A/N: I wanted to make a new story, since I finished most of my other stories. I find it sad that Merlin didn't had long with his father and I wondered how his life would be if Balinor had taken Hunith with him. So I decided to write a story from that. I'm never able to make good titles. I think you just have to start reading and I hope you enjoy it.

Disclaimer: If I owned Merlin then I would knew what was going to happen in season 5... I really want to know!

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The door slammed open and Balinor ran inside, causing Hunith to jump up in shock. His eyes were wide open and fear could be read in them. 'Balinor?' She asked, not understanding why he was so scared.

'Uther found me!' The man shouted in panic.

Hunith gasped and let herself fall to the ground, oh how she had feared for this day. He sank to the ground next to her and grabbed her hands. 'Hunith, thank you for everything, but I can't stay with you, I don't want to put you in danger.'

'No!' She yelled. 'I'm going with you!' She didn't want to lose the man she loved.

'But Hunith.-' He tried, his eyes filled with worry, she knew that he loved her like she did him.

'You can't do anything about it, I'm going with you.' She leaned against his chest, the only place she felt truly safe. 'I don't want to lose you.'

He sighed, she knew he couldn't refuse her words. 'It will be dangerous.'

She nodded. 'I know, but I rather have a short life with you then to live a long life without you.'

'Thank you.' He whispered and the two of them kissed, a kiss filled with pure love, promising in silence that they would never be separated.

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Balinor looked at the little boy running through the clearing, how he looked like his mother, that pale skin and his bright smile, those warm tender eyes and, he grinned, his ears. It all felt so peaceful, but they had known otherwise, he was just so glad that the druids took them in a year ago, he didn't had to fear for his family anymore, or at least not as much as he used to.

Merlin ran to him and he rolled with his eyes, the little raven was covered in mud and Balinor just knew Hunith would scold both of them. 'Daddy, daddy, look what I got for mommy.' He held out a bundle of flowers.

'They're really pretty.' Balinor said, smiling at his son.

Merlin smiled and jumped up and down in excitement. 'I will get more!' And so the boy ran of again.

'He has his mother's heart.' Balinor was proud of his son, he was a kind and pure child. He turned around hearing footsteps coming towards him, instinctively he reached for his sword.

'Calm down Balinor, it's me.' The dragonlord relaxed when he recognized the druid elder, his old friend.

'Cornelius.' He said to the druid. 'What are you doing here?'

The old man stared at the playing raven, before turning back to the boy's father. 'I wanted to talk with you in private.' Balinor frowned, but nodded. 'Your son... has showed an amazing magical ability for his age, I want to ask you if you were the same as a child, I mean you being a dragonlord.'

Balinor trusted the druid, but he just didn't understand the question, his first reaction was to protect his family and to not tell, but he trusted the man. 'I... I'm not sure, but I don't think that my magic was as strong as his.'

The druid nodded, looking at the boy while being deep in his thoughts. 'The other elders and I have been talking... we think that your boy is our Emrys.'

Balinor laughed. 'You're joking right?' His son the legendary Emrys, he knew Merlin was special, but he couldn't hope for the boy to become that man.

Cornelius shook his head. 'No Balinor, I'm serious.' The dragonlord stopped laughing, he looked scared in the others eyes. How he knew that Emrys would help create Albion, how that man had to fight, had to kill. He then looked at his son, knowing the boy's pure heart, he could never imagine the boy killing someone, he didn't want Merlin to have the same life as he once had.

'He's not strong enough to be him.' Balinor tried, but somewhere deep in his heart he knew that his friend's words were the truth.

The druid placed a hand on the man's shoulder. 'We have waited for Emrys for a long time, I know it's hard to believe, but it's his fate... you know that it's the truth.'

Balinor growled in frustration. 'Yeah, I know.'

'What do you want us to do?' Balinor stared not understanding at the druid. 'I mean, he's still very young, we could better wait until he's older before we tell the others.'

The dragonlord's eyes softened. 'I want him to have a life as normal as possible, I don't want him to be treated differently, lets not tell him, until he's old enough to understand.' Cornelius nodded and the two men looked at the little boy who was still searching for flowers. Merlin waved at them when he noticed that the two men were looking at him and Balinor felt his heart break, how he feared for that pure and innocent soul.

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Arthur screamed, while grabbing his ankle, making sure the keep an eye on the bandit in front of him. He and the other knights had been attacked and when they where separated he was chased by two of those ugly men, one he had killed, but he had hurt his ankle in the struggle. He didn't know if it was only a sprain or even worse, he would have to see Gaius when he went back to Camelot.

'Do you even know who I'm?' Arthur shouted at the man.

The bandit smirked. 'I don't fear you, little prince. Your ability with the sword is famous, but don't think that you, an injured man, can defeat me!'

'Try me!' The blond screamed, while the two of them started their attacks, Arthur felt the other's sword cut his side, while his own pierced the man's heart. With a soft groan the bandit sank to the ground, never to move again.

Arthur looked angry at the corps in front of him and grabbed his side, feeling blood seep through his fingers. He moaned in pain and let himself sank to the ground, his back resting against a tree, how he hoped his knights would find him soon.

Minutes went by and he heard nothing, the forest was silent, not even the birds sang their songs, it was long, but eventually he heard soft footsteps coming towards him. Someone kneeled in front of him and Arthur opened his eyes, it was not one of his knights, but just a boy.

