Arthur Pendragon Be Like: "there's Something About You Merlin, I Can't Quite Put My Finger On It" Mf

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so eddie 👨🏽‍🚒 pays 💵 the tab 🧾 we both 👨🏼‍🤝‍👨🏽 run 🏃💨 out (🏳️‍🌈🤨) to the parking lot 🅿️🚘 and there’s a boot 🔒 on my front tire 🛞 [damn. that sucks.] yeah so— so obviously 🙄 at this point ☝️ i’m like 🗣️ “we’re not 🙅 gonna make ⏱️ the game 🏀” and eddie 👨🏽 goes 🗣️ “where ❓ is your spare 🛞” and i kid 🤭 you not 🚫 five 🖐️minutes ⏰ later the spare is on ✅ we’re driving 🚗 down the road 🛣️ and the old tire 🛞 is sitting on the side of the curb boot 🔒 still on [isn’t that illegal?] what ⁉️ no 🤨 no it’s not 🙅 illegal 🚨 eddie 🤠 would never 🚫 do something illegal 🚔 eddie 🪖 has a silver star 🎖️ [wasn’t he in some kind of underground fight club?] 🙄 that was ages 🗓️ ago and he had a ton of stuff going on 🥺

The rest of B-Shift hearing about Ravi committing domestic terrorism for the sake of Chimney even after Bobby offered to take the fall and just thinking, “Oh God, they finally got him. They roped Ravi into their sick little co-dependent work family. We’re never getting him back.”

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theyre going to be sitting in eddies bucks kitchen. and eddies going to say well you really set up shop in here huh :) and bucks going to say haha i barely did anything really. all quiet and smiley like he's got a little secret. and eddie says well it was kind of yours before it was...yours, anyway. hm. buck says yes yeah they laugh about it then buck says ok? you sure you dont want something to drink? ive got this fancy juice from the fresh market, it's got a bunch of berries and sugarcane in it. sugarcane has a bunch of antioxidants in it or something. idk. i watched them make it on the juicer and it looked badass. eddies got his pinky cheek in his hand like mmhm :) buck says or just some water? eddie goes noooo :) i'll get some juice please :) and buck's going to pour it like wine at a restaurant and say your drink, sir. and eddies going to drink his juice

Christopher: watches his dad make a new friend. 👍Hangs out with new friend decides he's kinda cool.😎 Gets left with dad's gf all the time while Dad is off with new friend.😐 Hangs out with Buck while Dad is with new friend. 🙂Watches Buck spiral about dad's new friend. 🙃Dad comes home injured after hanging out with Buck and new friend.😦 Buck is involved in the injury somehow? 😕And is now not visiting. 😠Dad asks gf to move in. 🫨

Christopher: I cannot deal with this I'm fleeing the state.

Every king eventually brings out their own money. The Pendragon crest is naturally on one side, but the King's face normally goes on the other.

And Arthur does that, or intends to. But when he talks to the guy who is meant to get his profile, Arthur can't help but ask what kind of other symbols he could use. At first, he asks if he could put other people on it, then he figures that it would probably be too controversial if he put a face on the coin that isn't his own.

Then he asks if it could be a bird, like his mother's sigil. Originally, he wants to honor her, but then Merlin walks in to gather his clothes and it suddenly strikes him that Merlin has done so much for him, and never gotten any reward.

And Arthur doesn't mean his servant work, Merlin is rubbish at that. But what about his council? His advice? The fact that Merlin always speaks his mind, yet always has Arthur's and Camelot's best interest at heart. The fact that Merlin always goes out of his way to fight alongside Arthur, despite not being a knight.

In an emotional outburst, (after Merlin left again) Arthur orders the coin guy to make the other side of his coin a Merlin.

Right after that, he realizes what he's done and drowns his embarrassment in wine.

A couple weeks later, the money is created and put out into the kingdom. And everyone immediately connects the dots. The symbol is only on the golden one.

The day Merlin finds out is a normal day at first. Only that everyone is staring holes into his head and whispers about him. Merlin has been send to get Arthur's new shirts and hands the tailor a golden coin. He hands it to him, then stops and stares at the crest.

....

Merlin: Arthur???? What the fuck is this?

Arthur: *sweats* your salary?

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