Disclaimer: I don't own Merlin sadly. Although I do own a signed autograph from Alex Vlahos and a Merlin t-shirt


Arthur, Merlin and the knights were out on patrol as usual. To make it worse for Arthur it was coming up to the anniversary of his mother and younger sister's death. This year his younger sister would have been twelve; it pained him to think what she would of became. He never even saw her. Did she have blonde hair? Did she have blue eyes or green?

He was knocked out of his train of thought when an blood curdling scream was heard making everyone chase after where it was coming from. Once there, they saw bandits surrounding something no someone. A young girl. They were hurting her. One stabbed her in the stomach.

"That'll teach you not to take stuff that doesn't belong to you," one of them, possibly the leader, said. Another one of bandits whispered in the mans ear and they all fled, leaving the girl.

Once Merlin managed to get a closer look at the girl covered in a mixture of blood and mud, he realized something and immediately ran towards her.

"Elizabeth," he whispered. "Oh my goodness. What happened?" he said getting down to her level which was currently slumped against a tree. He tried to examine her wound but her hands were locked around it.

" I wouldn't do that if I was you," she said softly. Obviously, she was in pain.

"Why are you here in Camelot?" He asked, scared for his little sister's life.

"Can't we talk about this later Merlin? Please," She said, wincing from the pain.

"No! We need to talk-"

"Merlin!" Arthur called. "Have you found her? Is she okay?"

"No! You prat, we just saw her get stabbed. We need to get her to Gauis. NOW!" Merlin's voice got louder with every word.

"Okay, Okay. Come on," He said, picking up Elizabeth. "Well get on the horse and I'll pass her to you,"

"I do have a name," she rasped out as she was passed from Arthur to Merlin so Arthur could climb on his horse.

"Right now pass her back to me, you can't possibly carry her all the way back," he told Merlin, oblivious to what Elizabeth had just said.

"I can manage, anyways I've carried her before," Merlin said in a 'matter of fact' tone

"What? How do you know her?" he asked as they began to ride, deciding Merlin was not going to pass her back.

"Lizzy here is my little sister," He stated. Arthur just looked confused. They looked completely different, Merlin had black hair and blue eyes where as this girl, Lizzy had blonde hair and green eyes. If he was being honest, she looked more like him and Morgana.

"What? No," was Arthur's only response. The rest of the ride was complete silence between the two of them.


Once reaching Camelot Arthur told one of his knights to go ahead to tell Gauis to be prepared as Merlin carefully passed Arthur the sleeping Elizabeth. When she was in his arms, Merlin ran towards Gauis' chambers.

"Merlin? I thought you and Arthur were out on patrol?" Gauis exclaimed.

"Elizabeth was attacked by bandits and injured. Arthur is bringing her," Merlin said sounding out of breath. Gauis did recall from letters Hunith had sent that they had found a baby and took her in. Gauis wasn't able to reply when Arthur burst in with a young girl in his arms who, from the looks of it, had been through a bit of a rough time.

Arthur placed her on the table. "I'll be back to check up on her but I now need to tell father that there were bandits in the forest," he told them and left.

Merlin made sure the door was closed before running towards the waking Elizabeth. "WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING HERE?" he shouted at her. Gauis seemed shocked by his outburst but Elizabeth didn't seem fazed.

"Oh so no; 'are you okay Liz? Are you hurt?'" She said whilst rolling her eyes.

"I mean it Liz!" Merlin shouted. Thankfully, Gauis spoke up.

"Merlin, don't you think it would be easier to talk once she has been patched up?" Merlin gritted his teeth.

"Fine! But we are talking about this later," He said, sounding very annoyed.


After Elizabeth's stab wound was fixed, Merlin and Elizabeth sat on Merlin's bed.

"Now can you answer my question?" Merlin asked immediately

"Fine, I thought I would come and visit you for my birthday," she said hoping he wouldn't see through her lie.

"Elizabeth," he said, trying to keep his voice calm.

"I can control my magic. I promise," was all she said.

"Are you sure you can?" Merlin asked.

"Yes. Merlin, I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm nearly 12!" she exclaimed, annoyed that he still babied her.

"Merlin? Liz?" Arthur shouted through Gauis' chambers. Thankfully, Gauis was in the lower town tending to someone.

"In here," was heard from the back room which belonged to Merlin. Arthur headed up the stairs and walked in. Now he could clearly see they weren't related by blood as Elizabeth didn't look anything like him at all. Not even her skin tone was the same to his. She wasn't pale, she actually resembled Arthur's mother.

"My father, the king, wishes to speak to you, Liz," he said, going back to his commanding voice.

"Why sire?" she asked. Wow, even her manners were different to Merlin's.

"He needs to know about the bandits and why they were chasing you," he answered. That made her eyes go wide in fright.

"W-when does he want to see me, my lord?" she asked. She was terrified about meeting King Uther as he had outlawed magic and could kill her a snap of his fingers!

"Now. Come with me I have to show you the way," he said turning around and walking slowly so they could follow him.

"Is he always such a dollop head?" Elizabeth whispered to Merlin.

"Yes," He whispered back. To say the least, when one of Elizabeth's first words was "prat", Hunith was not impressed.


So that's this chapter done. Also this is set just before episode 7 of season 1. In a few chapters it will be that episode. Don't forget to fave, follow and review.

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