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penndragon27.livejournal.com<b>Title: The Very Essence of Romance is Uncertainty</b>
<b>Recipient:</b><lj user="dhampir">
<b>Author: </b> <lj user="Penndragon27">
<b>Rating: T</b>
<b>Pairing/s: Merlin/Arthur</b>
<b>Summary: A fic about books, Christmas parties, annoying coworkers, and terrible tea </b>
<b>Warnings: N/A</b>
<b>Word Count: 4,901</b>
<b>Author's Notes: I hope you enjoy!</b>
<b>Disclaimer:</b>Merlin is owned by the BBC and Shine. No copyright infringement is intended and no profit is being made. Don't send us to the dungeons.
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This was not how Arthur expected to come out.
He had been thinking about it ever since he first realized he was gay. He remembered the day of cold realization, when his girlfriend, Sophia, had kissed him and suggested they move things to the bedroom. He had been nervous, but he believed that to be normal.
Then, they were in bed together, clothes shedding quickly. It was more than nerves, he felt sick. He had immediately jumped up and run from the room.
After some time, he learned that he did not like Sophia that way. Or girls. And then he spent the next few years living in fear over how he would tell his father. He tested the waters by telling Morgana, but she had little reaction more than, “No shit”.
All that planning was for nothing though, because Arthur had just revealed his deep dark secret in front of the entire office, including his father.
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