Disclaimer- As much as I'd like to own Merlin, I think Catherine would kill me if I did, so unfortunately…no, I don't.

You know, I'd never really thought about how my life would progress. I mean, yeah, I thought about college and a job and all that, but it never really seemed real. I didn't really care about the future, to be honest, or the past. I should have been more careful. The past can be tricky, especially if you find yourself there…

…...

"Hey, Kit-Kat! Have a Kit-Kat!" I tossed the red-covered chocolate to my friend and laughed when she nearly dropped it.

"Hey, Jelly!" Catherine Acebo, otherwise known as Kit-Kat, grabbed me in a tight hug. "I'm actually here!"

"I know!" I squealed. We'd been planning to meet up for nearly a year. "Come on, my mum's waiting."

"Let me get my case."

I grabbed her case. "If you ever want to see this case alive again, you follow me."

Catherine rolled her eyes and followed me through the airport. "You're even more insane than I thought."

I grinned at her. "I'm English, my dearest chocolate bar, are you really surprised?"

…...

I looked at my mum and saw her sigh and shake her head. I grinned to myself. Catherine and I had been singing '99 bottles of beer on the wall' for the past 5 minutes.

"Girls!"

We looked at my mum. "Yeah?" I asked, looking out of the window. I really hoped we were there.

Let me explain where 'there' was; you see, Catherine and I were both completely obsessed with the BBC's TV show 'Merlin'. My mum knew this and had persuaded my dad to take us both on a little tour around the country of pretty much everything to do with the Arthurian legends. Supposed burial sites, battle grounds, you name it, we were going there.

Mum smiled at me. "We're here."

I squealed and opened the door. "Kit-Kat, let's go!"

Laughing, we ran into the woods and split up to look around. Big mistake.

"Jelly?"

I ran through the trees to Catherine, she sounded scared, and there was a golden light all around.

"What the hell?" I muttered, running faster. I rounded a tree and bumped into her. "Are you ok? And why are you hugging a tree?"

She rolled her eyes. "It's my new best friend. Obviously." she said sarcastically.

"Never had you pegged as an eco-warrior, Kit-Kat." I snorted, then yelped and grabbed the tree. "I'm floating!"

"And now you see why I am hugging a tree." Catherine said dryly.

We both started laughing, but I winced as a sharp pain flashed behind my eyes. I saw Catherine pull a face and knew that she was hurting too.

"You feel that?" she asked.

I nodded, then stopped when it hurt my head. "It hurt at first, now I just feel a bit dizzy."

Catherine started to nod, then her eyes rolled back and she blacked out.

"Catherine!" I grabbed her hand as it slipped from the tree and the gold light got brighter. Black was beginning to creep around the edges of my vision. "Oh, for the love of -"

…...

I woke up on a cold stone floor, Catherine's hand still in mine.

"Catherine, wake up." I shook her gently.

Her eyes fluttered, then grew wide. "Jade, have you looked around you at all?"

I shook my head. "Stone floor, aching head from stone floor, comatose sister-from-another-mister. What else is there to see?"

Catherine sat up. "Try a castle."

I looked around. Walls, floor, ceiling, doors, wall hanging. Yup, a castle. A castle. "Oh." I said.

"Oh, indeed, witches." snapped a cold voice behind us.

We whirled around on the floor.

"Impossible." breathed Catherine.

I shushed her, then stood up and bowed. "Your Majesty." I motioned for Catherine to do the same. If she didn't, we were both dead. Dead as in 'actually dieing' dead, not dead as in 'really big trouble' dead. Dead. Who'd want to kill us, you ask? Well, let's face it, Uther Pendragon's really not the nicest of blokes.

A.N. - Wow, Catherine, remind me again why I decided to rewrite this? I can't remember. Hope you like the new, improved version!