Meanwhile, police arrived at Dragon Corporation with a search warrant and started to search Arthur's workstation. Occasionally, removing some items from his desk as well as checking Merlin's office. After Arthur, had been taken to the station, his flat was also searched. Morgana was fuming but could do nothing about it other than phone Leon and ask him to go to the station. At least with her boyfriend being a lawyer she knew who to call. He had, in the past, looked after Arthur though the court case against his father.

Arthur was taken to the interview room. The questioning hadn't even started when the Leon arrived and spoke to the arresting officer. He was shown into the room where Arthur was sat.

"Let us have a few moments alone please," he demanded.

Once the door was shut, Leon looked at his best friend: "You get yourself in some scrapes, my friend. Now I understand that they have just bought you in for questioning?"

Arthur nodded, this so reminded him of all the problems he had once his father's affairs came to light. "From what I gather they believe that Merlin was deliberately harmed. Don't worry though, we'll get you home soon."

This was to prove harder than expected and would take a lot longer. An hour later, as the interview continued, it became clear that Arthur was going kept in for further questioning and was to be charged with attempted murder. The search of Arthur's desk had found a small container that contained traces of the same nut concentrate as had been found in the soup which Arthur had bought and given to Merlin.

"You had the opportunity and motive," the interviewing officer: D.I Kendall said as he charged Arthur. "Not only to put the substance in the soup but also to remove the EpiPens from the two places they were normally kept. You did a good job of covering it up by appearing to help the victim. Maybe you were after some sort of reward or you may have been trying to put the family in your debt. We will get to the bottom of this, your flat is being searched as we speak."

Arthur looked at the policeman in horror, "You have to be joking!"

"You had a motive," the detective repeated. "Maybe it was revenge: Dragon Corporation had purchased much of your family's previous business and now you are working in a position much lower than your expectations. It must be soul destroying to work for your family's greatest rival as a glorified secretary after being a V.P of a much large company. That sort of thing can warp a man's mind. Or as I said, maybe you were playing the long game and trying to put the family in your debt."

Before Leon could stop him,Arthur snorted: "The Emrys's gave me a job before that I was working as a barista! As for my family, I was the one that reported my father or had you forgotten that?"

Leon put his hand on Arthur's shoulder, "My client is innocent and I will prove that to you, he has nothing but respect for the Emrys family and has become friends with Merlin Emrys."

Leon looked at Arthur, "Don't worry. I will get to the bottom of this." Then turning to the policeman, he asked, "What about the waitress my client mentioned? She dished out the soup so therefore she had opportunity."

"We are following up that lead but she was an agency worker. She didn't make the soup only put it in the container and was visible to both the owner and your client at all times. Don't worry, she will be questioned as well," the two men were told. "Unfortunately for your client, he had possession of the concentrate, and it was in a locked draw that only he and his boss had keys to," the policeman smirked clearly sure they had got their man, "Unless you are suggesting the victim's father was the perp. The spare key was kept with others in his office."

It was clear that the policeman had made his mind up.

Leon promised Arthur he would be back the next morning and left to go to see Morgana and let her know what was going on. It didn't seem fair that just as Arthur had been getting his life together once more that this should happen.

Morgana, as expected, was distraught and angry, she threatened to go and see the Emrys's but Leon talked her out of it.

"It won't be their fault, Morgana, and don't forget their son is in hospital after having nearly lost his life. They might not even know what's happening."

Morgana looked at her boyfriend, "That's crap and you know it. I'm not an idiot so don't treat me like one. Of course, they know, they may or may not think Arthur did it but they do know he's been arrested."

"Promise me you'll leave it, Morgana. You won't help your brother's case if you go in guns blazing, in fact you might get arrested! You will do him more good remaining a free agent."

Balinor Emrys had indeed been informed of Arthur's arrest and the reasons he was considered the prime suspect but that didn't mean he believed it. He didn't inform his wife and daughter as they remained in the hospital with Merlin who was still unconscious and ventilated. He saw no point in distressing them further. He did however decide to do a bit of poking around on his son's behalf and called Gwaine to the house to speak to him. The Irishman considered Merlin a brother and was as upset as any of them.

Balinor explained to the younger man what he wanted doing and Gwaine readily agreed adding, "The Princess is many things but I don't think he would harm Merlin and I want the real culprit found and put behind bars."

Balinor had every faith in Gwaine, the man had after all worked for several years for the firm investigating various concerns and had been part of the recent successful visit to one of the factories. Gwaine, he knew, thought of both Merlin and Freya as younger siblings, and was especially fond of Merlin.

Gwaine spent the next couple of days nosing around. He spoke to Mary at the café, she was also a friend, and looked at the security footage. It didn't show anything as the camera was near the till but it did give Gwaine a look at Sefa's face.

Mary confirmed that she herself had sorted the drinks, "I wasn't going to risk Mr Merlin's health, the soup was already made." She looked at Gwaine, "You don't think it was Arthur, do you? I like the young man. He seems very caring of Mr Merlin."

"Mr Emrys senior just wants to make sure that every angle is being covered," Gwaine explained. "I don't want you to lie, but unless they ask I would rather you didn't tell the police I spoke to you."

Mary shook her head, "I won't tell them, seemed to me though that they have made their minds up; want to solve this quick I expect. Pity it wasn't Gwen's young man in charge, he would be more thorough, nice lad he is and so good looking, came in here once with her he did."

Gwaine grinned and, buying an apple turnover, left to check something else. The next day, Gwaine called Balinor to arrange to meet. It was decided to meet up at the office as Balinor needed to check up with everything. As Gwaine arrived, he was greeted by Gwen, "Great news, Gwaine! Merlin is going to be woken up later and taken off the machine!"

"Thank god!" Gwaine said. "I saw him last night: hate seeing him like that."

"You best go in, Mr Emrys wants to get back to the hospital" Gwen waved him in. "I'll bring you both a drink."

Gwaine walked in and sat down as requested, he looked at Balinor and figured the man had had hardly any sleep: he had heavy bags under his eyes and was not as well kempt as he normally was. But then Gwaine figured he himself wasn't much better.

Balinor gave him a small smile, "I suppose Gwen told you?"

"That she did, great news. I have some news as well but want to know how you want to handle this," Gwaine said serious once more.

"Tell me what you know and then we'll work something out" Balinor answered.

Gwaine went on to explain what Mary had said "I then went and nosed around the agency, got chatting to the receptionist, nice girl."

Balinor rolled his eyes, "Gwaine don't go upsetting your lady with your flirting. I thought you had grown out of that!"

"Boss! I'll have you know that this was all for a good cause. When I saw Sefa on tape I sort of recognised her and I played a hunch which was right. It turns out her second name is Ruadan which rang a bell. It seems her dear Dad is married to Alan, Olaf's sister. I saw him a couple of times at the factory. I then ran through the security tapes here and guess what? It seems this Sefa had a couple of shifts here, as a night cleaner last week. She's visible on the tapes entering the building. I have made sure that they don't get rubbed. So, it kind of all ties in, don't it? I didn't do any more snooping as I figure I needed to be careful in case I got accused of tampering with evidence."

"That's good work, Gwaine. You and Elena will get a good holiday out of this," Balinor said, relief clear in his voice.

"No need, it's Merlin we're talking about. I want those bastards done for this. So, what do you want me to do now?"