What? WHAT? Not a thousand years between chapters for once?! And TWO of them?! What is this! This is insanity! We are all gonna die!
Disclaimer: Ringing in a disclaimer...
Prompt: Blank: From me: Arthur trades his ring for Merlin's freedom.
Rating: T
Genre: Angst/Friendship
Characters: Arthur, Merlin, Unnamed bandit, mentions of Uther
Time Frame: Let's go with some time in Season 3 so that the dorks are close but not bothered with Morgana's disappearance. Also, a timeline where Arthur knows about the magic.
Summary: Merlin was caught by some slavers a few weeks before, and Arthur has to bargain with them to save his friend.
Let's Go On An Adventure
Arthur held his breath as the bandit dumped the bag of gold onto the table. It was all that he could smuggle from the castle right from under Uther's nose. He just hoped that it was enough.
"Hmm, I need more."
Arthur couldn't show how desperate he was to free Merlin. "But everyone else here-"
"Is not a sorcerer," the bandit snapped. "The more power, the more gold. What else have ye got?"
But Arthur didn't have anything else except for... Well, he did have one thing, but was Merlin really worth it?
Of course he was.
Onward onward to part 2! Nothing special here, except a stingy bandit that knows of Merlin's magic and apparently so does Arthur (fun fact: when I first wrote the drabble, the magic wasn't going to be mentioned at all! But then, it was also originally going to be 1 drabble, but the word count ended up at 150. I had to do some filler XD
~Lya200~