First Merlin fan fic, hope you like it

Summary: What happens when Cleo falls asleep and dreams of what she thinks is a fantasy world, but wakes up and finds it's her new reality, will she ever get home?

Disclaimer: I don't own Merlin; I only own Cleo and the people you don't recognise

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I was just finishing Uni, God how sick I was off the teachers! They had decided to give us all summer homework, yay! Not. As I walked through the campus building I could hear the rain hammering the windows. As I neared the door that led outside I pulled my umbrella from the bottom of my bag. A piece of paper came out of my bag and floated to the floor. I watched it curiously; I wasn't sure what it was. I stooped to pick it up and unfolded it. I read it in my head once then sighed in disbelief.

Dear Miss Dubois,

I am writing to remind you of our meeting on the 21st July 2010 (today's date) at five o'clock to talk about your medication, I believe a stronger dose of sleeping tablets will help but we will discuss this at the date indicated above.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Watson.

I wasn't happy; I knew the sleeping tablet would not help my weird dreams. Every night I would dream of a fantasy world full of magic and mystical creatures. But sometimes it would turn nasty, and I would wake up screaming or I would wake up and have cuts and bruises. I would spend the whole day wondering how I got them. The doctor had given me sleeping tablets, and they got stronger and stronger every few weeks. But this messed up with my waking hours, I still woke screaming some nights and because of lack of sleep I still feel extremely sleepy throughout the day. I opened the umbrella and walked out into the rain. If I headed straight to the doctors I would get there at about twenty to five. Puddles were forming everywhere; I had a hard time avoiding them. Instead I walked through them, my converse soaking up some water. I could hear someone walking behind me, I wasn't bothered who it was then I felt something brush my shoulder. I looked up to see Cedric standing under my umbrella, his blonde hair soaked. He was the school hotty, pretty much every girl, including me, wanted to be with him. I couldn't think why he would come under my umbrella, especially since he had a popular girlfriend.

"Hey hope you don't mind, I didn't want to get wet."

"No I don't mind, where you heading?" I asked, still in disbelief.

"Towards the doctors, my sister school is just beside it. I promised her I would pick her up."

"Well I'm heading the same way; you can keep dry till you get there." I joked. We walked in silence, it wasn't uncomfortable. When he reached the school gates he turned to face me under the umbrella.

"Thanks for letting me stay under the umbrella."

"Oh it's no problem. Anytime." I said goodbye and walked towards the doctors. It was nearly five so I just had enough time to sign in and have a quick sit down before I was called in. Dr Watson's office was small; it contained a desk, a few chairs and an examining bed. I sat in the chair opposite the desk.

"Well Cleo, your mother called me to tell me that your dreams have not gotten any better." I nodded in agreement, "Now I believe we can go up to a stronger dose again."

"But, it's not helping at all, I still feel extremely tired during the day and I always wake up in the middle of the night."

"We'll try this, it's the strongest dose and if it doesn't help we'll have to find a different set of tablets that might work."

"Yeah ok." I mumbled. He wrote out a prescription for me and I headed to the pharmacists. I got a taxi home so I wouldn't be too late. My mother was in the living room waiting for; I had never met my father. He left before I was even born. She got up to say something but I just shook the tablets at her and she let me go up to my room. I sat on my bed a while, I didn't want to go to sleep. Sometimes I enjoyed the dreams but I didn't want to have to go through the pain again. I had to take the tablets half an hour before I was to go to sleep. I quickly changed into my pj's and got into bed. I took the tablets and waited half an hour. I rested my head on the pillow. Slowly my eyes closed and I drifted off to sleep.

Dream...

I was riding a majestic white horse through a darkened forest. I could just see the top of the castle; I would be there before dawn. My horse slowed, I could hear movement to either side of me. Gracefully I slid of her back and unsheathed my sword. Out of the black a man emerged. He was filthy, a bandit, he advanced sword in front of him.

"Give me your valuables." He said in a gruff voice.

"I don't have any." I said. He advanced.

"I said, give me your valuables."

"And I said I don't have any." he growled and lunged at me. Swiftly I side stepped and he stumbled past me. Our swords clashed, the ring of metal on metal was echoed in the dark forest. Neither of us were winning, we were evenly matched. Then I stumbled slightly, he swung his sword in an arch and I barely had time to move. It cut into my side; I screamed in agony and dropped my sword. The man ran to my horse and started to empty my bag. It only contained parchment. He came over to me, sword held high above him. I was feeling light headed, my eyelids were drooping. He brought the sword down but it hit something before it hit me. A blurry figure was standing over me his sword protecting me.

"I wouldn't do that if I was you." The voice said.

"And what if I do?" the bandit asked. The man laughed. Then I heard the clash of metal.

"Merlin help her!" the man shouted.

"Yes Arthur." Merlin shouted. He ran over to me, his face came in and out of focus. But I could see he had short black hair and blue eyes. His eyes were scanning my wound. "Arthur what do I do?" Great I had a brilliant physician (!)

"Merlin in case you hadn't noticed I'm a bit busy." Merlin turned to look at something. Carefully I turned my head to see the man, Arthur, and the bandit locked in battle. From what I could see Arthur was winning. Merlin had turned his attention back to me. He had taken his red scarf off and had wrapped it round my waist to stop the bleeding. He had one hand pressed against the wound and the other had moved to my face. He was trying to get my attention.

"My Lady, you'll be safe. We're going to get you to the castle and Gaius will help you ok." I nodded my head weakly. Someone picked me up. I looked up expecting it to be Merlin but it was Arthur. He had blonde hair and bright blue eyes.

"Merlin, get my horse." I heard the sound of hooves on the soil and I was passed to Merlin while Arthur clambered onto his horse. Merlin passed me back up and Arthur had me secure.

"Thank you." I mumbled, I could feel myself losing consciousness and the last thing I remember was looking out into the dark forest.

Hope u enjoyed it plz r+r next chap should be up soon

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