Gwaine – Boundaries
"Magic would look good on you Arthur." Said Merlin, out of the blue.
"What?!" seethed the prince.
"Magic. The fire in front of you makes your eyes look like they are made of molten gold - as if you were using magic. And it looks good with your equally golden hair. Don´t get used to these kinds of compliments, though. It doesn't mean you also have some kind of golden halo around your head - oh, wait. You do have that golden circle which is probably too tight and partially responsible of your really slow though processes. You have forgotten to close your mouth Arthur. And, while we are on it-"
It looked like Arthur was confused about if he should try to follow what was coming out of Merlin´s mouth or just get angry.
Gwaine was awed. It was true that he himself wasn't that fond of boundaries, he fully ignored many of them and pushed many more. But even for Gwaine there was a few things he wouldn't push - not here in Camelot. Magic - as a subject - was one of them. He could try to get the princess pissed off with many ways, but even he wouldn't dare to use that one.
It looked like Merlin didn't care. All the knights knew that when it came to Merlin, he had the boundaries of his own. If Arthur let him speak his mind then none of them would step in.
If they did Merlin would probably just turn his frustrated attention and insults at them.
Merlin had just spoken like he was trying to court the prince, while at the same time managing to practically speak of treason.
Gwaine was starting to think that when it came to speaking his mind, the man didn't have boundaries at all.
He was going to learn a lot from that friend of his.
Oh my gosh; this story is so short but it still have more alerts than my collection of oneshots "The Games". Thank you so much all of you reading this!
Some of you probably expected for me to leave Arthur and Merlin as the last chapters but I would never forget our lovely Gwaine ;)
The next chapter will be the last one! We get to see Merlin's thoughts in it. I really hope some of you will give a chance for my other stories after this journey together.