A/N: sorry this update is late, I went away. Anyway to make up for it you get two chapters this week. Today and Thursday.

"Take the north door straight ahead, keep going" said Mordred voice inside Rose head it woke her up with a start she looked around the room it was still night-time. Her heart skipped a beat at the idea that Mordred was in the castle. "Keep going, hurry, keep going, it's not much further now" She wanted to call out to him but then worried he would be distracted and get himself caught. "We are nearly there, be careful there are guards at the end of the corridor, Morgana's chambers are next". She was so excited to hear his voice again sometimes letters aren't enough, but he was taking a big risk by coming to Camelot the door was magicked open. A man and Mordred came in and they shut the door behind them.

Rose ran over and hugged Mordred he hugged her back. He then went over to Morgana who was still asleep.
"Morgana" said Mordred. Morgana woke up and sat up. She smiled at him.
"Mordred" said Morgana. He sat down on the bed with her and gave her a hug. The warning bell started to sound making Rose jump out of her skin. Mordred was in danger terrible danger he needed to get out of here and fast. "I thought I would never see you again".
"I found him wandering the woods, lost and alone hunted by Uther's men," said the man.
"Who are you" asked Rose.
"I am Alvarr, I too have been hunted by Uther since I was a child" said Alvarr. He must have been the man Mordred told her about in one of her letters.
"You have magic" said Morgana calmly.
"Yes, my lady, as my parents and their parents they lived in a time of peace before your king started his war against magic" said Alvarr. Rose nodded the druids were a peaceful people until Uther started his war against magic and druids. Morgana looked down at Mordred and stroked his hair.
"I to have known Uther's cruelty," said Morgana.
"Magic is not a crime, sometimes he's executing people just because they were born" said Rose.
"I agree my lady, it is a gift and I would love one day to live in freedom, the boy said you would both understand, also he wouldn't shut up about Rose" said Alvarr. Her nervousness for Mordred's safety was replaced with a feeling of warmth as she looked at Mordred.
"What are you doing in Camelot, you have taken a risk coming here" asked Rose stepping forward and sitting on the bed wrapping an arm around Mordred.
"We came to see you two" said Alvarr. Morgana and Rose looked at them in confusion.

They got up and walked into the ante chamber. Rose had her arms around Mordred still and he had an arm wrapped around her.
"I will not stand and watch innocent people die, and I am not alone, many have already joined me, many more join everyday" said Alvarr. He seemed passionate about this, and Rose listened to his every word.
"This a battle you can't win, Uther has an army at his disposal" said Morgana.
"It doesn't matter how many they are, if our side has a weapon powerful enough" said Alvarr. He looked directly at Mordred when he said this. Mordred wasn't a weapon he was a human, he was powerful yes with a destiny most magic users would love, kill Arthur. Rose had made her mission though to make sure Mordred doesn't kill Arthur to prove Merlin and Kilghara wrong. "When I was a child my parents told me of a crystal"
"Is that the crystal of Neahtid, it got taken in the last few days of the great purge by Uther, many died to protect it" said Rose. Everyone looked at her in surprise "I read about it in a book".
"It is here in Camelot, locked in the vaults" said Alvarr. Rose heard a noise like footsteps coming towards the room.
"Do you hear that" asked Mordred in her head.
"Yes, I do" said Rose into Mordred's head. She ignored the conversation as she focused her instincts on the corridor outside.
"Hide, both of you now, Alvarr in the wardrobe, you in the bed" said Rose seriously.

They did as they were told. Rose and Morgana went back into the main chamber she shut the door to the anti-chamber she pointed her hands at the door "clĂșstor se dor". The door locked and Morgana and Rose got back into Morgana's bed and laid still until the door came open with a bang. Arthur came running in with his sword in hand both Rose and Morgana shot up with a jump.
"What do you think you're doing" demanded Morgana. Arthur looked around in a really confused way attempting to look under the bed.
"I had a reason to believe that there was an intruder in here" said Arthur.
"Right now, the only intruder in here is you!" said Morgana in an annoyed voice she wrapped her arm around Rose. This was so weird, lying to Arthur, Merlin was looking at her strangely.
"We've been infiltrated did you not here the warning bell?" asked Arthur.
"Off course we did, it woke us up, I wanted to come help, but Morgana wouldn't let me" said Rose in a pretend annoyed voice. He nodded at that, believing their story.
"Yeah but you see Rose no intruder is going to be intimidated by you in a night dress, anyway I assumed we would be safe in our chambers" said Morgana giving Rose a scolding look but she winked at Rose that she knew it was all pretend.
"Then if you let me search the room" said Arthur.
"You'll do no such thing" snapped Morgana, Arthur gave her a shocked look "I don't want you guys going through mine and Rose's things, do you really think there was an intruder in my room I wouldn't know about it".
"I could come help you look for the intruder" said Rose eagerly.
"No, we are doing fine on our own, accept my apologies" said Arthur he left the room pointing his sword at Merlin on the way out.

