Once again thank you for the reviews. It is always great to hear what you think, also to know the way you would like the story to go. So in response, Morgana and Gwaine will be close. I don't know if you could say it was a relationship like that of Gwen and Arthur. It will be a strong relationship, I just think they would have been interesting together, I also think she needs someone that she can talk to that didn't know her before she went evil. I was really unhappy that they never had a scene together in the show. As for the reactions, Gwen I think will be happy, Arthur and Merlin not to happy, still both a little suspicious of Morgana. Merlin will be in this chapter, so he will get an idea about what happened between Gwaine and Morgana. Morgause will of course also be in the chapter, what she has to say will drive the plot on to the next part of the story. Hope you like it. Also I don't think I will be able to update this soon all the time, it maybe a one off.
Morgana didn't sleep again that night, after being woken by the screaming in her head. Just before the sun rose she crept out of bed, and made her way towards her wardrobe. Not wanting to dress in any of the new dresses Uther had made for her, she quickly dressed in her green dress. The one she had worn the day she came so close to having Uther killed at her father grave. No matter what anyone said or how they saw it Gorlois would always be her father. How different, better would thing be know if she had just been stronger that day. She fastened the matching green velvet cloak around her neck. Then walked over to her dressing table, where Gwaine's bundle of keys lay. He had forgotten to take them back the other day. As she picked them up, felling the weight in her hand, guilt weighed down on her. If she was caught, he would also be in trouble. That was if she choose to come back.
As she moved over to the door that joined her chambers with Gwen's, the main door of her chambers opened. He didn't say anything. He saw her fully dressed keys in her hand, he knew what she was doing. She met his eyes, tried to stare him down, but it didn't work. He didn't saw anything or move. When his blank stare he gave her became to much for her, she moved to walk past him. When she was by his side, he reached out and took hold of her wrist, with the keys in her hand.
"I think these are mine."
Morgana tried to pull her hand away. "Let me go."
Gwaine was much stronger than Merlin, there was no way she could get her hand free. "If you wanted some more fresh air, all you had to do was ask."
"I have to go. I need to see my sister." The words spilled out before she was really aware of it. She was trusting him, and she didn't know why. Trusting people never worked out very well for her.
"Am I meant to just let you go..."
"She is hurt, something is wrong I have to help her. She saved my life I owe her my life...I promise I will come back"
"I was going to say. Am I meant to let you go by yourself, when you could get hurt." He let go of her wrist. Her green eyes locked onto his, trying to read him. She still couldn't.
"Why would you help me."
"I don't know to be honest. I like you, and you like me."
"Don't flatter yourself." Morgana again tried to move past him, but he held out his arm in-front of her, blocking her path.
"Don't lie to yourself. I admit it was a little bit of a challenge at first, but I think we are a lot alike. You are very different for any other women I have ever met."
"Your not like any other man I have ever known. I trust you, and I like you. I need to do this though, let me..."
"I'll let you go if you let me come with you, and you come back." Morgana lowered her gaze to the floor. "Arthur told all of the knight about your agreement. You said magic just was, it was up to the person to choose how they use it. Working with Arthur is the right way. That's what I'm doing, so what happened to me won't happen to anyone else." He saw her eye soften, so he lowered his arm. "Trust me Morgana."
"Morgana, not princess or witch."
"Not to me." Her lips curled into a soft smile. "Ok, we have to leave now. Where are you meeting your sister."
"I don't know, I'll know when we get closer to her. I know that's not a lot to go on."
"Are you kidding, I've risked my life on less than that. Come on." He took hold of her hand without the keys in them, and pulled her out of the room, down the corridor and towards the stables.
Merlin was up early starting his chores for Arthur. He had to clean out the stables as Arthur had been out on a hunt the day before. When he heard the sound of running footsteps coming towards the stables, he as a reflex moved to hide behind the wood panel that separated Arthur's horse from Gwaine's. He peaked his head a little round the panel, and saw Gwaine then Morgana enter the stable, hand in hand. Gwaine saddled his horse and then pulled himself up. He like the day before held out his hand for Morgana.
"Their going to notice we've both going."
"Give me a little credit. I've talked to Gwen. I was going to take you out again today, so I asked her to cover for us." A smirk came across her face as she took his hand and was helped onto the horse. With more speed than the day before they fled from the stables.
