In The Line Of Duty

by Ice Girl on Fire

It was just supposed to be a normal hunting trip. But you know how troublesome they always turned out to be. Featuring Merlin, King Arthur, Sirs Gwaine, Lancelot, Percival, Leon and Elyan. Another one of those captivity fics. Magic-reveal if you want it to be.

15. Chapter 15

I guess I somehow managed to keep up a stable posting schedule. *fingers crossed* I hope I don't jinx it.

Not mine, Merls. *Sighs in sadness*

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In The Line Of Duty

Chapter 15

Merlin started by cleansing a tiny pointed needle first then the thread too, all dug out from his supplies. After that he bent low toward the gash and gently stitched it up together, his eyebrows creasing in concentration. After this very tiring part was done, he wiped the sweat gathered at his brow and continued by applying some honey and a few pastes he had just mixed up onto the newly stitched up gash.

Then he extracted long strips of clothing from his supplies, grabbed a few herbs, powders, potions and roots and put all these into the pot on the table with warm water. He told the man to make the water boil and after five minutes he was extracting the stripped cloth and the other ingredients onto another plate. He brought this to Arthur's side and first stacked all the herbs that had soaked up the medicine from the other ingredients onto Arthur's wound then put another cleansed rag on top of all this to hold it together.

He picked up the long strips after that and wound it around Arthur's torso, with help from Tyrion to hold Arthur in a sitting position, with magic of course. As he tied the dressing together and made Arthur lay back down, finally done with all that he could do as a physician, after giving him a potion for pain and a sleeping draught he looked at Arthur properly and stroked his blond hair out of his forehead. His pale and pasty skin was already starting to look better and he appeared to be asleep and breathing much better.

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Arthur walked back to Merlin after picking up all their bags and said with a grin.

"Look. All our bags were right there. Only the horses were gone." Arthur dumped all the bags right beside Merlin, who looked up at him and only said.

"Really? Strange bandits."

Arthur lifted a puzzled brow at Merlin's uncharacteristic reservedness but knowing his servant decided to provide a distraction from what must be somber thoughts.