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Title: Arcane Asylum
Fandom: Merlin BBC
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Warnings for this part: smut!
Summary: Modern AU. For the last twenty two years Uther Pendragon had been waging war on magic. Now his son Arthur has been framed for a magical crime and sent to the prison for magic users. Arthur is instantly targeted by the inmates, but mysterious top dog Merlin takes him under his wing. They form a bond, and Merlin decides to help Arthur clear his name.
Originally written for this prompt at kinkme_merlin
Many thanks to devikun and ghost_guessed for betaing!
Word count: 6K for this part.

Many, many huge flaily thanks to everyone who's been reading this as a WiP! Your comments and support were so precious to me. You guys are awesome <3


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Asylum 16: Isle of the Blessed


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Title: Arcane Asylum
Fandom: Merlin BBC
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin and a bunch of less true pairings mentioned in the flashbacks.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings for this part: smut!
Summary: Modern AU. For the last twenty two years Uther Pendragon had been waging war on magic. Now his son Arthur has been framed for a magical crime and sent to the prison for magic users. Arthur is instantly targeted by the inmates, but mysterious top dog Merlin takes him under his wing. They form a bond, and Merlin decides to help Arthur clear his name.
Originally written for this prompt at kinkme_merlin
Many thanks to devikun and ghost_guessed for betaing!
Word count: 9K for this part.

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Asylum 14: Lady of the Lakes

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Title: Arcane Asylum
Fandom: Merlin BBC
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin and a bunch of less true pairings mentioned in the flashbacks.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings for this part: smut, violence, minor character death.
Summary: Modern AU. For the last twenty two years Uther Pendragon had been waging war on magic. When his son Arthur is framed for a magical crime he's sent to the prison for magic users. He's instantly targeted by the inmates, but mysterious top dog Merlin takes him under his wing. They form a bond, and Merlin decides to help Arthur clear his name.
Originally written for this prompt at kinkme_merlin
Many thanks to devikun and ghost_guessed for betaing!
Word count: 10K for this part.

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Part 12: Cathedrals

( Worst mode of transport ever )

Title: Arcane Asylum
Fandom: Merlin BBC
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin and a bunch of less true pairings mentioned in the flashbacks.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings for this part: violence, blood, references to past non-con, minor characters' deaths, defacing of historical monument D:
Summary: Modern AU. For the last twenty two years Uther Pendragon had been waging war on magic. When his son Arthur is framed for a magical crime he's sent to the prison for magic users. He's instantly targeted by the inmates, but mysterious top dog Merlin takes him under his wing. They form a bond, and adventure begins.
Originally written for this prompt at kinkme_merlin
Many thanks to devikun and ghost_guessed for betaing!
Word count: 7K for this part.

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Part 10: Blood

( Arthur Pendragon had never had that much exposure to housework )

Title: Arcane Asylum
Fandom: Merlin BBC
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin and a bunch of less true pairings mentioned in the flashbacks.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings for this part: sexy tiems! :D
Summary: Modern AU. Originally written for this prompt at kinkme_merlin
Many thanks to devikun and ghost_guessed for betaing!
Word count: 9K for this part.

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Part 8: Boundary

( Merlin slept till well past noon. )

Title: Arcane Asylum
Fandom: Merlin BBC
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin and a bunch of less true pairings mentioned in the flashbacks.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings for this part: deaths of minor characters, violence, VERY WRONG PAIRING IDEK YOU GUYS. Merlin is young and naive, okay?
Summary: Modern AU. Originally written for this prompt at kinkme_merlin
Betaed by devikun
Word count: 8K for this part.

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Part 6: Fugue-3

( The lovely town had always been lovely )

Title: Arcane Asylum
Fandom: Merlin BBC
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin and a bunch of less true pairings mentioned in the flashbacks.
Rating: NC-17 overall, PG-13 for this part.
Warnings for this part: none.
Summary: Modern AU. Originally written for this prompt at kinkme_merlin
Betaed by devikun
Notes: Like some sort of demented Dickensian character, I now unexpectedly launch into a massive Merlin-centric flashback. Back to Arthur early next week, promise!
Word count: 7K for this part.

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Part 4: Fugue-1

( He was Merlin, the greatest sorcerer who had ever lived. )

Title: Arcane Asylum
Fandom: Merlin BBC
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin and a bunch of less true pairings mentioned in the flashbacks.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings for this part: references to violence and non-con.
Summary: Modern AU. Originally written for this prompt at kinkme_merlin
Betaed by devikun
Word count: 9K for this part.

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Part 3: Two bedroom place.

( Arthur spent most of the day in Merlin's cell, trying to keep busy. )

So, here is my last year's NaNo project, and it's still a WiP. But I'm on chapter 13 right now, and my BigBang fic is with my lovely beta, so hopefully this won't take another whole year. Yes, this particular chapter was written a year ago, I'm not even kidding. I'm about to break 100K on this story.

Title: Arcane Asylum
Fandom: Merlin BBC
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin and a bunch of less true pairings mentioned in the flashbacks.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: non-con, violence, deaths of minor characters.
Summary: Originally written for this prompt at kinkme_merlin: Arthur/Merlin, modern prison AU. Uther is the notorious warden of a prison for magic users. When Nimeuh frames Arthur for a magical crime, he's sent down for it. Being pretty, blonde and the hated warden's son makes him a prime target and everyone wants to make him their prison bitch. Luckily he catches the eye of mysterious topdog!Merlin who takes him under his wing... Bonus points for everyone being terrified of Merlin and Arthur being all indignant about needing "protection". (This chapter is as much as was previously posted there.)
Many thanks to fearless devikun for betaing this huge monster.
Word count: 6K for this part.



Part 1: The Frame Job

( Up to the very last moment he managed to stay calm. )