Merlin followed Gaius through campus to the freshman orientation. He would be lying if he said he wasn't excited. The campus was packed. Students running to and fro, getting their schedules. It was all stop and go. But that makes the world go round, he thought to himself. He caught glimpses of professors as well, running along to get to their first lessons and orientations.

"Merlin, please do be careful," Gaius warned, before shoving him into an already crowded auditorium. Merlin scanned the room and saw Kilgharrah and Gaius taking their seats on the stage with other adults. Merlin assumed the rest of the adults were teachers. He took a seat in the back, next to a tall, very pretty, girl. She had long black hair, sharp, possibly dangerous, features, and large green eyes.

"Hi," he said with a grin.

"Hello," the girl replied softly.

"Merlin Emrys," He stuck out his hand, which she hesitantly took.

"Morgana le Fay," she replied. She didn't look him directly in the eye, instead keeping her vision downcast.

"Nice to meet you Morgana le Fay," he gave her another goofy grin. She looked up and froze. Before Merlin knew what was happening, she was giggle profusely. That only made Merlin's very goofy grin wider. "Hah I made you laugh," He said with an accomplished air.

"Yes you did indeed. Not very many can, but there is something about you Merlin Emrys." Morgana smiled shyly. "This is my first year, my brother is a sophomore."

"Mine as well, my sister is a senior at Avalon high." Morgana nodded and smiled. Well at least I made one friend today, she thought. Before she could reply, Kilgharrah was standing and starting to begin the orientation.

"Welcome all of you to the University of Camelot. We have spoken with all of you, so you will each be given a mentor, some will be given two, depending on what you are studying. Each mentor will set their own times to meet with you, either as a group or individually, depending on how they see fit. Now remember, some of you have very much you will be studying, finding a balance is the only way to handle it all." He looked directly at Merlin as he spoke, though how he could see him, Merlin had no idea. "Those who I am mentoring, we have already spoke, and you will go with your other mentor to tour the campus. Each professor will read their list of names, and we shall begin." A pretty women in a bright red dress with long stingy dark hair stood.

"My name is Professor Nimueh, my list includes Morgause, Mordred, Valiant..." Merlin zoned out, only catching certain names. At one point a giant of a human stood up to the name Percival, and then he was back to day dreaming. He only paid attention when Gaius stood up.

"I am Professor Gaius, would Gili, Morgana, Lancelot, Elena, and Merlin please join me." Merlin stood, and Morgana rose with him. She smiled at him as he let her pass, in front of him. Gaius was waiting for them at the back entrance of the hall.

"You must be Miss Morgana," Gaius said as they approached.

"Yes sir, pleasure to meet you." She inclined her head and smiled politely, but that was all. Merlin smiled at Gaius, who rolled his eyes. Morgana looked between the two, but said nothing. They were soon joined by a Spanish looking man, with long shaggy dark hair and kind brown eyes.

"Hello, I am Lancelot." He shook their hands as they introduced themselves, and then introduced himself to the lanky boy, named Gili, and the blonde, Elena, as they approached. The small band made their way across the campus to a large brick building- Gaius's store rooms, office and classrooms within. There were a few comments from Gaius here and there, but nothing like Avalon High's tour. As if Gaius could read his mind, he spoke.

"Much less time consuming as Avalon's huh?" He said as they entered a near empty classroom. Merlin snorted his distaste.

"Ughh! That was like two hours!" Merlin grumbled. The rest of the group looked between them, but kept their thoughts to themselves. They all took seats around a round table.

"Now that we are all acquainted, I will be setting up group meetings as well as individual sessions. I believe that we should all get together at least once a week, how do Monday evenings here sound?" The entire group nodded their approval. "Good and I will see you all to make sporadic individual meetings. As your mentor, please feel free to come to me with any concerns or questions that you have. Now here are your schedules." Gaius passed them around, Merlin's last, coming out of a thick manila envelope. It read:

8:00-9:15 Herbal Medicines w/ Gaius MWF

10:00-11:30 Extensive drawing w/Nimueh MRF

1:30-2:30 Calculus w/ Alice MR

3:00-4:00 Medieval History w/ Kilgharrah MW

On the bottom, written in elegant cursive, "Please come to my office at 12:00 each Friday –Kilgharrah" Merlin looked up to find Gaius looking at him. Merlin nodded and Gaius sat back in his chair. The entire group was looking over their schedules, Morgana leaned over to look at his schedule.

