A/N: I woke up this morning and found a rather scary review so this chapter is dedicated to Elizabeththecrazy in the hope that she will forgive me for not being reliable. Enjoyed writing this chpater and I had Witherspoons cackling away like a maniac reading it over my shoulder because she has a vicious tendency. Congrats to the only person who guessed and the only person who got what Merlin said at the end of the last chapter. 'Scitan' is apparently Old English for the 's' word :)

Read and review, one more chapter to go! You'll never guess what it's about ;)

Once the initial shock had worn off, the noise around the group returned to a momentous level.

"This is your entire fault, if you hadn't got on that stupid metal thing-"

"Me? Morgana wanted to find out what through the door!"

"Yeah, and if she hadn't had fallen over the wire by some crazy random happenstance-"

"Which YOU put in front of me!"

"Guys."

"Look, we all tidied the books up, we should all ju-"

"Oh stop being such a goody two shoes, you were too busy doing forbidden love eyes all over that pra-"

"Hey, she didn't say anything wrong! Stop blaming her!"

"Guys."

"Yes, well if you hadn't put your stupid foot over it, waltzing around like you own the place, we would have fou-"

"Guys."

"Well maybe if you weren't so keen to trip me up so you can rush to Merlin's aid, you would have seen it before anyone else. Or maybe it was because you can't see under your toes due to the blocka-"

"Sorry, was that a victory smile? It just looks like something ELSE has got caught up your-"

"SHUT IT!" came the scream from their right from Lydia, after giving up on trying to regain their attention peacefully. At once, Morgana stopped yanking Polly's hair while Polly's foot froze in Morgana's shin. Merlin shifted quietly in between the two while Lydia continued.

"Right, thank you. Now if any of you actually want to get home we're going to have to get cracking before the library closes and we lose our place, so get on with it!"

They all agreed, Polly finishing off her kick whilst Merlin's attention was taken then followed Arthur to the right of the shelf.

20 minutes later found the group hidden behind towers of books, the only recent activity being Polly "coughing" in the direction of the block closest to Morgana, causing them to topple on the witch's head.

A peaceful silence was ruined when a shriek came from two stacks of books to the left. Peeking around the corner, they found Polly nursing her finger while Morgana was sitting at a desk, whistling innocently.

Lydia sighed. "What did you do now?" Polly looked at them all with a puppy dog frown on her face. "I gave myself a paper cut on this book" she wailed. Everyone turned towards Morgana simultaneously. "What?" Morgana asked defiantly "I'm all the way over here, she did it herself." Merlin sighed and sat beside Polly. "Is your finger alright? I used to mutilate my hands in Gaius' workshop, painful."

Polly gave a large sniff and a watery smile. "Yes. I'm not pathetic." Behind them, Morgana rolled her eyes as Lydia heard her mutter "you could've fooled me." As Polly leaned in to the hug Merlin was finally going to give her, he turned at the last moment to the book that had caused the injury. He gasped. "Arthur, give me that drawing!" Arthur for once did not question the warlock's demand. Merlin held up the paper to the page in the book.

"It matches. Polly, you found the book!" Merlin grinned and grabbed Polly's head, giving her a kiss on the temple. The look of utter daze on her face would have caused Lydia to pull out her camera phone if the revelation wasn't so important. Morgana scoffed.

"So, we have a book with the tree as an illustration…now what?" exclaimed Arthur agitatedly. Lydia exhaled excitedly, pointing from the book to the confused faces of Camelot before she found her voice.

"Don't you see? Books are made out of trees, right?" The warlock and the prince nodded. "sooooo…. if you push yourself into the book with the drawing of the tree, through the time that it was chopped down, you'll return back to Camelot!" she grinned, then glanced at Polly and back to Merlin. "Do I get a kiss now?"

Merlin shifted awkwardly while the silent Morgana's scowl deepened. "yes..no!…ermm" Merlin cleared his throat. "We need to focus on getting back." Morgana's nod looked painful.

Gwen came up and hugged Polly, then in turn Lydia. As she was about to release herself from the toy worker's arms, the modern girl pulled her back and whispered in her ear "have fun with Lancelot."

The handmaiden blushed and avoided Arthur's confused gaze as she turned towards the book that had now been placed on the floor.

Polly opened her mouth. "Why doesn't Morga-" she asked before quietening at the look Lydia sent her. Gwen turned to wave at them all in turn, accidentally missing out Polly's friend. She held her breath as she was sucked down into the picture like a plughole.

Arthur breathed a sigh of relief while Polly turned to Lydia. "Wow, your theory actually worked!" Arthur spun round to face them. "You mean there was a chance it wouldn't?" Polly indicated towards the book. "Which is exactly why I suggested Morgana we-"

Next was Arthur's turn. After shooting the two teenagers a look that could easily be read as 'I-hope-you-didn't-just-send-my-one-love-into-the-abyss', he stood on the page. Once again, there was the yanking sound as the Prince of Camelot disappeared, humming the tune of '7 Things'.

Morgana stood on the book, and then a conflicted look appeared on her face as she rushed towards Polly, grabbing her into a bone crushing hug. "Thank you so much for this. You've been so nice to me. It's like we're best friends" and with one last smile towards the shocked blonde, Morgana stepped on drawing and evaporated.

There was a stunned silence, Polly still had her arms out from the hug, stiff as a board and Merlin was blinking so hard it looked like an involuntary twitch. His voice came out strangled.

"did she just-"

"Uhuh."

"After-"

"Uhuh."

Merlin shook his head hopelessly

"Women."

By now, Polly had regained facial emotion and was looking at Merlin in a renounced fashion. Merlin smiled at the two.

"well this has been fun. Arthur's going to have so many jobs for me to do when I get back though." He chuckled and walked towards them.

"Bye Polly." And with that, he leaned down and kissed the just recovering girl on the cheek, causing her to lose all intelligence she had redeemed and could only smile like a love sick weirdo.

"well, this is touching but mostly sickening" Lydia coughed. Merlin laughed and turned to her. "No kiss for you then?" he asked, giving her a hug.

"yeah, yeah…oh wait! I have something for you!" Lydia started to rummage through her bag while Polly stared at Merlin attentively. "Aha! Got it!" Lydia pulled out a wrapped parcel. "Thought you might appreciate it… open it then!"

Merlin ripped the parchment open and saw a dead furry animal. The label on the top read "White Beard". Merlin looked up at Lydia's wicked grin.

"Thought it might come in useful, y'know, in the future" she winked.

The last image for the warlock before he was swallowed back to Camelot was the laughing faces of the two teenage girls.

And now you know why Spoons enjoyed this chapter so much *eye roll* If you think their adventures are over, think again! Polly and Lydia have one more mean trick up their sleeve which I'm quite proud as it's quite inventive

Have a Merlin day and hope I restored your faith in me Elizabeth!

R&R xxx