Hello, my lovelies! Again I would like to thank you for your reviews! I love reading them. One review, however, I would just like to comment on as it will be important later. The year of when Morgana was with Morgause, there will be a whole chapter about that (either the next one or the one after that - depends how far we get with this one). I don't want to give too much away of course, but there will be an explanation of sorts on what happened during that year, and it won't be what you think.

IN THIS CHAPTER: MERLIN AND MORGAUSE FIND OUT MORGANA'S PLAN. GAIUS FINDS OUT ABOUT THE SECRET MAGIC LESSONS, AND MERLIN DECIDES TO USE THE AGING SPELL TO FOIL MORGANA'S PLAN FURTHER.

Chapter 3: History Between Two Sisters

After following her sister all morning, it turns out Uther finding out about Arthur and Gwen's 'forbidden' relationship but he finds it quite funny. What? Yet it turned out as Morgause and Merlin predicted, Arthur stated he loved Gwen and Uther immediately was like 'you are under her spell'. The High Priestess found herself feeling sorry for the young prince, his love was genuine - so genuine in fact he would give up the throne for her. At one time she would rejoice at this as it gave Morgana the perfect pathway to her 'rightful' place on the throne, but now she knew of Arthur's importance she had to put her duty of being a High Priestess, of maintaining peace in the magical world before her sister. In some ways she hated that she didn't have her sister but in another way she knew Morgana was too far gone to reason with. At first she believed it was her fault, but in time she realised it wasn't fully her fault.

Now as the knights rummaged through the Prince's belongings, they found tucked under his pillow - a poultice with markings of the Old Religion. Morgause knew immediately as she hid outside the room peaking through the slightly ajar door in the disguise of an old woman, that this poultice was not magical, she couldn't feel its magic. She moved quickly out of the castle, she needed to warn Merlin. She decided even though her new friend wouldn't be grateful for it, she went to Gaius' chamber. Luckily, the physician was not there so she quickly turned herself back to her younger self just a Gaius walked in. "What are you doing here, Morgause?" Asked Gaius.

"I was looking for Merlin, I must warn him. The magical poultice found under Arthur's pillow has no magic tethered to it, it was there to frame the serving girl, Gwen I think it is."

"I see. Why would you tell Merlin?"

"Well we decided last night to follow Morgana today, she was trying to get Arthur and Gwen together but we didn't know why really until now."

"And why were you and Merlin meeting?"

"Hasn't he told you? I'm teaching him magic, luck can only get him so far." Just at that moment Merlin walked through the door and something told him straight away that he should just turn around and not go back.

"Morgause? What are you doing here?" Merlin questioned somewhat hesitant under Gaius' burning gaze.

"The poultice was a set up, it's not magical it just bares the symbol of the Old Religion." Morgause explained quickly.

"I thought something wasn't right, I couldn't sense any magic. Gwen's been arrested, sentenced to death."

"Exactly how Morgana wanted it to play out." There was a pause before a realisation hit Merlin.

"How did you get into the castle?"

"Aging spell."

"Ah. That might work. If we can't expose the real sorcerer we'll just have to invent one."

"What are you mad, boy?" Gaius raised his voice slightly. "Aging spell is dangerous."

"I can teach him." Morgause perked up, Gaius reluctantly nodded. "Could you make a similar poultice to the one under Arthur's pillow?" Again Gaius nodded and started to make another poultice as Merlin and Morgause went towards Merlin's room so there was less chance someone walking in on them doing magic. "Right pour this powder into the cauldron with some of this, while chanting this spell." She pointed to a spell in his spell book, Merlin nodded adding the ingredients.

"Miht dagon, bepecce me. Adeadap pisne gast min freondum ond min feondum." There was a flash of light, and Merlin was... old. Long grey hair and beard and wrinkles on his face showing he smiled a lot evident by the crows feet at his eyes but also frowned a lot with the lines on his forehead. Merlin put on one of Gaius' robes to look less like himself and they walked out of his room. "You know me better than anyone, Gaius. Would you recognise me?"

Gaius got up to give a closer inspection. "There's something of you in the eyes. But perhaps that's just because I know it's you."

Merlin had stopped listening and looked in the mirror. "I can't believe that one day I'll actually look like this." At that Morgause gave a little giggle. Anyone would pity him if that was how he was going to look like eventually. "Oh, I ache. All over." He complained.

"Now you know how I feel." Gaius handed him the new poultice. "You'll be needing this."

"I'm going to try find Morgana." Morgause told them both. "I can try to keep her away from Arthur's chambers, besides it might be time I have a word with her."

"You said last time she called the guards on you. Are you sure it's safe?"

"I will gladly take the risk. The girl's life is on the line, we must not let Uther kill her." Merlin hesitated but nodded in agreement before walking off as fast as he could with Morgause folowing him but then going towards Morgana's chambers rather than Arthur's.

Once she reached her sister's chambers she knocked on the door but didn't bother waiting for an 'enter' or an answer. "Hello sister." She said to Morgana who was sat brushing her hair.

"So now I'm your sister? You have no right to call me that. You betrayed me, you were supposed to help me get what is rightfully mine." Morgana shouted.

"I have not betrayed you, Morgana. I was wrong to try kill Uther and Arthur, I was blinded by my revenge as you are hate. I didn't turn my back on you, I tried to help you. You were the one who turned your back on me."

"I never turned my back on you. But I realised I don't need you."

"You're making a grave mistake Morgana. You are going against the Goddess who grants us our power. Emrys is the one to bring magic back to Camelot, not you."

"And you say I betrayed you?"

"You called for guards last time I saw you! What would you have done if they had killed me? Injured me? Took me to Uther where he would burn me at the stake?" There was a slight pause. "Would you just stand there, uncaring?"

"I'd have to care about you before you get killed."

"Look how cold hearted you have become, Morgana."

"You made me like this!"

"You are more like Uther than you realise. It wasn't me that turned you into this person, it was Uther."

"Are you forgetting the year I was with you?"

"What about it?"

"You made me kill my own kind!"

"That was your choice, Morgana. I told you they were Druids but you did not listen until it was too late. When you realised that Mordred was among them, you let him go because you couldn't kill a child, knowing you killed a child." At that Morgause left Morgana's chambers, a few tears creeping their way down her face. She quickly wiped them away. Morgana had made her choice, now she must live with it. Emrys - Merlin - was Morgana's doom, and Morgause couldn't do a thing to change it and part of her didn't want to. The year with Morgana was nothing like what people thought. Thinking Morgause was the evil sister, but they were wrong. That was Morgana. The blonde sister was just teaching her magic, planning Uther's demise, yet it was the raven haired sister who was the cruellest, the cold hearted sister.

WOW! I thought I'd never stop writing. What do you think is going to happen between Morgana and Morgause? Or what happened in that one year? What do you think Gaius is going to say to Merlin about these secret lessons?

NEXT TIME: WE SEE WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE YEAR MORGANA WAS WITH MORGAUSE. WHO WAS/IS THE REAL EVIL SISTER?