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Poor Morgause, let's see what happened to the lady.

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Previously...

"You just have to kiss him, sorceress." The dragon told her.

"What?" Morgause was very surprised. "Just that? A kiss?" She smiled. "I can't see why it'd be a sacrifice."

"Try and you'll see..." The dragon smirked.

Morgause sighed and walked to Agravaine. The man looked so cold. He would never change his mind just because of her kiss... she could try how many times she wishes, his opinion would remain the same!

"Agravaine..." Morgause whispered sweetly and caressed his cheek, moaning when their bodies crushed softly, her full breasts pressed against his chest. "I love you so much..."

And, saying that, she touched his lips with hers and started to force her tongue in a hungry way. Agravaine resisted, he would never allow Morgause to play with him like that anymore. And surely not in front of so many people! His hands went to her waist and, when the lady moaned and was about to wrap her arms around his neck, Agravaine grabbed her arms roughly and pulled her away from him. It was so rough that the girl needed to give a step back. And, being so near of the edge of the cliff as Morgause was, her feet didn't touched a safe ground. And the lady fell over the cliff, with a scared scream.

Chapter 43

"Sister!" Morgana held her daughter more firmly. "Oh, goddess!" Two heavy tears fell freely.

"My dear..." Uther was about to hug her, but the queen walked away. Uther knew Morgana certainly feels devastated. She cared so much about Morgause, she had tried to bring her sister back to light... for nothing.

"Agravaine, you stupid thing!" In the next second Morgana was beside the man, slapping him everywhere she could reach, the baby into her arms crying with her magic still popping from the little hands a bit out of control.

But the man was petrified, looking at the cliff and muttering something like "what have I done?"

"Uncle, how could you!" Arthur was so shocked!

"The sacrifice was made. Now you're free from the darkness, thanks to the sorceress." The dragon said calmly to Agravaine and flew away.

"Wait!" Merlin called him all confused, but the dragon was already far away. He had never expected that to happen!

"Morgause..." The man murmured, never bothering about Morgana slapping him, nor about Uther trying to calm down his queen, nor about the confusion of voices around him, nor his nephew saying how disappointed he felt. It was like a dark veil of lies had been removed and Agravaine could finally see his terrible actions of the past. The way he blamed Uther for Ygraine's death, even after he knew the king or Nimueh couldn't have known his sister would die. The way he lived more than 20 years so bitterly, looking for revenge. The way he invented a prophecy in order to kill that poor baby girl just to make Uther and Morgause suffer. Morgause! God! What had he done? He had treated her like she was nothing. He had made her choose between her sister and her niece. And now he had killed the woman he loved in such terrible way! "What have I done!" He finally screamed and ran to the edge of the cliff. For a brief moment, Merlin thought he would jump and join Morgause in death. But he didn't. "Morgause!" He sounded so surprised and relieved!

"Agravaine!" Her voice came and Morgana felt a wave of relief running through her body. "Help me!"

"Sister! She ran to the cliff, dangerously near of the edge, Uther noticed and went to her. "You're alive! Thanks goddess!"

The baby into Morgana's arms stopped crying and pointed to the lady, looking at Morgana with a questioning face. Agravaine sighed in relief when he saw Morgause was really alive.

"I'm so sorry Morgause!" Agravaine screamed and it sounded pathetic even to his ears. "I love you! Now I see how much I need you and how terrible I've been acting." He knelt.

"Please, Agravaine..." Morgause begged him. "Help me out of here, and then we may talk more comfortably!" She said loud. "Oh... maybe do more than talk!" Agravaine smiled sadly at that. She still loves him!

"Sister..." Morgana was still a bit shocked.

"Don't worry, Morgana, I'm a big girl and I'll be fine." She said to her little sister. "Now go there and hug Uther, you look too pale to be so near of this cliff!"

Uther took Morgana and their child into a loving embrace, bringing them to a safer distance from the edge. The king was surprised that the advice had come from Morgause. Meanwhile, Agravaine lied face down near of the edge and tried to reach the lady. But it was futile. There was many inches between their fingers and Agravaine would never reach her.

"My hands are slipping!" Morgause said looking to the stones and the river beneath her and sounding scared.

"No, Morgause!" Agravaine begged her, sounding very guilty and worried. "Hold on, please!" More than that, the man was desperate.

