Summary : This is according to Malory's version : Morgana, Morgause and Elaine are Queen Igraine and Gorlois' legitimate daughters, and Arthur is Uther Pendragon and Igraine's legitimate son, thus making Morgause and Morgana his half-sisters, and Morgana as Morgause's sister, not half-sister like in the show Merlin by BBC. Morgause's husband finds out about Mordred's birth, not being his own son and orders him out of his house or else his wife Morgause would suffer a terrible fate.

Disclaimer : I don't own any characters, all are legendary antagonists and protagonists in the Arthurian Cycle.

Prologue : Mordred's Birth

At night, in a pigpen, there were crying and heavy breathing sounds : a woman was in labour. She was the King Lot's wife, and because her son wasn't her lawful husband's son, she had to give birth to him in the House's pigsty, tended by her good midwife Aderyn.

"Push, push, my Lady! You're almost there, you just need a little push!" And Lady Morgause pushed, pushed and pushed, with cries in the room.

"I can't do it anymore, Aderyn."

"But you must, my Lady, for the child's sake! So push, my good Lady Morgause." The midwife Aderyn, although hired by her husband the King Lot, she was her faithful servant and spy for the King. Morgause didn't really love her husband the King very much, so she cheated on him with many men. This child, named Mordred, was Arthur's child, and Arthur was her half-brother.

After hours and hours of pushing and crying, her husband the King Lot came to see her and how she was doing.

"Morgause, you have dishonoured me and shamed me, by having this child with Arthur Pendragon."

"Only because you my Lord didn't love me, had you treated me better, I wouldn't have done these things to you. Who told you his father is Arthur?"

"My servant did. He watched you while you seduced Arthur with your Witch powers, the child must be out of this House, Morgause."

"No my Lord, please, he is my son."

"He's only yours, not mine, and thus I have no obligation to raise him in my house, and he will not take my name."

"Would you kill him then, my Lord?"

"I wouldn't. I just don't want someone else's child in my House, Morgause."

"I am sure your God will reward you in Heaven, my Lord, if you raised him despite him being Arthur's son, my Lord?"

"No, for God despises adultery and incest even more, my Lady and would even punish me for raising a child born in adultery. Morgause, ged rid of your bastard son, and you shall be forgiven or else I'll repudiate you."

"You wouldn't dare! I don't have a home to go anymore, my Lord, my father Sir Garlois is dead, as well as my mother Ygraine, by giving birth to Uther's son, Arthur!"

"Then kill this monstrosity of yours, Morgause."

"Yes my Lord."

When her Lord King Lot was gone, she gave birth to Mordred and it was a long and arduous birth. She could sense her Lord hated her child with Arthur with such passion, as he didn't even ask about his name. She then begged her young midwife Aderyn, loyal to her only :

"Aderyn, please, go to Avalon, get Mordred to my sister Morgana and tell her to raise him as her child. I'd go to Avalon myself, but I don't want to raise my Lord's suspicions on me."

"What should I tell your Lord King Lot, my Lady Morgause?"

"Kill a pig, and gave him it's heart as proof that I killed my own son. Oh my baby Mordred, I am so sorry I cannot raise you as your mother. If you were my husband's son, but alas, you're not."

"Don't be too sad about it, my Lady, I'm sure your sister Morgana his aunt would love him as her own child."

"Thank you, my good Aderyn, but I'd have preferred to raise him on my own, and I thought I was discreet enough about my affair with Arthur, but I wasn't and it's all my fault."

"Don't worry, my Lady, I'll bring him to Lady Morgana as soon as possible."

"There, in my box, Aderyn, go and get the bracelet out, it's going to protect you from winds and storms on the lake from Camelot to Avalon."

"Thank you, my Lady, and rest well for the night."

But Morgause didn't know her sister Morgana, now as Avalon's high Priestess, couldn't raise boys. So when Aderyn rowed to Avalon, one day when her Lord the King was out hunting, on her Lady Morgause's orders, she didn't expect Morgana to reject her Lady Morgause's son :

"I cannot raise him here on Avalon, good Aderyn. I know you did this out of loyalty to my sister Morgause, but I truly cannot raise him as my own, I'm sorry."

"Is there no other way, my Lady Morgana?"

"There is. I'll have him raised in his father's house, as my half-brother's adopted brother. Uther would not decline, as Ygraine is my mother."

"But Lady Morgana, surely the Lord Uther would not?"

"Yes he will. I'd use my powers to bewitch him to agree to it and make him adopt my illegitimate nephew as his father's brother."

"Thank you, my Lady Morgana. Should I tell my Lady Morgause so, so she can haver some peace of mind?"

"Yes you may. Mordred will be renamed as Moriath."

"There's no real need for that, my Lady Morgana, her husband the King Lot doesn't even know the child's name."

"He doesn't? Well, then he shall stay as Mordred, his father Arthur's adoptive brother."

"Very well, my Lady Morgana." She bowed to Lady Morgana, but her Lady's sister instead told her :

"Don't waste your time bowing to me, go back to my sister Morgause, as quickly as possible. I'll be casting a spell on your boat, to speed it up."

"Thank you again, for my Lady Morgause, Lady Morgana."

"Go as swiftly as you can, Aderyn and good luck on your road back to Camelot." When Aderyn, Morgause's mid-wife, reached her Lady Morgause's castle, breathless, she told her mistress :

"Lady Morgause, since your sister Morgana can't raise your child because he's male, she brought him to the House of Pendragon to raise."

"Thank you, my good Aderyn. For your loyalty to me, I shall give you an enchanted necklace. It was given to me by my younger sister Morgana as a birthday gift, it can bring you good luck in your life. And if one day you needed money, you can sell it for a lot of money."

"My Lady Morgause, I cannot, this is too precious to you—

"As a gift to you for everything you've done for me, please accept this, Aderyn."

Then she hugged Aderyn, able to sleep in peace at last, relieved her son would live as a prince, and not as a lowly bastard in the streets.

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