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Title: the stupidest of ideas (can lead to something brilliant)
Artist: Emily (followthehorse)
Fandom: Merlin RPF
Pairing: Bradley James/Colin Morgan
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 30 000+
Summary: AU. Working in the theatre was not what Bradley had pictured himself doing. Cue a little play called "Merlin", and the nine months that changed his life. Playing Arthur Pendragon made sense. That Bradley found a new family, and Colin, in the process was just a bonus.

Warnings: Swearing, spoilers for both season of Merlin
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Merlin concepts, nor do I claim to have even met the people involved. It's meant to be fun, and no harm meant to anyone.
Notes: Fudging details is something I've become adept at, so if you spot it, it's probably intentional.

Mostly, this was an attempt to make my first active foray into the fandom half-decent. Why I started with a challenge to write an RPF for a challenge of at least twenty-thousand words for merlinbb_rpf is beyond me. I must be insane. I did it, but I had to be insane to start it in the first place!

Thank you a billion to my fantabuloustic betas Jessica (lesson_in_love) and Sarah (furloughday), you girls are amazing! And major props to Jess (yenetai), Az (sourberrie), Les (samzgurl), and Emily (followthehorse for keeping me sane when all I wanted to do was lay down and cry. I could not have done any of this without you. ♥

Also, massive, massive, massive brownie points goes out to the wonderful, talented, gorgeous, amazing Emily (followthehorse) for creating such utterly spectacular visuals for this fic as the arist assigned to me. You are extraordinary, my darling! ♥ Thank you so much for this time and we are definitely doing more collabs in the future!


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