hi the next chapter will be longer i promise, actually i've had this chapter done for a while e totally forgot i hadn't posted it.

disclaimer: i own nothing but the plot and the oc's

note: some things ARE different to the original


Chapter 1:

The Boy In The Light

The noble knights rid through the forest on the their monthly patrol merrily sing songs and making small talk, among their ranks was none other than sir Leon, sir Gwaine and the newly knighted sir Mordred.

The youngest knight let out a yawn, covering his mouth.

"Didn't get much sleep last night I'm guessing" Leon said from besides him.

"No" Mordred said rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

"Don't worry, we were all like that on our first patrol, you'll get used to it" Leon promised.

All of the knights had taken quite a shine to Mordred, always treating him like there little brother and helping him train, sure some of them where a little wary about the fact that he was once working for Morgana but there doubt was quickly swept by the fact that he save Arthur's life.

Mordred was happy in Camelot too, everyone was nice to him…except one person: Emrys. Mordred had always looked up to Emrys, ever since he heard the prophecy, about Emrys the king of the druids, and his dad told his he was real, he'd looked up to him. When he saw Merlin that day in Camelot he thought that everything was going to be okay but Merlin left him to die he didn't come until Mordred practically begged him and the next time they met he tried to kill him.

Mordred had always wanted to say sorry for what he said that day that's why he came to Camelot but Merlin couldn't even look at him without distrust burning brightly in his eyes.

"Hey, come have a look at this" sir Kay said from the front of the group.

Slowly Leon, Mordred and Gwaine made their way the front of the patrol group and gasped when they saw what Kay was looking at.

It was the boy from the cart…but of course the knights didn't know that.

Now that the boy was in the sunlight you could plainly see his scruff raven black hair, that hadn't been washed in ages and his skin would be as white as snow if it was not married by numerous cuts and bruises as well as other more serious injuries. His clothes we ripped and dirty not to mention the fact that they were way to big as they hung off his shoulders.

However the thing that struck them wasn't his injuries or his clothes it was the fact that he was almost a mini-Merlin.

The knights stared at that boy for a while before Leon said "well? What are you waiting for? Set up camp and lay the boy on one of the mattresses, now!"

Suddenly the near silent group of knight started rushing around setting up the fire and beds. In about 15 minute the boy was lying comfortably on the camping mattress, actually he looked more comfortable than a peasant on a four-poster bed, even though the camp mattress were extremely uncomfortable.

Leon: the only person who seemed to know anything about medicine, regardless of how little, gave the boy a once over.

"Is he going to be alright?" Mordred asked.

"From what I can tell, yeah, but I think we should get him to Gaius anyway" Leon said.

A loud yawn came from behind them followed by Gwaine's voice saying "hey, you two let get some shut eye"

Leon turned to Mordred and said "he's right… for a change, we should get some sleep"

"Ok" Mordred complied and like that they went to sleep.

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The first thing that the boy noticed when he came to was that fact that he was no longer in the cage and suddenly everything came back to him; escaping, running, hurting, collapsing.

The boy shot up before wincing from his earlier injury and looked around. He tensed up at the fact that he was around the knights, he didn't know who they were and thought they might be working with the man from earlier.

He slowly stood up and walked backward to the edge of the camp with a heavy limp but before he reached the outside of the camp he tripped over a pan that was lying about on the floor and fell backward.

The boy screamed as his injuries collided with the hard ground and fallen branches, waking up the knights.

"What's going on?" Mordred asked as he woke up before noticing the boy.

As the rest of the knights woke up and some of them crowded around him, the boy streaked back in fear until his back was against a large oak tree.

"Please don't hurt, please, please, please, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" the boy sobbed hysterically over and over again as the knight came closer and he attempted to make himself even smaller.

Mordred stopped the knights from going any further by pulling his hands out and say "we need to give him some space"

The rest of the knights backed off leaving just Leon, Mordred and Gwaine.

Mordred, having seen this type of thing before, knelt down on one knee and said "hey, were not going to hurt, I promise, I'm Mordred can you tell me your name?"

The boy looked at Mordred with his haunted, soul burning eyes trying to figure out his intentions before glancing at Leon and Gwaine.

Mordred's warm smile didn't do much to reassure the boy as tried to make himself look even smaller.

The boy looked at the knights with extreme distrust and reminded himself that this must all be a trick and that they were going to hurt him as soon as they had the chance.

Mordred stared into the boys broken blue eyes urging him to trust him.

"A-Alec" he finally stuttered out.

"What?" Mordred asked confused.

"M-my n-name is A-Alec" he whispered.


way to go Mordred, yeah.

p.s. i'm adding more alecdred bromance to the rewrite but there will still be more malec

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