AN: This is a modern AU I came up with and it is based on that old cliché of boy-likes-girl-girl-is-oblivious. I'm hopefully going to try and make mine a little more unique than that and I sought the advice of the wonderful dannic38, arthurgwen2010 and Lara Smith so here goes.

"Morgana! Merlin! You are so going to pay for this!" Arthur yelled as he stormed out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. Arthur grabbed his mobile and punched in Morgana's number. Cleary she had been expecting his call and answered on the second ring.

"Yes?" Morgana sniggered.

"You are so dead!" Arthur snapped.

"Lighten up Arthur it was just a joke. Look I'll ring my hairdresser and she'll sort it out. I'll be round in about ten minutes." Morgan replied and hung up. Arthur flung his phone onto his bed and quickly dressed before pulling a hoodie on and tugging the hood over his head. He had come home from a long day at work and a workout at the gym expecting a hot shower but instead, he got pranked by his evil sister and treacherous best friend. Ten minutes later, Morgana knocked on his door and Arthur opened it to let his smirking sister and his childish best friend in.

"How bad is it?" Merlin asked curiously as he reached into his pocket for his camera. This was going to be good.

"It's bad, can your hairdresser fix it or not?" Arthur asked Morgana.

"Yeah her salon's in town so come on." Morgana said. As Arthur crossed the room, Morgana quickly pulled down his hood and Merlin snapped a photo on his camera before they piled into Morgana's car. A short while later they pulled up outside a hair salon that was just outside the city centre. Morgana led the way into the salon and Arthur looked around the salon. It must have been about ready to close, the only person in the salon was a dark haired woman who was sweeping the floor who turned as they walked in.

"Hi Morgana," Gwen smiled.

"Hi Gwen, thanks for doing this." Morgana said. Arthur couldn't help but gawk slightly. She was very pretty and was wearing black trousers and a black shirt with the words 'Cutting Edge' and a pair of scissors and comb embroidered above the right breast with light purple thread. She smiled warmly at him and Arthur smiled back.

"So what happened, you said it was an emergency." Gwen said. She had been just finished her last appointments and sent her other hairdressers home when Morgana had called claiming she needed an emergency appointment.

"It is, Gwen this is Arthur, my idiot brother I told you about. He managed to dye his hair red and he needs you to fix it." Morgana explained.

"I didn't do it on purpose! You put in my shampoo bottle." Arthur retorted.

Gwen set the broom aside and Arthur sat down at the sink and pulled down the hood of his hoodie to reveal the disaster done to his head. His normally blond hair had been dyed a vivid red colour. It looked like someone had smeared it with paint or blood. Gwen bit her lip as she considered the damage done as Merlin quickly pulled out his camera again to snap another photograph.

"Merlin I swear if you take another photo," Arthur warned and Merlin grinned at him.

"It's not as if I'll upload them onto Facebook or anything," Merlin teased and Arthur blanched.

"You wouldn't." Arthur muttered as he tilted his head back and let Gwen run the small shower head over his scalp to remove any of the excess colour.

"I would," Morgana commented and Arthur glared at her. Knowing Morgana she would upload photos of him looking like a Weasley reject onto Facebook.

"So how did this happen?" Gwen asked as she shampooed his hair and rinsed it.

"I was in the shower, washed my hair, next thing I know my hands are covered in something red. I get out of the shower, look in the mirror and discover I've somehow turned into Ron Weasley." Arthur explained with an embarrassed smile.

"Ron? I was going to say he looked like Amy Pond from Doctor Who." Merlin joked and he and Morgana laughed. Gwen smiled reassuringly as she led him to the chair and began to dry his hair.

"I have some dye remover in the store, I'll fetch it now." Gwen replied and she went to fetch it. As she did both Morgana and Merlin looked at Arthur who stared back at them defiantly.

"What?" Arthur asked.

"You know what, I seen how you looked at her." Merlin answered.

"Like what?" Arthur denied.

"Stop playing dumb Arthur. Look Gwen's a nice girl, you should ask her out." Morgana suggested.

"How do I know she doesn't have a boyfriend?" Arthur retorted.

"I know she doesn't. She's my friend as well as my stylist." Morgan replied as she flicked some of her dark hair over her shoulder and Gwen came back pulling on gloves and beginning to rub the dye remover into Arthur's head. Merlin looked around the salon and spotted a long purple curtain. Curious, he looked behind it and found small sealed off area with another sink and two more wall mounted mirrors, tables and chairs with more equipment scattered around. Merlin put the curtain back into place and looked at Gwen confused.

"Why is this bit sectioned off from the rest?" Merlin asked.

