OH MY GOD BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH….STAR TREK PICTURES…AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. OK KEEP CALM (takes yoga breaths) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Yeah if you can't tell I'm really excited about pictures. Ohh Benedict look at what you have done to me why did you have to be so handsome and go play a role in the sequel to one of my favorite movies (yeah I know call me a nerd but don't lie and say you didn't think that movie was awesome). WHY BENEDICT WHY? MY EMOTIONS (faints)
Well after that little spazz attack here's the chapter and yes I know it's not Goblin's Gold but I'm just going to admit to you all I was not a fan of that episode and truly I just wanted to get to Gwaine. So here's the chapter
"Good job hunting today" Anya joked with me.
"oh shut up" I scolded her as we rode behind Arthur and Merlin.
"Really I thought you were actually going to shoot something today since you were all like 'OH yeah I totally know how to shoot a crossbow. Look at me Arthur I'm so cool with my hunting skills that I got from playing deer hunter on the wii" she mocked me.
"I was not going to shoot Bambi. I mean it looked at me with the cutest eyes" I explained. Arthur had decided to go hunting today and I had decided to tag along and see what it was like. I may have lied a bit when he asked if I had any skills. I'm sure he figured it out when I couldn't shoot a stupid deer and almost shot Merlin on accident at one point.
"Besides I didn't see you doing anything"
"I came along so I could laugh at your so called attempt at hunting"
"Are you sure it wasn't so you could spend time with Merlin?"
"That too" she agreed. We stopped riding as we came to this little town.
"Merlin you know what's good after a good days hunt or lack of" Arthur said looking back at me as I muttered a sorry to him for the hundredth time.
"Sleep" Merlin answered.
"Food" Anya joined in.
"A nice cold tankard of mead" Arthur ignored their answers as he continued riding on. Anya and I looked at each other, alcohol wasn't something we drank often.
"Yay" Anya and I said unenthusiastically. Merlin just looked cranky. We parked our horses at a little post.
"No place better to measure the personality of a town than by going into it's tavern" Arthur said wisely.
"oh yeah drunks stumbling everywhere that are laughing at their own jokes and singing obnoxiously loud is a great way of knowing a towns personality" I contradicted him.
"How often do you go into tavern's Castiel?" Arthur asked.
"Two family members of mine used to own taverns so I think I know a thing or two about them" I told the truth.
"So along with being nobles they also had side jobs as tavern owners?" he asked. Dang it forgot again I realized and apparently Merlin and Anya had two as they froze for a second.
"Yeah I mean they only ran taverns during times of peace" I answered.
"I would like to meet your family someday Castiel they sound like quite the bunch" Arthur smiled grabbing my hand as we walked on.
"Now remember in here Merlin you're not my servant we're all just going to be simple peasants" Arthur told him.
"The simple part will be easy for you right?" Merlin joked. I chuckled.
"What?" Arthur asked.
"I said the sun is very bright" Merlin covered it up.
"Yeah it is, whoa almost got blinded there for a minute" Arthur said looking up at the sun proving Merlin right for a second.
We walked into the tavern. And quickly sat down.
"Afternoon what'll it be?" this lady asked coming over to us obviously she worked here.
"Ummmm" Arthur pondered.
"Oh aren't you a handsome fellow" she said looking at Merlin.
"Well you wouldn't be first to say it, sorry but I'm sort of engaged though" Arthur said proudly putting his arm around Castiel's shoulder.
"Sorry but I was talking about your friend here" she said pinching Merlin's cheek. Castiel and I laughed at that.
"Him?" Arthur asked. The lady nodded.
"Thank you but I'm taken also" Merlin said sounding very surprised.
"Four tankards of mead please" Arthur told her bluntly.
"Oh don't worry Arthur I still think you're handsome" Castiel assured him pinching him on the cheek.
"Coming here was a great idea" Merlin looked at him. A tankard was placed in front of Castiel by the waitress.
"That was quick" I I saw she was the only one who got one.
"Where are the other drinks?" I asked.
"They'll be coming up soon. This one was specially ordered for the lady" the waitress explained.
