Finding Emrys

Chapter Nine – The Plan


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Author's Notes:

menolikee and Cassy27 : Thank you very much for the helpful reviews.

Usually I switch between character POVs regularly but I thought I should put a little more Arthur in before moving on to Merlin. Anyway, when I was writing this I found it kinda hard to write for Merlin so I just did Arthur instead. (Lazy me always likes to take the easy way out...)

I know that this chapter is ridiculously short but I haven't really had time for anything except class this week. However, I will update at least twice over the weekend to try and make up for the long wait and the short chapter.

Enjoy!


Arthur's POV

Arthur sat there, thinking. "If I'm going to find this guy I'm going to have to be careful, not only because I don't want Emrys to know about the search but also because if Uther finds out he will go crazy and ruin everything." He was stumped, his father kept too close an eye on him, and he had too many responsibilities and duties to take care of everyday. He couldn't just drop everything and scour the castle for an extremely powerful sorcerer who he had no idea what looked like.

"Well, how do you propose to start this grand search of yours?" Merlin really wasn't helping, that boy was such and idiot at times. "It sounds like a lost cause to me."

"Merlin?"

"What?"

"Shut up." Arthur really needed to think, without Merlin offering pointless advice. How was he going to search and appear to not search at the same time? "Damn, this is impossible!" He threw a pillow at the nearest target, Merlin. Merlin... "Aha! I've got it, I'm not going to do the searching, you are!" He said triumphantly.

"Me?" Merlin's eyes were almost bulging out of their sockets. "You want me to look for Emrys? All on my own?"

"Geeze Merlin, don't be such an idiot. The sorcerer doesn't even know I told you about him." He rolled his eyes at the terrified look on Merlin's face. "And don't be ridiculous, you're not going to be doing it alone, I'm in charge of the search, you'll just be helping." Arthur couldn't help congratulating himself, this really was the perfect plan; Merlin would snoop around, as only a servant can, and Arthur would follow up on anything he found, Arthur would also keep his eyes open for anything suspicious. He was a genius, he really was.

"And you expect that to work? Emrys is the most powerful sorcerer in the world, or so it sounds, do you really think finding him will be that easy?" Merlin was talking as if Arthur was stupid.

"Merlin, you may be an imbecile but you will be helping me with this search and I expect you to at least find some useful information. Oh, and you won't be telling anyone about what we are doing, not even Gaius. You're the only other person who knows about Emrys and I plan on keeping it that was. Now go snoop or spy or whatever you want to call it, just bring me something helpful this evening. Merlin was still standing there looking incredulous. "Well, what are you waiting for? Go!" He leaned back with a sigh. "Oh, and Merlin..."

"What?"

"I need you to do my laundry, scrub this floor, get rid of these disgusting clothes, muck my stables and polish my boots."


Author's Notes:

I hope you liked the chapter despite its absymal length, I promise the next one will be longer.

Reviews are always appreciated and are great motivators.