Sadly I don't own Merlin. It belongs to the BBC.

Well, here it is. A long chapter as promised.

I know I said this won't be up for about five days but I rushed to get my work done to write this. I'm good like that.

Enjoy :D


Morgana went upstairs to shower whilst Merlin, Arthur and Gwen sat at the kitchen table waiting for her.

Uther and Elaina went into the living room to talk things over.

"Are you really going to propose?"

"Yes Arthur. I love Morgana and I want to spend the rest of my life with her."

"I feel the same about Guinevere."

"Why aren't you down on one knee then?" she asked.

"You know me love. I prefer to be awkward. Pregnant first. Then marriage." Gwen chuckled slightly then sighed as she stood up. "I'll just go and see if Morgana is out of the shower then talk to her for a bit."

As soon as she left the kitchen and shut the door behind her Merlin hit Arthur on the arm. "Ow. What was that for? Idiot."

"Are you blind?"

"What?"

"Gwen loves you and you love her. You've just said that you want to spend the rest of your life with her and you can't see when she drops little hints?"

"What do you mean?"

"Fuck me Arthur. She wants to get married. Preferably before the baby is born and she starts to show. Because she doesn't want to look fat on her wedding day."

Arthur poked Merlin's tattoo hard. "Ow."

"Guinevere will not be fat; she'll be beautiful and glowing."

"I know that Arthur. But it is how she will see herself."

"How do you know all of this?"

"My dad used to tell me about it. Because my mum was five months gone when she married."

"How is your dad?"

"He's fine. Busy. He should be back sometime next week. I talked to him on the phone this morning before coming here. He says the sooner I marry her the better, he said he knew I'd always end up with her."

"When are you going to propose?"

"Tomorrow. But do me a favour."

"What's that?"

"You ask Gwen to marry you. Today."

"Today?"

"You love her don't you?"

"Yes."

"You want to spend the rest of your life with her don't you?"

"Of course I do."

"Then when we come back from the fair, you go into town, buy a ring, take her out to dinner tonight, get down on one knee and ask her to marry you."

Arthur sighed before looking at Merlin. "Yeah I think I will. Thanks Merlin."

"See. And you asked earlier why I like Merlin. Everything he just told you, he couldn't be more right if he tried." Arthur and Merlin looked up to see Uther stood there.

"One more thing though. You propose to Gwen tonight and spend the night at her house. You ring and tell Merlin how it goes. But do not tell Morgana. You don't want her thinking that Merlin only proposed because you proposed to Gwen."

When Arthur nodded, Uther turned to Merlin. "You propose to Morgana in the morning."

"Thanks Uther."

"Whilst you're at the fair today. I'll ring up and book a table for you. Seven thirty alright?"

"Yes. Thanks father."

"Arthur?"

"Yes?"

"Call me dad. Father makes me sound old."

"Alright. Dad."

"Dad? It's about time you called him dad." Morgana said walking into the kitchen with Gwen. "Right shall we get going then?" Merlin and Arthur stood up. "Yep." Arthur said as he walked up and put his arm around Gwen. Merlin did the same with Morgana and followed Arthur out of the house.

As they saw the fair come into view Arthur stopped.

"What's wrong mate?"

"I've forgotten my wallet. I'll have to go back and get it."

"I'll go back for you. I'll be quicker because I can run. Where is it?"

"It's in my room, on my desk."

"Right. Not be long."

"Thanks Merlin." Merlin smiled at Arthur, and then kissed Morgana on the cheek before running off back towards the house.

Ten minutes later, Merlin came jogging back towards them all and handed the wallet over to Arthur. "Here you are mate."

"Thanks." Arthur put the wallet in his pocket then looked at Merlin who didn't look himself.

"Merlin? Are you alright?"

"Uh huh."

"No you're not. You don't look right. What's up? You were fine when you went back to the house, and now you're like this."

"Nothing's wrong I'm fine." he lied.

But Arthur didn't believe him. "Right then. Let's go back to the house and ask my dad and Elaina what's wrong. Because like I said, you was fine until you went back to get my wallet."

"NO." Merlin snapped, making them all jump. "Sorry. It's just. You can't go back there."

"Why not? Are they arguing?"

"No. They're doing the opposite."

"And you heard them?" Arthur asked. When Merlin nodded Arthur burst out laughing.

"It's not funny Arthur. It's disturbing."

"For you yeah."

"They're your parents."

"Yeah. But I didn't hear them. You did." Arthur said as he continued to laugh.

"Arthur stop laughing at Merlin or you'll get the same treatment as your so called football mate." Morgana threatened.

Arthur shut up. "You wouldn't do that."

"Wouldn't I?"

"No. Guinevere not let you."

"Why wouldn't I? I know you can harm a bloke by doing that, but, I've already got what I wanted." Gwen said rubbing her tummy.

"Thanks for the support Guinevere."

Gwen started laughing and put her arm around Arthur. "Come on. Let's get to the fair before it shuts."

Merlin put his arm around Morgana and followed Arthur and Gwen who was walking a little in front.

As they entered the fair Arthur looked at Gwen. "What ride do you want to go on first?"

Gwen looked around. "Hmm, how about that one over there." she said pointing at a ride.

Arthur looked to where she was pointing and saw that it was not only a fast ride that goes round and round, but the seats also spin as well.

"I don't think so Guinevere. I don't want you going on them sort of rides in your condition." Gwen looked at Arthur. "Alright. I'll let this one pass. But if you start saying no to all rides that are just a little bit fast, I warn you Arthur, I'll-"

"Alright, alright. I get the picture. I'm sorry."

"It's alright. I was only joking. I don't like really fast rides like that anyway. I came to the fair to have fun. Not to vomit."

