A/N: Haha is this updated quickly enough for you Allthingsmagical? Lol. Again I'd like to thank everyone for reading my first Merlin fic. ;) And I will deliberate on how to write an original take on Aladdin for the merthur fandom. Without further ado~
Merlin was sleeping in his small room, it never was very big. And it didn't have much in there. A bed against the back wall, a crate to the right of the door, a tattered wardrobe that seemed to never have clothing in it to the left, and a crate in front of the window. Well thanks to Merlin all these things, including his clothing and Arthur's armor, were flying about the room. You heard me flying. Merlin's magic was going crazy and Merlin was muttering nonsense in his sleep. Incantations he'd never learned started to come from him making everything drop to the ground with a loud 'thunk' . The sleeping physician,who had just recently made it back from curing Hunith, was startled awake and ran into the room to investigate the source of the noise only to find a hooded figure standing above his ward.
"Who the hell are you! What are you doing to Merlin?"
The person in front of him was tall and wearing a purple cloak, which means it was most likely a woman, and was dripping liquid into the boys mouth. When they heard Gaius they muttered under there breath and seemed to disintegrate into the air with a rush of wind much like that old sorceress from Merlin's first day in Camelot.
Gaius feared for Merlin, whatever that sorcerer was doing it was no good, he rushed over to the unconscious man and started looking him up and down making sure that nothing bad was happening to him, on the off chance it was poison there would be signs of it on his arms or legs, a rash, something!
Quickly giving up on that train of thought he started shaking the warlock saying Merlin. Getting more and more worried over time. "Somethings not right, what did she do to you Merlin?"
He was laying there again, the place seemed so familiar... almost like he'd been there before. It was dark so dark. He stood up wondering how he was doing that when there was nothing to stand on. Merlin glanced around trying to figure out why this place seemed so familiar to him. He drew a blank deciding the only way out of..wherever he was, was to walk.
He headed straight for what seemed like ages it was like he was going nowhere! Merlin groaned his disapproval and sat down. He was starting to get pissed, where the hell was he? Was this some kind of sick joke! He thought back to what he last remembered 'hmm there was Arthur, we kissed.' That made a blush form on his face. 'Came back to find that note from Gaius, he should be home soon seeing as he left a couple days ago.. How did I not notice that note 'till yesterday? Even the servants knew he was gone! Guess that means I need to start paying more attention to him... Then I went to bed.' He thought about it awhile longer and couldn't remember waking up. 'So this must all just be a dream!' That thought relieved him slightly.
He sat there for ages thinking about just going to sleep here when a voice broke through. "Merlin!" Merlin glanced up to find Arthur standing in front of him.
"Arthur! Oh thank GOD! What are you doing here?" Arthur glared at him menacingly. "Did I say you could speak!" He roughly kicked Merlin in the side leaving Merlin winded and confused.
"Ar-Arthur..what the hell?" The lanky man wheezed slightly clutching his side.
"It is not your right to question me Merlin. Now get your lazy arse up!" The prince growled.
Merlin couldn't understand what was happening, one minute he's in a void, the next minute he's in Arthur's chambers. The warlock blinked and thought he'd just imagined the void and stood up quickly.
"What's going on? Why are you acting so cold? Yesterday you didn-"
The prince sent another death glare at him clearly saying 'shut up'
"Didn't what? You thought that I like you? YOU a servant! As if, I LIED. I'd rather kill myslef than be near you let alone in love with you. I just thought you would be fun. A quick fuck." Arthur smirked evilly.
Merlin's heart started throbbing painfully, tears were flooding down his face. 'What? NO this can't be Arthur..it can't. Can it?'
"No.." Merlin started shaking his head. "No your not Arthur. Arthur would never say that!"
