"Find something for bandages! Elyan try to stop the bleeding. Come on quickly we need to get him back to Gaius!" Gwaine ordered dropping to his knee's next to merlin trying to stop the bleeding in his side whilst elyan ran over and tried to stop the bleeding from his shoulder.

"What are you doing?" Agravaine seethed "stop helping him!" Arthur still sat in place not saying anything

"Where are those bandages ?" Gwaine yelped his hands covered in blood as he let out small words of comfort to the unconscious merlin.

"Get away from him!" Elyan quickly jumped back but Gwaine just looked up, agravaines sword was pointed at his chest.

"He needs help"

"He's a sorcerer!" Agravaine snapped

"I don't care" Arthur watched the exchange his mind slowly beginning to work again as he finally pushed himself of the ground and away from merlin

"Gwaine step away from him" Gwaines head snapped to Arthur

"what? bu-"

"Get away from him Gwaine...NOW!" Gwaine slowly moved away from merlin rubbing his blood so asked hands on his cloak.

"We can't just leave him like this, he'll never make it back to Camelot" Gwaine stated

"I've already gave the call to arrest him and as I have a higher rank than you you will do it!" Agravaine replied scathingly

"he's not being arrested" Arthur said calmly and everyones heads moved back to arthur

"but sire, he is a sorcerer, he has to be put to death"

"He is my servant and he was saving our lives"

"Then let me tend to his injuries!" Gwaine snapped exasperated

"We need to get him to camelot quickly"

"He won't make it unless we stop the bleeding quickly!"

"do what you can in 5 minutes, then we leave" Arthur ordered elyan and gwaine dropped back to merlins side whilst agravaine stood glaring at Arthurs back.


"MERLIN! What happened?" Gwen rushed down the stairs towards the knights, mostly towards percival who had merlin lying pale and still in his arms. She stared wide eyed at her friend, falling into stride with the knights as agravaine sped up the stairs and into the castle. "What happened ?" Gwen begged for someone to talk to her "He's not..He can't be"

"He's alive" Elyan finally answered but Gwen was sure she heard him muttering something about for now. They walked quickly up the stairs, before long everyone was cramming into gaius' room gwaine knocking the stuff of a table so percival could lay him down.

"What happened?" Gaius asked pushing his way to merlin through the crowd quickly finding the wounds and inspecting them .

"He got injured in battle" Leon replied

"Skewered more like" Gaius muttered looking at the wound on merlins side.

"Is he going to be okay?"

"I need towels, water, needle, silk thread and some honey" Gaius said quickly ignoring Gwaine's question. Gwen was in action straight away searching round gaius' chambers for the things he listed whilst Leon ran to get some water.

Gaius had just finished cleaning the wounds properly so they wouldn't get infected when footsteps rang in the corridor outside, he quickly began to stitch up the first wound when the door was thrown open almost hitting Arthur who was standing by the door a mixture of many emotions gaius couldn't quite figure out on his face. Agravaine marched in his eyes did a quick sweep of the room before landing on the crowd around merlin.

"Throw him in the dungeons" He ordered as guards marched in behind him.

"What's going on?" Arthur demanded finally snapping from his thoughts.

"Merlin is under arrest for practising sorcery" Agravaine said calmly.

"I make those orders not you!"

"Under normal cercumstances you would"

"what's so different about these circumstances?" Arthur seethed

"After enlitenting the council about our trip we have came to the decision that the sorceror has enchanted you. Probably has had you under a spell for years"

"That's insane, you saw merlin save my life! Why would he put me under a spell"

"Why would you let him live otherwise"

"Because...It wasn't...He didn't...He's merlin"

"Exactly your judgement has been clouded by the enchantment so as the only other person with the royal seal it is up to me to take over the thrown until you are yourself again"

"You can't do this! I am the king, you can't just have a meeting decide i'm enchanted and kick me from my throne!" The guards where now pushing a fuming gwaine out the way and grabbing merlin roughly from the table.

"I'm afraid I have to arthur, unless you can prove your not enchanted"

"How exactly can I prove that? By sentencing someone who has never done me harm to death?"

"Well what would you do with the sorcerer otherwise!"

"I don't know!" Arthur screamed back, it was true he hadn't yet thought about what he would do once merlin was heeling properly.

"That isn't like the normal arthur" Arthurs mind went back to when uther had thought he had been placed under a spell to fall in love with gwen a small growl escaping him knowing if people thought he was enchanted there wasn't much he could do.

"Please uncle" Agravaine didn't answer just turned to follow the guards as they began to leave the room. "At least let gaius treat him!" Arthur snapped

"I'm not letting gaius waste his time on a sorcerer"

"You can't do this!" Gwaine snapped "he's done camelot no harm"

"And were making sure he never will, he's corrupted with evil." With that they finally, agravaine slamming the door in his wake.

"Merlin Evil? That's like gwaine sober!" Percival joked lightly, at any other time people would have laughed at this comment but no one in the room could laugh.

"arthur you can't let this happen" Gwaine pleaded

"He's a sorcerer gwaine, there is nothing I can do"

"You're the king!"

"they think I'm enchanted they won't listen to me"

"make them listen!"

"Why should I ?" Arthur suddenly snapped back "he has magic, magic corrupts, magic makes people evil, even those you trust with your life, that you thought could never hurt you"

"Merlin is nothing like Morgana" Gwen gave gently.

"People with magic are evil"

"Merlin saved your life today"

"Merlin put all our lives in danger today" Arthur retorted. Gwaine looked to the king, any respect he had for the noble leaving him.

"You put merlin's life in danger most days, you take him on trips through bandit infested area's knowing he can't fight or defend himself, you bring him to battles with us, on quest's you doubt any of us will return from. Merlin has put his life on the line for you all these times because he feels the need to protect you, he followed you to the pereless lands because he thought he might be able to protect you, he's jumped infront of a doracha for you...now you're just going to let him die? Merlin's right you really are a prat"

"I would watch how you talk to me Gwaine" Arthur scolded before leaving the room.