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mustbethursday3, whose enthusiasm reminded me that oh, hey, I should finish this up! Also: this is somehow absurdly sentimental and just plain absurd, to a degree the other chapters did not quite manage. If you have not recently brushed up on your Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, it will make no sense; if you have, it will make no sense anyway. This is what happens when, er, I had to read it in class like six months ago and haven't revisited it since. Hold onto your hats. If you're actually wearing a hat as you read this, I applaud you extra.

Also: many thanks to Mean Girls and Rent for contributing so invaluably to the femmeslashy silliness.

Part the First
Part the Second

( Part the Third! )

Title: La belle dame sans merci
Pairing: Uther/Morgana
Word Count: 759
Spoilers: Through series 2; series 3 speculation
Rating: PG
Summary: Morgana returns to Camelot.
Author's Note: For

vega_ofthe_lyre's prompt 'Victory, Uther/Morgana.' Ah, ship, so messed up! I love you.

( 'I have known no greater victory,' Uther says to her on the night of her return, 'than getting you back. Not one.' )

Title: For the flame, for home again
Pairing: Arthur/Morgana
Word Count: 2,722
Rating: PG
Summary: Arthur pays Morgana a late night visit. (Set after 2x04 – Lancelot and Guinevere.)
Author's Note: I totally had this idea months ago -- maybe as long ago as right after this episode aired? -- and decided today, Why not bring it into the world! And I am quasi-cheating and saying that this counts as a response to

ladysophiekitty's prompt 'Arthur/Morgana, royalty.' Ye gods, I am devious.

( When there is a knock on her chamber door Morgana opens it and lets her visitor in, even though it is late and she ought to be sleeping. )

Title: It won't be long until you break
Character(s): Morgana; Morgause, Arthur, Uther, Gwen, Merlin
Word Count: 1,100
Spoilers: All of series 2; series 3 speculation
Summary: For a long time, every breath seems a wonder.
Author's Note: For

thisissirius's prompt on the alphabet fic meme, Forgiveness, Merlin/Morgana. Poor Morgana. I need to go listen to some Bat for Lashes now.

( It's driving me evil, evil. )

Title: Full of ghosts
Pairing: Morgana/Arthur; Morgana/Merlin; Morgana/Uther; Morgana/Gwen; Morgana/Morgause
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,280
Spoilers: through 2x13
Summary: I cannot say what loves have come and gone. Morgana dreams of what she's lost. (Or, alternately: Morgana makes out with everybody.)
Author's Note: This was an idea inspired by Katie McGrath's legendary rant about how Gwen gets to snog all the dudes and Morgana gets zilch. Oh, Katie, that's why there's fanfiction! Thank you to everyone who told me that I should write this rather than idly daydreaming about writing this, and thank you to SyFy for rerunning The Witch's Quickening tonight and reminding me just how much Morgana's season two predicament frustrates the hell out of me (and making me ponder whether I hate this or like it).

This is sort of a weird one to make sense of; I think the majority of it is a dream sequence of sorts, but of course, Morgana's dreams have that pesky knack of being real. I played with that here, incorporating past and present and future and what might have been all rolled together. For the record (the very special record of at least trying to make sense a little bit), I think the first, second to last, and last scenes are actually meant to exist in the waking world.

( What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / I have forgotten ... )

Current Mood: weird

Title: A Green Knight In Prince Arthur's Court, Or: Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks At Them
Characters: Morgana, Gwen, Arthur, & Merlin; minor appearances by the rest of the Camelot crew; featuring, er, the Green Knight
Word Count: 2,783
Rating: PG
Chapter: 2
Spoilers: general season 2
Summary: In the thrilling continuation of our tale, Morgana, Gwen, Arthur, and Merlin set off on an epic journey to find the Green Knight, and mostly just find annoyance. Featuring ogres, cloak thievery, and a whole lot of singing.
Author's Note: Clearly this thing is an epic, because it ain't done yet, folks! Who saw that coming?? Most of this section was inspired by one of my very favourite sections of good ol' Sir G and the GK (is my abbreviation catchy or what? Answer, YES.)--

He had death-struggles with dragons, did battle with wolves,
warred with wild men who dwelt among the crags;
Battled with bulls and bears and boars at other times,
And ogres that panted after him on the high fells.

