Chapter 7

When Arthur woke up early the next morning the 1st thing he noticed was Merlin shaking and whimpering beside him. Arthur ran his fingers across Merlins face "Merlin" when no response come he tried again "Merlin...come on... wake up" he pushed some hair out of his loves eyes. Merlin eyes flew open, his breathing was heavy, and hair was sticking to his face "its ok Merlin" Merlin sat up and hugged his knees "what is it?" Arthur sat up with him, resting his head on Merlins shoulder, Merlins head shoot up as if he just realised he wasn't alone "Nothing" he smiled "Merlin" Arthur held his hands bring them up, kissing them he looked Merlin in the eyes "please" "it's nothing I swear" Merlin promised as she stood up "I'm just gonna go for a walk" Arthur nodded "I'll be back later" Merlin smiled sweetly before leaving the room.

Merlin sat on the cold ground staring at a lake. He hated lying to Arthur but how was he supposed to tell him that he was being hunted by dreams where his own father attacked him in the dark or come into his room at night. Merlin shuddered at the thought, last night had been the worst, Uther had cornered Merlin in a random room, when Merlin had tried to fight him off Uther had pulled a knife out and cut his leg, which of course made Merlin scream what he hadn't been expecting was for the door to burst open and Arthur attack Uther, Merlin had stood there watching them fight when Arthur had fallen, holding the knife that had been lunged into stomach Arthur feel to the ground, Merlin dropped to the ground, trying desperately to stop the bleeding when Uther pulled him away, screaming as Uther dragged him away Merlin was forced to watch Arthur die alone.

Merlin was so wound up in his own thoughts that by the time he heard the twig snap behind him it was too late. He never even had the chance to scream.

Arthur walked listening to the gentle teasing that was so like his and Merlin that was going on between Callum and Adianna. All laughter ended as the doors to the hall they'd been called to were hulled open. People stood on the sides of the room with their heads bowed, Callum noticed some of the girls were wiping their eyes and he instinctively reach for Adianna's hand. In an old wooden chair at the end of the room Uther sat with his head held high, as sad as everyone else looked Uther looked completely unaffected. As the three walked up the Uther people turned their heads away, avoided their eyes, when they reached Uther a servant girl burst out crying and ran from the room.

Arthur was getting nervous, people wouldn't look at him and a girl had just runaway crying because he took a step closer to her. "What's going on father?" Arthur asked trying to get a knight to look at him, something told him he didn't want to know the answer if this is how other people were taking it. Adianna moved closer to Callum and held his hand tighter. Uther sighed "do you know where your manservant is at the current time?" he asked Arthur was confused "he had a nightmare and went for a walk, he'll be back later today" Arthur took a step closer to his brother, Uther sank into his chair "Arthur I don't know how to tell you this" he started "tell me what?"Arthur was beginning to panic now "I'm sorry" "what's going on WHERES MERLIN" Arthur yelled looking across the room he could see people wiping their eyes "Arthur promise that you'll listen and not start yelling again" Arthur reluctantly nodded and Adianna grabbed his hand with her free 1 "I and some of my knights went hunting today" Uther stated "the horses got tired so we stopped for a while... that's when we saw him in the distance...Merlin he was standing on a cliff staring into the water... we tried to stop him but we didn't get there in time" Uther looked up at his son "I'm sorry we couldn't save we, he jumped and we couldn't even find his body".

Arthur stood there in shock. His father was trying to tell him that Merlin, his Merlin had willingly jumped off a cliff, that he had killed himself. There were so many things wrong with that idea it was breaking Arthurs heart just thinking about it. "NO" he whispered "Arthur please" "your lying" Arthur screamed trembling where he stood "Arthur I saw him jump with my own eyes" Uther argued back "NO" Arthur shook his head "not my Merlin, he wouldn't, he was happy, we were together, he wasn't scared anymore" Arthur voice broke as tears filled his eyes. His legs shaking he knew he had to get out of the room.

"Arthur please" come his father voice but he couldn't hear anymore, images of Merlins face flying before his eyes Arthur ran from the room, calls for him to come back faded into the back ground. With red swollen eyed ran out of the castle and into the open.

Hey soz it took so long- I didn't know how to start it and then I went to the pink concert which was awesome. I listened to nearly every pink song when writing this so anway thanks for reading reviews are welcome and make me happy and i tend to work faster if i know people want to read it so yes. Ily xoxox