Thank you for all your reviews and support! This episode says it took place 200 years before the show, but it didn't. That had always bothered me. The show's timeline prevents it from happening anything before 500 years of the show. The beginning will be set 1000 years before Rumple's birth, and the rest of it will take place 500 years later. Enjoy!

He picked up the cup very slowly, like in the show, drank out of it like he was desperate, because he was. He then said like he did in the show,

"I have magic."

He looked around the entire grasslands he created that I was standing in.

"Where did you come from?" he said.

I stood there. Could he see me?

"Hey, I'm talking to you!" Merlin shouted. "Who are you?"

"Me?" I said. "I'm Peter Samson."

"Very weird name," Merlin said.

"My parents were crazy," I answered.

"So, answer my question," he said politely. "Where did you come from?"

"Another world," I say. "You people call it Misthaven." What was I supposed to say?

"Misthaven?" Merlin questioned. "I think I've heard of that."

"It's not that famous of a place," I sort of lie. "What are you doing?"

"I just drank a cup from the gods," he says. "It's the Holy Grail."

"Yeh, right," I laughed.

"How did this desert turn into a grassland?" asked Merlin.

"Because of me," I lie.

"What?" Merlin asks.

"I was born with magical powers and immortality," I lie, but I'm pretty sure I've got both here. I test this by doing some simple magic. Yup. I have powers.

"Wow," says Merlin. "How?"

"I really don't know," I lie again. How do I get through this? I can't tell him I'm from a land where all of this is a TV show because he doesn't even know what one of them is! So I just lie about everything. What would you do, honestly?

"By the way," said Merlin. "I'm Merlin."

"Very nice to meet you, Merlin," I say.

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It has been 500 years.

500 years!

Nothing has happened!

Me and Merlin have been working together as merciful sorcerers. Named 'The Two Sorcerers', and chose an apprentice, Edward (You didn't think The Apprentice in the show was just called an apprentice, did you?). I partnered up with Merlin to change a lot. And as expected, after 500 years, 540 years of memories can not sustain in your mind. I have forgotten my homeland, my wife, and how I even got here! I only vividly remember where I come from. I don't remember my wife, but I remember loving her. I don't remember her name, face or anything, but I remember that I loved her. And that's good enough to continue.

What I haven't forgotten was the show. Holly (I think that was her name) had been right in that I wouldn't forget that. On the checklist I have, all the episodes are listed on it twice (one for the flashbacks, one for the main content). None of them are ticked off yet, because none of them have entirely happened.

I am still living in Nimue. An episode that spans over 500 years.

Great!

I did like that episode, but I don't like living it. What I didn't expect is to become actual friends with Merlin and really grow to care about him. He's been with me since the beginning and I keep wanting to tell him the truth about who I am and where I come from. But even he, a 1000-year old sorcerer would not believe me?

How could he?

When I press on the checklist for an episode, a television which only I can see appears where I am, and I watch the episode. Even though all I've been watching is the Camelot episodes. And they're not even that good! Hopefully, if I change a lot, Season Five won't happen. But wait.

Nimue is coming.

The episode is continuing.

Yes! Wait...

If Merlin falls in love with Nimue, and then gets screwed over, then the Dark One is created, my selfish goal gets fulfilled. On the other hand, I can stop it, because I know it's going to happen. But that'll change way too much. Hell, one of the five inevitables is for Rumplestiltskin to become The Dark One, and this might even stop him from being born, never mind being The Dark One.

Never mind, the scene is happening.

Me and Merlin were healing people here.

"There," he says. "You're healed.

"Thank you, Merlin."

"You're both very welcome," Merlin says.

"I think that's it for today," Edward says.

"Good," I say. "I can take a break. I wonder what's for dinner."

"Wait," says Edward. "I didn't see her arrive. I'll get her to leave. What does she want? Do you guys know? You always know."

"Maybe we should ask," I say.

"No," says Merlin, "I got it. Eddie, you go back, check on the brooms. Peter, come on, let's see what she wants."

"Right behind you, mate."

"Have you come to see us?" asks Merlin.

"You're Merlin and Peter?" asks Nimue.

"Not all wizards have long beards," says Merlin.

