MERLIN – CONTACT
AN: Hey everyone. Thanks to all you wonderful people who added this fic to your favourites and story alerts. Please don't forget to review. If I don't get enough, I'll have to assume despite the alerts that no-one likes this and I'll stop updating. This is the last time I'll update for now because I'm going away next week so it'll be longer than that until another chapter is put on. Unless you want this fic to stop here, I don't mind. Next time I'll go more into a story than facts and background stuff. Enjoy this, and please tell me what you think :)
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Despite the company of her best friend and her mother, Merlin, like any teenager, had felt lonely and emotional. She could feel the changes of her person, and knew instinctively what they meant without the awkward 'talks' with her mother.
Her changes had happened later than the other girls. Sure, she had grown in height, even though she remained small, and had started her woman's course, but her shape was yet to set in place. She found some boys in the village attractive, but that was it. She mainly found them vile and tedious. Apart from Will. And another…. One whose name she wouldn't say.
Without schools or tutors, most of Ealdor's children grew up without understanding mathematics and/or were illiterate.
But again, whether it was her magic or not, or because she had a devoted mother, Merlin was intelligent and leant all she needed. Knowing things in a small village though, gave the villagers yet another reason to think her strange. Simply because she was young and smart. Merlin, at the same time of being humble, modest and shy, was confident and knew she was superior to all of them.
Will had found out about her magic when she was ten years old. They were caught in the surrounding forests by a terrible storm while collecting wood. They were running back home when lightning struck a giant oak tree right near them and was about to fall on top of them, until Merlin's magic acted instinctively to push the heavy flaming trunk away from them before it crushed and burned them to death. Merlin didn't know that Will had seen her until he told her and thanked her, a couple of days afterwards. That he didn't care and would keep her secret.
That's how it remained. Merlin and Will were ever closer, and the two would sneak off every now and then so Merlin could vent her magic.
Until years later, not long after Merlin's sixteenth birthday, Hunith found out that Will knew about her daughter's magic. Although she was told that he had known for years, the paranoid mother said she could not risk Merlin's exposure, and that the best thing to do was to send her away.
That's when the young warlock had to leave her home village, her mother and her best friend, to live and be mentored in Camelot by her mother's old friend, a man who gave Merlin fatherly advice and hugs she had never known she needed.
The rest we know.
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Who are you?
I'm Merlin.
…Hunith's daughter!
Yes!
But you're not meant to be here until Wednesday!
…It IS Wednesday.
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Do I know you?
Uh, I'm Merlin.
So I don't know you.
… No.
Yet you called me friend.
That was my mistake. I could never have a friend who could be such an arse!
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I'm Guinevere, but most people call me Gwen. I'm the Lady Morgana's maid.
Oh right. I'm Merlin. Or most people just call me 'idiot'.
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Hi, I'm Merlin.
Colin.
I'm Arthur's servant.
Arthur?
'Prince Arthur'. He lets me call him Arthur.
Really?
…No. But I call him it anyway.
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AN: Hope you like this. Please tell me what you think about anything of the fic so far, I really don't mind (as long as it's within the realms of creative criticism :P) I'll see you in perhaps just over a week's time. I start my next term of college the week straight after my trip so I'll update when I can, IF I get enough feedback. See ya :)