Big brother: Chapter 14- My baby!
"I will ask you one final time... WHERE IS THAT BABY?" Uther shouted. Nimueh shivered as he slapped her face vigorously.
"I'll never tell you, that baby has as much right to life as the rest of us do." She replied, almost pleading. Uther growled and whispered something to a guard. The man left and Uther was alone with the witch.
"Right then, we're alone. My kingdom will be in peril if someone should found out that I am father to a filthy sorcerer. The people will riot and I will lose my control. If you refuse to tell me and somebody finds out first, I assure you, your death will be the worst out of all the sorcerers so far." He whispered in a threatening voice. Nimueh bowed her head. She was now truly scared for her life. She knew that if she told him, that Merlin would be executed, but she hoped she could have faith in the others who knew.
"Fine... I'll tell you. But be warned Uther you will regret your rash judgement if you proceed to kill him." Uther listened in with a keen ear and was shocked when he heard the name.
Gwaine wondered back to the castle with a smirk on his face. Hunith had given him a few ways to get back at Arthur and he had a few of his own tricks up his sleeves. Upon entering Arthur's room he was greeted with a look of confusion.
"What?" He asked.
"I thought you were escorting Hunith home." Arthur said. Now Gwaine was confused.
"Yeah I've just dropped her off at the crossroads, I told Percival to let you know I was going." He replied. He watched some of the people in the room start to pale
"But we just saw Hunith not ten minutes ago." Gwen reasoned. Merlin slowly looked worried.
"Gwaine, when did you take her?" He asked fearfully.
"Early this morning, whilst you were all in the meeting." They all paled, whoever had just visited them, was not Hunith.
"If that wasn't Hunith then...who was it." Morgana asked worried, looking at everyone in the room. Merlin piped up quietly.
"There's only one person I know who can shape shift is...Nimueh!" They all bounded for the door at Merlin's exclamation, intent on finding the witch before anyone else did. But they were soon stopped as Uther stood in front of them.
"Halt all of you!" He bellowed. They stopped and were stood still. Although all of them were shaking in their boots they tried not to show it.
"Father, what are you doing?" Arthur asked hoping he didn't already know. Uther smirked and pointed to Merlin.
"Guards arrest that boy." He said and the guards moved to complete his command. Arthur stood in front of him.
"I'll ask again father, what are you doing?" Uther's smile slowly disappeared.
"Arthur this boy has been deceiving you all; I am simply saving you from the danger." Arthur decided to play dumb.
"Father is this about Merlin having magic again, I'm sure we already decided he's too much of an idiot to know magic." He said knowing Merlin wouldn't take it seriously. Uther growled.
"No Arthur, don't you see, this boy...this filth" He spat "is the baby we have been searching for, he is the one who survived the great purge!" Arthur gulped 'Oh gods no' He begged mentally. At the look on Arthur's face Uther's formed a realisation. "You... you already knew." Arthur bowed.
"Yes Sire, I have known for nearly 2 years." He said blatantly. Morgana stepped forward.
"Uther I too have known for a while." She confessed. Uther's face grew red.
"You have been hiding this secret under my node for nearly 2 YEARS!" He shouted. Merlin flinched at the sound. Uther looked around at others in the castle approaching. "Be gone!" He yelled "This has nothing to do with you." Then the knights stepped forward.
"Actually your majesty, it has a lot to do with us." Leon said.
"What you all knew?" He was fuming now. They all nodded. Uther nearly screamed but composed himself as best as he could. "And I suppose if I ask Gaius he would also say he knew about this?" He didn't notice Merlin and Gwen's look of Sadness when Gaius name was said. Arthur looked to them.
"Yes Gaius did know." Uther nodded but then paused.
"What do you mean did know does he not know now?" he asked suspiciously. Arthur gave a solemn bow.
"Yes Father, Gaius... Gaius died a while ago." That did it. Uther saw red and released his sword intend on killing Merlin there and then. Merlin nearly screamed but Arthur pulled out his own sword just in time.
"No father, you would kill your own son over this." There were gasps heard in the hallway has servants and guards alike heard Arthur say this about Merlin. Uther blushed. Now he was very angry.
"You won't live to regret this boy!" He yelled at Merlin. Positive that Uther was going to take another hit at Merlin, Arthur got out his sword again.
"Run Merlin!" He yelled "Get out of here, get as far as you can!" Merlin did as he was told for once as Morgana and Gwen got people out of the way of the vigorous sword fight.
"Arthur why are you doing this, you're choosing a servant over your own father?" Arthur smirked as he fought.
"No I'm choosing my BROTHER over my father." Morgana turned to Lancelot.
"Lancelot, please you have to go after him, he scared, and he won't know what he's doing!" She begged. The knight nodded and ran off to catch up with the runaway servant. Uther saw him.
"No! Guards after them!" He shouted. The guards obeyed his orders and headed off to catch the knight and servant/prince. Now it was Arthur's turn to send back-up.
"Gwaine! Take the knights, find Merlin. Gwen you and Morgana get these people away form here. This is between me and my father." Everyone respectively nodded and obeyed their given orders
"Just you and me father." Arthur said. "Please step down, stop this madness." He begged. Uther shook his head and parried another one of Arthur's hits.
"Never, that monster will never belong to the royal family; I would die before that happened." Arthur suddenly stepped back confusing him
"Merlin's not the monster father. You are." And with that he ran off in search of his brother. Leaving Uther stood in the hallways alone. He shouted at the top of his lungs and then ran down to the dungeons. He wretched the cell door white open and lifted his prisoner up by the scruff of her neck.
"You; witch, are going to show me where to find that boy before Arthur does, Or I'm going to make you regret ever being born." Nimueh gulped