A/N: Thank you to all of those who reviewed and a Big thank you to my friend Allthingsmagical for being a wonderful friend to me these past 3 years x

August

Arthur knew that they had been dating less than a few months but he could no longer stand waking up alone after having spent many nights waking up with Merlin in his arms.

He hoped that they weren't moving to fast, rushing things but Merlin had said that he wanted more than just a rebound, that he wanted a real lasting relationship. Merlin had told Arthur over one too many drinks that this would be his last attempt at being in a relationship but he had also told Arthur that he has never felt this way about any of his past lovers and he could feel it in his heart that Arthur was it for him. Arthur smiled just thinking about his lovers drunken confession as he unlocked the door to Merlin's flat.

"Sweetheart, you home?" Arthur called out as he placed his coat on the rack and walked towards the kitchen where Merlin was waiting for him with a smile on his face and a cup of coffee in his hands.

"I feel like one of those old time housewives that greets her husband with a merit when he gets in from bringing home the bacon." Merlin laughed as he handed Arthur his coffee.

"Nope, you're way better than that Merlin because you love me." Arthur smirked. "I doubt many of those marriages were very happy."

Merlin rolled his eyes but laughed as he kissed Arthur's lips softly. "So shall I make dinner or should we eat out? I know you have to work late tomorrow so maybe I should cook something so you can have leftovers for dinner tomorrow."

"Merlin, sweetheart just breathe." Arthur smiled. "If you continue to feed me while at work many of the other officers will start to get jealous, after all I have to share with Leon every since our first stakeout together."

"Maybe I missed my calling." Merlin smiled.

"No, you may be a great cook sweetheart but your true calling is with those children, you've helped them so much, I could see it when you conned me into coming in and talking about my job." Arthur smiled as he sat down.

"Well it was job week and who better to tell my class about what its like to be a cop than my very handsome, very sexy boyfriend." Merlin said kissing Arthur on the lips. "So take out?"

Arthur laughed. "Take out, but before we call I have something to ask you?" Arthur felt his pocket and pulled out a small blue box.

Merlin gasped as he looked down at the blue box on the table, it couldn't be what he thought could it?

Slowly Merlin's hands moved towards the box and held his breath as he opened it, there inside the box was a key, looking up Merlin stared at Arthur confused. "A key? I already have a key to your flat."

Arthur smiled. "It's a key to our place, I know it's soon but I thought seeing as we're both in it for the long haul, why wait."

"I don't understand? you brought another flat?" Merlin asked.

"well know, it's a house really, you picked it out without knowing of course. It's very close to your school and to the station, walking distances really." Arthur replied. "Remember we were walking past it one day when they were having an open house and for a laugh you thought it would be fun for us to go inside."

Merlin nodded. "I remember, the house was perfect."

"You told me that night, you could see us living there with a dog and a few little ones running around the place." Arthur informed him. "I got in contact with her and we talked about the price seeing as it was a buy outright and within the week we owned it."

"We?" Merlin whispered.

Arthur took Merlin's hand in his. "We, I put your name down on the lease next to mine. It's our home, our house. My flat is already on the market and just this morning I was given an offer to buy." Arthur started to worry that he had done something wrong, that he should have told Merlin first before doing anything. "I know I should have told you but..."

Merlin threw himself at Arthur kissing him passionately. "I love you Arthur, this is more than I could dream of."

Arthur smiled. "We can start moving in anytime we want, most of my stuff is already at the house, and I even went and got us some paint, the same colours we used to do up your flat."

"You, Arthur Pendragon, make it very hard not to picture a life without you in it." Merlin smiled.

"Good because I don't plan on letting you go Merlin Emrys." Arthur smiled and kissed Merlin once more before picking him up. "I think we need to say a real goodbye to this place before christening our new home."

A/N: Thank you all for reading and please don't forget to review x