Once they left the room, they got up again and Rose went to the door.
"onlĂșcan se dor" said Rose the door unlocked, and she opened it she breathed a sigh of relief she didn't know what she would do if Mordred got caught. Mordred and Alvar came into the main chambers. Mordred went over to the door before walking up to Rose so he was stood next her: he took her hand and squeezed it she squeezed his hand back.
"We owe you both our lives" said Alvarr.
"You can't stay here it's not safe" said Rose she felt a very strong protective to Mordred like if something was to happen nothing would be right again. Why was she having such strong feelings? She had had friends before and had friends now, but this was different feeling. She pushed it into the back of her head and concentrated on the task at hand.
"Uther won't stop until he has killed you both" said Morgana.
"Will you help us" asked Alvarr.
"Yes of course" said Rose and Morgana at the same time.
"We are at the valley of Chamray" said Alvarr. They both ran out of the chambers and to safety.

Rose put herself back to bed after this and laid in bed. What on earth was going on in her head about Mordred she had met him once before and they shared letters, but it felt like she had known him forever and she was ready to protect him no matter what. She fell asleep with his face in her head. She got up and dressed and ready for training. She went to the training ground, Arthur smiled as he saw turn up along the ranks.
"Okay, get into pairs, Rose you'll pair with me" said Arthur. She went over to him anyway, usually when he paired them up most of them didn't want to go against her so he would go against her instead. "We are going to start of with sword work, focus today on footing". Rose did this "head" she caught the blow with the sword, "shield" she put the shield up "body" she caught the sword with her sword before pushing her sword forward. She went left and went right and then went left again before going left to trick Arthur and floored him with one more moved.
"That was impressive" said Leon who had been watching.
"Thanks" said Rose she put her hand out and helped Arthur up.
"That was impressive well-done Rose, everyone have a drink then it's on to maze fighting" said Arthur. She got her water then went over to Arthur.
"How can I improve" asked Rose.
"This time Rose you couldn't improve you did really well, oh sorry about last night, it was Merlin that thought someone was in your chambers" said Arthur.
"There were eyewitnesses that the intruder had gone in that direction so it's not completely crazy he got that assumption" said Rose. She got back into the training and improved as the day went on.

They waited until nightfall until they got ready to leave, Morgana and Rose had arranged it so she would steal the crystal while Rose got the get-away ready. Rose left the chamber the first to ready the horses and make sure that no one was going to disturb them. She concentrated on Morgana before thinking.
"The horses are set up" said Rose into Morgana's mind.
"I am on way had to get Gwen out my room" said Morgana into her head. A few minutes later "I have the crystal".

Morgana arrived and got on her horse. Rose was already on patch she patted her horses main and neck. They set off on the journey to the druid camp. She had a funny feeling they were being followed but she did her best not to draw attention to it. They got of their horses just before they walked towards the camp it was light, so everyone was awake. Mordred came running over to them and hugged Morgana before he hugged Rose. They stood next to each other holding hands. Morgana gave Alvarr the crystal and held it up looking impressed.
"Can I go show Rose around please? I haven't seen her in a while, and we have some catching up to do" asked Mordred excitedly.
"Off course, in fact why don't you spend the day with us, Morgana can come back and fetch you tomorrow night" said Alvarr.
"Morgana can I" asked Rose hopefully. Morgana reached out and hugged Rose.
"Of course," said Morgana. Rose and Mordred both thanked the grownups before running in the direction of one of the tents. They went into the tent he was showing her it was another tent with a lot of books in.
"It's like you know me" said Rose happily.
"I know you love your books" said Mordred. They sat in comfortable silence for a while until they decided to put the books down and go for a walk. They walked past Alvarr hand in hand.
"Where's Morgana? When will she be coming back?" asked Mordred.
"She'll back tomorrow night to get Rose" said Alvarr. They walked past him and into Mordred's personal tent. Alvarr looked at the woman that was in his lap "Unfortunately when Morgana comes back, Rose will have realised her destiny with Mordred and not want to leave"
"And what if she doesn't discover the destiny" said the woman in a teasing voice.
"Then I'll just make it harder for her to leave, we can go far with a warlock and high priestess on our side" said Alvarr.

