Merlin and his team found the changes exciting but at the same time frustrating, no matter what the intention the work did disrupt their work. On Friday a whole trolley of finished pieces, that were waiting to be loaded into the kilns, were knocked over and everything on it broken, the clay was fragile prior to firing and nothing was saved. It was several day's work destroyed including a couple of commissions. As it toppled over Merlin heard some idiot shout "timber!"

The trolley caught Merlin's leg a glancing blow as it fell but it was the flying pieces of pottery that did the damage. One shard flew across the area in caught Gwen in the back cutting her. The loud crash could be heard all over the building and Gwaine who had been discussing an advertising campaign with Lance in the office jumped up and out the door to see what had happened. By the time both he and Lance were downstairs. They found a very irate Merlin knelt by Gwen's side. He was facing the man responsible and berating him.

Percy had already arrived and was closing of that part of the shop from the public and other members of staff

"You idiots were told not to move the trolleys we would now all that now Gwen has been hurt" Merlin shouted at the man who didn't seem that bothered.

"Calm down mate! I didn't meant to damage anything. It can all be cleared up", it's done now so no point in shouting" the man clearly wasn't bothered by what had happened.

Gwen was looking shocked but spoke to Merlin "I don't think it's much Merlin"

But Merlin was too angry to listen. "And Gwen being hurt? That doesn't matter!" Merlin was savage but at the same time worried about Gwen. Mithian was also with Gwen who had blood running down her back.

"It ain't much" snarled the man clearly hoping to plat down the incident.

"This will need stitching" Mithian told, Merlin who at that turned to Gwen.

"Let's get you to hospital. I'll get my car round and got you there, I can sort this out later"

Gwaine and Lance had arrived at that point. Lance went to check on Gwen as Gwaine asked Merlin what had happened.

"That idiot decided to move a trolley, god knows what he did but it fell, Gwen has been hurt by a shard of Pottery, all that prat did was shout timber, he seems to think someone being hurt and all that work destroyed is 'isn't much'! We were right there they only had to ask, Gwen or one of the others could have been seriously hurt. Not to mention the damage"

Gwaine turned to Lance "Does Gwen need an ambulance?"

Gwen spoke up at that "No I'm fine it isn't much"

Gwaine looked at Lance "Can you take her to the hospital and stay with her and take her home afterwards please? I'd like you to stay here please Mithian we need the witnesses here"

Lance looked at his friend "No problem leave everything to me, I'll make sure she is looked after" then smiling at the paintress. "I'll bring my car round to the side door"

"Oh and Lance ask the hospital to take a photo please. Healthy and safety will want one." Gwaine added.

At that the worker interrupted "No need to involve them surely"

Gwaine glared at the man "Yes there is, a member of staff got hurt in the workplace. Standard procedure. Now your name if you don't mind" there was a clear hard edge to Gwaine's tone.

"Gilli Melling" came the sullen tone. "Look you can't blame me the trolley was clearly unsafe"

That was too much for Merlin "The trolleys were completely safe, you weren't supposed to move them, we were here all you had to do was ask. And what the hell did you shout 'timber' for. Wouldn't have been better to have warned us?"

Gwaine stepped forward to calm the situation. "Merlin can you leave this to me for a minute, walk Gwen out to Lance will you?"

Having diverted an angry Merlin Gwaine turned to the rest of the people present. "I want you all to write down what happened, or at least what you saw and heard for the incident book, do it individually. I will email the Health and Safety executive don't move anything yet. Then once all the statements are in work stops for today. But no one disappear before I get back." Gwaine turned to Percy who had put up a barrier to keep the public away. "Make sure everything is left as it is until I have photographed it. I'll be back with the accident book and camera"

Gwaine was soon back with the accident book and camera, he left Percy taking phots as he got on the H&S who told him he could clear up. Going back down to the Studio he asked a now calmer Merlin a few questions after getting a better picture he then asked "What was on the trolley?

It was full we were going to load the kiln this afternoon, what's more there were commissions on that trolley, they will need to be redone and one was wanted next week for a birthday"

"We are insured and I will phone the customers with the commission pieces and inform them" Gwaine said

"Would you have been as casual if Lady Pendragon's piece had been on there!" Merlin demanded

"Was it?" Gwaine asked concerned

"No but that is not the problem someone else's commission was, as well as all the hours wasted." Merlin dragged his hands through his hair "I told Mrs Brown's husband it would be ready she is a regular customer. It will be at least a week late now, nearer ten days"

"Look Merlin I will investigate and find out why they moved the trolley and if you give me the phone numbers I will contact the commission people and explain I will also authorise that the replacement of the late one will be free." Gwaine put his hand on Merlin's shoulder "Sit down mate and calm down"

Merlin allowed himself to be sat down but he wasn't finished yet "Look I thought some of this work was to be done at night. When is that happening? Because we can move everything before we go home to a safe area."

