FUCK YEAH BALLOON PIKACHU

shana-rosee:

Okay so I just had a THOUGHT. In fics there are often scenes where Merlin steals bites of Arthur’s food (and I think there is a scene in the show where Arthur comments that Merlin does it besides the Freya episode) but what if the reason Merlin does it isn’t because he feels like it or is fucking with Arthur but actually because he’s checking to make sure no one’s poisoned Arthur’s food.

Like what if sometimes in S1 Merlin catches or suspects someone bribing the royal food taster to poison Arthur’s food after he taste it.

Everyone knows Merlin is kind of a disaster/overworked and sometimes is late to pickup Arthur’s food. The taster uses this to his advantage and after everyone sees him taste the food he “watches the food” while waiting for Merlin to come pick it up and poisons it while the cooks are busy/not paying attention.

Merlin unsure when and which food the taster is poisoning just starts taking bits of all of Arthur’s food until a few days after he starts tasting Arthur’s food he collapses because YUP that was poison all right!

Gaius thankfully gives him the antidote and because this is fucking BBC Merlin, they tells Arthur that Merlin had a simple cold. Arthur complains that Merlin should have told him earlier but let’s him rest up, saying he expects Merlin back to work tomorrow.

Merlin gets rid of the taster (tells him he knows what he did and gets him to leave Camelot) & the briber but after that incident becomes paranoid about the royal tasters so keeps tasting all of Arthur’s food.

As time goes on though he stops trying to hide the fact that he’s doing it. Arthur just rolls his eyes at Merlin and kind of goes ‘ugh whatever’ because he’s Merlin.

Years go by and then one day Arthur finds some delicious treat in his room and smirks thinking he finally beat Merlin to the food and takes a bite then promptly collapses (idk how fast poison works y’all).

Arthur wakes up in his bed with a furious Merlin sitting at his side who after calling for someone to get Gaius and checking to make sure Arthur is okay starts yelling at him for eating the food before Merlin’s check it. And this is how Arthur finds out, that all these years Merlin wasn’t being a terrible servant and just Merlin, but has been putting his life on the line for him every fucking day.

Arthur knows that Merlin is a worrier, after all Merlin was always trying to talk him out of tournaments and quests that had any potential danger in them but he hadn’t realized Merlin would go this far. He is immediately horrified and furious.

He yells at Merlin that that isn’t his job and Merlin ends up telling him about the time he caught one the royal tasters getting bribed starting his whole tasting career.

Arthur of course is furious that Merlin didn’t tell him back then and Merlin just shrugged and said he didn’t think anyone would believe him back then.

This leads to Arthur feeling guilty for thinking that Merlin was just being a terrible servant and wonders what else has Merlin been doing silently in service to him that he hasn’t noticed?

Sunday, 6 June 2021 ⟲
#merthur #merlin
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