A/N: So sorry for the wait, and also sorry if bits of this seem Mary Sue. I'm still not sure about this chapter, but I couldn't keep people waiting any longer because I felt guilty... I PLEAD THE FIFTH! AND SCHOOL! School is awkward...

DISCLAIMER: ME NOOOO OWN MERLIN :'(

IMPORTANT: READ THE QUESTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CHAPTER.

I slowly opened my eyes, I appeared to be in a cot of some sort. As I took in my surroundings, I noticed that there were bottles of pretty liquids all around me. I looked around some more, and then realized that Em was over in another cot-like thing. As I sat up, an old (and I mean old) man walked in the room through a wooden door.

"Ah, your awake. We tried to wake your friend, but she was unresponsive..." He glanced at Em worriedly.

"Oh, no problem. Just do this;" I paused for dramatic effect, and then screamed in Em's ear "EMMIEE! BREK TIME!" And she sat up, rubbing her ear. "Jeez Calli, what's wrong with you?"

"Everything..." I answered, grinning.

The old man was staring at us as if worried for our mental health. Suddenly I realized that this did not look to be twenty-first century. "Where are we?" I asked in a fake English accent, as everyone I had encountered had had one so far. The somewhat familiar old guy raised an eyebrow, and that was when I realized.

Gaius.

"You don't know? You're in Camelot, under the reign of king Uther Pendragon. You were found in the woods, by Arthur and some of his knights. Who are you?"

"Uhh... I'm Calli... princess of... Sesquipedalia, and this is... the lady Em." As Gaius looked at me, I realized that wasn't enough information. "My kingdom was quite small, built on a small forest island in the eastern sea, and fortified on all sides. At the back of the castle, there was a mountain, and on the other side of that mountain, was an army of bandits. Their leader begrudged my father for not making him a member of court when his father had been one. My father refused him lordship when it became apparent he would have terrorized the townsfolk and forced them to give him anything he wanted. He gathered an army of dimwitted thugs to attack the kingdom so that he could claim it for his own. When he attacked, my father tried his best to defend himself, and would have succeeded if not for the bandits running down the mountain. They caused a rockslide, and the entire mountain fell upon the kingdom, crushing the island and sinking most of it. Myself and Em survived only because we were trapped in the cellars of the castle (which remained nearly intact) with sir Timothy, who died getting us out. He advised us to head to Camelot before he died, saying that his father had come from here." I sighed sadly for effect, and then glanced over at Em. She was looking at me like I was a total nutcase (which wasn't that unusual), but also with a hint of bewilderment. Em opened her mouth to speak, and then she saw Gaius. Her eyes widened comically, and she fainted. She woke up almost immediately when I started to pour a conveniently placed bucket of water on her head, and then I noticed that she looked older. Come to think of it, I felt taller than normal. I gasped, but luckily it was covered by Em's spluttering.

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Whenever I thought about how I was in Camelot with the characters of Merlin, I brushed the thought off to think on it another day. Em probably did something similar, as she hadn't fainted again as of yet. Sometimes when I looked in the mirror, I was still surprised, but after two days in Camelot I had grown used to being what appeared to be sixteen. Em repeatedly measured her height in the wall so that she would know if she began to shrink, and the two of us spent many hours at the market 'people watching'.

A week later, I had an audience with the king. He had been kind enough to give me and Em rooms in the guest quarters, and had assigned us a servant. Her name was Kay, and she had been quite shy at the beginning, but when she had come in the room to see me attempting to clean it (unsuccessfully trying to shove everything under the bed and behind the wardrobe), she had burst out laughing. When she realized she had been laughing at a 'princess', she tried to stop, and curtsied timidly. 'I'm sorry milady, please forgive my outburst.' when she said that, I started laughing as well, and the two of us went to wake Em. From that point forward, the three of us had been good friends.

As Kay braided my rather unkempt hair and put it up, she began talking about the upcoming visitor, lady Helen.

When she first said that name, I thought nothing of it, until she mentioned that on the next day a sorcerer was to be executed. When I realized what was happening, I immediately mumbled something about confounded shoes, and ran into Em's room, which had a door connecting it to mine.

