Forgive?

Chapter Two

Knock, knock.

Gwen stirred slightly.

Knock, knock.

Gwen's eyelids fluttered open.

Knock, knock.

Gwen stood up and stretched.

Knock, knock.

"Guinevere? It's me, Arthur"

Gwen started.

"Arthur?" she yelped

"Is everything okay?"

"Yes, yes! I'm fine thank you! Just give me a moment, please!" Gwen began to panic.

"Alright…" Arthur sounded a little disgruntled.

Gwen rushed to the mirror on the wall and wiped off the thin layer of dust on it.

"Oh no!" she whispered

Her hair was sticking up all over the place! It looked like she had a bird's nest on her head. Gwen glanced around the room, but it was pointless. She's lost all of her original possessions when Helios attacked, and the clothes, hairbrush, shoes and food that Merlin's mother had given to her were all left in Ealdor. All she owned were the clothes she was wearing, her house and the table, bed and mirror in it. Arthur would probably help her but she couldn't exactly ask him for a hairbrush – although he was vain enough to surely have one, bless him!

"Guinevere? Is something wrong?" Arthur now sounded concerned

"No, no! I'm fine, my lord!" Gwen squeaked

She looked around once more, and then she spotted it! A flowery blue scarf lay crumpled under the bed. She dived for it, picked it up and shook it out. A lot of dust and a few bugs fell off it, but apart from that it was fine. She swiftly wrapped it around her hair and looked back into the mirror.

"Well it's not perfect, but it'll have to do." She muttered grimly.

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Arthur raised his hand to knock one last time and nearly punched Guinevere in the face as she suddenly wrenched the door open. He stumbled back slightly in shock.

"Whoaa…sorry, Guinevere." He apologised

"It's fine!" she sang

"You're here. What took you so long?" he exclaimed

"Oh, I was just…finishing what I was doing!"

Arthur wasn't convinced. "And that was…?"

"Um…I was cleaning! My house. It's dusty. You know, because I haven't been in it, so it's dusty, and I was cleaning it, because it was dusty and…yes. Cleaning." Guinevere explained stumblingly.

"Righhht…" Arthur was sure she was hiding something, but he didn't know why she'd lie to him. He decided to put it out of his mind for now. "Come on, then!" he began to lead her down the street.

"Where are we going?" Guinevere asked him.

"Wait and see." Arthur said mysteriously.

Thank you to all the lovely people who have reviewed and done story/author alert! In the next few chapters I'm going to do some from Merlin's point of view as well as Arthur and Gwen's. And by the way I am in NO WAY insulting Gwen/Angel Coulby's hair, I'm just saying that she couldn't brush it because she had no brush, clothes etc.