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Chapter 10

New arrivals

It had been three weeks since Gwen and Serena sent that fake love letter to lady Vivian and two weeks and 5 days since Serena's 'grounding' had been relinquished. Nothing much had happened over the last few weeks. Arianne had been acting awkward around Lancelot and both Gwen and Serena had their suspicions. Then there was Essie and Gawain who couldn't be getting along better. It had become a routine for Essie to join Gawain on his rounds around the kingdom where they would talk to their hearts content.

Arthur was happy for his knight and Essie, but he couldn't stop thinking about the constant giggling that came from Serena and Gwen whenever they caught sight of him it was really starting to freak him out.

"Good morning sunshine" Merlin shouted joyfully as he threw open the curtains in Arthurs chamber.

"Go away Merlin" Arthur groaned and pulled his bed sheets over his head.

Merlin quickly thought of a solution to get him out of bed.

"Oh hi Gwen" Merlin said cheerfully causing Arthur to jump out of Bed and land heavily on the floor with a thud.

"Ow!" Arthur turned to glare to Merlin seeing that Gwen was not in the room."Merlin!" He shouted.

Merlin moved over to the table and pulled out a chair for Arthur. He bowed mockingly. "Yes Sire?"

"God, Merlin you're such an idiot" Arthur stated as he sat on the solid wood chair. "When will be Sir Morgan be arriving?" He asked.

"This week I think, Why?" Merlin grinned already guessing what the reason was.

"Serena and Gwen are up to something and I am not sure what" Arthur got a faraway look in his eye that soon disappeared as he heard a clatter of metal on the floor. "Have you spoken to Serena at all in the last three weeks?" He asked curiously trying to get a rise out of him.

"No" Merlin looked down with a sheepish smile. It was true he hadn't spoken to her at all for since she got attacked. It had nothing to do with what she had told him, as he often spoke to Essie and Arianne but when he saw her she was never on her own. As Arthur had noticed, she was often with Gwen giggling about something or other. He suspected she knew the true reason as to why Sir Morgan was coming and was plotting revenge. He hoped and prayed that whatever they were planning had nothing to do with him.

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Arthur, Merlin, Uther, Gwen, Serena, Arianne and Essie were all in the courtyard having had a letter saying that today would arrive Sir Morgan.

Serena whispered to Gwen "Lady Vivian is arriving today as well"

Gwen giggled and whispered back to her " Make sure to keep your eye on Arthur, this is going to be hysterical"

They all watched as a young man made his way on horseback with a single knight at his side into the courtyard.

Serena jaw dropped as Arthur introduced Sir Morgan to everyone. She turned to see that her friends were all in the same shock.

Sir Colin Morgan stood in front of the crowd with a straight back and lazy grin that he kept flashing at the young lady that stood in front of him with long curly brown hair and creamy skin. After formally introducing himself he walked up to the girl and brought his hand to her lips making her giggle.

"And your name?" he asked charmingly. At this Serena got back her wits and decided to have a bit of fun.

"Lady Serena" She smiled back at him.

"It is a pleasure my lady" he grinned and let her hand fall before walking over to Uther.

"Maybe Arthur inviting Sir Morgan" Gwen said as she waved her hand over to Melrin who didn't look too pleased at the man's forwardness. " wasn't such a bad idea". Serena giggled and waved at Merlin.

"maybe you're right" She Gwen had just turned when they heard a happy cry. There faces split into grins.

"My love" Came shrill voice as a young woman leapt of her horse and ran at Arthur. " how I have missed you"

"Vivian" came Arthur's shocked reply as the she flung her arms around him. From the corner of his eye he saw four girls burst out laughing, too which he threw a glare. Seeing Serena's smirk he knew immediately who had invited Lady Vivian.

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"I'm going to kill them" Arthur ranted at a smirking Merlin, who found the whole situation quite hilarious.

"You have to admit it was a good idea for revenge though" Merlin laughed. Arthur looked curiously at Merlin until it finally clicked. The girls must have thought this was a prank for Serena, Arthur mused over this and burst out laughing to which he got a funny look.

"They think I was doing this against Serena" He managed to choke out. Arthur found this particularly funny due to the fact that the victim of this prank was not Serena, but Merlin himself. He rembered how he had first come up with the plan.

##FLASHBACK##

"Operation get Colin Morgan?" Lancelot said with a tone of disbelief.

"Yep, you should have seen Merlin's face when he found out Serena liked someone else" Arthur laughed at the memory and was soon joined by Lancelot. "He doesn't even know why he was angry" Arthur stated.

"Well we going to have to do something about that" Lancelot smirked and watched as Gawain entered the room and they all started plotting.

"hang on, this plan sounds like something girls would do?" Arthur stated horrified.

"Oh, it is does!" Gawain said in the same horrified voice.

"Yeah but when you squint it just a prank to annoy Merlin and maybe even Serena" Lancelot smirked and soon the other too did as well and decided Lance was right, it wasn't totally girly.

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Arthur couldn't help but think about how oblivious Merlin must be. But then his mind wondered to the reaction Colin Morgan and had to Serena and groaned at the thought of his plan backfiring on him.

However he was soon distracted from his thoughts when he heard the shrill voice of lady Vivian.

With look of pure fear Arthur ran from his room leaving Merlin to lie to lady Vivian for him.

Thank you to xxmadmooxx1995xx for betaing and to 'Linda' and 'Nicola(xxmadmooxx1995xx)' for badgering me to update all hours of school xx