HELLOOOO! AGAIN, i FOUND MY FLASHDRIVE, SO i CAN WRITE AGAIN. Last chapter to the King and the Warlock.
Tv: Merlin BBC
Fandom: Merlin/Merthur
Characters: Merlin, Arthur, Gwen, Lancelot, Gwain, Morgana, Mordred, Percy, Leon, and Rodric (OC)
Realtionship: Arthur/Merlin, Arthur/Gwen and little bit of Percy/Gwaine.
Word Count: 15,268. A lot so yeah my fingers hurt.
Tons of grammer issues so yeah...I might upload it then fix it up later...maybe if I'm feeling it.
Disclaimer: Merlin isn't mine, neither are the other characters, besides Rodrick and the plote line mine and all mine.
ENJOY!
Arthur fell into habit waking up early with George serving him dinner and getting him dressed instead of Merlin, he felt quite lonely without Merlin and his usual sass. The knights questioned him on how he survived in the forest without no weapons, no food, and no water. He just replied that a family let him stay and rest in their house, Gwen however didn't buy the lie but let it go; Gaius had him checked and he was surprised on how he managed to heal himself especially with a poisoned arrow tip lodged in his shoulder.
"Do you think we should send our thanks to the family who saved you?" Gwen asked walking towards him, he smiled at her "I did ask them to come live in Camelot, but they declined." Gwen nodded let out a sigh are you alright? I mean, Arthur you've been gone for the whole winter, everyone's surprised you lived and Leon told me-us that how you just popped out of nowhere and so healthy like you weren't even gone" Gwen said grabbing Arthur's hand.
Arthur stared at him before leaning down to kiss her forehead "I'm fine, Gwen" he murmured looking out the window with a hand on his mouth looking over the castle in hopes of maybe seeing a familiar messy black-haired boy in a dirty red neckerchief in the crowds of the people.
"You've changed" Gwen said eyeing her lover but Arthur just ignored her Gwen sighed and walked over to the table and sat down where the dinner rest, still warm and some part cooling down "It's time to eat Arthur" she said. Arthur glanced over his shoulder at Gwen who was sitting politely at the table waiting for him; he walked over and sat down next to her. He watched as Gwen piled up the food for him, warm juicy roast with a side plate of fruits and cheese and a goblet full of wine.
Merlin only gave him a half bowl of soup and he glared at him, "where's the other half" he demanded slamming down the soup bowl on the table, droplets rained over the table and Merlin gave him a cheeky grin as he wiped up the mess "can't have the king of Camelot return home like a fat lump now can we?" he said. Arthur spluttered "how dare you! I'm not fat!" he roared which in made Merlin's grin widen and those cheeky dimples showed up and the crinkles around his eyes. Merlin changed his expression and turned on his doe eyed impression and blinked innocently "you see, it's working, I never said you're fat I just said you will be…wait hold on, I take that back, there is a bulge here" Merlin said grabbing onto Arthur's stomach which indeed was a bit flabby. Arthur flushed and put the cheeky bastard in a headlock whilst Merlin feebly tried to fight back cursing the king….
"…thur! Arthur!"
Arthur jerked awake when Gwen had shook his shoulder "what is wrong with you now and days, Arthur you spaced out for a while…is there someone else?" she asked hesitantly. Arthur stared at her "what! No Gwen how can you even think that!" he lied. "Then tell me what's wrong?" she demanded. "I'm here for you" Gwen added softly.
"Nothing's wrong Gwen" he murmured. "Yes there is, Arthur I can see it, you barley are there for the knight trainings, you're not even there for the council meetings and when you are, it's like you're there but not mentally. It's a girl isn't it, you've fallen for someone else, and I can see you smiling at random times. Who is she!"
"Guinevere I don't have time for this, please be quite or get out" Arthur said picking up the fork and knife slicing up the roast ignoring his partner's offending look. "Now Guinevere" Arthur said, he ignored the screeching of the stool and the slam of the door just continued eating.
"You miss him don't you" Lancelot said watching Merlin sulk in Arthur's old bed with one of the bunnies, the larger and the youngest bunny had disappeared a few days after Arthur had left, the middle one was left and Merlin had named her Freya. "I don't miss him that much" Merlin muttered smooching kisses all over Freya' nice brown fur, Lancelot rolled his eyes "sure, whatever you say Merlin." In response the great and mighty warlock stuck out his tongue at his friend when he went to spin the ladle in the pork stew.
"Percy should visit this weekend, and he's upset that you slept with Gwaine. You know how much Percy likes Gwaine" Lancelot said. Merlin flushed feeling the guilt in his stomach, "I have needs Lance and so does Gwaine and if Percy can man up and claim Gwaine for his own, then that's fine, I'll just have find another sleeping partner, there's plenty of men out that I'm willing to sleep with" Merlin said. "Slag" Lance muttered "I heard that!" Merlin called. There was pounding on the door making both of them wince "that should be Percy." Lancelot said putting down the ladle and heading for the door, whilst Merlin grabbed Freya and his blankets hurrying towards the other cot.
Percy had already barged in and made a bee line for Merlin who was halfway up the ladder, Lancelot watched as Merlin safely plopped Freya on his bed and Percy wrestling Merlin down and on the cot on the floor. Percy shoved Merlin face down on the bed and climbed on top of him, resting his large arse over Merlin's smaller one as good as that felt, Merlin struggled free from Percy's grasp.
Merlin let out a loud cry when Percy landed a loud pop on Merlin's rump and Merlin whimpered feeling his eyes tear up when he felt his left cheek instantly burn and heat up. "I should hit you more" Percy growled. Merlin wiggled and pressed his arse neatly on Percy's groin, he rolled his hips in hopes of seducing Percy off of him but that didn't go as plan, Merlin clawed at the pillow and screamed when Percy landed another loud clap on his other cheek. Percy got off and Merlin laid on his stomach, his arse slightly raised and the stinging on his cheeks, he turned his head and glared at Percy with teary eyes and pouty lips "I hate you."
Merlin sniffed and rubbing his bum in soothing round motions in hopes of stopping the stinging, Lancelot offered Percy a mug of gold berry juice, the larger man gladly took it and drained it down. "Merlin you deserved that, I think Percy should give you more claps on the bum this time with no garments" Lancelot scolded Merlin who turned his head the other way. "You knew I liked him and yet you still go sleep with him" Percy snarled. "It was one time" at Percy's growl Merlin weakly replied "two times, and a half."
Merlin however wasn't expecting another slap on each of his cheeks. Merlin let out a cry and held his bum with both of his hand. "Damn it Merlin, I'm so angry with you" Percy growled sitting down on the bed, he moved Merlin's hands away and kneaded the plump flesh with his large hands "You're lucky, It was only four claps not four punches, I didn't want to ruin that pretty face of yours" Merlin burrowed his face deeper into the pillow and raised his hips to Percy's hands.
"Well what do we have here" a new voice, everyone looked up to see Gwaine enter the small cottage, he sent a wink towards Merlin, poor Merlin had his stinging arse squeeze by Percy. Merlin sat up and shoved Percy off of him "if you want him, go for him then. Don't get upset with me, it's not my fault that you haven't confessed yet" at Percy's twitching hand, Merlin shut up, he most defiantly didn't want Percy shove him over his knee and spank the him mercilessly. "So how's little Merlin doing without the obnoxious king to take care of" Gwaine asked sitting down beside Lancelot. "Sulking and madly in love" Lancelot offered.
"Lance!" Merlin yelled mortified, "out of all the men you know, it had to be him. I mean have see the way he acted around you, demanded to do everything. He even made you rub his feet Merlin!" Gwaine scolded Merlin for his poor choice of Men.
Merlin huffed "I can't help, who I fall in love with…besides he already has a lover"
"What"
"What!"
"Wait…"
"You fell in love with a guy...no less a king who already has a lover, Merlin what is wrong with you!" Gwaine scolded. Merlin slumped "I couldn't help it" Merlin replied meekly, Gwaine let out a breath and crossed his arms "I don't know what to tell you mate, only just to forget about him. You do now that he's never going to come back right, he has a kingdom to run. I'm sure kings don't waste their time visiting a peasant across the kingdom"
"No need to remind me Gwaine" Merlin hissed, Gwaine raised his hands in surrender "anyways, I just wanted to see how you were holding up, I have a few traps set up so I need to go and check those, Percy you coming?" Gwaine asked heading towards the door "I'll see you later Merlin" Percy called following Gwaine out the door. Lance was left and he placed a comforting hand on his friend's cheek "It'll be alright" he murmured.
Merlin sighed and looked up into the brown eyes "I wish I never met him" Merlin whispered.
A loud crash echoed the bedroom as Mordred ducked another glass mirror hurtling towards him, Aithusia only a few feet away ran to his master's room to hide from master's temper. "You lost him!" Morgana cried throwing a metal goblet at the younger boy once again Mordred duck the metal easily "Morgana, calm down" he said calmly.
