AN) I want to deeply apologize when I started writing this I did not take in all the contributing factors the story. It will now be taking place just before the episode "to Kill the King".
Mia woke up early that morning and put on her armor. She trudged down the tavern steps and made her way to the bar. The bartender walked up in-front of her. "What do ya want miss?" He asked her kindly. "Just an egg please." She said sheepishly. He got her and egg and ate it quickly and left. The morning was bright and hot making her eyes squint when she stepped into the light. She walked to an open field that seemed good for training. There were trees, and tall green grass it was perfect so unlike the fields she fought in. Smiling she drew her sword and faces the sun. "It helps if the sun is out of your eyes." a deep voice grunted from behind her. She spun lowering her sword. There a few feet away from her was Leon. "Hello Leon." She greeted him. "Did you hear me? It's easier when you are not facing the sun?" He smiled. "If you get used to all the circumstances for battle then you will be ready for anything."She said. "Well rehearsed." Leon joked. "I say it every time I was training my men, one time I even made them fight waist high in water." She said. "Did it work?" He asked. She shrugged like it didn't matter to her if it helped or not. "Do you want help training to fight Arthur?"He asked. "Uh sure I need to take it a little easy though." She said softly a hand falling on her injured hip. Leon nodded and drew his sword and put on his helmet. She smiled a smile similar to Merlin's smirk. She took her hair in a handful and stuffed it in her helmet before putting it on. They stood face to face and battled. At one point Sir Leon disarmed her so she kicked him in the groin. He dubbed over in pain. Then she gave him a hard knee to the head. He fell over eyes tightly shut. "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry Leon I forgot I wasn't I war. Here let me take you to Gaius." She said grabbing his arm and swung it over her shoulders. She half guided him half dragged him to Gaius' chambers. She landed a heavy pound to Gaius' door. The old physician opened it with an astonished look on his face. "Bring him in." Gaius said opening the door wider. She lead the wounded knight to the surgical table. "What happened?" He asked as he looked over the knight. "He was helping me train. I forgot I wasn't fighting in a war for a minute." She whispered. "It's okay Mia you didn't mean to." she hear him grumble. "Here drink this." Gaius said to Leon holding out a vile. Leon put the vile to his lips and took a sip a second later he spat it back out. "That's ghastly." he said. "Drink it or you won't get better." Leon made a face before putting the vile to his lips. He closed his eyes and downed it. Mia suppressed a giggle from the look on his face. "Come now Leon it couldn't have been that bad." She mocked. Instead of him laughing she was staring intently at her left hip. "Mia you're bleeding." He nodded to her hip. She looked down and through her chain-mail a crimson liquid seeped through. "Gaius I think I ripped the stitches." She called the old physician from his shelves. He walked over and saw the blood. "You always were a hard child." he grumbled as he turned to get supplies to restitch her. "Take your shirt off." Gaius instructed. She heaved the heavy breast plate off then slipped her shirt off catching a gimps of Leon who faced the wall suddenly. Her chest was tightly wrapped in some strips of linen. It was to keep them out of her way, although in some battles she wished he had them to distract the enemy. She tilted her head up as Gaius stitched her up, she had no desire to see her own blood. She could feel the string pull her skin in an uncomfortable way. After the stitches Gaius took some alcohol and dabbed the wound in case of infection. "Mia try to take it easy, you want this wound to heal." he said just as a servant ran in. "Sorry sir but the prince says that he will fight the girl in an hour's time." he said out of breath. Mia smiled, "You might have to deal with stitching me up again Gaius."