Fic: It Burns Him

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Author: jelazakazone
Title:It Burns Him
Rating:G
Character/s: Merlin
Summary: Merlin must use his magic.
Word Count: 100
Prompt: 48: His
Author's Notes: initially written for 47: Fire, but very fitting here too. Unbeta’d. This is from The Witchfinder.  The spell means, "with the heavens, seize the horse" (translation courtesy of archaeologist_d).



The magic courses through his body, burning in his veins like fire ravaging a dry field. It sears him — he thinks he can hold it in, but the pain builds and builds. He must loose it, let it fly.

Merlin thinks no one is watching and he can no longer hold back, he is in agony. He twitches his fingers and whispers, “Hors, beride þá heofonum.” He smiles with pleasure. It feels too good to let his magic out. He wants to savor the moment and immerse himself in it, but he is interrupted.

“Did you see the smoke?”

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

I really like the heart hitching feeling here, the magic filling Merlin until he can't help but free it.

[kleinefee92.livejournal.com]

Poor Merlin - I can't even imagine having to be so guarded about such an integral part of myself. No wonder he acts a bit impulsive sometimes.

Nicely done, bb.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad that came out. I really have a sense that magic could be a compulsion for Merlin.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad it all came out in so few words. <3

[47eleven.livejournal.com]

This is fabulous. Such powerful imagery.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

\o/ Yay! Thanks. So glad it worked for you:D

[millionstar.livejournal.com]

Poor thing. Allowed a fleeting moment of natural expression... and then that last line of dialogue showed just how fleeting it was. Wonderful!

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

:( Poor Merlin indeed. Thanks, bb. I'm glad you enjoyed this.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Love that it hurts him so much not to let it loose that he has to just do it. Great tie in with canon!

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Thank so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I assume your recognized the spell, yes?

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Of course!

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

:) I wonder if I should make a note of it. I think maybe people are missing the reference. ?

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

You could put that it's from the Witchfinder episode. They might have missed the connection.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Good point. Thanks!

[alba17.livejournal.com]

I like this. I like exploring what Merlin's magic feels like to him.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I think exploring what the magic feels like is very interesting too. I'm glad you liked it!

[mrscupcakery.livejournal.com]

I really like this. I love it when people explore how essential Merlin's magic is to him.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I am really fascinated by Merlin's use of magic as well. I got to explore it a lot in my merlin_holidays story I wrote and I think it's going to be explored quite a bit in my paperlegends story too, although I'll be looking at both Mordred and Merlin in that one:D

[mrscupcakery.livejournal.com]

I think it's really interesting, especially when how powerful Merlin is and the impact of that gets mentioned. I'll look forward to reading your paperlegends story then, and if it's got a lot of Mordred then all the better :D

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

I love many aspects of the show. I wish they had explored magic more, actually.

My PL story is Mordred-centric. It's good to know a few people are interested in it:D

[mrscupcakery.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would have liked to see more of that, I think there were a lot of possibilities and different ways they could have gone with the magic.

I really love Mordred, so I'm definitely interested in it.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

I may have an obsession with Mordred. It started last year when I saw the pictures of Alex and Bradley at the soccer thing. I still love M/A, but I think Mordred is such an intriguing character. He changes every time I write him (which is a lot, I've said I'm obsessed, yes?:))

[mrscupcakery.livejournal.com]

That's an obsession I can understand. M/A's my favourite thing to write/read but there's something about Mordred that's really interesting, especially hen he's a knight in Camelot, and there are so many ways to interpret his character. I wish there'd been a chance to have more of him in the show. (And I think you may have mentioned it :D)

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Oh, let me encourage you to write him. There is not enough canon era fic about Mordred for my taste. I love to see what other people do with him.

And yes, one of my biggest sadnesses about S5 was that they could have done so much more with Mordred.

[mrscupcakery.livejournal.com]

I may give it a go for the next prompt, we'll see. I get the feeling that I'd find him difficult to write for some reason.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

He really walks this fine line and is a slippery little bastard, if you'll excuse my language. I'd love to see you try though. Feel free to ask me for help, if you want it!

[mrscupcakery.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think that's what my problem would be, but I guess I could have a play around with it. Alright, you've convinced me! (Not that it took too much doing, mind you.)

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!!!! Call me, any time, day or night. I'm here to serve help you make more Mordred fic :D

[mrscupcakery.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I really appreciate that. This is either going to go spectacularly well, or spectacularly badly...

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, I know all about crashing and burning. It's worth it, to give it a try!

[mrscupcakery.livejournal.com]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that?

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

That's my opinion, definitely. I'm all about stretching myself. I can't believe the stuff I'm writing now vs where I was when I started 1 1/2 years ago.

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

I loved how magic was both a part of him and completely alien

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I am not sure what you mean by completely alien. To others?

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Kind of... it's part of him, but it works against him sometimes, there's the feeling that it doesn't quite fit in with him.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Oh, you mean he doesn't have complete control over it? I mean, that's how I see it. It sort of has a will of its own. Like, it's in him, but not 100% part of him.

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

That is exactly what my sleep-deprived brain was trying to say :)

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Ok, awesome! Yay. I'm really glad that came out in this itty bitty short piece:D