So here's 'Chapter' 2!
I'm proud of myself if I've hooked you enough to be reading this :)
Anyway...
'I wasn't ready, you took me by surprise'
On the verge of sleep, Arthur lay still, reminiscing about the first time he had met Merlin. He had been such an idiot, a prat, a 'clotpole' as Merlin himself was so fond of saying. But, at the time, he hadn't been able to help it. When he had first seen Merlin's lean figure step somewhat falteringly into the courtyard, he hadn't prepared his heart for the siege of emotions that had stormed it, crushing the feeble barriers he had put up that had stopped him from even liking any of the Ladies and Princesses his father had attempted to arrange for him.
Even now, though Merlin had told him not to feel bad, guilt still plagued him for the terrible way he had treated the man on that first meeting, all of it just the desperate reactions of an arrogant man desperately trying to hide feelings that he had never felt before that he know no one would approve of. That he would be disowned for. But since finding that Merlin returned the love he felt, Arthur had no need to treat his manservant so viciously for fear of rejection, and that made him extraordinarily happy.
He fell asleep smiling.