Hi there! Well this is a Merthur fanfic so if you don't like that I suggest you just don't read this or skip those parts. I'm kind of a bad writer but, I really like writing anyways. So please don't be mean. I`m just doing this out of fun and obsession I have already read like at least over 50 different Merthur fanfictions and as you can see that`s not enough so I had to make a story of my own if that's still not enough I will probably make more stories until I`m run out of ideas.
Note: I'm going to use this ' ' for when they are thinking, and this one's " " for when they are talking. Alternative universe.
Disclaimer: I don't own Merlin or any of its characters if I did I would have made the series longer and Gwen wouldn't have married Arthur because Merlin and Arthur would have been together.
If someone is still reading this I hope you like it.
The alarm clock had been sounding for a while now. Arthur growled at the sound of it. That last free month had gone through just way too quickly. His father had made him take classes during summer so he could be ahead; but luckily he had convinced him to let him have the last month free. He jumped out of bed and headed towards his walk in closet. He grabbed some dark blue jeans and a red shirt, as he headed towards the bathroom he eyed the clock. '7:49! '
"Oh, Shit!" Arthur cursed under his breath as he went to the bathroom and in an blink of an eye he was out, he grabbed his black jacket and headed down stairs and just when he was about to burst out of the house Morgana appeared beside the door. "Going somewhere Arthur?" She teased with a grin plastered on her face."Yes, I`m late and I don`t have time for whatever this is." He said shoving a hand at her. Arthur was left thinking for some seconds and then his face turned from a hurried look to a more 'Are you serious?!' one. He looked at the black watch he always wears and realized it was still 6:30. "Morgana!" He yelled. "Be sure to close your door the next time you decide to snore." She replied as she turned to her back and walked away. This wasn't the first time she did something like this, he didn't even wanted to remember what she did the last time he did something that she didn't like.
Uther was out in a business trip which meant Arthur was in charge, but if the one you are babysitting is Morgana you never know who is in charge.
Their mother Ygraine had died 2 years ago in a car accident or so they say but he and Morgana knew it was because of an affair she had behind Uther`s back it turned out that her boyfriend was a little off and one day he just decided he wanted to die with her and he drove off a cliff dragging the car and her with him. Arthur couldn't really blame her, Uther and her rarely talked, and when they did they had always ended up fighting, they didn't even shared a room. For the only reason that they hadn`t divorced was because Uther refused to make the families name look bad. When she died he didn't even cried, he actually had the nerve to go and curse her empty coffin in the funeral. Arthur knew that Uther had just married her for the sake of the name, just so the Pendragon line wouldn`t disappear, and of course her family was the richest one he could find.
"Arthur, I`m leaving Gwen needs a ride!" Morgana yelled from the front door as she closed it. Arthur checked his watch as he opened his eyes he had been laying on the couch for the past hour. "I better get going otherwise I`m going to be late on the first day." He murmured to himself as he stood up from the couch.
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Merlin was lying on the floor when he opened his eyes, his whole body ached. 'Did I fell again?' "What hour is it?" He growled as he stood up and checked the clock that was on the tiny table lying beside him. "No, no, no. Not again!" Merlin had a world's record on been late for school but now that he was about to start going to University, he had set as a goal to not be late. The problem wasn't that he didn't had much sleep it was all in the contrary he just slept way too much, that and the part time jobs he had at night. At the moment he had none since he had just recently moved to Camelot.
He had entered the Pendragon University, the schools supposed to be for rich people but, in spite of being always late he was a straight A student that had scored a perfect in the International exam competition of all the subjects when he was in 11th grade, and since he graduated he had been asked by many universities to enter theirs. A lot of them were willing to pay him his studies and additional money, the Pendragon University had been one of them. But he had already placed his mind on attending there anyways. But, he of course wasn't going to say that, he needed the money since he had none and he had yet to find a part time job so he could pay for his food and the rent of the apartment he currently lived in.
Merlin had changed into a white T-shirt and jeans. He dashed out of the house without forgetting to lock it. The only good thing that waking up late had brought him had been learning to do things faster than usual. Thanks to that he was probably not going to be late. From the apartment to the University were 8 minutes by car, 15 walking and 10 in a bike unlucky for him he didn't have either of those things so he had to walk there.
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Arthur`s iPhone 5 was ringing and he sighed when he saw who was calling him. And as he walked towards his new black Ferrari he picked up. "Gwaine it just happens to be 7:30 in the morning, the day is just about to begging and you are already calling? What do you want?" Arthur began. Arthur was starting to get a bit irritated, every single day Gwaine had to just happen to be in the need of something and Arthur just happened to be the person he would run to complain about it or ask for help. Sometimes he didn't mind because it was because of reasonable things but there were days that he called for the stupidest things on earth. "Oh come one don't make a deal about it, all I'm asking for is a ride."
