Merlin felt his face go pale, this was his fault he knew there was something wrong with rose this morning, he should've gone and seen her made sure she was feeling okay.

Merlin ran after Percival and stopped at the great hall doors, "Arthur knows?" Percival nodded grimly.

"and how is he taking it?"

"Not well..."
Merlin nodded before he opened the hall door and strode in. Arthur stood up at the sight of his friend under his eyes were black and he clearly hadn't slept.

Merlin bowed at his king and Arthur shook his head, he was clearly angry and Merlin didn't know if it was his job anymore to calm him down.

"Did you know about this?" Arthur shot a Merlin, and his friend simply shook his head.

"no idea my lord, do we know where they are?"

"of course we don't know where they are Merlin if we did they wouldn't be missing would they!" Merlin looked to the side of Arthur and a very upset gwen was being comforted by Gawain as lancelot looked on nervously,

"Does Leon know?" Arthur shook his head the last thing he wanted to do was distress leon he was one of his best knights and the most loyal he didn't need to be burdened with this.

Arthur simply remained silent for a few moments, "Well I must go find them then," Merlin directed this at the king and Arthur looked up in suprise,

"Merlin you can't find a pair of matching socks," Merlin rolled his eyes, typical Arthur to underestimate him like that.

"Trust me Arthur, let me take Gawain with me and I'll find them," Gawain's head shot up at the mention of his name then he nodded, before removing his hand from gwen's shoulder and going to stand next to Merlin.

Arthur looked to gwen for a second who's eyes were filled with tears, it must be hard for her to of suddenly lost William like this a Merlin made a silent vow to himself to do everything in his power to return William to Camelot, he had once served as the protector of a prince of Camelot and it seemed like his position was being revoked.

Merlin then looked up at his old friend and arthur's blue eyes met the blue eyes' of Emrys,

"Arthur, trust me, I will bring them back, all of them just let me go," Merlin wasn't so sure why he was begging for the approval of his friend, he was going to go anyway, but to go with the knowledge that Arthur trusted him with the life of his son, would just be magnificient and Merlin's hopes were confirmed with a simple nod from Arthur.

"Fine, but if you are not back by tomorrow evening I am riding after you." Merlin suppressed his grin and signalled to Gawain that they should prepare.

Within ten minutes they were ready to leave, with the help of magic they were done in 5 minutes, but Gawain had to polish his sword or something like that, Merlin wasn't that interested, he just wanted to find the trio , they had only just ridden out of Camelot when Gawain gave Merlin a mysterious look.

"You know something?"
Merlin shook his head, "I don't know what your talking about,"
Gawain simply chuckled "Look Merlin mate I know you a hell of a lot better than you think, and you know something..."

Merlin looked up to Gawain and realised that there was no use lying to his friend, Gawain was brighter than he looked and would eventually figure it out anyway.

"Rose met Morgana,"

"I know that I was there!" Merlin shook his head his eyes deadly serious.

"No...i mean she met her...again..." Gawain tilted his head,

"What? Why! And why didn't you tell Arthur this?" Merlin rubbed at his eyes slightly,

"She met with Morgana because Morgana threatened me, I don't know why she went, it's not like I mean anything to her."

Gawain shook his head "you realise for a prophesized dragon lord your pretty thick, your like a uncle to her, Arthur has always treated her like his daughter and maybe that wasn't the right thing to do because I know for a fact that until you arrived she was terrified of what she was...she saw how everyone was over joyed about your return, why would she let anyone take that away,"
Merlin simply smiled perhaps rose had more pendragon in her than he thought.

"Anyway she's probably just run away with her lover," Merlin froze,

"What?" Gawain looked from side to side anxiously,

"Y'know sneaking around late at night, staying In her chambers "by herself" till later morning, Merlin mate you need to catch up."

"Who?"

"dunno but he's one lucky fella, my money's on leon's boy, they had a thing when they weer kid's or at least they were pretty close friends..."
Merlin began to ignore gawain's blabber as a terrible sense of dread washed over him, what if...no...it wasn't possible...merlin did his best to ignore the voice inside his head and tried to listen to Gawain but all Merlin could think was, what if Morgana used mordred to get to her? What would Merlin do then, he had been in love he had been forced away from the one he loved could he do the same to rose?