"I will not! How can you loose him so easily! He was right there! Right in our grasp!" Morgana yelled, her curly matted hair flew over her beautiful stressed face, her cheeks flushed dangerously and her pale green eyes flashed golden and Mordred flew back into the wall. "I h-had him" Mordred coughed standing up. Morgana took a deep breath and let it out slowly to release the temper inside "I know the person who holds him close, I've watched them" Mordred said tensely. Morgana froze "You were watching them…for how long?" she demanded.
"D-days, they care for each other very deeply, I think even more than Gwen Morgana."
Morgana's stern face melted into a sweet face, the face he fell in love with when he first met her, so naïve and innocent but after with Morgause she had turned vile, and ugly from the inside.
"We have plans to make, Mordred follow me. I know exactly how to make Arthur fall to his knees and this person he cares about."
Weeks passed and the wedding of the King has been sent over the kingdom and the last preparation was being made, "I always thought roses and sunflowers would be perfect for the flower choice" Gwen asked as she held a single dark red rose to her nose. Gwen was beautiful and caring; Arthur didn't deny that, she would make a wonderful Queen and wife; she knew how to work her way around the council, what the people needed and the amount of taxes needed, the border patrols and the treaty business, Gwen learned it all and mastered it.
Arthur just didn't have the heart to marry her, he wanted Merlin in her place and Arthur felt guilty thinking about. "Arthur?" Gwen asked gently placing a hand on his arm "Hmm?"
"The flowers?" she asked. Arthur gave her a smile "I think Sunflowers and Daisies for the flowers and the bouquets with Night Jasmines" he said. Gwen gave him a curious look. When Arthur had gone missing they had decided on Roses and Sunflowers, to think that he changed his mind was quite peculiar and not just the flowers the decorations for the wedding as also changed, it shouldn't bother her but it did.
It was like he was changing the wedding planes to his lover's ideal. It was a silly idea but the doubt had hit her mind more than often the past weeks, the flowers, the wedding gown, the halls decoration, he even changed the carriage. "Put the roses back and bring in Daisies along with Night Jasmine for the Queen's bouquet." Arthur demanded to the servant, the servant nodded and scurried off, Arthur could see the redness on the servants cheeks and felt pity, the poor man had used last of his money for the seeds for the flowers and now his money wasted away for nothing.
Arthur demanded for the guards to retrieve the man, in the end the roses to put on the floors and to be thrown on the queen when she entered the throne room and the man had been paid for his roses. The servant bowed gratefully and hurried off to buy Daisy and Night Jasmine flowers with a small amount of money from his larger amount he received.
"That was a nice thing you did" Gwen said braiding a rose in her hair. Arthur nodded "it's something Me-you would have done" Arthur stammered out, Gwen eyed him suspiciously "you were going to say something else, weren't you" she asked. "Who was it, the girl you met when you were gone, is that why the entire castle is being redorca-"
"-I'm going to check on the food, and don't you dare make assumptions Guinevere" Arthur scolded and strolled off. Gwen felt an ache in her chest and she knew her thoughts were correct, the king himself just proved it. The wedding wasn't for her it was for the girl Arthur fell in love with, granted it was them getting married but the idea of Arthur thinking it was the other girl he was marrying had her heart aching; Gwen took out the rose from her hair and tossed it to the ground. Arthur didn't love her anymore and she was going to tell him tonight to quite lying to himself and go find the girl and marry her. Granted Gwen was heartbroken and upset but she wasn't going to make Arthur regret his decision, he thought he had a duty to marry Gwen it was the right thing to do even though he fell in love, he owed Gwen something.
If Arthur truly loved Gwen he wouldn't have fallen in love the second time and Gwen wasn't about to make Arthur ruin his life over loyalty as if he owed her something.
That night Gwen had arrived in Arthur's chambers and explained it to him, whilst Arthur continued on denying, he had firmly grasped her shoulders and told her calmly yet sternly that had no fallen in love with a girl, he had not fallen in love at out, he loved her and it wasn't marrying her out of loyalty and duty. He was marrying her out of love.
Gwen stared at him and fell into his arms holding on to him tightly, Arthur stroked her hair and shut his eyes tightly he wouldn't think of Merlin, he wouldn't. Arthur loved Gwen not Merlin, he adored Gwen not Merlin. He was marrying Gwen…not Merlin.
They lay side by side that night, talking throughout the night until Gwen talked her fell to sleep. Arthur stood up and brushed his fingers over her forehead; he walked over to the window pulling the shutters open. It was a cold night with no wind, everything was still not even the wolves were howling or the owls hooting. Just silent and stillness, saved for the stars twinkling and the bright white moon shining above the world; he wondered if Merlin was looking at the moon now. He remember whenever the moon shined its brightest they would stare out the window talking throughout the night and Merlin would name the stars and tell the stories about them. Arthur in return would tell the stories his nanny told him when he was young, about dragons, fairies, and Mermaid.
Merlin stared at the moon, it was closer than ever and the stars were twinkling madly as if they were chattering each other and the moon was just listening quietly. "Tomorrow their getting married" Lance said, Merlin shut his eyes "I know" he whispered. "It'll be alright, there are other people you can fall in love with, people who are in your range" Lance said. Merlin opened his eyes and he felt his eyes burn, the unwanted tears welled up "I don't think I can Lancelot" Merlin whispered leaning his head gently against the wall as he stared outside, his knees drawn up to his chest "I know it's hard" Lance whispered. Merlin bit his lip, he wish Lancelot would just leave; Merlin didn't want to be reminded of Arthur every second.
When Merlin didn't reply, Lancelot just sighed he walked over and placed a gentle kiss on Merlin's head "I'll be out for a drink" he whispered and that was a way of saying I'll leave you for now to yourself and Merlin was grateful, once Lancelot left Merlin let out a shuddering breath and he whispered to the moon "I love you" and the wind started.
Arthur blinked when the wind started blowing, gently at first then harshly the branches danced to the wind and Arthur hissed and his teeth started to chatter a bit when the wind blew into his room, but he froze and his blood drained from his face when a familiar voice echoed in the room.
I love you.
Arthur glanced around the room then outside, he poked his head out to make sure that Merlin wasn't outside waiting for him, he desperately hoped he would. Arthur clenched his fist and his eyes welled up in tears, don't cry, don't cry. You'll get over Merlin a few months but Arthur knew he wouldn't but this was his life now. "I love you too Merlin" Arthur croaked, he sniffed and whipped his eyes angrily, slamming the windows shut before heading to bed.
Merlin closed his eyes and laid into the bed, he pulled the thin wool blanket over him; it was too bad he fell asleep early or he would have heard the voice of his king in his bedroom. I love you too Merlin.
Morgana sent her plan into action, Aithusia ran into Merlin's home and blasted everything into flames, Mordred ran in after words and carried Merlin out, and he left the parchment near the stone water well. A simple yet brilliant plan; kidnap then demand.
It was the day of the wedding and everyone was bustling around trying to get the last minuet preparations finished. The maids were lacing up Gwen in her wedding gown, Leon was with Arthur throughout the day. "Sire, you need to suit up for the wedding" Leon said trying to get Arthur from the window; Arthur glanced at Leon then back out the window, he felt weird today as if something big was going to happen. Arthur didn't know what but it didn't feel right, "Sire?" Leon called. Arthur shook his head and waved Leon out "send in George please" he muttered, Leon bowed his head to Arthur and left not a second later George came in swiftly. Quickly and neatly he dressed Arthur for marriage, George bowed and left not uttering a single word.
Arthur looked out the window again a hand on his mouth, it was still and the sun was blazing over the kingdom unlike last night which was cold and crisp, today was hot with a breeze, it felt good slightly. There was a knock on the door and Gaius walked in "Sire, it's time" he murmured. Arthur took a deep breath and walked away from the window, out his room and down the hall. Arthur felt light-headed, he couldn't feel his steps and his ears were ringing, in a few moments Arthur was going to make a decision of his lifetime, and it wasn't as if he leave Gwen after marriage, it was not common for kings and queens separate unless one of them commented adultery or pass away.
The court turned their eyes to the King as he walked towards his throne where Geoffrey was waiting with a book in hand, "King Arthur" he acknowledged. Arthur nodded his head and turned towards the doors which the Guards held open, not a moment later Gwen appeared walking in with a bouquet of dark roses and white orchid bouquet, Arthur frowned that wasn't the flowers he had chosen out. He looked around and noticed that all the flowers were of his choice the bouquet was supposed to match the Queen's so why did she change.
Gwen raised her hand and Arthur took it and helped her up the steps they turned to Geoffrey, he dozed off when he started talking about the marriage of two people then the questions to the new Queen. "Now King Arthur do you accept Guinevere as your Wife, partner, and Queen of Camelot" Geoffreyasked in his old gravely voice.
I love you
It was Merlin's voice echoing the hall, nobody heard it expect for Arthur. The King glanced at Gwen, look he opened his mouth to accept but he couldn't. Arthur held his mouth open like a dead fish. A murmur went out through the court and Arthur could see Gwen's cheek flush in humiliation and Elyan's eyes flare in anger. Arthur looked around the court and looked back to Gwen, his eyes widened when instead of Gwen it was Merlin.
Merlin standing there right beside him, wearing black breeches and black boots, a white tunic with gold beads around the hem and the sleeves, his messy raven hair had a crown of sunflowers. He was smiling his idiotic smile and Arthur felt his eyes swell up in tears.
