A/N: So the second chapter, I'm sorry it took some time, but I just wanted to finish some other stories I was working on, so that I could focus more on the new ones. It's also a rather long chapter, but still not my best work. I also have to say that I'm a bit sad that I only got one review, but I will still finish everything I work on, so for the people that like it you don't have to worry. So enjoy this next chapter.

Disclaimer: I *snif* don't own Merlin...

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It has been a week since Aithusa came to their school and Arthur and the rest had already decided that they liked their new friend, she is cheerful and kind and Morgana had almost screamed how it had been time the group got a new girl in it.

To Arthur's disappointment he hadn't seen Aithusa's brother anymore, he came to get her, but every time she just jumped in the car and they drove off.

He and the other druids also were busy preparing for Emrys' arrival. He groaned remembering how they had told him to train even harder, not that he thought it would really help him improve, he was terrible when it came to using magic, yeah he was great with the sword, but magic, just terrible, he could only lift a little stone or heal a scratch, but not more then that.

And of course Morgana was great at using magic, she was even better then most of the adults. Gwen was good when it came to growing plants and stuff, while Elyan was a healer.

And that little brat Mordred was good in both magic and the sword, Arthur really hated it when he was bragging about his skills, as if was better then anyone else.

Arthur was currently walking through the city, looking at some shops, waiting for the time he would meet with Gwaine and Leon, but he was way to early so he still had half an hour to fill.

He just walked to the park when his heart skipped a beat, Aithusa's brother, Merlin sat on a bench in front of him, where he hadn't noticed the man before. He could only stare at the raven and he fell his cheeks become red. 'Why do I get like this when I see him, I... never felt like this before!' His thoughts screamed at him.

The raven had been staring at the pound in front of him, but he turned his head and stared right in the blond's face. A warm smile spread over the man's face. 'Oh hi, Arthur right?'

'He remembered my name!' He wasn't able to speak for a moment, before he almost whispered. 'Yeah that's me.'

'Are you busy?' Arthur shook his head. 'Great, then come sit with me.'

Arthur gulped and sat down next to the raven. 'Thanks.'

'Aithusa told me about you guys, she seems to enjoy herself.'

Of course he knew his name, his sister had told him about the blond. 'I'm glad that she enjoys herself, we really like her.' He gave the man a smile and the other looked a bit relieved.

They went silent for a few minutes, before Merlin asked. 'Do you want some coffee?' Arthur was startled by the other's question, but eventually he nodded. The raven jumped of the bench and disappeared in a building across the street.

Five minutes later he returned with two coffee in his hands, one he gave the blond and he sat down on the bench again. Merlin took a sip of his coffee and Arthur stared at the lips around the cup, those full red lips, oh how he wanted place his own over them, the lips suddenly stopped their movements and Arthur's eyes traveled up, looking at the raven's eyes, they looked at him. Fear filled Arthur's heart when he realised the other had seen him staring at the man's lips, Merlin was probably thinking he was a freak, but the fear turned into confusion when he saw that the other started to smile.

The lips started moving again and took another sip, he then pulled the cup away from his mouth and looked at his watch, before looking at the blond. 'I have to go, but I still want to ask you something... would you please look after my little sister, she is the only one I have left.'

Arthur frowned. 'What do you mean?'

Merlin bit his lip and he looked like he was searching for the right words. 'I don't know if she has told about our time in London?' Arthur shook his head and Merlin sighed. '… It's just the two of us, our parents died some years ago.'

'Oh...' Arthur's eyes widened. 'I'm sorry.'

'Don't worry.' He gave Arthur a smile. 'Now it's really time for me to go, enjoy your coffee, bye.' He said and stood up, leaving the blond behind.

'Bye.' Arthur whispered, but Merlin had already left.

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Arthur ran, he ran through the school's hallways to where the screams came from, the screams he had immediately recognized. He stopped when he saw the origin of the screams, his sister Morgana.

The screams had now stopped and she was crying in Leon's arms while he brushed her hair and tried to calm her. Percival was rubbing her back and some people that Arthur didn't know where whispering to each other, while looking down at the crying woman.

He walked to his three friends on the ground and Leon looked up, while shaking his head. He then kneeled down next to his sister and touched her face. 'Morgana what's wrong?'

She looked up, her face stained with tears. 'Arthur... I saw... no, not here...' Her eyes where widened with fear and she buried her head into his chest.

He looked confused at her and then at her boyfriend. 'What happened?'

Leon and Percival looked at each other, before Leon began to speak. 'She just suddenly started to scream, we don't know why.'

He nodded and looked down at his sister, she didn't cry anymore and looked up. Her mascara ran over her cheeks and she looked desperate at him, she opened her mouth and one word came out of it. 'Emrys.' His eyes widened in shock and his mouth fell open.

'What did she mean?' Percival asked and Arthur realised they had heard her whisper.

He shook his head in response. 'No, I... I will take her home, can the two of you tell the others we're home?'

