Arthur followed after the red haired girl later that day. He found her walking around looking at the little carts in the market. She stopped at a cart that was carrying dresses and admired one.
"Ah hem" Arthur interrupted her thoughts. Castiel's face quickly changed to an annoyed expression.
"Just because you're a prince doesn't mean you can stalk me" Castiel said walking away.
"And just because you're stubborn doesn't mean I still won't follow after you" Arthur retorted.
"What do you want?" she spun on him.
"Can't I just talk to you" he laughed.
"Oh yes because I'm sure you often talk to commoners like me" Castiel guessed.
"I do so"
"Really then how come you haven't said a thing to the crowd of girls behind you following your every move?" Arthur turned around and saw that she was right. Behind him where about five or so girls blushing like crazy. Arthur gave them a small wave and they all dispersed giggling madly. He turned back around to find Castiel walking off again.
"Do you really want to know why I'm so interested in you?" he asked catching up with her.
"No" she answered.
"Not even if I said it was because you were beautiful"
"I have someone else in mind"
"Merlin?" he guessed. Castiel paused for a moment.
"Yes" she answered. He burst out laughing.
"Well he's better than you"
"Oh I'm sure of it" he joked.
"Can't you take a hint of when you're not wanted?"
"I don't have to leave my father rules this place so you're the one who should be leaving" he told her.
"I would if you stopped following"
"I will if you listen to me for a moment" she put a hand on her hip and made a motion for him to go on.
"As you might know I have quite a lot of money" he paused for a moment wondering if she was going to interrupt him but she stayed silent.
"I need someone to pretend to be my fiancé" he told her not fully telling her the plan.
"I thought that one girl Anya was your fiancé?" she asked.
"Yes and we hate each other"
"And I take it you need that fake fiancé to be me?" she guessed.
"Yes" he answered hoping she'd accept.
"No then" she shot down his hopes.
"Please I really want to get out of my arranged marriage" he said.
"If Anya and I find someone who our parents disapprove of and say that we'll marry that person instead of each other our parents will have to cut off the marriage" Arthur explained.
"Definitely no then. I don't want to be flaunted around then like some piece of meat for your father to hate just so you can get your way" Castiel said.
"Please I'll pay you" he begged. Castiel paused for a moment as she noticed that was the second time he said please. She started to contemplate his offer. But what would Merlin think if he saw her pretending to be engaged to Arthur. She had been waiting practically her whole life for him to fall in love with her. Coming to Camelot with him would be for nothing if he despised her.
"No" she told him.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because one I have someone else, like I said before, and two I could never pretend to be attracted to someone like you"
"Everyone else in Camelot thinks the opposite" he sounded a bit cocky.
"Exactly"
"If we kissed don't tell me you wouldn't feel anything?"
"I wouldn't"
"Really?"
"Really" and with that Arthur quickly pulled her close to him and smashed their lips together. Castiel surprisingly didn't pull away and started to kiss back but then realized what she was doing and pushed herself away from Arthur who was looking surprised. When he had kissed her it seemed like fireworks of some sort or even magic had gone off when he kissed her.
"See nothing" Castiel put on a good poker face walking off leaving Arthur standing there dumbfounded.
I flinched as I watched people throw rotten fruit at Merlin while he was locked in the stocks. Once they finally gave him a break I walked over to him.
"Hi" I said down to him. He looked up at me.
"I'm Anya" I introduced myself. It felt weird having to do this again.
"I'm Merlin but most people call me idiot" he said awkwardly shaking my hand. I laughed at that and he gave me a look.
"Oh sorry I'm not laughing at you being called an idiot I just um…" I tried to come up with an excuse. He raised an eyebrow at me.
"I just wanted to say that, that was really brave of you standing up for your friend like that" I told him.
"I could've taken Arthur if I had the chance though" Merlin said to himself.
"In a fist fight no" I answered. He looked offended.
