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[Merlin had wanted to stay with Freya tonight, to help make sure she was okay through her transformation. But she'd insisted on him going back to his dorm room and getting some sleep. Reluctantly, Merlin had complied, though he still felt like he should be there with her.

Sleep had taken a while to come. And unfortunately for Merlin, it wasn't going to be lasting for long.]

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[Because of this guy! It took some time to twig, but eventually the Doctor worked out why poor Merlin was getting so stressed out during their meeting in the library, double-checked his suspicions with the student records, and now here he is! A bubbly ball of excitement, at 3am!]

You're Merlin!

[Privacy. What is that? Also, what is sleep?]

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[Merlin jerked awake, staring at the man in his bedroom.]

What?!

[...Oh no. It wasn't just any man. It was the one from the library, the one who knew all of these legends about Arthur and Camelot and him.

Merlin's first response was to panic. His second response was to lie.]

No I'm not!

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Oh, you are, you are definitely Merlin, and I checked the school records and everything. It's you and it's not me!

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No, I'm...a different Merlin. Definitely not the one that you're thinking of. Really, there's nothing legendary about me at all.

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Then why were you getting so worked up over it? Nothing wrong with being a famous wizard!

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Because magic's illegal! And if Arthur found out... [Merlin snaps his mouth shut. He didn't quite mean to blurt it out like that]

...And it doesn't matter anyway, because I'm not a wizard. [Maybe if he insists on it enough, the man will believe him]

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Nope, not plausible enough! All your denial is too suspiciously specific!

Although... usually Merlin's pretty old before he meets Arthur. Or he ages backwards. Nobody can really get the facts straight, it was too long ago. I'll have to investigate when I get my TARDIS back. If you're not from another reality, because, well, I can't really do parallel universes anymore.

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What? How can anyone age backwards?! [That is how Merlin is remembered through history? As someone who ages backwards?!]

You know I think these legends of yours are just plain ridiculous.

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Well, I did say the stories have had centuries upon centuries to mutate.

And actually, I think the aging backwards was just one specific person's take on it that a few other people just adopted, around about the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries.

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Well it doesn't matter what century it's from! It's all mad!

[And Merlin just doesn't want to admit to his magic. Not to another person, someone else who he doesn't know if they'll keep his secret or expose it]

abluh I'm alive really

[timetours]

Nothing wrong with being mad. More fun that way!

By the way, have you considered growing a beard? If you start now you can probably get it to floor length by the time you're thirty.

Re: abluh I'm alive really

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Fun? You think this is fun? Magic is illegal, and even if Arthur wouldn't have me executed for being magic, he still hates it. He'll hate me, if he hears that I have magic. And now it turns out that there are legends where everyone knows what I am, except they also think that I age backwards and helped uther and who's knows what other mad stories. And you think this is fun>?!