"By who?" Castiel asked. The woman pointed somewhere. We looked and saw this very attractive man give a small wave to her.
"Who?" Arthur asked still surveying the room looking a tad bit overprotective.
"No one he's hideous" Castiel lied turning his head the other way remembering that we didn't want to cause a scene.
"Completely hideous you have nothing to worry about" I went along with it.
"Is that him?" Merlin asked pointing his hand at the guy and I moved his hand so he was pointing it at some old geezer instead.
"Ugh you could do better" Arthur joked. She slapped him on the shoulder. The doors of the tavern opened and this very shady looking guy who I would not want to be stuck in a dark alley with came in.
Look the other way look the other way Castiel and I were probably both thinking as we turned our heads the other way. Scary guy walked up to our waitress.
"Afternoon Mary" he said not so nicely. She stayed quiet.
"I see business is going well"
"We have our on and off days" she answered.
"I guess that means you wouldn't mind giving me some of your share then?" he asked. I saw Arthur was ready to shoot up and save the day by now. Why is it that the only tavern we happen to walk in to get's robbed on the same day. I mean really? Mary threw some coins down.
"Where's the rest?" Scary guy asked.
"That's all we have" she said. Scary guy pulled a knife out on her.
"Take your hands off her" Arthur said standing behind Scary Guy now. The three of us just sat there a bit clueless of what to do. Scary Guy tried to punch Arthur but he ducked out of the way and pushed him into something.
"oooh that looked like it hurt" Merlin winced with false sympathy for scary guy.
"I'm going to make you pay for that" Scary guy told Arthur as he got up.
"Ha" Castiel laughed at out loud. Everyone in the tavern looked at her. Scary guy whistled and in came a couple other different versions of him.
"You had to open your big mouth didn't you" Arthur whispered to her. The guy who had bought Castiel a drink stood up.
"You two have gotten yourselves in a bit of a pickle haven't you?" he asked.
"You should get out of here while you still have the chance" Arthur warned him.
"You're right" the guy agreed picking up an untouched drink and taking a sip. Then unexpectedly he punched Scary guy in the face. Castiel and I's jaws dropped and Castiel started laughing.
"That was awesome" she whispered. Suddenly the whole tavern just broke out into a fight.
"OH MY GOSH WE'RE IN A BAR FIGHT ANYA THIS IS ON MY BUCKET LIST THESE ALWAYS SEEMED SO COOL" Castiel admitted to me as we ducked and started crawling looking for weapons. One of the versions of Scary guy grabbed my ankle and Castiel kicked him in the face.
"Thanks for that" I told her.
"Hang on being in a bar fight is on your bucket list?" I asked.
"Isn't it on everybody's?" I rolled my eyes at her. She stood for a second when she saw Scary guy beating the tar out of Arthur. She tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around and she kneed him in the groin making him fall to the ground.
"God I love you" Arthur said before turning around and having to fight again. She winked at him and ducked back down next to me. We made our way to the kitchen and found breakable items. We started throwing them at Scary guy's entourage from behind the counter. We saw Merlin hit these two guys with a bench.
"Woohoo Merlin good job getting two birds out with one stone" I said. He ran over to us and got behind the counter with us.
"Your so brave" I told him. He smiled at me and started hitting people with dishes using magic. The cute guy came over to us whilst he had someone in a headlock. He pushed person to the ground.
"Pass me the jug real quick?" he asked Merlin. Merlin handed him the jug that was behind him and cute guy took a sip out of it. We saw someone come up behind him and before we could warn him he punched the guy in the face.
"So what do they call you then?" he asked looking at Castiel.
"Well I'm Merlin" Merlin introduced himself clearly he knew that he was flirting with Castiel.
"And I'm Anya" I said jumping in.
"Behind you" Castiel told him. He gave her a weird look.
"That's not my name I mean there's actually someone coming up behind you" she explained. He turned around and broke the jug on the man who was coming towards him.
"Well Behind You I'm Gwaine" he shook her hand.