It really made me sad that adventures that bitchin' are confined to only four lines. Clearly, this chapter is my attempt to Do Something About That.

( There’s nothing quite like feigning excitement over decapitation on a days-long, directionless wintertime journey with a couple of morons. )

Current Mood: silly

Title: A Green Knight In Prince Arthur’s Court, Or: Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks At Them
Characters: Morgana, Gwen, Arthur, & Merlin; minor appearances by the rest of the Camelot crew; featuring, er, the Green Knight
Word Count: 3,127
Rating: PG
Chapter: 1
Spoilers: general season 2
Summary: In which the Green Knight proposes a beheading game, all the men in Camelot go bonkers, and it is, at long last, Gwen and Morgana’s turn to save the day.
Author's Note: ... hahaha, I don't know. I don't know! I haven't written in ages, and then all of a sudden, completely randomly, in the middle of doing Virginia Woolf homework, I just started, and ... there was this? Clearly, reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for Brit Lit I touched me very deeply. But just because Sir G isn't around yet -- well, why should that deprive us of zany Green Knight adventures? Also: I'm pretty sure this is cracky, cracky, crack fic, but it's hard to tell with Merlin. You guys, Uther had sex with a troll.

Also: I kind of feel like the Green Knight and his shenanigans are like the medieval equivalent of Jackass. The menfolk are powerless to withstand him!

( The knight who interrupts the holiday feast is very big and very green. )

Current Mood: silly

Title: Warm in my heart
Pairing: Uther/Morgana
Word Count: 1,802
Spoilers: Small ones for season two thus far
Rating: G
Summary: She tells herself she does not know how deep his love runs; that it must be shallower than it seems. Too shallow to withstand the truth of her.
Author's Note: When I got up this morning, it was to find that

firthgal made A REALLY REALLY AWESOME UTHER/MORGANA VID, which everybody should watch if they're fond of things like, I don't know, beauty, and awesomeness. All you haters of beauty and awesome should probably best step back, however. Anyway! That kinda got my brain into the appropriate mindset, and I also had the 'Uther/Morgana - winter' prompt (courtesy of

firthgal!) to write, and, well, check it out! I actually wrote something!

And, er, spent my prime homework time frolicking in Camelot, but whatevz.

Also, whatever, they never actually show the seasons change on this show (angst! I want zany Merlin Christmas adventures! With the Green Knight!), so I'm just setting this after 2x04 because that's the last episode that happened. INSERT WINTER HERE.

For some reason writing this made me think about "Winter" by Tori Amos A LOT. Ergo title. And epigraph. It's a theme! Roll with it.

( Winter settles gently over Camelot. )

Current Mood: accomplished

Title: Your Mouth Is Lovely (Not That I'm Looking)
Pairing: Arthur/Morgana
Word Count: 987
Summary: One of the king's knights has got it bad for Morgana, and Arthur thinks it's hilarious. At first. (For

lalumena's prompt, 'Morgana/Arthur; love letter')
Author's Note: Thisssss was way too much fun.

Also, the notion of tiny!Morgana inflicting physical harm upon tiny!Arthur was put into my brain by the wonderful works of

doylefan22, and has become irresistibly canon to me. :D

( One of his father’s knights has fallen madly in love with Morgana. )

Current Mood: cheerful

Prompt: Uther, cathedral (from

shizuka_blooms)
Word Count: 333
Author's Note: Seriously, who knows what is going on with this dude? Oh, ominous backstory filled with woe!!!! I tried?

( He does not doubt, does not allow himself to doubt, but certainty comes easiest within these walls. )