"I hate that," I say. "I would never grow my beard long. It won't be a good look for me."

Merlin laughs. "Please tell us, what brings you here?"

"I was in my village," Nimue explains. "When a masked man came in. His name is Vortigan. He ransacks towns, burns them to the ground. So I fled back to the woods. I looked back to my village from the homeland, everything was in flames. He had killed everyone."

It was sad in the show, but when you're living it, it's darn out depressing.

"We're so sorry," said Merlin.

"Yeh," I say. "That's awful. We could not think of what this Vortigan guy is capable of. Please, tell us. What can we do to help you?"

"Revenge," suggests Nimue, as she takes out some seeds. "These are all I had on me when I ran. Seeds from the Middlemist Flower. They only prosper around my village. When Vortigan scorched the Earth, he could've killed them forever. My best revenge would be for them to live on, despite him."

"Well, we'll plant them here," says Merlin.

"Really, Merlin?" I ask. "There's lodes of better spots. Choose anywhere around this garden."

"Thank you," says Nimue. "If the flowers survive, at least something other than me lived on."

I smile. This couldn't happen. Merlin and Nimue would fall in love. And then she would become The Dark One. The first Dark One. I hate when this happens. I hate knowing what's going to happen. It hadn't been that big of a deal the last thousand years, but now, it couldn't.

"I'll try and pass them again in Spring," continues Nimue. "I want to see if they bloom."

"We'll make sure they do," I say.

"Why wait?" asks Merlin.

Merlin uses his magic to grow the flowers just like in the show.

"Merlin!" I moan. "I thought you were a patient man!"

She stopped to smell the flowers.

"Stay close," Merlin says, "You can come and see them at any time. Right, Peter?"

"Sure," I say. "They're your flowers. We just helped."

"You both see the future," says Nimue. "Do I do that?"

"With you, for some reason," Merlin says. "I have no idea. Peter?"

"I can see blips of your future, Nimue," I explain, "But nothing substantial. Also, it's best not to tell you, because if I do, then it won't happen at all."

"Is what you see good or bad?" asks Nimue. "At least tell me that."

"There are good and bad parts of everyone's future," I say, honestly. "I see both sides. Just not anything clear."

"What's your name?" asks Merlin.

"Nimue," she says.

"Nimue."

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Five years pass. Merlin and Nimue have fallen in love, just like in the show. And I've been fully supportive. They are a great couple. We only have a few scenes of chemistry in the show, but I see it all in real life. I think she's a good match for my best friend. She's okay with me too. Even though I just crack a lot of jokes now and again.

She came over to the flowers.

It continues.

"Is this some new magic?" asks Nimue. "Are you frowning them into growing faster?"

"Nah," said Peter. "We just had a little disagreement."

"There's a man we're considering helping," says Merlin, "He's tired. Spending his life tending to others, and now he just wants to marry the woman he loves and grow old by her side, but there's an obstacle."

"And I'm saying that obstacle means it's impossible," I say. "I've been in this situation myself, no way to get out of it."

"He sounds awful," comments Nimue.

"Oh, he is," I joke.

He stands up at both of us.

"If I teach you nothing else," says Nimue. "It will be to laugh at yourself. If you want to propose, go ahead."

"I'll go and check on Eddie," I say. "I think you guys need a moment to yourself."

I come back five minutes later, and the scene has almost finished.

"I don't want this moment to get lost in the endless sea of time," I hear Nimue say.

"Come," Merlin says, "Come make the preperations."

Merlin was about to run with her, but I speak up.

"Merlin," I say. "Can I talk to you? In private?"

"Can't you see we're busy?" asks Nimue.

"It'll just be a minute," I say.

"It's okay," says Merlin, "We'll talk later."

I started talking to my best friend

"You know that night we first met Nimue?" I ask. Merlin nods. "I saw her future."

"You said you saw the good and the bad," says Merlin. "Did you see us?"

"I lied," says Peter. "I saw dark things in her future. Darker beyond your imagination. I couldn't tell her. I couldn't make her even more sad than she was."

"It's okay, my friend," Merlin says. "What did you see?"

