I decided I wanted to do another little something for this because I loved writing this piece x I tried to see back into the same style, but I don't know if I managed x Please read and review to let me know what you think xx :)
Leon found that Merlin was capable of quite a lot of things, now that he actually thought about it. There had been a strange number of accidents and incidents with bandits and magical creatures, all finding themselves falling from trees or dropping their swords or being beheaded in a single blow, no matter how many times otherwise Gaius told them it wouldn't succeed.
And every time that had happened Merlin was with them.
(Given what he'd seen with the dragon, that wasn't so surprising. Merlin was apparently amazing at throwing people off, unless his clumsiness wasn't actually acting.)(If it wasn't Leon actually feared for Camelot's future in his hands.)
But still, what was a sorcerer doing in a Kingdom in which all magical people were executed?
Perhaps Merlin really did have something wrong with his head.
Or not. Leon remembered that Merlin's mental issues had only come to light after attempting to get himself arresting for sorcery in Gwen's place, and almost succeeding.
How many of the other things that Merlin had said were true? Merlin came out with a lot of things, some sounding too farfetched to be likely, but maybe Merlin did have the most experience in these areas.
Hmm, next time they were attacked by bandits Leon would have to see about helping Merlin out. (Discretely of course. Though Arthur hadn't actually noticed how unlikely it was for that many bandits to fall from trees or spontaneously drop their swords, so it didn't seem like he'd been figuring it out anytime soon.)
None of this stops him from dying of course (he's up to death forty one by now) but it makes for interesting thinking when he's on his way home.
Sometimes he wonders if he's ever going to tell Merlin that he knows.
(But that would kind of ruin the idea of a secret protector, wouldn't it?)