I don't own Merlin. (Sadly.)
This idea has been in my head since last year, about time I wrote it lol. This story will have nine chapters. A chapter a day.
Summary: After leaving Camelot over five years ago Merlin is back when Gaius asks for help, bringing back with him, something no one ever suspected. His five year old daughter.
Warnings: Mpreg. Malexmale...eventually.
I apologise in advance for any mistakes I may have made.
Merlin and Emma walked into the throne room and saw the table covered with food. "Where's Papa?" Emma asked when she saw it was just her and Merlin in the room.
Merlin was about to answer when Emma let go of his hand and went running up to Arthur's throne. She climbed on it and turned and sat down. "Me Queen."
"And a gorgeous Queen you will make."
Merlin turned at the voice and saw Arthur walk in. "I apologize for my lateness I was stopped by Morgana as I was leaving."
"Sorry Papa." Emma made to move when Arthur stopped her.
"You sit there darling between me and your daddy."
Emma smiled and her eyes glowed gold and the table full of food moved closer to her. "I'm ready to eat now."
Both Arthur and Merlin laughed and sat down either side of their daughter, facing each other.
Arthur didn't know why he was so nervous, he really couldn't remember the last time he enjoyed a meal, or laughed so much, after they had eaten all they could, Arthur called in for the servants to deliver the food to the poor and hungry.
"It is what I have always done if there is a lot of food left." he explained when Merlin looked at him.
Arthur looked out of his window from his bed and saw the moon in view, he had walked Merlin and his daughter back to their quarters, he gave his daughter a hug and kiss goodnight and then was surprised when Merlin gave him a long, slow kiss.
Arthur smiled at the memory, he had a big smile on his face all the way back to his chambers, a few servants stared but he found he didn't care. He sat up and shivered a little. He got out of bed, picking up the extra thick blanket and walked out of his chambers to see a knight on guard. "If I should not return and anyone needs me I shall be in Gaius' quarters."
"Yes sire."
Arthur opened the door to Gaius' quarters and saw the physician fast asleep in his bed, he quietly walked past him and up to the room where Merlin and Emma slept and quietly snuck inside. He looked across and saw Emma fast asleep, cuddling up to her dolly, looking across at Merlin he could see the outline of him where he was curled up in a ball, he had no doubt gone to sleep feeling cold.
He walked over and gently tapped Merlin on the shoulder.
"Mm? Arthur? Is everything alright?"
"No."
Merlin sat up a little, checking on Emma before giving his King his full attention. "What's wrong?"
"I woke up a little cold. I come here and find how you were sleeping not only are you more cold than me but you went to sleep cold."
"I did. Emma was already asleep."
"I brought you an extra blanket. You can have it on one condition."
"Which is?"
"I get to share it with you."
Merlin smiled. "Gladly."
Arthur smiled and climbed into the bed, throwing the extra blanket over them and taking Merlin in his arms.
"I thought you said you were cold, you are very warm."
"I was, I am not now."
Merlin smiled and kissed Arthur's clothed chest before resting his head there. "Night Arthur."
"Night Merlin."
Emma woke up and clutched her dolly tightly to her she stood up and moved over to her daddy's bed and was about to get in with him to snuggle down when she saw that her daddy was already snuggled up to her Papa. Both of them sleeping soundly, her daddy in Papa's arms.
She left the room and saw Gaius turn over in his sleep and mumble something, she shook her head and walked to the door, opening it as quietly as possible, she walked out and down the corridor before seeing a knight.
"Hello Princess." he said, kneeling down to her level. "What has you up this time of night?"
"Want to see 'Gana. Will you take me please?"
The knight, George, smiled and picked her up. "Of course I can." he said, smiling when Emma rested her head on his shoulder. When they got there five minutes later Emma smiled and kissed George's cheek. "Thank you." she smiled before walking into Morgana's chambers.
When the door was closed, George started to make his way back to Gaius' quarters in case Merlin and Arthur woke up and panicked when they see their daughter gone.