"Darkness takes over her," says Peter. "And I sense it's getting closer. I don't know what, Merlin, but the best thing to do is to not let her drink from the grail."

"I was never going to do that," says Merlin. "You know that."

"I know," says Peter. "But... the sword won't work on me. I didn't get my magic or my immortality from The Grail. I have no idea where it came from. After you grow old, and die, I will be without you. And I will be alone. I can't lose that. I can't lose you."

"The sword will work on you," Merlin says. "I can see it."

"What if it doesn't," I say. "What if you and Nimue go to Mount Olympus together while I'm stuck here training Edward when that should be both of us?"

"Peter," Merlin says. "You have enough to survive on your own. You can live without me. And soon, soon, you will find a way to do the same thing."

"I've tried and failed," I say. "The only w0man I've ever loved, died before I met you. I can't even remember a lot of her. Merlin, I don't want that to happen to you. To love someone for so long, and so much, and then forget her, because of eternal life."

"That won't happen," reassures Merlin. "And when we make this sword, you will be reunited with your loved one. And I will live a true life with mine. I just know it. Will you at least give it a try?"

"Okay," I lie. "But I still have fear."

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We set off the next day, and I get scared. I don't want this scene to play out. I want my friends to go on and live a happy life. I don't care about my stupid mission anymore. Did this Holly woman think this wasn't going to happen? Me actually growing attachments to the characters. If I'm growing attachment to the minor characters like Merlin and Nimue, then imagine what I'll be like when the main characters come along.

I can't give anything away, so I have to do this.

"This was my village, my home," Nimue says. "Look what's become of it."

"It's sickening, Nimue," I say. "I can't believe someone could actually be capable of doing this."

"My house was right here," she pointed. "Or maybe it was there. Oh, it's so different now."

This was horrible watching it in real life. Never mind on screen.

"Sometimes," Merlin explains. "The sole survivor of a tragedy can feel guilty. In the future they call it..."

"I don't feel guilty," says Nimue. "I feel angry. This should be the way that those who cannot take are taken. If I had magic like yours, If I had a million lifetimes to hand out power to those who needed it, and to strike down to those who..."

"Nimue," Merlin says. "It's been decided."

"Magic isn't always a good thing, Nimue," I say. "Trust us."

Merlin agreed and comforted Nimue.

"Look on the street," Merlin said, "Cups!"

"It looks like every house on the street brought their cups out for him," Nimue says. "Why would they do that?" Nimue then noticed.

"He was questing for the Grail," says Merlin.

"Well, thank goodness he didn't find it!" I shout. "Because then it would've got even worse. I can't believe anyone would go this far for a drink!"

"Yes," said Nimue. "This is a horrible irredeemable man who cannot be reasoned with."

"Guys, calm down," Merlin reassured. "We can figure this out. Nimue, will you check the pack to see if the grail is secure? I'm going to cast a detection spell. Peter, would you care to join me?"

I thought for a moment. I know right this second that Nimue was going to drink from the grail. I could either stop her, or let her drink it.

"I'll stay and look after the grail," Peter says. "You can do that yourself."

"No," insists Nimue. "I got it. Peter, you can help Merlin."

"Okay," says Peter. "If you're sure." I don't want to give it away that it's going to happen. She is going to do it. But that doesn't mean she has to darken her heart.

Me and Merlin cast the spell as I turn round to see her drinking from the grail.

"Vortigan!" Merlin shouts. "He's here moving over the horizon the way we came!"

"We have to hurry!" I say. "We have to do this fast. Very fast."

"He's just a man!" shouts Nimue. "Either of you can kill him with one magic word."

"If either one of us uses magic to kill," Merlin says, "Darkness will take root inside of us. Nothing, nothing, is worth risking that."

I know what is going to happen next but I have to stop it.

I have to.

Nimue looked at us.

"Come."

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We continue down the road as we find a place to turn the cup into Excalibur. I still pretend I have no idea what's going on, when I know full well.

"It's amazing," says Nimue.

"Come on," says Merlin, "You'll find that's an understatement."

"A very big one," I say.

Nimue gives Merlin the grail.

"Are you sure this will work?" she asks.

"I'm sure," Merlin says. "This will give me the life I want. Shorter, but full of love and meaning."

