Alittleperiwinkle - ✨A Little Periwinkle✨

Joy Sullivan, from "Late Bloomer", Instructions for Traveling West

Find what works best for you and do that, again and again, whenever you need it 💖

✶ 𝙲𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚊 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚜 ✶

📍Church of the Gesù, Rome

The Church of the Gesù, constructed between 1568 and 1584, is considered one of the finest examples of Roman Baroque architecture.

A love spell is cast on Arthur to make him fall in love with Merlin. The effects are subtle enough that Merlin doesn't realize Arthur's under a spell and thinks that his feelings for Arthur are being returned. They start a courtship until the truth is discovered. When they manage to undo the spell Merlin avoids Arthur, feeling like he's taken advantage of him even though he didn't know.

Plot twist, Arthur genuinely loves Merlin but he doesn't remember what happened while he was under the influence of the spell and has only been told the basics of what happened leading to him thinking he made unwanted advances on Merlin. Slowly he starts to remember what happened, their courtship, how happy Merlin seemed, how happy he felt. He realizes that Merlin's not avoiding him because he hated Arthur being in love with him, quite the opposite in fact.

He confronts Merlin and tells him his side of things finishing with "The more I remember the more I wish it was real. So I've decided that it was. It was as real as the love I feel for you now without the spell's influence"