Emma walked up to the bed and shook Morgana on the arm. "'Gana."
"Emma? What's wrong sweetie?"
"Woke up cold. No room in daddy's bed."
Morgana sat up carefully so she didn't wake Leon. "There isn't?"
"No. Papa is in there. He must been cold like me."
Morgana smiled. "He must have been. Come on, you can snuggle between me and Leon. Nice and warm."
Emma beamed and climbed up on the bed and got in the middle. Morgana laid back down when Leon turned over and put his arm across them both.
"I'll take you back in the morning sweetie."
"Okay." Emma sleepily answered.
Merlin and Arthur woke up when they felt someone shaking their feet. Arthur moaned and buried his face deeper into the back of Merlin's neck who started to laugh. "Arthur that tickles." he said as he squirmed a little.
"Don't laugh so loud, you will wake Emma." Arthur whispered.
"She won't be up yet Arthur." Merlin turned over to face Arthur and saw Morgana stood at the bottom of his bed. "Morning Morgana." he said as he moved to kiss Arthur.
"Morgana!" Arthur said, turning to look at the bottom of the bed where he saw his sister with a smile on her face.
"Missing something?" she asked.
"No. I don't think so."
"Let me rephrase that question. Missing someone?"
Merlin sat up along with Arthur, both of them looking to see Emma's bed empty. "Where is she?" Arthur asked.
"Here Papa." Emma answered, stepping out from behind Morgana. "I was cold and you were in my place so I went to 'Gana."
Arthur threw the covers back and got out of bed and picked his daughter up. "That's it. Merlin pack up yours and Emma's things. You are both moving into my chambers. Well, you are Merlin; Emma can have the chamber next to ours. It will be a lot warmer and better for her, and for us."
"You said you came to me because you were cold." Merlin stated.
"Yeah well, I just said that to get in with you."
"But I need to be here in case there is an emergency."
"I will post a knight outside every night. If there is an emergency then he can come and get you."
"I will have a room to myself Papa?"
"You will darling. Just like Morgana's chambers."
"I get a big bed like 'Gana's all to me?"
"Yes you will."
Merlin laughed. "She will look lost in a bed that big all to herself."
"I get curtains around bed?"
"Yes darling." Arthur answered.
Gaius woke up and sat up in bed, his eyes widening when he saw Morgana come out of Merlin's room followed by Merlin and then Arthur who was carrying Emma who was smiling.
"Morning Gaius."
"Something happen?" the physician asked.
"Arthur came to me in the night; Emma woke up and went to Morgana."
"No room in daddy's bed. You were sleep talking. That would wake me so I went to 'Gana." Emma said.
"Where people walk in their sleep Gaius she knows that is sleepwalking and if someone talks in their sleep she calls it sleep talking." Merlin explained when he saw the look of confusion on the old man's face.
"Gaius Emma and Merlin will be moving in with me, well, Merlin will, Emma will have the chambers next to ours. I will be posting a knight outside your quarters every night. In fact I will post two. Then if there is an emergency, one knight can help and assist you all he can whilst the other goes to get Merlin." Arthur explained.
"Thank you sire. I was going to try and mention something to Merlin today as it is a bit cold in here for Emma."
After they had had breakfast Merlin let Emma go and play with her friend Charlie as his mum assured him she will be fine. Merlin started to pack up all of their things and move them into their new chambers. A smile on his face all the while.
He knew he and Arthur were to take it slow and they were going to, but this arrangement with their daughter next door was better for all of them, better for Merlin as he could finally spend night after night in the arms of the man he loves and for Emma who for the first time in her life finally had her own room.
Emma was trying to count whilst Charlie hid and saw that not too far away there were some bigger kids on the training field playing, a smile appeared on her face when an idea came to her. She turned and ran into the house and up to Charlie's mum.
"Everything okay Emma?"
"Hair in way." she said, tugging at her long blonde locks.
