Another AU modern merthur where Arthur owns and lives in the Camelot castle and Merlin is a medieval history student who constantly visits the castle’s parts open for tourists.
Sometimes Arthur mingles with the tourists incognito and comes across Merlin who tells the other tourists about the history. Arthur is very impressed with this guy and shadows him for some time. Merlin notices and starts to talk with him about the castle without knowing that Arthur owns it.
Arthur is rather smitten and offers him tours of the closed for public part of the castle. Merlin immediately said yes, being the history nerd he is.
First Merlin thinks Arthur is maybe in charge of the tourist program and is then very flustered when he learns that Arthur owns everything. Arthur offers him to work there as a tour guide which Merlin agrees to.
They become friends and eventually confess to have feelings for the other.
They date for a year until Arthur gifts Merlin a little present with his mother’s sigil in it.
Merlin immediately goes into analytic mode telling about the significance of sigils and with a funny comment at the end that giving Merlin his mother’s sigil is like a proposal.
Arthur had been very silent during Merlin’s lecture and said that ‘that was the idea’.
Merlin is too stunned to speak. But eventually just kisses Arthur as an answer.
Yes, of course he will marry Arthur.
