Once again thank you for all the reviews I received for last chapter. Sorry for the delay in getting this up, I was writing a Robin Hood one-shot. I thought this one would be shorter, but it turns out not so, it's got a lot of dialogue and banter in it though!

Enjoy and please review!

Chapter 3; Clue? Please?

"You can see through people?" Merlin asked. He was lying on the floor in his room keeping warm with a spare blanket. He'd insisted that Rose should sleep on his bed tonight, he hadn't bargained on how uncomfortable the floorboards were going to be, he was beginning to regret his insistence. Once again he reminded himself that he was being a good host, Gaius had taken to Rose and agreed that she could stay here for as long as she wanted to, it made Merlin happy, he was worried about what Gaius's reaction might be to having another magical person to protect but he had taken it in his stride. The rain was dripping outside, it has been all afternoon, not doing much really but just incredibly annoying. Merlin was still trying to figure out what her gift was, and he was running out of ideas.

"No Merlin" Rose yawned, they had been going on like this for hours and all she wanted to do was sleep. But Merlin wasn't one to give up.

"You have invisibility powers?"

"No."

"You have astonishing beauty, oh, you can transfigure!!"

"No!" Rose let out a sigh, silence, finally he had given –

"Can you give me a clue?"

"Go to sleep Merlin."

Merlin sat up and rested his hands on the end of his bed; he put on his best pleading look and gazed into Rose's eyes "Clue? Please?".

Rose smiled "Fine!" she turned onto her side to face him "Do you remember that summer when you were four and I had just turned two, and we had a picnic by the river, and then you wanted to teach me how to swim." She turned back onto her back, and Merlin lied back down onto his bed, reminiscing about the day. "And you jumped into the river further downstream and swam back up to meet us but then you hit your foot on a rock"

Merlin grinned, getting all excited like a young boy "I remember that! I still have the scar! Look!" Rose turned her head, getting up slightly to look and watched him as he threw off his covers and pulled at his sock trying to get it off.

"Merlin, I'm not that interested in seeing your foot."

"It really hurt!" he retorted.

"You said at the time!" Rose laughed and Merlin smiled, he had been thinking the exact same thing.

Almost simultaneously they both rolled over onto theirs backs. "That was a good day" Merlin said satisfied.

"You said it was a bad day at the time!"

"Was that it?"

"Uh-huh"

"That was not a good clue." Merlin pointed out bluntly.

"It was! You just can't see it."

"Give me another one." Merlin said, hungry to find out what this gift was she had, his mind started to wander off, wondering if he could tackle her to get the answer out….

"That's cheating."

"I don't care….Can you make objects from air?"

"No." Merlin noted that she said that a lot, he tried to come at this from another angle "What's it like? Your gift?"

Rose sighed, trying to explain what it was like was always hard, and this time she didn't want to give anything away! "Amazing and horrible at the same time, bewildering but brilliant, terrifying but terrific." she paused "And as soon as anyone works out what it is the always ask one question."

Merlin sensed her tone "It gets repetitive?"

"Just a bit!"

The room went silent for a few minutes, and the rain became heavier. Rose closed her eyes, hoping to gain some sleep but then Merlin spoke.

Merlin thought he had it, finally, after slowing down and going over things in his mind he had it, only his response came out slightly louder than intended "You can cure people!! That's why you told me the story….you can make my scar disappear!"

Rose opened her eyes and drew in a deep breath, held it for suspense, watching Merlin's avid face and then let it out "No."

"Oh" Merlin said, only slightly disappointed "It was a good story though, how long ago was it?"

"14 years"

"You had a good memory as a two year old" he pointed out looking at the ceiling, noticing a crack that he had never seen before.

"Mmmm……" Rose couldn't stop herself from grinning, and it was probably this grin that gave it away.

Suddenly Merlin's face lit up. He sat up, turning around and Rose tilted her head to look at him.

"You can remember the past; your gift is the gift of memory!"

Rose smiled and it took all Merlin's strength not to get up and do a celebratory dance.

"That's half of it." she said grinning.

"You have to tell me the rest now." Merlin pleaded.

Rose sat up, deciding that she clearly wasn't supposed to be going to sleep tonight "I can also see into the future." she explained and watched as Merlin's grin grew even wider.

"Wow, so what does my future entail?" Rose looked at him meaningfully, and he suddenly understood her previous comment "And that's the repetitive question that gets annoying."

"Got it in one." she said, "I don't know your whole future, just bits of it." she wanted to try and explain, she felt he deserved that at the least.

"Everyone seems to have an idea of how my life will turn out." Merlin said gloomily.

"Tomorrow we go shopping." Rose said, trying to cheer him up.

"I only went to the market a few days ago!"

"We're going to buy carrots…and potatoes." she said smiling, and she was rewarded with a smile from Merlin.

"How does it work?" Merlin asked curiously.

"When I see something or someone I take in all their future and then slowly process it."

"Wow." They both smiled at each other as they rain started to pour outside. Rose lay down as thunder sounded and the room lit up as lightning struck. Merlin remained seated, "Merlin?"

"Yeah?"

"Go to sleep."