So I'm happy that so many of you are enjoying this story. My friend kept telling me to use this song for this chapter, so I have.
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By the way this is set after 3x11, but before 3x12.
Quarter After Seven, Got A Phone CallTelling Me To Get Here Quick
Turning around slowly Arthur saw the faint figure of a black creature. He was slightly puzzled for a minute until he realised that the black figure was a horse.
Mystery.
Mystery should have been with Merlin though so why was she here in Camelot with him.
The blonde Prince carefully took the dangling reins of Mystery's bridle and walked her in to the barn with the other horses, out of the rain.
He wondered for a bit over what he should do. If Mystery was here on her own with out Merlin, then where was Merlin?
Mystery seemed extremely restless as they stood in out of the way of the heavy rain. She kept stamping her feet and kept trying to pull Arthur forward out in to the rain.
Maybe she knew some thing that he didn't. Some thing to do with Merlin. His Merlin.
Said Your Guy Is In A Bad SituationThey Don't Know If He's Gonna Make It
Some thing was wrong with Merlin. There was no other reason why Mystery would be back here, she was Merlin's now, Camelot was no longer her home if Merlin wasn't there.
Then what if Merlin wasn't going to make it through what ever the problem was.
As I Hurry To Be By Her SideI Ask A Thousand Times, Why Oh Why
That was when Arthur made his decision. He quickly jumped up on to Mystery's back and galloped out in to the rain, his red cape flowing in the air behind him.
While they galloped along he, for once, took no notice of the heavy rain that he would usually moan about to who ever he had brought for company, which was usually Merlin.
He kept asking in his head why it had to be Merlin, why his father had to come and find him and take him away from Merlin, so that he couldn't protect him.
There's No Rhyme Or Reason In My Life With You Lying Here This Way
What reason did his life have if he lost Merlin? What point would he have for living? He just didn't know the answers to them and if he was honest he didn't want to think about any thing happening to Merlin to permanently get rid of him.
I'd Give Anything Just To Trade Places With YouSo I'm Begging Heaven Down On My KneesTo Help You Make It ThroughHe would give any thing, even his title of crowned Prince, his life even just to trade places with Merlin.
As the black horse continued to place her big feet on the ground, breaking the twigs and what ever else lay in the way of where she wanted to go, he thought about all the things that he would happily give up for Merlin, making a small list of them in his mind and ordered them of what he would happily give up the most. First being what he was most willing to give up and last what he was least willing to.
He was most surprised to find that at the top of his mental list was his own life. Merlin had managed to change Arthur some how. He had made Arthur nicer to people.
He was shocked when Mystery came to an abrupt halt. He hadn't even been paying attention to his surroundings.
They were in a small area of wood land with many trees. He quickly jumped off of Mystery's back and ran over to the small person laying on the ground.
The rain seemed to have gotten a lot heavier since they had stopped and found Merlin.
Arthur took off his red cape and wrapped it around Merlin's small, trembling form and held him tightly.
Mystery placed her head on Arthur's shoulder and closed her black eyes, the rain drops dripping off of her long, thin, black eyelashes.
As Arthur sat on the ground he begged to who ever controlled life that Merlin could just make it through to another day.
Tell Me Can Heaven WaitCan Heaven Wait Just One More NightTell Me What It's Gonna Take To Keep You With Me In My Life"Do you think heaven can wait Mystery?" Arthur asked the black horse, who was know sat on the wet ground, her head still resting on Arthur's shoulder.
She just nodded hitting her head back down on Arthur's shoulder harder than she had meant to, not that Arthur knew that.
One more night was all Arthur needed. He was sure he could get Merlin help if he had one more night to get him back to Gaius in Camelot and manage to avoid his father, so that he didn't notice.
He knew that he would do what ever it took so that he could keep Merlin with him. Even if that meant him dying in Merlin's place, he just wanted Merlin to stay in his life, also he hadn't even been able to tell Merlin the truth.
Giving Up The Shame Of My Other LifeNow I'm Seeing Things In A Whole New LightLord, I Vow To Change If You Just Make It RightCan Heaven Wait One Night
He knew that he would happily give up his life considering every thing that Merlin had done for him.
Merlin had some how managed to show him every thing in a different light than he had seen every thing in before.
"You know Mystery if Merlin lives I will change the ways in which Camelot is bad, such as the law of using no magic, even when it's for helping some one."
Mystery just licked Arthur's face this time making him flinch in shock, since he really wasn't expecting that from the horse.
Thinking Back On Times That I've WastedI Should Have Cherished Every Day
Arthur thought back on all the time when he had wasted his time with Merlin. He could have told Merlin ages ago and then they would already be together and maybe this would never have happened.
