Summary: Merlin and the gang are now watching series two of Merlin
Pairings: Arthur/Gwen, Gwen/Lancelot, Merthur, Morgana/Merlin, Merlin/Freya, Arthur/Vivian, Uther/Troll, friendship Gwen/Morgana, implied Morgana/Lancelot/Gwaine/Percival/Leon/Elyan, parental Gaius/the knights/Gwen/Merlin/Morgana/Arthur, Arthur/chicken, everyone/shower, and oh did I mention Morgana/Merlin?
The next morning started with a fight over an invention called the shower. Gaius had discovered it first and introduced it to Merlin who was in a severe need of a wash. Gwen and Morgana had then taken over it spending half an hour each washing their hair by the time Arthur was allowed in there was a fight between himself and the Knights to get in first.
Of course Lancelot snuck in while Arthur, Gwaine, Elyan and Leon were wrestling for it while Percival decided it was better if he waited till the evening to have a shower.
The result was the four men stank of sweat as Lancelot used up all the hot water.
Arthur and Gwaine sulked terribly as everyone happily ate their fruit for breakfast and sat down for series two.
The more recent residents of Camelot jumped at the loud drilling noise and winced as they watched Merlin and Arthur bicker.
"Good Lord," Percival said quietly, "how on earth were you all able to sleep through that?"
"We didn't," Merlin, Arthur, Morgana, Gwen, Gaius, and Leon said darkly. They all shuddered as they remembered the sleepless nights and cranky mornings and yet it had to take an evil super-powerful sorcerer to get Uther to stop drilling.
They watched in silence (minus a couple gasps when Gaius almost got shot and then revealed who was buried beneath Camelot) up until Cedric came up on the scene. Slowly but surely each and every member in the room was shooting Arthur glares. Even Leon although he had been there at the time.
What can he say? Merlin wormed his way into his heart.
"I don't like that little weasel," Gwaine muttered glaring at Cedric.
"Join the club," Merlin hissed darkly.
They all laughed when Merlin called Arthur a clotpole and cheered when Merlin tackled Cedric and wrestled with him. They paled when Cedric got possessed by Cornelius and some shuddered as Camelot descended into darkness and chaos. Gwaine wolf-whistled a blushing Gwen when they witnessed her tackling Arthur to the ground while Elyan and Lancelot scowled. They all ended up staring at a blushing Merlin in awe when they saw him turn down the offer of ruling the world in favour of washing Arthur's socks.
"Seriously Merlin," Gwaine carried on, "Arthur's socks or having people wash yours and you willingly chose the former?"
They sniggered for the last couple minutes as Arthur apologises to Merlin and Gaius questions the insult clotpole. Their good mood carried on throughout the whole of the second episode as they laughed at Arthur's indignation, Leon's fluster, the awkwardness and arrogance of Sir William, and at the poor suffering of Merlin. They told Arthur off for his rudeness towards Gwen and cheered the girl as she told Arthur off herself on the screen. They all burst out in hysterical laughter seconds later.
"Arthur," Gwaine gasped clutching his ribs, "What the hell are you doing to that poor chicken?"
Arthur decided not to comment. Instead he decided that he liked red so much he'll make his face bright red in embarrassment and hit Merlin in the shoulder to shut him up.
His embarrassment grew as everyone jeered at him when he romantically, tenderly, softly kissed Gwen. He decided to relive the experience with Gwen when the others were distracted by Merlin's breakdown, an assassin, and Merlin saving his life...again.
All the good feeling in the room left the moment episode three began and Morgana on screen set fire to her bed curtains.
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"Die you bastard!"
Merlin ducked behind Arthur in time to miss the shoe Morgana threw at him. With an enraged scream Morgana leaped to attack Merlin when Gwen (rather bravely the very terrified men had thought) grabbed hold of her by the waist and pulled her back into a cuddle.
"Morgana take a nice deep breath and relax," Gwen instructed her sweetly, "let all that anger go."
"He lied to me just because a flipping giant lizard told me I'll be evil!" Morgana screeched.
"You are evil!" Arthur protested as he tried to get away from Merlin.
He really didn't want to be Merlin's human shield right this moment.
