#lovable idiots
A Boyfriend is Not Just for Christmas
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HappyChristmaseveryone! Have a modern AU Merthur fake dating fic!
Rating: Teen and Up
Words: 24,256
Summary: To make his mate, Will, stop teasing him, Merlin makes up a boyfriend. The only problem is, his mum now wants him to bring his boyfriend to the family Christmas party.
Merlin has to persaude his sort of friend, Arthur, to pretend to be that boyfriend for the party. Surely they can fake being in love for one day…
Featuring fluff, banter, arguments and confessions, with a splash of pining and obliviousness on the side. All topped up with Christmas spirit!
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Snippet:Chapter1- under the cut!
Merlin looked up from his plate of rum cake, poking his tongue out to catch the sticky crumbs off his bottom lip, when his mum walked into the room, still talking on the phone.
“… yes, see you on Saturday, Uncle Gaius,” she was saying. “And you’ll finally get to meet Merlin’s boyfriend… Yes, I know! Absolutely lovely…”
Merlin had frozen at the word boyfriend, his next forkful of cake halted halfway to his mouth, his jaw dropped open in surprise.
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A Boyfriend is Not Just for Christmas
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HappyChristmaseveryone! Have a modern AU Merthur fake dating fic!
Rating: Teen and Up
Words: 22,273
Summary: When Merlin’s mate, Will, was teasing him about being single, Merlin cracked and simply invented a boyfriend to make Will shut up. Things got a little out of hand when Merlin continued to embellish the lie until he had a fully-formed pretend serious boyfriend that his mum wanted him to bring to the family Christmas party…
It was only when his friend, Gwen, pointed out that the boyfriend Merlin had made up sounded a bit like Arthur that the idea of asking the prat to pretend to be his boyfriend at the party formed. Perhaps not the best idea ever - Merlin just hoped to be able to make it through the party without anyone guessing the truth.
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Snippet:Chapter1
Merlin looked up from his plate of rum cake, poking his tongue out to catch the sticky crumbs off his bottom lip, when his mum walked into the room, still talking on the phone.
“… yes, see you on Saturday, Uncle Gaius,” she was saying. “And you’ll finally get to meet Merlin’s boyfriend… Yes, I know! Absolutely lovely… Alright, bye.”
Merlin had frozen at the word boyfriend, his next forkful of cake halted halfway to his mouth, his jaw dropped open in surprise.
“Cup of tea, Merlin? Hello? Merlin?” Hunith snapped her fingers in front of his face to get his attention. “Tea?”
Merlin’s fork dropped back to his plate. “Oh, uh…” He shook his head quickly to focus on what his mum had just said. “Yes please.”
“I was going to offer you a piece of rum cake as well, but I see you’ve already found it.” Hunith gave him a fondly reproachful glare.
He grinned sheepishly. “It’s very good.”
“As long as there’s enough left for Dad when he gets home.”
“I’ve only had one slice!” Merlin protested.
Raising her eyebrows, his mum tipped the red sparkly cake tin towards him, showing how much of the cake was missing. “One slice?”
“Ok, so it was a big slice…” Merlin hedged, licking his lips again enthusiastically. “But it’s really yummy!”
“Thank you,” Hunith said with a soft chuckle, then tutted and cut herself a small slice. She ruffled Merlin’s hair, poured two cups of tea and came to sit at the table beside him.
Chewing slowly, Merlin swallowed his mouthful and took a gulp of tea, before looking up at his mother. “Mum…” – she hummed questioningly – “Why did you tell Gaius that he’d get to meet my boyfriend?”
A Boyfriend is Not Just for Christmas
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HappyChristmaseveryone! Have a modern AU Merthur fake dating fic!
Rating: Teen and Up
Words: 24,256
Summary: To make his mate, Will, stop teasing him, Merlin makes up a boyfriend. The only problem is, his mum now wants him to bring his boyfriend to the family Christmas party.
