Author's Note: I swear, I deserve to be hung, drawn and quartered. And then given a hard punch in the face. And then locked in the stocks and have fruit pelted at me by various townsfolk for three days. I am so sorry for leaving you all stranded on the cliff that was my previous chapter. But I have now returned! And with me I have brought my very last chapter of this story.
This is the chapter we have all been waiting for. The chapter where we find out what has really been going on and what significance this whole story really has. Ooooh, it is all very exciting, isn't it? Well, for me it is, anyway. But, also very sad. If I didn't have a huge line of storylines and plots and half-written stories clogging up my laptop's memory, I would probably be at a loss as to what to do with myself. But this is not the case, so all is good!
Wow, this is a pretty long AU. Sorry about that. I suppose I get a little overexcited when it's an ending chapter. But please, it's only short and it does give a lot of explanation as to what the small links I have been making to the real BBC's Merlin storyline actually mean.
Now then, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, *breathe* please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, *breathe* please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, *breathe* please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE, review? I would appreciate it sooo much if you reviewed for me, even if you say you didn't get it or that it was OK, I DON'T CARE! It would really mean a lot to me that you took the time to read my last story chapter and gave me your feedback. Thank you! x
Chapter Fifty Seven
Returning
Two Years Later
Emrys stepped over a fallen branch and finally came out of the forest. At last, an end to all those trees. He stared out over the scene in front of him and grinned. Camelot. It was just what he remembered and more. Its pearly walls shone in the gleaming sunlight and the battlements stood high and proud above the tiny city through which he used to roam. It was all so familiar, but yet…so different and strange. Maybe it was because he had been away for so long. Or maybe it was because he was looking at the city in a different perspective. He had changed so much since he had last set eyes on the castle like this. This time he wanted good for the kingdom. He wanted good for Camelot. He wanted good for Arthur. This time he had someone with him. Ceira. She was with him every step of the way. He could feel her presence. He could even see her smiling at him as he made his way closer to the city walls. He ran his fingers over the crimson material of the scarf he had wrapped around his neck. He smiled warmly inside. She was definitely with him. This time he had a new intention for Camelot. He came seeking work with the Court Physician, Gaius. He wanted to be there for Arthur if he ever needed help. Right now he would be nothing but a stranger to him, but somehow, in time, Emrys would gain his trust and he would finally be able to thank and pay him back for what he'd done for Ceira. He would never truly know who he was. No one would. Not Arthur, none of the Knights, none of the guards, not Lancelot or Gaius. No one. For this time he had a different identity. This time there was no long, black, hooded cloak concealing his face in shadow. He arrived simply with a backpack with a few provisions, his scarlet scarf of course and a new outlook. This time he arrived as someone else. He was no longer the murderer, sorcerer, Thief or Emrys.
This time he was Merlin.
The End
Author's Note: I was so tempted to put "And he was even more badass than before" or "And that time it was personal" on the end of that last sentence. But I thought it might ruin the whole atmosphere I had tried to build up, so sorry.
Anyway, that's it. Did it surprise you? Can't say I'm shocked if it didn't, the clues weren't exactly subtle. But did you think it was well done? Or plainly obvious? Meh, probably the latter. But please let me know in some juicy reviews! Please? Review?
DON'T GO YET!: Please don't think that this is the last chapter for this Fic! Don't go off this page and never return as I will be uploading the VERY LAST chapter after this one.
I have decided to add a tracklist to this story, probably because music has recently taken up a very large part in my life. It has also definitely influenced me a lot in writing this Fic.
For those of you who don't know, a tracklist is a list of songs that can be listened to while reading a story and may add to any emotional scenes or provide other purposes that would improve the reading experience.
I got this idea off the Morganville Vampires books series so please take a look at them if you want to see a good tracklist in action!
I will give more information on the tracklist itself and some of the songs in the next chapter. I will also be putting in some thank-yous to my most loyal and supportive readers and some farewells to all you lovely people.
Thanks! x
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