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The Lady Geek - Well you can see ...


Camelot

Mordred grumbled next to Merlin.

"Why me? I don't understand."

Merlin smiled. "Morgana trust you. Who would be better to see if Arthur has changed his thinking?"

Mordred noticed that Merlin's eyes were lighter than they had been before.

"What has happened to you Emrys?"

Merlin turned to the teenager. "To be honest, I don't know. I don't want to hurt Arthur but destiny has changed now. Morgana has unintentionally made me her servant. I am bound to her until death."

"The fomorroh did this to you?"

Merlin just hummed.

"I can notice that you are in control. Your eyes are lighter."

Merlin smiled. "I am fighting a losing battle. The poison can takeover faster than me. It's only a matter of time before I am totally under its control."

"Yet you can still get through."

Merlin turned back to the track. "Only when talking of emotions can I return."

"We aren't talking of emotions." Merlin stopped.

"No we aren't. I will ask him about that."

Mordred stood in front of the older man.

"But you are thinking of her."

Merlin gave a look of confusion. "What?"

"You are thinking of Morgana so you are getting through. How stupid can I be?"

"Mordred ..."

"No Merlin. Why couldn't you just leave her?"

"Leave her?"

"Her emotions would have led this land back to the glory that it once was."

"Arthur is meant to do that."

Mordred laughed. "Arthur, bring magic back. How can he when he hates the thing that brought him into the world?"

Merlin swallowed.

"I know Merlin. Your dirty little secret. You have many of them, don't you?"

Merlin started walking again.

"Come on Merlin, why didn't you allow him to know the truth of his birth?"

He turned around. "Because he would have never forgiven himself if he had killed his own father. How was he meant to be the great king prophesied if he cannot live with himself?"

"Maybe he wasn't?" Mordred said walking past Merlin.

Merlin stood and closed his eyes.

He could feel the magic in the forest and it calmed him.

He couldn't allow Mordred to get the upper hand of him again.


Merlin found Arthur on the training fields.

"Merlin! Where the hell have you been you idiot?"

"Sorry sire. Gaius asked me to get this herb that only flowers at midnight. Unfortunately I was too late for it and I got lost. I have been wandering in the forest all night until I found Mordred."

Arthur looked at Merlin suspiciously before the look went.

"Well as you have had such a bad night, you can clean out the stables, clean and polish my boots, repair my armour, clean my armour and tidy my room."

Merlin sighed. "You are so sympathetic milord." He said in a sarcastic way.

Merlin walked off toward the stables.

"Mordred, welcome to Camelot. You can stay here for as long as you like." Arthur said.

"Really sire?" Mordred said.

Arthur put his hand down on the man's shoulder. "Of course."

Arthur said and started to walk off.

Then he stopped. "How are you with a sword?"


Mordred was now Arthur squire and had been for two months.

He still didn't understand why Arthur chose him.

Maybe because he believed it his fault for being driven from Druid camp to camp. Maybe he was trying to write his father's wrongs.

But Mordred liked it. It also meant that he could keep a closer eye on Merlin.

Arthur had promised to make Mordred a knight once he was of age.

Mordred had only been to Morgana twice in all the time he has been in Camelot but he knew that Merlin went to her every night.

At the moment Arthur had kept his promise to the spirit but Mordred was worried if it got out that he was the Druid boy that Uther was looking for in Camelot.

Would the truth of how he escaped come out?

Arthur, Morgana, Merlin and Gwen all helped him escape or had some part in hiding him. That reminds him, where is Gwen?

Morgana wouldn't have killed her and he had heard of her engagement to Arthur. So where is she?


Merlin returned to his room after a day of chores.

It was too late to go to Morgana and be back in time for Arthur's breakfast in the morning.

He opened to door to his room and stopped.

"We need to talk Merlin."

Merlin closed his door.

"So glad that you have made yourself at home Mordred."

Merlin shrugged off his jacket and hung it on the back of his door. "

Where is Gwen?"

Merlin turned to the squire.

"I'm sorry."

"Where is Gwen? I heard of her engagement to the king but I haven't seen her in the time that I have been here."

Merlin cleared his throat and went to the bowl of water on the side.

"She has been banished."

"Banished?"

Merlin waved his hand over the bowl and steam started to come off of it.

"I'm sorry Mordred but she had to go. I knew that Arthur would never be able to execute her so banishment was the only way."

Mordred stood up. "Merlin, how could you do something like that?" "

You were the one who wanted me to leave Morgana alone because her emotions were holding her back of bring this land back to its glory."

"Yes Morgana, not you."

Merlin stood so that he was right in Mordred's face.

"I am meant to bring back to old ways like Morgana. Destiny, up until now, has asked us to go for the same goal separately. Why can it not be achieved when we are together?"

Merlin took a step back.

"You want me away from her because you see me as a rival."

"Every man around Morgana is my rival."

Merlin just sat down on the table.

"Fine, I will keep my distance from her. But when I make her queen we will see who she prefers."


Morgana was in the physician chambers.

Merlin and Mordred were fighting over her.

She could never see herself with Mordred and that was for a number of reasons.

She just didn't see him in that way. He was like a son to her not a lover.

The other reason was that she couldn't see herself with anyone but Merlin now.

Merlin had said that he would keep his distance. She hoped that he would go behind Mordred's back with that one as she loved him visiting her.

Morgana decided it would be better if she left now. There was little point in talking to Merlin now as Mordred was in there.

She just hoped he would find the time to see her tomorrow.

Morgana turned around to leave but the bottom of her dress got caught on one of the benches and pulled it and Morgana down.

After a massive crash, Morgana used magic to leave.


"What was that?" Mordred asked going for the door.

The two magic users left the room to see bottles everywhere.

Gaius was standing in the middle of the room. He turned to the two dark haired men.

He sighed. "I thought you turning up wasn't a good sign."

Mordred walked towards the door.

"I would be more worried about him than me." He said as he passed the physician.

Merlin looked at the mess.

"I better clean this up."

Gaius just nodded and when back to bed. He didn't have the patience to deal with Merlin anymore and it broke his heart to do this, but he had to let Merlin go or otherwise he would risk losing him forever. Well he was going to lose him forever as he is never going to be the same person again.

Merlin grabbed a cloth and started picking up the pieced of glass. He looked over at the bench they were on and saw a little black cloth.

Merlin smiled. She had come to see him. But then his face dropped. Did she hear that he said that he would keep his distance?