"It might not give me anything," I say.

Me and Merlin both engulf the grail in flames making it into Excalibur. I try and sabotage the spell a little bit without Merlin noticing, but it goes way too strong. It becomes Excalibur as Merlin holds it in his hand. Nimue looks on as she sees Vortigan.

"Oh my god!" Nimue shouts.

"Merlin, wait!" I shout.

"What?"

"Vortigan."

"So we finally meet," I say to the beast, holding up the sword.

"There is no more grail, sir," Merlin says, lowering the sword. "Leave us be."

"He wants the sword!"

Merlin throws an energy blast as I do the same, but Vortigan is too strong.

Vortigan attacks Nimue, threatening her so Merlin can give him the sword.

"The sword will bring you no joy!" shouts Merlin sternly.

"Not one bit!" I shout.

Nimue starts fighting Vortigan behind her.

"Nimue, be still!" shouts Merlin, thinking she can't possibly get out of this situation alive.

"I can do this," she says, kicking and punching Vortigan. "You don't know."

He doesn't know, but I do.

Nimue makes every move she did in the show, as I try and push her off him. Vortigan gets more and more angry with her and stabs her.

"Nimue!" Merlin shouts. "Nimue!"

"I'm sorry," Nimue says in what is supposedly her last breath.

"NIMUE!"

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I try and comfort him as Nimue passes away.

"It's okay, Merlin," I say. "I've been through this before."

Merlin teleports over behind Vortigan angrily. "YOU KILLED HER!"

"Yeh," Vortigan says. "And now I'm going to kill you!"

"Not if you get through me first!" I shout and jump ahead of him.

"That power was never meant to be a weapon!" claims Merlin.

"Then you shouldn't have turned it into a sword!" argues Vortigan.

Nimue rips out Vortigan's heart just like in the show.

It's too late.

It's happening.

"Nimue," Merlin says. "How?"

"When we cast the detection spell," I say.

"Yes," Nimue says. "I drank from the grail. You two didn't tell me how it feels to be strong, Merlin and Peter. To be immortal."

"Nimue, you let me watch you die!" argues Merlin.

"Sorry about the playacting," Nimue apoligised, "But it was my only chance to remind you of what death looks like. To both of you."

"Nimue, stop!" I shout. "This is..."

"Wrong?" she continues. "Well, you should know death, Peter. Your first love - you don't even remember her name."

"Don't you criticize my nature!" I shout.

"What matters now is you're a holding a man's heart in your hand," Merlin points out. "Please, spare him."

"He doesn't deserve sparing."

"No, he doesn't, Nimue," I say. "But if you kill him, your magic will turn dark. You'll commit atrocities you can't even imagine."

"This man took my home, my family!" Nimue argues. "I had nothing to care for but a pile of seeds!"

"We're not fighting for him!" shouts Merlin. "We're fighting for you! We need you to be the woman we know, I can't bear to watch you become this! I know you feel like you've lost everything, but Nimue, if you do this, then we've lost everything!"

Nimue starts to back down but quickly crushes the heart. Her body then gets covered in deadly scales as me and Merlin watch her growing darker. She picks up the sword mercelessly. "Let's not think about cutting away anyone's magic or immortality!"

"Please don't!" says Merlin. "Don't do this! Nimue!"

She bashes the sword into a rock and it cuts in half. She drops the other half as Merlin weeps.

"No!" Merlin says.

"I'm sorry," Nimue claims.

"No, Nimue," says Merlin, "I'm sorry."

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A day later, me and Merlin wander what to do about this as Merlin is still greiving over Nimue becoming the first Dark One.

"Are you okay?" I ask.

"That's not her, Peter!" Merlin exclaims. "It's not her!"

"I know, I know," I say.

"Don't compare my situation to yours!" Merlin shouts. "Your wife just died! Mine became the embodiment of darkness!"

"Yeh, I've kind of been lying to you about that a bit," I admit.

"WHAT?"

"My wife did die," I say. "But I found out I had immortality and magic after it happened. I don't come from Misthaven. I come from a world which seems strange to you and one that I can barely remember. All of this, in my land, were just books. Stories. You were nothing more than that there. But being here, I realise that you're all real people." Merlin looks at me. "And I know exactly what to do with that sword."