Merlin has to persaude his sort of friend, Arthur, to pretend to be that boyfriend for the party. Surely they can fake being in love for one day…
Featuring fluff, banter, arguments and confessions, with a splash of pining and obliviousness on the side. All topped up with Christmas spirit!
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Snippet:Chapter1- under the cut!
Merlin looked up from his plate of rum cake, poking his tongue out to catch the sticky crumbs off his bottom lip, when his mum walked into the room, still talking on the phone.
“… yes, see you on Saturday, Uncle Gaius,” she was saying. “And you’ll finally get to meet Merlin’s boyfriend… Yes, I know! Absolutely lovely…”
Merlin had frozen at the word boyfriend, his next forkful of cake halted halfway to his mouth, his jaw dropped open in surprise.
“Cup of tea, Merlin? Hello? Merlin?” Hunith snapped her fingers in front of his face to get his attention. “Tea?”
Merlin’s fork dropped back to his plate. “Oh, uh…” He shook his head quickly to focus on what his mum had just said. “Yes please.”
“I was going to offer you a piece of rum cake as well, but I see you’ve already found it.” Hunith gave him a fondly reproachful glare.
He grinned sheepishly. “It’s very good.”
“As long as there’s enough left for Dad when he gets home.”
“I’ve only had one slice!” Merlin protested.
Raising her eyebrows, his mum tipped the red sparkly cake tin towards him, showing how much of the cake was missing. “One slice?”
“Ok, so it was a big slice…” Merlin hedged, licking his lips again enthusiastically. “But it’s really yummy!”
“Thank you,” Hunith said with a soft chuckle, then tutted and cut herself a small slice. She ruffled Merlin’s hair, poured two cups of tea and came to sit at the table beside him.
Chewing slowly, Merlin swallowed his mouthful and took a gulp of tea, before looking up at his mother. “Mum…” – she hummed questioningly – “Why did you tell Gaius that he’d get to meet my boyfriend?”
“Because he will, won’t he? James is coming to the Christmas party, yes?”
Oh shit! ‘James’ was the boyfriend that Merlin had made up a few weeks ago when his mate, Will, had been teasing him about being single. Again. For about the hundredth time. His mum had overheard and had been so happy for him, that he hadn’t been able to bring himself to tell her that it wasn’t true. And then things had got a little out of hand when Merlin’s ridiculous imagination and inability to just shut up had meant he continued to embellish the lie until James was a fully formed serious boyfriend that his mum couldn’t wait to meet.
“Uh… I’m not sure if he can make it. I, um, think he might be busy.”
Hunith looked crestfallen. “Oh, that’s such a shame, Merlin. Everyone was so looking forward to meeting him.”
So am I, Merlin thought to himself, stuffing another large forkful of rum cake into his mouth to give himself a moment to think.
“Does James know how important it is to you that he’s here?” Hunith asked, patting Merlin’s hand.
“Um… no…?” Merlin shrugged, chewing his cake slowly as his brain whirred with panic, desperately trying to think up a solution.
“Oh, Merlin sweetheart.” Now his mum looked genuinely sad and Merlin felt his heart clench. “I just don’t want you to be lonely this year.” She shuffled her chair a little closer to his and stroked his hair softly. “I know Will will be bringing – oh, um, I’ve forgotten the name of this one… And Mordred is bringing Kara…”
And that was a bit of a kick in the teeth too; his younger cousin Mordred, barely even seventeen, already had a serious relationship before Merlin had managed to get one.
“I’ll, uh…” Merlin wracked his brain for a way out of the situation. And settled for a lame option to hopefully buy himself a little more thinking time. “I’ll talk to him.” With that he leapt up from his seat, scooped the last bit of cake into his mouth before hurrying to the dishwasher and shoving his plate and fork in. “I’d best go and get ready for work.”
As soon as he was out of his mum’s eye-line in the hallway, he turned and thunked his head against the wall, groaning quietly to himself. How did he always manage to get himself stuck in such situations?
This was chapter 1, please click HERE to read the rest!!
Written for @merlinchristmasbingoand@merlinbingo’s December flash bingo!
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