Never wrote complete in English, so don´t be too hard with me ;) But I had to give it a try. Furthermore it´s my first "Merlin" fanfiction and I don´t know why, but I decided, to make it a modern story... but of course there will appear the most of the familiar characters, which we love and know. Although here my focus lies on the lovestory of Gwen/Arthur. I hope you like it and leave me some comments. Lyrics are out of the song "Abracadabra" by Steve Miller.
ABRACADABRA - AND THEN CAME ARTHUR
Every time you call my name
I heat up like a burnin' flame
Burnin' flame full of desire
Kiss me baby, let the fire get higher
I see magic in your eyes
I hear the magic in your sighs
Just when I think I'm gonna get away
I hear those words that you always say
"That´s enough!" Snorting, Morgana laid the telephone aside, went straightway to the wardrobe and slipped her coat on. It couldn´t continue this way, she wouldn´t allow that any longer.
"What is the matter?" Merlin came out of the kitchen with two plates and looked at her with a rather surprised blink of his eyes.
"Gwen, of course."
Furious she placed her red beanie on her long black hair. "Since weeks, since weeks I tryto make her feel better. I phone her every day. I reason with her. But all I get to hear is Lancelot here, Lancelot there. That girl will die of grief, if I don´t a way to stop it. And just because of this guy. What she clearly needs is distraction. Desperately, in fact. And because she isn´t paying attention at the telephone, I will force her to it personally. No ifs, no buts." She breathed deeply and then smiled at Merlin. "I´m so sorry, that you have to eat alone again."
With a vaguely guilty expression in her face Morgana approached Merlin and gave him a short kiss.
It wasn´t the first time, that she would stand him up for Gwen in the last two weeks. But Gwen simply was her best friend and she couldn´t abandon her now.
"Do, what you must do.", Merlin sighed, though he was smiling. He knew anyway, that one better not tried to stop Morgana, when she was in such a fury. And after all he wanted just the same as Morgana: that Gwen soon would get better. That surely wouldn´t work, as long as she crawled away into her home. If someone could bring Gwen out of her shell, then it was Morgana.
"I spare something for you!", he shouted after his girlfriend, but the door was already snapped shut.
xXx
Resolved, Morgana kept ringing the doorbell, as she arrived at Gwen´s house. Gwen needed extremely long, at least for Morgana´s taste, to open - and as Gwen let her finally in, Morgana flounced up the staircases, till the third floor.
She didn´t even stop, as her friend, obviously taken by surprise at Morgana´s sudden appearance, blinked out of the doorway. Morgana just took Gwen by her arm and pulled her into the living room.
"Fine. Let´s make one thing clear: I´m so sick of you wallowing in self-pity. I`m sick of you wandering through your dwelling like a damn ghost and that you apparently don´t have the least interest to be a part of the real life anymore." She raised her hand, as Gwen made an attempt to speak, "I know Lancelot has hurt you and I have to repeat, that he must be a complete fool, to bail on someone so wonderful and gorgeous."
Morgana ripped her beanie off her head and threw it rather carelessly on Gwen´s small couch. Gwen stared at her with red-rimmed eyes and it seemed as if she was left speechless.
"Gwen..." Morgana tried to get a little bit more calm and she took the hands of the dark-curled young woman.
"Do you wish to spend the rest of your life with mourning after this... man? He is absolutely not worth it. You could have every man out there, I´m sure of it."
Gwen made a slightly convinced noise. "You mean everyone, who isn´t Lancelot.", she said.
Morgana groaned impatiently. "Yes. And I would say, it´s the best as it is... because this Lancelot doesn´t seem to have deserved you..." She squeezed Gwen´s hands, "And you doesn´t deserve that all the more."
For one moment Gwen stared at her with furrowed brow. Then she sighed very deeply and slouched her shoulders.
"You are certainly right. But as you know... that Lancelot is just up and away... I mean, I never thought that he is such a person. He led me believe to be in love with me... and then suddenly he was gone. He has run off, damn it!"
It was unusual to hear Gwen swear, but listening to thi Morgana could tell once again how the whole thing affected her friend deeply.
"He has never really loved me. In any case it looks like it.", Gwen ended soundlessly and shook slowly her head.
Morgana surveyed her mercifully. She had heard this several times out of Gwen´s mouth in the last two weeks. She didn´t know for sure, if Lancelot never loved Gwen... but she did know, that she would have loved, to have Lancelot´s guts for garters, because he broke her best friend´s heart.
"If it was so, then you can be well rid of him. I wouldn´t want someone by your side who only loves you halfhearted and takes you for granted.", Morgana meant vigorously. Her pretty face seems so pale and she doesn´t seem to be herself. But I will manage it to bring the cheerful and and happy Gwen back again. At any price.
Gwen sighed once more. "Probably one cannot love me that much, I mean wholehearted.", she meant, sounding too self-pitying. It angered Morgana.
She rolled her eyes. "That´s complete nonsense, Gwen. You are one of the most magnificent human beings...and don´t tell me anything different, I don´t want hear it, alright? For the next days you will come with me - and then we will look further."
