Series: Untitled
Chapter: In Dreams
Rating: pg-13
Pairing/s: Future Merlin/Arthur, possible Morgana/Gwen.
Warning/s: Spoilers for episode 1:13, Minor Character Death, Possibly Icky Images, Dark.
Summary: Hurting after the Island of the Blessed, Merlin crawls into his bed, bone-weary and drained, Then, one by one, Camelot starts to sleep, and nobody is waking up, is Merlin's magic causing this, or is it something more sinister.
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Dreams
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Gwen was standing in her father's blacksmith shop, it was dark but she could see the glow of the molten metal, and the flicker of flames, but the shop was meant to be silent, her father was dead and gone, and he had yet to be replaced.
She looked around, a deep sorrow filling her heart, until she thought it might shatter, and the shards would break through her chest and scatter on the floor.
Even with the fire, it felt cold, the shadows seemed to pull all the warmth from the room, the flames appeared to form claws.
Suddenly the sweet sound of hammering filled her ears, her beloved father formed in the shadows, his eyes, his smile, all so real, that she was unable to help herself, she ran into his arms.
It felt wrong as soon as she got there, his arms were stiff around her waist, and his skin was too hot, like he had a fever, more than a fever actually, scared, she pulled away.
The flames were wrapped around her fathers body, what had looked like claws before, now appeared to be snakes, twining and twisting them selves into her fathers eyes and ears, pushing into his very flesh, as he staggered towards her.
"GWEN, HELP ME, PLEASE HELP ME, GOD IT HURTS, PLEASE, PUT IT OUT."
Gwen stared as her fathers flesh turned black and peeled from his body, watched it crack as blood and pus bubbled out, horrified she stared into his eyes, the eyelids long gone, staring at her.
"I HATE YOU, I WISH YOU WERE DEAD, HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN TO ME, I CARED FOR YOU, I LOOKED AFTER YOU, WASN'T I A GOOD FATHER, DIDN'T I DO EVERYTHING I COULD."
Gwen covered her ears, closed her eyes and screamed, vaguely she could hear Lady Morgana's voice, feel hands shaking her shoulders, but when she opened her eyes and turned around, all she could see where flaming snakes, wrapping around her arms pulling her in.
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"Gwen, GWEN, Gwen wake up, wake up."
Unable to wake her friend and servant, Morgana raced to the door, the guards where already running towards her room, while bleary-eyed Ladies-in-waiting stood at their doors, Gwen's screams tearing through the hallways had woken most of that part of the castle.
"My Lady, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, My maidservant isn't, get the physician.....WHY ARE YOU STANDING THERE GO!!!!!!!
