We are slowly catching up with me writing. Maybe I need to focus more on that than making edits for instagram.

The Secret of Uther

There was a part of him that wondered if it was always so easy to get out of the castle or was Merlin just slacking. He shook his head. The guards would want to join them in their celebrations. He didn't blame them. He wanted to join them too.

He thought over what he had said to Merlin and Morgana. It was the truth. Gorlois and Balinor had always wished to join their families. He would roll his eyes at them. They were only 16 and making plans for children that weren't thought of. Neither of them were betrothed to anyone. Only him.

He could wonder what went wrong but it was just all point back to him. He didn't know what was going through his mind when he decided to take Camelot. He was still surprised at how many people he got behind him. He was the one to start spreading the rumours that magic was causing chaos. He had always been wrong about magic.

Uther had already made up his mind. This was going to be his last journey to them.

"We have heard about the engagement. I thought it was your job to put him off marrying." Odin said to him as he entered the room. "I thought you said that you still had a say over the council."

"I do." He stated. "But I cannot help it if it is what the council want. They seem to want him married. They think he will be more sensible. The last thing he will become is sensible after marrying Morgana."

Cenred just chuckled in the corner.

"Why do they want him sensible?" Odin asked.

"So that they can get him to stop asking to make a commoner a knight. It isn't like he is asking to go to war with the world. He is just asking for a commoner to be a knight. That is how much control I have. He cannot get a pathetic little request like that through."

"What I want to know is why you are here with us instead of with them?" Cenred said.

Uther swallowed heavily. It was easier to make this decision in the forest than to actually execute it. "I … I don't want to be a part of this any more." He mumbled.

"Sorry?"

"I don't want to be a part of this any more." He said, firmly. "I don't want a part in Merlin's death. If Arthur was to ever find out then I will lose him forever. I … I don't want to have his blood on my hands as well. I … I don't like the fact that I have both Balinor's on them. I know that Merlin will be a good king. He will be excellent king. He will be like his grandfather."

Odin laughed loudly. "I told you he was too soft to be involved in our plans. I told you that." He said point to Cenred.

"We needed someone on the inside with some sort of power." Cenred retorted.

Odin turned to Uther. "Oh the rumours must have been true. You weren't the one to lead the uprising against the Eorðdracas the first time around. You were just the only one foolish enough to take the throne. You never had the backbone to rule a kingdom."

If anything that hit Uther hard. He was the one to lead them. He was a fool but he was the fool that came up with the plan.

"I did a good job with Camelot. If I was the fool, I was the fool that managed to influence everyone into thinking that magic was evil. Without me, you would have had your purge. Be grateful that I was that fool because I am the reason you have a reason to rid magic from your lands."

He turned away from them, allowing his cloak to fly around behind him, and he stormed off. He didn't need them. Deep down he knew that it was the right thing to do.

"My, my, my Uther. I think he is wrong. You do have a backbone."

He stopped in his tracks and allowed her to come into his view.

"I wondered if you were involved."

"The thing is, Merlin is the soft one. Even with all our input, he will never ask for magic to be legal. He may be marrying my sister. But that is the only thing he will get his own way with. He doubts himself and badly. We just need to exploit that." She paused. "You were brave for telling them that you want out."

"As much as I hate it, Merlin is doing a good job. Even though we are making his life hell with the council. I would have thought that you would have been all for him. Be by his side and helping him. He wants magic to return as you do, and slowly I am seeing that it wouldn't be a bad thing."

She gave him a look that made him shiver. Vivienne had given him the same look on many different occasions. The worst time being when she had found out what he had done regarding getting Ygraine pregnant.

"How can you trust the Eorðdracas?"

Uther snorted. "I was married to one."

"And one killed my father."

He looked up at her. He had hoped that the rumours were false. He had hoped that what happened didn't. But Morgause had just confirmed his biggest fear and regret.

"I … I never … realised that … Daegal was still alive." He stammered out.

Oh he should have sent him backup. He should have helped his friend. Gorlois had stood by him when he didn't deserve it. He had always been there to protect him. He should have allowed Balinor to hit him when he had found out that Ygraine was pregnant. Gorlois had been a good friend. A friend that he didn't deserve. And he had been the one to help him to his death.

"Well, he was after I was finished with him." She said, sneaking back off into the shadows.