Here is a Merthur story for everyone. If you've read any of my previous stuff, you'll know I love Mergana.. Well I'm a Merthur fan as well. Only thing is.. How do you make it canon if Arthur is married? (Since I have to stick to canon!) Well, I think I did it.. Sorry if it seems rushed. I'm rubbish at not rushing things! I don't own Merlin!
Merlin entered Arthur's chambers to wake him on what started out as a normal morning. Normally Guinevere would do it since they shared a bed after their marriage, but she had contracted infulenza and was staying away from Arthur so he would not catch it. It would not do to have both the king and queen ill.
"Sire," Merlin said, shaking Arthur. "Its time to wake up."
Arthur opened his eyes to look at Merlin. At first, he wore his usual 'how dare you wake me, leave the room before I kill you with my bare hands' expression, but when he caught sight of Merlin, it changed. He now wore a very odd expression.
"Good morning, Merlin," he said with a wink.
Merlin stopped in his tracks. The tone of Arthur's voice was strange enough, that wink had been over the line. "Sire, are you all right?"
"I certainly am, Merlin. I'm always all right when you are here."
"I see. I'll just go and fetch your breakfast. You get dressed while I'm gone."
He headed for the door and Arthur called, "No! Don't leave!"
"You want breakfast don't you?" Merlin asked.
"Certainly. How about I have you for breakfast? Come closer, Merlin."
"I don't think I will," Merlin managed to say. He slowly backed toward the door. Arthur made to get up but Merlin bolted, locked the door with magic and ran to find Gaius. He burst into the physician's chambers and Gaius dropped a test tube, startled by the noise. It shattered on the floor.
"Merlin! Shouldn't you be getting Arthur his breakfast?"
"Trust me, I almost was."
"What?" asked Gaius, confused.
"He said he wanted me for breakfast. Not in a threatening way. It was more sexual sounding."
"Are you sure? He is married you know."
"Really, Gaius? I had no idea. But yes, I'm sure. He said 'good morning' very sweetly, in a very un-Arthur-ish way and he winked at me."
"Oh dear. That does sound odd. I will check on him. You better get him real breakfast and proceed with caution."
When Merlin returned to Arthur's chambers with a tray of food, Arthur was no where to be found. Merlin sat the tray down on the table and called out, "Arthur?" There was no response. Merlin walked across the room. He was near the dressing screen when it happened.
Arthur jumped out and attacked him. Merlin tried to fight him off, but Arthur was much stronger than he was. After a few moments of wrestling, Arthur managed to get Merlin to the bed. He shoved Merlin down and jumped on top of him. Straddeling him to prevent him from escaping, he spoke,
"Merlin, you have no idea how long I have wanted you. Finally, you're all mine." Merlin's eyes widened and he struggled trying to escape. "There is no escape, Merlin. You know you want this as much as I."
Arthur closed his eyes and leaned down to kiss Merlin. Merlin took this chance, he silently cast a sleeping spell on Arthur. He fell asleep immediately and Merlin shoved him off. He took off once again to find Gaius.
He found Gaius leaving his chambers. "Gaius! Arthur- he just attacked me. He wrestled me to his bed and jumped on top of me, I couldn't escape. He told me he wanted me and then he tried to kiss me."
"Oh my. I think he may be under some sort of spell. but I can't be certain until I examine him. I think its best not to tell the queen just yet. How did you escape, Merlin?"
"A sleeping spell. He is out like a light right now."
After examining the sleeping Arthur, Gaius turned to Merlin. "I was right. He's under a spell. You can see it in his eyes. Who would do such a thing?"
"Morgana," Merlin said, simply.
"Possibly. But why?"
"To make Arthur cheat on Gwen so she would get angry. That is the only logical explanation."
"I want you to go, Merlin, but wake him up as you leave the room. I want to talk to him."
Merlin left the room, waking Arthur as he left.
"Gaius! What brings you here?"
"Merlin said there was something wrong with you, Sire. He sent me to check on you."
"Merlin," Arthur repeated, smiling. "Where is he?"
"I'm not sure, my lord."
Disappointment was clearly written on Arthur's face. "I guess I'll have to find him. Please excuse me, Gaius."
Arthur pounced from the room like a hyperactive child and Gaius called, "But, Sire! You haven't eaten your breakfast!"
Merlin spent the day being stealthy. In addition to his usual duties, Merlin had to dodge Arthur as well. He returned to Gaius' chambers and Gaius had told him Arthur was looking for him with that 'hungry' look in his eyes.
Merlin spent that night searching for something in his spell book. He sent another servant to attend to Arthur that night so he wouldn't have to face him again. He wanted to wait and see if it would wear off the next morning. After finidng nothing, he passed the task on to Gaius.
When Merlin sneaked in to wake Arthur up the following morning, he found him already awake, sitting in bed waiting.
"There you are, Merlin! Where on earth did you disappear to yesterday? I might have to put you in the stocks for that!"
