Chapter 4

I felt the scream erupt from my throat as I shot up in bed, or on the small cot. My mind spun terribly when I tried to recall what my dream had been about. I could still feel the emotions from the dream- the sadness and the scared feelings. My hands shook violently as I scrunched the thin blanket covering me. Eyes flashed across my mind from my dream. They were bright green and held a comfort that I'd never felt or experienced before. That was before the dream turned for the worst. After the comforting eyes, I could recall nothing but pain. Footsteps hurried over towards me, pulling me out of my thoughts. A gentle hand touched my shoulder, making me flinch away.

"Hey, hey you're alright. Everything's okay." The light feminine voice reassured me. My unfocused eyes glanced around at the two people huddled by my cot. One was a girl with long dark tresses that hung around her face loosely. She was the one trying to console me, and the other was an elderly man with shoulder length white hair to frame his head. I flinched at the contact before unconsciously leaned into the girls hand that was on my shoulder, making me feel like a child. Her warmth drew me in. I didn't know this girl but something about her made me want to trust her with my whole being. A connection I'd never felt before.

"Where am I?" I asked for the second time since I'd arrived here. The girl next to me squeezed my arm gently.

"You're in Camelot. Don't worry nothing is going to hurt you here." Her voice was determined and I glanced at her face closely, willing my vision to focus for once. I could tell she was very beautiful and something about her was familiar. Her eyes connected with mine and I froze. Those eyes. They were in my dream. That's probably why she felt familiar. My eyebrows furrowed as I looked at her. What is going on? How did I end up years before my time? Why did this woman's eyes just haunt my dream?

"If you don't mind my asking, what is your name?" The girl asked softly, picking up on my panic and dismissing the fact that I'd ignored her statement. I didn't want to think about the fact that I was nowhere near home.

"Camilla but some people call me Cam." I said.

"Well Camilla, it's nice to meet you. I'm Morgana and this is Gaius, the court physician." She gestured with a smile. I noticed that she left out the lady part of her name. I put a hand up to my eyes as they'd started watering from the forming headache. I'd probably gotten a concussion from the fall.

"Can you tell me anything that happened?" Gaius asked, moving a hand to my forehead, feeling for a fever. My mind flashed back to the old house and the screams of Mallory and Lizzie as I fell. I shuddered as I remembered the pain after the fall which in turn, made me become hyper aware of the pain radiating my body, feeling like I'd just been hit by a bus. Both must have noticed my face scrunch up in pain as Gaius handed me a weird looking cup with liquid in it.

"Here. Drink this. It'll help with the pain." He said as I hesitantly took it from him. The door swung open and the familiar looking guy from before stepped in.

"Hey Gaius-" he started but was cut off when he noticed three sets of eyes on him. The cup slipped from my hand and fell sideways on the blanket covering me, making it soak the blanket as I jumped. The boys eyes widened after realizing he'd startled me.

"Oh gosh, I'm so sorry." I said and started rambling out apologies because I knew I'd probably just wasted good medicine on a blanket. I quickly shoved the blanket off of me and started fussing with it. I must have stood without realizing it because the elderly guy eased me back down on the cot, making me realize how much I'd been swaying from the result of standing. The pain had worsened, making me regret the rash decision of standing.

"Relax. It's all right I made extras, knowing you'd be in some pain. Here." He shoved another concoction in my hand and guided it to my mouth. I hesitated for a brief second before throwing my head back and swallowing it. The taste was absolutely awful. I gagged a bit at the taste. Morgana giggles at my disgusted expression.

"Ugh that was God awful." I said with a shudder. Gaius has already made his way over to the young man who'd just stepped in. They quietly conversed. I turned my head to the beautiful girl in front of me.

"Yeah, you get used to the awful tasting concoctions he makes." She said nonchalantly. I nodded at her, feeling more comfortable with where I was in that minute.

"I don't think anyone can get used to something like that." I said while making a disgusted face. She let out a laugh and lightly patted my arm before becoming serious again.

"What do you remember?" She asked with her eyes searching my face for any sign or distress. I didn't know what to tell her. Would she understand? I decided to go with the not remembering thing route.

"I-I'm not sure." I wrinkled my face as if in concentration. In all honesty, I could not remember anything after my fall. Just hitting the ground and then waking up here. Morgana moved to sit next to me and hesitated before rubbing her hand up and down my back in comfort. I relaxed slightly, knowing that though I'd just met this nice lady, I could trust her.

"It's alright, Cam. We'll figure this out." As soon as she said that, Gaius and Merlin made their way over to us and both sat down on chair across from Morgana and I. I eyed the younger man warily.

"Who are you?" I blurted our before realizing how rude that sounded. The man just shrugged it off and gave me a small smile.

"I'm Merlin. I'm actually the one who found you in the woods and brought you here." His bright eyes stared at me as he spoke, almost as if they were looking deep into my soul. A shiver racked through my body, making me grimace. I didn't remember being found or anything. This was all so wrong.

