Hello again.
Thank you a lot for your reviews, Maya, Someone from Ireland and SeverusHermioneForever. =)
Oh, and I loved have seen Uther again! Very funny and he was so handsome dressed in that way! ;)
I hope you enjoy this one (the biggest ever! lol).
Previously...
Morgana started breathing quick and shortly the way Hunith taught her, the king always holding her hand and encouraging his lady. And soon breathing just like her.
"Good, very good!" Hunith approved it. "See? You have nothing to fear, Morgana." She tranquilized her. "Soon you'll have little Vivienne safe and healthy, sleeping peacefully in your arms." Hunith smiled as she saw the lady's eyes shining.
"Thank you, Hunith." Morgana said. "All of you." She felt a tear coming with her messy emotions. "I wouldn't do it without you."
Uther smiled and kissed his wife softly.
Chapter 27
Everyone in Camelot spent that cold day working hard to prepare the festivities of winter solstice, which that year would be much greater than usual, as people were getting ready to receive a new member in the royal family. So it was easy for Morgause to escape from Camelot. Her sister and the king hadn't left their chambers. Arthur and Merlin were goddess knows where... And the blonde lady was packing some of the good food which was being cooked and some extra blankets. Oh, she couldn't wait to see Agravaine's eyes shining as soon as she enters his hovel as they usually do!
Morgause sneaked to the stalls, carrying her big bag, her body wrapped in her old brown cloak, so not only she was warm, but she could be easily mistaken by a servant.
"It's futile, Merlin!" Arthur said tediously waving his hands while walking to the window. "We'll never break the ruby."
"Don't be so feisty..." Merlin started saying while walking to his friend, but both of them forgot about the topic when they saw someone leaving the castle.
"Weird. I didn't ask any of the servants to leave today." Arthur said. "It's too cold."
"Well, maybe someone's going to hunt? You know, for tomorrow's festivities..."
"No, we already have meat, it's probably being prepared for now."
"Maybe it's George, going to clean the stalls?" Merlin suggested.
"Are you blind, Merlin?" Arthur said a bit angry. "It's clearly a woman! Moreover, George finished it hours ago!"
So it made sense! They looked at each other in realization.
"Morgause!" Arthur said. "I'll tell my father!"
"No!" Merlin held his sleeve. "Morgana may need him! We'll follow her!"
"He's the king! He was clear when he said he wanted to be the one to follow her!" Arthur said stubborn.
"And since when do we agree with that insanity?" Merlin said boldly. "Come on! Morgana will need your father and we may need strength and magic. Just the two of us can do it!
As soon as she arrived in the woods, Morgause loosened her hair, never noticing the men silently following the marks her horse left in the soft snow. Soon she would tell Agravaine how everything went so wrong! He would make her feel better and he would have another idea for sure!
Merlin and Arthur stopped and dismounted their horses, hiding the animals out of the road. Morgause have done the same as soon as she arrived in a weird hovel. The men silently sneaked to the front of the hovel, lying behind a big tree trunk, so they could watch Morgause while being unnoticeable to the lady. Merlin smirked when the lady arranged her clothes and her hair before knocking. Arthur's eyes widened as the door was opened and soon his uncle popped out, embracing Morgause and kissing her lips furiously.
"What a traitor!" Arthur said furiously to himself and tried to get up, but Merlin held him in place.
"Shut up, don't be a prat or we'll get caught!" He murmured to his friend.
Nor Morgause nor Agravaine have notice the movements behind the trunk, since the couple was still kissing and caressing each other. Soon Agravaine pulled away, looking at Morgause's eyes.
"Let's enter. It's too cold here." He said, making the lady enter.
The door was closed. It took Arthur some moments to realize his uncle had never been the nice man he always thought. Even if Merlin, his father and even Morgana and Gwen tried to tell him that, it was very different seeing it with his own eyes. The man had lied to him before, saying Morgana had kissed him willingly all those months ago, but... well, again, see it with his own eyes was completely different! He felt so furious, so...
"So?" Merlin brought him back to reality. "Are we going to be lying here in the snow for much longer? Because I don't know about you, but I'm freezing!"
