I hope that the lyrics at the top of the chapter show some sort of feel for the chapter and link into it.

So this is back in the 6th Century, back in Camelot and the land of knights and magic.

This is also a sort of visoney flashback for Morgan.

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You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

Chapter 2

Morgana woke up to feel someone's arms around her.

She snuggled closer into the warmth.

"Morning beautiful." A voice behind her said.

She turned so that she was laying on her side.

"Morning handsome." Morgana said smiling widely at him.

Merlin lied his head back down on the pillow, starring at Morgana.

"What's up?" Morgana said, knowing what he was going to say. She didn't want to go back, not yet. If she was being honest with herself, she would rather Merlin would take her away from it all. She didn't want to command an army that could potential kill the one that she loved.

"We are soon going to be on opposite sides." Merlin took a deep breath. "I don't think I could do it."

"Why not? We have done it for years."

"Because this time I don't know whether we will both make it out the other side alive."

Morgana took a deep breath. "Is it because you are Emrys?" She whispered.

Merlin swallowed. "The light to your dark, the love to your hate." He moved a lose strand of hair out of Morgana's eyes. "If I am put in a position that I have to choose between you and Arthur I don't know what I will do. Every other time I have had a chance where I can do both yet this time it feels different. It seems like everything over the past few years has led down to this moment, to this battle."

"I know who you will chose, you will pick Arthur, because you will always pick Arthur over anybody. Don't stop now. It is one of the features I most love about you. I asked you once why are you so loyal to Arthur, and you never gave me a straight answer. To think about it you never did give me an answer, you just questioned my loyalty. So I will ask you again, why are you so loyal?" Morgana was mainly curious about what his answer would be.

"Because I believe that he will bring about a golden age of Camelot which will include magic. It has been a dream that I have been told since I arrived at Camelot." Merlin said trying to avoid the part about her loyalty. He was angry with her at that point for no talking to him for ages then trying to kill Arthur.

Morgana stared at him. "Golden age of Camelot with magic. That's some dream."

Merlin gave her a small smile. "I hoped to see it. Magic running through the streets of Camelot. But too much has happened."

Morgana pulled herself towards Merlin. "And if I had known that maybe half these things wouldn't have happened."

"It wasn't your fault." Merlin said as he lent his forehead against hers. "I was told never to tell you. Maybe I should have done what I thought was right and dammed the consequences."

Morgana smiled. "See I always said that you should listen to me."

Merlin lifted his head to have a better look at her. "When did you say that?"

Morgana bit her lip. "All the time."

Merlin rolled over so that he was on top of her, pinning her to the bed.

"Well I haven't heard you say it once."

Morgana lift her head so that it would meet Merlin's but it never reached its destination.

Merlin was already kissing her neck and making his way down her collarbone towards her shoulder.

"We still have time don't we?" He said looking up at her.

Morgana gave him one of her playful smirks before he carried on what he was doing.

Morgana held onto Merlin's hands as they rested around her waist.

"Do we have to leave?" Morgana moaned.

"Unfortunately yes. Mordred would hate you if he found us together and Arthur would kill me. I don't think for lying with the enemy by for deflowering his sister."

Morgana chuckled slightly.

"I am not joking. One time Gwen joked that the reason I was out of Camelot so often was because I was seeing you, which is weirdly true, but Arthur warned me, saying that I should be a gentleman to you."

"Gentlemen, oh you were defiantly that. I think poisoning me helped our relationship. I mean would you have got with me if I didn't play them games on you."

"No I suppose not. I think up to a certain point Arthur thought that you were capable to redeem yourself."

"And now we are at war."

Silence fell and Morgana wished that it could just be them together, like this, forever. It didn't matter that they were in her old hovel, she didn't really want the throne. If she thought back now she did nothing that helped people with magic when she was on the throne. But she had started the campaign and now it was hard to get out of. She also blamed Arthur slightly for what happened to her and Aithusa. Her poor Aithusa. The only person to stick by her. Aithusa had managed to contact Merlin when the had managed to escape and he looked after them for a bit. Merlin had seen every side of Morgana and she didn't care. She loved him but destiny had other ideas.

"Blóstmá." Merlin whispered.

It was the first time Merlin had done magic in front of Morgana and she was amazed by it.

Two roses appeared in a vase. One as black as midnight, the other as white as snow.

"They are beautiful." She whispered.

"They represent us. They will live as long as we live."

Silence fell between them. Morgana knew that Merlin wanted to say something just didn't know how to get it out.

"What's up Merlin?"

"Mordred told you I was Emrys didn't he?"

Morgana hummed in response. "I thought I would be more angry when I found out your true identity but I just felt more sad."

"I made him like that though. He asked me whether I would do the same for another. I lied to him saying that I wouldn't. Morgana I would go to the ends of the earth for you. However we cannot both survive this."

"What only you can live forever?"

"I wouldn't want to live forever if it meant losing you."

Morgana was silent.

"If we meet on the battlefield, kill me please." Morgana said

Merlin stopped breathing for a moment.

"I wouldn't be able to."

"Merlin if I ask you to kill me please can you."

Merlin lent his chin on her shoulder. He knew that he had lost her years ago. Being in the pit had made her lose her mind and she had started to listen to the voices in her head asking her to kill. Merlin knew that she was never going to be the same person but it didn't help that he had helped her to her downward spiral.

"If you ask me then I will."

Morgana drew the triskelion on Merlin's hand.

"Thank you Emrys." Morgana purred out. "I am sorry for what I am going to do."

Merlin thought that it was weird that she called him Emrys but I suppose she had just asked him to kill her. Emrys was her doom, not that he wanted to be. He hated destiny.

They lied there for a while longer, only moving once the sun filtered in between the cracks.

"Lets go and be enemies." Morgana joked

Morgana used her magic to make Merlin fly away from Arthur.

She didn't want to hurt him but she had to tell Arthur.

"What a joy it is to see you, Arthur. Look at you, not so tall and mighty now. You may have won the battle, but you've lost the war. You're going to die by Mordred's hand. But don't worry, my dear brother, I won't let you die alone. I will stay and watch over you, until the wolves gorge on your carcass and bath in your blood."

It was true he wasn't going to die alone, however she wasn't going to watch him rot. She would get no pleasure out of it. What Merlin said about Arthur's destiny she believed.

"Please Merlin, remember what you promised me."

"Then I want you to remember that I will always love you."

Morgana smiled. It was the first real smile she had shown since she had been taken away from Camelot by Morgause.

"No, the time for all this blood shed is over. I blame myself for what you've become...but this has to end."

Morgana felt Merlin waver. She knew he could do it, he was strong enough.

"I am a High Priestess. No mortal blade can kill me." Morgana said with confidence.

Merlin stabs her.

Morgana gasps with pain and surprise. She looks up at Merlin but that is when she wished she didn't.

Tears started to come to his eyes.

"This is no mortal blade. Like yours, it was forged in a dragon's breath."

Morgana could hear the emotion in his voice.

"Let me go please." Morgana telepathically said to him.

"Not yet. I love you. Hopefully we will meet again."

"I love you too."

Even as he was killing his love, a small smile formed on his lips.

If Arthur wasn't there, they both knew that he would have kissed her.

Instead he laid her down on the forest floor.

"Goodbye Morgana." Merlin said as Morgana took her final breath.