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We have put the sword in the stone, and Merlin had just created The Dark One Dagger. Edward starts talking.

"Peter, you could see her future," he says. "Why didn't you stop Merlin from talking to her?"

"I saw that her future is very dark," I say. "My powers are different. Merlin can see the inevitable. I can see what might be. I thought that whatever dark things were going to happen, it would be stopped by Merlin and Nimue's love. But I was wrong. That situation should've never happened."

"No! No! No, don't ever think that!" Merlin shouts. "Both of you! Even now, I would go through it all again. Life is made of moments, and I had the best moments of my life with her. And now she's gone."

"She's still in there somewhere," I say. "We might be able to find a way for her to get out. Right now, we have to find somewhere to keep this dagger."

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We go over to Nimue on that one day where Merlin turns into a tree.

I just want this to end.

Now.

Nimue might kill me. She might put me in the tree with Merlin. In fact, she will. And then the show will play out as it should until Season 5 where the two sorcerers return.

There was no way she would spare me.

"Come on," Merlin says.

We see the woman Merlin refuses to call Nimue lurking in the shadows.

"Dark One! DARK ONE!" Merlin shouts. "Enough!" He holds up the dagger. "I command you to stop!"

"You destroyed her!" Merlin claims, pointing the dagger at her. "The only woman I ever loved! And now I will destroy you."

Merlin gets ready to stab Nimue with the dagger but he can't, as Nimue controls him to help him and moves him and steals the dagger off him. I watch with horror as Nimue is doing absolutley nothing to me. Merlin is then turned into a tree in a somewhat graphic display. I watch as, again Nimue is sparing me. Why? Why is she doing this?

Nimue takes off the mask and starts talking.

"Why aren't you running?" she asks.

"Why haven't you killed me yet?" I respond.

"What would be the point?" she asks angrily. "You're from another world. A world were we're all fiction." I gasp. "That's right. I heard what you said to Merlin. If you want to, you can change more. Do you really want to live in a tree for the rest of your life?"

"Why are you letting me live?" I said out loud.

"I let Merlin live," Nimue says. "I just punished him for not leaving me alone. You have no business with me."

"I was his best friend!" I state.

"And who was I to you?" Nimue asks. "The difference between you and him is that you actually think me and the me from three years ago are the same person. Be honest, Peter, you never liked me."

I look at her.

"So, if you leave Camelot and never return," Nimue says, "I will spare you. Return to your homeland. If you can't, go to the land you claim to have came from. Misthaven isn't that far away. If you do this, I will let you live, but if you ever come back, if you ever come near me again, I will stab you with this sword front in. Do you hear me?"

"I hear you."

"Good," says Nimue, "Then it seems we have a deal."

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Me and teenage Edward have been talking about what happened with Nimue. I told him the truth and said that we are going to tell the townspeople that I have to leave to search for Merlin.

"Do you really have to go?" asks Edward.

"If I don't, Nimue would kill me," I say.

"But what am I supposed to do?" he asks. "Without the two of you?"

I think about what Eddie would've felt in the show, with no one there to reasurre him.

"Take me with you!" he demands.

"No way, little man," I say. "You need to stay and protect Camelot."

"How can I do that by myself?" he asks.

"You can do it, son," I say. "I believe in you."

He smiled, as I started talking to everyone in town.

"People of Camelot," I say. "My friend Merlin is missing. The Dark One has captured him and is holding him hostage somewhere outside of Camelot. I will have to leave here to find him. I know it might be strange and upsetting without us here, but I will leave you with our apprentice, Edward, to watch over you." Edward smiled. "Until one day, it might be centuries, but I will return. And when that happens, I know Merlin will be right beside me."

I know it was a good enough lie to get me out of here.

A great one.

I set off for Misthaven. I will miss my friend and student, but it's time to leave 500 years of my life behind.

Time to find where the show really begins.

So, what do you think? The Black Fairy will be next and there will be a long time gap in between the two. No, doing this will not stop me from doing QD. Chapter 5 is still in the works, but I will be focusing on this more now. Hope you're excited!