Okay, this Chp is shorter then the others. I wanted it to stand on it's own. Hope you guys enjoy. Once again reviewers are AWESOME! Thank you much!

"Tell me" Merlin whispered, moving his hands toward her face, running his fingers through the front pieces of her hair.

She still hesitated, not meeting his eyes. He brought a finger below her chin to lift her eyes to meet his. "What could be so bad that you couldn't tell me?"

"I don't tell you because I am afraid you will agree with the madness, and attempt to convince me of the better life I will supposedly have," she said bitterly, pulling her face to look away from him again.

Confusion was written all over his face. She sighed and turned back to him, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you."

He smiled a small forgiving smile to her, "I don't like seeing you like this, please tell me."

"…The morning you left, Uther called me down to have breakfast with him, he was acting strangely. After some questions he told me…" she stopped speaking. When she didn't continue he wrapped his arms securely around her waist gripping her tightly.

"…he told me, I am to wed Prince Erec."

His eyes changed immediately, more focused, and she heard his breath catch lightly. She felt his grip on her waist loosen slightly which made her instantly pressed her hands to his forcing them back, to hold her once more. "Don't you dare," she said sternly keeping her gaze to him now.

"Morgana-" he started sounding flustered.

"No, you said you would still love me when you got back, nothing has changed."

"Everything's changed," he said a bit louder then she expected. He regretted raising his voice when he saw her face react to it, seeing the tears she held back in her eyes. He then regretted letting his anger toward the King show to her.

"…Of course I still love you, that won't ever change," he said gently to her. "But, we can't pretend Morgana, he will make you marry him."

"He can't make me do anything," she said quickly regaining some of her strength.

"You would have a lovely life with him, you would live in a lovely castle, have lovely children and become a lovely Queen someday," he said painfully speaking words he wished would never be.

"I knew you would do this, nothing about that life sounds lovely unless you are the man with me," she said still holding his hands to her.

He looked down at the ground for a moment and took a deep audible breath, then looked back to her. He stared and studied the dark flecks in her shining green eyes. Then he wriggled one of his hand from her grasp and placed it at the side of her face, stroking her cheek and jaw line with his fingers. "And I deeply wish I could be the man to have that life with you-"

"No, no, Merlin don't do this," she said with a broken voice and a tear falling.

"I'm sorry Morgana," he said taking his other hand from her grip and backing away a few steps. "I want you to have everything, and you can't have that with me."

She felt her heart grow heavy at loosing him, and that she was falling apart. Tears fell freely from her eyes now as she watched him turn around, growing ever closer to her chamber door. Everything that was just said, every touch that she felt hadn't seemed real, like she had watched it happen to someone else.

When she heard the clank of the door opening something inside her changed. She knew the moment he when through the door it would be their end. It meant marrying someone she didn't love and didn't really know. It meant living in a King's shadow, not the life she wanted or ever planned to have.

Morgana lifted her head and stopped her tears, but didn't wipe away the streak marks they left on her face. She watched as he hesitate at the open door. Just as he was about to place his hand back on the handle and go, she pulled a strength embedded inside her she didn't know she had.

Her arm lifted in the air stretched out in front of her, fingers straight and apart. With no words she magically shut the door before he could walk through it. Merlin twisted back to face her, with a look of bewilderment and shock.

Morgana marched toward the him, stopping only when he was pressed against the chamber door with little space between them.

With her face serious and completely straight, "I am tired of Uther and you telling me what is best for my life," she said through clenched teeth. "Life with Erec will not be lovely, it will be horrific. Because everyday I spend with him I will wonder of everyday that I could have spent with you. Every time he touches me I will think of how you would have touched me, and every time he says he loves me I'll think of you saying it. That isn't how I wish to live."

Her body and face grew less stiff then, and she gazed at him with kinder eyes. "And you are my everything, so if you walk out that door then I'll have nothing. If you really don't love me, or want to be with me, then leave."

Merlin stood before her silent and motionless, still stunned by the revelation of her magic, and even more so by her words. He could think of no words that compared to what she said to him, no one had ever spoken to him like that before. Usually he was spoken to and treated like he was below the person, but she was asking him to be her equal in her eyes.

Instead of speaking he held out his hand to her, praying she would take it. She slipped her hand in his and they stayed like that for a few moments, until Merlin regained his voice and said, "I'm sorry…I do love you, I wouldn't have said all of that if I didn't, I just want you to have everything you ever deserved-"

"And that's you," she said firmly and with a squeeze of his hand.

He nodded, "Okay, if that's what you want I won't bring it up again."

"Promise? You and me fighting for the other?" she asked.

He grinned and held her again, this time his grip not faltering, "I'll fight till the end for you."

She made herself stand a little taller and brought her lips to his, for a sweet short kiss. She also lifted both his hands and places a small kiss on each, "And I you."

"There's one last thing," he said smiling slightly. "Close your eyes."

Morgana eyed him suspiciously but did as she was told. She wasn't sure what he was doing but he was moving slightly. After a moment he uttered "Open."

Her eyes fluttered upward and before her in midair were one of the flowers he had brought her that had been lost somehow in the heat of their argument. She looked from the levitating flower to Merlin then back to the flower and him again. Morgana's face broke out in a wide grin, "I think we were made for each other."