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What is the aftermath of what Merlin said?

It's Awkward

"You just said what? To Morgana?"

"Arthur, please?"

"No, you are wondering why my sister up and left like she just did. I can tell you now, you are both blind."

Merlin turned to him. "What?"

"Christ, and you said that me and Gwen danced around each other."

"What?"

Arthur looked at his friend. "Just talk to her, yeah?"

Merlin rolled his eyes at him.

"Your behaviour hasn't gone unnoticed. Even Uther has said something to Arthur about you."

"Well it would have been nice to know."

"Know what?" Gwen questioned.

Morgana turned to her. "It would have been nice to know that Merlin had a big crush on me in secondary and now believes that we would never get together because we never got together in secondary and the fact that he thinks of me as some high-born lady while he is some peasant. For Christ sakes, he has his head in too many books. It is the 21st century, not the 6th."

Gwen bit her nails.

"What?"

"I had a suspicion."

"A suspicion?"

"I didn't realise I would have to bash your heads together for you to realise that you could be together." Gwen argued. "I thought you would have worked it out yourself."

"You let me think that it was only one way. You could have said something like 'he doesn't talk to other girls like that' or 'I think he likes you, like you'." Morgana dragged a hand through her hair. "This is such a big mess."

"Well, there is a good side to this."

Morgana glared at Gwen. "Good side? I can't see it at the moment. Yes the guy that I have fancied since the age of 14 when he joined our school, is now not with the girlfriend that he was incredibly cute with. Instead of just jumping in bed with him, like I would probably any other guy, he tells me that we would never be together because if I wanted to be with him, we would have been together in secondary. So not only do I feel like an idiot, I can't say anything to him that isn't awkward or doesn't sound incredibly stupid. Please Gwen, tell me the good side."

"Morgana, just tell him how you feel. How many guys did you turn down because he said that they were an idiot? Or because you didn't want him to get the wrong message? Talk to him."

"It's awkward."

"What about Merlin isn't awkward? The man is the definition of the word."

Morgana allowed herself to smile.

"Please Arthur, just tell me what I have supposedly missed."

"You really don't know."

"No." Merlin said. "The only thing I know now is that I apparently have two girls that are angry with me because I said I had a crush on Morgana when I was in secondary. Freya hasn't spoken to me for days. She won't text me back or return my calls. Morgana … I don't even know where to begin with Morgana. Everything was just like it was when we were back at secondary. Like she never went up to Glasgow for uni. Now she is avoiding me and if she does talk to me, it just seems awkward."

"You are kinda awkward."

"Not helping Arthur."

"Look, I know you're an idiot. Gwen knows you're and idiot. Morgana has just been reminded why I used to call you an idiot a lot of the time. Freya … if Freya didn't know you were an idiot, either she knows now or she is an idiot."

"Still not helping."

"Just stop being an idiot. Just tell the poor girl, properly, that you like, like her. I know how much pressure it took for you to ask Freya out but this is Morgana."

"Someone who is more likely to rip my head off than go out with me."

"Mate, why are you putting yourself down so low?"

Merlin turned to Arthur. "I know she is your step-sister but haven't you seen her? I know of your childish games and jokes where you were King Arthur with your friends being your Knights of the Round Table and Morgana was always the evil witch.

"But … for someone that to be that beautiful, she must possess some magic. I feel ashamed because I am sure I would never feel for Freya as much as I feel for Morgana. I have tried not to but just being around her … I feel like I am under some spell and I don't ever want to be released from it. She had a nightmare and I offered to sleep with her." He caught himself. "Not in that way. Just having her in my arms for a night … maybe I knew then that I didn't actually want anyone else. Freya has just got caught up in a mess."

"Why don't you just tell Morgana that? You are the English fanatic. You are good with words."

"I can't"

"Merlin, it really isn't that difficult."

He sighed. "I have explained. It is just awkward between us now. I don't want to give any other reasons for it to be awkward between us."

"You really don't know that. Hey, you might even be surprised."

Merlin just huffed.

Morgana lied awake. She had heard Merlin come in and go to his room. This is how it had been for the last few days. They hadn't really seen each other, just heard what the other was doing.

She went over the conversation she had with Gwen. Maybe she was right. Maybe she should just tell Merlin how she felt. Their friendship seemed to be in tatters now anyway. It couldn't really make it any worse. If it did, she could always, finally, take up Uther's offer of living with him and put aside as much money as possible to either get her own flat or rent something.

She sighed heavily. She needed to tell him. It couldn't stay like this between them. This was definitely destroy their friendship.