The Merlin Universe Upside/Down!

Author's Note: I decided to do a series of Prompts where I write two stories for the same prompt but one is happy and the other is sad, I'm not sure if I'm going to post them all or not but here is one at least.

The Call

From the Prompt: "Today I got the phone call"

Merlin was sipping his pumpkin latte' by himself as Arthur was at work and always laughed at him for buying such strange tasting things.

"It's not strange it's perfectly delicious. Stupid Arthur."

Merlin was babbling to himself as he walked down the street towards their home a strangely rustic looking building that was so cheap it made you wonder what had happened there that it was such a steal, but they had turned its strange atmosphere into one of love and home.

As he continued to walk down the street still muttering to himself about selfish prats who have no taste in life, he felt his pocket vibrate. Sighing he drew his ringing phone from his coat while glancing at the caller ID praying to himself it wasn't morgana scheming up something and needing his help again. Last time had been a disaster…. He shivered thinking about it, but to his luck found an unknown number instead of the dreaded prankster he knew would darken his doorstep soon with more chaos. He answered the call, said hello and was sipping his latte' when he promptly choked at the information unloaded into his brain. His face went dark; a storm picked up as he hung up the phone and thundered down the street towards his home practically vibrating with a strange sense of energy that made passerby's feel a sense of dread. Arthur was so dead…..

Arthur had had quite a lovely day, flirting with his secretary Gwen even though she was dating Morgana was a favorite pastime that never failed to make his sister's face burn with jealous rage. So of course, he couldn't resist. However, as he was driving home after a long day's work, in his opinion he worked much harder than anyone had a right to, the cold sunny day turned downright frigid as a storm began to brew.

"Dammit, what did I do this time?" Arthur whined to himself.

He of course knew there were several things Merlin might be upset about as he had been hiding all of Merlin's favorite mugs so he couldn't make himself tea in the morning and kept changing the ringtones on Merlin's phone, as well as leaving little joke boxes all over the apartment so that he could catch a picture of Merlin screaming like a girl. He pushed the accelerator and hurried home to his doom as curiosity won over caution which was thrown to the wind. As he entered the house through the front door, he tiptoed quietly trying to sense where Merlin was. A loud attention-grabbing cough echoed behind him. Arthur froze. He'd been discovered. He slowly turned around to face Merlin who sat on the couch by the entrance.

'Oh dear, he's really pissed this time' Arthur thought to himself upon get a look at Merlin's face.

"Merlin! Fancy seeing you here, do you come here often?"

Dead silence met Arthur's joke. Then Merlin began to speak in a sugary sweet tone which told Arthur he was in fact in peril.

"Today I got the phone call. Would you like to know what phone call I am referring to?" Merlin smiled his crooked grin but with eyes that promised murder. Arthur ever clueless asked quietly, "Yes?"

Merlin stood up and strode up to Arthur getting into his face as he replies, "It was Uther calling to ask me why on earth I thought I could marry his son without a word to him that we'd even become engaged." Arthur paled.

"Yes, um, well you see, um, well…" Merlin interrupted his mad scramble for words as he shouted, "It's funny because I don't remember being engaged to you, it's almost like you didn't ask, oh wait you didn't you stupid prat!"

"Now look here Merlin, I'm sorry but Morgana and Father were," Arthur stopped mid-sentence as Merlin stepped even closer.

"We are going to have to have a lot of sex to make up for this Arthur and I want a stupid ring or I'm telling everyone you broke it off." Merlin's words rang deadly as Arthur pictured Morgana's and his father's reaction to such news.

He sighed deeply and replied solemnly, "Yes dear."