"Shut up, Merlin!"
"I'm serious!" He insisted, but still sounding boyish. "Let's enter and find out some piece of information, otherwise we have nothing else to do here, since we can't just go there and kill them both."
"Why not?" Arthur was still furious, his hand on his sword. "My uncle is a traitor!"
"Well, yes. But remember he's under a spell."
"Then I'll kill that sorceress!" The prince got up.
"No, you won't." Merlin said firmly.
"Why not?"
"Because we don't have proves."
"We have the ruby." Arthur remembered.
"A love spell?" Merlin looked in disbelief. "Come on!"
Merlin pointed his hands to his own body, murmuring a spell in the language of the old religion. And so Merlin was gone!
"Merlin?" Arthur said. "Where have you gone?" He looked around, seeing no sign of his friend. "Merlin? Come on, don't be a girl, show yourself!" He was starting to sound worried when a big snowball hit his head. "Ugh!" He listened to Merlin's laugh. "Merlin, you turned yourself into a poltergeist!" The prince said, trying to wipe the snow from his head. "Too old for this little game, aren't you?" He sounded a bit angry.
"Stop moving!" Merlin's invisible hand grabbed his arm. "Now prepare yourself..." So he said the spell again and Arthur was invisible too.
"Oh!" Such a weird sensation when you look at your body and see nothing! "So that's how you always used to know about everything that happened in the castle." He said to his friend.
Merlin quickly avoided a big snowball which came to his direction.
"Haha, missed!" He provoked the prince. "Maybe a good prince, but a terrible poltergeist..." He heard Arthur murmuring a curse. "Come on, we may be missing precious pieces of information! Stay with me!"
"Where are you, Merlin?" Arthur asked in a tedious voice and soon felt Merlin's hand clumsily grabbing him. "Hey, hey! That was not my hand!"
"Come on, don't be a prat!" Merlin grabbed his hand and they went to the hovel. "And remember, they can't see us, but they can hear and touch the both of us perfectly well! Then try not to do anything stupid!" Merlin smirked. He always wanted to say that to Arthur.
"Said the man who uses to play with children he's a magical knight..." Arthur teased.
Meanwhile inside the hovel, as the couple entered Agravaine helped Morgause to take out her cloak and put it over a chair near the fire, so it would dry. Meanwhile the lady went to the table and unpacked what she brought with her.
"Look, Agravaine! I've brought you some of the nice food they're preparing for the winter solstice!" Agravaine looked hungrily as the gorgeous lady put on the table some biscuits, bread, cheese, butter, cake, jam, even a big piece of ham! How did she manage to take all that?
"This is a banquet!" The man said amazed looking at the food. Morgause smiled, wondering if he had ever realized it when he used to live in a comfortable castle.
"And here we have an extra blanket for the cold nights... and the bar of soap you've asked me last time we meet."
"Thank you!" He said sincerely. "You take care of me so well..." He went to her, wrapping his arms around her waist. "I missed you so much!"
"So did I." She whispered, allowing him to kiss her sweetly. She sighed remembering Agravaine was the first one, the only one who had ever kissed her in that gentle way. All the others were just eager for her body.
"Bed?" He whispered against her lips.
"Not yet."
That was when the door stormed opened, probably by the winter wind, concluded the couple. Merlin and Arthur quickly entered the hovel while Agravaine went to close it again.
"Unusual." The man commented and went back to Morgause, hugging her tenderly.
Arthur looked around, very surprised to see where his uncle lived. So he noticed Camelot's food over the table... and one of the biscuits floating in the air and suddenly disappearing.
Before Arthur could stop himself, he slapped on Merlin's nape.
"Ouch!"
"What was that?" Morgause asked walking suspicious to the table. "I heard something!"
"That what?" He looked around. "There's nothing here, Morgause..." Agravaine touched her shoulders. "Maybe it was the fire... you know, crackling..."
"Well, maybe." She turned away to face Agravaine.
"You need to relax!" Agravaine kept massaging her shoulders and quick kissed her. "Always so stressed... you know this isn't good for you."