"Gwaine there this great new thing called bus." Arthur snapped back sarcastically at him. "Why would I waste money on a bus when you can take me there?"
"Gwaine-"
"Come on! Morgana goes and picks Gwen up almost every single day and I don't see her complaining." Gwaine cut him off. Arthur sighed but agreed on it in exchange of Gwaine doing his math homework for the next week. Math, that was the only thing Gwaine, was known to be good at other than causing trouble of course.
Arthur was well known for not doing free things for others, it was a give and receive thing. Favor? That word wasn't in Arthur`s vocabulary.
Uther was the owner of the state called Camelot you could more or less say that he owned the land, he made the rules and no-one could tell him what to do. At time like this when he was away the responsibility of having everything under control was Arthur`s and if something went wrong while Uther was away the blame was Arthur`s to take. It was a huge burden he honestly didn't want to deal with but that was his duty. The Pendragons mansion you might as well call it their castle as they had servants and everything, it was on top of a hill not far away from where the citizens lived. In between the mansion and the city the Pendragons University, a university only the richest of the rich could afford and as some called it 'Hell' if you messed with the wrong people.
The black Ferrari came to a stop at a white painted house with cream colored stairs where a 22 year old man sat gazing towards nowhere in particular. His head turned to the cars direction as the right window went down.
He sighed "Took you long enough." He said as he opened the car's front door.
"Shut up and get in we are going to be late." Arthur growled back at him.
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"Come on, come on!" He exclaimed desperately. "Just change already, green light!" Merlin could have had just changed the light himself with magic but it seemed somehow wrong even thought it was like second nature for him. Then again he dint wanted to be late for the first day.
Merlin`s eyes flashed gold leaving no blue behind "behwierfan bleoh" he chanted and smirked as he ended the spell. He just might not be late this time after all.
But just then when he was a step away from the other side of the road a car was about to run over him, but his instincts acted up. He's eyes turned bright gold, the obvious new car had now a huge bump upfront as it suddenly stopped just 1 cm away from him.
After a few moments Merlin came back to reality. He saw the state of the car and the shocked owner staring at the huge bump it now had.
"Oh, shit." He cursed under his breath.
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"Arthur." Gwaine started. "I love being wild and everything but going a 110 miles per hour and that is not-''
"We are going to be late Gwaine, and besides this wouldn`t be happening if it wasn`t because of you and you know how my father is. I don`t have time for "Safety" talk right now." Arthur cut him off.
"Arthur the light changed stop the car."
"We just have to go around the corner and no-one's passing anyways."
"Arthur stop the car there's someone there!"
"I`m trying I-I can`t!"
"Arthur use the emergency!"
"I know! It's not working!"
"Arthur!"
"Stop screaming you are making me nervous!"He was about to hit a person. The grate Arthur Pendragon was just about to turn into a criminal. Then suddenly the car stopped with an impact as if it had hit something.
It took them about 10 seconds to realize what had just happened. Now the question was had they hit the person, if they did was it dead. He didn't particularly care but what about his father? What will he do to him when he finds out that his son had killed a person?
Moments later Gwaine still nervous opened the cars door. As he got out he stared at the car's front with a shocked and confused face. "What the hell…"
Arthur was confused that wasn`t the reaction he was expecting. Curious of what was in front of them he too got out of the car.
There was no blood like he was expected, no human body around in the floor like he expected just a raved haired boy standing there looking at the car with wide eyes. Arthur followed the boys gaze and…
"My car!"
His car was a mess his brand new car. He had just bought it 1 week ago. He didn`t know what had just happened but his guess was that the boy had something to do with it and even thought he was about to crush the boy, he hadn`t and he was not just about to let him get away with this.
"You," He started pointing his finger at him. "you are going to pay for this."
"Excuse me?" The raven haired boy replied in disbelief raising an eye brown.
"Look at what you just did to my car!"
"What? This is your fault! You were the one running around over exceeding the normal speed, expecting for people to just make a way for you to pass!"
"Oh, really well you were the one that came out of nowhere -
"I didn`t came out of nowhere, the light was red and I was crossing the street! Is it really my fault? If it is, would you like to take this to the police to see who has the reason?!"
Arthur had never felt this annoyed before. He hated the pleased look the boy had on his face knowing he was right. But he wasn`t the only one red of anger the boy was all flushed all the way from his neck to his ears. He had to admit the guy kindda looked…cute?
"He got you there Arthur." Gwaine replied breaking Arthur`s weird thoughts with an amused grin plastered on his face as he patted Arthurs shoulder.
Arthur for once was speechless. If they went to the police, Uther, with no doubt would end up hearing about this.
