I AM SO SORRY I TOOK SO LONG TO POST THIS BUT I SWEAR ON THE GRAVES OF THE MANY PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIED IN MERLIN THAT I HAVE A GOOD REASON!

Basicly, the day after I posted the final chapter, my laptop had to go in for repairs. And I only just got it back today. I'm pretty damn greatful they didn't revert it back to factory settings without permission like last time (grrr), so the fact that I still have these files is enough of a relief. :P Anyway's...

Welcome to this special Behind The Scenes look of The Prince and the Puppy! :D

As a little celebration of the story finally being finished, we thought we'd share with you the story plan we've based the story on. We got the idea when we re-read it a few weeks back and thought "hey, the readers might actually be interested in this". If you are, here it is! =P

This plan is actually a lot funnier than it sounds. I (Maltese-Sapphire) was in a strange mood when I wrote up this plan :P

Enjoy!

P.S - You should know that we have re-named the Great Dragon. He is now called "Ole Slashy". Cos let's face it, he totally ships it! :D

Merlin has a day off (yayz!). Goes for walk in the forest.

Nimueh follows Merlin. Changes Merlin into cute puppy to stop him getting in the way of her evil plots. (yh, great plan, Nimmy! *highfive*)

Arthur is out hunting. Find's puppy, takes back to Camelot as pet. (Merlin is not amused :P)

Arthur names puppy Jet. (Don't laugh! Is cool name!)

Arthur takes puppy to see Uther. Uther eventually decides to keep the puppy.

Merlin is like "wtf? He likes me when I'm a DOG?"

Arthur runs into Morgana on his way up to his chambers.

She's like "aaaaw, cute puppy! ME WANTS!"

Arthur snatches puppy back. He's like "NO! MAH PUPPEH!"

Merlin is like "This better continue when I turn back!"

Arthur isn't sure what to do with Jet. Servant deliver's dinner. Arthur gives Jet a bit of chicken in a bowl. Jet eats. Jet is still hungry, however, so Arthur send a servant to get some dog food. Merlin is reluctant at first, but discovours it's actually quite nice.

Arthur makes Jet a bed on the floor, but Merlin decides he wants to sleep on the bed. He jumps onto the bed and sleeps next to Arthur. (awww ^^)

Next morning, Arthur goes out training, leaves Jet alone in chambers.

Merlin trashes the place as payback for everything Arthur makes him do.

Merlin goes for walk around castle, trying to find Gaius. Gets lost. He runs into Uther. Uther takes Jet to a council meeting, sits with puppy on his lap. Uther conducts meeting seriously whilst the Jet eats all the food on the table. Court members are like "wtf is that puppy doing here?"

Arthur bursts in, angry about the mess in his room. Threatens to kill Jet. Uther get's angry, shouts "I'd like to see you try!"

Uther and Arthur fight, Jet runs out of room.

Merlin decides to go and have some fun. He finds his way down to the stables and goes around barking and scaring the horses.

Arthur finds Merlin, catches him and dumps him with Morgana to keep him out of trouble.

Morgana decides that Jet is dirty and tries to give him a bath. Gwen is holding him down whilst Morgana washes him. Jet bites Gwens arm to make her let go and jumps out. He shakes himself, getting Morgana and Gwen all wet, and runs out of the room.

Morgana and Gwen chase him, and they run into Arthur. Jet whines at Arthur.

Arthur is like "WTF Morgana, you're traumatizing him!"

Arthur takes Jet back to the spare chambers he is now sleeping in (his own are still a mess).

Makes Jet a bed on the floor, goes to bed.

Jet decides he wants to sleep on the bed aswell, barks up at Arthur until he lifts him up onto the bed (is too small to jump =D).

Arthur has touchy convo with Jet saying he misses Merlin. Merlin gets hopeful, thinking he's broken the spell. The Arthur says "Still, it's nice to get away from his uselessness once in a while"

And Merlin is sad. ="(

Next morning, replacement servant comes, Jet is NOT happy. Growls at and tries to bite when Arthur isn't looking.

Arthur goes out training, leaves Jet with servant. Jet terrorises servant as he works, making more mess, tripping over, etc.

