Disclaimer: I don't own "Merlin", though I want it so much. "Merlin" is a TV show which belongs to BBC.

Warnings: SLASH MerlinxArthur

English is not my mother language. I'm sorry for some mistakes.

I know it's not perfect but I'm really trying to do my best. The most important exams in my life are starting 4th May. Anyway, I hope that I'll be able to post the next chapter soon.

My heart will go on

Chapter 10

"The only one"

Arthur was running very fast. There were lots of people around him. They all wanted to be on the deck as soon as possible. The blonde did not. He had to release Merlin first. He was imprisoned in the lower parts of the Titanic. It meant that he was in the greatest danger.

The young man saw frightened people. However their faces didn't mean anything to him. Arthur didn't know them. He never talked with them. In that moment, in the darkest of nights that he had ever seen, only one person mattered. That person had a bit curly dark hair and amazing deep and blue eyes. That man had also a smile which could light half of the world. What was more, Arthur's heart beat so fast when he saw Merlin. The blonde needed that artist just like a fish needs water to live or like a bird needs its wings to fly high.

With Arthur's every step, he was nearer and nearer the man that he probably loved. The young man wasn't sure if he was in love because he had never been in and he didn't know how it felt. But everything said to him that it was love. He even thought that if it wasn't love then the love never really existed.

"Stand it, stand it..." Arthur whispered thinking about Merlin. "You have to live, just have to..."

The blonde recognized the area. He saw water. It reached only his ankles but it didn't stop his heart to beat even faster.

Finally Arthur saw the door that he was looking for. He opened it with one, strong push and ran into the room.

"Arthur?" The blonde heard weak and surprised voice of Merlin. The dark haired boy was glancing at him with disbelief written on his pale face. "What are you doing here? What's going on?" The last question was a bit stupid. Water inside the ship usually means that the ship sank.

"Titanic is going under!" Arthur said after taking a breath. "I don't have time to explain. Where's the key of the handcuffs?!" Merlin was chained to one of the pipes.

"I don't know," the dark haired man said sadly. "Someone took it."

Arthur's blood started running faster inside of his veins. When he was gazing around looking for something what could help him with setting Merlin free, the artist asked him: "Why are you doing this? They said that I'm a thief..."

"I don't believe them," the blonde answered him. "Besides it doesn't matter now."

He came to the wall where an axe was hung.

"Do you trust me?" Arthur asked Merlin, taking the axe.

The dark haired man looked at the tool and then at the blonde's face. Arthur was glancing at him, waiting. Eventually Merlin nodded slowly.

The rich boy came up to him.

"But you know what you're doing, don't you?" the artist asked him.

"I have no choice," the blonde admitted.

"But Arthur..." Their blue eyes met. "First... kiss me," Merlin said a bit shyly.

The blond haired man's nose touched slightly the other's nose. After a very short while their lips met in a sweet and chaste kiss.

"Now do it," Merlin said when they pulled apart.

Arthur touched the handcuffs with a blade of the axe. Then he swung it and made the most difficult move.

The blonde looked at Merlin's hands. They were in one piece. Moreover they were free now. He sighed with relief.

"You did it!" the dark haired boy shouted laughing.

"I did it..." Arthur whispered with disbelief. He hugged the boy tightly. He had been so scared that he could hurt Merlin.

"We should run away," the artist reminded him.

"Right," Arthur said looking at the floor. The water reached almost his knees. "Let's get out of here."

The man held Merlin's hand and pulled him. He thought that everything was going to be alright then. Arthur had safe Merlin by his side and it was the most important thing.

"Thank you," the poorer boy told the richer one when they were found out in the hall. "You've come back for me. You're risking your own life."

"My life would be boring without you!" Arthur screamed because of the noise that water made. Merlin smiled a bit, blushing. "Look out!" The blonde yelled pulling Merlin closer to himself. The boy almost got between the sparks.

