Hey, well I love Gwaine and I think he really deserved some real love in program and not just being known as the flirt. I'm not amazing at writing but I had this thought for a story and just wanted to put it up, so here it is.
It happened so quickly it didn't really register what was going on me and my mother had been in our house in one of the villages on the outskirts of Camelot. My brother and father were outside in the village probably doing some heavy lifting it what they did to make money. No one really knew why my brother just seemed to be really strong. When they came they were Cenred's men they had his crest on the flags, and whatever people did it didn't make a difference they couldn't be killed. My brother had taught me how to handle a blade; he said that no one should be unprotected which would have helped other than the fact that we only owned two swords and my brother and father always had them. The village was on fire, I managed to escape through the back of my house without anyone noticing, when I turned around I saw my mother lying dead on floor an arrow had gone through her heart. Someone saw me because I felt an arrow go across my side slicing it open and another one landing in my thigh making it hard to walk. It was making it hard to walk, but I kept stumbling into the woods clutching my side hoping that I didn't lose too much blood. When the glow of the torches was gone I went back into the village to see if I could find any of my family alive. It didn't make it any better my mother was still in what was left of my house, not far away from my house I found my father he had been stabbed. He still had his sword in his hands which I took in case I came across anyone. I looked for a bit longer for my brother but I couldn't find him anywhere. I stumbled back into the woods trying to make my way to Camelot, but I could feel my eyes starting to get heavy and when I looked at my hand it was covered in blood and so was most of the side of my dress.
"Gaius, is she likely to wake up?" I heard a deep voice say to someone. What had happened to me was I still in the woods? Had I been moved? Was this heaven?
"I can't be sure, I mean from your information we don't even know how long she was unconscious in the woods for," another male voice said. This was definitely a voice of someone older and hopefully someone who could help me. I tried to move my fingers so I could see if I was still able to move.
"She's moving," another male voice said, this one was higher pitched and sounded happy about me being alive. A complete stranger that I had never met before, I opened my eyes to see three faces staring down at me and the light behind them was really bright. One of them was an elderly man like I expected he had white hair that was down to his shoulders, the next who seemed like he had the high pitched voice had brown short hair and the final had dark brown hair and obviously liked the rough guy look because he didn't shave, but it suited him and he was very handsome. The sort of person I could see my brother hanging around with. From the clothes he was wearing he looked like a knight of Camelot, God I'd been saved by a knight of Camelot. He had the armour and the red cape on something I had only seen a few times in my life but I still knew what it meant.
I sat up too quickly and felt my head start to kill, "that hurt," I mumbled lying straight back down.
"I wouldn't suggest sitting up to quickly child," the old man said walking over to me. "Take this it will help," he said holding a pink coloured potion to me. I took it off him at drank it quickly, it may have been a nice colour but it tasted disgusting.
"Can you tell us what happened?" the young man said he looked serious but yet still had a boyish smile on his face. The type I remembered my brother having when he was younger.
"Merlin, you could start with a less difficult, upsetting question. She was after all found unconscious in the woods. Sorry, why don't you start with what's your name?" the old man asked glaring at Merlin.
"Right my name, I'm Carmen, and to answer your question Cenred's men attacked are village. We couldn't kill them, and I got hit as you can see. I went back to see if my family were alright but I found my mother and father dead, and I couldn't find my brother. I headed to the woods and apparently it went downhill after that and I woke up here."
"Gaius that was over two weeks ago," the man I didn't know the name of said.
"It's a miracle Carmen that you're still alive. I'm Gaius the court physician," the old man said with a smile.
The court physician that means, "Citadel, the castle in Camelot," I mumbled out.
"Talking of being here Prince Arthur wants to see you to find out what happened."
"What? I can't meet the Prince," they all looked at me. "No offence I mean I have nothing against him, but I have nothing that is presentable to wear in front of our future King. I'm really grateful for what you've done but I'd feel better if I could just go home or whatever if left of my home."
"Sweetheart I don't think you've got a choice, Merlin go get Gwen," the man I still didn't know the name of said.
"Don't call me that," I snapped. I knew I shouldn't if he was a knight but my parents used to call me that and they were dead so I didn't really want a complete stranger calling me that.
"Is that really the way to talk to a knight of Camelot?" he smirked looking at me. Luckily Merlin came in with a girl behind him. She had long black curly hair and dark skin and a smile on her face. She was also carrying a dress which could only mean it was meant for me.
"Hi, I'm Gwen," the girl said walking it.
"Carmen," I replied with a smile. She pulled my hand towards the door that went off the end of the room.
"Why don't you go tell Arthur that we'll be there soon," she said to the others before shutting the door behind us.
"I can't talk to the Prince what am I meant to say?" I asked sitting down the door looking at the dress. It was beautiful it had a pink bodice almost like a corset with lighter pink sleeves and skirt. "And I can't wear that," I pointed at it; it was one of the most beautiful dresses I had ever seen. No one would wear a dress of that colour back home; I mean it would never stay that colour for long.
"You'll be fine Prince Arthur is really nice, he just wants to know what happened to you. No one knew what happened when Gwaine brought you in. Gaius said it would be best if people didn't visit you, so all we had was what Merlin came out with every day and today has been the first day that anything had changed."
"Gwaine? Who's Gwaine?" I asked curiously I had a feeling that I wasn't going to like the answer. I had a feeling it was going to be the man I had been rude to outside.
"The man out there he found you and took you straight to Gaius," she replied. "Now turn around." She helped me change into the dress and compose myself, "you look beautiful," she said as she was brushing through my light brown hair, that had blonde highlights due to being in the sun, it was also wavy. "I'd love to have hair like yours."
"Thanks," I replied with a smile, "and thank you for helping me. I promise I'll get you your dress back."
"Don't worry it suits you, come on we should get out there before someone comes in." When we went outside Merlin, Gaius and Gwaine were still sat out there, they seemed to have been talking about something but they stopped when we walked back out. Gwaine's mouth had dropped open when he saw me in the dress, which I hated to admit but it made me blush. It was starting to get a bit awkward.
"Can we go before I lose my nerve and leave?" I asked looking at the three of them.
"Come on then, my lady," Gwaine said offering me his arm, which I took.
"I hear that my thanks should go to you for me being alive today," I said looking up at him as we walked towards wherever we were meant to be going. I was starting to get nervous; I mean what was I meant to be saying to the Prince.
"You've got nothing to worry about Arthur, he will listen to you and this is coming from a man who used to hate nobles," he said apparently noticing how worried I had become.
"He speaks the truth and he has saved Arthur's life twice," Merlin said coming up behind us.
"Who's going to be in there?" I asked looking at Merlin as we stopped outside a large door, which sort of implied that there was going to be a lot of people in there.
"Umm . . . the three of us, the other main knights, Prince Arthur and probably his uncle," Merlin replied smiling.
"What?" I snapped as the door opened. Prince Arthur was stood near the throne with a man with black hair stood near him, whom I assumed to be his uncle and there was a group of knights in the corner who didn't seem to turn around as I walked towards the front. Gwen, Gaius and Merlin walked towards the front with me while Gwaine walked towards the guards stood in the corner who weren't paying attention.
"Your majesty," I said curtsying when I got to the front.
"Yes, the women Gwaine rescued from the woods," Prince Arthur replied looking at me up and down. He looked between me and Gwen like I he knew I was wearing one of her dresses.
"Yes, I am. My names," I started.
"Carmen?" I turned and saw my brother stood in a knight's uniform on in the corner with the rest of the knights.
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Skye-Casey x