Title: Before the
Morning Watch: One Vision and Five Futures
Author: Deastar
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 19,000 (all parts)
Summary: Morgana
tells Merlin about waking up from a dream of a future in which she’s pregnant.
Each of the five parts posits a different father for Morgana’s child, and the
future that goes along with that possibility.
Warnings: dark,
angst, brief creepy incest vibes, character death, off-screen non-con, explicit
sex
Pairings include: Morgana/Gwen, Morgana/Merlin, Morgana/Lancelot, Morgana/Arthur, brief
Morgana/Uther, background Gwen/Lancelot, Gwen/Arthur, Arthur/Merlin
Notes: All titles
yanked from T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets.”
Other titles I considered (mostly while very sleep-deprived)
included “Terrible Things Happened to Women in the Middle Ages,” “Three Parts
Morgana with a Sword, Two Parts Morgana Without a Sword,” and “Five Ways
Morgana LeFay Got Knocked Up.” You have been warned.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to my three wonderful betas:
arlad ,
anevivi and
regonym !
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Introduction
Word count: 700
Part 1. “Who then devised the torment? Love.” – Uther
The Pendragons destroy Morgana’s world. She returns the
favor.
Word count: 3,000
Pairings: Morgana/Uther, past Morgana/Gwen, one-sided
Arthur/Morgana and Merlin/Arthur, implied Morgana/Lancelot
Warnings: Futurefic, dark, angst, brief creepy incest vibes,
character death (Uther and Gwen)
Part 2. “A time for the wind to break the loosened pane”
– Merlin
The first night of magic in Arthur’s Camelot, and the future
that follows.
Word Count: 4,500
Pairings: Morgana/Merlin, implied Arthur/Gwen
Warnings: Futurefic, explicit sex, character death (Uther),
brief violence
Part 3: “Sings below inveterate scars” – Lancelot
King Cendred is looking for mercenaries and sorcerers, and
Morgana is both.
Word Count: 4,500
Pairings: Morgana/Lancelot, Arthur/Merlin, Gwen/Lancelot,
one-sided Morgana/Gwen
Warnings: Futurefic, angst, character death (Uther)
Part 4: “A dignified and commodious sacrament” –
Arthur
King Urien, Morgana’s betrothed, once broke a woman’s jaw
for talking back to him.
Word Count: 3,500
Pairings: Morgana/Arthur
Warnings: Futurefic, angst, humor, character death (Uther)
Part 5: “Love is itself unmoving” – Gwen
She thought they wanted a ransom, but all they wanted was to
hurt Arthur through her.
Word Count: 2,000
Pairings: Morgana/Gwen
Warnings: Futurefic, angst, off-screen non-con, character
death (Uther)
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( Introduction )