"I'm stronger than I look" he said.
"I'm sure you are. It's just Arthur's really rough and tough and you're…."
"Go on"
"A twig" I said and that actually made him laugh. I saw there was some fruit in his hair and I instinctively brushed it out and he blushed. We looked forward and saw the crowd was ready to start chucking fruit again.
"Well nice to meet you Anya but my fans are waiting" he said.
"Good luck" I warned him.
"If you're not busy afterwards and don't mind the smell of rotten fruit would you mind going on a walk?" he asked.
"No" I answered.
Morgana appeared in the castle and quickly hid the time turner she was wearing around her neck. She had somewhat of a clue that Anya would have found a way to try and stop her as soon as she had started to plan how to kill her. Arthur had come rushing to her about how Anya had disappeared. She quickly realized that she had to follow Anya back into the past and stop her there.
"HELLO SOMEBODY OPEN THIS DOOR NOW!" Morgana heard Anya's voice coming out of a supply closet. She opened it and saw a younger Anya come out of it.
"Morgana you wouldn't believe what I've been through. I saw another me and she knocked me out" Anya said to her. Morgana just nodded with fake sympathy already knowing this wasn't the Anya she was looking for. With a quick spell she killed the girl and put her back in the supply closet.
"You talk too much dear" she said to the dead body as she walked off to go and find her younger self and knock her unconscious as well so there wouldn't be two Morgana's running around the place and also to dispose of the future Anya so she could get back to ruling Camelot.
"If it's any consolation for having rotten vegetables and fruits thrown at you, you actually don't smell that bad" I told Merlin as we walked around Camelot.
"Why thank you" he said.
"So what brings you to Camelot?" I asked.
"Well my friend and I, Castiel, wanted to experience something new in our lives so we came here" he explained.
"And you and you're friend are you two together?" I asked awkwardly.
"Oh no we're just friends, practically siblings. We've known each other since birth" he explained. I didn't know what to say but I felt guilty at being happy that Castiel was in the friend zone.
I know I shouldn't have been eavesdropping but when Merlin just happened to be passing by talking to that one girl who had tried to stop Arthur I just had to see what they were talking about. I listened in and felt my heart break into a million pieces when Merlin said that we were just friends. I turned around slowly making sure they wouldn't hear me and looked for a place to cry. Don't cry yet hold it in I told myself as I went walking off somewhere. I finally found a quiet place secluded place and just let the tears stream. I had told myself repeatedly that this would happen someday. I knew that he could never love me the way I loved him.
"Are you crying?" Arthur said as he stood in front of me. I started to walk the other way wiping my eyes.
"No there's something in my eye" I told him.
"What's wrong?" he asked with what I think was concern.
"Not like you would care" I told him.
"Maybe I would" I scoffed at him but then looked at his face and saw he was dead serious. I let myself start to cry again.
"Merlin doesn't love me" I said in between sobs.
I would Arthur thought in his head. But then he realized what he was thinking. He had known this girl for maybe a day or two now and yet he couldn't stop thinking about her. He felt like he wanted to be with her so bad. Part of him wanted to hold her but another refused the idea.
"I'm sorry" was all he could reply. She shook her head and started to cry again then she looked up at Arthur.
"If your offer is still standing, I'll take it up" she told him. Arthur felt ecstatic now as he thought of how he was going to spend more time with her now but he made a good job at not showing his excitement.
"Alright we'll talk later tomorrow then" he said.
"Ok" she nodded before leaving him.
The next morning I had surprised Merlin by asking him if he wanted a tour of Camelot as we were walking I started to believe that my plan was working as Merlin opened up to me more and more. I even made an attempt at holding his hand and he actually didn't let go. And as if things couldn't get better I saw Arthur and Castiel talking to each other.