Merlin was here, he was right here beside him, they were getting married and Arthur almost smiled until Merlin spoke "Arthur?" he said curiously. Arthur frowned, that wasn't Merlin's voice. It was soft and feminine, it sounded like Gwen's voice; Arthur blinked and Merlin vanished and it was Gwen standing next to him, a confused look on her face.
"I-I can't" he stammered out stepping down a step, "what" Gwen asked with hard edge to her tone. "I can't marry you" he said "I love someone else." Gwen's eyes shut and she clenched her fist. Everyone was staring at him "this is humiliating" Gwen whispered "I know and I'm so sorry Gwen, I never wanted to hurt you but I couldn't do this knowing that I love someone else and I know they love me to. We would have lived a loveless marriage. I couldn't hurt you" he said and stepped all the way down the steps walking backwards.
Gwen bit her lip and she started crying softly, hiding her face into her hands "I'm sorry" Arthur whispered running away from the throne room and into his chambers, George had followed him on the orders of Leon knowing that he would be wanted out of his armor, George quickly picked up the gauntlets that felt and helped the straps from the breast-plate and Arthur tore those off, he ripped off the shirt and the chain mail.
Arthur threw off his crown and flung it across the room and George flinched as the crown flew over his head and into the door. George had scurried off to pick it up and place it on the table. "Sire are yo-"
"Leave me!" Arthur yelled and instantly for the first time George had tripped himself out of the room. Arthur slide to the floor only in his breeches, he felt guilty; he left poor Gwen alone and he knew Elyan was going to be upset, he put his sister over the king for sure; and after last nigh after he tried to so hard convincing Gwen that he loved her and only he and he would marry her tomorrow, Arthur betrayed her and worst of all he felt free and he felt he could breath again.
"Sire!" Arthur looked up to see...Gwaine? Arthur stood up and stared at Leon standing next to Gwaine. "What are you doing here?!" Arthur demanded "Merlin! Where's Merlin!" Gwaine demanded practically begged. Arthur's heart dropped "Merlin? I don't know" he said. Gwaine ran a hand through his hair frustrated. "He's gone missing last night, his cottage had been burned down save for a note near the well" Gwaine said handing the parchment to Arthur.
Arthur snatched it and he scanned the paper "what does it say sire" Leon asked cautiously.
Hello dear brother, I have something very special of yours, I would hate to hurt his pretty face and look he's giving me those petty little lamb eyes.
Come get him
"Morgana has Merlin" Arthur whispered. "Morgana who's she?" Gwaine asked, Arthur noticed that Lancelot, Elyan, and a nother man he didn't know but he was big and his arms were as thick as both of Arthur's. "We need to go and find Merlin, now!" Arthur yelled. "Get them suit up!" he told his knights, Leon nodded and dragged the three men out along with Elyan. George ran inside and helped him into his chain mail "do you have somebody setting up the horses" Arthur asked. George nodded "Yes sire, Leon told one to get them ready. Am I coming sire?" he asked. Arthur rolled his eyes "not on your life George" Arthur said grabbing his sword and running out to the stables where he met up with Lancelot.
"You came all the way here by foot?" Arthur asked. Lancelot shook his head "we had horses" he said pointing to the three chestnut mares, one of them shook their heads letting their hair swoosh in the air. "Where are the other two" he asked as he got on his horse. "Their coming" Lancelot said getting on his horse; just as the four of men arrived, they all mounted on their horses. "Where to sire?" Elyan asked still slightly bitter about the wedding, though he didn't show it, the king needed him and for right he'll act like a knight.
"Where you found me before" Arthur said "lead the way" Arthur said to Gwaine.
Morgana passed around her icy throne, Aithusia not far behind cowering behind the stone throne; "He'll be here" Mordred said. "I know! I know...it's just I'm anxious, the time has come and I know; in a few hours I'll be the Ruler of Camelot, not that sympathetic of a bastard" she hissed. "Morgana calm yourself" Mordred murmured again. "Go check on the prisoner, I'm sure he's comfortable in his new home and clothing" Morgana snapped.
Aithusia watched from afar as Mordred walked out of the throne room, away from his master's eyes he followed Mordred out of the room and into a large circular room with four built-in cages surrounded the room, each one containing a vicious wilddeoren trying to naw the way through the metal bars. Aithusia peeked in and his heart fell for the dragonlord. Merlin was blindfolded in the middle of the room, his arms had been raised high above his head, with iron cuffs around his wrist and sure enough they were bleeding badly, the iron sizzling against his blood around the wrist. Merlin was kneeling on the cold floor with his feet cuffed with iron shackles, and to Morgana entertainment he was wearing a dress. A servants dress.
A forest green full sleeves top that didn't even cover his shoulders with a beige skirt and a dark brown corset that tightly wrapped around his chest that made his breathing harder to handle, he was dirty and his skirt had a tear in it from his earlier attempts to escape; that's when Mordred had put him in iron shackles. Only he had known about Merlin's magic and Iron prevents the magic flow through his blood hence the reason of the sizzling on his wrist.
"Hello Emry's" Mordred whispered, Merlin hissed "who are you, let me go!" he demanded tugging free of the chains above his head, more blood ooze out and Merlin hissed in pain. "I don't think you should do that" Mordred murmured leaning in squatting in front of Merlin. Mordred let a pale cold finger run down Merlin's cheek. "Such a beauty, I wonder if Morgana will let me keep you" he hummed. Merlin gathered as much saliva he could in the short time and spat in Mordred face. The only sound was of the heavy breathing and the snarls from the beast in the cages, Merlin cried out in pain and his head snapped to the side when he got slapped. Merlin's lips trembled and he tried to keep in the tears, his lip stung but thankfully he was not bleeding he didn't want to add another injury to his face.
"turn towards me!" Mordred yelled.
Merlin spoke to soon when Mordred grabbed his chin and forced his face in the direction of the hand only to be slapped harder and this time he did spit out blood, his lip was bleeding badly and he was sure he had a bruise on his cheek by now. "Pathetic" Mordred growled he grabbed his dagger; Merlin whimpered and more blood dripped out his lip when Mordred drew a thin cut along Merlin's thigh where the skirt ripped.
To distract Mordred, Aithusia let out a roar shocking the beast and the two boy inside. "I'll see to you later" Mordred said grabbing a cloth and tying it around Merlin making a gag. Merlin whimpered and his shoulder slumped, the cloth around his eyes started to soak with the tears; he was tired, injured, and helpless he wanted to go back home.
"Aithusia!" Morgana's voice called through the hall, the dragon disappeared just as Merlin's head snapped towards the doorway. Aithusia? What is he doing here with a witch like her Merlin thought Kilgharrah was supposed to take care of her
"We have no time to rest!" Arthur shouted at Elyan who had halted his horse who huffed breathing deeply through her nose "the horses are tired, Sire they need to rest" Leon said stopping his horse as well, "Besides going through the forest at night is a dangerous task, you need rest so you can have strength to fight of Morgana" he said.
Gwaine agreed and mounted off his horse, trotting them over by the small steam that cut through their pathway. The horse drank greedily and the rest followed "this Morgana girl won't hurt Merlin, she want's you. In order to get to you, she needs Merlin alive so he's not in harms way" he said. Arthur sent him a withering glare "you don't know Morgana, she's cruel and will hurt Merlin. I know she will and obviously she's not alone. She'll have an army of men not a lot but enough to out number us, I've been in Morgana's castle. So we'll make a plan and split up; but for now like Leon' said; we need rest for tomorrow, start a fire and Elyan you get the food preparations" Arthur ordered, Gwaine had tied the horses after their drink and gave them their oats and carrots.
"Morgana so who is she?" Percival asked, "My half sister" Arthur muttered. The three men gave Arthur a confused look "why would your sister want with Merlin and what made her so bitter" Lancelot asked sitting down next to Gwaine who had taken off his shoes and socks.
By the time Arthur had finished his story about Morgana, the fire was set, the soup of boiling and the beds sheets were made for sleeping. "Why didn't she take Gwen" Elyan asked "just saying, I mean I'm glad it wasn't Gwen but if she wants to get to you, why did she take Merlin and not Gwen."
"Because, she knew I would go after Merlin, not saying I wouldn't go after Gwen but I guess kidnapping Gwen was too much of a risk" Arthur lied, men took the answer but Arthur knew Morgana, they grew up together and like he said she was his sister. Morgana was a powerful sorceress and he figured out that his love for Guenevere was no more so she went after Merlin who had his heart. Morgana could have easily disguised herself as a simple maid and took Gwen that night or even in broad daylight, but it wasn't Gwen that was his weakness anymore it was Merlin.
Naive, innocent, sweet Merlin and like how Morgana said his large twinkling lamb eyes gave away his vulnerability. Merlin was clumsy as a new-born fawn and that showed how utterly weak he was especially to a powerful person like Morgana. Gwen could handle a sword just perfectly so if she had to face a man with a sword, she would win or but Merlin had barely enough strength to live a bucket of water let alone handle a sword.