The prince walked up to him slowly, like a predator playing with his prey, and grabbed the front of Merlin's shirt. "Oh yes he would. After all. Your a nobody. No one could ever love you! Your pathetic!Worthless. A waste. of. Life." He emphasized his point by picking him up and throwing him into the servant chambers attached to his room and locking it. But he left the little slot open so Merlin had a view of what he was doing. "You can bloody rot in there for all eternity for all I care! It's MY turn to play. I'm going to ruin your life." The fake Arthur looked pained and his form started shifting until he was identical to the real Merlin.
"While your all locked up in here, safe and sound, I'm gonna take control." The fake Merlin said smiling with hatred. Then as soon as he'd appeared he was gone without a trace.
Merlin looked around the cramped place. There was a bed. That's it. His only view was from the little slot in the door. Merlin started bawling from where he sat, bringing his legs to his chest and hugging his arms around him. 'He's right. I'm worthless. Why would a prince ever accept my affections? He could have anyone in Camelot! Who am I fooling... He probably didn't even want to be my friend! He constantly degrades me, rarely thanks me, and treats me like a pack mule! That's not a friend... That Arthur was right. I'm all alone, and always will be.' A small voice in the back of his head started naming off the people he cared about but he quickly ignored it. If those people were so great where were they when he got locked up? Nowhere that's where. Soon enough they won't even know I'm gone.
With that depressing thought in his mind he got up from his spot and laid on the bare bed crying.
Gaius was still fretting over Merlin when the boy finally came too. "MERLIN! Thank god you alright."
Merlin stared blankly up at Gaius and then frowned.
"Merlin someone broke in and enchanted you. Are you alright?"
Merlin sat up in bed looked out the window revealing that it was about half seven. "Yes, I'm fine. Nothing to worry about Gaius. I'll let you know if anything strange happens."
The old man sighed in relief "It's time for you to tend to Arthur."
Merlin smirked slightly. "Of course!"
He shifted out of bed and threw on some clothes casting a quick cleanup spell on the room and picked up Arthur's armor, quickly dashing to get there as soon as possible.
Arthur woke from his sleep to a loud clatter. He glared around only to see Merlin and his armor laying on the ground.
"Merlin. You klutz." The prince yawned and rolled out of bed.
"Sorry Arthur."
The prince headed over to the table to retrieve his breakfast, only there wasn't any. "Merlin, did you forget something again?"
"No."
"MERlin you forgot my breakfast. Nevermind, just run down to the kitchen and grab it will you?"
"Hell no. Why would I do that? In fact the only reason I'm here right now is 'cuz Gaius made me."
That hurt. Was Merlin regretting that kiss yesterday? He hoped not. It might not have been much but in Arthur's mind it was perfect.
"Look Merlin, I'm the prince, your the manservant. Taking orders is your job. I'll not ask you again."
Merlin scowled at the prince and walked up to him, so close that there breath was mingling. "Fuck off." Then Merlin's fist punched Arthur in the face. He may not look it but he has one hell of a right hook! He fell to the ground stunned. Merlin, his sweet Merlin. Punched him! 'What the hell is going on?'
"Merlin I could have you thrown in jail for that!" He may love him, but this was pushing it.
Merlin sneered and grabbed at the necklace around his neck, with a hard tuck it broke and he threw it at the prince. "I want nothing to do with you. I hate you. Always have, 'ya sick bastard."
If his last words hurt then this was torture. "Get out of my sight." The prince ordered.
Merlin happily agreed. Leaving the room with a look over his shoulder.
'What the hell? Is this all because of the kiss? He did that himself! And now he hates me all of the sudden?' Arthur fought back tears at having his heart broke by the man he cared about. "No, that's not Merlin. Somethings wrong. I know him, he'd never treat someone like that." Arthur whispered. Deciding to get to the bottom of Merlin's strange behavior, Arthur tucked the necklace into a cabinet and went to the one person who would have answers. Gaius.
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"Gaius!" Arthur shouted.
"Sire! What can I do for you?" The physician asked, bending down to pick up glass and other things.
"What happened here?" Arthur wondered aloud.
