Forgive?

Chapter Five

"MERLIN!" Arthur roared thunderously

"Arthur…I found…bracelet with…spell by…Lancelot…he was a…shade not Gwen's …fault" Merlin panted

"STOP GIBBERING, you PATHETIC excuse for a man! Igave you a list of chores to do – SO WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING HERE? GUINEVERE AND I ARE TRYING TO GET SOME PRIVACY! WE DON'T NEED BUMBERING FOOLS LIKE YOU INTERRUPTING US!" Arthur bellowed

Perfect! Merlin thought to himself I've come here to rescue their relationship, but Arthur is too busy shouting at me to listen.

"Sire…I was cleaning…bracelet on floor…in dungeons" Merlin tried

"SPEAK NORMALLY!" Arthur barked

"Ran all the…way from Camelot…tired…" Merlin puffed

"Arthur" Gwen cut in "Let him catch his breath before you start shouting at him. He probably has a perfectly good explanation for his presence, so don't get angry until you have a valid reason for it."

"Thanks" Merlin gasped gratefully

"He's drunk, most likely" Arthur grumbled. Gwen blinked at him. "I bet he went to the tavern and hasn't done a single – "

"I can talk now" Merlin interjected. Arthur glared at him.

"Then talk." He snapped.

"Arthur!" Gwen admonished "Merlin, take as much time as you need."

"So I was cleaning the dungeons, and –"

"I'm sorry – you were cleaning the dungeons?" Gwen exclaimed

"Arthur told me to" Merlin explained. Gwen glanced at Arthur suspiciously "So I was cleaning the dungeons" Merlin continued "When I found this bracelet on the floor" Merlin held up the tarnished silver bangle. Gwen gasped. "Recognise it?" Merlin asked

"Lancelot gave it to me…" Gwen breathed

"It's enchanted. Gwen, when you kissed Lancelot, it wasn't your fault – you were under a spell"

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Gwen gazed into Arthur's sapphire blue eyes. Merlin was gone, with orders to destroy the bracelet immediately. Now it was just the two of them, and the realization that she had done nothing wrong.

"Guinevere…I have a question to ask you" Arthur murmured "But first, there's one more thing I need to know. What were you doing this morning?" Gwen stared at him. This was so completely random and off topic – she had thought that he was about to propose! "You took a long time. What were you hiding from me?" Arthur pressed anxiously

"Oh, you silly, paranoid thing! Do you think I wake up looking perfect every morning?" Gwen giggled

Arthur blushed. "I was doing my hair!" Gwen told him

"Oh, well…in that case…Guinevere, will you marry me?"

THE END

So I'm a total ditz. I wrote this chapter MONTHS ago, a few days after chapter four. I added this chapter into my doc manager, but it never made it into the actual story, probably because I went off to dinner and forgot about it or something. The only reason I've found out now is 'cos I'm writing a new story and I came on to upload the first chapter of that, but checked to see if Forgive had any more reviews before doing so. Basically, I'm a total scatterbrain and I'm very, very, VERY sorry! So, onto the next story – it's kind of like this one is a prologue to it. It's set about 6 months later, and it's going to be split into 3 parts. Each part will be about as long as Forgive, so it is gonna take a while. BUT I WILL FINISH IT! I PROMISE! And I'll be more alert while I'm uploading the chapters this time! So thank you lovely people reading this (if anyone has actually been patient and lovely enough to come back to it - I wouldn't blame you if you hadn't!) and thank you to reviewers and story/author alerters. Gosh, I sound like I think I'm a celebrity or something.

Lots of love from Starsandsparkles