Prompt: Fish Bowl
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur - I think this is and a Modern!AU Fic but im not great at figuring that out :P
Words: 870
Rating: G
Warnings: Hatred of Fish. Slash to come in later Chapters.
Disclaimors: It's hard to stake claim over people who may or may not have really exsisted centuries ago so Im not gonna try to.
Author's Notes: So even though I have more than 2 dozen fics im supposed to be working on I asked Orionspenguin to give me prompts and this was among them :P Im going post all the drabbles together in chapters here but I wont say when because Im a horrible person who cant seem to keep to a posting schedual but seeing as Im working on one as we speak *ahem* read hopefully it shouldnt be to long before the next one :)
also to any of my regular readers who have commented, faved, alerted or another form of action here who I havent responed to: Thank you all so much 3 Stupid life gets in the way sometimes and I dont get to say it as much as I like :) and I promise that I'll be finishing more of my stuff soon! *hopefully*
~Enjoy~
The Fish
"Leave the Fish alone Merlin"
"But MUUUUUUUUUM! He keeps looking at me funny! LOOK!"
4 Year old Merlin Turned back to watch the little black gold fish swimming in circles in his fish bowl, It's bulging eyes blinking slowly as he swan pasted the hyperactive boy.
"SEE! OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE THAT? What Did I do to HIM? Why would he even think to-" he continued his rant about evil glaring fish as Hunith left the room.
Merlin had been yelling at that fish every day since he got it a month ago, Hunith had heard it all already so she would calmly walked from the room and return just in time for the climax of it nodding her agreement that yes the fish was very evil indeed.
Luckily for her she was starting a new job today so they would both be distracted for much of the day.
Hunith had been out of the workforce since Merlin had been born and she'd recently decided that if they were to be at home for hours at a time he may as well make some friends before starting school and if the sound of the door bell ringing was to be believed their guest had just arrived.
"I'LL GET IT!" Merlin cried as he rushed past her to get to the door first. He stretched up and pulled the door open only to come face to face with bright blue eyes.
"Who Are You?" he said with a hint of annoyance in his voice. His mind was racing. Who was this strange boy appearing on his step? What did he want? Was his mother replacing him? The only other boy he'd ever seen was Will and He wasn't allowed to come and play because he was in trouble... what was going on?
The Blond boy had just open his mouth to respond when Merlin's mother came forward smiling warmly to their visitors
"Mr. Pendragon, how lovely to see you again" she said shaking the older gentleman's hand before continuing "and this must be young Arthur" She bent down to greet him and the blond offered his hand
"Hello" he said politely "It's nice to meet you"
His eyes, however, never left the other strange boy who was bouncing hesitantly behind his mother while he silently judged the strangers at his door.
"It's a pleasure to meet you as well" she smiled while shaking his hand "Why dont you and Merlin go into the living room while I speak to your father"
This seemed to snap Merlin out of his worry because his head snapped and cried "THAT FISH?" before he ran from the room seconds later.
Chuckling and rolling her eyes at her son's antics she pointed down the hallway "It's just through there you won't get lost and I'm sure any second now you'll he some yelling so he won't be hard to find"
Arthur nodded then turned to briefly hug his father around the middle before starting towards the hallway just in time for them all to hear
"DAMN YOU EVIL FISH!"
Arthur raised his brow while he started forward, the sounds of his father and the new sitter as they spoke of pick up times and payments following him as he went.
He followed the noises down hall until he came across the strange brunette boy standing on his tippy toes in an attempt to glare more forcefully at the poor creature trapped in the bowl.
Arthur watched as the other started to walk circles around the table and verbally daring the fish to try whatever it was apparently intending to do.
After a few minutes of watching this, during which he was surprised to hear his father chuckling quietly from the door, he walked over to the dizzying boy and started to speak.
"What the hell are you doing?"
Merlin stopped chasing the fish and started open mouth and wide eyed at Arthur until he said
"You said a bad word!" and he suddenly looked about ready to run to his mother to tell. Arthur, having being told that very morning, that his had to learn not to say bad words started looking for a distraction so he didn't get in trouble from his father again.
His eyes eye's caught sight of the fish and realized that was exactly what he needed.
"What's your fish's name?"
The other boy jumped again and turned and quickly started chasing the fish once more.
"His Name is Dr. Potato head and he's EVIL! You won't believe the type of things he's possibly capable of! OH GOD! DID YOU SEEE? Just LOOK at the way he LOOKS AT ME!"
Arthur gave the other boy a strange look before saying what he had been thinking since he had arrived.
"You're a bit of an Idiot aren't you...?"
Merlin stopped and glared at the blond for a second before replying
"And Your A bit of a Prat!"
They glared at one another for a few moments before they started laughing at the other boy's "Serious Face"
Arthur put his hand out with the grin still spread across his face.
"Name's Arthur"
Then, after a brief hesitant moment Merlin Gripped the offered hand with his own
"Hi I'm Merlin"
YAY DRABBLES 3
I think Im finally getting over my allergicness to them ;P
look out for more :)