Arthur and Castiel had been talking with each other for quite awhile now and Arthur found out there was more to her then just a stubborn little heathen. She was funny and kind and very sweet as the children talked to her. At one point he started to cross paths with Merlin and Anya. Arthur didn't know what had gotten into him but he said to Merlin
"How's your knee walking coming along?"
"Arthur" Castiel snapped at him. Arthur knew he was just taunting Merlin now to get back at him for hurting Castiel. Apparently Anya and Merlin had decided to ignore Arthur to not cause any trouble. Merlin couldn't have believed his eyes when he saw Castiel talking to Arthur and actually smiling at him didn't she know how much of a prat he was?
"Oh don't run away" Arthur complained to Merlin's retreating back as he ignored Castiel's pleads to stop.
"From you" Merlin said also ignoring Anya who was telling him to keep moving. (AN: Just a quick note the word ignore is mentioned a lot in this part)
"Thank god I thought you were deaf as well as dumb"
"Look I told you, you were an ass I just didn't realize you were a royal one" Castiel and Anya made faces at each other again at how stupid the boys were acting once they realized they couldn't stop them.
"I could take you a part with one blow" Arthur told him.
"I could do it with less" Merlin retorted. Actually he could Anya and Castiel both thought.
" Are you sure?" Arthur asked. Merlin took off his jacket making Arthur laugh.
"Alright that's it the both of you are acting like a complete bunch of idiots can't you two just leave each other alone like grown ups?" Anya asked breaking in between them. The boys looked at each other and scoffed at how stupid that sounded.
You know you're going to lose Castiel tried to tell Merlin telepathically. He ignored her thought. Arthur threw Merlin a mace which he clumsily caught, while Arthur spun it around expertly.
"I'll warn you I've been trained to kill since birth" Arthur said.
"How long have you been training to be a prat then?" Merlin asked
"You can't address me like that"
"I'm sorry how long have you been training to be a prat my lord" Merlin bowed to him and with that Arthur swung the mace at Merlin and surprisingly missed. They started chasing each other around.
"Men" Anya said to Castiel who she wished so badly could return to her older self.
"Hmph" Castiel said as she and Anya chased after Merlin and Arthur. The both of them were tripping over the mess the boys were making of Camelot.
"So you and Arthur then huh?" Anya asked to see if her plan was working.
"No" Castiel answered sounding very disgusted. Finally the two caught up with the boys to find Merlin almost get arrested again till Arthur stopped the guards. Anya happened to notice that when he let Merlin go he had been looking at Castiel the entire time. Castiel looked up at Arthur and smiled at him out of thanks.
"So how'd things with you and Castiel go yesterday?" I asked as I watched Arthur do shooting practice with a crossbow the next day.
"Fine" he answered bluntly.
"Really they went fine" I nudged him.
"Yes" he answered shooting at non-moving target this time that wasn't being carried by a servant.
"Castiel what's wrong?" Merlin asked as I watched him follow after Castiel who was stomping away from him across the training field.
"I told you it doesn't matter" she answered.
"We've known each other all of our lives so don't give me that lie" Merlin smirked and surprisingly Castiel picked up one of the crossbows and pointed it at him.
"Oh crap" I said running to them. While Arthur was totally oblivious to all that was going on.
"What are you doing?" Merlin asked looking genuinely frightened now.
"I said leave me alone alright" Castiel told him. He nodded she dropped it and walked off.
"What happened?" I asked. Merlin shrugged. God you're so clueless I thought knowing that Castiel was mad at him because of me. Much to my enjoyment though Arthur soon followed after Castiel. When he got her attention I saw her turn around and smile at him. I saw Merlin glaring at Arthur.
"He's actually very sweet if you just get to know him. She's in good hands" I told him. Merlin turned his head away and smiled at me. He almost looked like his old self.
"Come on we're going somewhere" I grabbed his hand.
"Where are we going?" he asked as I led him out of Camelot and up to this grassy hill with a meadow on the top. This was the first place we ever said we loved each other. I spread my arms out and fell safely to the soft grass.