Merlin stepped out from his hiding place. There was so many questions running through his mind. One of his friends and his old friend had become friends, or maybe more. Judging by the tone in Gwaine's voice. The thing that kept bugging him the most was that they were not going for a day out, they or more likely Morgana had something going on. With only a brief thought to the rest of his list of chores, he took of after them. Things were starting to feel like old times again, spying on Morgana. He didn't like it.
They had a very good head start on him, but by using a new enchantment he had came across in the book Gaius gave him, that enabled him to run fasted, he was able to gain a little ground on them. They were clearly in a hurry as they left a very noticeable trail behind them.
Morgana held tightly into Gwaine, her eyes closed, trying to find any trace of her sister. She felt she was getting closer, but couldn't see anything clearly. After a while she opened her eyes, and told him to stop. They had stopped a few miles from the lake, very close to the village they had been in the other day. "She's close. A little into the forest, there." She pointed to her left. "We need to leave the horse here. We can walk the rest of the way." She jumped down from the horse and ran off into the forest. Gwaine followed her, but he had to tie the horse up first.
When he reached her, she had stopped on the edge of a clearing the forest. In the centre of the clearing was a women that he sort of recognized. She had long blond hair, dark eyes and wore a lilac clock. "Morgause." Morgana was standing by him, but her voice sounded far away.
"Sister."
Morgana moved quickly towards Morgause leaving Gwaine at the edge of the clearing. When they reached each other the sisters hugged. It was then that Morgana noticed the two men she knew from the druid camp standing a little way from them.
"Sister, what is going on. Are you ok. Mordred said you were leaving..." It was now that she looked at Morgause properly for the first time. Her scare was still there, but it seemed lighter. Her eyes also had the look of clarity, understanding that she hadn't seen very often since she was hurt.
Morgasue placed her hand on Morgana's check to wipe away the tear that had fallen. "I have been healed. A sorceress came to the new camp and healed me."
"That's wonderfully."
"I'm so sorry. If I could have done anything, I would not have let them leave you to be dragged back to Camelot." She knew she hadn't answered any of her sisters questions. She also knew she had to answer them, she just didn't want to. Morgana seemed calmer, stronger than she had seen her. She had been there when she was at her most confused, weak. Seeing her like this was what she wanted more than anything. To accept who she was and be proud of it.
"I know..."
"Morgana the sorceress that healed me. She warned me of what was to come. You maybe in danger, for one of our own kind. His name is Emrys."
Morgause was becoming a little frantic. Morgana placed her hands on her shoulder. "Calm down, please."
It was then that Morgause finally noticed Gwaine standing behind Morgana. "Who his he..." She grew a little more frantic, so Morgana held her a little tighter.
"He is a...friend. We can trust him. Now tell me more about this Emrys. Who is he."
Merlin's blood ran cold. He had just arrived a little while ago, and was hiding behind a fallen tree on the edge of the clearing. He unlike Gwaine and the druids, was looking at the two sorceress from a side angle. He was on the side that meant he could see the scar on Morgause's check. He knew that the druids called him Emrys, but he didn't think he was a danger to Morgana. The more he thought about it, the more he realised that he probably was the biggest danger to her. The identity of these sorceress Morgause had talked about was also troubling him.
"She didn't say much about him. Juts that he is a treat to you. That he has also been watching over Arthur, protecting him all this time. It was him that foiled all of you planes. You have to find him and get ride of him. Then you can have the throne."
Morgana felt her heart beat race. She had given up on that kind of power when she returned to Camelot. Maybe it wasn't all gone, maybe she could still have that power. All it would take was getting ride of one man, then there would be no one to stand in their way, no one. He face curled into an evil smirk. Merlin could just make it out.
"There would be no one in our way. We could bring magic back." Her tone was light, she was speaking more to herself.
Morgause saw hope growing in her eyes. Though she was happy to see it, it hurt her to see it. There was more she had to tell her. "There is more. I'm not healed fully, it is only temporary. I will return to the way I was by sunset. It only lasted two days. It took so long to reach you."
"I can heal you again. What enchantment did she..."
"No. You aren't strong. Stronger now, but you cant. That kind of enchantment takes years of study to learn."
"I can heal you the way..."