"She says she doesn't remember anything." Morgana spoke up for me just then. Gaius grabbed my face gently and held up one finger.

"Hold your head still and follow my finger." I did what he said, my head feeling like it was swimming. He nodded his head to himself and stood up to walk towards his many different vials.

"So, where are you from?" Merlin asked curiously. I froze for a moment. What was I to tell him? 'Oh, yeah I'm from a whole different time period where you guys are just legends.' Like that would even remotely go well. Both of them noticed my hesitation.

"You don't remember do you?" Morgana asked, misinterpreting my expression. Feeling slightly panicked I decided to just roll with it. I nodded my head slowly, guilt creeping up in me from lying to these nice people who were currently helping me. I swallowed the lump in my throat. I could do this.

"How long was I out for?" I questioned. Hopefully it wasn't too long. I needed to get back to my time. Though I don't have much to go back to, Mallory and Lizzie were probably freaking out. I couldn't do that to them. I never really cared much for school, but now I couldn't help but wonder if anyone would even notice if I was gone or better yet care.

"A few days. You had us worried that you would be out for longer or that there had been more damage done than we had thought." Gaius said, expressing his concern and handing me another vial of medicine, probably for the concussion that I was sure I'd gotten. I took a deep breath and plugged my nose with one hand as I drank the liquid. Hold my nose had done little to prevent the bad smell, but it did help a bit. I felt my stomach swirl and puckered my lips, my hand going to my mouth. Merlin, as if knowing what would happen, handed me a pale as I felt my stomach turn in a uncomfortable way and I retched up the medicine I'd just taken, my stomach not liking it. I took a shaky breath, my stomach still in a knot. Merlin got up and got me a small, what looked sort of like a cup, for me and placed it in my hand.

"Here drink this, it might calm your stomach down. It's upset from not having anything to eat or drink in the past few days. The injuries you've sustained have contributed as well." He explained to me as I took a sip of it. The cool water felt good going down my throat. I felt my stomach turn a bit more at first before settling once again. I glanced around noticing that Gaius had moved from near us to a pot sitting over a fire, stirring whatever is in the pot. He brought a bowl up and poured whatever was in it, into the bowl. He grabbed a wooden spoon and moved over to us. Morgana had moved away from me a bit to give me some space after my throwing up.

"It's late, Morgana, you should probably head back to your chambers and get some much needed rest before Gwen come to wake you for breakfast." Gaius spoke, knowing that the Lady would most likely protest, not wanting to leave so soon after I'd just woken. Morgana began to protest, but one look from Gaius made her nod, knowing she was fighting a battle she wouldn't win. He was the physician after all. For a reason I will never understand, Morgana turned to me and wrapped her arms around me in a comforting hug. I brought one hand up to pat her awkwardly on the back. No one ever really hugged me so this was new.

"If you need anything just send Merlin and I'll see what I can do." She said as she pulled back and smiled at me with a warm, comforting light in her eyes that I don't think I could ever get used to. I gave her a smile back, feeling a relief that I hadn't felt since I woke up in this strange place. Maybe, I would tell her what was going on tomorrow. There was this air and softness about the Lady Morgana made me blindly trust her, something I'd not done in so long. The guards around my heart fought to keep the wall around it up but failed miserably. As she walked to the door I smiled to myself. I'd just made a new friend. Merlin across from me, his eyes had been on Morgana and I throughout the entire conversation and now his eyes followed Morgana as she walked out the door. I glanced between the two and could see the connection between the two that they were too blind to see. Merlin's eyes shifted back to me and then over to Gaius.

"Here, let me help." Merlin said as he grabbed the bowl from Gaius and sat in Morgana's spot.

"Now Merlin, you know you should be getting to bed as well. You know Arthur won't tolerate you being late again." I scrunched my face slightly, confused. Arthur? As in King Arthur? Merlin looked conflicted, not wanting to make Gauis do it. Merlin sighed and handed the bowl back to Gaius after he'd given him a warning look. Merlin slowly got up and glanced at me.

"Well, I guess I need to head to bed. I'm right up those steps if you need anything. Don't hesitate to wake me." The kindness of this man struck me as much as Morgana's.

"Thank you." I said, though I knew I would not want to wake him, knowing that he'd have to get up early in the morning. Merlin walked up the steps to the room and closed his door. I sighed and looked at the man standing in front of me.

"Here have some broth. It'll help you regain some strength." He brought the spoon to my lips. I knew I could probably feed myself, but at the moment I didn't trust my limbs to move the way I'd want them to. Gaius fed me the rest of the broth even though my stomach revolted the good tasting stuff, it never made a move to come back up. I felt my eyes become heavy as the weight of everything that'd happened today came back, making me exhausted. Who knew waking up in a strange time after a fall would exhaust someone so much. I closed my eyes and let sleep carry me away.

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