A/N: Hello all people out there. Yes, yes I know you're all probably wondering why I'm giving you this sequel so late (and with such an awful title, yes I suck at making titles) I have no excuses for it other than that I just didn't feel like writing it. But I have promised my beta reader (miss Persuasion) that I would write a sequel to the story through which we came in contact and I couldn't wish for a better beta reader and friend. :) But after so long I finally decided on what kind of sequel I wanted to write. As I said this will take place at Camelot several years after Outlaws ended. I won't say much about the storyline as I don't want to spoil anything. The only thing I want to say is that Robin and his men may be rather OOC, so forgive me for that (I will also not include all of the 'merry men'). So enjoy!

Warning: Violence in later chapters thus rated T.

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''Uncle Merlin!'' Merlin spun around as he heard his name being called, but before he could look down something collided with his legs.

He grinned as he looked down, seeing how the little crown prince had his arms tightly wrapped around his legs, grinning up at him with his deep blue eyes. ''Hi little man.''

The boy started to pout at him. ''I'm not little!''

Merlin chuckled as he sank through his knees, kneeling down next to the boy. ''Of course you aren't. Now Lucan, tell me, where's your mother?''

It was when he mentioned Gwen that the little boy's eyes grew wide and he looked wildly around. ''Uhm...'' He started before he turned back to look at Merlin and the warlock could see tears form in the boy's eyes. ''M-mommy was right behind me when I saw her last...'' He whispered before the tears really started rolling over his cheeks. ''D-daddy is going to be so angry... I pr-promised to look after her and- and now I lost her.''

Merlin gave him a reassuring smile before he picked up the four year old, the boy buried his head into the warlock's shirt and Merlin could already feel the fabric become soggy. ''It's going to be alright, let's find your mother.'' The prince simply nodded and Merlin started walking into the direction the boy had came from.

His eyes shifted through the crowd, searching for his queen. He knew that Gwen was probably worried about her missing son. The boy had the bad habit of running off when he saw someone he knew, which in this case was his uncle Merlin, and it made his parents worry sick about him. Normally he could laugh about it, which caused Arthur to hit him on the back of his head or throw a cup at him or something like that, but now that Gwen was pregnant again... He didn't want her to worry too much as he knew it was bad for the baby.

Lucan let out another sob, but he pulled his face out of Merlin's shirt and he too started to look around for his mother. He couldn't believe how much his life had changed in the past couple of years. He smiled softly as he remembered Robin and his merry men, it had been almost five years since he had left them and besides the occasional letters from them he hadn't seen them in all those years. Once back they had found out that Gwen was pregnant with Lucan, he was just glad that the whole ordeal hadn't effected the child in any way.

But what had changed him the most was the fact that Arthur had made him Court warlock of Camelot and repelled the ban on magic. The whole country had been shocked and the council had been outraged, but in the end it had mostly positive effects on Camelot, the people had bloomed, cheering for their newly found freedom, even though most weren't magical themselves.

''Lucan!'' He turned to Gwen's voice as he heard her scream in relief.

The boy squealed in delight and he struggled in the warlock's arms. Merlin quickly set him down on the ground and the prince hurried of towards his mother, who herself waddled towards her son.

Merlin soon followed him and Gwen looked back up at him with relief. ''I'm so glad that he was with you.'' She then turned to her son and looked at him with a scolding glare. ''And you young man, you shouldn't have run away like that, do you even know how worried I was about you?''

Lucan's eyes fell and he mumbled. ''I'm sorry mommy.''

She breathed deeply out before taking her son in a tight hug. ''Good, now let's go back home.''

The boy nodded and he took his mother's hand. The three of them walked back to the castle. Merlin looked at Gwen and especially her enormous belly, she was only seven months along and she already looked bigger than when she was pregnant with Lucan. ''Are you okay?''

She looked a bit startled up at him. ''Yeah, yeah I'm fine, just tired and all...''

They walked further in silence, but halfway Merlin noticed a messenger running their way and they stopped, watching as the young man ran up to them and half stumbled to a halt right in front of them. The delivery boy was panting heavily before he looked up at the two of them and hastily bowed. ''Excuse me my lady, sir.'' He turned to look at Merlin. ''Your presence is needed at the southern wall.''

Merlin gave him a quick nod. ''Thank you.'' He turned to look at Gwen and the young prince. ''I will be going then, get some rest and you young man, need to stick with your mother and try not to worry us so much.''

Gwen smiled at him. ''Remember that you have dinner with me and Arthur tonight, no skipping again!'' The last she said with a scolding look before turning and walking towards the caste.

The warlock looked for a moment more at her and the little boy holding her hand before he too turned around and quickly made his way towards the southern wall. He had to admit he was a bit worried, he knew that Gilli was training with the students on the open field just outside of the walls. Hopefully they hadn't blown up anything again.