"Hi" she smiled twirling her hair and biting her lower lip. I thumped her over the head to help her realize that she was flirting without even knowing it.
"Well back to fighting then" Gwaine shrugged as he got in another fist fight with someone. Merlin, Castiel, and I got back to throwing dishes at people.
"How's it going Arthur?" Castiel asked as we noticed he was being pinned down to a table now.
"Oh it's great I actually think I'm winning" He grunted as a guy slammed his head into the table. The man threw Arthur off and took out a knife and was ready to stab him. Gwaine ran towards the guy and got stabbed in the leg and hit his head on a table knocking him out. The man who had tried to attack Arthur ran out of the tavern. Merlin ran towards Gwaine.
"You alright?" Castiel asked going towards Arthur.
"Spectacular" he moaned as she touched a cut on his eyebrow trying to clean it off.
"Hate to remind you of this but there is an unconscious man on the ground" I pointed out for them as I got down by Merlin's side.
"How is he?" I asked.
"He's losing a lot of blood" Merlin informed me. I tore off a piece of the bottom part of my dress and Merlin tied it around Gwaine's leg to try and cut off the blood flow.
"We need to take him to Camelot with us" I told Arthur. The crowd from the tavern practically stalked us as we made our way to our horses. We placed Gwaine on Merlin's horse.
"If these men ever threaten to harm your village again just send word to Camelot and an army will be here within a day" Arthur promised. Castiel looked at him proudly as Arthur made such a kind promise to them.
"How can you be so sure?" Mary the waitress asked.
"Because I'm the king's son" Arthur said a bit show offish with his shoulder's pushed back. In unison Merlin and I rolled our eyes at him.
We got Gwaine to Gaius in time which was a relief but he had been knocked out ever since then. Meanwhile though everyone in Camelot was gearing up for this tournament called the Melee where you just put a bunch of knight's in a arena and let them duke it out. Xavier wouldn't stop talking about it as we walked together.
"Arthur's going to win" he said.
"Well of course he will" I agreed with him.
"When I'm old enoug or tall enough, whichever comes first, can I be in the melee?" he asked. Before I answered the blonde girl who had kissed Xavier not that long ago came towards us. Xavier hid behind me.
"Why are you hiding from her?" I asked.
"I don't want to talk to her ever since she kissed me all she's wanted to do was plan our wedding. I liked her better when she didn't like me" he said.
"It's just a crush sweetie she's going to get over it soon when you two are older"
"Hopefully"
"Hi Xavier" she smiled at him.
"Hi Mackenna" he sighed.
"Wanna come play with me?" she asked. I looked down at him telling him to be nice.
"No thank you" he said kindly.
"Alright I'll go ask James then" she said pointing to this boy who was a bit taller than Xavier.
"No you won't because I'm playing with you" Xavier told her grabbing her hand and walking off with her.
"Come back before it gets dark"
"Got it Castiel"
"I love you" Xavier didn't answer.
"Xavier" I sang.
"I love you too Castiel" he sighed before leaving. I smiled and realized I had just sounded like my own mom right there. I turned around and ran into Gwaine knocking him down.
"Oh my god I'm so sorry that's probably not the best thing to do to you after being knocked unconscious for so long" I apologized helping him up.
"It's alright but I believe this belongs to you" he said handing me a now smushed flower.
"Or did until I fell on it" he realized.
"I don't often carry flowers on me but I will take your conversation starter" I took it from him.
"So what's your name it's obviously not Behind You?" he asked.
"How'd you guess?" I asked.
"No you look like a princess so it's probably something like Sophia or Esmeralda" he guessed. I made a disgusted face at his guesses.
"Or none of the above"
"It's Castiel" I finally told him.
"So it's Princess Castiel then" he said bowing.
"Stop people are staring" I realized.
"Oh I'm making you blush" he joked.
"I have to go" I said.
"I'll walk with you" Gwaine insisted.
"I'm fine" I assured him.
"Nonsense a princess shouldn't have to walk alone" he said.
"I'm not a princess" yet I added.
"You are to me"
"Stop. Now you're really making me blush" I joked walking on.
