A/N—OK SO I KNOW THAT I SAID I WAS GOING TO UPDATE OVER THE WEEKEND, BUT I HAD A SPONTANIOUS WEEKEND HOLIDAY TO FRANCE FROM FRIDAY TO TODAY.
MY DAD DECIDED HE WANTED TO GO AWAY SO WE DID.
BUT IM ONLY A FEW DAYS LATE UPDATING AT LEAST.

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Chapter 8

Merlin put his head back to rest against the wall behind him and breathed out another laugh. He felt a little better knowing Gwaine was now... Wait Gwaine was here, in the cell and is probably going to get tortured as well. Great, Merlin couldn't even save himself and now he had to save Gwaine. He opened his eyes and tried to smile over at Gwaine, who was now even more worried because merlin was deathly pale and hadn't replied to him. He could see the dried blood and scabs that littered his friends' upper body, He made a promise to himself in that second that he would make morgana pay for what she had done; he would make her beg for death.

"I'll be fine" Merlin's voice was rough and when he talked his throat felt like it was on fire. Gwaine just looked at him like he was stupid.

"Merlin, you're clearly not alright, you look like death itself"

Merlin closed his eyes trying to focus on anything but the burn in his throat "I fell like death as well but it won't stop them" he stopped to take a few breaths, he was trying to think about cleaning Arthurs armour or socks and even mucking out the stables but nothing was working . "Morgana will be back soon to start it all over again."

"Then we need to find a way out and fast" he stared to pull at the chains round his wrist, looking closely at them to see if there was a way to brake them apart. While he did this merlin was slowly falling back to sleep, if he could have he would have helped Gwaine but he still couldn't feel his fingers. His whole body was starting to go numb as he fell asleep.

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Gwaine tried for an hour to pick and pull at the chains he even tried biting them off. (He did stop a few times to check that merlin was still alive, he seemed to be getting paler each time Gwaine looked at him). He tried shouting for the guards to let them out but they pretended not to hear him; he was surprised that he hadn't awakened Merlin yet. Gwaine finally got tired after nearly half an hour of shouting death threats.
Before he could fall asleep he heard someone walking up to the cell, he braced himself ready to fight off morgana or her guards. What he didn't expect was a young servant boy walking into the cell and going straight over to merlin, he pulled a small bottle of liquid out of his pocket (he hadn't even notice Gwaine was in the cell until he spoke).

"Stay away from him" when the boy heard, he almost jumped out of his skin. He turned around to see Gwaine chained not that far away from Merlin. But trying to ignore him, the boy turned back to kneel next to Merlin. "I said stay away from him" he saw the boy pull out the stopper on the bottle and started to thrash against the chains. "What are you doing to him? Sto..." he nearly shouted the last bit but the boy spun around and clamped his hand over his mouth.

"I am trying to save him, so shut up before I make you. We don't want the guards to hear, if they do all of us will die and I won't let that happen to him" he stared at Gwaine until he gave in and nodded then slowly removed his hand away. He turned again to Merlin and started to pour the clear liquid into his mouth forcing him to swallow it all.

"Who are you? What did you give him?" Gwaine stared at the back of his head where he leaned over Merlin.

"I am Zuri and I mean no harm to you or to merlin, I gave him something that has protected him from morgana for this long. And as long as he drinks it every three days it will carry on to protect him" he turns to look at Gwaine "you must not tell him what has happened tonight or of what I have given him, he will find out in his own time" his face turns even more serious at his next words and Gwaine couldn't understand why. "You cannot let him die no matter what the cost, Merlin must live" and with that Zuri left the cell and walked away.

Gwaine sat there in shock; some kid had just walked into the cells and maybe have told the truth that he was trying to help .But if he was wouldn't have one of the guards seen him and stopped him from coming into the cells? But if he had lied then he may have just poisoned his best friend, which could be slowly killing him or weakening him, ready for morgana or morgause to harm him again. He had no choice but to tell merlin when he wakes up. He might know what's going on.

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