A bit of language in this chapter. :) Its not too bad though, they are teenagers after all. What teenager doesn't swear every now and then?
During the middle of the night, Morgana left a sleeping Gwen in her room and crept into Arthur's. She saw Arthur and Merlin in bed together, Arthur had his arms wrapped around Merlin. She took her camera out and took a picture of it.. For future use.
She crept back to her room and shook Gwen awake. "Guess what I just saw" she whispered.
"I hope it was something exciting like the TARDIS flying over the house or at least a dragon," Gwen mumbled. "Otherwise, I'm going to kill you when I'm fully awake."
"No, its Arthur and Merlin."
Gwen shot straight up into a sitting position. "I'm awake! Tell me more."
After showing Gwen the picture and allowing Gwen to sneak in to see it in person herself Gwen said, "By the way, what are you going to do with that picture you took?"
"Oh its just for future use."
"Morgana," Gwen glared.
"All right, I was going to use it to blackmail them if this doesn't work out how we want it to. I'm not going to show it to anyone, just threaten them with it."
"You really are evil, aren't you?" Gwen giggled.
"Yes, yes, I am. Actually, how about we force them to shower together in the morning? Imagine the possible awkwardness!"
"How?"
"I'll sabotage Arthur's alarm so they wake up late and then we occupy all of the other bathroom so they're forced to use the same one."
The Pendragon's house had six bathrooms, but only four had showers. Morgana went to change Arthur's alarm and then she and Gwen made their plans. Uther's bedroom was locked so they didn't worry about that. Morgana was going to lock herself in her bathroom while Gwen locked herself in the guest bathroom. That left Arthur and Merlin to use Arthur's, but they wouldn't have time for separate showers.
Arthur and Merlin woke up at the same time the following morning. Unfortunately it was late.
"Shit, Merlin, its late and we still need to shower before school."
"I'll use the guest room, you use yours." He grabbed his stuff and bound from the room and made it to the guest bathroom only to find it locked. He knocked.
"Sorry, Merlin! I'm busy," Gwen said.
He rushed to Morgana's only to get a similar response. "I'm doing my make up!" He didn't think about the fact that Morgana rarely wore make up.
He went back to Arthur's room to find him digging for clothes in a drawer. "Arthur, Gwen and Morgana have locked themselves in the other bathrooms."
"She is an evil witch," Arthur said. "Oh well, I guess you'll have to stink today."
"But-" Merlin frowned.
"I'm kidding, do you really think I would make you go to school without a shower. I guess we'll just have to shower together," Arthur said smiling.
"What? Really?"
"Merlin, in case you don't remember, we snogged for like ten minutes last night, and then we slept in the same bed. I'm sure its perfectably acceptable to shower together after that. And you know its not like we've never seen one another naked before."
Gwen and Morgana listened at the bedroom door. After they went into the bathroom, the girls sneaked in to listen at the bathroom door.
"They admitted to snogging last night!" Gwen whispered.
"Yeah, for ten minutes. I'm glad we did this!"
Out of fear of them all being late for school, since Arthur was going to drive them, Morgana didn't make them actually wake up late. She reset Arthur's alarm so they both thought they were late.
"Me too," Gwen said.
When they heard the water stop, Arthur and Merlin started talking. They stayed not able to resist eavesdropping.
"So, Merlin."
"Yeah?"
"Do you want to, you know, try this dating thing?"
"You're pretty shit at asking people out, you know. How did you ever get a girlfriend before?"
"I take that as a yes?" Arthur laughed.
"Of course, just one condition. If it doesn't work out, we won't let it ruin our friendship and we pretend it never happened."
"Deal," Arthur said. "I think we should see how well it goes before we tell anyone."
"All right. And we take things slow. We move on to the next step in our relationship when we're both ready." Arthur nodded.
They were getting closer to the door so Morgana and Gwen quickly and quietly fled the room. Once in the hall, they ran full speed back to Morgana's room and hugged each other and jumped around in celebration.
Gwen and Morgana were sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast when Merlin and Arthur walked in with smiles on their faces.
"We'll just get something to eat out of the cupboard and we'll all head to school," Arthur announced.
"Why?" Morgana asked. "We don't have to leave for another thirty minutes."
"What?" Merlin asked, confused. "We woke up late." He and Arthur looked at the clock on the kitchen wall.
"Damn, I guess I need a new clock. The time must've changed somehow on its own," Arthur sighed.
"So, guys, is there something you want to tell us?" Gwen asked.
"No, why?" Merlin said.
"Well, it has to do with that giant, very noticeable, purple bruise on your neck, Merlin," Morgana snickered.
"WHAT?" he ran to the mirror in the lounge.
"Oh, that's nothing," Arthur said. "I accidentally hit him last night."
"Really? I might've thought it had to do with that rough, sexy snogging session you guys where having in your bedroom floor last night," Morgana laughed.
"What?" both boys asked at the same time.
"Don't play dumb," Gwen said. "First you kiss in the pool for us, then Morgana walks in on you snogging last night."
"I was going to apologise for yesterday when I came in, but there was no need," Morgana said. "You were busy."
"Then she sneaked in and saw you sleeping together and Arthur's arms were wrapped around Merlin."
"And finally, I changed your clock so you would be forced to shower together and we listened to everything you said after your shower."
"We even heard Arthur's rubbish attempt at asking you out, Merlin," Gwen said.
"I understand Morgana being evil because she was named after an evil sorceress, but Queen Guinevere was not evil! You have been around Morgana too much, Gwen," Arthur said.
"Don't worry, your secret is safe with us," Morgana said. "For a small fee."
"Damn it," Arthur muttered and Merlin groaned. "What do you want?"
"For you to tell us all that happens with you two. We pushed you along, we deserve to know."
"Alright," Merlin said.
"Come upstairs with me, Merlin," Morgana said, "and I'll help you cover up that enormous purple bruise from where Arthur 'hit you.'" She laughed while dragging him from the room.
So is Morgana really evil? xD Is Gwen or has she been around Morgana too long? haha.. Those aren't important questions! I hope you liked the shower idea. I don't know what made me think of it, but it was a funny way to show Morgana's evilness.