his hand. "Oh!" he says in genuine surprise, glancing from the rolling apple to his tangle of fingers, "OH, that hurts!"

Merlin, folding laundry by the window, looks up in amusement. "All right, your highness?"

"Shut up," Arthur mutters. And then, slowly letting go of his hand—uncurling his fingers with a hiss—he adds mostly to himself, "I cut myself."

Merlin, from his corner, puts down the shirt he's been folding. Arthur is curiously inspecting the clean, deep cut when Merlin walks up to him and joins in on the peering from over his shoulder.

"It really hurts," Arthur says in a quiet mumble, honestly not understanding why there's pain because he's had much worse than this all over the place and there's no reason why a little cut should sting quite so badly.

"Oh, poor baby," Merlin says, teasingly, breath close to his neck. Annoyed, Arthur pushes him back with a rough elbow to the chest. Merlin stumbles back, coughing a little but laughing all the same, rubbing at his the base of his throat.

"I don't see how this is funny," Arthur snaps, turning to face him. "It actually bloody well hurts, all right?"

"It's just a cut," Merlin says, the eye-roll in his voice even if he refrains from it physically. He still snatches Arthur's wrist, however, with a tired resignation of sorts and sighs as he inspects the cut.

Arthur's face pulls into a pained grimace and a quiet, "Ouch," is out before he knows it. Merlin huffs a quiet laugh, shaking his head minutely.

"Well?" Arthur demands immediately, all too irked with Merlin's attitude now.

Merlin looks up, exasperated. "'Well', what?"

"'Well, what'? Fix it, is what." He nods at his hand, putting some noble anger into it. Merlin just stares at him, mellow and unimpressed, which only makes it worse. "You're the physician's apprentice, aren't you?" He shoves his hand closer to Merlin, and Merlin's own hands one his wrist are jerked with the movement. "Go on. Make it better."

A certain emotion flitters over Merlin's features at this, but whatever it is it quickly settles in something not at all intimidated or obedient. Which is, all around, a general disappointment.

"All right," he says, and the challenge in his voice doesn't escape Arthur. "All right, then, your highness."

Arthur barely has the time to frown at what he knows will end bad and then Merlin has cradled Arthur's injured hand more firmly in his palm—another set of fingers firmly at his wrist—and lifts it up to his face.

"Wait, what're you—"

And then Merlin kisses the palm of his hand. No, wait, he doesn't just kiss it, he—he opens his mouth over it and runs his hot tongue over the cut and it should hurt, it should hurt a lot but it doesn't. If anything, it's doing things that are maybe close to 'hurt' on the overall scale of feelings, things that are also very close to 'jsdjhdgfdfjgh'. And then, as he drags his lips to close over the cut, a thrill of some kind of electricity buzzes through his hand and up—up his arm, shoulder and to his head, making his eyes roll back.

"There," Merlin says, suddenly cheerful as he lets Arthur's hand drop back. "All better."

Arthur blinks himself back to a more stable state of mind, and swallows before—

Edited at 2009-03-25 12:10 am UTC

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Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2

derryere
2009-03-25 12:11 am UTC (link)

"What—" He lifts his somewhat wet hand, looking at it. The cut is still there, but it looks less vicious now—less red, and maybe even smaller. The most significant thing, however, is that he doesn't feel it. At all. There's absolutely, completely no pain whatsoever. He makes a fist, opens it, prods the cut and still—nothing. He snaps his attention back to Merlin. "What the hell did you do?"

"What?" Merlin gives him a weird look, innocence incarnate. "I just kissed it better, is all."

"Kissed it—!" Arthur starts, incredulous. "I can't bloody feel it any more!"

Merlin quirks a brow at this. "And that's bad?"

"Yes, of course it's—!" He stops, suddenly apprehensive. "No, it's not—what I mean is—" His attempts at speech come to a halt altogether as Merlin's badly suppressed smile keeps creeping up the boys face, and then all Arthur's brain functions stutter to a stop and settle for focusing on one thing: Merlin's mouth.