Servant looses temper. Just as Arthur walks in, servant starts shouting and swearing at Jet and tries to kick him. Jet goes running to Arthur, whining. Arthur fires servant. Merlin is happeh =D

Arthur knows Jet was causing trouble, so he's like "Wtf this dog is insane! He needs to be trained"

Next morning, Arthur takes Jet out to the courtyard to train. Merlin has had enough of being told what to do and decides not to listen to Arthur at all and winds him up by not following the commands properly. (Refusing to come back or stay when told to; when Arthur says sit, he rolls over; etc)

Morgana finds them in the courtyard and laughs at Arthur's bad training. She takes over, and Merlin follows her commands perfectly just to wind Arthur up.

Next, Arthur tries to train Jet to walk on a lead. Jet doesn't like this, and tries to get it off by pulling on it and biting it. He refuses to walk with it, and sits still when Arthur walks. When he spots a cat, he decides to behave like a real dog and lunges forward after it, pulling Arthur down into a pile of mud.*points and laughs*

Jet runs after the cat, only coming back when Morgana calls him.

Arthur gives up on training, furious.

That night, Merlin sneaks out to find Gaius. Finds Gaius, tries to convince him who he is by sneaking into his room and showing Gaius one of his neckerchiefs. Unfortunately, Gaius no can has Maths GCSE (inside joke) and thinks he's just a lonely puppy (aw, poor puppy =P).

Merlin takes neckerchief to Arthur, hoping he will either recognise him or realise he misses him. Takes back, decides to give to Arthur at the right time.

Next morning, Arthur goes off training before Merlin wakes up. Merlin wakes up, takes neckerchief down to show Arthur.

Runs into Uther, who kidnaps him and takes him to the throne room where he is meeting poor and smelly people who want money for farming and crap. Gaius comes to see king to complain about Jet, it astonished to see Uther is loving the puppeh. Storms out all annoyed. EPIC FAIL. XD

Merin sneaks off while Uther is busy to go find Arthur. Finds Arthur in jousting tournoment. Runs onto the feild, barking loudly to get Arthur's attention. Barking spooks horse, Arthur looses joust (booo!). Iz real pissed off at Jet.

Merlin tries to give Arthur the neckerchief, but Arthur is pissed off at him and when Jet continues pestering him, he's like "wtf Jet, piss off already!"

So he does just that. Pisses off.

Goes to the woods where he was first changed. Finds his clothes, lays on top, looking all sad. Wishes he was human again.

Suddenly, hears someone nearby. Sees it's Gaius. Barks like hell, makes Gaius come over. Gaius is like "wtf, it's that puppy that invaded my room last night!" Notices Merlin's clothes. Is like "wtf, Merlin's clothes!" (yes, Gaius says wtf a lot, but obviously they can't show us that on tv =P)

Merlin tries to tell Gaius who he is, indicating his clothes and barking. Gaius is like suspicious puppy. Must take back to Camelot" Takes puppy back to Camelot.

Merlin goes running into his room barking. Gaius follows. Merlin finds magic book his magic book, paws the book and whines. Gaius eventually puts two and two togeather and asks the puppy if he's Merlin. Merlin goes wild, barking and yapping. Gaius is like "yayz! I has found Merlin!" then is like "wtf, Merlin's a puppy!"

Merlin and Gaius try to find a spell to change him back. No workey =/

Merlin is sad ="(

Gaius finds a spell that will let him understand Merlin. Spell works. Whoop! *partaaay* :D

Merlin tells Gaius everything. Gaius tells Merlin to go kiss and make up with Arthur (yes, really =D)

Yh, this chapter didn't really go anywhere =/

(Loyal fans will remember that this was the point where we shamelessly begged for your help =P)

Merlin goes off to find Arthur and use his puppeh charm to make him forgive him. Arthur is like "Me no likey you Jet, go die in a hole!" (or something like that) =P

Merlin is sad. ="( Goes to ask Ole Slashy for help.

Dragon: LMFAO

Merlin: Is no funneh! Now help me, Lizard Ass!

