Word: Luminous

Characters: Merlin, Gwaine

Word count: 301

A/N: This little fluffy number, is for Matt and Wil, as I've feel I've depressed them enough today! Hope you both enjoy this little Gwaine, Merlin fluff, and everyone else.

Merlin had been out collecting herbs for Gaius, that evening. The dark was beginning to come down, so he finished off and began the trek back to Camelot. On his way back, a familiar voice called to him.

"Well if it isn't the magician," Gwaine exclaimed, clapping Merlin on the shoulder. The warlock tensed up immediately.

"What do you mean the magician?" he asked a concern in his voice.

"Well you just disappeared, we've all been searching for you." The knight laughed.

"I've just been collecting herbs for Gaius, that's all." Merlin laughed "forgot the time."

"It's almost midnight." Gwaine laughed.

"It can't be midnight," Merlin grinned, "you'd still be in the tavern if it was."

Gwaine laughed, "Funny you should mention the tavern, may just go and pay it a visit, just to check its still standing. Maybe you'd like to come?"

"Actually I think I will." Merlin decided. "I'll see you down there."

The moon shone lumionously down, as Merlin made his way down to the tavern. A sudden spring in his step. It had been ages since he'd been there, tonight he intended to make the most of it. As he opened the door, he heard Gwaine, chatting away in the corner, commanding the floor as usual. He laughed dear Gwaine he would never change.

"Merlin my friend, come and sit down. Some mead for my friend." He requested off the barmaid.

Gwaine thrusted a glass onto Merlin and called out "To friendship."

"Friendship." Merlin smiled back, the mead went down easily and before Merlin knew it, the next one did as well. By the time he was on his fourth, all he remembered was being slung across his friends back, and being taken back to Camelot, singing a song he'd learnt from Gwaine, only hours before.