Wow, 75th chapter. I'm still going strong apparently.
Awesome idea from Fangirl_on_a_leash.

Stupid knuckle headed, donkey brained fool that thought giving Arthur the ability to mind read would help the great Emrys! In all honesty, he had just made Merlin's life harder. This putrid sorcerer that Merlin now despised, thought that distracting Merlin, and placing an enchantment that didn't seem to have a counter spell, on Arthur. Why the dolt thought that was a good idea, Merlin didn't know.

That poor excuse of a sorcerer had forced Arthur and Merlin to separate before placing a spell on Arthur. Then said sorcerer booked it. Luckily the pea-brained simpleton had, or else he would have died a swift death from Arthur, or... the unspeakable from Merlin for hurting Arthur.

It took them a good ten minutes to figure out why Arthur kept hearing things. That was when Arthur admitted the sorcerer had spoken a few strange words. After that Merlin pieced it together.

This spell had been stuck on Arthur for a month. Merlin may have been tortured before, but he swears that month was worse than any torture he had ever recieved. There were many incidences which caused Merlin to cringe, and want to curl up in a ball once he'd found the deepest darkest cave where he would never be found again. Unfortunately there was a such thing as responsibility. So he'd stayed and reaped the consequences.

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The first incident happened when Arthur first got off his horse when they returned from trying to find the wretched sorcerer who caused this whole mess. Arthur had slid down gracefully, and began walking elegantly when Merlin had thought, "I wish I could slap that *ss."

Whipping around Arthur had looked at Merlin in shock before Merlin remembered the enchantment placed on him. "Oh my goodness, I didn't mean you Arthur!"

He'd managed to save himself.

That time.

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There was a private meeting going on. It was a very serious one too. The people inside required servants to bring them food. These servants had a tendency to gossip. So in truth, it wasn't very private. All because they needed their wine when decision making.
They must have been drinking a lot when Uther had decided to create a death penalty for using even a simple spell.

Despite the meeting being of great importance, Arthur was obviously bored. He'd been sipping on wine and agreeing if the things that were said were reasonable.

At some point, he'd licked his lips and wrapped them around the cup gently. The lips spread around the cup had been quite a sight.

"I'd love to kiss those wonderful lips," Merlin had thought to himself completely forgetting about a certain something again.

Arthur had nearly choked on his drink. Earlier Arthur had mentioned that he could tell where the thoughts came from, and usually who had thought them. So Arthur knew it was Merlin who had thought that.

It wouldn't have been that bad, if it weren't for the fact that there were only males in the room.

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Soon they'd discovered that Arthur could also see pictures imagined in other people's minds. That would have been great and all, if it happened in another way then how it had.

When Arthur was taking a bath, Merlin may have looked when he shouldn't have and pictured... an erotic image. Arthur had jumped in shock and ordered Merlin to get out immediately.

Ashamed of himself, Merlin hadn't said a word. He'd simply raced out blushing like a madman.

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The amount of times this type of thing had happened was extremely embarrassing. Truly horrid. Arthur now held a knowing smirk on his face whenever Merlin came in sight. After seeing this knowing smirk, Merlin would blush and not look at anybody for a good few minutes.

At this point the knights had noticed a change and were asking what had happened between the two. Each time someone questioned Merlin, he would get flustered before giving a terrible excuse as to why he needed to go. On the other hand, Arthur would just smirk playfully, before going back to whatever he was doing.

Sleeping had all but disappeared for Merlin. He was either thinking about one of the... situations, or researching how to get rid of it. It took him a week and a half to find a possible solution. It wouldn't be totally effective, but it would work for now.

The next part was slightly more challenging. Speaking a full sentence to Arthur without wishing to die.

"Ar-arthur?"

"Yes Merlin?"

"I think I've found a way to st-stop you from reading my mind. I mean, all minds."

Arthur couldn't decide if this was a good thing or not. He would stop hearing the thousands of muddled voices from all around Camelot. Hearing thoughts had also been quite a blessing when it came to battles, arguments or finding traitors. Recently Arthur had heard a few of Agravaine's thoughts and it had become quite clear whose side he was on. Despite this, trying to fiture out what was said and what was thought was rather hard.

"Oh? Do tell Merlin."

"This spell that he did on you, it wasn't just a spell. It was a complete transfer of..." Merlin didn't even say the last word. He simply thought Magic and Arthur understood. "He basically gave you his own ability from what I understand. You need a decent amount of magic to transfer it to someone else, so that's off the table. The next option is to learn to control it. This would take lots of practice."

Nodding, Arthur confirmed that transferring was definitely not an option. By learning to control it, he could still use it but it wouldn't plague him every second of the day. "So how would we go about this... practice?"

Taking a breath, Merlin expelled his nervousness and began, "well there's only so much research I can do, so the best bet would be to find someone with the same ability. For now we can try exercises from inside of books."

"So someone magical or you?"

Merlin didn't really know how to respond to that. "Well technically yes."

"Y'know if someone had this ability around you Merlin, we would've all been dead by now. You think way too much."

Merlin replied, "I know sire, its one of my weaknesses. Everyone has one. Including you." He attempted to add a joke.

"Yes, I know. One example of you thinking too much was you debating how you could kill Agravaine."

At this Merlin paused. There had been multiple ways. Most of them involving magic. Merlin quietly muttered, "sugar honey ice tea." (Get the reference?)

"Between the times you sound insane, your thoughts explain a lot. Don't worry though, I wouldn't get rid of you." Walking away, Arthur remembered what their earlier conversation was about. "For now, you'll teach me, but if you can find someone who can teach me, that would be great."

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Months later, Arthur had figured out how to control his mind reading. Whenever he wanted, he could listen to other's thoughts, and he could stop whenever he wanted.

This had come in handy for literally everything. Arthur could get some peace and quiet without going into the wilderness. Multiple times Arthur had found out who was a spy/ assassin before Merlin did. Arthur could also tell if an enemy kingdom truly was seeking an alliance or if it was a trick.

Despite all this, his favourite by far was listening to Merlin's thoughts. Believing that once he gained control of it, Arthur would stop listening to his thoughts, Merlin let his thoughts wander.

This was one of the things that got Arthur through boring meetings, parties and unamusing performances. Thoughts from Merlin like, what in the world Is she wairing? Or that guy is so needy, he wouldn't survive a day without his wife. And sometimes the inappropriate thoughts about what he would do to Arthur if he could. Those inappropriate thoughts were usually followed by profanities and hopes that Arthur wasn't listening to him.

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