"Ever heard of a self-fulfilling prophecy, dimbat?" Morgana said coolly. Instantly Arthur felt like a bit of dirt on the bottom of her shoe, stupid and worthless. "By listening to that oversized snake who wants Merlin to jump into bed with you (lord knows why, he can do better), Merlin has isolated me and pushed me into the arms of those who are willing to help but at a price. He has made me this way not me."
"Like your pride, resentment, and bitterness had nothing to do with it," Merlin muttered darkly.
"I'll have your balls on my wall!" Morgana shouted as she struggled against Gwen.
"Morgana, would you like me to brush your hair?" Gwen asked in her sweet voice.
"Huh?"
Everyone was confused now. Gaius was getting a headache.
"I could braid it for you."
"Oh would you, Gwen?" Morgana asked cheerfully as she turned in Gwen's embrace and beamed at her.
The men let out a sigh of relief as Gwen led Morgana into the bedroom to find a hair brush and some ribbons.
"Cheer up, Merlin," Leon said with a wicked grin on his face, "you can bring her another bouquet of flowers and beg for her forgiveness."
"Yeah," Percival snickered, "you'll win her love again."
"Oh shut up!"
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They were mostly quiet for the next couple hours. Morgana hummed contently as Gwen did her hair for her (something she had missed greatly) as she tried to ignore how upset her past self was on the TV screen while Lancelot kept his eyes trained on his feet as Arthur glared daggers at him. The others weren't quite sure what to say or do other than laugh when Merlin knocked out the guards' mid-way through the fourth episode. During the fifth the tension remained though it was eased with the snorts, snickers, and scoffs as they watched Uther romance the Troll, Arthur accuse Merlin of being a peeping Tom, and Arthur's reactions to his new stepmother.
Gwaine couldn't stop laughing and making cracks at how good looking Arthur's and Morgana's new stepmother was.
If looks could kill or more accurately Morgana and Arthur had magic Gwaine would be a pile of ash by now.
Leon had taken to rocking back and forth completely traumatised as he was forced to relive the worst two weeks of his life. Percival gave him a very long comforting hug that made Gwen squeal in delight.
The others were just disgusted at how oblivious Uther is.
And then...
"AH!" Arthur screamed clinging to Merlin.
"My eyes!" Gwaine roared disgusted. "My poor virgin eyes!"
"I don't think any part of you is virginal Gwaine," Gaius muttered as he turned a faint green.
"Uther shouldn't be allowed to have sex let alone have sex with a Troll," Morgana groaned as she clutched her stomach. "I feel sick."
"Join the club," Elyan said lifting his head up from the bucket.
Quickly enough their disgust and horror turned into amusement as Merlin slid out from under Arthur's bed.
"And what exactly where you doing under there, Merlin?" Gwaine asked waggling his eyebrows. "Spying on Arthur as he undresses?"
"I don't need to spy on Arthur for that," Merlin scoffed. "He gets naked in front of me all the time."
"Merlin!"
Gaius wondered if he should buy all of these young men a chastity belt of some sort. Or better yet drug their food with some anti-erection potion. He was too young to worry about being a grandfather just yet.
"Oh my god!" Gwaine gasped. "Uther is crying, Uther has feelings, Uther is actually human."
"Shut up Gwaine," Arthur grumbled.
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Gaius had never felt so loved before. Throughout most of the episode after lunch (not that many managed to eat as the memory of Uther and the Troll lingered in their minds) Gwen clung to Morgana and Arthur kept a tight hold over Merlin's wrist as that pathetic excuse of a Witch-finder interrogated the pair of them. The moment Aerdian had turned his eyes on to Gaius and threatened to expose Morgana and Merlin if he didn't turn himself in everyone shouted in outrage.
"You were protecting me?" Morgana asked in a quiet little girl's voice, her eyes wide and innocent.
"Of course I was my dear," Gaius said gently, "I love you as if you were my own child just as I love Merlin, Arthur, and Gwen."
"What about us?" Elyan asked as the other knights.
Gaius sighed. "I suppose you have all grown on me," he admitted, "like a fungus," he added under his breath.
"Aww! We love you to Gaius!" Gwaine cooed. "Group hug!"
Gaius found himself buried beneath several young people's bodies and really wished they would get off him since he found it highly difficult to breathe.
They soon fell off of him as they laughed hysterically when Aerdian coughed out a toad.
