Morgana 4

Three weeks later.

Morgana paced in her room angrily. Gwen hovered around, lines creased in her forehead. "It's for your own good-" Gwen began, then seeing Morgana's desperate face she closed her mouth. "How will keeping me in some room protect me? And it's not good for me, I'm going crazy in here!" She said, muttering to herself, looking crazy as she's pulled at her hair out of her plait so it was all messed up. "Gwen, please help me?" she begged, not wanting to spend another day of knight in the room.

"Morgana, even if I wanted to, I can't! But we've had over ten knights attack you know! Who knows when they might becoming next!"

"Exactly! Gwen, Uther would keep me locked in here until I was fifty if it meant I was safe!"
"At least you have a father to look after you, and care about you!" Gwen retorted, and Morgana was going to say that Uther wasn't her father, but then she put her arms around the girl, and they hugged.

"Morgana, you're like a sister to me, I wouldn't want anything to happen to you" Gwen said into Morgana's hair. The door lock clicked and the door swung open, and Arthur stood, with a box in one hand and flowers in the other. "Morg- Oh, hello! Not interrupting anything, am I?" he said, and Morgana glared. "Yeah. You've just caught Gwen and I in the middle of our secret love affair, when not you, but Merlin walks in" She said sarcastically. Gwen went scarlet, and practically ran out of the room with as much dignity she could muster, while Morgana and Arthur just laughed.

"Has Uther said anything about my imprisonment?" Morgana said hopefully. Arthur shook his head.
"That's why I'm here. He's determined to keep you here until we've found out who's behind all this. But I brought you flowers and some stuff" he said, placing the items down. Morgana picked up the flowers. White Lily's and red Roses. She looked at him.

"You remembered!" Not only were they her favourite flowers, but Morgana and Arthurs nurse used to sing them a song before they went to bed, and they always went around the castle, humming it. When the thunder storms woke Morgana up, Arthur would come, and sing softly

"White grows the Lily,
Red grows the rose,
here lies my Lady,
Look how she grows,
One day she'll leave me,
To cross shadowed sea,
My God protect her, keep her with me"

*The song is from Legend of the seeker, episode Listener, and someone made a poem about it, but I couldn't remember the last line, so I made it up

"Thank you"

Morgana looked into Arthurs blue eyes, and for a moment, there was peace.

Then, smiling, he turned and left without a word, and she grumbled something incoherent as he locked the door behind him.

She opened the box, and saw some fruit and some books. Pulling out an apple, she settled down. It was about some romance where a girl fell in love with a vampire, and although she liked the story, she wouldn't help but feel that perhaps the girl was a little too miserable and the whole 'damsel in distress' thing was way last century. The main character, a vampire, was handsome, sure, but way to overprotective and even stopped her from visiting her best friend by breaking her truc- carriage. She wondered what she would do, and then slowly, a plan formed in her head.

Wriggling over the window sill, she couldn't quite remember as to why she was doing this. Up there, she was safe and cosy, with books, and flowers, and no one trying to kill here, and down there- way, way, down there- was darkness.

But she was a free spirit, not to be locked away in some room, like a lark in a gilded cage. But a cage is a cage, no matter what it looks like.

Grabbing the bed sheets she had knotted together tightly, she took on step down the wall, and another, and another until she was building up a rhythm. Looking up was almost as scary as looking down, because it made her dizzy and the sky looked more closer. She was about two stories down, one more to go when two men below her, the librarian and Gaius, she realised! Were talking. Swinging slightly, she stopped climbing down and just listened.

"Uther believe it is him behind all this" Gaius said, and the librarian paused.
"Yes, but he escaped, didn't he? Why would he come back- and for The Lady Morgana! Rumours say she helped him escape!" the librarien hushed his voice, in case anyone was eavesdropping, which Morgana was and she tried to keep holding on to the rope, but her arms were slowly tiring.

"Yes, but we must consider everything, for the Lady Morgana's protection" Gaius said, kindly.

"True, Gaius, true, but I still believe that Alvarr is the one trying to kill Morgana" and the two men walked away, leaving Morgana to drop to the floor, speechless. Alvarr, kill her? Never! Alvarr had certainly felt something for Morgana, he kissed her! Her heart fluttered.

If Alvarr was here, it was to protect her, surely?

Pulling up her hood, she headed to Gwen's house, not noticing the figure in the darkness behind her.