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"You had me followed?" Merlin demanded the moment he entered the room, he placed the plate down on the table in Arthur's room.
"Had to make sure you stayed on task. If you can't control yourself from seeing Gwaine, I will banish him from Camelot." The king sounded so calm as he spoke, crossing the room, sitting down at the table beginning to eat his breakfast while Merlin gaped at him with shock. "You've always talked about how we belonged together, two sides of one coin" Arthur's voice had dropped, he didn't sound angry, he sounded hurt, and avoided eye contact with Merlin. "Instead of falling for me, you fell for Gwaine."
"You've never showed any interest in me until now! You were about to marry Gwen!" Merlin objected, raising his voice to the king. Arthur stopped eating, simply picking at his food, staring at it with little interest.
"I never loved her, Merlin. I only used Gwen, it's one thing to fall in love with a servant girl, but to fall in love with another man?" The king shook his head. "After Gwen betrayed me, it became harder for me to ignore my feelings. When I noticed Gwaine coming on you..I couldn't control myself."
"So you decided to rape me and torture him?" Merlin interjected, crossing his arms over his chest. Arthur looked up from his food finally, locking eyes with the sorcerer for a minute, then averted his eyes once more. "Unbelievable..." Merlin muttered heading for the door, Arthur perked up.
"Where do you think you are going?" The sorcerer ignored the king, opening the door and stormed out of the room. "Merlin!" Arthur called, sounding as if he was coming after the sorcerer, but he didn't slow his pace, nor stop. "Merlin, stop!" The sorcerer halted, turning on his heel facing the king, waiting for him to say something. "I told the both of you to stay away from each other, you didn't listen." Merlin snorted.
"So you thought to get us to listen you had to do something horrible?" Merlin shot back, "You could have explained, let me make a choice. Not force me to choose. And torturing Gwaine? One of your closest friends? " Merlin's voice raised, drawing attention the guards attention to them. "Am I too just forgive you and act like that never happened?!" Arthur looked away from him, the guilt written on his face.
"I'm...I'm sorry."
"Oh? You're sorry? Is that going to magically make everything better?" The sorcerer shouted furiously. Arthur shook his head, his eyes still averted from Merlin.
"What do you want me to do?" The king asked, barely audible.
"Release Gwain" Arthur's eyes shot up, locking with Merlin's suspiciously. "I swear to you, I do not intend to run off with him. My destiny is with you." The king seemed to ponder the sorcerer's request, then finally, he gave a nod of his head.
"Very well." Arthur, turned around, finding the nearest guard. "You there!" He exclaimed, the guard immediately turned to him in attention awaiting orders. "Release sir Gwaine from the dungeons."
"Yes, sire" The man replied, taking off for the dungeons. Merlin smiled as Arthur turned back to him.
"Thank you" He said with relief.
"Why don't you get yourself a plate of food from the kitchen, and join me for breakfast?" Arthur offered.
"I would love too." Merlin went off to the kitchens, as Arthur went back to the room. The sorcerer grabbed a plate, heading back to the king's chamber, running into Gwaine on the way back. "Are..are you okay?" It felt like a stupid thing to ask, still Gwaine nodded his head, slowly, looking over Merlin.
"Are you?" Merlin nodded his head, "I know you had something to do with this." Gwaine said quietly, moving closer to Merlin. "Thank you." The man laid a quick kiss on the sorcerer's cheek and hurried off to his chambers. Merlin continued on his way back to Arthur's room, letting himself in and sat down at the table next to Arthur and ate with him.
To be continued...