AN:/ Merlin is defiantly the D.I.D damsel in distress but later in this chapter he will not, I hate making Merlin the vulnerable one but the passage above is how Arthur see's Merlin.
Arthur was going to find Merlin if it's the last thing he does.
Apparently their plan wasn't working out so well they had disguised themselves as the guards but a boy named Mordred saw right through them and chased after them with the real guards. Morgana was in the throne room with Arthur while the rest of the crew were outside in the field taking a beating, Morgana wasn't merciful and neither was Arthur. "Your little lamb would be heartbroken if I showed him your dead body" Morgana taunted, Arthur growled "or it would be better if I sent someone to kill Merlin and just show him to you, that would be even more satisfaction to me."
"Shut up Morgana, your fight is between you and me not Merlin, you took the coward way out. If you wanted to talk to me you should have sent a letter like any other lovely sister would have" Arthur growled and jabbed his sword forward barely missing Morgana stomach. "I would, but what's the fun in that"
Morgana eventually got tired of the sword fighting and sent Arthur flying into the wall knocking him unconscious, she then sent him to Merlin's room who was still gaged and blindfolded. "When he wakes, set the Wilddeoren after them, they wouldn't survive a minuet, Arthur refused to hand of the kingdom so I might as well kill him and take the throne, I am a daughter of Uther so it should fall to me next" she told Mordred who hesitantly nodded.
It was a while when Arthur woke with a pounding headache, he hissed and sat up rubbing the back of his head he was lucky when no blood came. Arthur looked around and his heart stopped. Merlin sitting on his knees and his arms arched high above him that was held together with shackles and large chains the led up the high to the ceiling.
"M-Merlin?" Arthur called crawling over and patting the unbruised cheek, "mphm?" Merlin hummed. Arthur shakily took off the gag and his fist clenched when he saw the raven haired boy's bottom plump lip slightly swollen and stained with blood, his cheek had a rather nasty bruise. "Merlin?" Arthur whispered cupping Merlin's cold cheeks "Aphur?" Merlin mumbled. Arthur almost laughed "you're alive, I knew you would be alive" he murmured softly.
Merlin smiled "takes a lot to kill me" he muttered. Arthur reached behind and took off the blindfold and Arthur swear he saw Merlin's blue eyes twinkle with delight "you came" he whispered in relief "of course I would" Arthur mumbled leaning in close, Merlin watched him curiously he didn't even notice that he too was leaning in slightly, their breaths mingled together. Arthur watched as Merlin's eyes fluttered shut, he tilted his head and pursing his lips softly. Arthur licked his lips and the movement touched Merlin's lip and Arthur almost groaned.
Cree-eak-k
They both jumped apart and looked around, Arthur noticed the bars were slowly being lifted, the beast behind were getting exotic by the freedom, they had certainly smelled Merlin's blood and there was no way out and the walls were too smooth to climb. Arthur stood up and grabbed his dagger trying to cut through the chain.
"It's not going to work" Merlin said frantically "shut up Merlin" Arthur growled but the chains were dulling up his dagger, in frustration he flung it across the room. A squeal was heard and they looked to see Arthur's dagger had miraciously slipped between the bars and embedded itself into one of the wilddeoren's head killing it instantly "three left" Arthur said running over to get the dagger from the beast head. "Arthur! No!" Merlin yelled.
Arthur stopped "Morgana cast a spell on the wilddeoren, the dagger is poisons, anything that touched wlddeoren will turn dangerous. So don't touch the dagger" Merlin explain. Arthur cursed and ran back, almost one of the bars were being lifted and the larger one was trying to get under it but it's forehead was too big, to get under. The door slammed open and the knights ran in along with Gwaine, Percival and Lancelot "Hey Merlin how you doing?" Gwaine said winking "oh you know, just hanging" Merlin joked. Arthur sent them a glare "there is no time for jokes" he scolded them, "get you're sword ready boys. Aim for their head or heart and once the sword is sliced through, drop the sword immediately, it'll turn poisonous" Arthur explain. They nodded and drew forth their swords, they circled around Arthur and Merlin.
Three beast against five men, that would be easy if wouldn't miss their target, Arthur moved his hands over Merlin's shackles in hopes of finding a buckle that would let loose but there was nothing, the beast were let loose and the men went into action.
Lance got the first hit, killing the smallest one. Arthur watched as the beast squealed swinging back and forth but it ended falling on to of the sword, letting the disgusting green blood ooze around them, Gwaine and Percival took on the largest, one aimed for the snout injuring it and the other sliced off the head. Elyan and Leon circled the middle one who was confused by the blood of its brothers and the smell of Merlin's blood. Aithusia race in through the open door and drew a fireball roasting the beast within seconds, he then broke the chains by his dragon fire. Arthur watched in shock as a dragon! A dragon save them and Merlin.
Merlin felt his powers surge through his blood once again and he looked at Aithusia thankfully, he nodded his head towards the first empty cage "Let's go" Gwaine said grabbing Merlin's elbow "wait, he said to go down this path" Merlin murmured. Aithusia nodded and happily bounded towards the first cave and pointed his snout in. "We're going to listen to a dragon!" Elyan hissed "we don't have much of a choice and if Morgana finds out that we aren't dead then she'll cast more wildeoren at us, now come on" Arthur growled yanking Merlin from Gwaine's grasp and towards the hole.
They peered it and sure enough there was a light at the end of the tunnel "that'll lead us out, and it looks like there's room for two people to get through at a time, come one Merlin you and me first" he said going down "I can't! Morgana has a sick fantasy and put me in a dress!" Merlin hissed and for the first time, Arthur noticed that Merlin was indeed wearing a dress and so did the rest it was awkward after that until Gwaine broke it "to be fair Merlin you look lovely in a dress" he added. "Oh really thank you" Merlin whispered running a hand down his chest and doing a small shake of his hips just to be teasing and Percival sent him a deadly glare.
"Here" Arthur growled yanking off the black cape, he ripped it in two and wrapped each on Merlin's knee so it wouldn't hurt him if he crawled "just hitch up the skirt past your knees" Arthur said trying not to blush along with Merlin. "We go, then you follow later. We need to hurry, we've already wasted too much time" Arthur said shoving Merlin in the cave, they both crawled in, they moved slowly side by side mostly because of Merlin's injured wrist. "We're almost there" Merlin called back. Arthur motioned him to be quite and Merlin gave him a sheepish smile.
They neared the end until they heard the rushing of water and they stilled "do you guys hear that?" Gwaine whispered yelled from the back "yeah?" Merlin said, that was when they noticed that had waddled in water, they were so high on adrenaline they hadn't noticed the water. "Come one just a bit further, hya!" Arthur yelled as he took a nother step closer, it was a dead-end and he fell. Merlin in haste grabbed onto Arthur but the rush of the water became intense and Merlin followed shortly after. They fell down the watery slope, with the rest of the boys following but it looked like there were different routes and they had all taken a different route.
"Hold on" Arthur yelled "don't worry, I will" Merlin yelled back over the sound of the water.
In the end they fell into a pool with a never-ending bottomless pit, they swam back to the surface and out of the pool dragging themselves onto the cold hard ground. Arthur breathed heavily looking around, they were on a balcony of some sort and they were still in Morgana's castle; "well done aithusia you did good" Morgana cooed walking forward with guilty look on the dragon's face.
"How about a battle Arthur, your freedom if you can defeat me in a single hand combat, no magic" she insisted. Arthur narrowed his eyes but stood up, Morgana drew a sword from her dress, handing one to Arthur and wielding on for herself. "It's a trap Arthur" Merlin whispered too weak to move. "I'll be okay" Arthur growled standing up, it wasn't a second before they lunged for each other, swinging swords together as if it was a dance.
Merlin drew himself to his knees and stood up. "Move Emrys" Mordred growled shoving past Merlin and heading towards Arthur with a sword in hand "No! Stop" Merlin yelled but that was a mistake, Arthur turned around just as Mordred moved forward swiftly jabbing the sword in Arthur's stomach. "Arthur!" Merlin shouted, his eyes turned a molten gold and Mordred flew back with the sword in hand, the balcony trembled and Morgana ran for safety as Mordred dangerously wobbled over the edge, his voice in hysterics.
"Emrys! Merlin save me!" he shouted holding out his hand but Merlin ran for Arthur who fell to his knees if Merlin hadn't caught him around the waist; another rumble of this time of thunder and that shook the castle and there went Mordred who toppled over the edge and fell down from the balcony even his magic couldn't save him.
"Arthur" Merlin whispered weakly, Arthur laughed softly "don't cry, no man is worth your tears" he said reaching up to ruffle Merlin's hair. Merlin hiccupped and held back a sob "y-you are" he replied. "Don't leave, stay please stay" Merlin whimpered shutting his eyes "hold me, just hold me" Arthur said softly holding onto Merlin's soft hands "pl-please don't leave."
"I'll be alone" Merlin choked out "you have three great friends Merlin who would risk their lives to save you" Arthur murmured shutting his eyes, Merlin panicked and softly smacked Arthur on the cheek "w-wake up, you cabbage head!" Arthur peaked his eyes opened and his skin was turning a deadly pale color bringing out the hue of his baby blue eyes. "I just wanted to say..." Merlin shook his head biting his lip "don't, don't you dare" he sobbed. Arthur gave Merlin a sad smile "thank you" he whispered shutting his eyes. "Arthur? Arthur! wake up...please wake up..." Merlin sobbed pressing his forehead against Arthur's.
