Disclaimer( the one and only in this story) I don't own Merlin I just enjoy toying around with the characters.
The times of old and times of new
-Prologue-
He remembered the time of old. The times when they would walk around the castle together. He remembered when they died together unwillingly to be without one another. He remembered his last words to him; 'I love you' he'd said.
He always remembered but his love never did.
For that reason his life usually ended the same way. Every time he commit suicide unwillingly to live in a world where his love hated him. He was often alone in his incarnations. No Gwen, Morgana, Leon, Percival, Elyan, Gwaine hell not even Mordred. Maybe if someone was there then he would go on but there was always no-one. He never even had his parents. No Hunith and definitely no Balinor. However he would always find Arthur. And always a month before Arthur's 21st birthday exactly the same amount of days before his birthday that he first met him in Camelot. And Arthur would always look upon him in disgust or hatred. As per Merlin's nature he would usually find him well bump into him at the most inconvenient of times and Arthur would usually reply in more or less the same way either fuck off or would punch him.
He was walking home one night in 1920 after seeing Arthur for the first time in 100 years and he had walked up to him and kissed him fully on the lips and whilst doing so thought about his first life with Arthur.
Bad idea. This lifetimes Arthur was drunk and he punched Merlin for kissing him breaking his nose.
It was a cold night and Merlin pulled his jacket tighter towards his body. Suddenly a car horn sounded behind him. He turned around to see a pair of headlights getting bigger and bigger, it took Merlin a moment to realise the car that headlights belonged to were speeding. Merlin could make out two figures in the car; Uther Pendragon and Arthur. Sensing that maybe they wanted Merlin to get away from the side of the road he moved onto the path but the car didn't falter in its path; towards Merlin.
Panicking Merlin started to run. But he was too slow he could hear the car behind him getting closer and closer to his tiring body, he couldn't hold out much longer. His legs were starting to ache and before he knew it he felt an absurd amount of pain from behind him.
He was flying through the air.
Then he was falling.
Falling.
Falling. Until ..
SMACK! He landed on the concrete road and his body was in so much pain. Turning his head (which was a very bad idea) he saw the car speed away. Hit and run victim is what he will be known as.
'You idiot, only you would turn your head after being knocked over'. Came a familiar voice that was filled with love, guilt, pain and sorrow.
'Arthur?' Merlin chocked.
'Yes, bloody hell Merlin you had some nerve in the pub.' Arthur said as he bent down to hold Merlin's face he put his head in his lap.
'You remember me?'
'Hard not too when you kissed me'.
'But you hit me'.
'It took me a while to remember.'
'How long?'
'2 hours and 2 pints'.
Merlin tried to laugh but it hurt too much.
'Arthur?'
'Yeah?'
'Am I going to die?'
'No!' Arthur exclaimed trying and failing to keep his emotions out of his voice.
'Arthur.'
'You're not going to die Merlin. I've only just found you.'
'Prat. Always thinking about yourself.'
In the distance Merlin could see blue lights signifying an ambulance. He knew by the time the ambulance got to him he would be dead.
'See that Merlin, the ambulance is on its way. You're not going to die you're going to live and when you're better we'll buy a nice house in the country where no-one can disturb us and will live until we are old and grey and we could adopt a couple of kids Merlin. We could be parents! Eh? Imagine that Merlin us with kids? Just please hold on Merlin.'
'Can't. I'm sorry. I love you though'.
'Please don't do this to me Merlin'.
'Sorry'.
'Please just hold on the ambulance is almost here. Please, I love you Merlin. Please don't leave me.' Arthur hadn't realised that Merlin had already gone.
With a scream Merlin woke up. That bloody dream. He had it every night. Which meant he would be seeing Arthur again soon.
'Merlin, are you alright?' his best friend asked.
'Yeah, just had a bad dream'.
'Same one as before?'
'Yeah'.
'Well there becoming more and more frequent so maybe you'll see him again soon?'
'And maybe this time he'll remember me without being prompted this time'.
Gwen, his best friend had known him for his entire life, she remembered her previous life and together they had seeked out the rest of their friends; Morgana, Leon, Percival, Elyan, Lancelot and Gwaine but had only found the first four and only found Elyan because he was Gwen's brother.
'Right I'm going to make us a cup of tea with marshmallows in ok?' Gwen said and got out of her sleeping bag. Elyan who was with them hadn't heard Merlin screamed had now awoken because as Gwen was getting out of her sleeping bag she kicked him on purpose.
'Hey!' a sleepy Elyan protested.
'Merlin had the dream again go and comfort him whilst I make a drink' Gwen replied from the kitchen.
'When we find Pendragon I am going to make sure he remembers you. He causes you so much pain and misery Merlin' Elyan said as he got out of his sleeping bag and joined Merlin on the floor. They'd had one of their sleepovers the ones that usually started off with a doctor who marathon and usually ended up with them all sleeping over or being so drunk they pass out and sleep the night on the floor. This was one of the doctor who marathon times.
'Thought you're meant to be cheering me up'. Merlin cheekily retorted.
'See it worked' Elyan replied and playfully punched Merlin's arm.
'Yeah, yeah it did'.
'Right you two here are your drinks so don't say I don't do anything for you.' Gwen said as she handed them their drinks and sat down.
'It's going to be a bad week.' Merlin said.
'What do you mean?' Elyan said.
'People will be found and people will be lost. People will die and we all will cry. It will all start with a bang but end with a whimper and Arthur Pendragon will walk the earth once more.'
'Merlin snap out of it look at me' Gwen said she was scared but didn't let it show on her face. Merlin had never gone into a trance before. Sure he did weird stuff with his magic but he never ever went into a trance. Something was seriously wrong and if her suspicions were correct Arthur Pendragon will be coming back into their lives, truly and how he used to be once more.