Sadly I don't own Merlin. It belongs to the BBC.

Hello all. I'm back with another story. This story is AU. I don't know how many chapters this story will have. We'll just see how it goes.

A/N: Even though this is a Merlin/Arthur story, the first two chapters are just explaining things about what happened for them to be where they are now.

Please let me know what you think.

Enjoy :D

Uther Pendragon was a successful businessman. His father had a line of hotels and at the young age of twenty eight he had no choice but to stop living the easy life and take over his father's businesses when his father passed away. Uther was expecting this day to come, his father had heart problems and was warned by doctors to retire and take it easy or he will not see the year out. But his father was a stubborn man and died in his sleep.

A year later saw Uther running his five hotels with the help of his wife Ygraine.

Ygraine was there for Uther when his father died and helped him get into running the hotels, but now, being eight months pregnant, she had no choice but to listen to the news of how Uther was doing when he visited her in hospital. After nearly losing her baby at seven months, Uther moved her to a private hospital where she was to stay and be cared for properly until she had her baby boy.

A month later, Ygraine gave birth to her baby boy, naming him Arthur. Due to having trouble with the pregnancy and giving birth, Ygraine had to stay in hospital for another month.

Uther visted everyday, but the time he spent there with them got shorter and shorter, when Ygraine told him that Arthur was healthy as was she, that they was just keeping her in to be on the safe side, Uther's visits went from everyday to every other day.

It hurt Ygraine that Uther didn't come to see her and his son everyday, but she expected it was due to the fact that running five hotels and sorting out for her to stay in the hospital was starting to get too much so he didn't come as often so he could sort things out.

How wrong she was.

Ygraine was ready to leave the hospital, she thought that the staff were nice people but if she was honest, she was glad to see the back of it. She wasn't supposed to leave the hospital until the next day but she wanted to get home, she didn't tell Uther, she planned to surprise him. She wrapped Arthur up nice and warm and got into a taxi.

When she got out of the the taxi, she walked up to their home and quietly let herself in. The house wasn't a mess, but it wasn't exactly tidy either.

She walked past each room and poked her head in the doorway to see if she could see her husband but couldn't find him. Ygraine held Arthur tighter to her as she walked upstairs. She opened her bedroom door and saw Uther fast asleep on their bed, but what brought tears to her eyes was the naked woman, asleep by his side.

She put her hand to her mouth and quietly backed out of the room, closing the door behind her and quickly left the house.

Louise was a nurse who worked at the hospital. As she was stood at the reception, she saw Ygraine walk through the doors holding baby Arthur tightly to her chest, tears streaming down her face. Louise rushed upto her to see what was wrong.

"Nothing's wrong with me or Arthur Louise. I'm sorry to show up like this. Are you here tomorrow?"

"I am."

Ygraine pulled a letter out of her pocket. "When Uther comes to pick me up tomorrow, can you give him this letter please?"

Louise took the letter off her. "Of course."

Ygraine smiled. "Thank you." she gave Louise the best hug she could with Arthur in her arms and left.

The next day Uther walked into the hospital and came face to face with Louise. "Uther, Ygraine gave me this letter yesterday and asked me to give it you when you came."

Uther took the letter off Louise and waited until she was no longer in sight before opening the letter. His eyes went wide in shock and could feel them start to water when he read the very brief letter that his wife of six years left him.

Uther, from the scene I was welcomed home with yesterday when I decided to come home a day early, cleary tells me you don't want me or Arthur, so I'm taking Arthur with me, don't worry, we won't bother you anymore, don't try and look for us either because you will never find us. I promise you that.

Ygraine.

Uther dropped the letter and did the one thing no-one ever expected him to do; he dropped to his knees and cried.

What do you think? Shall I continue? Let me know. If so, chapter two will be up within three to four days.

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