Answer to XSunnyxstar's review: Omg, I simply love your comments! :D Thank you so much for reading this story! Yes, I'm very excited too about everything :) The spells, her destiny and friendship with Merlin... This chapter is very short, though. Just because it sums up the introducing episode. I'll make next one much longer!

Things have not turned out the way Jocelyn hoped… or even thought. But as she is sitting there in jail, feeling the cold cling to her butt, she hears a voice call out her name. JOCELYN… She presses one ear to the stone floor... JOCELYN… The Great Dragon? … JOCELYN!

"Jocelyn."

Merlin is standing on the other side of the dark bars. The day has gone since she was arrested and Merlin has been forced to tend to Arthur's tournament needs, even if he'd rather have found a way to help Jocelyn. The final is due in the morning and Arthur is up against Valiant. Merlin knows he'll use the shield to finish him off...

"Are you alright?" he asks.

Jocelyn stands up and gives him a tender smile. A flighty lock of hair dances over her face.

"Sure. Thanks for asking! But what's going on up there?"

When Merlin fills her in on the upcoming serious events, she lights up, strangely enough.

"Then something's as it should be!"

Merlin leans in closer.

"Tell me what I must do to fix this." he whispers.

Jocelyn breathes in.

"Gaius told you about me?" He nods. "What do you think?"

"I think it all sounds…" There isn't really a word that explains it better. "Mad."

Merlin meets her gaze. She is grinning and it rubs off on him. In two seconds, the two youngsters are giggling.

"But why did you have yourself arrested?" Merlin wonders when they have calmed down.

"Oh I never meant for this to happen! I can't read the future, even if I know some of what's in it."

Merlin's head hurts, but he reckons he just has to go with it. Of all people, he should know how weird the world can be sometimes.

"What can I do?"

"Expose Valiant!"

"And how do I do that?"

"You'll figure it out. Just believe in yourself."

Merlin wants a better answer, but is enable to get it from her. Jocelyn knows that she can't say too much, if she wants him to learn and grow the same way as in the series, but he has no idea where to start.

"Berbay... odothay…" Merlin can't keep his eyes open. He has been trying to transfigure a dog statue into a real dog for the entire night. "... arisan quickem..."

Just as he doses of on the floor, he is disturbed by a loud bark! Merlin cries out and grins widely, until he notices the black dog isn't exactly friendly…

"What are you up to?" Gaius asks as Merlin exits his bedroom.

"Nothing! Just… don't go in there."

He runs as fast as he can out to the tournament field. Now everyone will see the snakes for themselves!

"I knew you could do it!" Jocelyn says as she is standing next to Merlin in the Great Hall. A feast is being held in honor of Prince Arthur, the tournament Champion and defeater of the evil sorcerer Valiant! Though the latter is actually Merlin.

"Apparently, you did."

He gives her a teasing smile before he turns humble.

"Thank you." he says.

Jocelyn almost blushes.

"For what?"

"For believing in me."

Jocelyn looks into his familiar blue eyes, determinedly, and inhales the wonders of this moment.

"Always."

Gwen was kind enough to lend Jocelyn a dress. It's green, somewhat itching, and a little tight around the arms but Jocelyn feels glad to melt into the environment for a change. Everyone applaud as Arthur leads Morgana through the room, but Merlin sighs.

"So is this how it's going to be from now on? I save Arthur's ass and then he gets all the girls and all the glory?"

Jocelyn grins.

"Pretty much."

Is she teasing me? Merlin can't tell if there lie any truth in her words. Still, he's happy that she is here to say them. He is starting to enjoy her company.

"You know what, I wish Valiant was escorting me!" Morgana exclaims, rather angry with Arthur.

"Me too! Than I wouldn't have to listen to you…"

Brother and sister go separate ways and Arthur catches sight of Merlin and Jocelyn.

"My Lord." Jocelyn curtsies but Merlin doesn't bother to bow. Not until Arthur stops being a dollop-head.

"I'd just like to say that I made a mistake. I should never have allowed you to be thrown in jail, Josephine."

"Jocelyn." she corrects.

"Right. So, you may keep on teaching Merlin here how to make me a decent breakfast!"

In other words, Jocelyn's got herself a job in the royal kitchen.

"I think I have magic." Jocelyn whispers to Merlin after Arthur left. "I really did petrify that snake!"

Merlin remembers their first encounter yesterday and how strange he thought she was.

"I'm not surprised."

"You're not?"

"No." He smiles widely. "You seem like the type."