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Arthur, so that was the prat`s name. Prat if there was a better word to describe him Merlin didn't know about it. Sure he might have had changed the light to red but he wasn't about to give Mr. prat the reason here. Nevertheless even with that in mind he could as well have gotten in to trouble for speed alone.
The watch Merlin was wearing had broken, probably during the whole car thing. At that moment his eyes widened and a worry appeared on his face. 'Not again!'
He suddenly grabbed Arthur`s wrist and "Shit!" He cursed as he turned to his back and started running to the university that was two blocks away. He had only 5 minutes to get there now.
Breaking his thoughts suddenly someone grabbed his wrist. "Where do you think you are going?"
"Oh! Just face it already I was right and you were wrong now, let go of me already you prat! And stop being such an ass." Merlin shoved off.
Arthur regretted not grabbing him with a stronger grip but, it was too late; the raven haired boy had disappeared out of sight, leaving him there with his open mouth yet to say the reply he hadn`t had the chance to say before he disappeared.
No-one calls Arthur Pendragon a prat or an ass and he wasn't planning on hearing it again.
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Arthur had been able to arrive in time, but only barely. An old lady had happened to be the one driving in front of them when they were only one bloke away from the university. He at first had even though of screaming at her a few but he tried to calm down when he realized it was one of the university cranky old teachers. If his father found out that he had been screaming to old ladies nonetheless in public he would never hear the end of it.
He sometimes thought it was absurd all the things he wasn`t allowed to do. But, right now he couldn`t think of anyone or anything more absurd then the teacher he had in front of him. He had only been in the room less than 5 minutes and he already couldn`t stand the teacher. She was one of those 50 year old ladies that thought they were 15 year olds she looked ridiculous. She already talking about an activity they would do to get to know each other, it`s ok but the way this person was saying things was ridiculous. She was treating them like 5 year olds with mental problems.
Suddenly the door was held opened by the universities secretary who made a hand gesture to call over the teacher. After a quick exchange of words she nodded. The secretary then turned to leave as a raven haired, skinny boy entered the room.
"Class" She started. "this is Merlin. He will probably," She sighed and eyed him before she continued. "will be taking courses with us for the rest of the year." The boy seemed to be oblivious to the tone she was using in her sentence and ignoring her completely as he explored the place with his eyes until their eyes met each other.
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Merlin did not wanted to believe it but that feeling he had gotten when he entered Camelot had definitely gotten stronger when the blond almost hit him but then it had disappeared when he left the spot and it came back again when he entered the university and even stronger inside the classroom.
For his luck he hadn't been late , well….he kind of cheated. He teleported from where he was standing to the Universities gates when only 5 seconds were left. He had went to the office and talked to the secretary. After she finished whatever she was doing with that pile of papers she had handed to him his schedule for the rest of the semester and led him to his classroom. As they passed the school halls she told him what was in the end of that hall what was that classroom for and she answered every question he had for what was that? What was that thing used for? Where are the bathrooms? And when he ran out of questions he just left her do the talking as he admired the place, it looked like a castle maybe even fancier. Big doors and windows made of glass that gave the illusion that nothing was there, none ending halls, shiny floors, decorations and furniture in rest places white, silver and gold that matched the place perfectly the university even had an inner garden with a fountain very green vegetation all over the place and a little eating place beside it with tables. He felt so out of place everything looked so fancy …so delicate Merlin on the other hand was a total klutz even though when he was not doing something stupid or making a fool out of himself he looked almost graceful blue eyes that shine as if they were precious gems white skin that could be confused with snow and a thin body that made him look as if he could break even with the slightest breeze. But if he wanted to do what he was "destined" to he would have to at least try and be there after all that was the only place he knew he had a chance on finding it after all that`s what he had said and told him to do.
"Merlin," He whispered. "hurry before he notices you must leave to Camelot." A wide eyed desperate Gaius stood before him. "Then What? Where would I go? What do I have to do? How will I find it?" Merlin was drowning in questions if what was happening was real he had no-one else left. "Merlin, look at me boy." Gaius placed his hands on his shoulders as he looked directly into Merlin's eyes waiting a moment for the boy to calm down a little. "Enter the Pendragons university and…."
They finally stopped in front of a classroom and after a quick talk with the teacher she left. As he entered the classroom he felt all eyes on him. He eyed the room while the teacher introduced him. But he came to a stop when his eyes met with the ones of someone that looked strangely familiar.
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'Of course how could he forget?!'
That Merlin was the idiot that appeared out of nowhere and made him look like a fool and had made his car look like a bloody mess.
"You may sit." The teacher added drily. The younger boy broke their eye contact as he faced the teacher and nodded to face forward.
To tell the truth I wasn't planning on posting this until like 2 months from now but I couldn`t wait. It`s kind of a late warning but I won't post the next chapter in a really long time so I won't promise anything and NEVER EVER trust my day realizes. Please review if you like; any suggestions?