At these words Gwen´s eyes opened wide. "Uh? Yes, but... we can´t do that..."
"And why not?", Morgana smiled.
"Because... what will Merlin say?" Gwen seemed a little bit affected. Morgana knew her friend; the idea, that she could impose on somebody, was more than unpleasant for Gwen.
"He will understand. It wont be for ever. Just so long until I can be sure, that you won´t lay hands upon yourself."
"I don´t intend to lay hands on myself!", Gwen shouted bewildered. Morgana whereas didn´t find it so absurd, regarding her friend´s behaviour - but of course she was really relieved to hear that from Gwen.
"Very well then. Nonetheless I will take you along.", she said and as Gwen opened her mouth to protest obviously, she added quickly "And I insist on it!".
xXx
And so it happened. Shortly afterwards, Morgana steered Gwen and her bag into the dwelling, which Merlin and she had together. Gwen didn´t look very happy, as she took place on the sofa and Merlin, with an encouraging smile, thrusted a cup of hot chocolate into her hand.
Morgana took Merlin aside. Her decision, to let Gwen some days live at their home, indeed had been a very spontaneous idea. But Merlin also had a say in the matter, as much as she was convinced, that he would unterstand it.
"I just couldn´t leave her behind, you see her yourself... she seems so unhappy.", she explained in a low voice and threw a glimpse to Gwen, who nipped at her hot chocolate and made an absent impression. Poor thing.
"I think company could do her good.", agreed Merlin and scrutinized Gwen with a worried face. This wasn´t the Gwen, which they knew so well... so silent and impassive. Merlin felt all the more sorry for the young woman, because Lancelot was a really very good friend of him and he introduced the two of them with each other. So it was partly a guilty conscience, that let him agree. But of course he also noticed, how urgently Gwen needed their help. Therefore he came naturally to his decision.
Gwen sat still with a little unhappy face and the steaming cup between her hands on the sofa. When Merlin stepped up to her now, she looked up.
"Is that okay for you, Merlin? I don´t want to annoy either Morgana or you..." She bit on her underlip and her brown eyes hung on Merlin, full of doubts.
"Gwen, that´s no problem at all - and you never would be able to annoy us." Merlin sat down next to Gwen and put his arm around her shoulders. "Look. We know each other for a very long time and you were always there for us, when we needed you. And now we are there for you..."
"Morgana and you have done much for me as well... not just I for you.", objected Gwen.
"Yeah... that´s what you do, when you are friends, don´t you?", Merlin beamed at her and Gwen couldn´t resist to smile likewise. Good thing, that she had Merlin and Morgana... what would she do without the two of them?
xXx
Two days later was Gwen´s birthday. Morgana bought a big chocolate-cream-cake and in addition to that she put on the head of Gwen, Merlin and herself silly paper cusp caps; on the last thing Merlin wasn´t very keen.
"Don´t be like that, you look charming.", Morgana grinned and Gwen had to laugh, because Merlin made a funny face. Her friends were proved to be right... their company did her good, better, than she would have guessed.
"Wait," Morgana inflamed the candles, which she had placed on the cake, "Don´t forget to wish you something!"
Gwen already knew, what she wished herself, with her whole heart. For a moment she closed her eyes and shaped the wish in her thoughts: I want to get over Lancelot once and for all and be happy again. Then she blew heartily, with the result that none of the candles remained on. Morgana and Merlin applauded and Gwen smiled. Hopefully her wish would come true, because she couldn´t bear it any longer, to think of Lancelot, always wondering, what she could possibly have done wrong.
In this moment the telephone rang. "Do you help me to a piece of cake? I´ll be right back!" Morgana hurried to the telephone and Gwen cut the cake. She and Merlin could hear, how Morgana answered the call.
"Arthur?" Surprised they listened attentively, at the minimum surprised as Morgana sounded. Arthur, Morgana´s half brother, travelled since two years most of the time around the world and let rarely hear anything of him.
"You´re here in London? Since when?" ... okay ... okaaay ... and how long do you plan to stay this time? ... oh, really?! I see ... you indeed are a surprise time after time ... it´s Gwen´s birthday, we just celebrate ... Gwen! You remember my best friend! God, Arthur, you have a memory like a sieve... you´ve only seen her hundreds of times ... yes, alright ... I hope you really put in an appearance... yes, bye!"
Shaking her head, Morgana came back to the table and plonked herself down on the chair.
"This incredible... idiot. He´s in the town yet again, he said.", she said quite sardonic. "No `how are you´ or `nice to hear your voice´, no, not from Arthur. He changed not a bit, arrogant as ever."
"How long does he stay?", Gwen asked and put herself a piece of cake into the mouth. She wondered, if Arthur really couldn´t remember her. Somehow that annoyed her very much.
"He doesn´t seem to know. Apparently he took himself a time-out. That´s typically Arthur. He does, what he just wants to do..."
"But today Arthur isn´t the person to talk about!", Merlin said hastily, before Morgana could continue to get exasperated with her `idiotic´ brother. "Let´s rather drink a toast to Gwen."
"Yes, right. So... here´s to you, Gwen!"
"Here´s to you! May all your wishes come true!"