Coming Home P3
Previously: What made things worse for Arthur wasn't the fact that Merlin had left, but finding out that all those years he'd been with Gwen, Merlin had silently suffered, for Merlin was in love with him the whole time, and he never noticed.
It was now Arthur's turn to silently suffer, or so he thought because he loves Merlin very much. It wasn't till he lost him that Arthur realised this. He even thought that he loved Merlin whilst he was with Gwen and just never notice or refused to notice. Well, it was too late now, Merlin was with Gwaine and seemed to be happy. That's what Arthur thought but it was quite the opposite. Merlin wasn't happy, he was concerned, angry and above all scared. He was scared Arthur would find out he had asthma and he was scared Arthur would find out Gwen cheated on him and that Merlin had kept it from him all this time. The thing Merlin didn't know however, was that Arthur knows Gwen cheated on him, but he still treats Yasmin as his daughter.