Merlin finally awaked from his shock and approached the edge. He saw Agravaine wouldn't reach Morgause without some help.

"We need magic here!" He said loud and instantly people with magic were near them.

"Merlin, I can move things with my magic, but I've never tried it with a person before." An old man who walked with the help of a stick confessed.

"Let's keep calm!" Merlin said when Morgause cried and Agravaine begged her for forgiveness once again. "Morgause, I'll use my magic to make you float." The lady gasped, clearly scared. "Then Mr. McLean here will try to bring you up and Agravaine will take you." Agravaine looked at them very surprised to be included in the plan and nodded at Merlin. He would do anything to have her back.

"Merlin..." Morgause was unsure.

Kevin, whose hands touched the ground, interrupted the conversation.

"Her left foot seem to be trapped, Merlin." The boy said quickly. "It's bleeding."

"Oh, don't even think about moving my left foot! I can't hold on anymore if you do so!" Morgause was scared.

"But my lady..." Mr. McLean tried to convince her, but Merlin interrupted him.

"Do you trust magic, Morgause?" Merlin asked.

"Yes, of course I do!" She said. "But Merlin..."

"I want you to trust my magic and, when I say, I want you to unleash your hands from the stones." He said firmly. Merlin looked at Mr. McLean and nodded at the man, giving no time to the lady say anything.

"Oh!" Morgana heard her sister's scared gasp and buried her face into Uther's chest, hoping things would be fine.

"Now, Morgause!" Merlin screamed with his hands pointed to her. For a moment, he thought Morgause wouldn't trust him. But, surprisingly, she did. The lady fell freely a couple of feet, with a scared scream that made both Morgana and Agravaine feel the blood getting cold into their veins.

"Oh!" It was a pleased gasp this time, as Morgause softly stopped falling and was now floating on the air. "It feels so nice!" Her voice was much calmer and pleased.

"Merlin, I promise I won't make fun of you never again!" Arthur said very shocked. His friend's gifts always surprise him.

"I'm glad to know." The boy answered. "Now, Mr. McLean, you may bring her up. And you, Agravaine, be ready to take her, her ankle is hurt, you see?"

"I'm always ready to take her!" The man smirked and Uther couldn't help but do the same.

Mr. McLean was clearly making a great effort to bring Morgause up. He was an aged man and was used to practice it with small objects. Morgana noticed it.

"Take her, Uther. I may help them." She gave Vivienne to Uther and the baby instantly smiled at her father and started toying with her father's shirt.

"My dear, it's dangerous! You still didn't develop this kind of gift." The king said worriedly.

"Yes, but I know how to heal and how to give someone extra energy!" She smiled, thanking the fact she has been practicing her magic constantly.

Morgana walked to the men and touched Mr. McLean's back, her eyes shining gold as she murmured a spell.

"Oh!" The man gasped and sighed, feeling stronger than usual.

So he was able to bring Morgause up, inch by inch, until Agravaine reached her and cradled Morgause to his chest, both of them crying and smiling at the same time. The knights, who had been watching the rescue, were now clapping the way magic could be used to help in that situation.

"I'm so sorry, Morgause!" Agravaine whispered and kissed her desperately. "I'm really sorry!"

"Yes, I'm so sorry too. I should never..." She whispered.

"God, I've almost killed you!" Agravaine was scared and Morgause felt so relieved that the man was himself again.

"Let's leave the past in the past." She smiled. "I love you."

"I love you too." He kissed her practically invading the lady's mouth.

"Oh, uncle, get a room you two!" Yes, it had to be Arthur. "I see enough of that coming from Morgana and my father!"

Morgana blushed a bit and Uther kissed her, the baby into her arms touching both their cheeks.

"Oh, my little princess, I was just about to kiss you too!" Uther said before kissing Vivienne's cheek and making the baby laugh.

"Well, maybe we could arrange it later..." Morgause smirked at Arthur's suggestion and at his annoyed face after her comment.

"God!" Arthur rolled his eyes. "As I've said long before, now we're a big family!" Merlin tapped his shoulder.

"Sister." Morgana went to her. As she walked near Merlin, the baby practically jumped to the lad. "Oh, yes, sweet, you can stay with Merlin, but try not to hurt his ears too much..."