"Young Warlock" Merlin looked up to see a large golden dragon lean over the castle wall "what seems to trouble you" he asked gravely "Arthur, he died. I've failed" Merlin choked on another sob and looked down at the dead king, Merlin tenderly stroked his hand down Arthur's cold cheeks. Kilgharrah hummed "it seems so, but you haven't failed yet Merlin. Use this" Merlin looked up just in time to see a plane golden goblet fall and clatter near his feet. "Summon Arthur back but he'll be weak very weak, I'll fly to a safe spot. There you will meet Morgana, you will have to kill you. A life for a life, I'm sure the old religion will make an exception for Arthur" Kilgharrah hummed, Merlin gently lowered Arthur down and picked up the cup.
Merlin raised the goblet up and shouted the spell into the hair, the clouds rolled together and thunder rumbled in the hair and it rained for a few second filling up the goblet slightly. Merlin ran to Arthur, he knelt raising the king's head back; Merlin poured the water down his throat most of it slipped past his mouth and down his cheeks.
It was at was quite and not a single sound was uttered, until Arthur shifted, it was subtle but it was there. Merlin laughed and brought Arthur to his chest hugging him. When Merlin opened his eyes again they were in the forest slightly away from the castle "You!" Morgana yelled coming it view. Merlin glared at her, he gently placed Arthur down and stood up.
Near Arthur was a sword and he picked it up knowing instantly what is was. "I had him killed, I saw Mordred kill him" she yelled. Merlin watched her as she came closer "He's my king, I brought him back to life" he hissed. Morgana paused and stared at him "you're a sorcer and how are you on his sid-Ah!" Merlin had lurched forward and jabbed the sword in her heart.
"You can't kill me, I'm the high priestess-ngh!"
"This sword is no mortal blade, is has been forged in dragon breath and only Arthur himself can wield it, besides me. Merlin or as the druids call me Emyrs" Merlin growled his eyes flashing gold as he twisted the sword in her. Morgana choked on air and soon enough blood was dripping past her pale lips. "Good bye Morgana Pendragon" he whispered as she fell and never got up her pale green eyes stared soulessly into the sky.
"You have magic"
Merlin swirled around and stared at Arthur who was staring at him with his half lidded eyes. "You're alive!" Merlin yelled going to his side but Arthur pulled away when Merlin had tried to grab his hand. Merlin's smile fell and he stared at the hand why isn't he happy, I saved him. H-he should be happy right? "Why didn't you tell me" Arthur demanded.
Merlin clenched his jaw "how could I? After what you did to me when you found out I like men; besides I didn't want to make you choose, I know you saw me as a friend and I didn't want to betray you so I kept quite" Merlin whispered. "Who else knows" Arthur demanded "Lancelot" Merlin said at last. Arthur sighed and shut his eyes; "I'm surprised it's not Gwaine" Arthur said.
"Gwaine had his little sister killed by magic and Percival had his whole family destroyed by a sorcerer, if I told them. They'll hate me."
"Merlin...you saved me, you killed Morgana and Mordred I saw you on the balcony. Why didn't you save yourself before" Arthur asked reaching out to grab Merlin's shaking hands. "Mordred put in iron cuffs they stop the magic flow from my body, even though to the druids I'm the most powerful warlock who has ever walked the earth, put me in iron handcuffs and I'm done for."
Arthur didn't ask for anymore questions, it was comfortable silence they shared until Merlin remembered, it was Arthur's wedding day. "Arthur, did you get...married?" Merlin asked, his heart was pounding in fear of the answer Arthur was about to give him. "I-I-I couldn't go through with it" Arthur said clenching his fist. Merlin's heart soared and he bit his lip to stop the smile from coming upon his lips so instead he asked another question "why?"
"Because, I'm in love with someone else"
Oh...
"Oh, so um this person. Who's she" Merlin asked why is it always the handsome ones
Arthur grinned giving Merlin a sly smile "well she is an idiot, completely idiot, insults me on daily base, she makes the best soup, she is a peasant. Also" Arthur murmured slowly putting his arms around Merlin's shoulders drawing him closer. "Has raven hair" he whispered fiddling with a few strands of Merlin's hair, Merlin himself found himself leaning in closer, he twisted his upper body towards Arthur and his legs lay in front of him crossed "has the most magnificent blue eyes" Arthur had trailed a thumb under Merlin's eyes, his thumb went lower and pushed the plump bottom lip "the most gorgeous mou-mph" Arthur didn't even get to finish when Merlin had launched himself at Arthur.
Merlin grabbed onto Arthur's hair with both of his hands and one of Arthur's arms wrapped tightly around Merlin's slim waist, his other hand cupping the unbruised cheek. Merlin parted his lips and pulled away with a small smooch before going back in, they continued on their kiss; again they separated with a smooch and lick of their lips they were at each other's mouth like a hungry man to a roast. Merlin groaned and inched closer hooking his leg over Arthur's thighs. Arthur's hand fell from Merlin's cheek and towards his thigh pulling up the skirt and running his hand over the smooth slightly prickly thigh.
"Oh god, I've wa-mh-aited, so-ngh long for this" Merlin said in between kisses "shut up Merlin" Arthur growled his hand tightening on Merlin's hips and thigh. "I can do that" Merlin panted and kissed Arthur's open mouth, he stuck his tongue straight in. Instantly they both moaned and slurped at each other's tongue, Merlin pawed at Arthur's shoulder in hopes of getting closer. Their kisses slowed down eventually leaving their mouths swollen and red, they just continued on with slow short kisses, the wet slick noise of smooching was the only thing that filled the air.
Merlin pulled away instantly when he remembered the others "Arthur! the knights and my friends!" he cried standing up. Arthur followed surprised at his recovery of strength, "there probably still in the castle, we can head back now since Mordred and Morgana are gone. I think most of the guards ran off; but the dragon's still there so that's going to be a problem, but nothing I can fix" Arthur said yanking the sword out of Morgana's chest, they trudged their way up the hill and towards the castle just in time for it crumble to the floor.
Arthur grabbed Merlin's hand and ran towards the castle, both in panic and desperation in hopes that the knights and Merlin's friend have escaped from the collapse. "Gwaine!"
"Leon!"
"Lancelot!"
"Arthur do you see anyone?!" Merlin frantically yelled shoving every movable boulder out of the way "calm down Merlin, I'm sure they're okay" Arthur tried reasoning even though he was just as frantic as Merlin to find the others. "Of course we're going and what are you lot doing in the rubble," Merlin and Arthur turned around and saw the others standing a few feet away with big grins on their faces plus the dirt, blood, and dust from the castle. "We've had help from a little friend" Lancelot said pointing towards the terrified dragon cowering behind a large tree trunk.
"That little mangy bastard led us to Morgana! I died!" Arthur yelled retrieving his sword storming his way towards the frightened white beast; "calm yourself young King" A voice boomed overhead. They all looked up just in time for a golden dragon to land on the remains of the castle. "Without Aithusia Morgana and Mordred would have still been alive and getting a new plan to kill you and take over the kingdom, so be grateful of this mangy little bastard" Kilgharrah said gravely.
Arthur huffed and sheathed his sword "You're not going to fry us are you?" Leon asked, the dragon laughed and shook his head "No Sir Leon, you may be on your way, I will not harm you; but Young Warlock do me a favor and take Aithusia with you, he might need you to heal him back" Kilgharrah said, he spread his wings and hovered over the head above them "Also, your destiny isn't over yet. You both will live a long life, full of great adventures and dangers. Bring back Albion and make Arthur the greatest King who's ever lived" and flew off.
"What?"
"What!"
"Wait?!"
Merlin winced and tried to inch behind Arthur but no prevail, Arthur apparently decided that the tree was suddenly more interesting and walked off. Merlin calmed down his two friends and the two knights, Lancelot helped them understand that Merlin was good wizard not a bad one like Mordred and Morgana, it took a while for them to believe but to Leon and Elyan if the King was fine with it then so were they. "Also another thing...I'm a dragon Lord." Merlin said wincing preparing himself for the yelling.
"What!"
"What?!"
"wait a minuet..."
"Merlin!"
The ride back was painful, they were injured, hungry, tired, thirsty, and most of all just annoyed but the chirping of the dragon that was following them on foot. "Merlin, can you tell you dog to shut up!" Arthur yelled in his ear. Merlin drew back and elbowed him "don't yell at me, it's not my fault" Merlin hissed back then spoke a word in dragon tongue, the white beast paused then bounced on ahead thankfully quite, the others sighed in relief.
"How much furthur~" Gwaine whined kicked his horse to a trot to catch up.
