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Merlin's eyes swung left to right as he wondered what to do, what would Gwaine think of him if he told him the truth, would there friendship be ruined forever?

He closed his eyes as he breathed in and out slowly trying to control his breathing, he could feel the eyes of Gwaine on him, he needed to look in the box and then deal with Gwaine.

But how?

"am a stopadh agus fanacht áit a bhfuil tú"

With a few frantic words Merlin managed to stop time, his friend just sat there, unmoving a statue, how handy.

It was a great skill being able to read over things and memorise them.

"Sorry again Gwaine" his voice full of sadness as he sat down where he was and looked at the plane brown box, it was locked and he had seen no key in Uther's chambers, again magic.

"oscailt" with one enchanted word the lid of the box was flung open to reveal a small piece of paper.

"You must go east before going west" Merlin's eyebrows became as high as a man jumping on a pogo stick, what was with all the rubbish clues?

He turned over the piece of paper and smiled, a piece of the spell was on it, one word printed onto the paper, at least he was getting somewhere, but where to go now, east.

Uther's chambers if he was right were on the east side of the castle so that meant that meant his next clue was on the opposite direction and Arthur was on the west side. Arthur's chambers.

Alarm bells started to ring inside his head and he almost let off a joyous laugh until he realised that he still had a suspicious Gwaine to deal with. Dammit, he shook his head as he unfroze his best friend.

Gwaine not even noticing that he had been stuck.

"So will you tell me or do I have to tell Arthur" the knight asked with less authority then he had wanted.

"Gwaine please don't think of me any different, you must know that the only reason I didn't tell you was because I didn't want what happened to Lancelot to happen again, I can't lose anyone else and that is why you must trust me" the knight seemed to nod in confusion but he didn't interrupt as a sick looking warlock went on.

"I was...born with...magic, I'm a...Warlock, you must know though that I've only ever used my magic to protect Arthur, I am loyal to Camelot I could never hurt this place or anyone in it. Lately I had been feeling...depressed,worthless,useless you name a sad word I felt it, after my friend died, my dad, Freya and Lancelot I felt like I couldn't continue so the reason I got sick and dangerously close to death is because well...I bound my magic to a ring, this ring the one that I am wearing and if I take the ring off right now I will be on my death bed again, and now I'm searching for the missing piece of the puzzle which is the second part of the binding spell which will unbind my magic and let me put it back in me, but Uther seems to have had gotten hold of the page and hidden it round the castle and other places and now I'm going on a treasure hunt trying to find something that could well even end my life I don't find it or bring me back to full health" the last of his breath left him as he finished and he gulped in air as though he was ravenous.

"Can you turn people into frogs?" was the only response that came to the knight. Merlin seemed taken aback, he had just revealed the biggest secret of his life that could get him killed and his best friend wanted to know if he could turn people into frogs.

"Gwaine bigger picture please" the warlock seemed to shout as the knight just laughed and put his hand on the book.

"So you need to find the piece of paper which has a spell on it?"

"Yes"

"Well it looks like you have just got someone else who will help you" the knight stood at that point and clapped his friend on the back.

"I will not report you, but when we are finished I want to know everything, I want to know about your father, the person called Freya and anything else that you have never told me, also I want you to teach me magic" the last few words of Gwaine's seemed to make Merlin's heart sky rocket.

Was Gwaine being serious?

The knight wanted to learn magic? Now that would be a scary day.

Brushing Gwaine's request away they began to heading out of the chambers-not before hiding the magic book which had gotten him into the mess which was his friend knowing-towards Arthur's.

"Gwaine everybody thinks that I'm on my death bed, I've concealed myself so far so I'm going to have to do it again, I think I can conceal both of us though, so just don't move for a moment" the young warlock seemed to give a shaky smile to his friend, he was still not used to the idea of somebody new knowing his secret, so many people had died knowing his secret, he couldn't lose Gwaine, at that moment he made a pact to himself, that he would not let a repeat of Lancelot happen, he would protect Gwaine no matter what.

"cheilt orm, a dhéanamh dom scáth sa lá"

words that Gwaine hadn't heard before graced Merlin's lips and that cheeky smile entered the Warlock's face.

"Walk outside with me and have the time of your life, nobody will see you" he laughed as he opened the door and they both walked out. A maid passed their way and didn't even see them, which of course gave Gwaine a bad idea to wolf whistle which just freaked out the maid.

"Yeah, we can have fun scaring people later, right now we need to find that spell, come on" he whispered as he pulled Gwaine along to Arthur's chambers.

What a day it had been, why did Gwaine have to be so curious?

What happened to the stupid knight?

His guess was that he would probably find out soon.