AN: Sorry this on took as long as it did to get uploaded... I have been very distacted by story updates, work, and and the search for a second job. But here it is, Chapter 7! Yay!
Thank you MamzelleHermy for your constant reviews.
Chapter 7
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The questioning had taken three days to complete. Leon was assigned to ask the guards, but one of the men had gone out with the wood collectors as security and didn't return until that morning. It turned out that Gwaine had returned before dawn . The man seemed unsettled that the knight managed to get out of the city after that without being seen by his replacement. It so happened that the replacement had been one of the first people who Leon had spoken with.
All this proved was that Merlin didn't lie about Gwaine, but no one had really believed he had. It was one of those unjust rules that was set for investigations of an attack on a knight. Another rule was to keep any suspects under surveillance. But since Merlin was the only person of interest and he never left Gaius's chamber, that one had been counted as followed, without it really being the case.
Percival had more luck with the bar keeper. From the owner, he learned the name of the man who Leon and Elyan had seen that night, who turned out to be an old friend of his. The man had been born in the quiet knight's village, but had moved away before the place had been destroyed. His childhood friend admitted to seeing someone of Gwaine's description with a girl that night just down the lane from the Rising Sun.
Sadly, none of the serving girls Lancelot and Elyan talked to knew what had happened to Gwaine that night. A few admitted to having had several dalliances with the rouge, but not that evening. One girl seemed glad Gwaine had been roughed up, at least until she found out the details. The scalping part caused her vomit and cry.
None of this information was a help to Arthur, but doing something seemed have broken the melancholy that seemed to be hanging over the Roundtable members. Now that everyone else had been questioned and accounted for, there was only one person left to question. Finally after twelve days of drug induced sleep, Gaius was going to allow Gwaine to wake up.
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AN: Ta-da! Should I have Gwaine make any sense or have him ramble nonsense? Should I let a group be in the room for the waking or just Arthur and the caregivers? Please let me know so I can write the next chapter with your preferences in mind.
Until then, Thank you for reading.