Once he arrived at the southern gate he met a rather wild looking Gilli and it didn't help that he was covered in what looked like gray dust. Merlin looked him up and down as the sorcerer looked at him with guilt in his eyes. ''So what happened?''

Gilli rubbed the back of his neck before his eyes shifted to the students, who were standing nervously at the side. ''Uhh... Jul-we kind of destroyed part of the Southern wall.''

The Court warlock raised his eyebrow. ''And you called me here to fix it?'' Gilli slowly nodded and Merlin rolled his eyes. ''It's fine, but maybe we should move the training field further away from the castle and people, until the students will be able to control their powers more.'' In the corner of his eyes he could see the student's eyes fall. They still had a lot to learn, but he had to admit, they were definitely improving. ''Now hurry up back home, you all have a lot of homework still to do!''

The students hurried off and Gilli, before following the students, looked at him with accusing eyes. Merlin just laughed at him, he didn't really mind cleaning up their mess, it was a welcome change to his daily routine, though he knew that Arthur didn't really like the students blowing up parts of the wall... and buildings, the knight's training field, part of the kitchen... He shrugged.

He quickly made his way towards the part of the wall that they had destroyed. It wasn't as bad as he feared and he quickly spoke several spells. He could feel the magic spread from his fingers and touch the stones or at least what was left of it. His magic repaired and rebuilt the wall and soon it looked just like the other parts of the walls.

Merlin inspected it for a moment more before he smiled and turned to walk back to the castle, he had promised to have dinner with the king and queen after all and he didn't want to disappoint Gwen... Again. He somehow had this bad habit of skipping meals or not eating at all.

He had barely reached the gate when he felt a presence near him. He wanted to spin around to face the person behind him, but before he could do anything or even see who or what was behind him he was grabbed by his waist, his arms pinned to his side.

He yelped out in shock as he was tilted upwards. He started to struggle, kicking the person behind him. A snicker was heard from behind him before he heard the man speak. ''Merlin, calm down, it's me. You do remember me, right?''

Immediately Merlin froze, for a moment just looking shocked in front of him, before he turned to face the man behind him. His eyes met a pair of deer brown ones and a smile that completed the picture. ''Robin?'' He asked weakly.

''Yeah, it is me.'' The outlaw answered with a chuckle.

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The king hastily made his way down the streets, ignoring the people who all quickly bowed for him. He was going to find that idiot of his and drag him back to the castle, he wasn't going to allow Merlin to miss another meal. He knew that Gwen was getting worried about him and he had to admit it, he too was a bit worried about his friend, but he wasn't going to admit it out loud.

Still he could see that Merlin was enjoying life a lot more than when he was his servant. He finally was free to be who he truly was and he was clearly enjoying it. Merlin had adapted to his new status of Court warlock rather quickly and almost everyone in the kingdom looked up to him now. Children screaming that they wanted to be like him when they grew up and he could see a lot of girls and even some guys hit on him, though Merlin was totally oblivious to all of it.

It was then that Arthur saw Gilli and the students walk his way, all of them covered in gray dust and slightly angry. They had blown something up again, hadn't they? He stopped, just looking at the group with a slight glare on his face. Gilli was the first to spot him and he could see the guilt clearly spread over the man's face.

''Uhmm... my lord?''

''Did you blow something up again.''

''Part of the southern wall, but Merlin is cleaning it up.'' The last he quickly added as he did not want the king to yell at them for destroying part of the castle again.

''Of course he's cleaning up for all of you.'' Arthur mumbled mostly to himself. ''He's still there?''

Gilli nodded. ''Probably.'' Arthur nodded at that as he made his way towards the southern wall. ''Goodbye Sire.'' Gilli added as he noticed the king walk away, Arthur just smiled at him as his goodbye.

Arthur walked further down to the southern gate, nodding once to the guards to acknowledge them and they quickly straightened their backs at his presence.

Once outside the walls he looked at both sides and it didn't take him long to spot his friend, the raven was clearly deep in thought as he walked back towards the gate. He smiled softly as he walked to meet the other halfway.

Though he had barely walked a quarter of the distance when he froze, he could see a man sneak up to Merlin. He wanted to scream out in warning, but no sound left his lips and he saw how the man almost threw himself on top of Merlin, wrapping his arms around the raven's small waist and lifting him up. He could see Merlin struggle to get out of his grip and it was then that he shook himself out of his sudden shock.

His legs moved on his own, running to save his friend as he drew his sword. Merlin had stopped struggling and just looked totally shocked at the man.

Arthur growled, he wasn't going to let anyone hurt his friend, he would kill anyone who would do so! 'Release him!'