"Just a bit now, we'll reach Camelot at nightfall" Elyan reassured clearly annoyed by Gwaine's whining. "I'm hurt too and I'm riding side-saddle, not the most comfortable place" Merlin muttered scooting a bit up on the saddle. Arthur smirked and Merlin gave him a glare "quite you" he hissed his corset was painfully tight and he was sure that Gwaine would know how to untie the knots but alas he would use a dagger to rip them off when he was with the women, and obviously nobody had any sharp weapons around and now Merlin was stuck with the stupid brown corset around his chest, though it did give him a bit of a girly figure and it helped when a merchant offered them food when he noticed Merlin was a simple Damsel in the distress with a ver flat chest and short hair.
Arthur leaned down and nipped on Merlin's ear making him blush "you do look rather ravishing in a corset dress" Arthur mumbled "hush, I can't wait to get this off when we arrive Camelot" Merlin snapped back turning away from Arthur's advantages towards his body. "Sire, what of Guenevere, what are you going to do about her" Leon asked. Merlin froze and Arthur's arm around him tense in a vice grip, "I will speak with her tomorrow morning, but once we arrive Camelot, I need Merlin to be checked for infections and all of your to bath and get a good night rest, tomorrow I will think about training." Arthur informed them, Leon and Elyan nodded but couldn't help but grimace at the training part.
"You do know Merlin's not going to stay at Camelot right" Gwaine said and Arthur halted his horse, Merlin bit his lip of course he never thought about going back, he simply thought that they were going to live their life in Camelot together now, but he had to go back and tend to the house and he had customers who needed him back in the village. Arthur clenched his fist and started his horse again, Leon and Elyan exchanged glances and stared at Merlin, was he the person Arthur fell in love with.
It was silent after that, the sun started to set and they head reached the gates of Camelot when it was complete darkness, the guards let the King pass over the archway and started their patrols again. "Alright Merlin down you go" Arthur muttered mounting off his horse and helping Merlin down, instantly Merlin almost fell over if it wasn't for Arthur grabbing onto him. "My ankles, I can't walk. My body was so full of adrenaline before and now when it's all gone I can feel the pain now" Merlin said.
"Elyan, Percival. You two put the horses back, make sure they're watered and eaten before letting them rest. Meet us at Gaius's chambers" Arthur ordered then reached down wrapping an arm around Merlin's knees and hauling the him over his shoulder. "Arthur!" Merlin cried grasping at Arthur's tunic with shaking fingers. "Oh quite being a girl Merlin" Arthur scolded and walking up the stairs and inside, the guards opened the door and they entered the warm castle that was lit with a dark golden hint. "Barbarian" Merlin mumbled letting his hands dangle free, he could feel the blush rush to his head but he paid no attention to that.
Arthur jolted Merlin making him smack his head against Arthur's bum "Ow! that hurt" Merlin whined and smacked Arthur's thigh in retaliation. Arthur ignored Merlin and headed towards Gaius who was thankfully awake but what was worse, Gwen was in there helping him with a potion and Rodrick in the corner cleaning grinding up some herbs.
"Sire!" Gaius exclaimed almost dropping the vile. Gwen smiled then stopped before narrowing her eyes and heading towards Rodrick; "He's been injured Gaius can you treat his wounds" Arthur said placing Merlin gently on a stool. "Certainly my lord, now let me see...oh nice outfit m'boy" Gaius said nonchalantly, Merlin blushed and glared at Gaius before looking at the other two people in a room. There was a slime handsome looking man with sandy hair and beautiful dark-skinned girl with brown curly hair; "I think you should..." Gaius trailed off looking at Arthur.
Merlin watched as Arthur ruffled his hair "I'll be right back, I need to talk to someone" he whispered "also behave, this is Gaius our physician" he added. Merlin huffed pouting "I always behave" Merlin said before shoving Arthur away from him. While Gaius cleaned his wounds, Merlin watched as Arthur approached the boy and the girl in the corner. Merlin tilted his head at the harsh whispers coming from the girl and Arthur. It wasn't until Arthur grasped the girls arms firmly and whispered harshly "Gwen listen to me!"
That was Gwen, the girl Arthur was in love with and going to marry. He felt fear grasp him, he knew it was too good to be true; maybe Arthur changed his mind, maybe Arthur didn't love him like he said he did, maybe Arthur was lying. "Ow!" Merlin yelped yanking his ankle from Gaius's grasp "hold still boy, it's been deeply infected, I need to cleanse it so it might sting" the old man scolded him.
"He'll be fine right?" Merlin looked up as Arthur and Gwen walked towards him, he looked down away form the King's gaze "yes just fine, It'll be a few days before he can walk, his wrist are the worst injuries on his body" Gaius said not moving his eyes from his work on Merlin's ankle. "That's great, I need to speak with Gwen in my chambers, so send Rodrick after me when you're done with Merlin" Arthur said then leaned down to meet Merlin's gaze.
Merlin watched Arthur as he gently placed a thumb on Merlin's bottom lip "don't hurt yourself even more" Arthur said gently prying Merlin's bottom lip from his gnawing teeth. Merlin kept his gaze on Arthur as he took and walked towards with Gwen, Merlin met her curious gaze then she narrowed her eyes at him and grasped Arthur's hand quickly. Merlin felt his heart seized when Arthur didn't pull away only to drag her out of the room; "she's just upset, don't worry about her" Gaius reassured.
Merlin looked at Gaius then gave him a grimace "what happened at the wedding, I heard they didn't get married like planed" Merlin mumbled "it's said that King Arthur has a lover in the woods" Rodrick answered his question coming over to him with a bowl of mush green and yellow paste. "You wouldn't happen to know his lover, would you?" Gaius asked raising an eyebrow and Merlin felt completely intimidated by it. "U-uh no, not really" Merlin stuttered out, Gaius kept on staring at him until Merlin nodding under the intense gaze "I uh happen to be the him" he mumbled.
Gaius smiled "I knew it would be you, no wonder Gwen gave you the look it was the way Arthur talk to you before he left, she had figured it out. Why would Arthur go missing for a few days just for a mere peasant" Gaius explained. Rodrick clapped a hand of his mouth "it's you!" He whispered completely in awe "oh my! The king fell in love with a male!" Rodrick yelled and Merlin threw a wood plate at him "Ouch that hurt!" Rodrick yelled glaring at the him. Merlin placed a finger to his lip "shut it or I'll punch you where you don't want to be punched" Merlin hissed, Rodrick frowned and cupped his groin glaring offended at Merlin.
"Gaius?" The door opened and Leon walked in, Rodrick's eyes widened and he smiled at the Knight. Merlin watched as the man practically skipped over to Leon. "Hello Sir Leon" he murmured shyly tucking a lock behind his ear "Hello Rodrick" Leon answered smiling gently at the boy who practically had hearts popping out of him. "Gaius do you have some on the paste, you gave me a few weeks ago. I have a few injuries on my back" Leon asked walking into the room "I-I just made some" Rodrick practically yelled, he ran and grabbed the bowl holding it out to Leon "Rodrick you may tend to Leon after you go tell the King Merlin's done" Gaius said. Rodrick actually pouted then sprinted out of the chambers to find the King; Merlin looked down and sure enough that his ankles were wrapped up neatly in thin gauze so was his wrist and his lip had salve to stop the burning.
"Uh you don't have a change of clothing do you?" Merlin gasped plucking at the dirty skirt, Gaius gave him an amused look "I'm sure the king as some of his, you can go ask him about it" he said. Merlin narrowed his eyes, the old man was enjoying this all too much.
"Finished, thank you Gaius. I'll send Elyan tomorrow with the pouch of coins in the morning" Arthur said walking into the room, Rodrick bounded in right after running to Leon. Sir Leon grabbed the bowl of paste and walked out with Rodrick following; "they're sleeping together aren't they?" Arthur said watching them leave. Gaius nodded "practically got together a few days after you went missing" he said then got up "well sire, I do believe it's time for me to sleep I need to be wake for my morning rounds" Gaius said and went upstairs to the bed "be sure to close the door and blow out the candles on the way out" he called and shut the door.
Arthur blew out all the candles then walked to up to Merlin, the only light from the outside because the door was left open. Merlin held out his hands and gave the king a cheeky look "carry me?"
The king smirked and hauled Merlin over his shoulder once more and walked out with Merlin yelling curses at him until he gave up halfway and just dangled over Arthur's shoulders. "Here we are, oh sweet Camelot I missed sleeping in a bed" Arthur groaned tossing Merlin not to gently on to bed "such a gentlemen" Merlin cooed from the bed, Arthur glanced over and felt his breeches tighten in a certain area when Merlin's skirt and flopped over past his knees and exposing his milky legs.
Merlin looked so sensual when he holding his upper body up with elbows, the corset squeeze his waist to fit the skirt and the shirt was shoulderless exposing his collar bones and shoulders even though it was rather dirty but the way Merlin was positioned and his eyes were twinkling from the candles around his room staring up at him confused. Arthur cleared his throat and turned away "you wouldn't have a change of clothing would you?" Merlin asked tilting his head a bit.
Arthur snorted and tore off his shirt then threw a plain white towards Merlin along with an old pair of breeches of his; "Here hurry up and change, I'm tired and I'll find you a bed tomorrow but for now you sleep with me" Arthur said toeing off his boots and socks then slipped into his bed. Merlin scooted over until he was off the bed, "Uh Arthur...you wouldn't mind..." Merlin asked grabbing a hold of Arthur's dagger near the bed desk; Arthur sat up and ripped through the corset laces with his dagger then stuffed it under his pillow just in case.
