Merlin found himself in Ealdor three days later. Smiling he dismounted Arthur's horse and tethered it with the other horses before nervously making his way to his mother's doorway where he hesitated for he was not sure how she would welcome him now that he had gotten knocked up by the prince or how he was going to explain any of this to her.

Taking a deep breath he opens the door and walks in. "Mom?" Merlin called out to her.

"Merlin what on earth are you doing here?" Hunith asked confused hurrying to him quietly. "Did somebody discover your magic?" she asked worriedly.

"Well yes and NO!" he mumbled awkwardly "Arthur knows about it but that's not why I'm here, Arthur won't turn me in, you see he and I have been secretly dating each other for a while now, and that is the reason I am here, it's just temporary though."

Hunith looked at her young warlock son thoughtfully before prying "what happened?"

Merlin blushed "something I hadn't known was possible until it happened. I got pregnant!"

Hunith sat down on a handmade wooden stool in shock "But how is that possible? You're both men!"

"That was my thought to when Gauis first tested me for it, but according to him Male sorcerers can get pregnant which is why I came home, if Uther found out about it, he would link it automatically to sorcerey." Merlin explained.

Hunith and Merlin sat in silence for several long minutes before he saw a smile go across her face. "So Im finally going to get a Grandchild, I bet having Arthur for a father, my grandchild is going to be very cute. And you know you are always welcome to come home and you can stay as long as you need to."

Merlin smiled back and placed a small hand over his waist where the baby lay nestled inside him.

Hunith gets up after a bit and starts cooking.

"after that long ride I'm sure you've got to be hungry." She says cheerfully.

He just nodded and just leaned back in his chair to rest a little trying to calm the kicking baby inside him.

Not to long after a bowl of hot steamy soup was sitting in front of him and he made quick work of empting it into his stomach.

He put about four bowls of the soup into his stomach before finally retiring to bed for the night exhausted from the journey home and from the pregnancy.

That night as he lay sleeping his thoughts traveled back to Arthur and he smiled in his sleep. The image curving his hunger for him for at least a little while, but even with the dreams he knew it wasnt enough, he hoped the months would go by fast so that he coud return back to Arthur's side.

Eventually he was woken up in the middle of the night by nasea and was forced to get out of bed to go outside to puke into the buses so as to not wake up his mother.

When he went back to his bed he found that he could not go back to sleep so he got up and headed out into the woods intending to gather some things for breakfast in the morning.

He used a small amount of magic to turn a pile of wood that had fallen from the trees into a basket which he filled to the brim with blue berries, which took longer then it should have since about every so often some of the berries would find their way into his stomach and to the growing baby instead of the basket.

By the time he had put together another basket which he had filled with strawberries Dawn had decided to rear it's ugly head, and Merlin was truly exhausted. Setting the berries onto the counter for his mother to find he took himself back to bed for a little while.