"You're taking me cloud watching?" he asked. I grabbed his arm and pulled him down with me. He let out a relieved breath. I inched closer to him so I could rest my head by his but every time I got closer he would just move further away.
"What are you doing?" he asked looking at me questionably.
"Nothing" I lied realizing how awkward this must be for him. I let out a cough. Oh screw this I'm done waiting I miss him I thought. I sat up and Merlin copied my action wondering what was up and then I grabbed him by his, as Castiel calls it, hipster scarf and kissed him. And to my relief he didn't pull away.
"Are you done yet?" Arthur asked as he waited outside Morgana's bedroom for Castiel to find a dress for the feast tonight. Tonight was the night he would finally get out of his arranged marriage with Anya. Both him and Castiel knew that after this nothing would happen and they would just part as unlikely friends but for Arthur that was the exact opposite of what he wanted.
"Yes" she answered. He opened the door.
"I can't choose" she said holding up the different dresses to herself.
"The blue one" he immediately answered as he noticed how bright it seemed to make her hair look.
"Alright then blue it is" she smiled at him. He was glad that she had cheered up after that incident on the training grounds but he also made a note to himself to never get Castiel angry when being near any kind of weaponry.
"I'll give it back to your cousin? Tomorrow" she promised.
"I can get her a new one" he answered.
"I really hope after this we can still be friends or something like that" Castiel admitted. Or more the both of them were thinking. None of them had really mentioned the kiss at all but both of them still knew that they had a connection after that. The only thing keeping them a part was the fact that they both knew they couldn't ever be together Arthur was a prince and Castiel was a commoner. Just then Morgana came into the room.
"Oh hello Arthur" she fake smiled at her brother.
"Morgana" he nodded at her.
"Aren't you going to introduce me to your friend?" she asked.
"Morgana this is my friend Castiel" Arthur introduced them. Oh yes I know you Morgana thought trying to restrain herself from rolling her eyes at having to be nice to her worst enemy.
"Hello sorry about the dress Arthur said I could borrow it" she apologized.
"Oh it's alright" she said. I'll have to burn it afterwards she thought.
"Well I'm sure you'll enjoy tonight I heard it's going to be quite memorable" Morgana told them giving them her oh so famous evil smile.
"Quit looking around for her she'll show up soon enough" I comforted Arthur as he searched the room for Castiel.
"I would if you'd stop searching for Merlin" he whispered. I flicked him in the ear.
"Ow" he covered .
"Oh be a man and suck it up" I told him. Then I saw him. Merlin and I both smiled at each other. Just then Morgana came into the room. I felt relieved that at least it wasn't the evil version of her but then my relief quickly ended when she looked up at me and she had a certain type glint in her eye.
"Hello" she mouthed to me giving me a wink. She had followed me into the past. I should have seen it coming but I was too focused on bringing us all back together. Why hadn't I worked faster? I started to feel fear start up within me. Where was Castiel and Merlin when I really needed them? I could do this though I mean I'd gotten this far. Really all I needed for things to go back to normal was just for Castiel and Arthur to have a real kiss. Just then it seemed like all the oxygen was sucked out of the room as everyone stared at somebody walking in. I followed everyone's line of sight and did a little gasp too as I saw Castiel walking in wearing this gorgeous blue dress. Her face was the almost the same color as her hair as she looked down embarrassed at everyone staring at her. She made her way towards Arthur but at the last moment tripped on the hem of her dress directing all attention towards her again. Smooth sweetheart smooth I thought.
"It's alright I've got you" Arthur told her as he caught her. She got up and smoothed herself out.
"What do you think?" she asked.
"you…um…you look"
"I think the idiots trying to say you look beautiful" I said for him. The two of them were looking at each other lovingly. I had to restrain myself from jumping up and down as I knew things were going to be normal tonight. I saw Morgana made no advancements towards them so I had hopes that she wouldn't interfere. While those two where flirting with each other I slowly slid my way towards Merlin. I snuck up behind him and covered his eyes with my hands.
