Morgana was transferred to her own chambers and settled into her own bed, it was the late morning before she woke and was sat up by Hunith and given a light broth to drink. She was still weak and would need more rest but was feeling much better. She remembered what she had heard the day before and it was playing on her mind. Arthur came in shortly afterwards and sat with her. He could tell she was unhappy about something.

"Morgana it is so good to see you sat up, you gave us a scare." He told his sister. She was just going to say something when Uther entered.

"How are you my dear?" he asked her. She wanted to shout out at him that she knew his secret but decided now was not the time, She would wait for now.

"Weak and tiered Sire and very thankful to be here" Morgana told him

"That was a nasty tumble you took my dear, I want you to rest of a few days and do as the physician tells you" the King went forward and kissed her forehead "You are precious to me, as dear to me as a daughter and I never want a fright like that again."

Morgana shut her eyes so Uther couldn't see her inner turmoil at his words. "I can see you are tired I will leave you" he looked at his son "Don't stay long let her rest" with that he swept out the room.

Arthur looked at Morgana who had gone a white as a sheet. "Are you alright Morgana? Do you need Gaius?"

Morgana opened her eyes and looked at the man she know knew was her brother "I heard Uther talking to Gaius, they thought I was asleep." She paused "It was Merlin that saved me wasn't it?"

Arthur gave Morgana a rueful smile "Yes, Gaius couldn't do anything, you were going to die, but father doesn't know does he?" Arthur said concern evident in his voice.

"No, he thinks Gaius used magic, but he promised to help Merlin if I lived and then just said he could have more rations, Gaius was upset." Morgana admitted

"Well at least he can have them properly now, he has been having them anyway" Arthur admitted "Try not to worry Morgana get well first and then we will speak, I am just so glad you are alive"

"Arthur he plans to take Merlin away from you, he said Merlin was a dragonlord"

"Rest Morgana, I won't let him, he gave me Merlin in front of the court he can't go back on his word now" Arthur reassured her. "We will talk more when you are stronger."

Morgana decided to think about what else she had heard, after all it would be was much a shock to Arthur was to her. Arthur leant over and kissed Morgana's forehead "I will leave you and come back latter just rest"

As he walked away Morgana said "Thank Merlin for me, tell him I will never forget it"

"I will" Arthur left and went back to his chambers to find Merlin still asleep. He smiled down at his cousin and reaffirmed his vow to get the boy free as soon as he could. He knew without a doubt that magic wasn't evil, nothing would ever convince him it was. One day when he was king all Merlin's kind would be free.

Later when George arrived with his lunch Arthur asked George where Merlin's extra ration was "I sent a message to say that the King said the boy was to have servant's rations"

George looked at the Prince "Sire I was told that the message was servants rations but twice a day only"

Arthur glared at George "Go down now and get him a dinner and don't come back without it, I will speak to my father"

George scurried off and came back with some broth and bread. By then Arthur had gently woken Merlin so he could eat as soon as George got back. "The extra blanket was also my father order, he has one of mine for now, replace it later."

George did replace it but with a thinner servants blanket, but Arthur got Gwen to get yet another one so at least Merlin would be warm. As Merlin folded up his blankets and stored them behind the changing screen every morning hopefully George would never notice that an extra one had arrived. Arthur still gave Merlin things from his plate as the servant's rations still seemed small and poor to the prince. No one seemed to have mentioned to the King that Arthur had countermanded his orders for the extra meal. Arthur decided if his father ever found out he would pretend to have forgotten such a minor matter.

Morgana was up and about after a week, and to celebrate her recovery Uther decided to hold a feast. Morgana decided to use the feast to ask her 'father' about her parentage. She decided to ask him in public as she was so angry at the deceit he had clearly practiced. She knew that she would always consider Gorlios her father, she had loved the man and he had after all brought her up, she wondered if he had known that he wasn't her father. Bit decided if he did he was even a better man for still giving her love. She wasn't sure what she felt about her mother at this point. She did feel sorry for Arthur but also glad that he was truly her brother.

As the feast started Uther stood up and proposed a toast "This feast is for safe deliverance of my ward the Lady Morgana from her near fatal accident… to the Lady Morgana"

After the cheers had died down Morgana stood up she smiled at Arthur then looked straight at Uther. "Thank you everyone for the love you have shown me, but my accident taught me one thing that I would never have known otherwise. As I was led recovering unable to move but hearing everything around me, I found that I had a brother and a father of my own blood."

The room went quiet as the words sunk in and Uther looked shocked, Morgana turned and looked at Arthur again "My brother Arthur who I had always loved as a brother but I never knew he was" then she turned round and looked at the shocked Uther who at that moment came to his senses.

"Morgana! Silence I demand you" Uther was red in the face and looked outraged.

Morgana ignored him "And a man who it seems is my father by blood but who will never replace the man who treated me like a daughter all my life Gorlios"

Uther was totally irate as he grabbed Morgana "Silence or I will have you put in the dungeons!"

But Morgana continued "Thank you for telling me Uther, even though you didn't know I could hear every word. Did you my father know you had cockholded him?"

"How dare you!" Uther spluttered

"How dare you!" Morgana said bitterly "You brought me here and called me your ward why did you not tell me I was your daughter, why did you not tell your son he had a sister? Would you have let us marry to keep your dirty secret" With that she stormed pulled away from the shocked King and ran out of the room.

Arthur turned to his father "Is this true?" he asked clearly shocked

Uther turned to the hall "Out everyone out and if anyone talks of this I will have them flogged"