"Thanks..." the dark haired boy said again. "You're my... hero."

"Stop complimenting me. We have no time for that kinds of things..." Arthur reminded him but his face lighted with such a proud smile.

They tried to move very fast, even though it was not easy. They were so glad when they saw other people. However when the boys reached them, they realized that they were trapped.

"What's going on?" Arthur asked them.

"They closed the passage," a middle-aged woman told him, crying.

"What?" The blonde could not believe. He pulled Merlin closer to himself instinctively. "Why? They had no rights!"

"But they did," one man told him. "They don't care about us. We're not rich! They think that we're worth nothing!

The woman hugged a child. He was probably ten years old.

"I'm so scared, mummy," he said. "I don't want to die..."

Arthur shook his head. "They can't do that," he stated firmly. "They just can't!"

A few men were jerking the gratings. But it was hopeless.

"Arthur..." Merlin whispered. The blonde looked at his lover. "We can take this and..." Arthur followed his hand. The artist pointed at the bench.

"You're genius..." the blond haired man whispered. "Gentlemen!" he said louder. All people looked at him. "Help me! We can knock that gratings down with the bench!"

Arthur didn't have to say it twice. A few other man pulled the bench out. The rest of people got out of their way.

"One..." the blonde started counting down. "Two... Three!"

They used all their strength to do that one move. And they were successful.

"Get out of here!" one of the men yelled and they all started to running again. They still had a chance to survive that hell on the Earth.

"I've got you," Arthur said holding Merlin's hand. "Don't go away from me."

The dark haired man thought for a few seconds. "I'm not going to." He smiled at the blonde and Arthur returned that smile.

"Good." The youth from the better family had to fight with a sudden urge to kiss Merlin passionately. It was not a time for that kinds of pleasures. He believed that they still could live long lives together.

"We shall be on the deck soon," Merlin said with hope.

He was right. After some time they could see the dark sky above their heads.

"What are we going to do now?" The artist asked Arthur looking directly into his blue eyes.

"We have to find some boat."

"What if we don't?" Merlin asked him. He was scared. Really scared. He just found someone who could be that only one person. The boy didn't want to die so soon. He just once tasted the other man's body. He wanted to taste it over and over again.

"Don't even think that!" Arthur warned him. "We'll survive, Merlin! We will!"

The blonde's words made Merlin feel much better. They calmed him down a bit.

"Say after me that everything will be okay," Arthur ordered him. "Say it out loud!"

"Everything... everything will be okay," the boy said slowly.

"Good boy," Arthur whispered and couldn't help but kissed his lover shortly. "Now let's go!"

They ran, holding their hands, hearing people's cries, feeling the atmosphere of terror. People didn't notice them. If the ship wasn't sinking they could probably look at them oddly whispering about unforgotten sins and the fires of the Hell.

"There's no life boats!" They heard one old women's words. "They were half empty but that rich pigs go away!"

The boys stopped immediately. If it was true their chances to survive were really small. Arthur still remembered captain's words. The help would not come in time.

"We're not going to give up," the blonde reminded Merlin. "We have to check if it's true."

The dark haired boy didn't ask him this time what they would do if the woman was actually right. Merlin didn't really want to die but he was happy that he had a chance to meet Arthur in this life. Even if it was not going to last long, he knew the taste of love. At least he hoped so. He even thought that maybe it was his destiny to show Arthur the other side of life and die with him. Maybe they would be together in afterlife, wherever it was. Because Merlin was sure that there was something. Heaven? Even Hell? With Arthur it didn't matter. Or maybe they would reborn, live as neighbours and one day realize that they had known and loved each other. Merlin was not sure which of the options was his favourite one. It would be enough if Arthur could be by his side.

However the dark haired boy tried to stop thinking that way. They still had a chance for living, didn't they?

The men ran and ran, looking for any live boats. But they couldn't find anything. The old woman had had to be right.

The orchestra was playing all the time.

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