Hiya I'm back.

Someone asked me a question, but I don't know who so I'll reply here

Basically, the necklace that Morgana placed on Merlin enhanced his powers, which would have been great, but the bracelet that he already had on him prevent him from using it causing a lot of pain. If that makes any sense…

Anyway enjoy the next chapter :D

"What did they do to him?" Leon asked, he noted that the bracelet was glowing almost.

No one had managed to speak yet they were still recovering from the shock of seeing there friend in such a bad shape, and they couldn't even help him, the bars were preventing it.

"I don't think we're going to get anything from him, can anyone reach him even" They all reached through the bars trying to reach him but it was hopeless.

"So what now, we're a man down and it seems only one way out is by that door, that we can't reach because we can't get out of the barred cell" Gwaine, huffed, "anyone got any bright ideas".

At that moment Scarface came through the door with a bag he looked around making sure no one was watching before he went towards the knights.

He put his hand to his mouth 'don't talk'.

He went into Merlin's cell and carefully picked him up and put him closer to the knights. He also gave the bag to Lancelot.

He stood up and went to leave when Arthur spoke " why are you doing this?"

The man stopped before saying "because I made a grave mistake and now the boy is going to suffer" and he left.

Lancelot looked in the bag; there was ointment and bandages in there. He took some of the clothes out and began wiping some of the blood away; some of it was starting to congeal.

The skin had begun to bruise painting Merlin's back in dark purple's and black.

"I still want to know how he got the other scars" Gwaine muttered.

Everyone agreed silently, although, now they weren't sure, it was becoming clear that Merlin had been hiding things from all of them.

Lancelot remained silent, clearing out his friend's wounds, he looked closer at the wounds, "I think they had him flogged, at least 20 times by the looks of it" He said disgusted. He continued rubbing the ointment on then wrapped the bandage around him as best he could.

"We should just leave him and let him rest" Lancelot mentioned.

Arthur sat with his back against the bar. He leaned back, too much had happened today, he had too think about what had happened.

Merlin was protecting a sorcerer, and a powerful one, and he was now being tortured by an unnamed person who wanted to kill this Emrys person. Also they had placed a bracelet on his wrist but no one else's, what was that about . He put his head in his arms, what was happening…

Merlin woke up but didn't move he tried to keep his back was still burning. He heard some of the knights talking amongst each other. He'd clearly been asleep for a long time.

"When do you think he'll wake up?" he heard Elyan ask.

"I'm not sure, soon hopefully" Arthur replied

"What do we ask him?" Leon voiced

"He needs to tell us everything" Arthur began but was interrupted by Gwaine "Merlin is not in any condition to talk about anything he hasn't even woken up yet.

Thank you Gwaine, Merlin thought "Besides I doubt this is what he wants to talk about right now Princess"

Merlin could sense the tensions rising and thought this was a good time as any other to starting waking up.

He tried to move his arms (they felt so numb) but groaned when he felt pressure on his cuts.

"Merlin" several voices all cried out at once.

"Merlin", it was Arthur, " can you sit up "

Merlin snorted "prat"

"Merlin I want to ask you something and I need you to tell the truth" the small smile dropped from his face he lood to Lancelot and tried to give him a look saying 'what do they know about me? Lancelot shook his head.

Merlin not being sure what that meant decided to go for the clueless act.

"What do you mean Arthur I have no idea why we're here" Merlin had always been a terrible liar and right now just proved it.

"Merlin, who's Emrys, and how do you know him, I have been told that he is the most powerful warlock to ever live."

"What's the difference?" Elyan asked

"What do you mean?" Leon asked baffled

"What's the difference between a warlock and a sorcerer?"

Arthur replied "I don't kn…"

"Warlocks are born with magic, it is apart of them, in their blood, it's instinctive. Where as sorcerer's have to spend years to learn the magic, warlocks can learn spells in hours" Merlin quickly added, "or so I was told… ummm…. Gaius… once he starts talking he doesn't stop…"

Arthur wasn't quite sure what to say to that.

"Merlin why do you have so many scars?", Gwaine asked, "I know that working for this Princess can get you in a few fights but… you have so many"

Merlin lowered his head. He was very aware about how much skin he was showing, and he was very aware that everyone had had time to gawp at his scars. It wasn't that he was embarrassed by them , it just seemed to closely related with his magic, is he revealed his scars then he would be revealing his magic- and that couldn't happen.

He tried to change the topic to something different "Lancelot, where did you get the bandages from?"

"The man with the scar brought them in soon after you had been brought back"

"You mean the sorcerer"

Arthur snorted "I can't believe I trusted a sorcerer"

"He helped didn't he?"

"He had magic. People with magic do not help unless it is for their own gain, they are evil" Merlin felt his heart sink, Arthur still wasn't ready for the truth yet.

Lancelot watched as Merlin's faced dropped even lower, he knew how much this must have been paining him, Lancelot knew that all Melrin wanted was to be accepted by Arthur.

Arthur continues, oblivious to the look of hurt on Merlin's face "Every one I have met with magic has used it for there own greedy gain, that Scarface bloke only wants to help us because his boss has something of his. "

"Why do you think that all people with magic are evil?" Merlin asked quietly

"Merlin how much of an idiot are you? The whole reason we are being held captive is because of this Emrys person. If it was me I would just have him captured and burnt at the stake…"

Merlin couldn't do this anymore. To have Arthur admit that he would burn Emrys at the stake was painfully brutally he couldn't even work up the effort to keep up the small charade that he had up. He couldn't stop himself as he felt the tears draw up into his eyes.

He slowly turned his back to the rest of the group and didn't respond to any one's questions . He remained facing with his back facing them. It was agonizing to do so but it would have been even worse if he had to face Arthur. So he stared at the wall, allowing the tears to flow freely down his face.

It was hours later till the door was opened again. The group had all tried to get some rest, which had failed. Merlin had remained not talking to anyone. He refused to eat the scraps of food that he was offered.

However when the door opened and in walked a young woman, who wore a black dress and her hair, once so perfect, now a messy tangle of knots walked through the Knights were shocked.

She walked towards the them , she still held herself like a lady of the high court and if anything it made her even more terrifying and she was smirking, that evil smirk she also seemed to have plastered to her face now.

Arthur was furious and hurt. It had been Morgana. This entire time Morgana had been behind it all, the capture, the torturing of Merlin.

"Hello Arthur" she smiled wickedly.

Finally... I've been waiting to do the next chapter for aaggesss hehehe

hope your all enjoying it, review the story etc, Thanks for reading, and sticking with it for this long :D