"What . . ." Arthur starts, never finishes, and steps forward. With genuine interest he stares at Merlin's mouth, frowning a little as he ducks his head for a better look. It's not a very special mouth, apart from its distinctive fullness and the way it can crack open in a mad smile in a matter of milliseconds. It's just a mouth, really, no oddities or special colours, and Arthur thinks, Maybe it's inside it. He doesn't notice Merlin's newly horrified yet uncharacteristically still disposition, and brings up a hand for a more thorough inspection. With a thumb he pushes down a bottom lip, folding over the dip of the chin, thoughtfully running his digit over the exposed wet and pink flesh. And if Merlin's breath hitches, if he's opening his mouth a little, then Arthur plainly ignores it and quietly hums in thought. He pushes his thumb to the row of teeth, then, running along the edge and making Merlin open wider. And he does, quite easily in fact, so Arthur doesn't have waste an awful lot of time and presses the finger to the flat of Merlin's tongue.

But something happens, then, something must've happened because a blink of an eye Merlin's mouth closes around his thumb and that soft tongue curls and rubs against it and then that electricity again, that inhuman and otherworldly sensation that shoots up to Arthur's head and probably to other places too, wrenching a low rumble of appreciation from his throat again. The sound he makes, though, makes Merlin gasp in reply and Arthur's thumb falls from his mouth, wet and immediately chilling in the room's air.

A moment passes in which Merlin watches Arthur, terrified, and Arthur watches Merlin's mouth, fascinated.

"Magic mouth," Arthur says in an amazed sort of whisper, eyes alight with boyish thrill. "Magic mouth," he says again and dives in, all too excited already, sucking and licking and smothering Merlin's weak protests with a slick tongue and two hands curling up his neck and into his hair. And whatever feeble squeaks Merlin made at first they are forgotten entirely by the time he moans into Arthur's mouth, starts kissing back, and when he sucks down on Arthur's tongue—sliding his own along the side in the process—the magic electricity is back again, burning between their mouths in a most amazing way, the heat slow in its trickle as it meanders forth through Arthur's body in heavy waves.

"Magic mouth," he sighs happily into the kiss, and even though it's made completely unintelligible due to Merlin's tongue trailing a sloppy line thickly over his lip, Merlin still grins and hums an agreeing,

"Hmhmn."

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	Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2 bookshop 2009-03-25 12:22 am UTC (link)
	OH MY GOD ASDFKJLDSFJKLJSKDLJDSKD OH MY GOD ASDFKJLDS YOU DSJFKSDJFDKJKASFKJFKLDJL (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2 bookshop 2009-03-25 12:23 am UTC (link)
	I expect this to become an Overdone Fannish Trope within like 2 seconds adsklfjdsk;lfjkasddsk;lf;sks oh my god akldsfjaldsf;d (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2

derryere
2009-03-25 12:46 am UTC (link)

:DDDDDDDDDDDD

adsklfjdsk;lfjkasddsk;lf;sks oh my god akldsfjaldsf;d AND THAT IS HOW THE SEQUEL WOULD START.

"adsklfjdsk;lfjkasddsk;lf;sks oh my god akldsfjaldsf;d" said Arthur the next morning on waking up to find a mess of hair hovering low over his stomach, and a certain mouth of magic on a certain region of south.

"..." said Merlin, spelling out different kind of words with his tongue, and then Arthur died. A COUPLE OF TIMES.

AND THEN AGAIN THAT AFTERNOON, AND AFTER THE BANQUET, AND THAT NIGHT AND EVERY MORNING AFTER THAT FOR FOREVER.

~~THE END~~~~

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	Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2 cherrybina 2009-03-25 01:21 am UTC (link)
	THAT... THAT RIGHT THERE WAS POETRY. YOU MOVE ME WITH YOUR WORDS. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2 fireflower314 2009-03-25 06:03 am UTC (link)
	Such a moving, heartwarming story! I approve! giggles (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2 bobrhyn 2009-03-25 12:52 am UTC (link)
	I UM, HELLO. with the fingers and the fingers and the. what an incredibly useless comment, basically, I approve. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2 gwy 2009-03-25 07:43 am UTC (link)
	ASLDKFJ ♥ NOT ABLE to write somethin that makes sense because it's too early in the morning and you kiilled me. GUH. ♥ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2 archaeologist_d 2009-03-25 12:14 pm UTC (link)
	LOL on the magic mouth. It gives new meaning to kissing it and making it better. Well done! :DDDD (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2 sigmaflare_spaz 2009-03-25 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	>.> <.< i'm running out of things to say.. lets just say there isn't much blood flow to my brain at this moment drools magic mouth yes mouth fingers sex...finger mouth sex....drools (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: I CALL THIS ONE, "MAGIC MOUTH" PART 2 azdaja_dafema 2009-03-27 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	Asdpokjdfhjkpokpdfkgwwsoidfj!!! Yes. Just. He. Mouth. Kissing it better. guh. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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