In the druid tent, Rose sat down on Mordred's bed roll and he sat down next to her. She laid down on her side her hand holding her head in position.
"So, what's the deal with the crystal?" asked Rose.
"It holds a lot of knowledge; it can tell what has been and what will be," said Mordred. Rose stared at him in interest she would love to know her future. Find out what allies are going to hate each other and who is the light and who is the dark.
"Does it do it at random or do you have to do a spell" asked Rose.
"You have to think about whatever future you want to see, I think though Emerys would be able to see into it without much help," said Mordred. He laid down next to her with his hand holding his head to.
"Who is Emerys" asked Rose.
"Oh, Emerys is Merlin's druid name," said Mordred. They talked for a long time about magic, about spells, about their lives and about the crystal they talked late into the night eventually Mordred nodded off. She draped the blanket over the top of them both and fell asleep herself.

She woke up next morning to chaos. They both left the tent to see everyone was running around. They went over to Alvarr.
"What's going on?" asked Rose into Alvarr head.
"The knights of Camelot are almost upon us" said Alvarr into her head. Mordred started to use telepathy to warn everyone. Rose took Mordred's hand, and they ran into the trees with the other druids. They watched as Arthur went from the trees and stood in front of fire. A druid with a crossbow pointed his crossbow at Merlin. She couldn't let him be hurt.
"Merlin duck" said Rose into Merlin's head. He did and the crossbow hit a knight and a battle began. Everyone running back into the druid camp.
"Take cover" shouted Arthur to his men. The battle started and Rose completely froze stood next to Mordred. They were behind Alvarr who was fighting against a knight of Camelot.
"Mordred run; Rose stay here you might be of some assistance" said Alvarr.

Mordred hugged Rose before kissing her on the cheek before running in the opposite direction. She watched him run. A vine came and tripped him up. She stared as he screamed, and the knights flew away from him.
"I will never forgive this Emerys, I will never forget" said Mordred voice in her mind but the message wasn't for her. It was for Merlin. She rolled her eyes at this but was distracted by her annoyance by Alvarr grabbing her around the shoulders holding a sword to her throat. He paraded her forward and all the knights and druids stopped their fight to look.
"Call off the knights, stop this attack on a peaceful people or I will slit her throat from ear to ear" said Alvarr. Arthur turned around in horror. She did not like being held like this and she looked around to see that people were crowding around them.
"Let her go," said Arthur.
"No, call of the knights then I'll let her go" said Alvarr. He released her suddenly and stared at his hand in confusion it was burnt, Merlin grabbed her and pulled her away from Alvarr. She looked at the hilt of the sword as it had finished glowing, she looked at her rescuer as his eyes finished glowing. With Rose out of the way Arthur got the upper hand on the fight and Alvarr was captured.
"Give me the crystal" said Arthur angrily.
"Why should you care, what use is it to you? You are a fool" argued Alvarr. Arthur stuffed his sword into the ground and searched him finding the crystal "how many lives have been today and for what, you cannot yield the crystal you do not have the power, none of you do". Merlin and Rose looked at the crystal and then looked at each other.

They made camp later that night Rose fed and watered the horses before settling down next to a very distressed looking Merlin. Arthur came over to them and slammed his sword into the ground before laying down.
"Merlin, check the horses are fed and watered," said Arthur.
"I did them for him," said Rose.
"Merlin!" protested Arthur.
"Sorry" said Merlin coming out of his thoughts.
"Not the right answer," said Arthur. Rose glared at him, how was it completely going over his head that Merlin was upset about something.
"Something on your mind is there" said Arthur he smiled like it was a joke.
"It's just when we entered to camp, it was a trap, how did they know we were coming," said Merlin.
"Probably because they took the lady Morgana's ward a way to get us to stay away or used Rose as a trap, either way I am just happy we are going home with the crystal and Rose," said Arthur. He seemed passionate. Did they think she had been kidnapped is that why everyone died today? She stared into the fire feeling guilty. "Now guard this with your life". Arthur chucked the crystal at their feet.
"Why me" grumbled Merlin.
"I can't hardly guard it while I am asleep now can I" said Arthur.
"What makes you think he can" said Rose tilting her head to the side to look at him.
"Who said anything about him sleeping" said Arthur he then rolled over and fell asleep leaving Rose and Merlin staring at the crystal.
"I was kidnapped was I" asked Rose.
"Alvarr wasn't going to let you go, seemed to think you would choose to stay with Mordred on your own choice or if you choose to come to Camelot, he was going to stop you," said Merlin. She sighed and put her head his shoulder.
"I knew he was too good to be true," said Rose.