"I would be a burden to you. That is why I was leaving, I'm going to Avalon."Morgana knew what that meant. It meant she would not see her again, that she couldn't return. These with magic could come and go at these pleased., but it they went there injured they could not return. If they did they would only get worse. "But, now I'm not going." A look of determination now came across her face. "I will stay. Once you have the throne then there will be time for you to study magic more. You can be as strong as the one that healed me, I know you can..."
"what if I can't. I don't want to to live like that again. I can't bear to see you like that. You should..."
"No. my place is with you. I promised you we would have revenge against our enemies, and we will. There is no other way. Sister please."Morgause brought hand up to stroke Morgana's face to comfort her. She looked so sad.
Morgana had fought so hard to bury her anger will with the druids, it built up again when back in Camelot. She didn't want it to control her again. She didn't want to be like him, so stuck in the past, unable to move on. She would have her revenge. Returning magic, gaining power in the proper way, when no one could change her, that was the best way to go about it. Then she would have the power to punish those that betrayed her, and there would be nothing Arthur could do to stop her. That was the only way she saw now.
Morgana wrapped her arms around her sister in a tight embrace. Tears again fell from her eyes. She needed her sister, the only family she really felt she had. Things with Arthur would never go back to the way they were. She wanted to have her back, someone to talk to without having to watch what she was saying. Deep down she still wanted all that Morgause talked about. The power, freedom. What she wanted more though, was her sister to be safe, and that meant she to had to go the Avalon.
"I'm sorry." She lifted her right hand to place over Morgause's forehead. Using all the focus she could, so she could use any magic, she placed the same enchantment on her sister that Alvarr put on her. Morgause went limp in her arm. T save her, she had to push her away.
"I need your help." She called to the druids in-front of her. They slowly walked towards her. "Make sure she gets to Avalon before she wakes up." They took Morgause from her before Morgana became to weak to hold her up any more. She felt light headed and tired. She had never felt this way after using magic, she hated it.
As the druids took Morgause away, Gwaine stepped into the clearing. Morgana turned to face him and with all the strength she had left ran to him. She stumbled just as she reached him, casing her head to rest on his chest. He wrapped his arms around her, placing his right hand on the back on her head, stroking her hair. Her sobbing was muffled a little, but he could still hear it, so could Merlin. After a few minutes she pulled away a little, then wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Thank you." As she pulled away she gave him a kiss on the check. His head tilted towards her, he was about to lower her head to reach hers, when a loud cracking sound echoed through out the clearing.
They pulled apart, then turned to see Merlin a few feet away. "Merlin." Gwaine sounded very shocked, Morgana just looked at him with cold harsh eyes. "What are you dong here."
"I was...I saw..."
"You followed us, because you wanted to make sure I wasn't planing anything again. Isn't that right Merlin." She was now slowly and purposefully walking towards him, her strength coming back. Gwaine stepped to her side, taking her hand.
"We need to head back now." She turned to him and nodded. There would be plenty of time to deal with Merlin. "We'll see you back at Camelot. Can you make your own way back." Like Morgana, Merlin nodded in answer to Gwaine's question. In response Gwaine gave him a smile and a nod, then lead Morgana back to the horse.
As they walked away she cast a look back at Merlin, giving him her old grin. A chill went through his whole body. Morgana now knew about the existence of Emrys, that there was someone watching over Arthur, stopping her from achieving her goals. She was not going to deal with that well. Now that she had someone to blame for her failures, she would want revenge on them to. In the back of his mind he knew that she couldn't link him to Emrys, but he couldn't afford to underestimate her.
"What are you going to do now."
As they were walking side by side, Gwaine didn't see the smirk grow larger across her face as she answered. "I'm going to find this Emrys. We have a lot to talk about."
Thank you for reading. I hoper you liked it. I also hope that the Gwaine, Morgana scene at the start of the chapter wasn't to cheesy. The sorceress that healed Morgause will, like the falling slowly be revealed at some point. I haven't forgotten about them. The way I wrote Avalon is made up, I hope it works. This is the point where Morgana will start to really push her magic, and be slightly evil again. I am also using things that are meant to happen in the 4th season in the story, like the search for Emrys. Also I saw the trailer, and I noticed a part where Morgana screams after seeing an old Merlin. If you remember in the this chapter Morgana had a dream with a lot of thing in it. The last thing she sees is an old man. I just that was kind of cool, I sort of good something right. Also I find something hard to write, because I worry they are out of character. So please if you think anything is out of character, or doesn't make sense let me know, thank you.