Leon frowned. 'We will do that... but what's she talking about?'

'Nothing.' Arthur tried, but Leon was clearly not happy with his answer.

'And what would you call what just happened, I'm her boyfriend, I want to know what's wrong with her!' Leon's face turned red in anger and he clenched his fist, Arthur wanted to tell him everything, but he just couldn't, he wasn't allowed to tell.

The blond looked desperate at his angry friend. 'Please Leon.' He stared shocked down at the words his sister had just spoken, but she only had eye for her boyfriend. Leon looked at her with hurt eyes and sighed.

'Fine.' He looked at his friend. 'Take care of her.'

Arthur nodded and took his sister in his arms and walked off, feeling the eyes of his friends on his back.

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Arthur walked back inside the living room with two cups of tea and gave one to Morgana. Ygraina was currently away, visiting their father in London and wouldn't be home for a few days. The girl was wrapped in blankets and her eyes' were red. The whole ride back she had been crying and Arthur couldn't get a word out of her.

He sat down next to her and looked into her eyes. 'Tell me.'

She looked at him, before closing her eyes. 'I... I think I saw a vision... or maybe a memory.' He frowned at her, not that he found it strange he knew the girl was a seer, she saw small things, but she never reacted like this. 'I think I saw... Emrys.'

He gasped and grabbed her hands, she looked startled up at him and he knew he shouldn't have done that and he let go. 'I'm sorry, go on.'

She blinked a few times before speaking again. '...He was a old man and he looked down on me, I was lying on the ground and... and I was so scared.' The last she said almost whispering and new tears flowed down her eyes. He laid his arms around her and waited until the girl had calmed down. '… I was scared of him, but he looked like he was sorry for me, he asked... he asked if, if this really was what I wanted and everywhere where bodies and so much blood... Arthur I'm scared.' She panicked, her eyes wide in fear and he quickly took her in his arms again.

'Morgana you don't have to fear-.'

'You don't understand Arthur! I think I... I'm the person he talks to... Arthur I'm the evil witch!' She sank into his arms and he could only look stunned at his sister, he could not believe she was an evil witch and knowing she had a pure good heart.

'But why do I feel that what she says is true?' He was shocked by his own thoughts and tried to shake them out of his head.

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Merlin opened his front door looking at the person that stood in front of him and he smiled. 'Hello, you're here for Aithusa?' He stared at the man in front of him and a long lost memory spread through his mind.

The other blinked for a moment before taking a deep breath. 'No, I'm here for you Merlin.' Merlin nodded, he understood what the other was telling him.

'Come inside.'

The raven let him to his living room, before walking to the kitchen and grabbing them some tea.

'So you remembered?' He asked, looking in those familiar brown eyes. He got a nod in response and the other looked away. 'So my friend, the bravest and most noble knight of them all is finally back.' Merlin smiled and gave him the cup of tea.

'Yeah, but my friends call me Lance now.' They gave each other a smile. 'I guess I don't have to ask you if you remember.'

'I guess you could say I remembered.' Saying this made an old pain spread through his heart.

He didn't knew if Lance saw it, but the other didn't show that he saw it. 'And Aithusa?'

'She was there... after you left.' He looked with sad eyes at his friend. 'I missed you.'

'And I you.' Lance said and both men embraced each other, when they finally released each other Lance glanced at him. 'Do you still love him?'

Merlin smiled, thinking about those times and whispered. 'Forever.'

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Arthur walked into the kitchen, letting out a yawn, before grabbing a piece of toast from the table.

'Hey, that's mine!' Morgana yelled at him and he quickly took another bite.

'And now it's mine, I'm glad you're feeling better.' The last he said giving her a smile.

She gave him a fake grin back. 'Yeah much better, but still... you can't tell anyone, not even mom, okay?'

Arthur frowned, but nodded, he understood. 'I won't tell.'

She also nodded and stared in front of her, before turning back at him. 'Tell me what happened two days ago, I wanted to ask yesterday, you just looked so happy when you came back home... so did you meet him again?' The last she asked with an evil grin on her face, how did she always knew what was in his mind? He turned red and both brother and sister knew it, the grin on her face turned even bigger and he growled at her, before she asked. 'So how was it?'

'We... we just talked... and he bought me coffee.' By the last words he turned away.

He could hear her gasp with joy. 'So he likes you too!'

'I hope so... he smiled when he saw that I looked at him.'

'By looking you mean...' He slowly nodded, getting even redder and she smiled. 'That's fantastic, why don't you ask him out?'

'I'm not sure if he likes me and he's probably to old for me.'

'Ah come on, what's the worst thing that could happen?' Suddenly she just walked out of the room and she came back with her phone. 'Lets find out!' He wanted to grab her phone, but she ran away. 'Hi, yeah with Morgana... No, I'm fine now... thanks... would you like it if I and Arthur came to visit you?... mmm... no... second right... yeah okay, see you later... bye.'

She placed her phone on the table and looked at him. 'We're going to visit them this afternoon.' She grinned at him.

