Gordian

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Author: weepingwillow9
Title: Gordian
Rating: PG-13
Pairing/s: None
Character/s: Arthur, Morgana
Summary: There's so much holding them apart
Warnings: Erm, none
Word Count: 159
Prompt: Tangled
Author's Notes: So then I got thinking about Gordian knots. Which was a bad idea. But this is the last one! I think my brain's making up for the fact that I start work tomorrow...

Sometimes a knot is so tangled that there’s nothing for it. You have to cut through it.

They had both still been young when Arthur had realised this. Morgana’s necklaces in her jewellery box had twisted together, so tight that they had to be cut apart to salvage them. She’d cried, but there had been no other option.

And now, facing each other through a web of emotion, guilt and despair and love all knotted so tight they were hard to distinguish, Arthur knew that that was what they had to do. To get each other back, they’d have to rip apart the strings of destinies and beliefs and wishes that held them apart, no matter how it hurts them to confront them all. Because they need each other. Everything else is secondary. Everything else can be destroyed. Everything else can be allowed to destroy them, because it’s worth the price to tie brother and sister together once more.

Comments

[loopstagirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I loved it! Very deep, I loved the imagery in this, that was amazing!

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[yenny2206.livejournal.com]

This is really beautiful and I have never reada story that focus on the relationship between Arthur and Morgana. This is just perfect for them.

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D They intrigue me so much, because in the legends despite the bitter fighting between them she ends up helping him when he's almost dead after the final battle. And in Merlin, they clearly start off loving each other very much, in a sibling-y way... I always wonder where that went, how they could recover it

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Oh, very interesting. I'd love to see a story based on this concept. *looks at you with puppy dog eyes*

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Maaaybe, if I manage to get any of the other several thousand things I have to write/draw/edit done :P (But you've given me ideas now, so it'll probably happen, shush)

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

LOL. Excellent. I love handing off plot bunnies to other people:) *rubs hands together*

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, evil :P

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Oh, maybe my default icon should be "evil filthy enabler':D

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Maybe it should... it would suit your filthy evil plot-giving ways :P

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

*snort* :D Hey, as long as people take my plot bunnies, I'm all good with it! You are not the first person to complain about being handed plot bunnies by me. You have good company.

Of course, other people have been known to hand me plot bunnies, so I think it all works out in the end.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Love the idea of a Gordian knot and them having to cut free in order to find themselves again. Well done.

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I'm only half-heartedly complaining :P

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[hogwartsvixxxen.livejournal.com]

I really liked this. The tangled nscklaces was a great metaphor to their relationship. Very vivid.

Well done.

[weepingwillow9.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[hogwartsvixxxen.livejournal.com]

♥ *hugs* :)