Counterpoint
Author: PlaneJane
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 56,481
Details: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon, Alternate Universe - Dystopia, Alternate Universe - Modern With Magic, Arranged Marriage, Compatibility Machines, Magic, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, First Time, Modern With Magic, Happy Ending, Angst With A Happy Ending.
Summary: Twenty years after The Great Purge and the continuing effects of a High Priestess’s curse, Albion is a nation on the brink of collapse. Not even High Chancellor Uther Pendragon’s Compatibility Regime can curb the plummeting population. To add to his troubles, his wayward son, Arthur, makes no disguise of his unwillingness to wed. With good reason. Arthur is secretly leading the Movement, a covert organization plotting to overthrow the government and return magic to Albion. Not to mention, it’s been foreseen that Arthur’s future, his destiny, is an indomitable union with a warlock—not marriage to the farm-boy matched to him by Uther’s Compatibility Machines.