tenth person

Chapter 9

Arthur ran into Merlin on the way to Camelot. There were no people in the drizzle on the street in the evening. The young man was wearing a hoodie with his head down, wondering what he was thinking, and the brim of the hat was too big almost covering his entire face.

Arthur approached quietly, and the "boy" smiled when he looked up and saw him, and pushed his hat off.

"good evening."

"Are you talking to me?" Arthur looked back, but there was no one behind him.

"Arthur?" Merlin murmured, did he already know that he was...

"Besides you, almost no one talks to me lately... I went to see Morgana last night, and she wouldn't open the door." At this point Arthur gave a wry smile.

"Gaius hasn't poured me a drink for days, in fact, he doesn't seem to see me."

While saying this, the young lawyer looked around the streets, Merlin was speechless, he thought of a lot of ways to communicate with Arthur, he even asked Will, because Will was the only one who knew he was a ghost but didn't leave people. "You can't tell him they're going to leave once they know they're spirits. I don't know where they're going, they're just, gone." Gaius said the same.

"They may have gone to another world, but we don't want Arthur to leave, do we? How can we do that?" Gaius could only see outlines, while Morgana could see them clearly.

Only Merlin could touch them.

But he didn't expect Arthur to go ahead and ask his own question before talking.

"I seem to be out of touch with this world, Merlin, did you see Morgana later... What did she say? Where's Gaius?" Arthur asked a series of questions, and Merlin realized that the draft he had prepared before was completely useless.

He opened his mouth, Arthur must have read the troubled expression, and the blond young man frowned: "What happened, Merlin?"

"I have something... I want to tell you, uh, but I don't know how to say it... that," Merlin panicked, his face flushed slightly, his hair was sweating, spreading from the back of his head to his back, what should he do? Tell Arthur?His mind went blank.

Arthur saw him laugh like this, showing his restless canine teeth: "Oh Merlin, what are you trying to say? I take back what I said last time, the part about you not being 'hot' enough, you're all red now. He caressed Merlin's cheek with his thumb, the black-haired man trembled, and his flustered appearance became more and more embarrassed and funny, but Arthur's clear blue eyes showed a look of love, "Merlin..." He whispered, tilting his head slightly and touched The corner of Merlin's mouth.

Merlin shuddered again, his eyes widened, his eyes were the same color as Arthur's, but not as full of teasing and sexy charm as the latter, more like a child, innocent and pure, full of surprise at the moment, staring The lips are rounded, and the lips are slightly parted in surprise.He tilted his head slightly, and his lips limply pressed against Arthur's.

So Arthur covered it firmly.Facing the handsome face so close at hand, and even seeing the subtle flutter of the golden eyelashes on the closed eyelids, Merlin subconsciously closed his eyes as well.

Not cold, but not warm, like shaking Arthur's hand for the first time, Merlin was surprised to find that kissing a soul could also feel the tiny electricity crackling between them.

Maybe it was the voice in his head. Merlin was so dizzy that he didn't even feel the touch on his mouth go away, and he opened his eyes belatedly after a while, and Arthur was already back, further away than he'd imagined.

"Arth..." Merlin blushed and wanted something to say, what to say after your first kiss with someone you've been thinking about for days?He scoured his mind for barren content related to this.

"What's going on here?" Arthur interrupted, and Merlin froze for a moment. "What?"

"This is wrong, this kiss..." The blond man standing across from him gradually showed disbelief, and Merlin hurriedly said, "Sorry?" Arthur was puzzled by his apology, and he continued, "Uh ...I guess I'm not very good at... I mean, I was a little surprised so I didn't respond well? I mean... I don't know how—" He opened his mouth to explain, and finally proposed with a desperate effort, "Maybe we Do it again, you know, I'm ready."

Arthur didn't stop him, actually, Merlin said so, but it was Arthur who acted, and he immediately closed the distance between them and slammed into Merlin's lips somewhat violently, and they felt each other's teeth, but they both opened immediately Mouth opened - Merlin tasted soul for the first time, Arthur's mouth tasted nothing, of course he shouldn't even be able to be touched at all, not wet, not sticky, tongue like anything else in Arthur's mouth Parts feel the same, no difference.

But even so, when Arthur left, Merlin still regretted it, and he reached out to grab Arthur, trying to make him stay longer - but Arthur broke away.

"Arthur?" Merlin swallowed, he didn't know what to do, for Osiris' sake he had been rejected but hadn't met anyone who would just dump him with a kiss.

But the shock and astonishment in Arthur's eyes had surpassed his comprehension, and his face was even contorted in disbelief to the point of pain. Merlin instinctively reached out to try to comfort him, but Arthur grabbed him first, The touch of Merlin made him feel pain.

"Arthur?!"

Merlin had a hunch that if he felt something strange about kissing souls, maybe... maybe Arthur felt it too...

"What the hell... is this? It's not right, Merlin, it's not right... I can't taste it, I can't feel you! I... what are you? You kiss like... rain, nothing, Arthur held Merlin's cheek in his very wide palm, his thumb pressed against his skin, his eyes moved from side to side, as if he was searching for a memory image, "I remember your temperature...I remember...you are better than I imagined." It's even warmer..."

Arthur murmured, his nose touching Merlin's forehead, as if Arthur was confirming with the tip of his nose, with his sense of smell, "I can't smell you, Merlin, I don't even..." He paused, let go, and when Merlin wanted to When trying to keep him back, he violently shook off and took several steps back.

Merlin's whole body was frozen.

He looked at Arthur's expression and got it, God, he got it.