"You don't have magic Merlin. How could you hope to understand?"
"I do understand, believe me."
He could tell her. The words were right there begging to be said. Merlin thought about it and wondered if he could change her. He truly believed that she wasn't evil at heart. In that split second, Merlin made a decision that would affect the rest of his mortal life.
"Morgana. I don't think you understand."
"What do you mean Merlin?"
"Morgana I… I have magic."
The look in her eyes was somewhere in the middle of horror and bliss.
"Merlin. Are you serious?"
He didn't answer with words but instead flashed his eyes yellow and caused the rubble around them to shake vigorously. Morgana looked shocked.
"Now you mustn't tell Uther. My destiny is to serve Arthur and see him ruling as King. He has no idea about my powers and I'd like to keep it that way. Unless we could somehow show them that magic is useful. But maybe, just maybe we can work together and harvest your powers for good-"
He was stopped mid sentence by the sound of Morgana's soft sobbing. Merlin walked over to her and put his arms around her shoulders. He guided her down to sit on the ground. Her body was being racked with tears.
"Merlin. How did I come to this? This isn't who I want to be. This isn't who I should be."
He could see the pangs of betrayal in her eyes and the heat of pain radiated off her. Merlin hugged his once dear friend.
"We can fix this Morgana. But we end this now."
He helped her up and they started to head out to staff powering the skeleton army. Morgana took her sword and destroyed it right there where it stood.
On the front lines Arthur was fighting one of the undead soldiers and it stopped fighting and crumbled before him. This was happening all over. The whole army was collapsing. Was it over? Could it really be?
Back in the castle Merlin was holding on to Morgana as her tears kept flowing.
"I thought that the only way for me to be happy was to end Uther and his ban on magic. Morgause promised me such a bright future."
Merlin stopped.
"Morgana. I've seen your magic. It can be used for good. And although Uther may have us under ban now, there is a bright future."
"How Merlin? How could there be?"
Merlin sighed, "It may not seem like it now, but Arthur will be the once and future king who will bring magic back into Camelot.
Morgana smiled he could tell she wasn't completely sure she wanted to side with him. But he was determined to make her good.
He leaned in and hugged her and said, "You must swear not to tell Uther for fear that we both get killed."
She nodded in agreement and they went on to stop the tyranny that Morgana had brought on them.
When the knights saw that the army had fallen and that Merlin and Morgana were coming out they suspected they had done something to stop the attack.
Arthur saw Merlin and Morgana running around with each other and called out, "MERLIN!", causing them to stop in their tracks.
Merlin was startled and stuttered "Y-Yes sire?"
"Where have you two been?"
Merlin thought about how he should explain this to Arthur. Should he tell him that they stopped the attack? Should he tell him Morgana was in on it? Should he right then and there, tell Arthur about his magic? Luckily Morgana spoke up.
"Arthur, I've done something terrible."
"What do you-", Arthur tried to ask, but Morgana stopped him.
"Just let me explain. This attack, it was my fault", she said as she looked over at Merlin who looked down right shell shocked at the sight of her confessing. "Can we go somewhere more private?"
The trio then walked to Merlin's chambers for confidentiality.
In a soft tone Morgana asked, "Arthur, you've known me my whole life and this may be upsetting to you and I understand if you hate me for it."
"Whatever it is just tell me."
Morgana continued, "You see Arthur, I have magic. I was born with it."
At this moment Arthur nearly fell backwards in shock. Morgana still didn't let him say anything.
"I know this may make you hate me, but I the hatred I have for Uther and his intolerance for magic has driven me to this. I was the one who made Uther go insane with the mandrake. Morgause is the leader of this attack and also my half-sister. He too has magic."
All through this Merlin and Arthur kept silent.
"She showed me that the only way to be happy would be to wear this kingdom down so we could finally be free. But then Merlin came to stop me. I almost didn't listen."
Arthur stood up and looked upset. Merlin was afraid that Arthur may have gone straight to Uther and had her banished. But instead Arthur hugged Morgana.
With tears in his eyes he embraced her. They both cried. Morgana was so astounded by this. She looked at Merlin and mouthed, "Thank you".
"Oh Morgana, we cannot tell Uther. I don't even know what he would do. I'll protect you. I promise."
At this moment, Gaius walked in.
"What on earth is going on in here?", he questioned.
Merlin excused himself and went to talk to Gaius.
In an undertone Merlin said, "Gaius, I stopped Morgana".
Gaius made a face of disbelief. "How?"
"You're not going to like this, but I told her that I have magic. And she just told Arthur everything. She even told him about her magic."
"Oh my", Gaius gasped. "Did you tell Arthur about yourself? He seems to be accepting Morgana's secret just fine."
Merlin shook his head, "No, not yet. He's had enough for one day."
Gaius agreed with Merlin on this. Merlin walked back over to the royals.
Arthur turned to him. "We've devised a plan. We will tell Uther that the two of you found the source and destroyed it, saving the kingdom."
Once they found Uther they told him. He hugged Morgana and thanked her. She felt bad for lying, but not bad enough to confess. She still had strong hatred for him and his laws. Uther ordered that they be kept safe in the castle for a few days while Arthur and his men went after Morgause. But Merlin and Morgana both rejected this and said they wanted to go along. Morgana knew that she could help them stop her sister.
Morgana needed to know more about Merlin's powers. She asked him to come to her chambers as soon as he could.
There was a knock on her door just as she was finishing getting ready for bed. She went to the door and it was Merlin.
"Merlin", she said with a smile, "please come in".
He walked into chambers and awkwardly stood. She softly shut the door and started to talk very quietly so no one would hear them.
Merlin gave her a confused look and whispered, "We can just put a spell on the door so no one will hear us."
She giggled as she noticed how absurd she was being. They walked over and say on the edge of her bed by the candle light.
"So Merlin, how long have you had magic?"
"Well I was born with it, it's a part of me", Merlin told her. It felt so good to tell her, like he was supposed to. So he kept going. "It's been so hard to live here and serve along side Arthur and under Uther. But it's my destiny to serve Arthur and I couldn't comprise it." Morgana had tears in her eyes at this point. "And then when I found out you had magic it brought me hope. But when you were using it in such a horrible way it broke my heart. How could you do all this Morgana? You were so good. So pure."
With her voice breaking from the tears she tried to reply, "I just thought that it was the best way. I was only thing about myself. But when you told me you had magic… it changed my perspective. So quickly. Thank you Merlin."
She dropped her head down and tried to control her tears. Merlin hugged her and helped her to calm down.
"It'll be better now. We'll work through this. I know we can."
"What if someone finds out? They'll know what I've done. They'll know I'm responsible for all this destruction. What am I going to do Merlin? What am I going to do?"
"We could run. We could do it."
Morgan's looked at him and replied, "Okay."
