"Ariana?" yelled Merlin across the courtyard, many people turned their heads but she didn't; she hadn't heard him. He ran forward yelling her name louder again this time. Her head perked up and she lifted the hood from her head, revealing a sweet face. A face very recognisable and familiar to Merlin, the face of his sister.
The moment Ariana saw Merlin she gasped in delight and ran full speed toward shim, a smile spread across both their faces, a moment's joy shared between them that would last forever. As they hugged, tears of joy welled up in Ariana's eyes, as he pulled away he wiped the tears that spilled down her cheek, he half laughed half cried in pleasure of seeing her here.
The last time the two siblings saw each other was 7 years ago in the Ealdor, since then they had written letters, informing the other of their lives, but those letters had stopped suddenly when Merlin had discovered the true purpose of his magic. Since then the other had been kept in the dark about the others life.
"Ariana how are you? What are you doing here?" asked Merlin bombarding her with questions. She tried to answer them as quick as possible.
"Oh Merlin!" she exclaimed "I've missed you; I know I shouldn't have come, but I've missed you dearly and recently I've realised just how lonely I have become".
Ariana looked similar to Merlin in the sense that she had the same deep blue ocean eyes, her hair was the same colour but it was longer it almost reached her waist now, but she too had very pale skin.
"If you felt alone, why didn't you go home, back to the Ealdor with mother?" queried Merlin.
"For the same reason I left" she said dryly.
He put his arm around her shoulders and pulled her in as he walked her towards Guis's chambers.
"Thank you Merlin".
It was empty.
"For what?"
"For just being you" she said smiling up at him.
"No need to thank me I'm just being your brother", he sighed.
Suddenly Merlin's head jerked up as he realised where Guis was, he was most likely attending to the king which only meant one thing. Merlin was late for work.
"Oh no no no no no" Merlin whispered grabbing his bags and putting some cleaning cloths in there.
"What is it what's wrong?" asked Ariana curiously.
"It's nothing I'm just late for work", he said rushing about his room collecting things he would need for the day.
"I'm sure he won't mind", said Ariana.
"You haven't met Arthur", said Merlin sarcastically.
Merlin stopped what he was doing for a second then looked up at Ariana, and realised he didn't know what to do with her, she sensed this "Take me with you, I'll help you with your work" she suggested helpfully, not wanting to seem useless.
He paused momentarily, then replied "Yes, okay then why not? You'd love Arthur"
She smiled and the siblings headed out towards the princes chambers, guess she didn't hear Merlin whisper...
"Love to hate him".