AN: Within Temptation's Angels is needed for this one.
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She could hardly believe it! Merlin, that sweet innocent man just poisoned her!
She should have wondered why he kept insisting that drink that damned water! At least he had the decency to cry.
Just when I thought he was going to be the end of me, she arrived. My golden angel replaced the black one and I knew no more.
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He still blamed himself for what he did to her all of those years ago and so does she. He would never forget the smile she wore as placed the Fomorroh's head in the back of his neck and the gleam in her eyes as it ripped his will from his control.
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Mordred hate Emrys with all his being the moment Kara's life was cut short on that gallow. He had promised a new and better future under Arthur, but that promise was broken the moment that very king killed the woman he loved. Every word out of Merlin's mouth was a lie! And Mordred was going to see that he paid for those falsehoods.
Morgana took Mordred's pain and twisted it into the hate of not just Emrys, but all of Camelot. The boy was so full of despise that he didn't question her orders to kill innocent people in their way.
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Gwaine couldn't understand. Why would Eira do this to him? Why had she been betraying him and the kingdom?
She only spent a short time pleading her innocence and even then, only to Gwaine. She had help in the deaths of every man that fell at Camlann. Gwen felt no mercy as she sentenced the woman to death.
As he watched her body swing at the end of the rope, all he could remember was the smile she had used to get him to tell her everything she needed for Morgana.
He had given her his heart and she destroyed it. He had told her what he wanted in life and she had said she wanted the same. But that was clearly a lie. She was all he ever wanted, but that version of her was never even real.
They could have been together forever, but she betrayed him and was killed for it.
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As Merlin watched Arthur slowly fade, he wondered if by revealing his magic earlier, if he had chosen a different path, he could have avoided the slow death of the other side of his coin. As it was, he had failed his destiny, his friend, his brother.
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Arthur's heart fell when Merlin smiled slightly and his eyes changed to gold. It felt as if he was being ripped apart. Not Merlin too! Not Merlin!
Merlin had weaseled his way into his heart and had been lying all these years. All those times he talked about bringing peace, uniting Albion, being the greatest king the world has ever known. They felt like promises, but they were just more of his lies.
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Arthur's reign could have been remembered forever, but history is twisted with time and no one but Merlin remembers the true way the Once and Future King met his end.