The next episode was an awkward silent one again. Gwaine was in the doghouse for commenting how sexy Morgause is and telling Merlin he sounds like a nagging mother. Arthur was scowling and Morgana felt confused since she wasn't sure what Morgause was playing at. Everyone gasped, horrified, as Arthur attempted to murder Uther and gave Merlin sympathetic smiles when he lied on Arthur's behalf.
"I forgive you Merlin," Arthur said sadly, "I understand now. You made a great sacrifice on my behalf."
Gwen moved over to give Arthur a comforting hug and both Gaius and Leon squeezed his should comfortingly.
Gwaine just snorted. "Uther's an idiot," he said loudly.
Somehow that didn't let him out of the doghouse.
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"It's been so long since I've seen her that I have almost forgotten how beautiful she is," Merlin breathed as she watched himself led Freya into the tunnels. "She's so beautiful."
Morgana scowled feeling rather conflicted. She hated Merlin for backstabbing her, poisoning her, and being a liar in general and yet throughout yesterday and today she had felt her heart skip a beat when he defended her or was nice to her and she almost blushed earlier when she saw him bring her that bouquet of purple and white wildflowers. Now she wanted to tear out this Freya's hair out and show Merlin who was the more beautiful out of the two of them. She had to keep reminding herself what a nasty little liar he is.
The Knights were too busy snickering at Merlin's jabs on Arthur's weight to notice and Gwen was staring at the screen in wonder. She honestly thought Merlin preferred men over women or was just useless at the whole courting thing.
"Oh Merlin, how romantic!" Gwen gasped as Merlin conjured a red rose. She turned to Arthur. "Why don't you do nice things like that for me?"
"Because I have Merlin to do them for me," Arthur said.
Gwen huffed and turned away from him. Lancelot looked at her adoringly and she couldn't help but blush she knew instantly it if she allowed him Lancelot would do romantic things like bringing her flowers, writing poetry to praise her, kiss her hand, and actually cook her dinner. She told herself off and reminded herself all the good things Arthur is...
"Way to go, Merlin!" Gwaine cheered as they watched Merlin kiss Freya.
Merlin blushed bright red and Morgana scowled even more.
They all laughed when Gwen and Arthur implied Merlin was a cross-dresser.
"So that's where that started," Lancelot said in between chuckles, "I was wondering what Arthur had meant when he said you liked dresses."
Merlin joined Morgana with the scowling.
"You would have made a very pretty girl Merlin," Gwaine said with a wink.
"Die," was all what Merlin said.
They watched slightly horrified as Freya turned into a magical beast and then confessed to Merlin the murder of a man who tried to assault her. their horror grew as they watched Arthur stab her in her cat-like form and Gwen out-right cried while the men were covering their tears with excuses and sniffles as Merlin carried Freya through the forest and to the Lake of Avalon as he sobbed over her body.
The real Merlin wept in Gwen's arms as she cried into his neck.
"I'm so sorry Merlin," Arthur whispered.
Merlin didn't say anything and they remained in silence as Merlin gave Freya a send off to be envious off and went back home depressed. The knights couldn't help but snort at how Arthur indirectly cheered Merlin up.
"I couldn't help but notice Merlin," Percival said with a light blush, "that you seem to be attracted to beautiful dark haired girls with powerful magic."
Merlin blushed, Morgana smirked, the Knights laughed, Gaius was pleased he now knew who to watch out for, Gwen giggled, and Arthur scowled.
"Then again that would make you rather narcissistic since you're an all powerful magical dark haired beauty yourself, eh Merlin?" Gwaine teased.
"Shut up Gwaine!"
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The mood picked up for the next episode as Arthur fell under the love spell and tried to romance Vivian who was, while a beautiful woman, a selfish, spoilt, little brat. They laughed at his exploits, Uther's exasperated reaction and how he turned to Merlin for help, and just at poor Merlin's helplessness throughout it all. They gave their sympathies to Gwen who smiled sadly at them all but she too couldn't help but laugh hysterically as Arthur on screen knocked on Vivian's door and said 'it's destiny, my love, destiny and...Chicken'.
"What is it with you and chicken?" Gwaine chortled. "Do you have some sort of chicken fetish?"
Everyone choked and laughed harder as Arthur plotted to make Gwaine's life a living hell.
