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When Thea didn't make any comment for me to do work for the rest of the day, I thought I would go and send the day with Gwen something I hadn't done in a while, one of us was always busy.

I found her outside the King's quarters where she could normally be located; I had honestly never seen someone so dedicated to wanting to help someone they didn't like.

"Hi," I said as she started walking out the door. "Are you busy for the afternoon?"

"Not really, I've got to be around later to give the King his dinner but that's it. Why what are you thinking?" she asked.

"Just thought we could spend some time together I mean we haven't done it in a while," I replied hoping she would say yes, as going back to the servant quarters wasn't appealing to me at this point in time.

"Yeah that sounds goods, it might be nice to get out the castle," Gwen said as we started walking through it, and to her house.

"So I've heard gossip going around about you and Gwaine?" Gwen said once we were in her house.

"What are you serious? From who?" I asked quickly. Why did people think there was something going on between the two of us? I mean the way we talked was no different than how we used to when I had only just met him.

"The other servants from the guards area, I think we can assume they originated from Kate," she said handing me a cup of tea.

"Sounds about right," I replied holding onto the cup as it was nice for hands to feel warm.

"So what are your feelings towards Gwaine then?" she asked with a smirk on her face. She knew I had them we had talked about it before. "I can see the way the two of you look at each other, you look at him when you don't think he's looking and then he looks at you when you're not looking." Okay so what she was saying was true but did I want to admit it out loud.

"Well I'd be lying if I said I didn't like, but come on he's Gwaine everyone knows he's a flirt and will not like me," I replied, she was just looking at me with a big smile on her face.

"I couldn't be sure but I reckon he does like you. Do what I did with Arthur and wait to see if he does anything, you might find out that I'm right," she replied.

"Or I could use my common sense which is telling me the obvious that Gwaine isn't going to ever like me, I mean come on he is Gwaine. He likes any female attention that he gets, mine isn't any different than any other that he gets," I said firmly, I was not going to let her try and change my mind.

"Okay Carmen, I'll take your word for it," she replied with a smirk like she thought she was going to be right. I just really didn't see it happening. We spent the rest of the day talking about anything and everything; I don't think I had ever had someone I got on as well as I did then Gwen. She was so nice all the time.

"We should get back up to the castle," she said looking out the window and seeing that it was starting to get dark. "I need to get the dinner for the King and you know that Thea will have something that she wants you to do," she smiled, knowing what the relationship with Thea wad normally like.

"Indeed the joys of Thea," I replied standing up. I hadn't noticed until we got outside but it was a lot colder than it had been in weeks. Then it happened it came out of nowhere, I shape just like Drea had talked about earlier. If I had to describe it as something, I would have said that it looked like a skull. A knight jumped in front of the two of us who were clinging onto each other for dear life, he waved a torch at it which made it go away.

"You two should get up to the Castle quickly," I couldn't recognise who it was, but I think I still had thoughts about what had happened in my head and I wasn't really paying attention to his face after just seeing something that didn't have one. "Take this," he said handing the torch over to Gwen, who seemed to be handling this, a lot better than I was.

"Carmen, are you okay?" Gwen asked looking over at me. I wasn't sure what expression was on my face but from the concern in her voice I would say that it wasn't a good one.

"Umm . . ." I started talking but then I didn't trust myself not to say anything bad so I decided to nod my head.

She didn't look convinced, and well I'd be very surprised if she did, "let's get back to the castle and see what's actually going on," she said taking my arm and almost pulling me there. The town had been running around everyone seemed so scared, at some point I swear I saw people lying on the floor and they looked frozen. Is that what happened if one of those things touched you? Was that what happened to Drea's family?

When we got closer to the Castle there were guards and knights running around almost all of them had torches or were with someone with them. Was that all Camelot had to protect themselves with? There were village people running around up here too, there were also knights and guards carrying people that were either frozen or injured. I wasn't sure but I was assuming those that were frozen were dead, someone couldn't live through being that cold for very long.

"Gwen, Carmen," Gaius called when he saw the two of us walking through one of the corridors.

"Gaius, what's going on what are they?" Gwen asked Gaius.

"I wish I knew, but for now we are not safe. Carmen, are you alright?" Gaius asked looking at me.

"Yeah, sorry things like this aren't what I'm used to seeing every day," I replied looking around, looking at how everyone was still walking around scared.

"If you spend long enough here you'll get used to it, the things we've seen throughout the last couple of years. I mean a ridiculous when you think about it from any other point of view," Gwen said giving me a hug.

"We should go," Gaius said when screaming started coming from somewhere close by. We followed Gaius towards the council room, when we got there it was where they were keeping all the knights and others that had been hurt or frozen. Some had sheets over their bodies, I assumed they were the ones that were dead, at the moment there seemed to be about ten of them. There were a lot of others that were lying down but they just seemed to be unconscious, but a lot of them looked like they were hurt bad.

"Can you two go and grab some more sheets?" Gaius asked after we had been helping out in the council chamber, and well the amount of people that were in here either really badly or hurt or dead was growing.

