When I got back to my chambers, Merlin was up lounging in the chair by my table, looking slightly disheveled and exceedingly handsome in his state of drowsiness.

"Merlin!" I smile as I rush to him, surrounding him in a tight embrace.

Taken aback, Merlin tenses but slowly relaxes in my arms. "What is it?" He asks hesitantly, though I could hear the smile in his voice.

"We can do it! I can go home!" I smile widely at him, pulling away soon enough to see a frown forming on his face.

"What is it? What's wrong?" I match his expression, taking in his features.

Merlin looks down for a moment and looks back up with a different expression all together. "What about the prophecy? What about us?" he makes a gesture to my hand, which was on his chest. "I don't want you to leave."

"That's the best part, Merlin! I think you can go with me!" I smile a little wider, and start to comb my fingers through his hair.

"I can't just leave my destiny, my love. Neither can you. You were in the prophecy, so that must mean you have to stay... right?" He looks unsure, staring into my eyes in an unnerving manner.

"But that's just it! Maybe destiny has it set out that we go back to the future together and you can become a better wizard! Maybe that's why I was sent here! To bring you to the future and to bring you back with more knowledge; an otherworldly perception!" I look into his eyes and find myself to get lost in them.

"Kilgarrah had told us that we would have to work to become 'one', right? Well, you will never truly understand where I came from unless you can see it. I may not be able to see my family again, as Kilgarrah said, but I should be able to go back for a short while with you!" I explained, giving him a hopeful look. "Just give it a shot, please. We can come back; I know we have to fulfill the prophecy... but I really need a chance to say goodbye to the world I once knew. To my life, really."

Merlin sighs in submission. "Well; alright. But wait- Kilgarrah said you were never meant to leave! What made him change his mind?" He asks, curiously, looking at me like I was was losing my mind.

"Well, I seem to recall him saying I couldn't leave you. He didn't say that the prophecy couldn't be fulfilled with some minor detours along the way." I say, defensively.

"So you're proposing that we go to the future for a while, if we can somehow go to the future, then come back as if the lapse of time never had occurred?" Merlin raises his eyebrows in question.

"Precisely." I say, as if it were the most simple concept in the world, "Why would it matter if we left, if we had never truly left at all, even though during the time of time travel we would technically leave and have an alternate future awaiting therefore ripping part of the space time continuum in half or less than half, however scientists may put it, when we in reality haven't left, in the future, at all!?" I rant.

"I caught just about a quarter of that statement." Merlin deadpans.

"Have I mentioned that I watch too much Doctor Who?"

"Who?"

Delighted with the new developments, I coaxed Merlin into looking through his spell book to see if he could find anything useful in the premise of time travel.

One hour into the task:

"Did you find anything, yet?" I ask, impatiently, hanging upside down from the cot in Gaius' study.

"No, not as of yet." Merlin said, sighing and furrowing his eyebrows. He was about half way through the spell book, his eyebrows furrowed; with a collective, concentrated expression gracing his face.

I lightly groan as I continue to count all of the vials of who-knows-what medical torture of the medieval ages found in the chambers.

"You know, that's not very princess-like, m'lady." Merlin smirks, glancing up from the book.

"Oh, put a sock in it. In the 21st century, hanging upside down like a capuchin is all the rage and very lady-like, thank-you-very-much!" I retort, blushing as I pull myself up-right.

"What in the hell is a capuchin?" He asks.

"A mo-"He cuts me off, "You know what? Never mind. I'm learning not to ask."

I stick my tongue out at Merlin. "Meanie." I grumble.

"What was that?"

"Nothing!" I reply quickly.

Merlin shakes his head and proceeds to return back to the boring silence we started out in.

"I think I may have found something..." Merlin says, his hand on a new page.

"Oh! Let me see, let me see!" I run to look over his shoulder at the page before him. "What does it say?" My eyebrows furrow; This looks like some strange form of pig latin.

"Do pigs speak where you come from?" Merlin looks at me, wide-eyed.

"No!" I scold him, hitting the back of his head, "Now get on with it!"

"Now I know how you're related to Arthur." Merlin grumbles, grimacing.

"But I mean it in a nice way!" I smile, innocently.

"Sure you do." Merlin says back, chuckling. Feeling impatient, I beckon him with my eyes to explain.

"On the page you see before you is a sort of spell that lets you transport you from one place to another. I believe that if you are able to think of the exact time period and place that you want to be in, we should be able to combine our magic and be successful."

"In other words, you say the spell, we hold hands, and I concentrate on the place we need to be?" I raise my eyebrows.

"That sounds about right." Merlin says, smiling in a goofy way.

"Oh my goodness! It's official, you are a life saver!" I hug Merlin tight, ecstatic. "Let's go!"

"Now?" Merlin asks, surprised. "Shouldn't we tell someone where we are going, Haley?"

"Nope! We don't need to, remember what I said? It will be like we were never gone!" I smile.

"If you say so; then I guess I believe you." He smiles back, rolling his eyes.

"Start." I say, taking hold of both of his hands in my own.

I close my eyes and concentrate on my school, the one place I know my parents would not be looking for me.

"Scopula volo me ad locum, manifestum ferre et cogitationibus quantum inspiraverit!" I feel power rush through me as Merlin's magic mixed with my own, feeling as though I was being sucked into a vacuum cleaner.

"Open your eyes." Merlin whispers into my ear, "I am pretty confident in the fact that we have arrived."

Before my own eyes soon stood the back of my school, Tall Water High; red bricks, dirty windows, in all of it's glory.

"Welcome home, Princess." Merlin says, with a smile on his face.

Welcome home, indeed.

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