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Chapter 4

I hit a tree

Merlin didn't catch up to the Lady Serena until he was at the stables, which he found quite odd. This girl had never been to Camelot before.

He saw stood with the horse brushing through its long unruly mane with her fingers.

"It's crazy, as soon as she walked in the thing just stopped bouncing around." The stable hand, John had said.

Merlin walked towards the horse. He warily put his hand in front of Black Knights nose and Serena grinned broadly as the horse nuzzled his hand. The stable hand gasped and stared enviously at Merlin who stroking the horse softly with a goofy grin on his face.

"If I didn't know any better I'd his temper was as bad as mine." Serena smiled at Merlin as he laughed.

"Well My Lady-"

"Sa... Serena, call me Serena" Merlin frowned, he hadn't missed the slip up she had gone to say a different name, but corrected herself.

Serena brushed her hair back in and let out a sigh of relief as she saw that Merlin was going to mention the slip up.

His eye caught the lump on her forehead that had been hidden before by the long fringe she had, he gasped at the sight of the blood on her young face.

"What happened?" His eyes not straying from the lump. Serena looked at him, confused she reached her hand to her forehead and felt the lump. A lazy grin spread across her features.

"I ran into a tree" She said cheerily and started skipping off in the other direction. She felt a hand tug on her arm and she swung back around, tripping over her own feet Merlin quickly caught her. They laughed at the clumsiness of the moment.

"You, my friend are going to the court physician." She grinned broadly at him and carried on laughing.

"Gaius, can you look over my friend here?" Merlin asked as he pulled the still laughing Serena into the room.

"Merlin, why would you... oh." Gaius said taking in the lump and blood on her forehead. He hurried the hysterical girl down onto the bed he always had set up for the patients. He hurried around the room to get the remedies that would clean the wound and soothe the pain that was now radiating throughout her head.

Serena let out a small squeak as the remedy stung its way down the cut. Merlin squeezed her hand comfortingly and she gave him a tight pained smile. Gaius started to wash the wound out and she visibly relaxed.

"I am afraid you have concussion child, you're going to have to stay here tonight so we can make sure that you don't go into a coma while you sleep" Gaius looked upon the young girl with a sympathetic smile and nodded at Merlin, silently asking him to speak with him. He hadn't missed the pain that had flashed across his wards face as he smoothed had smoothed the girls hair down.

Serena hadn't missed the silent conversation between Gaius and Merlin so she spoke up as a way of giving them privacy.

"Could you please get me some water? And I would like some privacy." Serena laughed at the use of words she had used. She didn't really need the loo, she did need a drink though, but it did not take two people.

Gaius and Merlin both hurried to their feet, their faces showing how uncomfortable they felt in the current situation.

"Of course" Gaius hurried out of the room and Merlin following after, he paused though at the door and turned and grinned at the giggling girl. She grinned back and waved her hand in a shooing manner and he laughed his way out of the door mock bowing at her.

Serena sat up dizzily still laughing. She sat round for a while waiting for the clatter of feet down the stone hallway telling her that the men were on their way back.

She hurriedly lay down at the sound of feet not wishing for a berating off the court physician. A look of curiosity spread across her face as the feet stopped outside the door. She stood, somewhat dizzily and made her way to the door. She listened to the hushed voices her ear pressed up against the hard cold wood.

"What's the matter Merlin?" Gaius' voice etched with concern.

"It is going to sound really stupid" Merlin sighed; even he thought it was stupid. "Her hair"

Gaius looked at the boy in curiosity, silently asking what he means.

"It reminds me of Freya" he sighed at the broken look on his wards face. "I still love her Gaius" Merlin looked up at his mentor. "She's dead and I still love her"

"She would want you to move on, to find someone else; you'll always love her Merlin." Gaius put his hand to the neck of his upset ward. Merlin angrily pushed the hand away.

"I will never love another Gaius." His hurried footsteps sounded as a warning to the crying Serena.

She had to get out of there and quickly and the only way was the main door. She had been so stupid, thinking that Merlin would love her; she had let her fantasies become real to her when they were nought but dreams. It was just a crush, and she would keep telling herself that.

"Sam" a voice whispered in her head. A voice she knew, a voice that had just given her a way out she thought as she hurried down the corridor she had seen Merlin travel down many a times.

"Serena I have your water..." Merlin trailed off as he noticed the empty room. " she's gone, why would she go, she needs help" he turned to Gaius who's thoughtful look had Merlin perturbed.

"I think I know why." Gaius' voice gentle as he thought. He felt sympathetic for the girl. If he was right about her feelings, he knew how much it would have hurt to hear Merlin say the words that had left his lips.

"Why?" Merlin was curious as to why the girl left but he was also curious as to why his guardian had spoken so gently. Gaius shook his head at the boy.

"It is not my place to say, but it is my place to say that sometimes I agree with Arthur" Merlin tilted his head, "you are an Idiot my boy." Well, he thought, if this girl likes, him she has her work cut out for her. God bless her. And with that Gaius left Merlin standing there in utter bewilderment.

Serena heard the chattering of voices as she got closer to the open gate.

"Sam" Arianne and Esmeralda shouted as they saw her coming.

"Are we..?" she left her question open as she already half knew the answer. As Arianne nodded.

"Kilgharrah?" Arianne spoke with a shaky voice.

" Well I thought you three would never show up" They all jumped as they turned to see a huge dragon.

"Three, what do you mean three, where's Anne?" Linda shouted to the dragon, he eyed the girls warily and chose his words carefully.

"Your friend Anne, has gone home to your time, she missed home to much ,she also mentioned something about a boy, but that is unimportant" The girls chuckled at the thought of Anne leaving The World of Merlin for Callum. But then Kilgharrah's words fully registered and they squirmed.

"Gone, she left?" Sam, again regaining her composure the quickest.

"Yes, and I told her how to get home, which is why I brought you here do you wish to do home as well?" He looked mainly at Sam, as if expecting her to say yes.

"There is more to this place than just Merlin so I'm staying" Sam, said with confidence in her voice. Linda and Nicola looked at her questioningly, why would she say there was more to this world than Merlin, Linda thought, she looked at her friend and a saw a few tear tracks and decided not to bring it up. Nicola seeing the same did the same.

Her head filled with images of Lancelot as Linda's filled with pictures of Gawaine. At that moment both girls stepped forward and said.

"We are too" the girls burst out laughing at the irony.

"You girls are here for a reason, you will help the young Warlock and the once and future King fulfil their destiny. That is your destiny after all." The girls all squealed at the thought of having a destiny.

The squealing reached his ears as did most of their conversation.

"What the hell is going on?" the young warlock asked himself as he took off running.


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