Podfic rec: Merlin

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"What Looks Like Crazy" by hermette, read by nu_breed | AU | Arthur/Merlin | Three years after being diagnosed with HIV, Merlin Emrys is managing, if not quite coping. Enter Arthur Pendragon, the man who doesn’t know how to take no for an answer. | 17.500 words/1hr. 46min.

"-still don't understand."

Merlin frowns, eyebrows drawing together. "Don't understand what?"

"Why you won't go out with me?"

Merlin laughs, incredulous, the sound of it bubbling up and out of his throat. He shakes his head and says, "Are you serious?"

I so love Arthur in this one, his insistence that the sickness doesn't make Merlin, that Merlin is so much more than HIV...