Springes to Catch Woodcocks

Fanfiction
Title:	Springes to Catch Woodcocks
Author(s):	myashke
Date(s):	03 February 2011 - in progress
Length:	82,286 words (up to chapter 7)
Genre:	slash, WIP
Fandom:	Merlin
External Links:	Springes to Catch Woodcocks (7/?) (AO3)
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Springes to Catch Woodcocks is a Merlin/Arthur WIP by myashke.

Summary: When Arthur pushes Merlin away to protect him, what lengths will Merlin go to to remain in his life? Part 1: When Merlin is injured while saving Arthur on a hunt, Arthur and the knights must save his life in return.

Recs and Reviews

• "Arthur/Merlin plus heaping helpings of Gwaine and Lancelot and the other knights, 74,000 glorious words of excellently written hurt/comfort and still unfinished. I'm so happy this story exists in the world. Merlin falls through the ice saving Arthur and then hurt/comfort ensues - basically, for the first 20,000 words of this thing (and maybe more than that), Merlin is freezing to death and that's an excuse for him to be cuddled by various mostly naked knights (various = Gwaine, Lancelot and Arthur) who care greatly for him. It's way better than I can possibly describe to you. Seriously. And then there are Revelations and Developments, and Arthur freaks out and makes a noble choice (because he's Arthur) (and you know that never goes well) and the word 'virtue' (as in the preserving of) might have been used in a completely sincere way, and Merlin has a moment or ten where I'm not sure he is fully in manly character, but I had completely had ceased to care about such (tearful) things at that point because of my undying love for this story."