A/N: Please excuse any mistakes, I'm in a bad mood, don't really want to talk about it, family issues...well, I'm not the one with the issue, but I fixed a few. :) P.S. I love reviews.

chapter2

Merlin walked into his tiny house and quickly shut the door behind him. He stood standing with his back against the door for a short moment taking heavy breaths. He suddenly turned and reached out with nervous hands, then locking the three locks that layered the door. After another moment of taking in what had happened that day, he turned and took a deep breath.

"I'm in trouble, Cheeto." He said low. "Uther won't rest until he knows I'm gone."

The dog whimpered when her master slid down the door, and she walked over to him and bumped their heads together, then licked his face. Merlin tried his best to keep smiling for his wolf. She was very special after all. Merlin remembered when he first met his friend, she was the only thing that came out good, of the whole process of working for Uther. But Merlin couldn't bring himself to keep the smile.

Merlin gulped as he held into the dog's silk fur. "He'll do what he's has to, Cheeto." He gasped trying to hold back a sob. "I'm scared."

The dog sat in front of him and lay her paws on his lap.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door making the boy gasp. Merlin got to his feet as quick as his sight could let him. Another knock at the door and Cheeto growled protectively.

Merlin gulped nervously. After a long moment more, there was no more knocking. Cheeto barked again when Merlin slowly reached out to the door knob.

"You're right, girl." Merlin said low. He reached blindly to the left and grabbed an umbrella. He wiggled it. "Better safe than sorry." He brought his hand to the knob then slowly open the door with his right hand while holding his weapon tightly with his left.

Cheeto walked forward and Merlin frowned when he heard her sniff. "What is it, girl?"

Cheeto barked. Merlin held on tight to the umbrella as he pulled the door more open and walked forward, reaching out for his dog. When he felt fur, Merlin slowly leaned down to the floor and felt around until he felt Cheetos' nose. When he felt the dog's nose, Merlin reached a little forward and gasped low when he felt what was there. He lifted the skinny thorn with a shaky hand and sniffed the flower.

"Rosemary." He said low. He stood facing the floor, scared to move. Scared that if he moved, he get a bullet in his head.

XOXOXOXO

Uther stood staring at the sight before him. "He's scared. You can see it in his eyes." A smirk plastered his lips. "Good."

The man next to Uther frowned. "Sir... he's blind. Surely it's enough warning to him."

Uther glared at the man. "The boy refused my hospitality before. I want to make sure this time, he knows what happens when you deny Uther Pendragon."

The man blinked. "I thought you wanted revenge for him telling..."

Uther smirked. "That too." He walked forward, towards the house in front of him. His eyes not leaving his prey. Just as the man crossed the street and reached the sidewalk, a familiar woman popped up in front of Merlin. Uther turned around quickly so his back was to the house. He could hear her and it angered him with the way she talked to Merlin.

"Merlin, are you alright?" Her voice was sweet and caring, almost like a lover. Almost.

"Morgana can I stay at your place tonight?"

"Of course. Let's get you some stuff. Come on, Cheeto." Uther glanced back and his brows narrowed when he saw this.. woman, Morgana with an arm wrapped around Merlin's shoulder.

Uther slowly walked across the street, back towards the man standing there.

"Sir...?"

"Follow them. Get rid of the woman." He walked inside the black car.

"But she has done nothing."

"I don't care. She's in the way." Uther slammed the door shut.

The man sighed and walked into the driver's seat of the car, him and Uther never taking their eyes off the house.

XOXOXOXO

Morgana went about the house as quickly as she could, wide-eyed and breathless. She shook her head. "Are you sure it was him?"

Merlin nodded from his spot on the couch, his body hadn't stopped trembling. "He was the one at the restaurant. The one... that got soaked in coke."

Morgana blinked and a small smile appeared on her lips. "After what you said he's done to you, he deserved it."

Merlin smiled a very small smile, but it quickly faded. "What am I going to do?" He shook his head as he pat his wolf's fur.

"You do what you did last time..."

"I'm not running again, Morgana."

"No, not that. Call the cops, get a restraining order." The woman sat next to him on the couch.

Merlin sighed. "Yeah, because that worked so well last time." He said sarcastically.

Morgana sighed this time. "Merlin... he harassed y-"

"I know what he did Morgana." Merlin said angrily. "I was there." He said lower.

"In more ways than one!" She finished, desperately. "We have to do something, before this gets out of hand."

"It's already out of hand." Merlin stood up from the couch, and Cheeto, who was laying next to him ran after her master. "He tried to kill me, Morgana." He gulped dryly. "Maybe if I wasn't so desperate to work for someone so high in business, he wouldn't have looked twice at me."

Morgana licked her lips and sighed sadly. "Merlin, he took advantage of you. He knew where you lived, he knew you lived alone, and-"

"That's not the reason he tried to kill me, Morgana."

The woman blinked. "What?"

Merlin slowly walked over to the couch, then felt around for the seat before he sat down. He took a deep breath. "Morgana, I didn't tell you everything that happened."

The woman's breathing picked up suddenly feeling sick. "He didn't..." She trailed.

"No, no he didn't." He exhaled. "Remember I told you that he harassed me?" Morgana nodded. Merlin licked his dry lips. "Well, he harassed me before that day, but when he cornered me, I was working late, I didn't know he was there."

(Flashback)

Merlin was walking by the front desk when Nina the receptionist called. "Merlin, this needs to go to Uther's office. He'll need it in the morning."

Merlin slowly grabbed the papers and nodded. The boy was after all Uther's assistant, it had crossed Merlin's mind about why the man would want a 17-year-old working as his assistant. The moment he asked for the job, Uther agreed. He said that, a young mind was what his company needed. Of course, the harassment had started shortly after that, but even adults would want this position. So no matter the late calls, the sudden lunches, the small touches and shivery brushes when the man accidentally walked behind Merlin, Merlin kept the job.

He opened Uther's office door, and that's when it happened. The loud bang. Merlin had to shut his eyes when the suddenly dead man fell to the floor, his blood on the carpet, and Uther standing there.

When Merlin reopened his eyes, it was to be met with Uther's dark-blue staring back at him. The man started walking towards him. Merlin dropped the papers he was holding and ran for it.

(End Flashback)

Morgana stared with narrowed brows. "You... you saw him kill someone." She said shocked.

Merlin slowly nodded. "That's why he tried to kill me. He told me that if... in his words, I let him bed me, he would let me go. That's when he tried to rape me."

The woman's brows narrowed more.

"I fought, and when I finally got loose, I told him I needed time to think about it." He shook his head. "I knew he wouldn't let me go, no matter what he got, so the next day I tried to run." His brows narrowed. "I don't know how he knew, but...when I was on the plane, he called me. He told me I didn't have to worry anymore, it was over. I would be dead and he could live on knowing I wouldn't tell his secrets." A tear ran down his cheek. "Next thing I know there's an explosion."

Morgana blinked.

Merlin's brows narrowed more, confused. "I remember falling, but not landing. I thought I would die alone in the woods," He reached out and touched his wolf's head, a sudden smile on his lips. "Cheeto must have sensed my stress, she came to my aid. She sort of nursed me back to health. She warmed me, licked my wounds..." He smiled more. "She's my hero."

Morgana smiled too and pat the dog's back. "She is amazing. Usally if a wolf sees a hurt person in the woods, they think lunch."

They both laughed when the wolf barked and whined.

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