"Hold me, Agravaine!" She required and the man promptly did as he was told, caressing her fair hair while Morgause had her head lying on his shoulder.
Arthur couldn't believe his eyes! Of course he had noticed many years ago, when he was still a boy, his uncle had a... well, a weakness for gorgeous women. But it had never been like that! He was a puppy on Morgause's hands! Thanks to that damn ruby!
"I could always make you relax a bit, you know that..." He breathed on her ear and soon his mouth was kissing and nipping on the sensitive spots of her neck the way he knew she likes.
"Oh!" She gasped. "Agravaine!" He had magical hands! And those skilled hands were now pulling her skirts up and caressing the inner part of her thigh. "Not yet... not yet!" She pulled him away and smirked. "My daring boy!" She slapped softly on his cheek, making his eyes get even darker.
"God!" Arthur murmured to himself.
"Let's talk first of all... I have important things to tell you." She told him.
"Oh, news from Camelot? How is my nephew?" He walked to the bed casually and took his shirt off before sitting. Just to tease his lady.
"Arthur is fine." She told him looking hungrily at his muscled chest. "Sometimes I think he's the only one with good sense in the court!" She smiled sitting at the bed with him and biting his neck provokingly.
Her answer made Arthur feel weird. His uncle cares about him, it seems. And he was there, treating the man like a traitor when he was under Morgause's spell. Oh, by the way, Morgause's comment made him feel bad. The only one with sense, had she said? What was wrong with him then?
"However I fear Uther and Merlin may be a danger to his good sense." She remembered how the prince helped Merlin to get the ruby back. "Oh, and my little nephew will be born at any moment." She told him, trying to avoid the main topic.
"So you'll like to be with your sister, probably." Agravaine concluded, caressing her cheek and passing one of his thick fingers over her lips, which Morgause sucked softly, smiling at his shock.
"Oh, she has a lot of people to help her." Morgause made herself more comfortable on the bed. "I have to be present in tomorrow's night feast, but for a while I'd like much more to stay here with you."
He smiled amazed and lied more comfortably too, one of his hands lazily reaching for her body.
"Oh, there is a bad new too." Morgause took a breath. She felt so ashamed to say it! But she would have to, right? "Our plan..." She whispered.
"Yes! Have you seduced the king?" He approached her. "I bet he couldn't resist you, uh?" He was over her now.
"Well... he could. He resisted bravely, Agravaine." She said never looking at him in shame. Merlin held his laugh. Arthur was too shocked to have any kind of reaction.
"How..."
"I feel so bad, Agravaine!" She confessed a bit desperate.
"Don't be. We'll think about something else." He didn't bother to hide his relief.
"I... No man had ever said no to me before!" She told him, still feeling hurt. "Never in that terrible way, at least."
"My gorgeous Morgause... Don't feel bad. He doesn't know to appreciate true beauty." He was furious at Uther for making Morgause feel like that... but he was also relieved. Agravaine still doesn't like her so near of the king.
"I... I did my best and... he had barely looked at me!" Morgause continued, sounding frustrated.
Arthur was too shocked! Not only to see his uncle and Morgause in that situation and to realize how the man was under her power... He was completely furious at Morgause! How dares her to do that to his father, to her king? That was treason! And why on earth would she want to seduce his father when she was so clearly in love with his uncle? And, for God, why would she tell Agravaine about that? And why Agravaine reacted so calmly?
"I understand you feel terrible. But you're a gorgeous woman, Morgause. Very hot, very beautiful and a very agreeable company." Agravaine kissed her in a really seductive way. "He's an idiot for not wanting you." He kissed her again in the same way. She stood quiet for some moments, allowing her lover to comfort her with his kisses. She needed that.
"There's one more thing..." Morgause said breathless. "Uther said I must leave Camelot as soon as the winter in over."
"Oh, the bastard!" Agravaine said furious.
"I spoilt everything..." She said sounding like a little girl who had broken a window and was afraid of being punished.
"Shh..." He kissed her sweetly. "We'll find another way." He sighed, still on top of the lady. "Can you see the good side?" He smiled. "You may live here with me!"
Arthur wondered how living there could be the good side of the situation... However, Morgause giggled like a young girl.
