Arthur and the knights appear in seven girl's boarding wing when they are snowed in with just matron to keep an eye on them. What will they do?

OC's

Catherine, Abi, Ami, Amy, Sarah, Sophie, and Steph

Umm... don't kill me! I'm sorry but i think i slept through most of the summer hols! But life is great!

Unfortunately I don't own any of the Merlin characters.

Ami started and woke with a jolt. She stretched out and looked at Lancelot, who was still asleep, before turning her alarm off. Today the knights were going back. Great (note the sarcasm in that word). Carefully climbing out of bed Ami tapped Lancelot on the head.

'Time to get up, Lancelot,' she said with a grin, gathering her towel and shampoo.

'I don't want to.' Lancelot groaned burrowing deeper into the bed. Ami rolled her eyes and in one fluid movement pulled the mattress, with Lancelot and bedding on top, on to the floor before strolling out of the room with a cheerful 'Morning!' to the room's other occupants. Catherine and Merlin looked at the destroyed bed in bemusement.

Catherine pursed her lips. 'Umm, Lancelot? I think you'd better fix that before Ami gets back.' Lancelot rolled off the mattress tiredly and-

'GET OFF. RIGHT. NOW. LANCELOT!'

'Whaa?!' Lancelot blinked and looked around.

'Lancelot, move!'

Lancelot's eyes widened and he leapt to his feet. 'I'm sorry, Sarah.'

'What you apologising to her for?' Gwaine asked incredulously, wincing and rubbing his chest. 'It was me you landed on!'

'You'll live.' Sarah smirked, standing up and leaving for a shower, Catherine close behind her.

Steph and Leon tried in vain to smother their laughter.

'Well, i didn't expect that wake-up call...' Steph laughed.

'Definitely not.' Leon agreed. He stood up and offered a hand to Arthur.

'Thanks,' Arthur said gratefully. 'So what are we doing today?'

Steph shrugged. 'Ask Catherine when she gets back.' She said grabbing her shower stuff and joining the girls that had left the room.

Arthur looked around the room. Gwaine and Lancelot were still bickering while re-mantling Ami's bed, Elyan was helping Sophie find her shampoo, Amy was still waking up, Percival was trying to make Abi's bed look somewhat neater while Abi left for a bath, and Merlin... was asleep. Arthur picked up Steph's water bottle and casually strolled over to him and unscrewed the cap. He poured the contents with great satisfaction over Merlin, who coughed and spluttered in confusion before glaring at the blond prince.

'Oh, i'm sorry, Merlin.' Arthur apologised with sarcasm. 'I was worried that you were dead... BUT you're not, so you can get up

and make yourself useful.' He returned to Leon's side without another word.

'Dollop-head.' Merlin muttered to himself, hauling himself out of bed.

'So,' Arthur started, 'What are we doing today?' The girls glanced at each other nervously, it was approaching 9:30 and they didn't know what excuse they could give the knights for leaving the hall.

'Err… Why don't we go for a walk?' Amy suggested feebly. 'Then we can figure out our excuse for the knights staying later.'

'It's a plan!' Abi exclaimed loudly, succeeding to distract the knights from the tension in the room, jumping up from her bed. 'Now let's get breakfast before one of the others falls asleep.'

Once again the large group trekked down the numerous flights of stairs with a cheerful "good morning" to Matron as they passed the office. Breakfast consisted of Cereal for the girls and, because the knights didn't feel cereal would be very appetising, toast, yoghurt and fruit.

To anyone outside the group, the voices at the table could be understood as:

'Arthur, for years I have held a sword like this-' (Leon)

'And I'm telling you, you can't just expect to understand how to do it first time round-' (Abi)

'So, in the end, you might as well not bother getting too involved because-' (Steph)

'You'll get hurt!' (Lancelot)

'But, this activity is fun and exhilarating. Please, let us try again!' (Elyan)

'That is inappropriate, guys.' (Sarah)

'It's never stopped me before.' (Merlin)

'Hello, Matron! Would you like to participate in our activity named rock paper, scissors?' (Percival)

Matron blinked and looked at each person suspiciously. Leon was discussing the importance of some battle strategy or fighting stance with Arthur.

Steph was talking animatedly with Gwaine and Sarah, causing load laughter to ring across the room. Abi, Amy and Sophie had decided to teach Elyan

and Percival the noble art of rock, paper, scissors; this had them greatly intrigued. And Merlin was talking in with Catherine, Lancelot and Ami in hushed voices

that no-one could hear.

'No thank you.' She said finally. I thought I'd come and say goodbye, seeing as you're leaving, boys.'

'Thank you for putting up with us.' Arthur smiled.

'Time to go.' Abi pointed out, hitting Percival's arm to gain his attention.

'So what are we telling Matron again?' He queried with a frown.

Abi inwardly flinched but smiled. 'Well, we're going to tell her that the train was cancelled. That way you have to stay.'

'I understand. Should we find the others?'

'Nah, they'll know it's time to go, we'll wait by the door.' She said while they headed down the stairs. At the bottom of the staircase, sat on the seats were Arthur, Gwaine, Elyan, Leon, Steph, Sarah, Amy, and Sophie. 'Where are the others?' Abi frowned.

'Oh, they're on their way.' Sophie shrugged. 'You ready to go?'

'Yep.' Abi replied, sticking her tongue out at Catherine as she joined the group, followed by Merlin, Lancelot and Ami. 'Are we going then?'

Catherine rolled her eyes. 'Yes, Abi.'

The group set off in apparent high spirits. Merlin hung at the back with Catherine, Lancelot and Ami and they watched as the knights laughed with the girls, completely oblivious to how fake the girls' smiles were.

'This is killing them.' Catherine sighed quietly. 'All they want to do is keep the knights by their sides and the knights can't even know they're going.'

'I know.' Lancelot murmured. 'At least we can say goodbye to each other though.' As he said this he kept his eyes trained on Ami. She gave him a small smile turned to look over her shoulder. 'We're out of sight now.' She said without stopping. Lancelot took her hand and squeezed it. 'I'll miss you.' He said simply.

Ami nodded. 'Same.' She whispered in reply giving him a hug before turning to Merlin and giving him a hug too. As she did so, Catherine also gave the two men hugs and Merlin started muttering a spell under his breath.

Everything went black.

Soooo... How did that one go? You Angry? Pleeeaaassseee don't be. I'm sorry it took so long.

R&R please, but please no flames.