Emily smiled and tied her hair back, twirling it up and around so it sat in a bun at the back of her head. "There you go."
"Thank you." she said, smiling before running back outside.
"Why didn't you look?" Charlie asked.
"I have idea, want to play somewhere else?"
"Where?"
Emma lifted her arm up and Charlie following her line he saw the training field with some bigger kids on that were playing.
"Girls not allowed to play with toy swords."
Emma stood close to her friend. "We same size. Where your clothes?"
An hour later Merlin knocked on Emily's door. "Hey Emily. Thank you for having Emma. Where are they?"
"They are drawing in Charlie's room."
Merlin smiled and walked into Charlie's room to see it empty, his daughter's dress on a chair, some of Charlie's clothes scattered on the bed. "Emma Pendragon." he murmured as he quickly left the house. He stopped to think where his daughter would go wearing boy's clothes when he heard a squeal of laughter, an all too familiar squeal of laughter.
He turned towards the training field and among all the kids there playing he saw two smaller kids laughing and jumping about. With a smile on his face he turned towards the castle.
Arthur had just finished signing an agreement that he looked over when the doors opened and Merlin walked in. "Merlin. You moved in?"
"Yes. All unpacked."
"Oh good. I got Morgana's seamstress making Emma a dress."
"You better hope she likes it."
"What do you mean?"
"My mother has made her dresses, I have saved money for certain fabric to make her ones of better material but unless she has picked it and told you what she wants herself she doesn't often bother. She likes some of the dresses you make her but seven times out of ten she doesn't."
"Like me again like that then."
"Yes. Speaking of our daughter do you want to go and see her? She is playing with her friend Charlie."
"Of course. I have just finished here. Let's go and see our darling girl."
"You won't be saying that when you have seen her." Merlin mumbled as he started to walk faster to catch up with Arthur.
When they reached Emily's house Merlin stopped Arthur from knocking on the door. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, it's just that, Charlie isn't in there."
"Then where is he?"
"On the training field."
Arthur looked towards the training field and saw two small boys playing. "I thought you said Emma was with Charlie, from the looks of it he is playing with another boy."
"Um Arthur. That's not a boy he is playing with, that is a girl in Charlie's clothes."
"You mean that's our -?"
"Yes Arthur."
"No! Our daughter is a Princess she does not play with swords, she does not play boys games, she does not step foot onto that training field without adults and most certainly does not wear BOYS CLOTHES!" he yelled as he hurried on over to the training field, Merlin running to keep up with him.
"Emma Pendragon!"
Emma dropped her small wooden sword and turned to see her parents getting closer. "Uh oh."
When Arthur and Merlin stopped in front of her, Emma put on her brightest smile and looked up. "Hello Papa, daddy. We are playing."
"I can see what you are doing." Arthur said as he knelt down. "You are Princess darling you shouldn't be doing things like this, dressing up in boys clothes, your hair pulled tight back like that, playing with swords."
"Hide and seek was boring."
"Then you find something else to do, not this you could have gotten hurt, yes they are wooden swords but you can still hurt yourself. Darling I couldn't bear that to happen."
Emma's eyes filled with tears. "I wanted to show you I can be brave like you." she cried.
Arthur moved forwards and hugged his daughter close to him. "Don't cry darling, I am not mad. I know you are brave, you don't have to do this to show me that you are you gorgeous girl. Come on now, Papa doesn't like to see your tears."
Behind Arthur Merlin was looking down at his daughter, shaking his head as she was giving him a cheeky smile. Arthur had fallen for it.
"Arthur pull back and look at your daughter."
Arthur did as Merlin said and saw that the tears his daughter had were no longer there and she had a cheeky smile on her face. "You -" Arthur stood up. "She has been spending too much time with my sister." he said, looking at Merlin whilst pointing at his daughter.
"Arthur Emma has always been like this, me and my mother used to fall for it but we now know better."
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Chapter nine up tomorrow :D
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