Dragon: No can has help. This is something you must figure out yourself, young warlock. *smokes crack pipe* Oh, and you need to turn back before the next eclipse or you'll be stuck forever. Have fun! =P

Merlin is like "ohnoez! No wanna be puppeh foreverrrrrrrrr =O"

Merlin goes run run running back to Gaius, is like "ohnoz! Gaius! Have to change back before eclipse or me = doggy forever!"

Gaius is like "ohnoez! Eclipse in 3 days!"

Merlin + Gaius is like "OHNOEZ!"

Merlin tells Gaius that Arthur is still mad at him and dragon refuses to help (bad bad Ole Slashy).

Gaius comes up with master plan.

When Arthur next goes hunting, he will sneak after them and plant Merlin's clothes in the forest for Arthur to find and think "wtf! Nekkid Merlin in forest!"

(Maltesegirl50, keep your slashy thoughts to yourself plz)

Merlin agrees to plan, promises to find out when Arthur next goes hunting and tell him. Goes back to Arthur's chambers.

Runs into Uther and Arthur on the way. Arthur is still sulky, but Uther is still going mad for ze cute puppeh =P

Arthur takes Jet back up to his chambers. After a large dose of "I is a cute puppeh, please love me", Arthur forgives Jet and they snuggle up in bed togeather. Aaaaawww =P

Next morning, Merlin starts to act differently, to show he is slowly changing perminantly into a dog. In the words of Maltesegirl50, he is "loosing his Merliny Stuff"

This is shown by Merlin waking up when a servant brings in breakfast and starts barking like a maniac (dogs are very territorial), can't help but jump up at Arthur trying to get his food, and when Arthur tells him to sit, he does (which makes him think "wtf is happening to me?").

Whilst watching Arthur train with the knights, he spots a cat across the field and chases after it, tripping over one of the knights and causing him to drop his sword on his foot. Arthur catches Jet, and shouts "bad dog!" at him. Merlin feels genuinely sad about that (another dog trait which suprises him). At the end of training, Arthur tells the knights to be ready in an hour for the hunt. Merlin dashes off to tell Gaius.

Gaius gathers the clothes and tells Merlin he will plant them ahead of the hunting party so Arthur will spot them. Merlin goes back to Arthur's chambers, where he is getting ready to go.

While Arthur and the other knights saddle up the horses and shit like that, Merlin goes for a chat with the hunting hounds. Some of the hounds bully him cos he's tiny compared to them and thinks he's nuts when he says he's really a human, but makes friends with a hound called Max.

Merlin sits with Artur on his horse, but when the hunt starts, he instinctively wants to run off with the hounds (another doggy trait coming through there =P). However, fully grown hounds run faster than him and he ends up riding on Max's back =P

Merlin is horrified when Max lunges at a fox and drags it down. Max tells him he doesn't like killing, but he does it for the treats he gets =P Sure enough, he takes it back to Arthur and gets a chunk of meat. Arthur picks Jet up and puts him on the saddle so he doesn't get lost and they continue the hunt. Merlin keeps his eyes pealed for Gaius or his clothes.

Nimueh has been sneaky-sneaking around the area for a while, and she knows about Merlin and Gaius's plan. And being the evil motherless bitch that she is, she decides there is only one logical thing to do; SABOTAGE! =D (Note - Nimueh is doing dirty cheating here. Is important to story)

She does what Morgause did and posesses Torrento (Arthur's cool horsey =P), making him buck, change direction, rear up and generally go mad so that Arthur doesn't get close enough to see the clothes Gaius has planted nearby. Torrento eventually managed to throw both Arthur and Merlin off. Merlin goes smack wollop into a tree, and Arthur lands in a pile of mud. Knights make jokes about it and laugh, Arthur gives death glare, picks up Jet and skulks off back to Camelot to clean up while the knights carry on hunting.

Merlin is sad and sulky because the plan failed. All evening, he is in a bad mood and refuses to be happeh. Until one of the knights comes in with the clothes they found in the forest, recognising them as Merlin's. Merlin goes happeh happeh when Arthur recognises them as his.

Arthur recognises them as his alright, but gets the wrong idea and starts panicking, thinking that Merlin is in lost in the forest somewhere (evidently without any clothes on XD).