"Sure," I said, Gwen nodding beside me. She grabbed a torch as from what we had found the only thing that could get rid of them, well it didn't completely get rid of them they came back not long after they go, but it was all anyone could come up with. When we left I linked arms we Gwen I was nervous about going on a run out for the sheets, it was the first time I had left the council room and well I wasn't looking forward to it.

Outside the council chamber it was mayhem there were people frozen on the floor people running around really scared that they were going to end up on the floor like others. We made it to the servants area that I worked in normally, which seemed calmed no one seemed to be running around like in the rest of the castle, but we didn't want to stay around to see what was going so we got the sheets and left as soon as possible. Straight away after we left the servant area the mayhem was everywhere again.

"Gwen, Carmen, warn Gaius there are more victims by the Western gate," Agravaine said coming out from around the corner with some guards and knights by his side. He disappeared pretty much as quickly as he appeared.

The screaming started the noise that always began before one of them appeared. When it appeared one of the knights appeared and went straight into it causing him to freeze like so many of the others had. I stepped next Gwen because she was the one that had the torch that could protect us. She waved it about and the face disappeared.

"Why did I move to Camelot?" I muttered to myself, not wanting anyone to hear me.

"Because if you didn't you wouldn't get to experience every weird event that takes place here," Gwen replied with a smile on her face. We made it back to the council chamber where there didn't seem to be any more people will sheets over them which was good, but when we had been getting the sheets we had seen a lot of people just lying on the floor.

"Gaius, Agravaine says there are more bodies by the western wall," I said whilst the thought was still in my head. Gaius nodded his head in reply, he also didn't like the fact he didn't know what he could do to stop it.

When dawn broke over, they went the faces all disappeared. It had become clear that they would only come out when it was dark, which was good I suppose it meant that we were safe for at least half a day. I looked out of one of the windows in a corridor seeing all the damage that they had caused, I wasn't an expert but Camelot could not survivor through this happening too many more times. From the forest I saw seven horses appear, and every one of them had one person on that seemed to be in one piece, which meant that Arthur, Merlin and the knights were back. I didn't want to look too excited so I walked towards the entrance to the castle, after everything we had seen I wanted my brother more than anything. I also wanted to check that Gwaine was still in one piece.

When I reached the entrance of the castle they were all dismounting their horses, whilst looking at what damage had been done. There was nothing on Arthur's face but worry; it was amazing how much he cared for all the people of Camelot.

"Carmen," my brother called taking me out of my train of thought. When I re-entered the real world he was walking over to me. He pulled me into a hug, which made me feel better and not as worried about what had been going on just a couple of hours ago.

"You're back and in one piece," I said with a smile pulling away.

"When do I ever break promises I make you?" he said bending down and kissing me on the top of my head. The rest of the knights had left the area going to sort out themselves after being gone for so long, it was then I realised that I had been away from work for ages and that Thea probably wasn't going to be best pleased with me when I got back.

"True," I replied. "I should probably go see what damage was done to the knight area of the castle, as I'm sure Thea has lots of work ready for me to do. I'll see you later," I went on my tiptoes and gave him a kiss on the cheek before walking through the Castle. The Castle was a mess which probably meant days' worth of work once, whatever was going on was over, and if it meant that this would be over I was looking forward to it.

"I kept my promise you princess," someone said as I was about to go into the servants part of the knights area. I knew who it was straight away because there was only one person that ever called me princess.

"Indeed you did both you and my brother both came back in one piece," I said turning around and smiling. Gwaine had obviously been back to his room, as he just a thin shirt on that normally went under his layers of armour. "Thank you," I leant up and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"You should give your brother more credit, he doesn't actually need looking after," he replied with his normal smirk on his face, which I had to admit I did miss seeing every day.

"I know I should, but I just can't stand the idea of losing the only member of my family I have left," I said the thought of losing my brother was just something I never wanted to go through I honestly didn't know what I would.

"You know the rest of the knights see you a sister Princess," Gwaine said trying to cheer me up, but in a way it did the opposite. Did he think of me as just a sister? Was the pathetic arguing that went on between us just in his eyes how brother and sisters can argue?

"Yeah, I suppose," I replied not really in the mood to talk. "I should go and see what Thea wants me to do." I walked off without waiting for a reply, at this point I was worried if I talked to him I could break down, and if he didn't feel anything for me I didn't want him to think that I felt something for him. Maybe I should change how I acted around him, stop with the arguing and just do the job like all the other servants did.

"CARMEN, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" Thea screamed as soon as I walked through the doors, had she been worried or did she need me to do something?

"Umm . . . Gaius wanted help with the people that were injured, and I know a little bit about what physicians do, as I used to help my mother back home," I replied. Looking around the room, I could see that everyone that I knew from around here was still in one piece which was a good sign.

"Well then, there are some knights that want food," she said handing me a plate, which I knew must be for Gwaine; my day just couldn't get any worse. It wasn't worth even to try and get out of doing it, why couldn't she make me be like the personal servant of a different knight, any of them, my brother probably as a preference.