After a while of walking around and going on different rides, Merlin pulled Gwen to one side whilst Arthur was playing a shooting game. "Gwen, see that ride over there." he said pointing. Gwen looked and saw a ride that had about twenty seats side by side. "Yeah?"

"That's not a fast one. All it does is go from side to side and then it goes all the way up a couple of times then drops back down."

"Is that it?"

"Yeah. You watch."

Gwen stood and watched as the ride started, as she watched; she saw that all it did was what Merlin said it did. When the ride stopped and people got off, Gwen paid her money, sat on a seat and waited for other people to pay and take their seat.

Arthur finished his shooting game and picked a cuddly toy as his prize to give to Gwen. He turned around to give the toy to Gwen to find her not there.

"Where's Guinevere?"

Merlin pointed at Gwen and Arthur looked from her to Merlin. "What she doing on that?"

"It doesn't go fast Arthur. She'll be alright."

"She has just had a burger and a full bag of candy floss. She'll bring it back up."

"Sorry Arthur. I didn't know."

"Idiot." Arthur shoved the toy into Merlin's chest before running towards the ride where Gwen was, he paid his money and went and sat down next to Gwen. "You alright Guinevere."

"Yeah." she looked at Arthur who looked worried. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"Liar."

Arthur sighed. "Don't get mad or anything. But I don't want you on this ride."

"Why? It doesn't go fast."

"I know that Guinevere I'm just a bit worried about you going on this after eating that great big burger and a bag full of candy floss. Isn't best to let your stomach settle a bit first?"

Gwen smiled. "You're right." Gwen stood up and made her way off the ride with Arthur following her.

Arthur walked up to Merlin and took the toy off him and gave it Gwen. "Here you are Guinevere. I won it for you."

"Thank you Arthur." she said taking the cuddly toy from him.

Just then Arthur got a text message from Uther saying the table was booked. Arthur looked at Gwen. "Do you want to go out tonight for something to eat?"

"Yeah."

Arthur smiled. "Great."

Whilst Arthur was playing another shooting game Merlin stood watching Morgana and Gwen as they made their way through something called 'house of fun.'

As Merlin watched them laughing and joking as they made their way through, a couple of blokes came up and stood next to him, both of them holding cans of beer in their hands, not drunk, but getting there. "You go for the one with the curls, I'll go for the other one." said the one standing closest to Merlin.

Merlin turned and looked at him. "I wouldn't if I was you."

"What's it got to do with you?"

"I'm just trying to save you some pain. She's very feisty."

"That's just how I like my women." and he walked off towards Morgana.

Merlin watched as he paid a bloke then made his way towards Morgana. Merlin couldn't hear what was being said but within a couple of minutes, the bloke was on his knees looking up at Morgana, who was smiling down at him. "What's wrong with you woman?" he yelled as his mate who stood watching with Merlin started to laugh. He stopped laughing and looked at Merlin.

"Her with the curls. Do you know her?"

"I do."

"Is she just like her friend?"

"No."

"Oh. That's alright then."

"I wouldn't try anything though."

"Why not?"

"Her boyfriend is worse than her friend."

The bloke looked Merlin up and down. "You don't seem all that. You're just saying that to scare me off. But it didn't work. Looks like you're going to have to stand and watch as I charm and take your girlfriend away."

Merlin nodded thinking. "So you don't mind walking up to her and charm and take her away from her boyfriend whilst he stood and watched?"

"Not in the slightest."

"Ok." Merlin looked over his shoulder and saw as Arthur collected another toy before turning and making his way over to Merlin. "Hey Merlin. Where are the girls?"

"They're over there." he said pointing towards Morgana and Gwen. "Morgana has just kneed someone again because he tried it on with her. I tried to warn him but he wouldn't listen. Oh, and this is his mate." Merlin said pointing to the bloke who kept looking form Arthur to Merlin.

"He's says that he doesn't mind in the slightest for Gwen's boyfriend to watch as he charms and takes her away from him."

Arthur raised his eyebrows at Merlin before looking at the bloke who Merlin was talking about. "Right. Well I'm here now. You go and give it your best shot whilst I stand and watch."

The bloke looked a bit worried. "You're her boyfriend?" he asked pointing at Arthur who nodded.

"He said he was her boyfriend."

Merlin shook his head, grinning at the look on the blokes face. "No I didn't. All I said was that you wouldn't want to try anything because her boyfriend can be worse than her friend. I never said I was her boyfriend. You assumed that all on your own."

Before he could say anything his friend came limping back to him. "Her friend doesn't seem as bad as her. You go and ask her out. I'll wait here for you."

"No. I don't think I will. Come on let's go." he said walking away.

As soon as his friend started to limp away as fast as he could to keep up, Arthur and Merlin burst out laughing.

"What's so funny?" Gwen asked as she walked up to them both with Morgana.

"Oh nothing. We were just laughing at Morgana for kneeing that bloke. Merlin warned him as well."

Morgana put her arm around Merlin and Gwen put her arm around Arthur. "Are we going to get going then?"

"Yeah. The restaurant is booked for seven thirty and I need to pop into town first." Arthur said as he handed Gwen another cuddly toy.

"Merlin why didn't you win Morgana a toy?"

Before Merlin could answer, Morgana spoke. "Why do I need a cuddly toy for? I've got Merlin." Morgana and Gwen laughed as all four of them headed back home.


Hope you liked it. Merlin will be proposing in the next chapter as well as Arthur.

What are Morgana and Gwen going to say?

The next chapter will be up in a couple of days, which will be the last chapter. Unless you want an epilogue. Let me know if you do.

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