"This isn't working well is it?" he asked a bit disappointed.
"Sort of but I'm also taken"
"And you lead me on" he asked in fake shock.
"Not like you already knew though" I told him considering that he probably had seen Arthur and I together at the tavern.
"True" he agreed.
"Fortunately for you I know some lovely ladies that will truly fall for your handsomness, use of words, and flower presentation" I told him handing him back his squished flower.
"Ahh but it is you I only have eyes for Castiel" he said. I rolled my eyes at him and made my way to Gwen's house.
"Do you have the dress?" she asked.
"Yes I do" I told her taking one of Anya's dresses out of my bag I had been carrying with me. I laid it down for her. She examined it.
"Do you think you can make a dress based off the measurements from this one? It's the only way I think we can get them without her noticing what's going on" I said.
"Probably" she nodded.
"Thanks for doing this" I told her. She smiled at me.
"We're being good friends for her. I think she'll love this" she said to me.
I sat down with Merlin in his chambers as he hastily ate his soup.
"You know you're supposed to give yourself a chance to breathe while eating right?" I reminded him.
"I haven't had a chance to sit down once because of Sir Oswald and Sir Ethan" Merlin complained about the Melee member's he had been assigned to help around the castle.
"So I take it they're worse than Arthur then?" I asked.
"Much worse" Merlin replied.
"See you never know whats good for you till you get something different?" I tried to say a bit wisely but then realized it didn't make any sense.
"Are you trying to say Arthur treat's me well?" Merlin asked as if I were joking.
"Compared to other servants I've ever known of in my life you've got it pretty damn well" I assured him as I thought of the histories of slaves who were tortured and worked to death. Apparently what I just said made Merlin laugh as he accidentally spit soup all over me.
"Here" he said quickly handing me a handkerchief before I could say anything. I wiped my face off.
"So does this mean I now get to spit something in your face now?" I asked.
"Yes" Merlin said. I grabbed some water and Merlin tensed up and I spit water in his face just as Castiel came in carrying a bag.
"What are you two doing?" she asked. Merlin and I looked at each other wondering how we could explain this.
"never mind there's something I need both of your help with" Castiel said. We walked down to the tavern.
"Hey princess" Gwaine waved drunkenly at Castiel as we walked in. He was leaning against someone. A man walked up to Merlin and handed him a bill. I looked at it and saw an outrageous amount of alcohol had been purchased.
"You drank all of this?" I asked Gwaine.
"I had some help from new friends" he said and the whole tavern cheered.
"The point is he said he hasn't got any money so your going to have to pay for it" the owner of the bar told Merlin.
"But I don't have any money" Merlin said.
"Well you better find someone who will" the owner threatened now lifting merlin off the floor by his shirt. We all looked between each other.
"Arthur Pendragon will" Merlin assured him.
"So how do you think she'd want it to look like?" Gwen asked. I came back to her house after Anya and I had helped cart a very drunk Gwaine back to Merlin's chambers.
"Well white of course. Something sort of like a ball gown but straighter and the bottom part has to be very flowy" I explained to her. She nodded.
"Just think maybe someday I'll help you make your dress for you and Lance" I shoulder bumped her. She blushed.
"Have you got any material's on you?" she asked. I pulled some out of my bag, I had bought them earlier today just in case.
"Are they the right kind?" I asked. She felt them.
"I can make them work" she agreed.
"You're the best" I hugged her unexpectedly. I was so excited that my secret plan was falling into action.
Ending it here. Did you like it? I hope you did please review if you did. Also I have to ask because I'm told it's a really good book but has anybody read Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter I saw the trailer for the movie and I thought it looked really cool and I heard the book is really good. Is it?
Grapejuice101: I know wooohoo for Xavier! I had fun talking to you also hope you enjoyed the chapter.
Yearofthedays: I hope you like the beginning of the 2 part chapter because you said you wanted to see how I would write the Gwaine episode and I hope you liked it.
Magic Whispers: Yeah I didn't think of Arthur being like "Ok seems legit" about Castiel healing so quickly till after I published it. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
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