Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin.
New Law
"That. Is. IT! I have had enough of this idiocy!" shouted Arthur, voice trembling with rage as he stomped out of the throne room. It was the third time that month that someone tried accusing Merlin of being a sorcerer.
Grumbling and mumbling to himself, the king found himself back in his chambers. Feeling calm enough to write without his hands shaking, Arthur opened a drawer and took out a piece of parchment.
Slowly, the door opened, and the king's wary manservant peeked in, not wanting his master's anger to be directed at him.
"Merlin, I'm letting you off early today. Don't be late tomorrow."
Merlin blinked thrice confusedly before extracting his head from the room and closing the door.
Snatching his quill and dipping it in ink, Arthur began writing on the parchment.
The next day, Arthur was in an inexplicably good mood, again confusing his manservant. As the council meeting started, and they finished with some boring paperwork and taxation laws before the reason of the king's joyfulness was revealed.
"I am proposing this law," stated Arthur, displaying the parchment to those gathered at the round table.
"What's it say?" asked Gwaine, unable to see it and frankly not caring to do the reading.
"It states that no-one is allowed to accuse Merlin of being a sorcerer, consulting with sorcerers, conspiring to do sorcery, sympathising with sorcerers, or anything else that has to do with sorcery."
"About time," mumbled Gwen, who was tired of seeing her best friend being thrown into the dungeons and/or nearly killed because of those charges.
Merlin and Gaius, meanwhile, were trying to keep their laughter inside.
"I swear, someone accuses him practically every week!" complained one of the nobles, who was annoyed by how much time the accusations wasted; they could've been spending that time debating taxes!
The law was quickly agreed upon, and Gaius and Merlin had a good laugh over that. So did Kilgharrah when the warlock called to tell the dragon the news.
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"I'm tellin' ya milord, I saw 'im doin' it! Gold eyes an' everythin'!" yelled a middle-aged woman who simultaneously glared at Merlin.
"You're telling me, that you saw Merlin get surrounded by Morgana's henchmen before causing them all to fly backwards and hit their heads on trees and rocks, killing them, and then chanted some words to turn into an old man and got dressed in old man clothes, before Morgana herself came and they had a short battle before Merlin won by calling a storm and sending a lightning bolt at her, which she raised a shield against, but still fell unconscious from, and then Merlin turned back to his own age and left?"
"That's what I've been tellin' ya!"
Arthur sighed, irritated. Merlin was genuinely bemused; he was quite sure that he didn't do any of that.
She was quickly fined for wasting the king's time, and jailed for breaking the law.