"And would you receive me in your castle, King Agravaine?" She said seductively, flipping them and straddling him.
"Oh!" He gasped. "You naughty girl!" He smiled. "I'd love that!"
"Good." She said very self confidently, unlacing her dress. Merlin cursed herself for looking mesmerized at the lady as her full breasts poured from her loosened dress and Agravaine's hands grabbed them carelessly. "Oh!"
She moaned and waved her hips against his erection, her hands going to his trousers and freeing it. Agravaine was amazed! She was so perfect! So bold and hot! Uther Pendragon was an idiot!
"Come on, Morgause..." He begged with a strangled voice as she was positioned, allowing just the tip of his erection to enter.
"Oh, not yet... patience is a virtue, Lord Agravaine!" She smirked.
Agravaine removed completely her clothes, teasing Morgause in the process as he moved his hips. The lady caressed her breasts with one of her hands and her most sensitive spot with the other, moaning teasingly with her eyes closed and making each men present there amazed.
"You naughty girl!" He slapped hard on her bottom making the lady give a little scream.
"Agravaine!" She was a bit shocked. "Here we go!" She smirked and made him enter carelessly, just letting her body go down, both groaning in the process. "So big and thick, so hard..." She gasped.
"God!" Arthur murmured as Morgause started to ride Agravaine roughly, both of them groaning. They had to go out of there, but where would Merlin be?
When Morgause leaned in, allowing Agravaine to suck on her nipples while the man moved inside her almost brutally, Arthur turned away, too shocked to look. He couldn't stop hearing their groans, however, what annoyed the prince. So he saw, once again, a biscuit floating and soon disappearing. He grabbed his shirt and practically dragged the poor boy to the door. Arthur looked to the couple having rough sex in the bed and, never hesitating, opened the door. They didn't notice it, Merlin observed mesmerized. He gasped when Arthur forced him to leave, slamming the door hard behind them, so they'd be mistaken with the wind.
"God!" Arthur exclaimed once again, walking to his horse.
Merlin made himself visible again and rushed to his horse, following Arthur's, which was apparently going by itself.
"Wait for me, Arthur!"
"Terrible, terrible, terrible!" Arthur said stopping, so Merlin made the prince visible again.
"Calm down..."
"To be calm?" Arthur couldn't believe. "I saw my uncle having sex with Morgana's sister!" He said all shocked. "Can you understand that, Merlin?" They continued their way to Camelot.
"Oh, well... I was enjoying the show!" Merlin smirked. "By the way, she hadn't been like that with me." He pointed thoughtfully. "So wild! I liked it."
"Stop talking about that!" Arthur said annoyed.
"You're the one who started it." Merlin said stubbornly. "I was just saying I'd like to try something like that... oh, with a nice girl, of course!" Merlin continued. "What?" He asked all innocent when Arthur looked in disbelief to him. "You have Gwen..."
"Watch your words, Merlin!" The prince was furious.
"Wow, I didn't mean to offend, I was just talking about my own wishes." Merlin said as disturbed as Arthur. "Don't you think I miss having a woman? Not only sex, but someone who really loves me and cares about me?" He said. "No, I'm just Merlin, the stupid boy trying to survive his own magic!"
"Oh, come on, don't be a girl!" Arthur teased.
They rode in silence, side by side, for many minutes.
"I'm so sorry, Merlin. You aren't a stupid boy." Arthur said after some moments, his voice much calmer. "Well, maybe a bit clumsy, but not stupid." He teased and continued with a serious voice. "I'm sure in the right moment you'll meet a very special woman."
Merlin nodded.
"I'm sorry too. I think what we saw have... uh... taken me by surprise."
Arthur nodded and they rode quietly for some more moments.
"At least we had some more information." Merlin said. "We confirmed our first suspicion. Morgause seduced me and tried to seduce your father for a reason. She and Agravaine are still seeing each other and her spell is... wow!" He smirked. "Well, and as soon as she lives Camelot we know where she's going to."
"The point is, Merlin, what are we going to do with that information?" Arthur sighed. "As you mentioned, we have no proves. And we can't use what we have just seen while we were... uh... poltergeists!"
