Title: It Is All Your Fault
Author: RomaMarufixx
Rating: M
Pairing: Fem!Merlin/Arthur
Summary: Merlin and Arthur have been married for 10 years and have three children together, Charlotte, 8, Alyssa, 6 and Isabel, 3. When Merlin suffers a miscarriage with her fourth child she is sent on a deep emotional turmoil, and it is later found out there is more to the miscarriage than everyone thinks. Fem!Merlin, Arthur/Fem!Merlin.
Word count: 871
Disclaimer: Merlin belongs to the BBC.
5 Years On...
Arthur and Merlin were getting on in age and needed to make plans in case anything happened to them. The first topic on their minds was who was going to take the throne once both Merlin and Arthur had passed away.
They first talked about their son taking the throne, as in tradition, but they themselves were not very tradition, so decided to asked their eldest, Charlotte, what she thought on the matter.
"No thanks." she smiled, lifting her third and youngest child, Olivia, to her hip and walking to the other side of her chambers.
"Why not?" Merlin asked her eldest daughter.
"I wouldn't be a very young Queen and I'm thrusting the throne onto my children as well, I don't want them to rule over a kingdom." Charlotte said and Merlin nodded.
"Of course, I understand, well I guess I'll have to asked Alyssa next, although she might give me the same answer that you gave me." Merlin sighed.
"She might, she might not or she might just want some time to think about it." her daughter said and she nodded.
"Well, I have three other children I can ask if she says no, I just want some safety for the kingdom as I don't know how much longer I have, or your father for that matter."
"Mother, you're hardly old, you've got another twenty years at least. How about you leave the throne to one of your grandchildren, then you can guarantee that they will rule over Camelot for a very long time."
"What do you mean?"
"By the time you and father past away, we'll all be in our fifties, forties and thirties, whereas our children will all be coming of age."
"That does sound like a good idea, but a lot of responsibility for someone so young." Merlin said.
"Father was king at a young age though wasn't he?"
"Late twenties, so, I guess so." Merlin said.
"Well you've got an answer there, but I still think that you should talk with Alyssa about it, you never know she might want to take the throne and become the Queen of Camelot."
"I will talk to her, thank you Charlotte."
"You're welcome mother."
"What?" Alyssa exclaimed, a shocked expression covering her face.
"I was wondering if you had any thoughts on taking the throne of Camelot?" she repeated her early question.
"Why? Are you ill?" she asked panicked.
"No, no, I'm fine."
"Is father ill?" she asked, still panicked.
"No, no! Nobody is ill!"
"Oh, good, so, why are you asking me this?"
"We just want to make sure we have a chosen heir for when we pass on, Charlotte doesn't want to take the throne, so I'm asking you, as my second oldest."
"I don't know mother..."
"You don't have to say yes if you don't want to sweetheart."
"Just give me some time to think about it...please?"
"Of course, take as long as you want and then come and find me when you've made your decision."
Only an hour later did Alyssa summon her sisters Charlotte and Isabel to her chambers and when hey entered they were both very worried.
"Alyssa, are you okay?" Charlotte said as she walked in, concerned for her younger sister.
"Yes I'm fine I just wanted to talk to you two about something." she said.
"And what would that be?" Asked Isabel.
"Well mother and father are picking which one of us is going to take the throne after they pass, and I know that Charlotte has turned it down and I don't know if I should or not...Isabel...if I turned it down, would you take it up or turn out down as well?"
"To be honest with you, I would turn it down, I think that the person that should take the throne from mother and father should be Aaron." Isabel spoke. "He'd be in his thirties, one of the youngest and at that age he has much to teach and much to learn, he'd be a great king and he is already a great warrior, we hardly know anything about war and fighting, we're good at magic, whereas Aaron is good at both."
"I think we have an answer then." Charlotte said. "We best tell mother."
"Guards!" Princess Alyssa shouted out.
"Yes, princess?"
"Would you please fetch my mother for me, me and my sisters wish to talk to her."
"Of course ma'am."
"Thank you." she said.
Not more than a few minutes after they had sent the guard to fetch their mother, he was back with her.
"Alyssa, you ask to see me- oh, hello Charlotte, Isabel." their mother said catching sight of her three daughters.
"Mother we wanted to talk to you about who's taking the throne when you and father pass." Isabel said.
"Yes, and?" Merlin prompted.
"We think it would be best if Aaron took the throne." Merlin nodded.
"If that is what you want, thank you girls."
The three daughters smiled at their mother, happy that she was so and that they wouldn't have to be Queen. They knew they wouldn't be as good rulers as their little brother would be.
