Roses Growing In The Shadows
If I Told You I Love You, Would You Believe Me?
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Schools out for the day ='s No more teachers and no more books… Total freedom! XD until tomorrow any way hahah :D Um well this is what I do in some of my spare time, which is quite fun and awesome :D anyways that's enough of my rambling here's your chapter :D
Gwain forced himself to a stop see his love in the arms of another but it wasn't as it looked… the hug was purely innocent but from what Gwain had heard, he didn't perceive it that way. Gwen lifted her head from the tight hug seeing Gwain in tears walking of look although he was hurt. She pushed Merlin her crying friend and ran after the love of her life "GWAIN! WAIT!" She yelled chasing after him, he didn't stop; he had nothing to say to her, she wasn't being faithful or so it seemed and that's all he had ever asked of her.
He sighed putting his hand threw his hair, how could she! I knew I shouldn't have trusted her or anyone for that matter, arghhh and Merlin he was supposed to be my friend! He thought speeding up his pace to avoid Gwen from catching up to him. Gwen grabbed the bottom of her ragged dress and ran as fast as she could after him finally catching up to him she grabbed him forcing him to stop. She was out of breath though so it was pretty useless. She puffed and Gwain snorted then asked, "So how long have you and Merlin been going on?"
Out of breath Gwen shook her head then struggled to get out "There is no me and Merlin."
Gwain shook his head "Come on Gwen; you need to do better than that, I heard you and you're right it's not always going to be this hard because you won't have to worry about me anymore!" he said putting an end to their relationship. He walked off before she had a chance to say anything, she put her hand to her head and walked pass Merlin back towards home.
"You alright Gwen? Merlin asked as she walked passed.
"Look Merlin, I think its best we keep our distance from each other from now on!" She demanded storming off.
Merlin had no idea what he had done wrong; but as usual he had done something wrong. He sighed this time couldn't get any worse he wasn't coping with the loss of Gaius, he couldn't stay there anymore but had to, his friend Arthur was too busy for him and now Gwen was mad at him. He let out a sigh then dragged himself to his room each item brought back memories, why did it have to be so hard? Unsure of the answer he laid down and closed his aching eyes; he drifted swiftly into a sleep although you could hardly call it that more like a nightmare. "Merlin, you did this to me!" Gaius yelled, his face covered in blood then flames coming around him. "Gaius no I ne-never meant for this to happen!" Merlin yelled trying to run through the flames in between him and Gaius.
The door hinges made a noise as it opened; waking Merlin from his nightmare, he screamed.
"Merlin, its ok its only me." Arthur said running in his room to make sure his friend was ok.
Merlin felted stupid how embarrassing, what was he meant to say? oh sorry Arthur I was just having dreams about Gaius blaming me for his death and I deserved it which was what Merlin thought, I think not merlin thought to himself.
"You want to talk about it?" Arthur asked, "Venting will help you to feel a bit better." He finished.
Merlin sighed running his fingers through his hair and he rubbed his green eyes then yawned.
"No I don't really want to talk about it, but where did you get off to yesterday after the funereal?" he asked.
"Nowhere important." Arthur lied; yes it was important he was with Morgause!
Merlin shook his head, "Don't lie, I seen you head off with Morgause." He said sitting down at the wretched old decomposing stained table.
Arthur lifted his brow; I didn't think anyone had seen. He nodded; it was true he did head off with Morgause after the funereal.
"So what happened?" Merlin asked, trying to get his mind of Gaius.
"Nothing…" Arthur replied coldly.
"Sounds like someone got the blow off." Merlin snickered.
"That's enough Merlin…" Arthur remarked with a tear in his saddened green eyes.
Merlin felt horrible, he was just kidding he had no idea Arthur felt this strongly about Morgause and he couldn't let him feel this way about such an evil source of power which was sure to dispose of Arthur after she had no longer use for him.
"I'm sorry Arthur… But maybe it was for the best." Merlin said fiddling with the wretched old wooden table.
-Arthur shook his head- No, it wasn't she was more than a crush… "I know this sounds stupid because we had only known each other a couple of days…. But Merlin do you believe in love at first sight?"
Merlin laughed.
"Merlin it's not funny!" Arthur said angrily.
"I know, but it sounded like you were coming on to me…" he snickered.
Arthur had to laugh at that, Merlin thought so weirdly sometimes…
Arthur fixed his hair up with his hand and nodded in approval that his hair was now looking up to standards.
Carefully gazing over at the broken vase he asked, "So merlin how exactly did Gaius die?"
Merlin swallowed, "In pain I would imagine." He said looking at his feet feeling a tear run down his cold cheek.
"You imagine? I thought you said you were with him at the time of his disease." Arthur stated in a rather interrogating tone.
Merlin lifted his tear filled green eyes from his shoes and lifted his head to then say. "Yes I was there."
"Well, what he die of? His body looked like it took a fair beating." Arthur was starting to get suspicious, Maybe Merlin did do it. He thought.
"You think I killed him don't you!" Merlin asked angrily.
Arthur hesitated to answer "umm." He said briefly fiddling with his hair, what am I meant to say? Yes merlin I think you killed Gaius he thought.
A/N: The ninth chapter! :D number 10 here I come I'm sure looking forward to writing you number ten (you're a milestone XD) woo! So happy to finally be up to number 10! Thanks to my readers and most importantly the REVIEWERS :D Hope you are liking my fanfiction so far (please continue to review it's absolutely awesome and I enjoy hearing your opinions about the fanfic) I could ramble on more but I won't anyway thanks for reading please REVIEW XD and let me know what you think and if you like some random things I write such as Merlin and Arthur in the pink pjs in chapter umm…. I can't remember which chapter it was lol but anyways please let me know, thank you muchly.
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