The raven looked worried at him, a pale hand reached for the wound on his side, Arthur flinched, even when he felt that the boy couldn't possible be one of those bandits.

A small hand was pressed against the wound and he felt a warm and tender feeling spread through his body, he felt the pain fade from his mind. He blinked in confusion at the man in front of him, what had he done.

'Merlin, what are you doing?!' A loud and angry voice shouted and the boy turned shocked around.

'I... uhmm... he's hurt.' Merlin mumbled, his head bowed so he didn't had to look at the tall man that came to them.

Arthur pushed himself up and stared at the man, he was tall brunette with a scar that ran over his left eye, his dark eyes showed pure anger. 'Do you know who he's?' The raven looked confused at the prince and then back at his 'friend' with a not understanding expression. The man sighed and grabbed Merlin's arm, pulling him away from the prince. 'He's Uther's son.'

Merlin gaped at him, but the only thing the young prince had eye for was the taller man, he saw him reaching for his sword and Arthur did the same. The brunette growled at him. 'I should kill you for everything you have done to my people!'

Arthur immediately knew what the other meant, he had magic. The blond reached for his wound, knowing it had closed, he glared quick at Merlin. 'Why did he heal me, magic is evil, but he still helped me.' He was confused, but decided not to give Merlin much thought, he didn't seem to be a threat. 'I'm not afraid of you, sorcerer!' He told the brunette.

The man let out a low growl. 'I'm a druid! Die. Now!' He shouted, while running towards him, holding his sword above his head. Arthur immediately prepared to defend himself, he tried to ignore the piercing pain in his foot.

Merlin jumped, Arthur was surprised the raven could run that fast, in front of him, protecting the prince with his small body. The brunette stopped, glaring at his friend. 'Don't protect him, he wouldn't hesitate to kill us.'

'But... but he's hurt.'

The brunette let out a frustrating scream. 'You little brat!' Arthur pitied the boy, Merlin flinched from those words. 'Why do I have to babysit you?'

'You don't have to do that!' Merlin defended himself.

'Just shut up, you're not even really one of us!' The brunette himself even gasped after he said those words. Arthur saw that those words really hurt the black haired boy, Merlin shrank, becoming even smaller then he already was, the druid who then realised Arthur was still there grabbed a hurt Merlin and pulled him away from the prince. The raven didn't resist.

The brown haired man pointed his sword to Arthur's chest again, Merlin's eyes widened, trying to jump to the prince again, but the brunette held him in place. 'Because of Merlin I won't kill you now, but next time I won't show mercy.'

The blond opened his mouth to comment, but decided it wouldn't be a smart move. The brunette gave him one last glare and walked away, dragging Merlin with him. Both man kept looking at Arthur, the brunette to make sure the prince wouldn't do anything and Merlin like he wanted to stay with Arthur.

Arthur kept staring at them, somewhere in his heart he wanted to keep Merlin by him, protect him, he didn't understood his own feelings, he had never met this boy before.

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Merlin walked after Devin, the brunette was walking with a fast pace and Merlin knew that the man was angry. Devin was only four years older then he was, but acted like he was one of the leaders, Merlin knew that that the brunette hated it when the elders wanted him to watch over the raven, Merlin himself didn't even know why, he was old enough to watch over himself.

They were close to the camp when Merlin saw his parents ran to him, followed by Cornelius, which had difficulties keeping up with his younger friends. Hunith embraced him, squeezing her body against his. His parents looked relieved at him, he then rolled his eyes, they were way to protective of him.

Cornelius panted when he reached the group and turned to Devin. 'We were worried about you two, both knights of Camelot and bandits have been seen in the forest.'

Devin let out a sigh. 'Yeah we know now.'

Merlin heard his mother gasped and her grip on him tightened even more, it began to be painful. Balinor and Cornelius looked worried at each other. 'What did they do?'

'We met...' Devin and Merlin looked into each others eyes. 'We met prince Arthur, he had just killed two of the bandits, but he was hurt.'

The older druid frowned, a worried look came upon his face. 'What did you do?'

Devin stared confused at the elder. 'I wanted to kill him.' This caused the others to widen their eyes and look at him in shock. 'I didn't do it, this little brat stopped me, he protected the prince.'

They then stared at the raven, Balinor laid his hand on his son's shoulder. 'You know he would have killed you, so why did you stop Devin?'

Merlin shrugged. 'Don't know... I felt like I should protect him, but I don't know why... and he was injured.'

'Did you heal him?' Hunith asked with a high voice, Merlin slowly nodded, not sure if it was such a good idea as he had though it was back then. She looked as if she could faint any moment now. 'Then... he knows you have magic... and he didn't do anything to you?' Her son shook his head, the prince hadn't showed any desire to hurt him.

Cornelius placed his hand on the raven's back. 'Then lets hope he won't be the tyrant his father is, but' He turned back to Devin. 'I'm glad that you didn't do anything to him, we don't want to anger Uther even more.'

Devin's eyes darkened. 'That monster would kill us even when we wouldn't anger him, if I had killed his son then at least we would know his son wouldn't do his murder work.'

The elder druid shook his head. 'You still have a lot to learn.'

The brunette tossed his arms in the air and stormed off. They looked at him until he disappeared, staying quiet for some time. It was Hunith who broke the silence. 'I'm so glad that you're fine.'

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A/N: So the first chapter, what did you guys think of it... I have to admit I'm not completely happy about it... Still I hope you liked it, please tell.