Percy came out of the house followed by Arthur. Gwaine stood up and quickly checked Morgana who was bleeding from a wound over her heart. Gwaine shouted:

"Get an ambulance quick!" Arthur pulled out his phone and called an ambulance.

"I think we are going to lose her" Gwaine's voice held a hint of panic.

Merlin had stood up he was ok but had bumped his head on the pavement. "Let me get to her." Merlin quickly looked at the girl at his feet and pulled from his pocket the bottle of dragons tears. He carefully poured several into the wound. Unbelievably it started to stop bleeding and started to heal before their eyes. Morgana opened her eyes within a couple of minutes.

"It worked" shouted Merlin. "Speak to me Morgana." Merlin asked the girl at his feet.

"What ha..ppned?" Morgana muttered in a weak voice.

."Come on get her inside." Merlin had taken control as no one else seemed to understand what had happened. As the others help Morgana he quickly used his magic to remove the blood from all over the pavement.

As Percy and Boris quickly got Morgana into the safety of the house, then Boris called the police and Percy made sure everyone kept away from the windows in case the car came back.

When the ambulance arrived Arthur apologised for wasting their time, saying he had thought Merlin had been shot but had in fact only hit his head. They quickly checked Merlin over and advised that he should take something for the pain and not sleep for a while. Then asked Arthur to keep an eye on him as he appeared a bit tired, and call them again if he became drowsier or complained of double vision. The paramedics were kept well away from Morgana who was sitting up talking she was shaken and still covered in blood. The police arrived soon after and took statement from them all including Morgana who Gwen had helped to quickly change out of her bloodstained clothes. The photo Boris took showed the number plate, it was the same car that had been following Gwaine's car earlier that day. Unfortunately the number plates were false.

After everyone had gone Gaius recommend Morgana to take it easy for a few days but declared she was otherwise ok. He also recommended that she take a course of iron for a few weeks and then get her Hb checked, due to the blood lose, at her doctors just to be sure. Once Morgana got over the shock she had identified Mordred as the person who she had seen pointing the gun out of the car window. The police put out a search for both the car and Mordred who it turned out was Agravaine's son. The police admitted it would be difficult to charge him as they couldn't find the 'stray' bullet and no one had been badly hurt. They had hopes that they might be able to charge him if they found the gun in his possession.

Arthur ordered increased security including CITV cameras to the outside of his house. But what worried him the most was that the common denominator seemed to be Merlin. Merlin however still insisted he didn't need security and it took a combined effort of all the friends to get him to agree to take more care, and accept Percy as a body guard if he went out. Morgana was upset that she hadn't told Arthur of Mordred's approach to her. But as Arthur agreed there was no reason at the time to suspect he would act as he had.

The episode had completed the healing process between Merlin and Morgana and they now considered themselves to be good friends. Despite the best efforts of the police, neither the car nor gun was ever found. There were no other witnesses to the events which was just as well considering. They all agreed that the opposition seemed to be getting more organised and they would all need to take more care.

When the date came for the trip to California it was decided that Arthur would go with Leon and Elyan. Merlin once more insisted on going. Saying he needed to get the use out of his suits. Gwaine would stay behind to caring on the work in Britain, much to his disgust. They flew over in a scheduled flight, first class off course. It was Merlin's first experience in a plane as they had travelled via euro link to Europe. He was petrified which made Arthur laugh.

"You Idiot Merlin, you are happy to fly on a dragon's back, at least in a plane you are in the warm and dry!"

"That may be true but I trust dragons, these things crash!" He kept his eyes firmly shut during takeoff and landing and held tightly onto Arthur hand. They only got him to board the plane by threatening him that they would leave him behind. Although he did moan all thought the flight that on a dragon he could see more of the countryside as he flew.

They eventually landed in California and were met by the State Governor. California was interested in the PV usage due to its high levels of sunshine. They were partially interested in the much improved solar tiles that could be used on new builds instead of the panels. The Governor was especially keen on improving California's position in environmental tables, and in job creation. The meetings went well and progress was made.

While they were in the states they were asked to visit Colorado, the state that was at present at the top of the environment tables in the USA. After that they flew in a small plane to the east coast to New York to catch an early morning plane back to the UK. In England Morgana was having a dream. Unusual in that it was nearly time for her to get up. She woke up in a panic having dreamt the plane from America was going to crash. She knew from speaking to Arthur they were flying back that day. She tried to get hold of them but was having no luck. So she phoned Gwaine, he was supposed to be collecting them from the airport later.

Once he knew, he also tried to get hold of one of the group, but also had no luck. Gwaine thought of contacting the airline but realised that was crazy no one would believe him. So all the two of them could do was wait for news, unable to do anything else. Gwaine set his phone to warn him if any news of a plane crash was announced.