"Oh... well..." He sighed.
"Moreover, as soon as Morgause leaves Camelot we will have no more control over their plans." Arthur pointed.
"You're right." Merlin noticed.
"In one hand, we have proves enough of their treason. Even if my uncle is under Morgause's spell." The prince wondered while they rode. "On the other hand, my father keeps saying Morgana would be too disappointed." He wondered. "Oh, come on, we can't kill Morgause! Or my uncle!"
"As you've just said, they're traitors." Merlin pointed.
"They're part of our family. People see us like a big family and, especially during these times of changes, a murdering in the royal family wouldn't be appreciated. It would give the chance to many other conflicts to rise." Arthur said. "Politics sometimes is a really disappointing thing."
"Yes." Merlin saw Camelot. "Maybe we should play their game, then."
"What do you mean, Merlin?" Arthur looked curiously.
"Well, we wait for them to attack... and when they do, they'll be taken by surprise!"
"Well... I don't know, it may be dangerous, Merlin." Arthur considered it.
"Dangerous for them!" Merlin smiled. "We have a castle, we have the people at our side, we have knights and a lot of people with magic willing to help and protect their kingdom." Arthur looked surprised at his friend. "Oh, and we have a dragon!" Merlin smiled.
Merlin got up very excited in the following day. He has slept on the floor, over some blankets, so his mother could stay in his room. Oh, and the physician's chambers had a delicious scent of cinnamon that morning.
"Merlin, you awaked!" Kevin said to him practically jumping over the lad. "It's winter solstice!" He sounded more excited that ever.
"I know, I'm so happy! It'll be such a special day!" Merlin sounded as excited as the little boy. His mother smiled at his son comment. Sometimes he was the same Merlin who used to play around her many years ago. Her little boy! "Winter solstice having my mother here after so long... and we finally are going to know little Vivienne!" He smirked as Kevin blushed.
"Get ready, son." Hunith said. "I'm preparing a special breakfast for today."
"Oh... Where is Gaius? And Mr. Johnson?"
"Mr. Johnson went to deliver some potions to the patients in the village. And Gaius went to take a look at Morgana." She said mixing a big cauldron.
"Oh, have she..."
"Not yet." Hunith smiled.
"Just a little visit." Kevin informed him.
"Oh, you shouldn't have let me sleep for so long..." Merlin said a bit guilty.
"Foolish." The woman said goodly. "Everybody deserves a morning off sometimes, even the official warlock. And especially during the winter solstice."
The day passed tranquilly in the castle. The servants were arranging the last details to the feast. Merlin went to see how Morgana was doing and found the lady and Uther making plans for their little princess. Oh, and he laughed so hard when he saw Arthur bringing Gwen to under a mistletoe and kissing her desperately. The rest of the afternoon Merlin spent playing in a snowball war with Kevin and some children in the courtyard, what made Arthur smile when he saw it by the window.
"Are you ready, Morgana?" Uther asked for the hundredth time that evening while his wife was sat at her dressing table having Sarah, her maid, arranging delicately her hair.
"Almost, love." She answered amused, smiling at Sarah. She knew they were late for the winter solstice feast, but... well, a lady needs her time!
Uther was a bit worried. They were the king and the queen, they were expected to be in the great hall welcoming the guests many minutes ago! Oh... he smiled looking at Morgana. She was gorgeous! Well, the guests could wait a bit more, right? Moreover, Arthur was there.
"Now I'm ready." She walked to him.
"You're stunning!" He said amazed, all his worries already gone. He got up and kissed her hand gently.
The king smiled at Morgana's bright eyes and blushed cheeks.
"May we go now, my dear? Otherwise I fear Arthur and Merlin will eat all the roasted meat!" He joked, offering her his arm, which the lady delicately took.
They left and walked to the great hall. The castle was almost desert, since everybody seemed to be in the feast.
"Oh!" Morgana suddenly stopped walking and embraced her belly.
"Morgana!" Uther was pale. "Is it now?"
"Oh! I... I'm not sure..." She had a painful face.
"Maybe we should call Gaius!"