He had spent almost every day for the last two years with the boy and never said any thing.
He could see now just how wrong he was to keep his feelings secret.
He could understand now that he should have cherished all the time he and Merlin had together rather than waste it for the last 728 days (two years) that he had spent with his man servant.
All The Different Flavours That I TastedCan't Compare To You, No WayEven with all the different foods Arthur had tasted in his life none of them were any thing compared to Merlin.
No way near.
As I Reminisce By Your SideTears Of Guilt Are Streaming From My Eyes
As Arthur sat with Merlin he thought over all the things that he and Merlin had done together since they had met.
Merlin was the first person who had ever stood up to him in front of people. Arthur had known there was some thing different about Merlin from that moment on.
After all, no normal person would have called him a prat, even if they didn't know who he was.
As the rain dripped down Arthur's face it mixed with the stream of tears, full of guilt, that were also running down his face as he held Merlin in arms, wrapped in his red cloak of Camelot's colours.
All The Things I Did That Weren't RightWish I Could ApologizeAll the things Arthur had done to Merlin that weren't right, he know regretted.
He just wanted every thing to go back to how it was before, so that he could at least apologize for his actions.
He wanted to go back and change his actions towards Merlin. To go back and change the past.
I'd Give Anything If I Could Trade Places With YouSo I'm Begging' Heaven Down On My KneesTo Help You Make It Through
He just wished that he could be Merlin and that Merlin could be him.
Actually that wasn't such a bad idea. As soon as they were both back in Camelot, he and Merlin could try changing places for day.
Maybe then Arthur would actually learn how to clean the floor in his room. Which would then mean that Merlin wouldn't have to clean it.
Tell Me Can Heaven WaitCan Heaven Wait Just One More NightTell Me What It's Gonna Take To Keep You With Me In My LifeIf only Merlin would wake up. Then Arthur would actually be able to breathe properly and he would know that heaven was willing to wait for Merlin till some other night of his life.
If only he knew what it would take to save Merlin and get him to wake up.
If only.
Now I'm Seeing Things In A Whole New LightLord, I Vow To Change If You Just Make It RightCan Heaven Wait One Night
The rain seemed to just make every thing brighter and more well coloured than it was in Camelot.
He was really willing to change how he treated Merlin as a servant. To treat him better. Maybe even try to get him a bit more money than he actually did at the moment, because Merlin was paid basically nothing.
"Can heaven wait?" He asked him self as the rain drowned out the sound of his crying.
I'm Gonna Stop The World, Reverse The TimeDo Whatever It Takes To Keep You AliveHeaven Has To Wait One More DayArthur had another mental list of things he was going to do to make sure that Merlin was and would be okay.
Number1. Stop the world.
Number 2. Reverse time.
Number 3. Do what ever it took to keep Merlin alive.
Number 4. And lastly tell heaven that it had to wait for ages before it could have Merlin.
That was the second mental list that Arthur made, how ever he had a feeling that he would soon be making another mental list in his mind.
Baby, Take My Breath So You Can BreatheI Need You Here So Don't You LeaveHeaven Has To Wait
Merlin could easily take Arthur's breath off of him if he needed it.
Arthur never realised just how much he actually needed Merlin in his life until now, but even though he realised that now it seemed far to late to realise it.
Heaven most defiantly had to wait.
Can Heaven Wait Just One More NightTell Me What It's Gonna Take To Keep You With Me In My LifeArthur looked around the empty forest area, well empty apart from him, Merlin and Mystery.
The wind began to blow on to Arthur's back making him feel quite cold. Not that he actually minded.
He didn't care what it took to keep Merlin with him.
Arthur felt like some sort of child who had a toy and didn't want to share it or even let go of it.
But Merlin wasn't a toy he was a human.
And unlike a toy, Merlin could die, a toy could break, but couldn't exactly die as such.
Giving Up The Shame Of My Other LifeNow I'm Seeing Things In A Whole New LightLord, I Vow To Change If You Just Make It RightCan Heaven Wait One Night
Why was he a Prince?
He had to know the answer to that question one day before he died.
If Merlin was a Prince with magic he would have an invincible kingdom when he became the King of it. And if that Kingdom was Camelot then they really would be the most invincible Kingdom.
Although with Magical Merlin and a-very-good-at-fighting-people-Prince called Arthur then they technically were the most invincible kingdom or could be the most invincible Kingdom.
Arthur looked back at Merlin to see the faint move of his eye lid. After looking a little closer Arthur could see Merlin slowly open his eyes.
When Arthur could finally see Merlin's eyes properly he sighed in relief.
Now heaven would defiantly wait.
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