The workshop was usually a mess. But right now every beaker was smashed up, the herbs were in the fireplace, books were flung off the shelves. It was one big nasty mess.
"Well, Merlin did this sire." Gaius admitted worriedly.
Great. First he breaks my heart, now he breaks Gaius's lab. What next?
"He's acting odd today."
Gaius looked at Arthur closely to see a purple bruise forming on his cheek.
"Did he do that?" Gaius asked nervously. "Please don't blame him sire, I fear he's been enchanted."
"What?" Arthur deadpanned.
Gaius stood up and placed the trash he'd gathered into a bucket motioning for Arthur to take a seat, which he did.
"Explain."
"Last night I heard a commotion and went to see what it was. There was a person clad in a purple robe making Merlin drink some kind of potion. When they noticed me they whispered an incantation and disappeared. I tried to check to see if he was alright. He looks fine, his body is normal... But it's like he's a whole different person. He's using our weaknesses against us." Gaius shook his head worriedly.
"Is there a way to break the curse?" There just had to be. To never see Merlin's sweet smile, or hear 'Rise and shine!' every morning was just an unthinkable thought.
"I don't know yet sire. For know we need to detain him. Is there anything in the Pendragon vaults that prevent magic from being cast?"
Arthur raised his eyebrow. Magic? What?
"Yes, but why would Merlin have magic?"
Gaius looked contemplative for a second and said "If he is enchanted we must assume that in this state he might have the use of magic. You've seen what this Merlin can do without it, I'd hate to see what he could destroy with it."
Arthur shuddered at the thought. An evil Merlin running around with magic could probably destroy half the castle before anyone could figure out what was going on.
"I'll get them right away. Thank you Gaius. I'll ask a few of the servants to help you out." Arthur quickly left the messy room heading for the vaults that lay beneath the castle. But before he headed that way he politely asked a couple of servants to help out the old physician, they were more than happy to help.
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Arthur had managed to find a choker that would restrict the ability of magic. All he had to do know was put this on him and then drag him to the dungeons until they could cure him. He found Merlin causing mayhem and quickly tackled him to the ground forcing the choker around his neck. With a lot of effort the necklace locked into place and Merlin lay crumpled in the floor in a lot of pain. "Sorry for whatever he's done. Pass it along that whatever damage he has caused today I will pay for. He's gone and got himself enchanted by an evil sorcerer."
The three woman looked at Merlin sadly and with pity, they forgave him and ran around passing the message on.
Arthur grabbed the enchanted manservant and punched him square between the eyes, effectively knocking him out. "Sorry Merlin, but it's for your own good I'm afraid." He picked the man up bridal style and carried him down to the dungeons, trying to ignore the blushing and gossiping of a few of the servants.
He managed to get Merlin down to the cells without incident and laid him in one of the cells. He took off his cloak and draped it over him so he wouldn't get cold. He may be enchanted but he was still Merlin.
The prince backed out of the cell and called for the guards. Two appeared and were rather shocked to see the prince's manservant locked in the cell. He looked at them noticing that they seemed rather nervous, obviouslly they were new to the positions. "I order you to have someone stand watch over him at all times. Make sure that choker doesn't come off. And make sure he stays in there."
The two looked at each other dumbly then back to Arthur and nodded they're heads. "What happened to him sire?"
Arthur sighed in frustration "He's been enchanted. It is assumed that he will posses magic in this form. If that collar comes off, it could cost you your lives. He's very dangerous right now."
The guards feared for their lives but did as they were told. Watching as their prince left without another word. Then they turned to look at what could possibly kill them. They decided that the man was beatiful but that didn't mean they were willing to die for him. So they resumed they're duties informing other guards of the orders the prince gave.
A/N:Haha sorry guess it wasn't brainwashing after all huh? At first I didn't plan for this bit to be quite so dark but it just seems right. So what did you think? *cough* review *Cough* :D Oh and I got this wierdo message from Cathcer1984 saying not to write any stories for a spammer called HELEN. Sooo pass the message along I guess.~