Day 15 and 21 days til Christmas.
Now there is a similairty between this story and my full length story, Prisoner. That is because Prisoner kinda inspired this one.
Title: Captive
Characters: Merlin, Morgana
Paring: Mergana
Word Count: 389
Summary: A trip to see the Samrum lead Merlin to find out what happened to Aithusa and Morgana.
Merlin clenched his fist as the Samrum talked about magic and why it was the reason for everything wrong in the world. Arthur had nodded to a few of his points but overall he had remained widely neutral. Merlin knew that Arthur saw magic as a bad thing but his ideas around it had changed over the last few years. He had given the druids some freedom but Merlin was still far from his goal of making magic legal. That's when he heard her. The call for help.
He tried to keep his anger under control but he didn't stop the tears that started to fall down his cheeks. How dare he do this to them? Morgana looked up at him and he couldn't tell if she was happy to see him or not. He knew that he would be revealing a lot but he had to save them.
He managed to get them out. He used magic but he knew that would be a conversation for another time. He would tell her everything. Aithusa knocked his hand as he watched her struggle to get up. He swept her up in his arms and took her away. She tried to struggle out of them but he held on tight.
He didn't stop till he was sure that they were out of danger. He had used his magic many times to save them. They weren't going through that again. They settled in Morgana's old hovel for a bit. Merlin patched her up, bandaging any open wounds and making pastes, like Gaius would of, to make sure everything healed properly.
From there, he took them away again. They moved out of Camelot's lands. They moved north. They found a place that they were free. Merlin had told Morgana everything. She had taken it quite well. He believed that she only did because he had saved her. They both managed to get Aithusa back to health as well. She wouldn't be the dragon that Killgharrah was but she would still be strong. Merlin's smiled as they watched her fly for the first time. He knew that Camelot was where his destiny was but by doing this, he knew that he had removed a threat from Camelot but also started to clear his conscious.