When rose woke up she felt the dampness under her skin, her dress was ripped and torn away and she held it together with one arm, what was going on?

She narrowed her eyes in an attempt to see and she made out a figure nearby, she tried to speak but all that came was a whimper, this was enough for the figure to turn her it's head in her direction and as the figure pulled itself closer rose hoped she hadn't got herself into anything too dark.

"Rose?" the voice was familiar and rose recognised it as a friend and she let out a sigh of relief,

"Matthew...what happened?" He shook his head,

"I don't know, I woke up here, I feel pretty beaten though, have you seen William," Rose shook her head and her eyes showed concern for William but mostly the unmentioned mordred.

Matthew must of read her mind and he placed a hand on her shoulder, "He'll be fine rose," he gave a sympathetic smile and rose couldn't help but return it,

"We need to get out of here..." she attempted to stand up but a searing pain in her stomach dragged her back down. Matthew was back beside within a second concern in his brown eyes.

Rose felt tears well up but she held them back, she wasn't going to cry not today, she couldn't pull enough strength to try again and Matthew knew they didn't have much time he wrapped his arms around her waist and demanded she put her arms around him. He lifted her of the ground , she tried to protest but he held her tightly.

"we have to get out of here rose, okay?" She nodded and tried not to look up at him too much.

He continued to step forward but the room they seemed to be in was long with no door, there was straw on the floor of one corner and matthew decided to sit rose on this.

He dropped her down and she looked up in confusion. "What are you doing?"

"there's no way out!" he ran his hand through his red hair and shot a panicked look at Rose,

"well what are we going to do then?" Matthew shrugged his shoulders in response,

"wait I suppose." Rose rolled her eyes she hated waiting, she didn't really want to spend hours talking about her feelings to matthew ,but she knew matthew, she knew him very well and he would most definitely bring up mordred in the next 10 seconds.

"So mordred?"

Bingo.

"what about him?"

"You like him?"

Rose sighed "matthew, I love him..." Matthew's eyes widened,

"Look I'm not gonna judge you but...you've known him like two days..."

Rose shook her head she knew he wouldn't understand.

"you wouldn't understand."

Matthew raised an eyebrow "Wouldn't i? Because I fell for a girl a long time ago and it took me years to realise how I felt, when I did, I ran" Rose felt her cheeks blush and she couldn't look matthew in the eye.

"who was it?" matthew rolled his eyes.

"remember that girl? Sir Ewan's daughter..." rose's heart began to sink she didn't want know that but...

"It's not her," rose couldn't help but laugh and she slapped him on the chest playfully she had missed matthew he could always make light of any situation. He also knew how to make rose feel comfortable even in the most awkward circumstances, the problem with that is emotion were rarely faced head on with him, and when things became clear enough he had a habit of running.

Rose was still smiling when the door opened again and William and mordred where thrown into the room, behind them Morgana stepped in, a jewelled dagger in her hand.

She smiled as she examined the blade, rose simply shook her head. "Morgana I should've known" Morgana raised an eyebrow.

Mordred lifted his head, his pale face was bruised and his white shirt was stained in blood, the sight of him took away rose's voice and she turned her head to William who was unconscious,

"What have you done to him?" Shouted Matthew, the witch roller her eyes and stepped towards matthew,

"Your leon's boy, I can tell, " she let out a small giggle before continuing "so loyal so brave...does the girl know about your feelings yet?" Matthew's face hardened, and mordred's eyes shot up protectively, rose simply looked down at the ground.

Morgana turned away from matthew and now pulled mordred's head towards her by his hair, "look mordred, you betray me for her? Look how she cowers by another man...look how she lies...she will betray you..."

Mordred shook his head, "I trust her." Morgana laughed,

"you shouldn't...i would know after all history is destined to replay, and she...will be me..."

Rose shot her eyes up, she lied, the dragon's word replayed in her head, she will choose her own destiny .

Rose held her stomach and stood up, she squared up to Morgana her blue eyes looking into the experienced owns that mirrored her own.

"I am not you, I will never be you, you are weak and scared and alone, and I will never want to be anything like you"

Morgana pulled up a hand a striked her daughters face.

At that moment rose found both matthew and mordred by her side.

Morgana's eyes filled with hatred and she pulled the knife up,

"you choose dear, which one of these lovely men do I kill first, your beloved druid...or your dashing knight?"