She was still asleep, although putting some smelling salts from Gaius in front of her face soon fixed that. When I explained what was happening, the two of us ran over to Kay and gave her the day off, mentioning that her friend Gwen also had some free time. She said thanks, and walked out the door. As me and Em tried to decide what to do, we hardly noticed how close to noonhigh it was, until we had fifteen minutes to prepare for our luncheon with the royals. I brushed out her hair, putting it in a bun, while she finished braiding mine. Once we had helped each-other locate our shoes, we walked out, me in a purple dress covered in black lace with silver stitching, and her in a red dress with gold and orange embroidery and gold hem. As I walked down the hallway, I tried to keep my head held high, with the crown I had found in my mysterious bag atop my head. That was one of the reasons Uther had allowed me to stay; apparently you couldn't get crowns like this just anywhere. And I had been carrying a royal seal, which I now hid in a concealed pocket in my dress. Em had complained at first about how I was the princess, until I pointed out that I had been lucky to come up with a passable story.

When we entered the throne room, Uther looked up at us, his hardened expression softening when he saw us and gesturing for us to sit down for the midday meal. Morgana came as well, and said that Arthur was at the training grounds. After an hour of talking about my father whom I had invented, the meal was finished, and we excused ourselves. Em and I barely made it out in time to see a dark haired young man watching the execution of a sorcerer in horror. I turned my head as the ax fell, and Em did the same. When we looked back, an old woman had walked out of the crowd and was yelling at Uther. She disappeared and the guards all looked around stupidly. I looked back over to the boy with raven hair, but he was gone.

Em thought we should go to Gaius's quarters to ask for some stronger smelling salts as she was becoming immune to the ones we had, and I agreed. When we reached the door, I politely knocked, and Gaius answered. He had become something like an uncle to us, even though we had only been here a little over a week, and was really cool. When I told him of the smelling salts problem, he tutted looking at Em with amusement, and invited us to sit down inside.

When the small door at the back of Gaius's quarters opened, I gasped; it was the raven-haired boy, aka Merlin. Em looked up, blinked, and continued blinking owlishly. He walked over to Gaius, and asked if he could help. When Merlin heard of Em's predicament, he cracked a smile, and began to go grab some random herbs, taking them over to Gaius. Gaius shook his head at Merlin, and handed back most of them. "See, this is wolfsbane. Unless you wanted to poison the lady Em." Gaius glared sternly at Merlin, and I struggled to keep a straight face.

Merlin visibly paled, muttering as he did so. "Oops..." He went to put away the wolfsbane, in the wrong place.

I started to chuckle, Em still blinking slowly. After a few seconds, she turned and whispered in my ear. "What just happened?" She looked at me confusedly, still blinking. "Oh, nothing much. Merlin just almost poisoned you." I told her, only causing more confusion. "Oh, that's... nice..." she mumbled distractedly.

"So, who are you?" I asked Merlin, whilst resisting the urge to fangirl uncontrollably.

"Oh, this is my young ward, Merlin." Gaius waved a hand at Merlin, almost smacking him in the face.

"Yep, that's me," Merlin dodged Gaius's hand.

"Nice to meet you!" I shook Merlin's hand energetically. He looked somewhat taken aback. Oh shoot. Princesses don't shake people's hands here... I quickly stopped, and nudged Em. "Say hi to the person, Em." I said, and she looked around, bewildered. "Oh, hello there." She glanced at Merlin, and walked dazedly out of the room.

"Wha-" Merlin began, looking confused.

"Don't ask. See ya later!" I waved, and ran out of the room. I immediately ran into a wall.

"Watch out, there's a wall there!" Merlin yelled after me.

"I knew that! I just had to make sure it was working!" I ran off, blushing furiously. I mean come on, that was Merlin! And not some barmy old man, (coughDragooncough) he looked like Colin Morgan! Except maybe younger. I went back to my chambers, and after finally locating Em in the kitchens, (strangely there was no food in sight) We had food and I retired to my fangirl dreams of a warlock with a name that started with 'M'.

QUESTION OF THE CHAPTER: Do you think bow ties are cool? 1st person to respond gets an OC appearence in this fic. I will PM the 1st person, so yeah.