They all wolf whistled a blushing Gwen as she and Arthur shared a very heated passionate kiss on screen. Well all of them apart from Gaius who was too sensible, Lancelot who was too jealous, and Morgana who just didn't want her best friend to have a romance with her brother.
They all snickered at Arthur's face and Vivian sighed longingly and called out for her love Arthur Pendragon as her father dragged her home.
"Merlin," Arthur moaned, "Why in god's name didn't you find a counter-spell?"
"I like to see you suffer," Merlin replied cheerfully.
The mood rapidly changed in the next episode as Morgana sunk into the sofa for the next hour as everyone shot her glares for betraying Camelot. They didn't so much mind her backstabbing Uther since Arthur was the only one who liked him but Camelot was her home and she had no problem to put the people in danger. Morgana became further upset when she found out Alvarr was merely using her and decided from now on she'll have romantic moments with one of Arthur's friends instead.
Apart from maybe Gwaine since he was such a man-whore and Lancelot since he was devoted to Gwen, and Leon and Percival since they were glaring at her with the most hatred. So that just left Elyan and Merlin.
And she didn't know much about Elyan so that really just left Merlin.
Bugger.
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In the second to last episode no one was quite sure what to make of it. It started with the typical villain waking up powerful magical force, then with Arthur and Merlin off on their own to save them all, and then they watched as Morgana met with Morgause only for Morgause to knock her out and cast a spell on her.
"Why are you on her side?" Percival blurted out. "She just betrayed you right there and then."
Morgana sat there feeling rather hurt and stunned. Percival was right, she had no memory of her beloved sister knocking her out and casting a spell on her. It hurt her that her sister would do that to her and it shocked her that her sister could actually do that to her.
They watched in silence as Arthur and Merlin rode back to Camelot and the newer knights let out horrified noises as they saw everyone was unconscious. The horror didn't last long, the moment Merlin suggested to dress Uther in a dress they all laughed.
"Trying to create a cross-dressing cult, are you Merlin?" Lancelot teased.
"I'm not a cross-dresser!" Merlin shouted.
"Sure you're not, Merlin," Leon said.
Merlin scowled and muttered darkly under his breath. This continued on throughout the revelation that Merlin had to kill Morgana to break the spell on Camelot. Everyone watched in horrified silence as Merlin slipped belladonna into the water and tricked a tearful frightened Morgana into drinking it. Arthur had bravely gone out into battle with no chance of coming back alive unless the spell was uplifted.
No one could blame Merlin for what he did as his TV self was crying and holding the panicked betrayed Morgana in his arms as he rocked back and forth.
They said nothing as Morgause appeared and Merlin bargained Morgana's life for Arthur's and Camelot's. They all sighed in relief when the spell was undone and Arthur was safe but shared worried looks as Morgause disappeared with Morgana in a gust of wind.
No one said anything about the Dragon being released by Merlin. It was so obvious it was going to happen since the beginning of the series and the moment the horrible lizard got Merlin to swear on Hunith's life no one could blame Merlin for doing it.
They didn't want to admit it but Lancelot, Gwaine, Percival, and Elyan had come to like the Morgana on the TV screen. She had been witty, kind, and a fantastic fighter. Meanwhile Gwen, Gaius, Arthur, Leon, and Merlin had all been reminded on what a good person she had been and they had their eyes opened to what she was suffering.
Morgana also had her eyes opened only she had hers opened to the suffering of Arthur and Merlin. She now realised it wasn't Merlin who betrayed her but Morgause and she now found someone who truly understood her in the wonderful man called Merlin. She felt guilty, of course she did, she had been horrible in the past year but right now she had something far more important to do.
"I forgive you Merlin," she said in a clear concise voice.
"Y-you do?" Merlin stuttered.
She smiled softly at his adorableness and nodded. "I do." She then stood up and made her way towards him.
Everyone watched this with a smile on their face they were expecting her to embrace Merlin and sit beside him for the finale.
They were shocked when she straddled Merlin instead and began to snog the living daylights out of him.
They were even more shocked when she grabbed hold of him by the collar and dragged him into the bedroom.
"HEY!" Arthur shouted as he snapped out of his stupor and ran towards the girls' bedroom. "We haven't watched the finale yet! Let Merlin go!"
"Oh Merlin!" Morgana gasped through the bedroom door.
Arthur faltered to a stop. "Erm...on second thoughts we'll just wait till tomorrow," he mumbled.