Merlin had woken up in a good mood, everything about today had been great so far, Gaius had cooked him a delicious breakfast which settled in his stomach rather nicely, the sun was shining and the birds were singing. Merlin stopped in the hall to listen to the birds singing, "ahh what a lovely day so peacef-" Merlin was cut off.
"MERLIN" Arthur growled from his chambers
"Yes sire" Merlin replied rather sarcastically walking towards Arthur's chambers
"aha, Merlin" Arthur said with a tone in his voice Merlin didn't like the sound of, "Go and muck out my stables". Merlin turned to walk away and looked back at Arthur who was now smirking, Merlin sighed as he closed Arthur's door.
Whilst walking to the stables Merlin was to busy thinking about how much of a prat Arthur was to notice the stairs ahead of him "stupid prat" , he whispered under his breath before he suddenly lost his balance, he rolled down the stairs twisting his leg awkwardly.
Merlin wanted to cry, the pain was shooting up his foot making his eyes water, "well today was going so well" he thought to himself. He tried to get up, he winced from the pain in his foot, he knew it was broken, he remembered the pain from when he was younger when he decided it was fun to jump off a tree and land on his ankle, his mother had to carry him all the way home, he was on small wooden crutches for ages.
"Merlin? Are you okay" Gwen asked walking towards him, with a worried expression on her face.
"I-I tripped, I think my foot is broken" Merlin said sheepishly
"can you stand Merlin" Gwen said softly
"I think so" Merlin replied trying to stand, he stumbled and Gwen grabbed him, "lets get you back to Gaius" she said gently
Merlin hopped into Gaius's room with his arm around Gwen, "what happened Merlin" Gaius
as said worry in his voice, "Its nothing I just broke my foot I think" said Merlin trying to smile through the pain. "sit" Gaius said bluntly, he examined Merlin and confirmed it was definitely broken.
At that point Arthur stormed in, and snarled at Merlin "my stables haven't been mucked out yet Merlin" Merlin looked at Arthur and pointed at his thickly bandaged foot, Arthur's face dropped
"what the hell happened"
"well sire it was your fault really, you made me muck out the stables and I fell down the stairs" Merlin said smugly "looks like you will need a new servant for a while" Merlin said getting up slowly on his crutches, "how about George?" Merlin grinned knowing how Arthur couldn't stand him, he thought he was boring, and never stopped talking.
"NOOOOOO" Arthur shouted storming out
Merlin, Gwen and Gaius all burst out laughing, before Gwen made an exit , "hope your leg gets better soon Merlin" she smiled
"thank you" replied Merlin waving, before he laid back down and closing his eyes, "ahh peace at last" he thought.