Hello again everyone, heres a one shot between Merlin and Morgana...I know they are OOC but I just had to write this down as those that know me know I am a major 'Mergana' shipper :D Any typing errors or grammar mistakes, let me know please :) Enjoy!

A Thawing Heart

Morgana looked on silently as the guards left her prisoner in her room and chained his wrists and ankles to the four bedposts. They left quickly, knowing their mistress didn't tolerate laziness or even being in her way.

She smiled at the thought of their fear. She loved it when men in particular looked at her with awe and fear when they knew she was a witch, and a powerful one.

But one person never did that. Instead this person lying on her bed and unconscious always greeted her questioning gaze with a grin that made her heart lurch. Another reason to hate him she thought as she walked over and locked the door with the latches then with magic.

That was another problem.

Her prisoner had magic, and seemed to be more powerful than her. But capturing him had been easier than she had thought, even though why he was protecting the King was beyond her, as Arthur Pendragon was just going to become like Uther, she was sure of it. This thought made her think back to how she found out about him having magic and his subsequent capture at her hands…

"Merlin, get out the way!"Arthur yelled at his manservant as the man on the horse bore down on him, his mace about to strike…then the man suddenly fell off his horse and landed heavily on the floor a few feet behind Merlin and didn't move. Arthur sighed as he looked around, and Morgana smirked slightly. He was a nuisance…but he didn't have a habit of getting out of tough scrapes she mused as Merlin grinned in that way that made her want to…No, stop that she thought to herself as she gave a signal to her men. Morgana walked into view as her men surrounded the Prince and his men.

"Hello Brother"

"Morgana" Arthur muttered angrily.

"Now now, play nice…what would our father say if he saw us fighting so?"

Morgana smiled at Arthurs reddening face as she cast her gaze over his knights. Gwaine, Elyan, Percival all looked at her warily as they should. But when she looked at Merlin, he just looked back at her calmly and she felt a stab of irritation run through her. He should be scared!

Morgana looked at Arthur and motioned for her men to fire an arrow at Elyan.

Five arrows were fired and before they hit their target and Arthur and his men made the predictable move of starting to fight back, she looked at Merlin briefly.

To see his eyes glow gold and the arrows stopped in mid air and turn around and fly back to their original starting positions…killing five men.

He had magic.

That explained a lot. She was too numb to be angry yet but she smirked as Merlin began to run over to Arthur…not seeing her come up behind him with a cloth full of sleeping solution.

It was easy to hold onto him as she jammed the cloth over his face as he wasn't exactly Percivals size, and he soon collapsed onto her. Morgana held him to her, her arms wrapped around his back and neck, her hair smothering his face as she looked at him briefly before Arthurs shout made her look at her brothers angry and scared face.

"Goodbye brother"

Then she vanished with her captive.

Morgana walked over to the foot of the bed and lightly ran her finger along the chain that bound his right leg. These chains didn't cause any pain….but they could suppress magic. Even though he was undoubtedly powerful, he couldn't really control his magic….even a basic fire spell could set himself on fire. So he wouldn't risk using it when he woke up.

She smiled as she climbed onto the bed and straddled his chest, smoothing her black dress down before looking down at him and using her magic to wake him up.

"Wake up dear"

Merlin opened his eyes, which ached a lot, to see a pair of familiar emerald eyes peering down at him with a little smirk on her lips. As usual, he tried not to get lost in those eyes and the green eye shadow that she used now and looked at his surroundings.

To see he was tied to a bed, his arms and legs bound by chains. Morgana smirked as his eyes travelled to his bare chest and saw her sitting on him comfortably with her hands resting on his chest. She wasn't surprised to see him try and wrench his arms free and sighed as she sent a little shock spell onto his chest to stop him.

"You'll hurt yourself Merlin…do not try that again. And don't bother with magic either"

She hid a smile as his face paled at these words….clearly he was more afraid of her finding out than anyone else.

"I…I don't know…."

"Shhhh" she said, trailing a hand over his cheek as she lay on him, her face close to his "I saw you use it Merlin. What I want to know is why you didn't tell me YOU HAD MAGIC!"

Morgana gripped his chin with her hand, aware that their noses touched and her stomach was fluttering at the contact and feeling of superiority over him.

"I couldn't tell you…I couldn't trust you"

"I trusted you Merlin" she whispered "I told you about my magic"

She saw him wince and she smirked.

"But you can make it all up to me. Tell me what you've done with your magic and what you know. And maybe I will let you go back to your precious King…I hear you two are close"

Morgana chuckled as he went bright red at the tease. This was more fun than she expected.

"Morgana….get off"

"Why? I like it here" she said softly, shifting on him slightly and holding his ribs with her legs a little tighter. "Besides, you aren't in any position to negotiate. Now…lets get started…."

Three hours later, Morgana was bored. She was still sitting on him but he stubbornly refused to tell her anything. Even when she used magic and sent bolts of electricity and fire onto him, he didn't back down and stared at her defiantly.

"Fine"

Merlin wasn't ready for her to grasp his head with her hands and kiss him fully on the mouth….but he kissed back anyway which was what Morgana wanted. Using a spell, she somehow managed to get into his thoughts and saw everything. Everything he had done. Who he had talked to, including the Great Dragon, Nimueh, Sigan…But there was somewhere that was blocked from her spell, and she couldn't get through the block…so she gave up and concentrated on what she had seen already.

She was aware that he was now trying to break the kiss and free himself but she had him trapped under her and the chains held him easily because he if he used magic, it wouldn't end well for either of them.

Morgana had everything what she had wanted and yet she didn't want to end the kiss. It felt pleasant. Especially now that she had retreated from his mind and was kissing him gently now, and he kissed her back with enthusiasm. She knew she shouldn't be enjoying this but….

It wasn't quite the same. She wanted to know what it was like when he would be free to move his hands and legs.

She wanted to know if he had held the same feelings for her that she had held for him.

So she looked at the chains as she broke the kiss and with a single command, they fell off his wrists and ankles and disintegrated into dust.

Merlin didn't blast her off with magic which she was surprised at. Instead, his hands rested on her hips and he looked up at her with those eyes of his that seemed to pierce right through her and see her innermost thoughts and desires.

So she leaned over and smiled at him, their lips millimetres away.

"Just so you know, I haven't forgiven you Merlin"

"I know"

"But I do love you" she whispered, hating the tremor in her voice at the words she had wanted to tell him for years.

"And I love you" he whispered back, his voice hoarse.

Morgana smiled now. That was what she wanted to hear. When he was asleep, she would send him back to Camelot and leave him a black rose for him to remember her by…and to show him that his heart was hers now,

Forever.