They carried on staring at the crystal it was compelling them, begging them to look at the crystal. They stared at it until the fire burnt out and they were still the only two people awake. Merlin grabbed the crystal and Rose looked at it. Kilghara flew over Camelot blowing fire over Camelot, Merlin ran into the square looking shocked, Camelot was on fire, Kilghara blew more fire, Merlin and Rose were crying in the crystal. The real Merlin dropped the crystal and rubbed his eyes getting rid of the tears. Rose wrapped her arm around him. She didn't want to pick the crystal up anymore but compelled her to look, she picked it up and it showed her a scene of her and Mordred kissing each other and then it changed to Rose and Mordred in a house being domestic her cooking and him waiting a child in the corner of the hovel. She shoved the crystal into the bag.

They got back to the castle the next day and Rose snuck away while they tried Alvarr. She went straight Kilghara's cave and stood waiting for him to turn up. He flew down to talk to her.
"I need to ask you something?" asked Rose.
"Yes, I had a feeling you would come to see me" said Kilghara.
"My destiny is to protect the once and future queen, then why am I destined to fall in love with Mordred the person that is destined to bring about Arthur's doom," said Rose.
"Do not be alarmed young one, it is a part of your destiny, you are not evil, you are destined for good, you will use your kind nature to stop many terrible events" said Kilghara.
"So, Mordred might not kill Arthur" said Rose hopefully.
"I cannot guaranty that it is in many of the futures" said Kilghara.
"I promise I won't let Mordred kill Arthur, if I am destined to fall in love with him surely that means he's not evil, cos what evil person can love," said Rose.
"You have a good point, I know whatever you put your mind to you will do, unlike Merlin who is happy for me to spend the rest of my life down her" said Kilghara. Rose looked at him and smiled.
"I'll make sure you are freed," said Rose.

She bowed to her friend before leaving the cave she went up to the main castle she went to Gaius and Merlin's chamber and sat down at the table.
"Hello Rose, do you want to stay for dinner" asked Gaius.
"Yes please" said Rose quietly. Merlin came in and sat down next to her, he had a haunted look on his face. She squeezed his hand under the table. Gaius served them the food and Rose started to eat enjoying the soup. She finished quickly and noticed that Gaius was staring at Merlin. He was sat stiffly staring into his bowl of soup.
"Is there something interesting in there," said Gaius.
"Sorry?" said Merlin in a confused voice. He must have been so freaked out by what he saw in the crystal, Kilghara getting his revenge on Camelot and the last few days seemed to be on his mind.
"What's the matter?" asked Gaius.
"The crystal, it has such a terrible power," said Merlin.
"It's locked away now, no harm to anyone," said Gaius.
"The damage has already been done," said Rose. Gaius raised his eyebrow before looking at Merlin with a questioning look.
"I held it; I knew I shouldn't have done," said Merlin.
"To be fair Merlin the crystal was drawing us to it, like it wanted us to look into it," said Rose.
"Did you hold it to" asked Gaius.
"Yes, for a about a few seconds, I was putting it back in the bag," said Rose. She blushed slightly at what she saw in the crystal.
"Rose is right it was like we couldn't resist; we saw some terrible things," said Merlin.
"Yeah, it was scary" said Rose before getting lost in her thoughts.

Merlin probably thought the contents of Rose's crystal was more horrifying than what was in his crystal. She smiled and then squeezed Merlin's hand again and knew it was Kilghara's rampage he was going to do on Camelot.
"Then you've already paid the price," said Gaius.
"What we saw has not yet come to pass and I am scared, I am really scared of what the future will hold," said Merlin.
"There is nothing on this earth that can tell all futures, even the crystal" said Gaius this put Rose's mind at ease, it is only in one future where Mordred would kill Arthur maybe she could stop it.
"But what we saw, it was so real" said Merlin.
"And it was real, but it was just one reality, the future is yet to be shaped, it is both of you that shape the future" said Gaius. He took a breath and continued "the future is shaped by the decisions that are made, the actions that taken, remember that, the crystal doesn't shape the future, we all do". Rose smiled at this.
"Thank you for that and the soup, I am going to bed" said Rose. She hugged Merlin and then Gaius before heading out the room. She went straight to her room and laid down on her bed Morgana wasn't in the chambers, so Rose laid on her own bed in the antechambers. Gaius was right the future was not set in stone it was actions that would change things. Rose was ready for whatever came at her.

The end