A/N- Hello again! Thank you for the 2 reviews, the 3 follows and the favourite. It made my day when I saw these :) In this chapter Merlin is 6 and Will is 7.

Disclaimer- I don't own Merlin. Maybe a nice person could give it for me for my birthday that's coming up?

"Hey Merlin!" Will said, running over to the six-year-old. He then noticed that he was reading to his mother. Will sighed, Merlin loved books. Will on the other hand, couldn't see too much point in them, reading was incredibly dull. However, Merlin always disagreed, saying that you could escape to your own world. Merlin looked up and smiled at Will. "Sorry Hunith" Will said, apologetically "I didn't realise he was busy. I'll come back later"

"On the contrary Will, Merlin has just finished reading." Hunith said, and then turned to her son "Well done, that was very good". Merlin smiled proudly. "What is it that you wanted Will?" Hunith asked kindly

"I'm going to pick berries, and I just wondered whether Merlin wanted to as well" Will said, showing Hunith the basket he was carrying

"Can I help, please mother" Merlin begged

"Of course" Hunith replied. She was slightly surprised Merlin always asked if he could go and play, but grateful all the same. She knew that other children In the village ran off to play without asking, leaving their parents worried until they returned, having no idea where they were.

"Thank you!" Merlin said, hugging her, placed a kiss onto her cheek and ran off with Will into the forest. Hunith got up, picking up Merlin's discarded book, and returned back to her house.

Merlin reached forward, struggling to get the blackberry that was just out of his reach. He huffed in annoyance, glancing over at Will. Will was only slightly taller than Merlin, but seemed to able to get blackberries much easier from the look of his ¾ full basket compared to Merlin's ¼ full basket. Maybe if I brought the berries a little more forward, I can get some more, Merlin thought. Taking a side glance at Will, to make sure he wouldn't see, Merlin eyes flashed gold, and brought the berries on the bush forward so he could get them more easily. Merlin smiled in triumph, he never understood why his mother worried so much when he did his magic, it's not like he would get caught. Picking the berries now easily off the bush, his basket was now ½ full.

"How did you get so many berries?" Will asked Merlin, a confused look over his face

"I picked them off the bush" Merlin replied innocently. Potato-dust! Merlin thought, I forgot how Will noticed everything.

"But you were struggling. You decided to pick the only bush that had the hardest to reach berries. I couldn't reach let alone with you little arms"

"No" Merlin twitched uncomfortably. He hated lying, especially to Will "You must have been mistaken."

"Don't lie Merlin!" Will replied, frustrated that his best friend was hiding something

"I'm not!" Merlin replied, but looking at his feet

"You're a really bad liar Merlin. What are you hiding from me" Will said, hurt that his best friend wouldn't tell him the truth

"I'm not allowed to tell you. I promised my mother. It's a secret only for me and her"

"I can keep secrets Merlin. I won't tell anyone" Will persisted.

"Do you promise?" Merlin asked, looking up at Will through his eyelashes

"I swear on my life that I won't tell anyone you're secret" Will replied. Merlin looked down, a worried look on his face. "What's wrong? Why won't you tell me? I have no secrets from you!"

"I'm scared that you will be scared of me, that you will think of me as a monster" Merlin replied, shuffling his feet

"Does that really sound like me Merlin? When have I ever been scared? I could fight off a wild boar" He said smiling

"I have magic" Merlin said quietly

"Really?" Will asked. Merlin just replied with a nod "That's- that's- really cool" Will said finally.

Merlin shot his head up. "Really? You're not scared" He asked, hopeful, that Will was not lying or running away.

"Nope. If you were a mean person, I would know already" Will replied smiling.

Merlin gave his normal, heart-warming grin. "But you can't tell anyone, not even your parents. Mother said that some mean people may come after me if they found out. She said that no-one else can know the secret in case they accidentally told someone, so you can't tell my mother that you know either" Merlin said

"Ok. So what can you do? Do you know any spells?"

Merlin shook his head "It happens when I think about something. I can move objects really easily and I can slow down time sometimes too"

"Can you move the basket?"

"That's easy!" Merlin laughed, giving a demonstration.

"That's really cool! Can you show me something else?"

Merlin laughed, making objects around him float in an orbit around Will. Will stood there, amazed, laughing with Merlin. This continued for a couple of hours, until a wild boar came to their attention. The objects, Merlin was floating, crashed to the floor and the boar charged towards them. Panicked, Merlin flashed his eyes, sending the boar backwards in the air, making it crash into the tree.

"Whoa, I know not to scare you Merlin!" Will laughed and Merlin turned to face him smiling. The boys heard a grunt come from the boar, so they grabbed their baskets and ran back to the village.