Merlin sighed. Back to normal then! he thought.
"As long as the stocks are in here," Arthur smirked. "So we can have some alone time."
Merlin, who had turned to open the drapes, froze. He quickly turned and was about to dash for the door when he noticed Arthur was blocking his way. Not only that, but he was standing there, naked.
Merlin averted his eyes and said, "Sire, you are under a spell. You don't love me, you're married! To Guinevere!"
"Well, of course I'm married. Only because it was expected of me. Sure, I loved Guinevere, but I have always loved you more!"
"That is a lie and you know it!" Merlin slowly backed up to the small servant's chamber door and escaped.
He hid in an alcove in the corridor and heard Arthur run by yelling, "Merlin!" After that, he paid a visit to his queen.
Merlin knocked on the door and entered when Gwen said so.
"Merlin!" she said, she sounded much better.
"Gwen," he smiled. "Can I hide in here for a while and talk with you?"
"Sure. But hide from who?"
"Arthur. He is under a spell."
"What kind of spell and how do you know?"
"Definitely some sort of love spell. I know because he tried to kiss me then he wrestled me into his bed." Gwen gasped. "Don't be mad at him, all right? He can't help it!"
"Okay, I won't be." She smiled.
"So how are you feeling?"
"Much better. I think I will be better by tonight or tomorrow, so maybe I can be of some help. Are you looking for something to fix it?"
"Gaius is. I'm sure he will find something. It might take a while though." During the moment of silence, he heard a call of "Merlin!" from down the corridor. "I am not here!" He dove under Gwen's bed.
The door opened a second later and Arthur wandered in. He gave Gwen an indifferent look and asked, "have you seen Merlin?"
"Not today," Gwen told him. He just turned and left the room without another word, disappointment written all over his face. "Love you too!" she called sarcastically.
"I'm hoping it wears off," Merlin said climbing out from under the bed.
"Maybe it will. I guess we will see, please be careful Merlin. Don't let him hurt you," Gwen said looking sympathetic.
"I'd like to see him try," he responded. Gwen laughed.
"Maybe get a bodyguard, Merlin. Gwaine, perhaps."
"That is a good idea. I'll see him in the morning if Arthur isn't back to normal."
Merlin managed to avoid Arthur for the rest of the day by sneaking back to Gaius' chambers and getting a list of herbs to go get in the forest. Gaius was still searching for a solution to the problem.
That night, Merlin was asleep in his own bed when he felt something beside him. He woke up and strained to see in the dark, his eyes finally adjusted to the light. A half-naked Arthur had climbed into his small bed right beside him.
"GAIUS!" Merlin yelled. Arthur took his momentary distraction at calling Gaius to kiss him. Arthur was holding him down and preventing him from moving during the whole process and that is how Gaius found them.
"Sire!" Gaius exclaimed, bounding into the room. "What do you think you are doing?"
"What does it look like Gaius? Kissing the love of my life. Please leave us."Gaius did not know what to do. He needed to help Merlin but he didn't know what Arthur would do if he disobeyed a direct order.
"Oh, Sire, I know something that might help. A little potion to give you a... um boost, if you will."
"Really? Merlin and I would really find that useful. Right, Merlin?" He didn't wait for a response before he was kissing Arthur again.
Merlin mumbled something. Gaius had left the room and returned with a small vial.
"Here, Sire. This should be enough to last for a few hours. Enjoy it while it lasts.""Thank you, Gaius! I knew you would be supportive of Merlin and I." He drained the vial in one sip. The effect was instantaneous. He slipped into unconsiousness and fell off of Merlin's bed, into the floor."Merlin, are you all right?"Gaius asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I need to go see Gwaine, right now."
Merlin left Gaius' chambers and headed for the wing where the knights lived. He approached Gwaine's door and found it locked. Instead of knocking, he magicked it open and slipped inside.
"Gwaine," he said shaking the other man.
"M-Merlin?" he mummured sleepily.
"Yes. Wake up, its important."
"Must be. You know not to wake me up in the middle of the night unless its an emergency."
"Well, I would definitely call Arthur slipping into your bed, kissing you, and attempting other things is definitely an emergency. Wouldn't you?"
"The princess did what?"
"He's under a spell. Some sort of love spell and he's fallen in love with me. Gaius is looking for a solution, but since Arthur keeps attacking me, Gwen suggested I get a bodyguard."
"Anything for my best friend, Merlin."
"Thank you, Gwaine! Could you please help me by getting Arthur out of my room? And please tell no one else. You know how some people are, they may blame me and try to talk Arthur into executing me after this is over. I know he wouldn't but still I don't want him to listen to that nonsense."
"After this is over, we should really talk Arthur into letting you train with the knights. You need to build some muscle, Merlin. If you did, you wouldn't need me to protect you from a princess!"
"Yes, thank you for that suggestion Gwaine."
Gwaine got out of bed and followed Merlin back to his room. Gaius was in the middle of fixing another sleeping draught when Merlin returned.
