madimpossibledreamer | The Loyalty of a Sorceror

Main Points:
Star Trek (the 2009!movie verse)/Merlin crossover
Summary: Once you know you're Arthur, it's easy to find Merlin.
Word Count: 260
Rating: Gen
Note: hints of !ship but can be read as just bromance too /grin

         It wasn’t that hard, once he remembered, to realize who Merlin was. Who else dares argue with him, believe in him despite all evidence to the contrary, push him to do better without platitudes, just sincere friendship, growl like an angry mother bear mother and, if necessary, lash out anytime he’s hurt, fix him with blood and sweat and magic and miracles? Of course, Bones tends to blame him, too, whenever he gets hurt, despite whether or not it actually is his fault, but he gets testy at everybody for that sort of thing, and if Jim ever stopped looking out for crew as family, well, he wouldn’t be the same Captain [King] that Merlin or Bones would follow. And maybe it’s messed up, but that kind of ‘the universe isn’t allowed to take you away from me and by the way neither are you, you goddamn idiot’ is actually kind of…touching? Reassuring? It’s true he hasn’t had the most normal of childhood experiences, in either lifetime, and so maybe his vision of love is a little skewed. (Yeah, yeah, maybe if you talk to most people, it’s a lot skewed, but that’s beside the point.)
         The point is, Bones is loyal. He works miracles. And it doesn’t matter who you are, what rank or authority or anything else you have; if he thinks you’re wrong he’ll do what he thinks is right and say whatever it is he has to say.
         To thrive, to be the good Captain he knows he can be, he needs Merlin at his side.