Morgause looked confused at her sister, but smirked understanding when the baby just grabbed Merlin's ears and started toying with them.

"Ouch!" Arthur never knew if his friend just pretended to amuse the baby or if Merlin really was such a girl! "My poor ears!" He screamed as Vivienne decided to bite them.

"Sister." Morgana knelt near Morgause and Agravaine, who were still on the floor, the man holding the lady in an almost lustful way. "Let me heal your ankle."

"I have a blue potion in my pocket..." Merlin said with Vivienne still toying with his ears. "If someone could take it..."

Arthur walked to Merlin and took a couple of flasks.

"The blue one!" Merlin told him. "Just pour the liquid on her ankle, Morgana." Merlin instructed. "And then use your magic."

"Well let me see how it is..." Morgana removed her sister's shoe and looked at her ankle.

"Morgana..." Morgause sounded uncertain.

"Oh, don't worry, I use to help Merlin and Gaius with this kind of thing... you know, in order to practice magic. I know what I'm doing." She smiled trying to calm Morgause.

"I don't mean that, I trust you, Morgana." Morgause continued, sounding sincere but still unsure. "I'd like to tell you I'm so sorry." She looked down and Agravaine kissed her nape, she seemed a little girl! "And you too, Uther... Oh, all of you, I'm really sorry! I don't know what I had in mind!" Uther nodded at her.

"Oh sister!" Morgana hugged her. "I knew I would bring you back! I knew love would make you see some sense." She said and Morgause coughed a tear in her eyes. "I knew you are a good person! I'm so glad you're back!"

"Morgana, I did everything for fear of what Uther would do to you... But things went out of my control as I... well, as I fell in love with Agravaine things went out of control and when the spell was over and Agravaine was all dark and furious..." The man kissed her nape again, murmuring how he regretted his actions. Agravaine kissed her nape a bit more and started to suck. "Oh! Agravaine!" He smirked at her reaction and kissed her nape softly, being a good boy... for now! "Uther talked to me and told me what happened between you two when you found out about your magic. I could see he's a nice person and you're lucky for having each other." Morgause said.

"Likewise." Uther said calmly. "I didn't want you to be so close to Morgana." He confessed. "I use to think you would hurt her or Vivienne." He said. "I was wrong. When you kidnapped me I was furious, I must confess. But as we talked and as you faced the consequences of your spell, I could watch how you changed."

"Now let me see your ankle." Morgana poured the liquid over it.

"Oh!" Morgause wasn't expecting it to hurt.

"Don't move." Morgana said, touching her sister's hurt ankle and murmuring a healing spell. The liquid boiled and turned into steam, making the hurt heal.

"Oh!" Morgause felt better instantly after Morgana's eyes were gold. "Sister, you're good at this!" Both women smiled. "Thank you so much!"

Morgana smiled at the compliment and nodded. Meanwhile, Vivienne was looking at the ladies and trying to reach them, finally giving Merlin's poor ears a break.

"Morgana..." Merlin walked to her. "Little Vivienne wants her mother..."

"Oh, sweet!" Morgana took her and Uther couldn't help a sigh. "Have you missed your aunt?" Morgana asked as the baby pointed to Morgause with a smile.

"Here, my lovely girl!" Morgause took the baby and played a bit. Vivienne smiled and grabbed Agravaine's nose, since the man was still holding Morgause.

"Oh!" Agravaine tried to pull her little hands away gently, amusing the baby and Merlin even more. "Oh... I supposed I deserved it." Morgause smirked at that. "Look, I'm so sorry too." He said to the baby, who smiled at him, making the man wonder if Vivienne had really understood all that happened that night. She was too young, just a baby... could she? "I'm so sorry, Morgana, Arthur, Merlin..." The three of them nodded seriously at the man. "Morgause, my love..." He whispered to her. "Would you ever forgive me?" He sounded a bit desperate and Morgause smiled at that. Yes, he was cute!

"I've already forgiven you, Agravaine." She answered sweetly, making her sister smile and the baby into her arms laugh in joy.

"Uther..." Agravaine got up and walked to the king. "I'm so sorry."

"I'm so sorry too, Agravaine." Uther surprised him saying that! "If we had talked like mature men many years ago, when Ygraine passed away, nothing like this would ever have happened, right?"

"I feel the same." The man sighed. "Now I see things the way they are."

