In the woods Morgana and Gwen were laying all the food out for the picnic while Arthur and Merlin were tying the horses to the trees.
"So are you going to tell her now?" Merlin said quietly so Morgana and Gwen couldn't hear.
"Tell her what?" Arthur said without looking at Merlin.
"That you love her." Merlin immediately replied, did Arthur want him to say it simpler then that.
"When did I say that I love Morgana?"
Merlin resisted the urge to shout at Arthur "Arthur, just tell her."
Arthur looked at him "With an audience? I don't think so."
"It's only me and Gwen."
"Merlin, when time comes, I'll tell her."
Merlin folded his arms "Fine get her a few flowers before."
Arthur finished tying the last horse to the tree and looked at Merlin "Why?."
"Well girls love flowers so before you say anything to her give her some flowers, it would impress her."
"I'll give her flowers, but not to impress her.
"Sure." Merlin rolled his eyes, how stupid did Arthur think he was?
Arthur looked around and spotted three dandelions and pulled them out of the ground. "What about these?" He said admiring the flowers.
"For what?" Merlin said with a puzzled expression, what was Arthur planning to do with three dandelions.
"To give to Morgana." Arthur immediately replied, did he always have to explain everything to Merlin.
Merlin looked at Arthur with a frown, Arthur probably has lost his mind "Have you ever gave a girl flowers before."
"No, I never thought it was necessary."
Merlin slapped his hand on his own forehead while shaking his head if only he was allowed to slap Arthur instead.
"What?" Arthur questioned.
Merlin looked at him "Your so un romantic aren't you? Dandelions Arthur dandelions? You're a bigger clot pole than I thought." He said keeping his voice low and resisting the urge to shout at him.
"Merlin." Arthur said in annoyance.
"What? I understand that you've never given a girl flowers before but three dandelions , Arthur? what is she going to do with three dandelions and when I said flowers I meant something like lilies or..."
"Fine." Arthur interrupted him," this time and this time only your right, there are some lily plants abit in the south, I'm going to go and get them." He said while he crushed the dandelions in his hand and threw them.
"I'm coming with you." Merlin said, he didn't want to leave Arthur on his own, especially after Morgana's nightmare.
"What...why?"
"Umm." Merlin thought, he needed a good excuse "I...I...I need to pee."
"Great." Arthur said with a disgusted expression. He turned to look at Morgana, who was helping Gwen lay out the food and walked up to them with Merlin trailing after him "Morgana."
Morgana and Gwen turned to look at Arthur and Merlin. "Yes."
"We will be back in abit."
"Were you off to?" Morgana asked.
Arthur pointed at Merlin "Merlin needs to p-."
"Actually Arthur needs to get-."Merlin interrupted him.
"We'll be back in five minutes." Arthur interrupted Merlin and glared at him. He then walked off with Merlin.
"Arthur." Morgana called but Arthur and Merlin were already trailing off. Morgana looked at Gwen who shook her shoulders.
"I wonder why Merlin and Arthur aren't back." Morgana said with a worry tone of voice as she got up and took a few steps forward.
"They did say five minutes." Gwen smiled.
"Yes but..."Morgana paused when she heard a few leaves moving and a few footsteps. She turned around and noticed four men holding swords walking up to them.
"That's them, Catch them." One of the men said and all four of them started running towards Morgana and Gwen.
Morgana and Gwen just looked at each other.
"Run Gwen." Morgana shouted.
Morgana and Gwen started running, towards the direction Arthur left it.
"Arthur." Morgana shouted "Arthur." As she looked back the people were coming nearer to her and Gwen, Morgana panicked, they had nothing to fight with or for self defence.
Merlin walked up to Arthur, he pretended he went to pee when the truth was that he was secretly keeping an eye on Arthur. Merlin stood next to Arthur. "Finished?" He questioned.
Arthur picked another lily "You know I can hear Morgana shouting my name."
"How romantic." Merlin smiled, someone once told him that when you fall in love you hear people saying your name, maybe Arthur is really, really in love with Morgana that's why he could hear her shouting his name.
"No idiot, I can actually hear Morgana shouting my name."
Merlin and Arthur both looked at each other, they could hear faint noises of Morgana and Gwen calling them. Lilies dropped to them floor as they started running towards the direction they came from.
One bandit came right in front of Morgana and Gwen's way which made them stop,
"Not so fast my lady." One of the person behind them grinned; they were getting closer to them.
"Don't come near us, I'm the Uther Pendragon's ward if any harm comes to me, Uther will have your head." Morgana said while she kept a steady voice, she was not going to let them think that she scared.
"We have no intention in hurting you My Lady; just have to take you into hostage." One of the men smirked at her and took another step forward.
"Very well, but I have intention in hurting you." Arthur said as him and Merlin were standing not too far from the bandits.
Morgana and Gwen looked at them, they were relieved. A small smile plastered on Morgana's face.
"Morgana and Gwen…Go. "Arthur said while he and Merlin got out their swords.
Morgana looked at him, she couldn't leave him "Arthur but.-"
"Go, take yourself and Gwen to safety. We'll handle them" Arthur shouted while he fighted with one of the bandits.
Morgana looked at him for the last time and caught Gwen's hand as they started running away from the scene. As they ran the noise of swords hitting each other started slowly decreasing. Morgana stopped.
"My lady." Gwen immediately said.
Morgana turned around, she could barely see them now."My nightmare..." Morgana whispered. "What if anything..."
"Morgana." Gwen said while she tried to reassure her. "Nothing will-."
Morgana interrupted her as she looked at Gwen "I can't leave him."
"Mor-."
"I can't. You go Gwen."
Gwen knew how stubborn Morgana is, no matter what she says, Morgana wasn't going to leave Arthur. "I'm not going to leave you." Gwen put her hand on Morgana's arm and smiled, she couldn't leave Morgana here on her own "I'm with you."
Arthur fighted most of the bandits as Merlin was quite clumsy at using a sword and needed a lot of help.
Morgana and Gwen crept towards them but stayed hidden behind big trees as they watched what was going on.
Soon enough Arthur had his sword to one of the bandits chest, the rest were lying down injured."Tell me, who you are."
But the bandit made no effort in replying.
Arthur pushed his sword harder into his chest making the bandit groan in pain.
"We are…we are Hugo's men; we were given the job in taken lady Morgana hostage, so he could ask for a huge ransom in return. For...Forgive me."
Arthur released his sword from the bandit's chest and let him get up, without warning the bandit kicked his sword out his hand. Arthur punched him on the face and threw to him at a nearby tree. The bandit fell to the ground and groaned quite loudly, Arthur walked to pick up his sword.
From quite behind Arthur, there was another bandit who got up from the ground, no one saw him, all their attention was to Arthur. He called Arthur. "Arthur Pendragon." While he threw the sword at him.
Arthur was just about to reach the sword when he heard someone call his name and he turned around, he noticed the sword was more than half way near him; his feet froze to the ground. The sword was just about to stab him when it froze in mid-air near him.
Everyone was shocked, Arthur spotted Merlin who was holding his hand out towards the sword and his eyes were bronze. Two seconds later, the man who threw the sword was thrown away into the air.
Morgana and Gwen came out behind the trees. All of there eyes were on Merlin. Arthur walked up to Merlin.
"Merlin…" Arthur said, his voice shaking, he didn't want to believe Merlin had just used magic. "Did you just use...". Arthur couldn't say the last word instead he looked at Merlin.
Merlin looked at Arthur then his eyes fell to the ground, his worst fear, his worst nightmare had come true today, Arthur found out.