"No!" She sighed. "See? I'm better already!" She forced a smile.
Uther looked at her suspicious.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes!" She said.
"Well, I'll be observing you. And I want you to know I'm going to take you directly to Gaius if something like that happens again, even you saying you're fine!"
"So careful!" She kissed him and they soon continued their walk.
Uther would never tell her... but he was very scared! He had lost his first wife when she gave birth to Arthur. And he would never forgive himself if he loses Morgana. No, Gaius and Merlin had assured both Morgana and the baby were healthy, right? Well, even so, he would never take the risk.
"King Uther and Queen Morgana!" The guard announced them as they entered the great hall, everybody bowing.
Morgana smiled and looked around. Every little detail was just so perfect!
"Why are they looking like that at us, Uther?" Morgana wondered, suddenly noticing people were looking at them with smiles, in expectation.
"I have no idea." He said in a low voice, just to Morgana listen. "My speech will be made at the table, during the dinner."
"Father, Morgana..." Arthur came to them with a mischievous smirk. "I think the guests would like to see a beautiful kiss..." He pointed up. Mistletoe.
"Oh!" Uther smirked. "I love you, Morgana." He said looking deeply inside her eyes.
She didn't know to explain why, but when Uther's hand carefully came to her nape and the other one to her waist, bringing her closer, she felt her heart skip a beat and her cheek getting warm. And, considering Uther's gaze, she must have blushed! But in the next moment, as his lips touched hers, Morgana's head was blank, her arms wrapping around Uther's neck at their own will. She smiled and sighed when she felt his warm tongue begging for passage. Their tongues danced harmoniously, it was always so perfect! So Uther bit softly her lower lip, causing Morgana to moan. Then he kissed her lips softly and pulled away, just to notice people were clapping and greeting.
So the feast started! People had a lot of fun. Couples were dancing... children running playfully around... knights drinking wine and laughing and celebrating... ladies looking at the handsome knights and talking to each other.
The dinner was fantastic! Many varieties of roasted meat, baked potatoes, vegetables, bread... So, when everybody seemed to be satisfied, the king got up.
"My friends!" Uther promptly got everyone's attention. "I must say I'm very happy tonight! Winter solstice is a time for celebrating hope. The sun and the light slowly returning, bit by bit... I wish you all a lovely night, with a lot of fun and good moments!"
People clapped and greeted. He didn't noticed Morgana's painful face. It was happening again! Goddess! Was it her child? Would she be fine? Morgana looked around and saw Merlin and Gaius talking to Hunith and Mr. Johnson. Goddess! Oh, again! She hugged her belly, curving her body, still sat on her chair... and so the pain was gone. She took a breath.
"Would you dance with me, my lady?" Uther offered her his hand gallantly.
Morgana took his hand with a sweet smile and they went to dance. There were already some more couples dancing.
"Oh, Uther, very slowly, please..." She asked.
"Are you fine?" He asked. "Would you prefer to take a seat?"
"No, I'm fine, just a bit heavy..." He smiled at that. He knew how much she enjoys dancing with him.
The king and the queen were dancing in a very slowly pace when Morgana felt that pain once again.
"Oh, goddess!" She suddenly hugged her belly, curving her body. A liquid started pouring around her.
The music stopped, everybody looking in shock at the queen.
"Morgana!" He sounded desperate and held her, preventing the lady to fall over her knees. "Oh, my dear!"
Yes, it seems little Vivienne is coming! =)
So, what do you think? I had so much fun writing that part about Merlin and Arthur in Agravaine's hovel! Poor Arthur!
Someone sent me a message asking me why they will celebrate winter solstice instead of Christmas and I thought it'd be interesting tell it here. Well, I didn't want to make Camelot a Christian reign because in some versions of the legend, it started to be a Christian land during Arthur's late reign. How the show just talks about the "old religion" and never about their "current religion", I borrowed that from the legends. However there is an episode in series 4 (I guess) when they celebrate Samhain, another pagan feast with a beautiful meaning. Well, that's it, I do respect Christians and other religions, but I like winter solstice and that's how I've chosen writing this story! =)
I hope you have a nice weekend with a lot of fun!