"I know that's you Anya" he laughed spinning around and grabbing my hands in his. We made sure no one was watching and kissed each other. Soon we had to sit down as Uther announced that some singer was going to perform us. Not to sound rude but when she sang her music literally put me to sleep. When I woke up I found spider webs all over me.
"Ugh eww eww" I screamed like a little girl getting them off me. Everyone else looked about the same. Right in the middle of the floor a chandelier had fallen on the woman who was singing except she was really older now. Ok I've slept through some loud things but how did I miss this? I thought knowing this was magic. I looked at Merlin and realized he had stopped her. Then I saw the knife in the woman's hands as she made a last attempt at whatever her plan was and threw it at Arthur.
This had been the moment Morgana had been waiting for originally in her timeline Merlin had saved Arthur. But not this time. She used magic and made the dagger fly towards Anya. Just as planned the dagger hit Anya in the chest straight on. Everyone looked at her in horror. Everything broke out into chaos. Morgana just smirked at herself as she went back to her room to pack her things and to wake up her oldself.
Arthur was the first to reach me as he pulled the dagger out and I saw blood spread across my chest. It was really hard to breath now. Arthur picked me up and took me off to Gaius with Merlin and Castiel behind him. He set me down on a table. This wasn't supposed to happen. I started to cry scared at the thought of dying. I grabbed Castiel's hand and she was confused at the gesture but held on. I pulled Castiel close so I could talk to her. I knew I was in love with Merlin but who I really wanted right now was my best friend.
"Could you leave us alone?" I asked Arthur and Merlin and they backed off. Castiel looked confused.
"Don't talk" I told her. She nodded.
"You need to stop Morgana and break the necklace she's wearing" I first told her.
"You have to do it soon after that you need to tell Arthur how you really feel or vice versa" I begged her. She just looked dumbstruck and Arthur was standing there awkwardly looking at his feet.
"I will" she answered.
"I love you, you stupid ginger. You're the best friend I've ever had. If I ever had to fall in a lake and end up in Camelot again I would still do it with you" I admitted. She just looked like she didn't know what to say which made me cry more. I finally smiled as I thought of something.
"Sing to me please?" I asked. A part of the old her started to shine through.
"Deep in the meadow under the willow tree" she sang rubbing her thumb against the back of my hand.
"A bed of grass a soft green pillow" I joined in. Castiel even started to tear up. Everything started to go dark I looked to my right at Merlin.
"I love you" I said as a tear rolled down my cheek and then I died.
Anya's hand went limp in my hand. I didn't even know her that well and yet I was crying as if I was mourning over the death of my sister. I felt terrible because I had thought so cruelly of her because she was in love with Merlin but it turns out they were perfect for each other. He was much happier with her. Anya had looked at me as if we'd known each other for years but we hadn't. When she asked me to sing the song it just sort of came out of me and I hadn't even heard it before it was like I knew it in a past life. I looked at Arthur and Merlin. I ran to Merlin first and held onto him tightly. When I let go I made my way for the door. I had to respect her last wishes. She had been so kind to me that I felt like I just had to do it. I ran up to where I remembered Morgana's chambers were. I walked in and saw her packing?
"How is she?" Morgana asked. And I realized she sort of sounded fake when she asked me.
"She's dead" I answered.
"I'm so sorry" Morgana said.
"Are you going somewhere?" I asked.
"I'm needed in another kingdom" she lied. I looked at what she was wearing around her neck and saw it was a necklace with a gold chain and at the end of it was a circle with an hourglass in-between it.
"Interesting necklace" I said looking at it.
"Thank you?" she said looking protective over it.
"Mind if I look?" I asked. She looked scared for a moment.
