Chapter 8

The group entered the courtyard carefully, wary of an attack. King Oden came down the stairs and smiled warmly at King Uther.

"Uther. It has been to long." He said shaking Uther's hand. Uther smiled back.

"Yes it has hasn't it?" He said warmly. Oden turned to Arthur.

"Arthur!" he cried out and pulled him into a hug. Arthur grimaced slightly and awkwardly patted him on the back. Katie hid behind Ellie, desperately trying not to be seen.

"Lady Morgana." Oden bowed and kissed the back of her hand. "You look even more beautiful than I remember." He complemented her smirking. Morgana smiled and nodded her head in thanks. Oden turned to face Uther. "But Where is Lady Katherine. It feels like an age since I- Ah. There you are." He said noticing Katie hiding behind Ellie. Katie stood up straight and forced a smile onto her face.

"King Oden. It's a pleasure." She said in fake happiness. Ellie, Arthur and Izzy smirked noticing the fake pleasure. Oden smiled and kissed the back of her hand.

"The last time I saw you, you were only 7 years old. My, your beauty is even greater than that of the Lady Morgana." He smirked and kissed her hand again before turning back to Uther. Katie grimaced as soon as his back was turned and wiped the back of her hand against her dress. Ellie and Izzy giggled, while Arthur only smirked. Katie saw him standing next to Ellie and glared at him. Arthur looked back shocked.

"King Uther. Your servants can stay with mine for the time being, and your guards may stay with my army. Come, I shall show your highnesses where you shall be sleeping." He ushered them inside leaving Ellie, Izzy and everyone else outside. Ellie moved over to Izzy.

"I don't like him. He's giving me a weird vibe." She whispered as Oden's servants began taking their belongings. Izzy nodded in agreement.

After everyone was shown there rooms, Oden walked into his chamber sighing. He jumped when the door slammed shut behind him.

"My God man. You scared me half to death." He muttered placing a hand against his heart. "You know your target?" Oden asked. The man nodded.

"The blond male." He said his voice raspy. Oden smiled.

"Good. You have until tomorrow to kill him." Oden said and nodded to wards the door. The man bowed and left quickly his cloak billowing out behind him.

Unknown to both men a woman had been hiding behind a statue just outside of the door. She had gotten lost and had heard the loud bang and wandered over to investigate.

Izzy looked around the side of the statue and ran quickly going back the way she came.

Merlin left Arthur's chambers and walked along back to his room when Izzy ran into him knocking them both to the floor. Izzy looked down at Merlin.

"Oh thank god. Merlin. You have to help me. I just heard…" she got cut off by a loud giggle.

"Get a room." Izzy identified the voice as Ellie and blushed just noticing the position they were in.

"Sorry." She muttered her face turning bright red and got up with Ellie's help. Merlin blushed and got up rubbing his neck embarrassed.

"So, what did you need help with?" he asked awkwardly. Izzy grabbed Ellie and Merlin's hand and dragged them into an empty room.

"I just over heard Oden talking to someone." Izzy started. Ellie bit her lip.

"Really!" she said sarcastically. "Cause that is such an anomaly isn't it." She added. Izzy glared at her.

"Shut up. No I overhead them talking about targeting someone. A blonde someone." She said. Merlin and Ellie glanced at each other before looking back to Izzy. "It's Arthur. He's hired someone to kill Arthur." She almost screamed. Ellie gasped.

"Are you sure? Why would he want to kill Arthur?" Ellie asked surprised. Izzy shrugged.

"How am I supposed to know? Do you know?" Izzy turned to Merlin. Merlin shrugged as well.

"Not a clue." He said simply.

"Well, we have to go find Arthur and tell him." Ellie said quickly. "We can't let him…" she trailed off tearing up slightly. Merlin shook his head.

"We can't. He's just gone for dinner." Merlin said looking at her. Ellie frowned. "Well, we'll just have to find a way to get Arthur out don't we." She said determined.

"How do we do that?" Merlin asked and Ellie's shoulder's slumped.

"I have no idea." She muttered. Izzy smiled.

"Well, if we can't get him out. We'll just have to go in." she smirked. Ellie nodded eagerly. They left with Merlin leading the way to the dining hall.

Arthur turned to Katie slowly.

"Why have you been glaring at me?" He whispered angrily. Katie's glare deepened.

"Oh as if you don't know." She replied harshly. Arthur rolled his eyes.

"Well obviously not if I asked." He said sarcastically.

"Okay then. If you really want to know." She muttered. "How could you do that to Ellie? After everything she has done for you." She said her voice raising a little. Everyone turned to look at them. Arthur glared.

"I apologised for that." He said just as loudly. "And she forgave me for it." Katie huffed and opened her mouth.

"I think you had better take this outside. And don't come back until you have both calmed down." Arthur and Katie stormed out. "I'm sorry about that Oden." He apologised sitting back down. Oden shook his head.

"Not a problem. They are like siblings. They are bound to argue." He said brushing it off.

Outside the hall Katie stood there glaring at Arthur. Arthur sighed and turned to her.

"I don't see what your problem is." He said. "I know what I did was wrong, but Beth forgave me. Isn't that's what's important?" He asked. Katie huffed.

"The only reason she forgave you was because she is a nice person. And the fact that she is in love with you." She almost shouted. Arthur looked at her shocked.

"What?" he asked. Katie groaned.

"I said she's in love with you. If you weren't such a clot pole you'd see that." Vicki said louder this time. Arthur lent back against the wall.

"She loves me?" he said breathlessly smiling slightly.

"Yes she…" Katie paused. "Oh my god. I can't believe I told you that." She muttered her head in her hands. She went over to Arthur. "You have to swear not to tell her I told you. You can't mention this at all." She said. Arthur nodded and turned to her.

"How do you know she loves me?" Arthur asked curiously. Katie raised an eyebrow.

"Are you serious? Well, firstly, the way she looks at you. When you walk into the room it's hard to speak to her because she is always staring at you. She treats you way to nicely. Even forgiving you for something she shouldn't." Arthur looked down at his boots when she said that.

"I didn't mean to." He whispered. "I was just so angry. And then she came in and started talking about Lancelot with me, and I just. I lost control." He muttered. Katie sighed and wrapped an arm around him.

"I'm sorry I lost my temper with you, but, she's like a sister to me. And I don't like seeing her hurt. And Gwen doesn't help the situation." She muttered. Arthur didn't hear her, he was to busy thinking about what he did to Ellie. "Come on. Let's go back inside. I'm hungry." She said smiling. Arthur nodded and they walked back into the hall, Katie smiling and Arthur with a dopey smile on his face. Uther glared at them both and Morgana raised an eyebrow and looked at Katie.

"Later." Katie mouthed and they all started to eat again.

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This chapter was so bad :(