"Katie!" Morgana ran at the girl and embraced her tightly.
"Hey. What's wrong?" Replied the girl, soothingly, stroking the older woman's hair.
"I had a dream. I saw awful, dreadful things." She sobbed. Katie felt her shoulder growing damp but did not push Morgana away, like her first instinct told her. It had been an awfully long time since anyone had cried near her, let alone on her.
"What did you see?" Katie asked, she was extremely concerned.
"So many things. Promise me you'll be careful." She snivelled.
"I promise." Katie said quickly, "What did you see, Morgana?" Katie repeated, more forcefully.
Morgana looked at her old friend and wiped a few tears from her cheeks. "Wind, a battle, you, Merlin, Arthur, a village, I can't- I don't-" Morgana sobbed. Suddenly Morgana looked concerned, she then turned to look at the door, "Gwen will be wondering where I am." She whispered, "Promise me."
"I promise." Katie replied, forcefully.
The woman left and, after a moment of thought, Katie walked out of the room, towards Gaius and Merlin's. She knocked on the door, not wanting to startle the man and the young warlock.
There was a scuffling sound and cry of, "Come in!"
Katie walked in to find the room warm and Merlin sat on a bench, trying to look innocent. "Is Gaius in?" She asked, abruptly but not unkindly.
"He's just delivering some ointment. What's wrong?" The boy asked, she hadn't realised how agitated she was.
"How much do you know about the inhabitants of this castle, Merlin?" She asked, slightly annoyed.
"A bit." He lied, he knew a lot.
"Merlin, don't play games with me." Her eyes turned hazel and she sent a spark towards a candle, it lit.
Merlin stood up and gapped at the girl. "You- you're- but you're a-" He stuttered.
Gaius opened the door and interrupted the warlock. Katie shouted, "You know about Morgana and you're giving her sleeping draughts?"
"Merlin knows." He muttered in response, slightly unhappily.
"Morgana is a seer and you are giving her sleeping draughts!" Screamed Katie.
"Please, quieten down. She believes that she has bad nightmares." Replied Gaius.
"You let her believe that she has bad nightmares." Growled the girl.
"Kathryn, you don't understand-" Started Gaius.
"I understand perfectly." Interrupted the girl. "Uther can't find out, so neither can she."
Merlin walked forwards, towards the bickering pair, "If she finds out about her powers-"
"You're taking his side?" She cried.
"No, no, no. I want to tell her but if she found out then she could be in danger." Merlin replied, soothingly.
"And the fact that we are magic beings and can protect her makes no difference?" Katie asked, disappointedly.
She shook her head and left without another word, her mind filled with horrible words and feeling heavy with anger. "That could have gone better." Gaius sighed. Merlin agreed, suddenly annoyed at himself.
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Katie hid from a few guards as she made her way back to her room, they didn't need to know about her late night visit. All she could think about was how Gaius had tried to keep her from finding out about her powers.
Katie knew the old man was only trying to protect Morgana but he was going about it in the wrong way in her opinion. Gaius was keeping the girl in the dark and making her afraid, instead of comforting her and telling her that her dreams were not a bad thing.
Katie made her way to her room and led on the large bed, over the top of the covers. She stared at the ceiling and tried to get comfy. After years of sleeping on the floor or straw, if she was lucky, the bed was over comfortable.
Her eyes snapped opened at first light, the sunlight streaming over her room. Katie was still fully dressed and guessed she must have fallen asleep without realising it. The girl groaned, got herself ready and left her room.
She made her way out to the training grounds and stared into the middle of the arena. She remembered the time she and Arthur had trained together, as children, and she had managed to cut his arm open, it wasn't a deep cut but she had managed to leave a scar.
She took a bow and a quiver of arrows from the weapons storage room. Katie walked back to the arena and set up a target, she had nothing to stand it up with so she hoped it would stay up. She then walked backwards, not noticing the boy who had followed her out of the castle, and strung the bow.
Her arm shook slightly as Katie pulled back on the arrow. She aimed and let the arrow soar through the air. The arrow hit the centre of the target and the target fell over. Katie growled and went to pick it back up before Merlin appeared beside her.
"Hello." He greeted. Katie didn't respond. "Do you want me to help you?"
Katie looked at him and nodded. The boy walked to the target and picked it up. He placed it over his face, slightly worried that her last shot was a lucky one. Katie pulled back on the string and sighed. She suddenly became nervous, her arm shook again and before she let the arrow fly she steadied her hand.
Katie took a deep breath in and let the arrow go, hitting the middle circle. Merlin lowered the target and smiled, "You're good."
"You can't be an outlaw and not learn how to fire an arrow." Katie replied, coldly, lowering her bow.
"I'm sorry, about last night." Merlin said, bashfully as he raised the target again.
"Don't apologise to me." She replied.
"I really do believe it would be dangerous if she knew." Merlin explained, he lowered the target slightly so he could look at the girl, Katie scoffed. He carried on, "If she knew, she wouldn't keep her dreams to herself. Could you imagine if she told Uther what she saw?"
Katie could and she shivered. The girl looked at Merlin in a slightly different light. He actually did care, he wasn't just being selfish. She groaned, "Fine." Not that she would give up the fight for Morgana, and walked back to put away the weapon in her arms.
I'm moving tomorrow so I won't be able to upload any more chapters for a little while. I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing because of the lack of feedback from readers, nevertheless, tell me what you think.