"A girl I knew in primary school converted to Islam when she met her husband. Normally Josie, her sister in law and their friends who wear the hijab would have to get me or their hairdressers to call out to them and it was really inconvenient for all of us. So when I got my own salon I decided to have this bit here so they could get their hair done privately and to ensure their religion is respected so there's no cameras or men allowed back there." Gwen explained as she finished applying the dye and peeled off her gloves and tossing them into the bin.

"This is your salon?" Arthur asked.

"Yeah it is. You'll have to let that sit for a while. Tea? Coffee?" Gwen explained and the three of them nodded. Gwen walked through a door marked 'staff only' into the small kitchenette. She had to admit, Morgana's brother was quite handsome but he had a bit of an attitude problem. Gwen made three cups of tea and moved back to hand them out. After a while Gwen looked at the clock.

"Alright that should be time enough now," Gwen said as Arthur moved back to the sink and let her rinse the dye remover from his head. As she scrubbed his head clean, the foam faded away and blond hair appeared in its place. Arthur looked beyond relieved as she ran the hairdryer over his hair again and the four of them stepped out from behind the curtain and back to the desk. Arthur ran his hand through his hair and he stood up and wrapped her in a tight hug.

"That's amazing thank you, what do I owe you?" Arthur asked.

"That's twelve pounds," Gwen replied. "Morgana your usual appointment's on Friday isn't it?"

"Yeah I'll see you then." Morgana smiled as Gwen handed Arthur his change but Arthur pressed I back into her hands.

"Keep it, it's the least I could give you at the moment." Arthur commented with a smile. Gwen dropped the money into the small charity box that sat on the desk and smiled at him.

"You look better as a blond," Gwen complimented. It was a damn sight better than blood red anyway.

"Thanks I have a great hairdresser." Arthur grinned and he left with Morgana and Merlin. Gwen watched them go with a smile before turning and finishing her clear up of the salon. Maybe she had misjudged Arthur. He was actually quite nice, his bad mood was clearly connected to the hair disaster, maybe they could be friends. Gwen finished clearing up the salon and locked up before heading home.

Arthur was singing Gwen's praises the whole way back to his house and Morgana rolled her eyes at her brother. "So why didn't you ask her out or give her your number? Seriously? Arthur when it comes to women you are pathetic!"

"Says the person who dated Gwaine and is now dating Merlin!" Arthur retorted and Morgana shook her head.

"Hey!" Merlin shouted in protest but Arthur ignored him.

"I was fourteen, I thought he was cute and I didn't know any better but I clearly do now, right Merlin? You on the other hand take the cake for dating disasters." Morgana argued.

"Whatever, see you both later." Arthur said and he walked into his house. As he shut the door behind him, Arthur walked up to the bathroom and grabbed the tainted bottle of shampoo and went to chuck it in the bin. Really, he had thought the three of them had grown out of pulling pranks on one another, he hadn't pranked them for years.

Arthur wandered into the kitchen, only realising how hungry he was when he opened the fridge and he quickly made himself a sandwich before grabbing a beer and putting on the TV and flicked onto a football match. However his mind was currently being overrun by thoughts of a certain dark haired hairdresser and Arthur flumped back on the sofa. He barely knew her, how was she able to make him feel like this? Arthur shook his head and focused on the match again, attempting to ignore the thoughts dominating his mind.

Gwen sat cross-legged on her sofa plucking at a few chords on her guitar with a notebook open in front of her. She'd had an idea for a song earlier but for the life of her she couldn't remember how it went now. Instead she set her guitar aside and picked up her laptop which was sitting on the coffee table and switched it on instead. On Facebook she had two new notifications, the first being Elyan commenting on Leon's status off the three of them arranging to meet up on Saturday night and the second was the fact that she and Morgana had been tagged in three new photos by Merlin. Gwen flicked through them and sent Merlin a friend request before logging off her computer and picking up her notebook and scribbling down potential ideas and random notes before calling it a night.

Morgana laughed at the number of likes already given to the photos of Arthur. Merlin had captioned each of the three shots and Morgana read through the comments.

Gwaine Murphy: Looking good mate ha ha!

Percy Smith: don't think red's your colour!

Morgause LeFay: did an animal die on your head? lol

Morgana smiled knowingly as she looked at the third photo which Merlin had sneakily snapped as Arthur hugged Gwen after she finished drying his hair. He had captioned it 'back to normal' and Morgana hit the 'like' button for all three and grinned. Despite what he said, she knew her brother and she knew he had it bad for Gwen already. Personally Morgana didn't know what was stopping him. Then again, in their family she had been gifted with both stunning good lucks and brains so maybe it wasn't that big a shock. As she looked back through the photos she noticed Arthur had also just gone online.

Arthur Pendragon: YOU ARE SO DEAD MERLIN!

Morgana laughed and logged off.