"Cool we have drawing and history together." Merlin grinned and she laughed again.

"The 'R' on your schedules stands for Thursday. Don't ask me why, Professor Kilgharrah is slightly more than crazy. Well you are all free to go. It is 8:45 and seeing as you are excused if you have a class now, you don't have to worry about that, but you are expected to attend your lessons the rest of the day. Farewell, unless you have me." The entire group rose to leave except Merlin and the Spaniard, Lancelot. "Come along you two, we must go see the rest of our class." Gaius led them down the hall to a large round lab-like room. There were two person tables with stools and microscopes at each. There were only about 10 more students in the class Merlin noted. Lancelot and he took seats next to each other in the back row. "Welcome to Herbal Medicines, we will be looking over our syllabus, and then, since our freshman held us back, we will start on everything tomorrow." The remaining half hour flew by and Merlin took as little notes as possible. Before class ended, Gaius called him over.

"When does Freya get out of school?"

"3:00, I texted her my schedule and she is going to meet me here for dinner at 5:30." Gaius nodded then shooed him back to his seat.

"So Lance, what are you studying?" Merlin asked as he sat down.

"I don't know really. I'm just sort of trying everything till I see what I like best. Merlin correct?" Merlin nodded, with his big goofy smile. "What about you?"

"Well my two main classes of the semester are drawing and this class, so who knows maybe a double major. I'm interested in both." Lance nodded with a smile.

"Okay everyone get out of here." Gaius half bellowed. There was still 5 minutes left, but he had nothing left to say. The class left gratefully and Merlin and Lance parted ways. He still 50 minutes until drawing started, so he took his own tour around the campus, eventually deciding he needed more coffee. His three cups this morning had not been enough. At a small café, he ordered 32 oz. of pure glory, with caramel and chocolate in abundance. It was short lived however as he turned to leave and 6' of pure muscle ran into him. His coffee went everywhere, staining his blue t-shirt, but thankfully missing his scarf.

"Watch where you're walking freshman," the man sneered. Merlin looked up from his stained shirt and found himself staring into an abyss of blue. The man had soft blonde hair and unmistakable blue eyes.

"Easy friend, it is you who ran into me, spilling my coffee if I might add."

"Do we know each other?" The man sneered.

"I'm Merlin," Merlin put his hand out, but Arthur interrupted.

"So we don't know each other. Yet you called me friend, we are not friends." The man was getting on Merlin's nerve more and more.

"No my mistake, I could never be friends with such an ass." He spat back with a grin. The entire café was silent now, Merlin wondered why.

"I've been trained to deal with scum like you since birth." The blonde sneered again.

"And how long have you been training to be a prat?" Merlin countered.

"Excuse me? You can't speak to me like that! I own this school freshman." Ah that explains the silence.

"Oh I'm sorry! How long have you been training to be a prat my lord?" Merlin heard a few snickers, which made his grin even wider. The man's face was tinged pink with anger, but he quickly turned it to a vicious smile. Merlin didn't get to hear the retort, because there was a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and came face to face with Morgana. In her hand was a tall 32 oz. cup of coffee. She handed it to him, without a word. He took it, very confused, and then he heard a betrayed grunt from behind.

"Well, well, Merlin Emrys, still full of surprises I see. I haven't seen someone make him that angry since father threw away his favorite toy car. Please keep in mind that was when he was 15." Morgana's voice was smooth and calming. "Sorry my brother can be such a… prat as you say."

From behind him, Merlin heard a whispered "Morgana¸" but ignored it. She leaned around Merlin.

"You owe me for the coffee. Don't be such a child Arthur." She looked back at Merlin and held out her arm. "To drawing then?" Merlin nodded and set off with her, but not before twisting around to grin at Arthur. He noticed that Arthur, and the entire café were silent, staring perplexedly at Morgana.