"I just wanted to say I'm sorry about the way I've treated you, it was wrong, I know that now." Arthur was awkwardly playing with his t-shirt while Morgana looked at him with her mouth dropping open, "It was always a way to try and keep mine and my fathers reputation, and after igraine died I was alone…"
"so why have you decided to apologise now?" 'that was the question' Arthur really wanted to answer, 'why have I decided to face up to my actions?" Merlin's face came up in his mind, the way he smiled and the certain colour his eyes twinkled in the sun. That was the answer Merlin, Merlin made him want to be a better person and to live up to his expectations instead of his father's.
"Because of Merlin," Arthur mumbled not thinking, "because of Merlin!" Morgana repeated, "no I said because of… my, you didn't let me finish – I was going to say because of my conscience," he added hastily.
Morgana put her hair into a bobble finally relaxing under Arthur's gaze, still not forgetting what he said about Merlin, "didn't know you had one." Arthur smirked as he could see where this is going "look, please accept my most gracious apology and seriously who could say know to this…" he pointed towards his face. Morgana was surprised to find that she burst into a fit of laughter "I don't know who would dream of it," she said dramatically.
As they both headed back towards Merlin who was standing there awkwardly while Gwen and Lance where embraced together. When Merlin saw them his face resembled a thank god you're back expression, "so did you and Arthur have the talk?" Morgana giggled "no we didn't have the talk, that would have been disgusting!"
Merlin stuck his tongue out at her, "you know I didn't mean that." Laughing Arthur put a hand on his shoulder, Merlin flinched slightly before relaxing into his touch. "Are you sure because for a moment I thought I had befriended a psychopath!"
"I'm a high functioning sociopath Morgana! Do your research," Arthur looked up at that, "you watch Sherlock?" Merlin ran a hand though his hair with the sun shining directly in the right place and Arthur was sure he could be a model. "Yeah! Who doesn't watch it?" Arthur shrugged "I watch it but I just thought it was for old people considering none of my friends watched it."
"Just because your friends don't watch it doesn't mean that its for old people," Morgana stated then looked at Merlin "and before you say anything no, I don't watch it, its not really my thing." Merlin grinned looking towards Arthur "you know, we should have a sherlock marathon!"
"we should," Arthur agreed "Morgana, what do you like to watch, or should I have even asked that?" Morgana twirled her hair before replying "I like to watch doctor who, the walking dead but my favourite of all time is supernatural!"
"I think I've seen an episode of that," Morgana suddenly seemed very eager to join into the conversation, "really which one?" Merlin scrunched his face up trying to think, "urm, the one where he keeps on dying every Tuesday and there after the…"
"trickster!" Morgana squeaked "but he isn't really he's… actually not going to give any spoilers." Merlin moved closer to Arthur causing him to experience butterflies in his stomach, "I've only ever seen one so I didn't really get what it was on about…" Merlin whispered in Arthurs left ear.
"what are you whispering about? Oh Merlin!" She didn't give them time to answer her question, "do you think Dean Winchester is fit? I mean Sam was in season 1, I mean you can practically know what season it is by looking at his hair"
"Morgana, breath." She took a deep breath before continuing, "so do you think Dean's fit then?" Merlin nodded "yes Morgana he is fit, now are you going to shut up now?" She nodded zipping her lip with her hand before doing the action of opening it again, "I'm gonna tell Gwen that she has to stop snogging with Lance, because we have a project to do."
She kissed Merlin on the cheek before saying "bye Merlin! See you Arthur!" Arthur quickly ignored the feeling of jealously that threatened to rise up to the surface. Morgana headed off towards Gwen and Lance. Once she had left Merlin started a conversation with Arthur "so…. That went well then?" Arthur responded by ruffling Merlin's hair, "yep and I have you to thank for that."
It was times like this that Merlin really wanted to know what was going on inside Arthurs head, because he still had his hand against Merlin's neck, if he just moved slightly they would be face to face, so close… his thoughts were interrupted by Arthur's cough and his hand moving away, "so… what did you plan on doing for the rest of the afternoon?"
"definitely not clubbing," Arthur laughed at that, "agreed – how about we do that marathon you were talking about?" Merlin's face lightened up at that and Arthur wanted to point out that he looked like a child who just got his presents early.
"yeah, we need snacks and a place to crash," Merlin said as they started walking back up to the school. "check and check although I kind of need to get changed first." Gesturing to himself, "see you then, hey this is are second date today Merlin." Arthur winked leaving a flustered Merlin standing frozen to the spot.