slashweaver | Aug. 30th, 2010

Title: The Lusty Month of May

Author: Harlequin

Beta: asifidletyou (Thank you!)

Artist: the awesome sequanne

Universe: Merlin

Characters featured:
♦ pairings: Merlin/Arthur, Jack/almost everyone, Hunith/Leon
♦ friendships: Arthur+Gwen, Arthur+Hunith

Category, Word count: Story; 23,238 words

Rating: NC17

Summary: Jack (Giacomo Casanova, as played by David Tennant) is a colourful magical creature who arrives in Camelot at Beltane. Almost everyone falls under his sway – but Arthur remains immune to his charms, because he already feels true love for Merlin. Jack so distracts everyone else with pleasure that ordinary life grounds to a halt. At first this seems a bit tiresome though harmless – but as food supplies and goodwill dwindle, it starts to feel as if Camelot is dangerously under siege. Arthur finds that Gwen is also immune to Jack, though for different reasons; they team up to try to break Jack’s enchantment.

Notes:
♦ Written for the paperlegends Merlin Big Bang Challenge 2010.
♦ Dedicated to my darling sequanne, who planted the seed – and what a wondrous seed it was! (I hope you like what it grew into, hon…) She wanted this week’s guest star to be David Tennant, perhaps in Casanova mode.
♦ This fic is set after the first season, and ignores / reworks / retells the second (much as I love it). Title and lyrics are borrowed from the musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
♦ The fic and art is currently hosted together on a stand-alone website.
♦ You can also now read the fic alone at my usual website, on this page.
♦ You can view the art alone at sequanne_art, in this post.

Warnings:
♦ Here be anachronisms! But there is a story–related reason for them.
♦ Given the premise of a magical being arriving at Beltane and distracting everyone with pleasure, you’ll understand that there is plenty of gratuitous sex and orgies going on. However, we only witness most of it from a safe distance.
♦ The older characters (Hunith, Uther, Gaius) also participate in Beltane, though again we only witness this from afar.