" love spells can be undone just as easily as they are casted"

Merlin nodded his thoughts not really on the conversation he was having with Gaius.

Ever since Arthur made that advance Merlin had avoided the prince like the plague.

It wasn't as if he was embarrassed, he was a grown man for Christ sake! There was no way he was, or ever could be!

What was bothering him was how passionately someone could kiss when they didn't truly love the other.

Love spells were a complete taboo to him.

"how can they be undone" asked Merlin, finally pitching in.

" the castie reverses it...strange"

Replied Gaius nose buried in a book cover with at least two inches thick of dust.

" how" asked Merlin over joined to find things would be going back to normal, well as normal as they could be.

" Its hard to say, but it looks like it can be done" pause " love spells are generally done out of pure innocence, there plenty easy to break just hard to find the source of the problem" pause "and just so we're clear, your only making things worse for yourself by avoiding Arthur, you might just be driving the poor boy crazy" chuckled Gaius not looking up for a second.

As soon as Gaius left on a medicine run, Merlin quickly decided to go see Arthur, in the end his conscience got the better of him and he practically ran to the Prince's chambers.

" Arthur!" yelled Merlin swinging the large bedroom doors open.

Looking into the room Arthur was no where to be found. Strange. Arthur was never out this late, he always retired to his quarters early, unless of some special occasion then.

"Arthur?" he called again as if the blond would mysteriously pop up.

And to his surprise Arthur hurried to the sound of his name, a towel loosely around his waist, clearly he had been bathing thought Merlin not understanding why a blush now occupied his cheeks.

"yes?" replied Arthur, voice full of annoyance, obviously he was angry about being hurried out of the tub.

"I came to apologize"

Merlin had his eyes on the floor and his hands stiff against his sides. This was a mistake his thought starting toward the door.

When suddenly an arm blocked his path to escape.

"then say sorry properly" smirked the blonde flicking back a strand of wet hair.

Merlin looked up at the prince, his eyes finally meeting Arthur's.

"I-I'm sorry"

Arthur smiled and snaked his hands around Merlin until the two were

In a friendly embrace.

Merlin was more embarrassed than ever, his face was red hot against the taller man's chest.

Arthur lowered his hands so that his they were just above Merlin's butt.

Merlin felt water from Arthur's hair trickle onto his cheeks. He quickly pulled away as the prince's hands traveled down to caress his bottom.

"Merlin, take responsibility for your actions"

"that's not fair" huffed Merlin making the gap between them larger with each step.

Arthur rolled his eyes. "what's not fair? the fact that I'm sexually frustrated or that it's all your fault?"

The wizard bit his lip, in reality this was his fault, and he really did feel guilty for causing the whole problem.

"you better not tell a soul about this"

Arthur made a gesture that meant 'cross my heart' as he winked at his young friend. "you have no idea what that spell is making me do"

Merlin felt his face immediately turn a vibrant pink. Though he was curious he really didn't want to know what Arthur had been up too during his leave.

Merlin slowly walked back over to Arthur, completely cautious of the prince.

Arthur grabbed Merlin,his face inches away from the wizard's .

Slowly their lips met briefly touching each others before real contact was made.

Merlin really hoped Arthur couldn't feel him squirm, it felt so strange to be on the receiving end of a kiss.

He felt Arthur pull him closer, something obviously poking his inner thigh.

Merlin suppressed a blush and tried ride out the seemingly never ending kiss.

Just as he was about to allow Arthur's tongue into his mouth the prince pulled away.

"that's enough"

Merlin looked up at Arthur slightly confused.

Arthur seemed to be enjoying himself thought Merlin basing his opinion on the towel that was standing up in front of him.

He couldn't believe it, but he was having a hard time concealing his own erection.

"can we continue this tomorrow?"

Merlin nodded and swiftly turned toward the door ignoring his slight disappointment.

What a day.