The First of my series 'Magic in the Blood'
"I'm sorry" Morgana said to Arthur as she knelt down next to him "I acted without thinking of the consequences" she choked out and stuttered her breath "you don't know how much I regret everything I have done" Merlin pulled out his sword "I just hope you can forgive me" she turned around
"I blame myself for what you have become Morgana… and you have to pay for it" Merlin said and she stood up straight and said "it's alright Merlin, I understand… my behaviour was unforgivable" his eyes flashed gold and she was in sudden pain but she did not scream
"There is no other way" she said as she gazed in his eyes and he placed a hand on his cheek "I can't take this anymore… I love you and not just as a friend or a misplaced lovesick puppy" he said holding her tight "you are the appidomy of everything that hurts, but I love you… there isn't another soul on this planet who has ever made me half the person when I'm with you"
He looked in to Morgana's eyes and said "I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you, I can't look in to your eyes without feeling that longing, I couldn't allow another day to go by without just getting it out there, regardless of the outcome" he said placing a hand on her cheek
"And I know crossing that line is the furthest thing from anything you have ever considered but some part of you has hesitated for a moment and if there is a moment of hesitation then that means you feel something because it has always been there between us and you can't deny that even if we never talk again after now that I am forever changed" he pushed the sword through and pulled out
He laid her on the ground and said "because of who you are and what you have meant to me" he kissed her forehead and closed her eyes before picking Arthur up and over his shoulder and carrying him away
And within time everything changed and memories are forgotten but dreams remain where she dreams of her dead form having a spell cast upon it, she lives in a mansion where she invents things like projectors as she looks out the window and sees a young man looking and longing as he passes by
She imagines she sees his face upon another but the face soon fades away and she is left wondering she has parties and she sees the figure of her dreams walk in to the room only to disappear with the blink of the eye and she cries upon her couch wishing the visions will go away but the sudden knocking and she is drawn from her tears to answer the door
She swears she is dreaming as the boy who she has been searching for stands in front of her door, he smiles at her and he asks with a hidden smile of hope "could it be that we have met somewhere before?" he smiles with a look as though they have known each other for eternity as the memories come flooding back
The next in my series is Battle of Fate