Merlin yawned as he got awoken his phone vibrating in his pocket "Hello?" Merlin said with a half hearted sigh. "Where the hell are you?" Arthur screamed down the phone. Merlin squinted as he looked towards the clock "oh god I'm so sorry um I'm so sorry I'll be their In a minuet I'm so" Arthur quickly interrupted "just Shut up you blathering idiot hurry up and don't forget my double espresso" Arthur hung up "I'm not a blathering idiot" he said into and empty phone.

Running down the street Starbucks in one hand and the mobile in the other he turned quickly

into the building that Arthur lived in. "watch where your going" Merlin heard as he crashed into a young lady walking out the building wearing Jeans and a long black coat, her face was tanned and she had a sort of sparkle to her eyes in her arms what seemed like a lot of dry cleaning " you nearly got coffee all over these dresses" Merlin unsure what to say began to stutter "um I'm so sorry oh and its not coffee its espresso well actually double espresso but it doesn't matter what matters is that I'm sorry" She sighed "blathering idiot" as she walked of merlin was still confused "I think I need some coffee and I'm not a blathering idiot" he muttered to himself.

Merlin entered Arthur's apartment "Finally honestly you cant get the staff these days I've got to go out to some charity event I'll be back at 12 I expect my apartment to be clean and tidy" and with that he left shutting the door behind him. Merlin stared blankly at the apartment "you have got to be kidding me" across the floor was clothes that looked like they'd been trampled by pigs takeaways were left on surfaces and the bin seemed to be overflowing with Starbucks cartons.

"no wonder the last guy quit" as he began sorting the clothes with his mind he heard a knock at the door "oh god clothes just stop floating I knew this was a bad idea" the clothes fell to the ground "come in" the girl who he'd bumped into earlier came in.

"Morgana wanted me to drop these ..oh are you Arthur's new assistant"

"yes that's me destined to be known as Arthur's assistant till I find better work"

"he's not that bad admittedly a little untidy" she said looking at a heap of dirty clothes in the corner

"you have no idea"

"well I'd better be going I've got dry cleaning to sort out"

"switch jobs?"

She gave a little laugh "not likely have fun"

Two hours and a lot of magic later merlin sat on the sofa "wow imagine if I actually had to clean the apartment without magic" he turned on the TV to see a news bulletin to come up saying 'more suspicions on use of magic against the government 47 people have been arrested in the past week' a voice in the back of merlin's head started talking "that could be you better watch where you use your magic" Merlin looked around to see who was talking but he couldn't see anyone it just felt cold and almost creepy.

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Wow thanks for the amazing response to my fan fic so far this is my first go and its great to hear so many positive comments.