Fic: With The Words That Rapture Left (Arthur/Merlin, NC-17): Masterpost

[tourdefierce]

Title: With The Words That Rapture Left
Author: tourdefierce
Word Count: 25,400
Rating: NC-17
Summary: In the aftermath of war, Camelot must rebuild and find a path to the future. Merlin struggles with his place in the new reign of King Arthur, both in regards to his magic and his heart. With a little help from his friends, Merlin will find his destiny and help unite all the people of Albion along the way.
Pairings: Arthur/Merlin
Warnings: Brief depictions of violence/war, future!fic, kid!fic, fluff, man!pain, and generally, Gwaine being awesome.
Kinks Felching, comeplay, slight foot fetish (only in epilogue porn), fingerblasting, unprotected sex, and a lot of feelings during/after/before/all the time in regards to sexytimes. (Please PM me if I missed any.)
Author’s Notes: This fic is for tracy7307 for my helpthesouth that she won. tracy7303: I hope you like this. If you don’t then I will write you something else. Many, many thanks to leashy_bebes for the beta help. My commas and my typos would consume me if it wasn’t for her, which is why if you find any of those mistakes, they're my own. marguerite_26 was a lovely, lovely help with content and plot, which for the record was very hard for me and this fic wouldn’t have gotten off my desktop. Thank you to lolafeist who reassured me that my porn wasn’t going to kill anyone and who I obtained permission to write the foot!porn scene because it was inspired by our brainchild comments. ♥ To everyone who helped me with this fic, I thank you. This was extremely difficult for me to write and I appreciate all the time you all put into this. ♥

To everyone else, I really hope you enjoy it.

Naturally, because I’m me, this story has a mini-soundtrack. It’s just two tracks off Emmy the Great’s new album: Dinosaur Sex and Paper Forests (the afterglow of rapture). You can download those: right here.

(part one.) (part two.)(part three.) (epilogue (porn).)

ETA: If anyone has a way to make pdfs for e-readers or whateves, I'd be really chuffed if someone would hook me up until I get (I'm on the waitlist) and then organize an AO3 account. ♥

You can now read the entire thing at A03 and do all the nifty things that AO3 offers, like download it in multiple forms.

(Now, I'm going to be super anal and have to upload all my fic there. SO MUCH ANGST. Why am I so crazy?)

Comments

[dk323.livejournal.com]

Hey, about AO3... I have an unused invite code that I could offer you if you want. Though I'm not sure how it works if you're already on a waitlist. Just wanted to let you know.

Congratulations on finishing this fic! ♥ I look forward to reading it. :)

[tourdefierce.livejournal.com]

I got it taken care of, love but thank you very much.

I hope you enjoy it!

[debris_k.livejournal.com]

What they said -- I also have an invite code to spare, and I'm looking forward to reading your fic. (I did mention all I had to say boils down to a 'ditto!', didn't I? XD )

[tourdefierce.livejournal.com]

I'm all taken care of and linked up to A03 but thank you.

I hope you enjoy the fic!

[shiny4love.livejournal.com]

Damn you, I'm getting ready for work and wont be able to get to this for about 10 hours :(

I will spend all day waiting to read this. I cant wait :)

[tourdefierce.livejournal.com]

WORK? WHAT IS WORK?

♥ I hope you enjoy it when you finally do get to read it, babe.

[viennajones.livejournal.com]

Why do I not have time to read this right now? WHY? D:

[tourdefierce.livejournal.com]

It'll still be here when you do have time, promise.

; )

[bizarre-esque.livejournal.com]

I'll read it later! Like today or afterwards or now.

[tourdefierce.livejournal.com]

PFT. WHAT ARE RESPONSIBILITIES WHEN THERE IS FIC?

; )

[leashy-bebes.livejournal.com]

I love yoooooou. Can't wait to reread this.

[tourdefierce.livejournal.com]

Get inside me.

[eloquent-toast.livejournal.com]

can I come too? WHY DO YOU WRITE SUCH LONG FICS OMG I WANT TO READ IT BUT I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN HANDLE ALL THE WOOOOORDS.

[tourdefierce.livejournal.com]

I CAN'T HELP IT, OKAY? I HAVE A PROBLEM.

[aerisaturner]

Never attempt to cure this problem. Mkay? I adore all the WORDS.

Alsoo omg Wart, why so adorable?? *hugs her forever*

[eloquent-toast.livejournal.com]

I THINK YOU ACTUALLY DO. A PROBLEM WITH WORDS.

[ot-mornmeril.livejournal.com]

this was AMAZING! and the sexytimes, omg *dies*. i loved everyhting about this. brilliant job and your writing is beautiful!

[tourdefierce.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it so much. ♥

[merryrose11.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for sharing this lovely fic with us. It was great and I plan on re-reading it soon. I was also very happy to see something in canon too :) (I'm just not into the modern AU stuff). All of your works that I have read have been terrific...kudos to you.

AO3 is great isn't it? I'm not a writer but I do like how they organize things and how you can download in different formats.

[tourdefierce.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased that you enjoyed it so much. It's very difficult for me to write in canon and so I'm glad that it worked for you.

Personally, I really don't like AO3 at all. The only reason I've posted stories there is for the downloadable formats that people love.

[merryrose11.livejournal.com]

I think the main reason I like AO3 is that it's consistent. The font is easily read, the colour is black on white. I often have trouble reading things on LJ (yellow lettering on tan background, teeny-tiny font, for example.) and often found myself going to the step of cutting/pasting into word just so I could read it easier. I do feel bad at stiffling the writers creativity though. Also you can have the option of reading all in one go...rather than chapter by chapter.

I've read all your canon pieces and think you do a good job :). I have read some ModernAU and enjoyed some that I felt actually caught the 'characterization that's in my head'. I think everyone being involved in writing in any mode and genre is a great thing. Keeps the brain cells young and active too.

[mia-dcwut-09.livejournal.com]

oh my world this was whoa Iam utterly speechless!
this was great read although i should be asleep since i have an early class but i couldn't stop reading this. I really loved the contrast of merlin worrying about his magic causing him to loose control and fall into madness like morgana had.
Wart is adorable is she modeled after anyone in particular.
did you happen to get the inspiration of wart/arthur from somewhere cause the whole wart arthur name sounds very familiar to me.
Again this was great I love gwaine being all smart in his own way and always love it when he deliberatly makes arthur jealous when it comes to merlin too funny