*M*And then Arthur turned, and looked directly at the camera for the first time, with his chin shoved forward pugnaciously and a reckless gleam in his eyes. And sometimes there are no honourable options, and one must choose the least dishonourable.' Sometimes one does not have the luxury of being the person one would like to be. 'Have you ever hurt someone using magic, sir? On purpose, I mean? Have you ever – have you killed anyone?' Merlin couldn't quite believe he wasĪsking such a thing – but he desperately wanted to know that he wasn't alone in this.

This is the terrible lesson which we never learn from history: hurting other people is never hard, even though it should be.' With magic or without, it is always dreadfully, dreadfully easy to do something so big. 'It shouldn't be so easy to do something so – big. 'On the whole, I think most people would consider that to be a good thing,' said Gaius. 'I never thought I could do something like that. I absolutely adore coming out stories, especially the coming out of a public figure that basically lives off their role as role model, the whole: do they owe their people the truth? Do they owe it to themselves? Angsty and delicious.

In DRP Merlin is a medicine student finishing up his practices, in TSP they (and more than half the cast) are at universtiy together, where they are roomates. If you're into Merlin and have read 'Drastically Redefining Protocol' this is a story on the same line, modern AU where Arthur is the Prince of Wales and Merlin has magic and they somehow meet and fall in love, which causes quite a stirr with the public. (Listened to podfic once again, and it's one of those case where the author herself reading it's a good thing, FayJay is a wonderful writer and a wonderful reader) 'The Student Prince' by FayJay (Pandarus)

The student prince by fayjay