Looking down at the boy outside my door I memorised id never seen such power before, he was still a little shaky but with the right training he'd be great. Although I was amazed I was unsure of what to do with these powers if anyone was to find out we'd be shot, and why of all people had his mother sent him to me. Admittedly I was the only one in our family who still practised the old ways of medicine but it was hard enough hiding my potions without a young wizard around to stir things up and a wizard that was so ignorant of the restrictions he'd practice magic in a hallway for all to see.
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I still didn't know what mum expected to do with my powers I mean they were practically useless with a remote that controlled everything and every mode of transport thinkable apart from party tricks but who could do them without the authority's finding out. "Go to the city and live with your great uncle Gaius oh and while your at it I've go you a job working for Arthur Pendragon son of the man who had banned all magic." What a way to get myself caught.
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Gaius opened the door making merlin almost jump out of his skin
"what the hell do you think your doing"
"What??" Merlin replied
Gaius dragged merlin by his left arm into the apartment and slammed the door the apartment looked simple a small room with a TV in the comer a little sofa with a coffee table with the daily paper on it. There was a smell of lavender and some other herb that merlin did not quite recognise.
"you shouldn't be practising magic in the hallway you know its against the law your mother told me you were intelligent well ill soon knock some sense into you ."
"sorry" merlin felt embarrassed he'd never been told of like this for using magic he was always told it was a gift.
"you've got to be more careful around Arthur he could have you killed"
A buzzer went of somewhere in the apartment merlin quickly darted around to see f anyone was there.
"calm down merlin its only the doorbell"
Gaius moved swiftly to the door merlin could not quite hear what Gaius was saying but it sounded like he was inviting the stranger in.
"I'm Arthur Pendragon I've come to make sure my slave had arrived safely"
"I believe the actual term is assistant" merlin replied from the moment he saw him he knew Arthur was as obnoxious as he thought he was.
"yeah whatever oh and on your way to work tomorrow could you pick me up a double espresso I need my morning caffeine especially at 6 o'clock"
"I have to be at work at 6"
"no"
Merlin sighed in relief
"you have to be at work at 5 to prepare my breakfast and plan my schedule for the day"
Merlin's mouth dropped open he was beginning thinking that he shouldn't of moved to the city his modest house (that always had that home smell) and the little corner shop in which he worked seemed perfect compared to this.