"Oh! I can breathe normally again" Merlin exclaimed throwing the corset across the room, Arthur watched as Merlin undid the laces around his waist to loosen up the skirt and his breath caught when it fell to floor. Merlin balanced himself on his toes to keep his weight off his ankles, Arthur himself was watching as Merlin's milky arse was exposed to him.
Merlin grabbed the hem of his shirt and tossed it over it ahead then into the room, he grabbed Arthur's shirt and slipped it on, it wasn't big they were the same height so the bottom of the shirt reached his waist but it was baggy from the lack of muscle Merlin had so it kept on slipping off his shoulders, Arthur thought this is so much better than the dress he was wearing.
Arthur felt his groin harden and rise when the raven haired boy leaned over slightly to slip on his breeches and oh sweet Camelot his erection twitched when Merlin bent down, Arthur wiped his mouth if he was drooling and looked away quickly when Merlin slipped on the breeches. They were a perfect fit but those where when he was around thirteen years old so it fit perfectly around his waist but was a bit short so it reached his knees.
"Oh hello there" Merlin said blushing when he saw Arthur's massive erection sticking up from the blankets, Arthur cleared his throat and covered it with a pillow "sorry, I should have went behind the screen to change" Merlin apologized not looking apologetic at all. The king narrowed his eyes at the cheeky boney bastard who crawled over and placed a open mouth kiss on the corner of his mouth.
Arthur cleared his throat "Merlin this is highly inappropriate, you're injured so am I..." he trailed when when Merlin's hands trailed down his neck to his chest; Merlin sucked on Arthur's earlobe and tweaked the his nipple than trailed it down his chest, under the thick red and gold blanket and squeezed his erection. Arthur gasped and squeezed his eyes shut, Merlin ran his fingers up and down the large organ, his fingers following the veins then towards his slit. "M-Merlin" Arthur rasped out. Merlin moved away from Arthur's ear and got underneath the blankets in between Arthur's legs, "oh well um..." Arthur murmured, he hissed and grabbed onto pillows not wanting to yank on Merlin's hair in case of hurting him.
Arthur threw his head back when Merlin ran his tongue up his shaft then back down, Merlin blew cold air on Arthur's tip then stuffed his face with Arthur's mushroom head, both of his hands were squeezing and running up and down the shaft whilst Merlin, sucked and slurped on the tip. Arthur clenched his fist then shoved his hand underneath the blanket grabbing a firm hold on Merlin's hair, Merlin himself moaned around Arthur's cock and the vibration sent a flush on the king's cheeks and he let out a moan.
Merlin was salivating around Arthur's cock, his forced himself to swallow as much as he could before he choked. Merlin hallowed out his cheeks and sucked hard and winced at Arthur's firm thrust in his mouth. Merlin kept himself from gagging only to continue on his work, his own erection was staining the breeches pushing hard against the fabric leaving a small wet spot. Arthur murmured sweet words to Merlin and ran a hand through his raven hair, Merlin continued on his work, his lips were stretched painfully and his already bruised lip started to hurt again but it was worth it when he saw look on Arthur's face, he was ready to let loose and Merlin used one hand to fondle Arthur's balls and the other to squeeze just a shy of painful around the rest of Arthur's cock that couldn't he fit in his mouth.
Arthur cried out when Merlin started sucking and running the tip of his tongue over his slit and tugging ont he foreskin, Merlin however wasn't ready for the instant release, he choked and pulled away let outing out a surprised moan when Arthur's semen showered over his face, hair, and throat; Merlin whimpered when it stopped then another squirted came out and on his closed eyes. Arthur opened his eyes and stared at Merlin and he almost came again from the raven haired boy's surprised face, the big blue eyes. Merlin fisted himself and rubbed hard staring at Arthur with a lewd expression, Merlin spammed and came in his breeches. Merlin's lips parted and a glob from his top lip oozing down and onto his bottom lip leaving only a small silver of a trail.
"Ngh~" Merlin moaned when Arthur leaned in and kissed him, they pulled apart with a wet smooch and Arthur tasted himself on Merlin "sorry, let me clean that up for you" Arthur apologized, he grabbed a rag from his drawer and wiped Merlin's face and neck, then went to clean himself off while Merlin scrambled out of his own breeches and tossed the soiled pants on the floor.
"Tired~" Merlin yawned squeezing his eyes shut, Arthur smiled and threw the towel on the floor and settled into bed with Merlin right beside him on his stomach while Arthur was on his back. "We'll see what morning brings us" Arthur said leaning over to press a gentle kiss on new lover's head, Merlin smiled lazily and shut his eyes and burrowed his face deeper into the pillows.
"Goodnight" Arthur murmured, he sat up and blew out the last of the candles leaving only a few opened for the night for when Merlin would wake. Arthur turned around to ask Merlin a question but he wasn't surprised when Merlin had fallen asleep, his face squashed by the pillow and a his lips parted a small soft snore leaving his mouth.
Arthur eased in a comfortable place and fell asleep with his arms crossed behind his head.
Merlin woke up with his whole entire body sore and aching, he winced and sat up comfortably on his knees then stretched like a cat, he turned to his side and grinned when Arthur was still asleep, he was on his side and was snoring rather loudly. Merlin stretched once more letting the blanket fall from his shoulder and rest comfortably around his knees, his heel was pressing into his naked arse cheeks, Merlin froze when a throat cleared from behind him. Merlin turned around quickly then relaxed when he saw wasn't Gwen but a man with short brown hair past his ears in a bowl cut, he was tall almost as tall as Merlin with a slim figure with small beady eyes, and slightly small round jutted out ears, his outfit consisted of a velvet brown jacket, cleaned blue tunic with blue laces and a red undershirt underneath. Merlin frowned then smiled "Hello, I'm Merlin" he said turning around and wrapped the blanket around his waist.
The man nodded and looked straight ahead with flaming cheeks "I am George, the Kings personal manservant" Merlin nodded then noticed the table full of food and their clothing had disappeared from the floor and were resting neatly in a basket by the door. "I am here to wake the King, I do believe it was you who stopped the wedding from yesterday" George snarkily said going to open to curtains and pulling the window open to let it in the morning breeze.
"Excuse me, I'm sorry what do you mean it was me who-"
"I mean it was you who the King fell in love with, a male obviously how can the king leave just a beautiful and caring girl like Gueniever and go for you, a weird large eared boy with no matter of muscle on your body as at all..." Merlin frowned and wrapped the blanket around him feeling self concious, he pressed his hands to his hears to pull them back to his head. "Obviously I see nothing special about you besides what your cheeks bones, probably the only good thing about you, how can you show the king love and pleasure him at ni-"
"-George, Merlin pleasured me enough last night, now leave or I'll put you in the stock for a week" Arthur growled sitting up. George stuttered out an apology and quickly left slamming the door behind him. Merlin cleared his throat and went over to the clothing that was folded neatly on a chair by the table. "Merlin" Arthur started but a knock interrupted them, Arthur shooed Merlin behind the screen and allowed the person to enter. Merlin slipped on his undergarments then his new breeches, this one fit perfectly; though the tunic was slightly big and overly red and no neckerchief.
There was harsh whispering until they stopped when Merlin walked out of the screen, he was fixing his hair when he stopped to see Gwen standing there beside Arthur's bed. It was an awkward silence since no one knew what to say so Gwen just ended up leaving slamming the door behind her, "does she know it's me?" Merlin asked walking over to Arthur.
Arthur nodded and got out of bed and demanded to Merlin help him change, when Merlin was finished with Arthur's long brown coat and the lace, they ate quietly "we should head down to Gaius's chambers, I'm sure everyone is over there by now." Arthur said finished his wine. Merlin nodded then dipped his bread in honey and following Arthur out the door while nibbling on his breakfast.
Arthur was right when they entered Gaius's room, everyone was there and patched up waiting for the King "Sire" Leon said standing up and bowing his head, with Lancelot, Elyan, and Percival following. Gwaine just heading towards Merlin and snatching the honey dipped bread from his hand and stuffing it in his own mouth "Hey!" Merlin yelled.
"Merlin! I thought you weren't supposed to walk" Gaius exclaimed and Merlin froze he had completely forgot that he had charmed the slave and it healed him last night, so there was nothing but a white scar on each of his wrist and ankles and his lip returned to the normal puffy size and healed the bruise. "I uh um...you know it just healed! Hooray you salve worked" Merlin cheered awkwardly. Gaius gave him the eyebrow and Merlin went to hide behind Arthur but again Arthur found someone more interesting than saving Merlin from Gaius's deadly eyebrow.
Merlin had explained to Gaius and who in return was quite shocked that Arthur let Merlin survive let alone save him, then Merlin explained that Arthur didn't know about his powers after the rescue. "Where's Aithusia?" Merlin asked "he vanished last night, I had completely forgotten about him." Leon looked up and answered Merlin's question saying that Aithusia had entered the horse shed and slept there comfortably on the hay.