He starts raving to himself, and Jet, when he is heard by Morgana and Gwen who "just happen to be in the area" =P

All 3 decide to set out the next morning to go look for Merlin in ze forest. Merlin is in awkward posision here. (yayz for awkwardness =D)

The next morning, Arthur leaves early with Morgana and Gwen, while Merlin is panicking, not knowing what to do.

Before he leaves, Arthur ties Jet to the table by his lead so that he can't escape anywhere and cause mayhem. Merlin is annoyed and angry because he was gonna go talk to Gaius about ze

issue at hand.

At some point during the day, Merlin's old pal Nimueh turns up to show off about how time's running out and Arthur will never miss him cos he doesn't care about him enough. Merlin argues that he does cos he's gone to look for him, but Nimueh says it's not enough. Merlin says he will make Arthur break the spell. Nimueh runs out of come-backs and casts a spell to make him sleep until after the eclipse. (Nimeuh's dirty cheating).

Out in ze forest, Arthur Morgana and Gwen have been searching all day and no sign of Merlin. Gwen and Morgana are going mad with worry, Arthur puts a brave face on it. Towards sunset, Morgana says they should turn back for the night, Arthur yells at her for not caring about Merlin. Morgana wants to know why he cares so much about Merlin (just a servant and all that jazz). Arthur goes off on a rant about how Merlin has saved him, now he needs to save Merlin, he's his best friend, etc etc, then...

"I MISS HIM!"

HALLE-FUCKING-LUJAH! WE GOT THERE! ARTHUR MISSES MERLIN!

Because the spell has just broken, there is a massive freak storm involving heavy rain, lightning, thunder, black skies, the full monty. Arthur and co. hurry home right away.

Up in Arthur's chambers, Merlin (who is still sleeping) has just been struck by lightning and turned from black German Shepherd puppy to his normal human self.

(which is kinda weird because he looks EXACTLY like Colin Morgan! XD)

Arthur goes back up to his chambers, all sad and worried about Merlin. But he need not worry! Because Merlin is asleep on his floor! ... Nekkid! ... And wearing Jet's collar and lead...?

WTF?

MERLIN WAS JET?

WTF IS GOING ON HERE?

Wakes Merlin up, stands and stares as Merlin goes mad and is like "yaaaay! Fingers, no tail, skin, COLOURS!"

Arthur: "Uuuuuh, Merlin?"

Merlin *iz too happeh to care* Yh?

Arthur: You iz nekkid.

Merlin: O_O

Arthur: *facepalm*

*later*

Merlin (who now wrapped in blanket) has been explaining to Arthur how he became a puppy. Tells Arthur about Nimueh and how the spell was broken. Mentions he was worried Arthur wouldn't miss him. Arthur takes this moment to declare his luuuurve. Pounces on Merlin, ready for steamy bed action.

AVERT THINE EYES, CHILDREN!

Arthur stops snogging long enough to compliment Merlin on his dog breath (XD)

Down in Ole Slashy's lare, Nimueh has come to visit. Slashy is bragging about how he's just won the bet, and Nimueh is sulking and saying it was a stupid bet anyways.

The bet goes like this: Ole Slashy and Nimueh were arguing about how much Arthur and Merlin lurve eachother.

Slashy: Come on, they so love eachother!

Nimueh: Nuh-uh!

Slashy: Uh-huh!

Nimueh: Nuh-uh!

Slashy: Wanna bet?

Nimueh: Oki =D

Ole Slashy remembers that Nimueh had cheated several times, and says that all wrong-do-ers get their reward in the end...

Nimueh = kitteh!

MWAHAHAHAHA! XD

END OF STORY!

(Thank God *pants for breath*)

AAAAAAAAND, this is officially the end of The Prince and the Puppy. I know! Sad times! :"(

We'd both like to thank everyone who's read our story. We've loved reading your reviews as much as we hope you've liked reading our story.

And finally, another huuuuuuge thank you from both of us for your support throughout this story. We've enjoyed writing it for you as much as we hope you have enjoyed reading it.

THANK YOU, AND GOODNIGHT! (or morning, or whatever time it is that you're reading this) :P

Maltese-Sapphire and Maltesegirl50