A/N: Sorry these got cut the first time that this was posted. Hopefully you guys enjoy this chapter and ones to come! Thank you to everyone who has already reviewed. You guys are awesome!
Disclaimer: (Can't forget this again) I don't own Merlin (I wish) otherwise I would have tortured Uther some more.
Ch. 2-From a King's Point of View
Yes.
I knew.
From the moment the blade slid into me, I knew there would be no escaping this. No miracle, last minute saves that Merlin somehow pulled from his seemingly endless bag of tricks that he tried to convince everyone (not very convincingly) was not magical.
What?
I'm not that oblivious.
I've long suspected something was different about Merlin. It was never anything I could readily put my finger on. He is, without a doubt the worst (best) manservant I have ever had. He is clumsy, disobedient, disrespectful…loyal, thoughtful, kind, and…
He is just…Merlin.
I'm glad I can spend these last moments with him, even as he does everything in his power to prevent the inevitable. Even with the end fast approaching I feel…safe. Safe with Merlin.
Even still his desperation worries me as it will no doubt lead him to do something irrevocably foolish.
I'm glad he finally told me though.
It makes me achingly wish that what I know now (every ache, lie, pain and sorrow) was what I knew then, the moment he'd stepped foot in Camelot. That I could take every instance that I hurt him away. And I have. Hurt him I mean. Sometimes it was intentional, but more often than not it wasn't. I want to make it up to him, show him what he truly meant to me.
Means to me.
His tears are warm as they drip from his cheek to mine and I can hear him chanting my name, pleading with me not to leave him.
And in that moment I no longer accept this.
This is not the end. This is not how it was supposed to go. I will not leave him, not this time. Even as the final darkness creeps closer, I gather myself to face it with, as Merlin would say, my usual prattish stubbornness.
Because no.
I refuse to go.
End of Chapter 2
A/N: Again, all this stuff got cut. This is going to have various points of view (mostly Arthur and Merlin) but not quite the journal style that All Hope Abandoned had. Stay tuned because the next chapter gets juicy!