"I have to see him" Merlin said Gaius did a quick check just in case then let Merlin leave, Arthur went to go train the knights even though there was tons of complaint between them. Gwaine, Lancelot, and Percival headed to the tavern; Merlin promised to join after he check on Aithusia. "There you ar..." Merlin trailed off when he saw Gwen in the shed feeding one of the horse apples and carrots. "Uh, hello. Gwen right?" Merlin tried, though he failed miserably when Gwen glared at him "Merlin right? Yes I remember, Hi nice to meet the person who ruined my relationship with Arthur and destroyed my wedding" Gwen said smiling with cold eyes.
Merlin grimaced "I didn't mean to fall-"
"-Oh right you didn't mean to, that's what they all say. Arthur could have had any girl in this world but he chose me and I felt so happy that a guy like Arthur with his status had fallen in love with me and I fell in love with him. We were perfect for each other and I know that it's hard not to fall in love with a man like Arthur with his social status-"
"-I didn't know he was a king! Just a knight and I despised him. I hate his guts when we first me and oh the words he said to me. I wanted to throttle him to oblivion!" Merlin yelled.
Gwen shook her head "I know he can be bit of a"
"Prick?" Merlin offered.
Gwen smiled then shook her head, she had completely forgotten who she was speaking with "All I am saying is that I still love him and I don't want to let him go."
"Funny, you told me different a few days ago, what was it. Yes Don't think you owe anything, Arthur I would hate to live a loveless marriage, I don't want you to make a mistake that can ruin your life forever" Arthur said walking in the shed with his arms crossed. Merlin and Gwen turned to stare him then Gwen clenched her fist "I did say that but you convinced me that night that you love me and not Merlin, that you would marry me! You left me Arthur is the most humiliating way! Why didn't you figure it out that night why didn't you agree with me that night!" Gwen yelled startling the horses even Aithusia who was sleeping in the corner jolted awake.
"Because, I thought I could handle it. I could handle a life with Merlin but Gwen when I saw you enter I knew it was a big mistake. Gwen forgive me, I'm human we make mistakes and I'm terribly sorry to leave you there but what would you have done?" Arthur asked walking towards her. Merlin stepped back and let them talk he didn't want to intervene which he already did.
"If you had fallen in love with someone else and had to marry me...what would you have done, if you knew that the man you fell in love with was in love with you as well. Would you have still married me?" Arthur asked. Gwen bit her lip and clenched her fist to keep in the tears from flowing "I don't think you would have, if you had truly loved him. I would understand, I would be heartbroken granted but I would never lash at the man who had stolen your heart. I would let you go" Arthur reasoned. Gwen sniffled and stepped forward "I'm sorry" she whispered and Arthur gathered her in a hug; Merlin bit his lip, he turned to walk away thinking he needed to give them space but when he turned to leave, Arthur had grasped his wrist in the last second.
Merlin looked at him, one had around a sobbing Gwen and the other around his wrist, Arthur tugged him forward and patiently waited for Gwen to calm down. It was a while but she did eventually "I'm sorry, I ruined your tunic" she gasped hiccupped, wiping her eyes with the palm of her hands. "I'll get George to clean it" Arthur said smiling a bit. Gwen looked at Merlin and blushed "I would like to apologize to being...a bitch" she murmured.
Merlin frantically waved his hands in front of him after he had yanked it out of Arthur's grasp "oh ahaha, no need, you weren't being a bitch or well kind of but not really so um yeah, I understand what you were doing and um not bitchy at all, and I should shut up now right?" he said wincing when Arthur gave him a glare, at Arthur's solemn nod he did then smiled widely at Gwen.
"I uh just leave" Gwen said and walked out of the shed "You utter idiot" Arthur said yanking Merlin to his chest, Merlin yelped then wrapped his arms around Arthur's neck "shut up, I was trying" he muttered pouting. Arthur laughed and pressed a chaste kiss to Merlin which in return turned out to a passionet open mouth kiss that sent all their blood rushing down south. Merlin moaned when Arthur groped his backside shoving him forward letting their clothed erection grind against each other.
Merlin pulled away but Arthur chased him back and let his tongue wander in Merlin's warm mouth "we-nhg should-ahn! go to your- oh yes- chambers" Merlin moaned, Arthur smirked and slipped his hands in Merlin's pants squeezing tightly on Merlin's cold bum. They ended up tripping over a root and landed back on the hay and out of way from anyone's sight who would walk past the shed.
Still kissing, they frantically let their hands wander and pull at their clothing "A-Arthur~" Merlin moaned when Arthur's finger pressed against his hole. "Shhh, someone will hear you" Arthur scolded rubbing the pad of his fingers against the twitching muscle, Merlin sucked on Arthur's tongue than yelped when Arthur pulled away only to shove Merlin's trousers down to his knees and hook both of his legs over Arthur's shoulders.
Merlin opened his mouth to protest but instead a moan came out when Arthur's tongue lapped up his hole, Merlin helpless grabbed on to the loose hay as Arthur's tongue wiggled in. "Arthuuur~" Merlin cried out arching his chest outwards, his nipples were rubbing against the fabric of his tunic. "You taste so good" Arthur growled and squeeze Merlin's thigh painfully and sure enough to leave bruises.
Arthur pulled away then wormed a finger in running the pad along the inner muscles, Merlin's cock twitched and it was oozing pre-cum. Merlin let out a whore worthy moan when Arthur's finger brushed against his prostate, Arthur paused and did it again. Merlin yelped and spasmed his tongue curling and he let out open mouth pants, he was dripping saliva from his mouth when Arthur added another finger than along with his tongue.
One of Arthur's hand grabbed Merlin's erection and started rubbing. Merlin whimpered and his legs spasmed again when Arthur rubbed the spot over and over. He was there, almost there; just a little bit and..."Sire!" Merlin had shoved Arthur so hard he flew a few feet back landing on his back. Merlin quickly stuffed his dead erection back in his pants and laced up his trousers, fixing his tunic.
Arthur stood up and thought of something to get rid of his hard erection, Merlin ran his hands through his hair to rid of the hay and Arthur had helped fixing them up so it looked normal. "Sire!" the voice called from the front of the shed; Merlin and Arthur awaked away from the corner just as Leon walked in "Arthur, Merlin" he said slightly confused.
"Leon" they replied looking normal and innocent as ever, Sir Leon looked between them curiously "what are you doing?" he asked. "We...were are. Merlin tell Leon what we were doing" Arthur said nudging Merlin giving him a good pointed look in which Merlin narrowed his eyes before smiling at the knight "I was...teaching the King some poetry" Merlin said at last. Arthur mentally died but smiled earnestly "I...love poetry" he said with a hand wave. Leon was silent then nodded "Enjoy poetry, your highness" he asked.
Arthur forcefully smiled "indeed but why were you calling for me?" he asked changing the subject, Leon nodded "you are needed in the tavern" he said then bowed his head and let himself out of the shed. Merlin watched him go then asked "do you think he suspects?" Arthur smacked Merlin across his head...hard "Of course not you idiot! Now Leon thinks I love poetry, such a girly thing to do" He hissed and stomped off to the tavern "You sure seem to love a moments ago!" Merlin called couldn't help the taunt but his smile faded and he dodge the oncoming gauntlet just in time.
Aithusia was recovery and had learned a few english words along the way. Merlin had stayed with Arthur and their wedding was in a few months; Gwaine, Lancelot, and Percival had been knighted and stayed in Camelot with Merlin. Arthur had promised to visit Merlin's cottage and help rebuild it by hand just the two of them, Gwen had been forgiven about her behavior and now she was thinking about seeing Lancelot and Merlin encouraged it since the knight had sent the dark-skinned beauty heart filled look. Merlin and Gwen had become best of friends they even ended up teaming together during knight training but in the end they had let Arthur win just so he wouldn't pout during dinner time even though Merlin would have his arse kicked in no time with his magic.
As for Gwaine and Percival let's say Merlin had never been so scarred before and Arthur scolded them, poor Merlin felt tearing his eyes out.
"Do you still love me?" Merlin asked rolling over to lay on Arthur's chest, the king smirked and raised Merlin's hand pressing a kiss on his knuckles "forever and always" intertwining their fingers. Arthur looked at the ring on Merlin's finger and his stomach fluttered just by looking at his mother's ring on Merlin's finger. "I love you too" Merlin replied leaning up to kiss the King. Arthur let his free hand wander down Merlin's bare back and rest on his naked bum.
Merlin pulled away then nestled his head against Arthur's chest, their intertwined fingers resting beside him "I'm so glad you got hit with a arrow" he whispered. Arthur laughed softly and squeezed Merlin's hands "I do too, I think we should send thanks to the druids" Arthur said actually considering the idea. "I think so too" Merlin murmured shutting his eyes.
OH my freaking god, you guys have no idea how long this took for me write and horrible choice for me was I tried editing my grammars at the end and my spelling check, so their should be more mistakes on this page, I'm so so freaking tired I don't care anymore and my fingers hurt. I had to rewrite this chapter a few times because I lost the work.
Anyways please comment and review my story, this is the end. I might write a fourth chapter of Merlin and Arthur's marriage and there should be more tons of sexy stuff there ;P