'Morgana I hadn't ask you to do that!'

The raven blinked at him while making an innocent expression. 'But I would like to visit my friend.'

'Fine.' Arthur growled to her, he actually really wanted to go, not that he was going to admit it to his sister.

And so after lunch they headed off to Aithusa's house, following the instructions Morgana had written down.

'Are you sure this is the right way?' Arthur asked, frowning as he noticed they left the city and drove deeper into the woods.

'Yeah...' She said giving him a smile. 'I have been there when I went to pick her up last Friday, it's not much further.'

The blond frowned, but didn't say anything else and just drove further. It didn't take long before they reached an old house and Morgana told him to stop. 'They live here?'

Morgana nodded. 'Yeah, it was a surprise for me too. As far as I know this house has been empty for more then twenty years, before they moved in.' She rang the doorbell and not long after the door was opened, a smiling Aithusa stood in front of them, she wearing like she always seemed to wear white or light coloured cloths, a light blue shirt with white jeans and no shoes, not that it mattered it looked good on her.

'Hi, come in.' She turned around and they followed her inside. Arthur stared with wide eyes at the house, the furniture looked old, probably even antic. He gasped, it was incredible, not that he was really into the old stuff, but it was just so impressive.

The walked into a somewhat more modern looking living room and they sat down, Aithusa looking rather curious at Morgana and asked. 'So are you okay now, Leon told us everything and we were really worried.'

Morgana gave her a reassuring smile. 'I'm fine now, so do you and your brother live here alone?'

Aithusa nodded. 'Yeah... my parents died a few years ago, so it's just me and my brother.' Arthur looked down, he already heard about it, but it was just sad that something like that had happened to them.

Morgana gasped, Arthur hadn't told her, so it was new for her. 'Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean...'

'Don't worry, it was a long time ago.' The blond girl smiled back at her.

Arthur looked at his still stunned sister and then back at the new girl. 'So why did you buy this house, it wasn't what I expected.'

Aithusa blinked in surprise for a moment, before answering. 'Ehmm... It has been in my family for some time and when we decided to leave London we moved in here.' She finished and jumped up. 'So do you want some tea?' Without waiting for an answer she walked away and Arthur looked at his sister.

It didn't take long before she came back and gave both brother and sister a cup of tea.

'So were is your brother?' Morgana suddenly asked with a dark expression on her face.

Arthur who was currently eating a cookie choked in it after hearing Morgana's question and coughed, causing both girls to look at him, before looking back at each other and both girls started laughing at him.

'He can be here any minute now, but can I ask why you asked me that?' The question was directed to Morgana, but the blond looked at him as if she just knew Morgana was asking it for him.

Morgana grinned. 'Oh, just curious... so is he seeing someone and what kind of people does he like?' Arthur could feel himself starting to blush and looked away.

Aithusa laughed. 'He's single.' Arthur could feel his heart jump. 'And to answer the next question, yeah he likes guys.' The last she said smiling at Arthur and he just wasn't able to look into her eyes. 'Don't worry Arthur, it doesn't matter, if you like him then go for it.'

'You...' He gulped. 'Am I his type?'

'You could say that.' She said teasingly at him.

'But he isn't in school anymore, so how old is he?' Morgana asked, encouraged by the other girl's words. 'And what is he doing for a living?'

'No, he finished school. He's 21-' Arthur smiled, that's only three years. 'and he's a writer.'

'I have never seen a book under his name, so does he write under a pseudonym.'

Aithusa nodded. 'Yeah, he finds it easier that way.'

Morgana wanted to ask more, but then they heard the front door open and Aithusa jumped up. 'He's home!' She gave them a smile, before leaving the room.

'Hi.' Arthur could hear them clearly and his heart skipped a beat when he heard that warm and soft voice speak. 'I saw the car outside, so who's visiting?'

'Arthur and Morgana, come say hello!' Aithusa told her brother and she dragged him to the living room.

Merlin smiled at them when he came inside and held out his hand to the quests, but before anyone could reacted Morgana started to scream. Arthur quickly turned around and looked at his sister, who now sat down on the ground holding her head.

Arthur let himself fall down next to her and grabbed her shoulders. 'Morgana, calm down, everything is going to be fine, I promise.' Tears started to flow down her face, but she didn't look at him, she looked at the tall raven. She slowly lifted her hand and pointed at him. 'You...' She gasped.

The blond frowned and looked back at Merlin who stared at her with wide eyes and he blinked, 'and even now he looks handsome... get a grip, it's no time for that.' he then looked back at his sister as she started to push him away. 'Arthur leave, I want... I want to speak with Merlin alone.'

'What, but-.'

'Arthur it's fine.' Merlin said while placing his hand on the blond's shoulder and looking in his eyes. 'Go with Aithusa for a moment.'

Arthur slowly nodded and stood up, trying as long as possible to not break eye contact with Merlin, but eventually he was let out of the room by Aithusa, leaving Morgana and Merlin behind.