"What are you doing that for, Gaius?" Merlin asked.
"Oh, I want you to carry a sleeping draught around until we get this sorted out. If Arthur corners you, just try to get him to drink it."
"Gwaine, he's in the floor in my room," Merlin said. Once Gwaine went in to his room, Merlin lowered his voice and said, "But I can do that with magic."
"Too risky. Someone might see you. This is for you to use if someone else is around. Not to mention, Arthur might remember anything you do afterward."
"Point taken." Gwaine walked out with Arthur thrown over his shoulder. "I'll get the doors for you on the way, Gwaine."
After they made it to Arthur's chambers and Gwaine threw him on the bed, Gwaine said, "I'll meet you in Gaius chambers around dawn. Luckily I didn't make it to the tavern last night and it doesn't look like I'll be making it there anytime soon either."
"Sorry, Gwaine, but thanks for helping me out."
"Not a problem, Merlin," Gwaine told him as they walked out into the corridor. "What're friends for?"
True to his word, Gwaine arrived in Gaius' chambers the next morning as sun was beginnning to rise. Merlin went to the kitchen and got Arthur's breakfast and walked with Gwaine to Arthur's chambers.
Gwaine waited in the corridor in case Merlin needed help. Merlin sat the tray on the table, grabbed a pillow and yelled, "Arthur, wake up!" before throwing the pillow at his head.
Arthur sat up and looked at Merlin, grinning like an idiot. Merlin didn't wait around he bolted through the door and down the corridor with Gwaine following.
"Merlin! What happened? Where are you going?"
"Nothing happened. I just want to get as far away from him as possible. As for where I'm going, we are going to visit Gwen."
Merlin turned the corner heading for the room Gwen was staying in temporarily when he saw her emerge in a beautiful powder blue dress.
"Feeling better?" Merlin asked.
"Much better!" she said happily. "I see you took my advice and asked Gwaine to protect you."
"He came to me last night after Arthur attacked him in his sleep," Gwaine told her.
"He did what?" Gwen asked, confused.
"I was sleeping last night and Arthur got into my bed and kissed me. Gaius tricked him into drinking a sleeping draught and I went to get Gwaine to take Arthur back to his chambers."
"Its getting worse!" Gwen sighed.
"Yes. It really is. At least his action are. The things he says haven't changed. Like when he said he wanted me for breakfast and then he wanted my in the stocks, in his room, so we could have 'alone time.' I don't even want to know what he was thinking."
"Well, mate, I think-" Gwaine started. Merlin held up a hand to stop him.
"I said I didn't want to know."
"Anyway," Gwen said, "just make sure Gwaine stays with you. I'm going to go have a word with Arthur right now."
"Gwen, I don't think that is necessary. Here he comes," Merlin said nodding behind her. She turned to see Arthur walking down the corridor with a smile on his face. He looked as though he had dressed in a hurry.
Gwen and Gwaine both moved to block his path to Merlin and Gwen yelled, "Arthur Pendragon, what on earth are you doing?"
"Trying to have some alone time with Merlin. Its quite hard because he keeps running."
"For good reason, princess," Gwaine snapped.
"I'm the king, you can't speak to me like that."
"On the contrary, he can, Arthur," Gwen said. "I give him permission. You are not in your right state of mind so I am in charge for the time being."
"Gwen," Merlin whispered, "remember that time he was under that spell and in love with Lady Vivian? You kissed him because you were his true love and he returned to normal. Maybe that will happen this time."
She nodded and slowly moved toward Arthur. "Now, Arthur, you know Merlin is not going to want you when you keep doing idiotic things that scare him away."
"I guess you have a-" he was interrupted when Gwen kissed him on the mouth. His eyes bulged in surprise and after what seemed like an eternity, Gwen pulled away looking hopeful. "What do you think you're doing? You may be my wife, but the only person allowed to do that is Merlin!"
"Not the same spell then," Merlin sighed.
"We'll resume this after I have seen to the meeting with the knights, Merlin," Arthur said with a wink and he strode off the direction he came. "I expect to see you all there within the hour!"
"How many different love spells can there be?" Gwen asked after Arthur disappeared.
"No idea. Gaius is still looking though. He has a large book about them that Uther let him keep. From the size of the book, I guess there are quite a few."
"Who did this?" Gwaine asked.
"My first guess would be Morgana. She tried her best to prevent Arthur and Gwen from getting married. She failed to stop it, so I think she might be trying to end it."
"She is really stupid if she thinks I will leave Arthur for loving someone else especially when he is obviously under a spell."
"That is true," Merlin said. "Gwen, don't tell anyone. Like I told Gwaine, you know how some people are. If they find out Arthur is under a spell and has fallen in love with me they might assume I did it and try to talk him into executing me. I don't want him to have to go through hearing that."
There is one more chapter! I wrote it to be either two chapters or one long one. I went for two. It will be up soon. :)