I walked off before I said something that I would probably regret or said something that implied that I liked Gwaine. Overtime I had learnt to just walk into Gwaine's room he was never busy when it came to food, as that seemed to be the thing that he liked the most in the world.

"Lunch," I said putting it down on the table. When I looked up I saw that he was actually asleep, which was something I had never seen before when it came to giving him food. I suppose he had been up since he hadn't gone yesterday morning, but then again so I had I and I knew there was no chance I would be getting any sleep, because there was always a lot to do during the day and well I wouldn't know what could happen to me if I went to sleep at night when those things attack. "Gwaine," I said walking over to his bed. "I've got your lunch." Me being closer seemed to do it for him, he heard me straight away. When he stood up I walked away and drew his curtains because I knew he never slept with a shirt on and at the moment I was sorting out my feeling for him, so that I only thought of him as a friend or brother.

"Carmen, are you okay?" he asked, which I was surprised that he had called me Carmen that didn't happen very often, and when it did it meant that he thought there was something wrong with me.

"Umm . . . yeah," he gave me a look that said; I know you're lying to me. "Or not, it's probably just the lack of sleep getting to me," I said knowing that, that one was actually true we couldn't sleep last night and they weren't going to let us out of our jobs to sleep. Looking at his food also wasn't making me feel good I really needed to look into finding food that I could eat not just give to other people. I wasn't in the mood for the two of us to start any stupid arguing, so I left him to eat and decided I'd just come back and get it later.

"Carmen, I'd walk back quickly Thea's giving out food, but she doesn't have a lot so I would hurry up," my friend Tom that worked with me said with a sweet smile. He was one of the few servants that I would actually voluntarily spend time with.

"Thank you," I replied hurrying back to the main servant area where we normally ate unless we got our food shoved at us at the same time as we got told to do something else. When I got there all that was left was a bread roll, which I suppose was better than nothing. Hopefully these things would be gone soon and then we would be back to normal. I ate the roll too quickly for my own good, because Thea had appeared and she'd want me to have Gwaine's plate which I didn't, so whilst a lot of people were hurrying through the room, I joined the rush so I could get out.

It wasn't a surprise that after being gone for less than ten minutes that Gwaine had already almost finished the food I had given him, how did he eat more than me in less time. "Are you nearly done?" I asked when I stood next to him.

"Umm . . . yes," he slowly replied like I had knocked him out of his train of thought.

"Are you sure?" I said. "I mean not meaning to be ride but I've been giving you like three courses a day for a year and this is the first time you've ever left anything," I pointed at the piece of chicken that was on the side of the plate.

"Present for you sweetheart," he said standing up, giving me a kiss on the cheek and walking away to get changed.

"Are you sure, because it is your food," I replied looking at it. I would be lying if I said I didn't want it, but I knew I wasn't supposed to take the food meant for the knights. I had, had this lecture before, the knights were here to protect us and we therefore shouldn't take any food from them even if they offer it to you. It had only happened a couple times, my brother would make a comment about me not being fed enough and then he would give me some of his food, but then in would walk Thea and she' start screaming not evening listening to my brother when he says that he gave it to me.

"I'm sure," he replied pulling a shirt over his head. I perched on the corner of his bed, and took a bite from the chicken, which tasted so good. I had to stop myself from moaning because I hadn't eaten chicken in a while. It wasn't something we normally got given.

"So what did you find in Drea's village?" I asked once I had finished that bite. The one thing I made sure I did was eat like a properly lady should, as when I was in a hurry I would be a very messy eater.

"Nothing really, it was mainly empty and what we did find was frozen people, which happened here too last night," I nodded my head. "And well the faces that only get repelled by fire."

"Last night was definitely something I'm used to witnessing, but then like Gwen said it is one of the many interesting things that come along with living in Camelot," I said taking another part of chicken.

"Gaius will find out what is causing the problem and then Arthur will stop it," Gwaine said. "You've got nothing to worry about," he smiled at me as I kept eating.

"You know at one point either you or my brother are going to say that to me and then something really bad is going to happen to you, and you'll be thinking why did I never use to take Carmen more seriously," I said after I had finished the chicken.

"You need to stop worrying," Gwaine said sitting down next to me and taking my hand in his. "Leon's been a knight of Camelot for a long time and nothing had ever happened to him."

"Wasn't he telling me the other week that he like died when Cenred's men attacked him when he was on patrol," I said trying not to read too much into the fact that he was holding my hand.

"But he came back from it all," Gwaine replied, apparently he didn't think that I would try and outsmart him and that I would just take what he said.

"Well then, I do hope there are some druids around with the cup of life that they'll you on you," I said with a smile.

"Now that is the semi-positive attitude that I was looking for so well done Carmen," he said with a smile on his face.

"Thanks, I should get back to work before Thea comes looking for me," I said. When what I really wanted to say was something like I would be happy if I never moved again, sat next to him whilst he was holding my hands was definitely something that I liked.

"You probably should, as that lady sometimes frightens me too," he replied with a smile on his face, as he let go of my hands. I picked up the plate and walked out of his room with a smile on my face, I felt like a child with their first crush, it made me feel stupid and I didn't like it.

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