#flame keepers

[mrs-k-cottage-witch]

Prayer for a Pet to Brighid

I need a prayer for my pet cat Shadow, who has an obstruction in his bladder and woke us up crying his morning at 6am.

Does anyone know any ready-made prayers for protection and healing for domestic animals to Brighid? This is a good day for a prayer and I really need it!

I’ll work on writing on my own but I also have a headache and I feel blocked creatively/spiritualy because I am so worried.

Thank you!

[deepdarkwaters]

Toast (Flame Keepers epilogue)

"Not to be melodramatic about it," Harry says casually after a while, "but if you don't tell me what's happening off the clock between you and Lancelot I think I might die."

Merlin pauses his typing for a moment and twists around to give Harry an unimpressed look to hide how heavily his heart is suddenly thumping. "I hope you're not trying to start filthy rumours."

"Perish the thought," Harry says mildly, not even having the grace to look ashamed of his tendency to indulge in exactly that. "I saw her leave for the Troma mission dressed up to the nines and you've got a lipstick kiss on your big bald head that looks suspiciously close to the shade she was wearing, that's all. Welcome to the midlife crisis, lover young enough to be your child, dirty old man club. We should make t-shirts."

Here on Ao3

Full completed Flame Keepers series here!

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I dreamed of your hands playing a silent Chopin on my goosebumped skin and woke humming melodies that fluttered against your pulse .

I sneaked a Harry/Merlin Flame Keepers poem into the collection for my final uni exam and got a distinction 😂 Merlin’s a pianist in this:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/5665972/chapters/13051270

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when did merlin decide to shave off the rest of his hair/how did harry react to merlin being bald when he first saw it?

Sixth form is better, so so much better, starting with Julian turning up in the common room on the first day with a shaved head and a coolly defiant look in his eye. Conversations falter and turn into surprised whispers, while Harry, sitting sideways in the window seat with a newspaper, just stares and stares for several seconds longer than is polite – because over the summer, Julian appears to have indulged in some kind of pact with the devil and is now made of nothing but cheekbones and height.

“What,” Harry says. He almost brains one of the new boys with his foot when he swings round at roughly the speed of light to bound across the room and grab Julian by the shoulders, turning him round in a circle ninety degrees at a time to inspect him. “Good fucking lord. Explain yourself. How dare you?”

“Cut my hair?” Julian asks as he comes back around to face Harry. There’s laughter in his voice and something warm and very slightly smug in his eyes, like he bloody knows he looks good and wants everybody else to know it too – which, frankly, has always been Harry’s thing, and he’s not sure he enjoys competition of such a high standard now it’s here staring him in the face. Staring down at his face, even worse.

“Grow taller than me.”

“Believe it or not, I didn’t have a lot of say in the matter.”

“Bloody hell.” He feels strangely off-balance, having to tilt his head back to look at Julian’s face when he’s so used to being the taller one, but he’s reluctant to take a step away because – oh, he realises with a hot jolt of dismay, oh shit.

:D http://archiveofourown.org/works/5665972/

Not sure about other versions of him… maybe he did it to balance the ever-expanding floof of Harry’s hair in the 80s.

[deepdarkwaters]

Flame Keepers -> Русский

If anyone prefers reading in Russian, Flame Keepers has been translated here!

[deepdarkwaters]

Harry/Merlin school fic

He does go out eventually, of course, several times, although he grouses the whole way through each one as if he's being frogmarched to his execution instead of going for a nice walk in what Julian reminds him severely is the most beautiful place on earth.

"It's not even raining. Your hair's safe."

"It's not raining yet," Harry says ominously, peering at the dark clouds gathering behind some mountains at the horizon like they might suddenly decide to rush over and piss on him as a prank. Really he doesn't mind very much at all; it's just that complaining about any kind of exercise has become almost a personality trait these days, a habit like fingernail-chewing. He can count on half the boys at school looking over at him in barely-contained eagerness during every P.E. class now because they know he'll have some kind of withering comment to make about the kind of men who deliberately choose a career teaching teenage boys to throw beanbags at a target drawn in chalk on a pavement. For all he claims not to give a single shit about what people think of him, especially the smug little turds at school, he actually cares acutely: not what they think of him, but that they do think of him, and do it often. Hideous, really, but addictions are tricky, even the fucking stupid ones, and Harry Hart is the egotist equivalent of a sixty a day smoker.

"You ought to be wearing a kilt," he says suddenly, and Julian turns to look down at him from the rocks he's climbing, his mouth lifting at one side with slightly baffled amusement.

"Why?"

"So I could put my hand up it."

"You've perked up a bit."

"Yes, because I accidentally thought about you in a kilt and how I'd like to put my hand up it."

Final chapter on Ao3 here!

Or read from the beginning here.

One tiny epilogue to come probably tomorrow night and then the Flame Keepers series is F I N I S H E D. This is the first thing I ever wrote for KM fandom (I meant to write quick PWP filth to get it out of my system and it accidentally turned into a 66K saga plus everything else I wrote after it, oops) and I’m still stupidly fond of the whole ridiculous thing - hope you get a kick out of it if you’ve not seen it yet :D There’s a sword fight!

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@elrhiarhodan tagged me!

Rules: copy/paste your last sentence, then tag as many people as there are words in it. Or something. (Not tagging anyone because I'm on holiday and haven't been keeping up with things so no idea who's already done it!)

"Was there really any need to be that fucking mysterious?" Harry says eventually, annoyed with himself for being so enthralled by the romance and drama of it all.

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In your series do Eggsy and Roxy ever find out Harry and Merlin were together?

They will eventually :D but I haven’t got that far yet! In progress: need to finish the last chapter of Harry/Merlin at school (I’m like a kid with Barbies trying to mash them together and make them kiss but they’re being uncooperative), another Roxy/Merlin (I wanna write them a fight scene where the two of them take down a gang of attackers together like flawless clockwork because SWOON), then maybe it’ll happen after that? I sort of want it to open and close with Harry/Merlin and Harry&Merlin stories like bookends, but still figuring out the best way to make it work.