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Set place a day after the end of episode The Tears of Uther Pendragon: Part Two. There are some spoilers.
Merlin Snaps
Merlin was bent over on the floor, scrubbing it furiously. He had just finished scrubbing the floor of the Crown Prince's chambers. Just then, said prince comes marching in like he owns the place (technically he does own it), with mud-covered boots. Muddy foot-prints were left on the floor, which Merlin just cleaned. That fact cannot be stressed enough, that Merlin just finished cleaning the floors.
Merlin glared at Arthur, very much annoyed. "Sire," Merlin said, trying hard not to lash out, "I just cleaned the floors. Could you please take your mucky boots off and set them on a cloth or something so the floors won't get filthy?"
Arthur responded to Merlin's question by taking his boots off his stinky feet and tossing them at Merlin's face. They landed on his face, leaving his face muddy, then gravity pulled them down onto the spot Merlin was just cleaning. Tight lipped, Merlin placed the boots on a dirty cloth and started scrubbed the floors. Again.
Arthur took no notice to his manservant's angry stare. Instead, he started complaining about how muddy his bed chambers are. Merlin stared at him with a look of astonishment. Was the future king that oblivious? Possibly, the prince just wanted to irritate Merlin, which, Arthur was doing quite well.
Arthur continued complaining about how lazy and worthless of a servant Merlin was. Merlin was quite infuriated by then, and it took all of his self-control not to kill the prince, and if not kill, at least seriously injure. Merlin wondered what would happen to him if he tried to choke Arthur.
While Merlin was coming up with creative ways to harm Arthur, the Royal Prat was still ranting about how terrible Merlin was.
Finally, after about twenty minutes of hearing Arthur criticize him, something inside of Merlin, just snapped.
"SHUT UP YOU BIG TWIT!" Merlin bellowed.
Arthur stopped ranting and stared open-mouthed at Merlin. How dare he, being a lowly servant, yell at him, the future king, the crown prince. Arthur opened his mouth to yell at Merlin, when the warlock interrupted him.
"YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW MANY TIMES I SAVED YOUR ROYAL ARSE AND BLOODY CAMELOT! I SAVED CAMELOT FROM THE AFANC! I SAVED YOU FROM VALIANT! I SAVED YOU FROM DYING BY DRINKING THE POISON FROM THE CHALICE! I SAVED YOUR FATHER FROM DYING AT THE HAND OF EDWIN MUIRDEN BY GETTING THE ELANTHIA BEETLES OUT OF HIS HEAD! I SAVED CAMELOT BY KILLING THE GRIFFEN! I SAVED YOU FROM SOFIA BY KILLING HER SO WHE WOULDN'T KILL YOU TO SACRIFICE YOUR SOUL TO THE SIDHE ELDERS OF THE LAKE OF AVALON! I SAVED CAMELOT BY DESTROYING THE ROWAN STAFF THAT MORGANA WAS USING TO CREATE THE ARMY OF THE DEAD! I SAVED YOU AND BLOODY CAMELOT SO MANY DAMN TIMES THAT I'VE LOST COUNT! AND YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO CALL ME WORTHLESS! WITHOUT ME, YOU WOULDN'T EVEN BE ALIVE!"
Merlin stopped shouting, and saw that Arthur was looking quite bewildered. Arthur didn't know what to say. One thing Arthur was sure of though, is that he's going to be deaf after Merlin's very loud shouting.
"Uhhhhhhh..." Arthur's mouth couldn't form words; he was still too shocked. "What?" Arthur finally asked. "You did what?"
"Er… It's a long story." Merlin sighed. He had a lot of explaining to do.
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