May 10
He Keeps You Safe by hagstoned Ship: No ships/gen Main Characters: Merlin, Lancelot Rating: General audiences Warnings: Choose not to use archive warnings Major tags: Lancelot & Merlin Friendship, Character Study, Canonical Character Death Summary: ‘Lancelot speaks to him as if they are friends, but Merlin holds himself at a remove. He doesn't understand the rules of this relationship, because this is what he knows to be true: people who know his secret will kill him; people who don't know his secret can be his friends; and friends who know his secret end up dead. Merlin looks at the man across the campfire and understands that in the great game of life, with all its checks and balances, one of them will die from this.’