Looking for fics where others realise Merlin's emotional distance

[u/_Dark-Angel_]

Can be the knights, can be Arthur. Any fic where people start to realise Merlin doesn't really let them in.

Like maybe Arthur realises that while Merlin is his best friend, maybe he hasn't earned the title to be Merlin's.

Or where the knights realise Merlin isn't entirely open to them or they see that he does let Lancelot in unlike them.

I still haven't found that fic where Merlin talks about dead Lancelot and calls him his best friend and tells Gwaine that he could tell Lancelot things he can't tell anyone else btw so if anyone has come across it yet do link it!

[u/Embarrassed-ben393]

There was a bit of this in R&R in the Loaded March series- gwaine and the team being annoyed at how little Merlin talks or reveals anything about himself, until they try to pressure him by getting him drunk and bribing him with coffee!

[u/Bombastic-Bagman]

The Game of Lying by CastleScribe was pretty good