May 22, 2019
It's In Our Nature To Complicate by DarkWolfMoon / @salemsandstorm
Arthur Drake works for the Magical Investigation Bureau, tracking down and securing dangerous magical artifacts. At least, when he has a partner he does. After being forced to take a vacation for lack of work, he stumbles across a smuggling ring. Alone and unable to call for backup, Arthur is rescued by the strangest mage he has ever met. He isn't entirely sure where Merlin came from, but he's determined to find out. The only thing he knows for sure is that Merlin is making him second-guess everything he thought he ever knew about magic.
#merthur#merlin fanart#merlinedit#merlin reverse#salemsandstorm#fanfics#modernAU#.mstuff#.mmanip#MIB!AU#recs#yeah so according to reverse rules a fic needs to have a min wordcount of 3k#and Deborah here was like 'hold my beer'#and 50k later here we are!#plzzzzzzzz y'all head over to ao3 to start reading tonight#this fic has everything: a+ world building，merthur slow burn#bamf!merlin#arthur's mum is awesome and alive!!!#and dragons!!!#(and no none of them get harmed here. we ove our dragons and appriecate them being cryptic and amused by human antics)#in short: this fic is awesome. go read!
