Hiiii,

This is chapter 1 of my new fanfiction 'Butterflies' I really hope you enjoy it and please follow, favourite or review if you do.

Merlin waited in the deserted hospital. He was with Arthur and Gwen, his two best friends, waiting for his beloved Freya to give birth. It had been four hours now, Merlin was starting to get worried, he was pacing on the hospital floor, his footsteps echoing though the empty corridors. Arthur had told him to calm down but how could he? The nurses had kicked him out for 'safety issues' and he had seen doctors shouting and running to get random medical things that Merlin didn't know the use of and no doctors or nurses had talked to him since. It was past one in the morning and the old man with a bad hip had left, leaving them the only people in the waiting room. It was dimly lit and the lights were flickering, the cleaners had turned off all the other lights so the only light source in the room was shining above them. He wasn't prepared for this, it was a month early, they all went to London Zoo because Freya was board being in the house constantly and it just happened. Merlin had been reluctant for Freya going out so close to the due date, he was a very protective person, but his wife always got her way. Merlin and Freya lived in a house in Chelsea. Merlin was a Psychologist and Freya was a teacher. Arthur was the ex- prime minister's son but was now a lawyer. Gwen was a year three teacher, as well as Freya. Their friendship was cemented together nicely.

Merlin and Gwen had gone to high school together, they had instantly become friends. They had never dated but when Merlin was on the brink of death after a serious head injury, she kissed him out of relief when he woke up out of his three week coma. It was only five years after that she admitted she had fancied him a little bit due in their first year. After Merlin had gotten mostly A's and A*s he managed to get a scholarship to Oxford. Gwen went to another university to get a degree in teaching. Merlin missed her a lot in Oxford but he still kept in contact. Merlin met Arthur in his first year of Oxford. Arthur was in the same year and their friendship wasn't the best at first, Arthur thought Merlin was a bit of an idiot and Merlin thought him as an arrogant prat. But it soon ended when, at a party, Arthur got seriously drunk after having an excessive amount of shots, Merlin helped him get home and lied to his father Uther, when he called to see if Arthur was being a good student and being a Pendragon. Merlin had lied to a man who had been Prime Minister. That was still a moment they laughed at today. Their friendship then grew and soon Merlin realised then Arthur and Gwen were perfect together. Merlin secretly did some match making behind their backs and set them on a blind date together. They had become inseparable and been dating for six years before Arthur decided to get down on one knee and ask Gwen the question. Luckily she said yes and they had now been married happily for three years. Two years after, Gwen had got a job in her old primary school, her teaching colleague was Freya, who was also teaching the third year, and they soon became good friends. Gwen introduced Freya to Merlin and even though he had only had two girlfriends before, he had never been more in love. Merlin had never been happier and two years later he became a physiologist. Him and Freya had travelled for a year and had gone all over the world. When all four of them went to Paris, Merlin proposed to Freya on top of the Eiffel tower and she nearly fell off at excitement. It had now been a year and a half. Being pregnant was the best thing that had happened to both of them but now he was in this situation.

"Merlin, stop pacing." Arthur said, keeping calm to help his friend. Arthur was always there for his friend. Merlin often got angry at Arthur when something upsetting happened to both one of them. Merlin lost it very easily when situations like this happened, he thought Arthur didn't care but this was wrong. Arthur could hold it together more but he was deeply worried inside, for his friend's sake, Arthur talked to him firmly. Growing up with his father taught him to behave in situations like this. He always wanted to make his father proud so he grew up hiding his emotions. He was giving Merlin tough-love. His wife was a bit more stressed by this. Freya was Gwen's best friend, who was a girl. And even though Arthur had secretly gave her the message to keep calm and she was but she kept on fidgeting and biting her lip.

"How can I?" Merlin said, turning to face them. "My wife could be dying for all I know."

"She is not dying Merlin." Arthur said firmly.

"How do you know?" he snapped back.

"Merlin, this happens all the time, it's just like that time when Gwen broke her leg and you were restless." Arthur pointed. Gwen silently nodded.

"She has a heart condition remember." Merlin said rhetorically.

"I know but she went had that surgery a few months back."

"There's still a slim chance."

"Merlin, sit down."

"What if she's-"

"Now," Arthur said resolutely. Merlin sighed and sat next to Arthur on the plastic, blue chair but started tapping his feet. "She'll be fine." He said softly.

"It's been four hours Arthur; I should be in there with her. They threw me out Arthur, doesn't that tell you anything?"

"It tells you that her birth is a bit more difficult than others but it doesn't mean it won't go successfully." Arthur explained to him.

"I knew I should have taken her to a public hospital." Merlin muttered.

"These doctors are experienced; they've delivered thousands of babies. Your wife is not the first case they've seen. I can tell you that."

"But it's a case. It's not something they come across every day. And in public hospitals they probably see more people to be able to deal with it." Arthur decided to change the subject, the man was to negative. He always managed to dig himself a bigger hole. Arthur reached into his bag and retrieved something.

"Gummy bears," Arthur said, handing Merlin the packet. This always cheered Merlin up. Gummy bears were his favourite food during Oxford. When he was studying for tests, Merlin didn't go down for dinner down at the cafeteria; his food source was gummy bears and red bull, he studied right through to the morning and gummy bears were the kind of thing that Merlin turned to when trying to revise or to comfort him. Arthur joined Merlin to eat through packets of gummy bears and bottles of red bull. Uther disagreed with eating unhealthy food or things that came from a factory with lots of sugar but Arthur didn't care, when he was at Oxford, he broke the rules that his father made and it helped him a lot.

Merlin gave a small smile and then took the packet and bit the head of a green gummy bear.