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Almost every moment felt like a repeat of when Arthur learned about Merlins magic.
Merlin was trembling as Arthur approached him, and for every step he took forward, Merlin took one back.
"I-I'm sorry I didn't mean- It's just that-"
For the life of him Merlin couldn't stop stuttering so he just quit stalking for a moment and tried to catch his breath before looking up at Arthur with tears in his eyes.
"Please don't put me at stake. I-I won't ask you not to kill me, but please, anything but the stake! Beheadings, starvation, anything but that. A-and please don't punish my momma, she doesn't know anything about magic at all I promise!"
"Merlin-"
"Please, I'll go with you just don't hurt her!"
"Merlin! I'm not hurting anyone!"
"You're not?"
"No, I'm not. I just need to ask you a few questions ok?"
Merlin nodded but still looked suspicious.
"Who taught you magic?"
"No one!"
"I won't get mad, but tell me the truth."
"I am telling the truth, I don't know any spells or anything!"
"Ok, we'll come back to that then. How long have you used magic?"
"For as long as I can remember."
"That's…different. Why'd you attack me?"
"I didn't mean to I promise!"
"It's ok; I just want to know why."
"I didn't want to! It's just that you were always around me and I didn't want to use my magic cause I didn't want to die and it hurt so bad and I was sick and it just wanted to come out and I tried to stop it I really did but I couldn't-"
"Are you telling me that was on accident? The trees and everything?" Arthur asked in amazement. How could one child do all that by accident?
Merlin just nodded up at him.
"Because it came out on its own?"
"Yes, sometimes if I don't use it I get super sick and it hurts and I don't like it."
"I didn't know that magic worked like that. Do you get sick often?"
"Sometimes, it's not a problem if I just use it but that's illegal. "
"You know, I might know someone who can fix that."