"Because you've finally understood love!" Kevin completed cheerfully.

"Kevin!" Merlin reprehended him. "Let them talk!"

"He's right, Merlin. I finally understood love." Agravaine said seriously. "You know, when I was very young I was engaged to a woman I truly loved. Unfortunately, she passed away few days before our wedding." All of them looked very surprised at him. Arthur remembered his uncle had told him about it when he arrived in Camelot. "It took me completely by surprise! I think I've stopped trusting love, and having no love, I stopped trusting life." He took a breath and noticed everyone there was listening to him carefully, even the little boy. And, surprisingly, the baby. "Then, my beloved sister got married and was pregnant and I was happy for her. She was the only family I had and I hoped he would be happy in Camelot."

Morgana felt weird. She felt sorry for the woman, for Arthur, who grew up having no mother, for Agravaine and even for Uther. But a selfish and dark voice inside her mind kept saying that if things hadn't happened like that, she would never have been living her love story with Uther. Vivienne smiled at that, as if knowing her ideas and feelings and hugged her mother. Morgana smiled and kissed the top of the baby's head. Vivienne was clearly tired and yawned when Morgana started softly tapping her back.

"So, when my sister died I felt not only sad, I felt furious!" Agravaine continued his story. "Life had taken from me the only person who still cared about me! And in that time I believed it to be Uther Pendragon's fault!"

"Agravaine... You see..." Uther started calmly.

"I see now you couldn't have done anything to change that." Agravaine calmed him. "But that made me became a bitter person." He continued. "Then I fell in love with Morgause." The lady smiled. "I was surprised someone could love me so sincerely. And when I found out about the spell, all the bitterness was back, much harder than before. I felt hurt, I thought she was using me..."

"I intended to." Morgause confessed so calmly that Arthur and Merlin smirked at each other.

"But you failed as you fell for my uncle's charms, right?" Arthur teased with a smirked, making his uncle grin and Merlin and Kevin laugh.

"Oh..." Surprisingly, Morgause blushed a bit.

"Welcome to the family, sister." Morgause smiled. "Because when Arthur bothers to tease you like that you know you were accepted in the family!"

"I wasn't a nice man, Agravaine." Uther said seriously after some moments. "I committed a lot of mistakes too... the way I used to kill anyone who had magic. My intolerant and tyrant ways..."

"I see true love had changed that..." Agravaine smiled.

"Oh, it did!" Uther embraced Morgana, who walked to him with a sleepy Vivienne into her arms. "You see, maybe we should start everything again. I mean, I can't blame you for what you have done because your soul was deepened in darkness and you weren't yourself. I see Morgause has changed a lot, and she did what she did in order to protect Morgana from me. We both saw none of us intend to put nobody in risk. You finally understood the sad fact about your sister was an accident. I can't see why we couldn't start again and make things different from now."

Morgana smiled, so proud of Uther! Morgause noticed it and smiled at her sister.

"As I said, a big family..." Arthur said as the men shook their hands.

"A new age is coming." Merlin said in his most Emrys way. "An age of great light."

"It sounds nice." Morgause said.

"Maybe... The more light, the more shadows." The warlock said.

Everyone looked at the others a bit uncertain. Sometimes Merlin was so difficult to understand, Arthur thought. Maybe that was the reason why the lad gets along so nicely with the dragon. The prince smiled.

"Well." Morgana broke the silence. "We should go back to Camelot now... Vivienne is so tired, and I bet she isn't the only one."

"Yes, my dear... I missed my family so much... and I missed our bed a lot!" The king said.

"Uther!" Morgana noticed smirks around them.

"You're welcome to join us in Camelot." Uther said to Agravaine and Morgause after some moments.

"Yes..." Arthur added. We have some more topics to discuss tomorrow and I'd like you to help me, uncle."

Agravaine nodded at his nephew, happy for the fact Arthur trusts and cares for him after everything.

"Of course." He said gently. "It'll be an honour, Arthur." He offered his arm to Morgause and the lady took it with a beautiful smile.

"Then let's go." The king embraced Morgana and the finally were in their way back to Camelot.

Here we are! Light always brings shadows... The secret of a balanced life is knowing to deal with both sides at the same time. Let's see what is to happen!

Oh, be warned... next one will be hot. =D

Have a nice weekend!