Hey there everyone, so glad you could on me with this little journey, this is the last chapter of this story. :( I have had such a fun time on our short adventure and I hope you have too, I have plans for a sequel so keep a weather eye on the horizon.

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My, the air was fresh today, it burned with a slow chill down my windpipe but it was a satisfying burn. The type that made you feel glad to be alive, to savour that moment. Until of course you trip on a small rock and twist your ankle, I paused cursing and after flexing it a few times carried on my way, pulling my pack strings just a little tighter.

The knights were all gathered in the armoury, they were sorting their armour and chatting nonchalantly. Gwaine skulked gloomily in the corner, he didn't want to join in their childish talks, everything brought him pain, the fierce ache in his chest was enough to dampen any form of feeling other then that of great pain, he had had slices and stitches and various burns and wounds but nothing compared to this.

The knight's talk soon changed tone and even Gwaine in his stupor noticed the change in the air, it was more subdued, sombre even. They were all reminiscing about someone or something, Gwaine hadn't the heart to listen in; his was somewhere up in one of the keeps, fritting her life away with someone else. A bitter taste came to his mouth as he thought of this, he wanted to be sick, he was sick with love, he shuddered a little and wrapped his arms around himself, shrugging off the feeling.

A sudden movement out of the corner of his eye caught him off guard before Gwen collided with him, she was crying heartily, Arthur too came through the doorway soon afterwards, his face pale and drawn. He looked at Gwaine and apologised, looking dead at him, "I cannot know what you are feeling, nor would I wish it upon any enemy, to have to loose the one they love in such a manner, you are truly the bravest man I know" he nodded his head again in recognition. "Men, one of our own, one of Camelot's own has done such a brave deed for all our people, she has gone back into the hands of her former captor without question for all our sakes, I cannot say how much it pains my heart to watch it happen, I wish with all my heart that it wasn't so, that we had been able to do more to save her but it was her wish to do so and I think we should all honour her now, our friend, and lest not her sacrifice be in vain, gone though she is from our lives, she will never be gone from our hearts, to Em" Gwen's tears ran silent now as she joined in with Arthur, saying that name in recognition. As all the surrounding knights bowed their heads and echoed her name Gwaine finally came to his senses. Without a word, he fled the room and top speed, straight to the nearest window and all through the lower town could they hear him crying her name with such a force that many ran to see the cause for alarm. Catching sight of a lone figure in the field not far from Camelot's walls he fled, his love giving him wings of speed that he didn't know he could possess, screaming out to her as he ran.

I was nearly two thirds of the way across the fields before I heard his call. I felt that I was dreaming and shook my head, pinching my arm to try and wake myself up. But the voice still called, it was not a terrible voice that taunted me as I edged towards my doom but a voice that had called my name so many times before, a voice that I would do anything for but not today. I could hear the desperation in his tone, I feel my heart calling out to him, telling me to turn and run right into his arms and that he would make everything alright but that wasn't my task. I squared my shoulders, reminding myself I had a job to do and took another step forward, but it was just the one. I faltered again teetering upon the edge but I wasn't waiting long for he soon caught me up. His hand placed upon my shoulder as he braced himself, his breath coming in such gasps that it was hard to make it all out. I questioned him and then turned to leave, telling him I must go, that I shouldn't stay no matter how much I wanted to be with him forever. "You want to be with my forever?" He asked his brow furrowed

"Of course I do, it's all I've ever wanted since we first met, how could I ever want anything else when I had you in my life but I – I- I can't, We can't" Tears spilt over so fast that I didn't even know they were there. "If I stay we'll all die but if I go, you have to chance to be happy-"

"How can I be happy knowing you're not, how can I be happy knowing that you're not here with me, how can I-"

"-because you have to, you have a chance to move on-"

"- but I don't want to move on-"

"-to live a full life-"

"-life is only full with you in it-"

"-to settle down, have a house-"

"- I don't want a house without you-"

"-and children and a, and a-"

"-and a…?"

"Wife."

"Then marry me-"

"-What?"

"Marry me, right here, right now, I'll even get down on bended knee if you want" There was that cocky grin. The grin I couldn't resist, the one that reached all the way up to the corner of the bottomless pits they called eyes, they sucked you in with a single glance and never let you out again, so full of hope, how could I ever leave him. I closed my eyes just for a moment and an image flashed through before them, that image gave me the answer I needed. I embraced him tightly, breathing him in. "I love you Gwaine, don't ever forget that, if things were different I would say yes within a heartbeat but today I have to think of others, sometimes-" And sharply I brought my knee up to his groin and he fell to the floor in tears curled up nursing himself. "Sometimes I have to do what's right for everybody, I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry" and with tears streaming from my eyes I set off at a dead sprint towards my fathers army. Sometimes you do really have to do what's right, even if it's not right for you, it can be right for a lot more people then you might think.