Chapter 3

Merlin´s POV.

I didn´t leave. It have been almost a month since they brought me here. I tried to leave the day after but they got me to stay just another night the same the day after and then the day after that. But I also got to know something. Ron the twins little brother who´s going on Hogwarts is best friend with a boy named Harry Potter. Potter as James Potter. The twins also told me about Voldemort and that his back. People lives again in fear of their lives. So instead of choosing to leave and don´t care about the big danger of the magician world I stayed. I will help them, I will help my people through this.

As I feared I have also got attracted to the Weasley family. Or I have just met Molly, Arthur and the twins yet but they mean very much to me. I haven´t told them anything about the real me and thankfully they haven´t pressed me to much to tell them very much.

It´s Christmas time and tomorrow the school break begins so Ron, Ginny and Harry will come. Molly is full going with all the food and cleaning. Fred and George is on work right now, some days I come with them but today I choosed to help Molly with in house.

"How do you usually celebrate Christmas?" Molly asks carefully as she stands by the stove and I do the sweets.

"When I lived with my mum we didn´t celebrate it that much, we weren´t very wealthy. But we tried the best we could and we had each other. Then some years when I was a little older I got some very good friends and we celebrated together" I softly answer. It´s sort of the truth, but that I actually worked those Christmases in Camelot.

"What happened to your father dear?"

"I didn´t have one or it was that I thought many years. I didn´t know he was alive. But I later learned that he was still alive, I met him actually one time after that actually but I just knew him for a day before he was killed in an accident" I say not meeting her eyes afraid of I will break down or something. Not just because of Balinor but the by constant reminder of everyone I once knew and everyone I have lost.

"Oh my dear child I´m sorry I brought it up" she says and soon her arms are around me. I can´t help but wonder how long it have been since I was hugged like that. A very long time ago.

"Don´t worry it was a really long time ago"

"Maybe, but we all have the right to mourn and the sorrow isn´t a thing that we must lay behind us. It´s okay to miss and feel sorrow for those people we have lost" she says wisely. She looks sadly at me, I don´t want her to be sad and certainty not for me.

"He wasn´t the only father figure I have had. It was one person who I always will think of as my father. He took care of me a couple of years when I didn´t live with my mum. He actually was even a relative of my mum. He was an older man. We took care of each other and I have learned so much of him. It always felt like he was the only one who knew about the real me and he was always there when I needed him. He was a wonderful man but he had the eyebrow of doom" I tell her with a small laugh in the last part.

"He would have liked you and your family" I continue and her arms gets tighter around me.

"I think we would have liked him too" she says.

The next day one pm we are waiting on Arthur to come with the kids. Molly have taken a break in her cooking for tomorrow and has a big smile on her lips happy to have her two youngest coming home. Percy one of her older sons will come here tomorrow the other two couldn´t make it.

Molly gives away a cry of joy when she hears the outer door open and runs to the outer hall. The twin and I follow a bit slower. I hold myself a bit behind the twins not wanting to disturb everyone in their little family reunion. But before I know it the twins have dragged me forward.

"Mervin let us introduce you, this is Ron and Ginny but you can probably guess that and this is the famous Harry Potter" Fred says, the three children looks a bit bemused at me, they must wonder what a complete stranger do here.

"Hello I´m Mervin and it´s nice to meet you all three. I have heard much of you" just a little amused by their confusion. Harry is the one the one who get out of his surprise first.

"Nice to meet you too" he reach out his hand I take it. Then I shake the two younger Weasley´s hands also. Ron looks a bit unsure at me.

"Fred and George brought Mervin one day and after that day we have succeeded to get him to stay" Arthur tells and all three of them nods slowly.

"Now let´s eat!" Molly exclaims and usher us to the table.

That Christmas will be one I will remember with warmth. Even if I´m not so sure Percy is very fond of me the day was wonderful.

The days goes by fast and the uneasiness of Voldemort grows and the danger grows bigger and bigger. When the summer comes Harry is sent to his aunt where he will be safe. It´s going to be a war no doubt. Voldemort himself has many followers but we are more aren´t we? I still can´t just reveal myself but I promise myself that if the war comes I will fight and not as an ordinary young wizard but as Merlin, if it comes to that. Just as I did in Camelot as Emerys. It´s a bit weird that the name Emerys died with the old religion but that the name Merlin continued to live. But not as a mare manservant but as the most powerful wizard or if we should be honest warlock.

"You alright Mervin?" the question comes from George as both of the twins sits down beside me. They are wonderful people and friends.

"Yeah just thinking. Ehm I want you two to know something" I pause and look at both of them.

"Yeah?" they ask in sync.

"I want you to know that I know hard times is coming and whatever will happen I´m still your friend. You may not know everything about me but please believe that you know me and… I´m very thankful to have you two and your family and had the pleasure to get to know you all and that you have given me this… family"

"We are very happy that we found you too, I talk from both of us when I say we have changed. You in some way made us understand a few things. And we two have always thought that we just needed each other, sure we had some other friends in school and like that but nothing like you. You are almost like our brother" George says without hesitation.

"But you won´t leave will you?" Fred asks, the both of them looks a bit afraid. I swallow hard.

"No I won´t I can promise you that" I say truthfully and they look relieved at me. I just hope that they won´t be taken from me just yet.

Tonight it the night we will get Harry here and I know that we are a large group to take him here in a safe way. And I have heard that both Sirius Black and Remus Lupin will be there. I know the risk is big that they will recognize me but I guess look very alike my father. Or me many years earlier.

Double update today just cause it´s friyay! I hope you all have had a good day!