TITLE : His Smile
SUMMARY : Merlin, Arthur, Gwen, Leon, Gaius, Percival, Elyan, Gwaine and Lancelot are stuck with someone who can retell someone's worst dreams.
A/N: Arthur and Gwen are married in this oneshot but Lancelot is still alive. Inspired by "Suffer All You Must But Suffer Silently" by Lady Ayuka, everyone should go and read it! This is not a slash.
The man, if he can even be called be that, leaned over the manservant.
About an hour ago, Arthur woke up to find himself in a cell, sitting on his behind and arms chained behind. He was with his trusted knights, Physician, Wife and servant, who were in similar conditions.
The man with brown hair and tanned skin walked in after everyone had woke up. He wore a red top with black trousers and nothing on his feet.
He looked completely normal.
Then everyone got a look at his eyes.
They were pitch black.
Now, here they sit. He had told them he was going to see who had the worst dreams and bring them to the open.
No one wanted their dreams to be revealed but when he faced Merlin with a hungry and delighted smirk, everyone knew that Merlin's dreams with a living hell.
The man knelled before the servant and grabbed his cheek with his hand.
"Oh, you poor little child. So weak, but so very very powerful. That's you greatest nightmare, is it not. Your King finding out that magic runs in your veins, a golden blood alongside the red. That your the most powerful sorcerer to ever live" taunted the man.
Arthur felt like someone had punched him in the gut.
Merlin had magic? But it ran through him like blood, so he had no choice?
Arthur looked up and saw the fear on Merlin's face. Well, he wish he could, but Merlin's face had gone blank, as he stared in the deep abyss that is the man's eyes.
Oh no.
"Then there's everyone you love dying. Freya, Will, your father just to top the list. And those loved ones you have left, dying. Gwen, Gaius, Arthur. Everybody just leaving you. You, a crying pitiful mess" smirked the man.
No one would leave Merlin. That much could be obvious to those who could see the faces of his friends.
Arthur looked like he was deep in concentration. The others assumed he was planning a way to help Merlin. And they're right. He was thinking of anything that might help.
Gwen was pale. She was shaking and crying, begging Merlin to be alright.
Elyan was torn between helping Merlin and comforting his sister.
Percival was trying to break out his chains.
Lancelot and Gaius were sharing a look, both trying to figure out how to help Arthur without talking.
Gwaine was trying even harder than Percival to break the chains holding him to a wall.
Leon was glaring at the man.
"And then the nightmare where you do what you always do. Follow Arthur to hell and back" smirked the man.
Arthur's head shot up.
"You always do what he says, no matter what, so he tells you to stab yourself, throw yourself on flames, even drown yourself, you will do it. No matter what" finished the man.
"MERLIN! I ORDER YOU TO ATTACK!" yelled Arthur as loud as he could. Everyone could see a change in Merlin.
He got a fiery look in his eyes, a golden look. His mouth turned up in a smirk.
"Oops" he smirked, "you lose" and he kneed the man in the stomach, while his magic flared in anger and threw him across the room.
While all this was happening, the chains holding everyone snapped and as one, they stood up. Well apart from Gaius.
He stayed on the floor.
Merlin stood up. His hands were tightened into fists.
Arthur looked around for a sword when a sudden glow appeared in his hand and he looked down to see a sword materialize from a golden flame that did not burn.
He smirked.
"Lose, I never lose" yelled the man.
"Well, you haven't met The Once And Future King" shrugged Merlin.
"The Once And Future King is a fairy tale to sooth children" said the man.
"Really, what about Emrys, cos to me, he wishes to incinerate you but he'd rather watch this" and just as Merlin finished talking, the man felt a sharp pain tear his heart and blood quickly fill his chest. He looked down to see a sword turn to fire and slowly burn him.
He vanished into ash and Merlin and Arthur were left staring at each other.
Merlin with his eyes burning away with a golden light and Arthur breathing deeply, he had just stabbed a man in through the heart.
Suddenly, Merlin's eyes returned to the blue and he fell backwards. Arthur lunged forward and caught him. He lowered Merlin to the ground and everyone surrounded the pair.
The last thing Merlin saw before his eyes closed was the worried look on everyone's faces.
And he smiled.