Merlin noticed two things when he woke up. For one, it was dark outside so he had been asleep for hours. Secondly, Arthur wasn't there next to him, he was in another room talking quickly, and violently on the phone.

Merlin groaned and sat up, slowly walking into the next room where he found Arthur furiously yelling on the phone.
"I don't give a damn what my father says! Do you understand me?" Arthur bellowed. "And I could care even less about your father, or you!" Merlin flinched a bit as Arthur's voice escalated. The person on the other line, a female, was yelling at him angrily. Merlin couldn't help thinking that he was the center of the argument.
"So Morgana did tell you?" He heard Arthur ask, with a calm yet demanding voice.
Merlin stood in the doorway, looking paler than usual. Arthur seemed to notice this. I'm sorry! He mouthed to Merlin, as he listed to the woman on the phone talking.
"I, do not love you." He stated. "In fact Sarah, I hate you. I hate Uther, I hate his bloody wife and I hate Morgana."
He ended the call instantly and faced Merlin. "I'm so sorry...did I wake you?"
"No." Merlin said. "Arthur...is this my fault? Did Morgana...tell somebody about us? If that's the case then we shouldn't_"

"Don't you say that!" Arthur rushed over to Merlin and was in front of him in an instant. "Don't you dare say that!" He grabbed the brunette's shoulders in a tight, firm grip. "They don't know us, okay!?"
Merlin could tell that Arthur was furious and he'd never seen him that way.
"Sorry…" Arthur released his grip. "It's just that something like this happened a while back. I still haven't been able to let it go."
"Did it have to deal with the boy in the picture?" Merlin asked. "The redhead?"
Arthur leaned on the wall and nodded. "It had everything to do with him. I'll tell you a bit of his story. His name was Peter, we went out for a while…my family basically lied to him…and it was in public, in the media. Well, he didn't believe a word I said, and he felt betrayed and heartbroken. He ended taking his own life and jumping off of an overpass. He survived the jump but died in a hospital."
Even though Merlin knew that wasn't the full story, he nodded anyway. "I'm sorry." He managed.
"Don't be, just don't let them influence you." Arthur pushed off of the wall. "Especially Morgana. She'll blink her pretty little eyes and expect some man to fall flat before her feet. Truth is, the bitch is a lying whore. I'll kill her once I get the chance." He wounded dead serious, so Merlin attempted to change the subject.
"It's dark." He said meekly. "I basically blew off work."
"It's fine." Arthur pulled him into a warm embrace. "I'll take you home."
"No." Merlin said, with protest in his voice. "Just drop me by the restaurant…you shouldn't have to take me home. I live in a bad neighborhood."
Rolling his eyes, Arthur planted a kiss on Merlin's lips. "Fine, I'll take you to the restaurant."

Gwen wasn't a therapist or anything, but she didn't have a problem trying to help Morgana. She held Morgana's hand as she cried and basically poured out everything. Every sin she had ever committed, everything she had done wrong. Occasionally Freya and Kara would offer water, or bring napkins but other than that…it was only Gwen and Morgana.
When Gwen heard the door open, she was relieved to see Merlin walking inside with an apologetic look on his face.
"Sorry!" He said, and seconds later, Arthur joined him.
Morgana's eyes opened wide when she saw her brother. Arthur didn't look too happy either. "What is she doing here?" He asked.
"Arthur…" Merlin began. "Calm down."
"No!" Arthur yelled, raising his voice. Luckily only Freya, Karla, Gwen, Merlin, Morgana and Arthur were present.
The two girls, Karla and Freya stuck their heads out of the kitchen when they heart the young Pendragon yell.
"I told you, do not trust her for a second Merlin!" He looked angry and even more furious than before as he quickly walked over to Morgana and stood her up by her hair.
Both Karla and Freya had emerged, but they hid behind Merlin.
"Stop it!" Gwen yelled.
"Oh, if you only knew the things she'd done you'd want to even worse to this worthless, pathetic bitch!"
Again, Morgana began to cry as her brother forced her to her feet. "For once, would you stop crying!?" He asked. "Do you expect your father to come and help you?"
"He's your father too!" Morgana protested.
By this time, Gwen had migrated behind Merlin along with the other two girls. For a while, the four watched having no clue what to do as the siblings argued. Finally, when it looked like Arthur was going to hit Morgana, Merlin manned up and stepped forward.
"Arthur, I know she had done terrible things, but let her go. If she's as bad as you say, then she's not really worth it."
Silence fell between everybody before Arthur released his sister. She stared at Merlin with a hurt expression before turning towards the others.
"You crack whore," Arthur said. "You'll probably kill yourself before I do, so go along now."
"Arthur!" Merlin yelled.
The blond rolled his eyes at Merlin. "Did you not listen to anything I told you?"
"I did but…" Merlin sighed. "She's so pitiful, give her the benefit of the_" "I'll fiver her the benefit of the doubt when she feels everything that Peter felt, when she throws herself off an overpass."
Arthur quickly left the restaurant in a rage, leaving Morgana standing there.
"Sorry!" She squeaked. "I'm so sorry…for everything!"
"Are you hungry?" Merlin asked. "I can fix you something."
Morgana stared wide eyed, but nodded. "That would be great, thank you so much!"
With that, Merlin made his way back into the kitchen and began to cook something small. Minutes later, he came outside and set a plate in front of Morgana. The group watched her as she ate.
"Do you really do crack?" Kara's high pitched voice broke the silence, causing all of them to glare at her.
"I used to…now I'm just on some other stuff." Morgana admitted.
"You should stop." Merlin said. "It's bad for your body."
She sighed and continued to eat the pasta. "This is really good." She smiled a bit.
"Oh thanks!" Merlin said. "Pasta…I like to make it."
And again, there was that awful silence between everyone as they watched Morgana eat. When she was finished, she turned to look at them. "Do you have any job openings here?"
"Uh…" Freya looked nervous. "We do but_"
"This place," She said, looking around at all the old pictures on the wall. "It makes me really happy." She looked at Merlin. "And you seem to make Arthur very happy. I'm truly sorry for what happened to Peter."
"I don't think it's me you need to be apologizing to." Merlin said.
"I know…it's Arthur right? But I've tried and I've tried…Merlin you don't understand! He hates me! He wants me dead. He's tried to kill me before and once, he almost got his way.
Gwen gulped and it came out louder than she wanted it to be. "Care to elaborate."
"Basically…after his previous lover died…he went on a wild rampage. He was insane, and it was scary." She looked pained to remember it. "He came into my room at night with a large blade and he nearly stabbed me to death…"
"Don't continue." Kara begged. "Please…I don't want to have nightmares."
"Okay." Morgana said, looking at Merlin. "Thank you."
"No problem…I hope everything goes well." Merlin helped her up. "And regardless of what your brother says…I like you."
She gave him a heartwarming smile before vanishing into the night air.
All the girls then looked at Merlin, and then smiled. "So…" Gwen asked. "Did you two, you know…?"
"No!" Merlin blushed. "We just kissed and fell asleep together! That's it, I promise!"
"At least you had a good time." Gwen said.
"Yeah." Freya held a note pad. "Now, we have Morgana to worry about it seems."

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