"No" she said taking it off probably thinking that I wouldn't do anything to it. I looked at it and held it in my hand. Destroy it Anya's voice said in my head. I lifted my arm up.
"STOP WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" she shouted but I already threw it down and when it made impact a blinding light came out of the broken necklace. Morgana shrieked in anger and I felt this strong pain in my head from some sort of spell. Apparently Morgana was to angry to notice that somebody came in and picked me up and was taking me out. The pain from my head didn't stop till my savior had gotten me outside. It had hurt so much that I rested my head on the chest of my savior.
"Can you stand?" Arthur's voice asked.
"Yes" I answered. He set me down.
"You followed me?" I asked.
"I felt like I had to for the next part of Anya's wish" he said. Oops forgot about that part I said. We both looked at each other awkwardly. Arthur slowly started inching towards me looking a bit nervous. Which surprised me. Soon we weren't that far away from each other.
"I can't stop thinking about you" Arthur said.
"Really?" I answered.
"Really" he smiled. I put my hands on both sides of his face and kissed him. Then suddenly there was a flash of white light.
I had no clue what I was expecting after I died I almost didn't believe that if Castiel did as I told her I would still be alive back in my own timeline, but as I opened my eyes to the morning sun. I heard someone stumbling around the room.
"Bugger" Merlin's voice whispered as he ran into a drawer. I sat up happily.
"MERLIN!" I exclaimed. He jumped at my voice. I got out of bed and hugged him tightly.
"Did I miss something?" he asked.
"Quick question do you fancy Castiel?" I asked. He made a gagging noise.
"Oh my god everything is back to normal!" I hugged him again. I ran out and went into Castiel and Arthur's chambers and jumped on their bed sliding in between them.
"What the hell are you doing?" Castiel asked angrily.
"I missed you, you stupid ginge" I told her squeezing her cheeks.
"Go away" she said to me. I hugged her and then Arthur before leaving them very confused. I noticed the timeturner was gone so clearly it had no use in this timeline anymore and I was glad the one Morgana had was destroyed so something like this would never happen again.
"Honestly though what did I miss?" Merlin asked when I came back out into the corridor. I just hugged him and kissed him.
"I'm never gonna find out am I?" he guessed.
"Yes" I agreed.
Alright so I'm going to give you a quick preview of my next one shot because I think you'll all enjoy it. I'm not saying it's going to by next chp. I'm just saying it's gonna be my next one shot
Don't Blink! Don't even Blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back. Don't look away and don't blink.
"What'd you say your name was?" Arthur asked. Anya and I made eye contact with each other as we recognized the couple.
"I'm the Doctor" the man in the bow tie and tweed jacket introduced himself.
"And I'm Darcy Lightwood" the girl with the light auburn hair introduced herself.
"Sorry to ask but Doctor What?" Merlin asked.
"WHO? DOCTOR WHO?" Anya and I corrected him.
Grapejuice101: Hi yah I hope you enjoyed the chp.
TheImpossiblePen: Hahah what you said made me laugh and sorry it was a bit confusing at the beginning and sorry if it was a bit confusing on this chapter to but I hope you enjoyed it.
Ahsilaa: Thanks for chatting with me :D
MagicWhispers: Thanks I hope you enjoyed this one.
Yearofthedays: I loved writing that finish sentence thing I was like ok let's see if any readers get what I'm referencing. And I love Nathan Fillion to he is so cool for some reason.
SunnySmile13: Thanks hope you enjoyed this chappie.
Merlinjustgivemethemuffins: Yeah they're actually making a movie. I technically really liked the first one just cause Logan Lermans really adorbs but also I just love the books. I have to say without them I wouldn't have met my best friend. Anyways hope you enjoyed the chapter.
Alright so that's it for now I have to go to sleep I have my first show as the Mad Hatter tomorrow and I'm really excited. Also I'm having huge writers block on my hunger games story so if any of you would like to help don't be afraid to message me with your ideas. So BYE!