"Hopefully next week, it was going to be this week but the contractors have had trouble getting some of the kit they need. Look I'm sorry all that work was destroyed, it must be heart breaking after all your efforts. I will speak to them and they can clear it all up." Gwaine could see Merlin was worked up "Look Merlin I know you are upset about Gwen so am I. Look its three o'clock now get the Mithian to finish up and you can all go home early. I will sort things out for you."

"Ok but before we go home I have 6 other commission pieces down there including Lady Pendragon's I want to move them somewhere they won't be touched by anyone!" Merlin knew he was over reacting but he was frustrated. The men hadn't even apologised to any of them, in fact he had heard one of the men laughing. "I'll throw a replacement pot before I go, it can start drying then."

"Ok I'll move the items into my office if that helps" Gwaine said. It was just then when Mithian spoke

"Merlin your legs bleeding!"

Looking down Merlin saw a small amount of blood on his Jeans "It's nothing don't worry the trolley hit me on the way down and grazed me that's all."

Gwaine rolled his eyes "Let's look" he knelt down and pulled up Merlin's jeans before he had chance to object. Sure enough Merlin had a large graze on this leg and a small bleeding area.

"See I told you it's nothing."

"That will bruise, I'll take a photo of it, and you will rest up you hear me, have tomorrow off" Gwaine told him

"Don't be daft" Merlin told him "Best thing for that is to keep moving and shove a plaster on it"

Gwaine used his phone to take a quick photo and Mithian had already got the first aid box out and cleaned the bleeding area and put a dressing on it. Merlin then insisted on throwing a preplacement pot as the workers cleared up the broken pottery before going home. Gwaine took the commission pieces up to the office but Merlin insisted on taking up the large charger for Lady Pendragon after he had thrown the replacement pot.

Gwaine wanted to looked but Merlin had wrapped it "Get your fingers off" he told the manager. "No one but us has seen the finished product."

Gwaine grinned "Look Merlin before you go can you give me a rough estimate as to the value of the trolleys contents?"

Merlin thought for a moment "Between five and six grand retail, the commission piece was a grand it took Elena a week to paint. She will be as mad as a hatter"

"I will get on to the building firms boss now and sort out what's happening. I want to catch him before he disappears for the weekend." With that he phone rang. It was the building company boss. Gwaine was soon on deep conversation. Merlin snuck off and went down to make sure everything was sorted. Then he rang Gwen's phone. Lance answered it.

"How is Gwen?" Merlin asked.

"The doctors are checking to make sure there is no pieces of pottery in the wound and then stitching it up. They have given her a local anaesthetic. Don't worry I will see her home. I have rung her brother, he said he would ring you later."

"Thanks Lance, I didn't think about Elyan!" Merlin kicked himself

"I suspect you had enough to do, don't worry it was a pleasure Gwen is a very nice lady"

"Will you tell her I will call her later? On the house phone that way if she's resting I won't wake her." Merlin said. Gwen lived with her dad and brother over their shop.

Gwaine ended up at the shop far later than he wanted, the conversation with the building form had not gone down well, it seemed that Gill was the owner's nephew and had told his boss a different story. In fact the owner decided to phone Arthur direct. That ended up with Gwaine then getting a call from Arthur as he was about to go home.

"What's going on Gwaine and why didn't you tell me you had problems?" Arthur demanded.

"Because it's something well within my remit. Some idiot on the construction crew decided to ignore what he was told and moved a trolley, but instead of moving it slowly he decided to give it a hefty push and it toppled over. Breaking everything on it. A shard hit Gwen and cut her back and the trolley hit Merlin bruising his leg. I have spoken to the owner of the company it seems it was his nephew. But I have several incident forms backing what Merlin told me. Including the idiot yelling 'Timber' rather than warning anyone. How did you find out?"

"Mr Olaf rang me, he accused Merlin of refusing to move the trolley and that the trolley had been badly loaded. He reckons that Gilli was set up to take the blame." Arthur paused "I told him I didn't believe that was the case and agreed to have a site meeting in the morning. I know its Saturday but I need you there. Is Merlin in?"

"I told him to have the day off but I suspect he will ignore me." Gwaine admitted. "Lance rang half an hour ago, Gwen is home she needed ten stitches and can't put strain her shoulder too much for the next ten days so she is off work. But luckily it was tissue damage and nothing worse. It could have killed someone. As it is it cause the loss of five or six grand's worth of stock including a couple of commissions." Gwaine paused "I think we either need to close the Studio or get the crew in at night to work. They have been resisting it, but we can't have another incident like this."

"I agree, I did ask Olaf why the night work hadn't started but he was evasive, we can sort that in the morning can you be there at nine?"

"No problem I'll be here" Gwaine packed up and went home. Making sure to lock his office, the last thing he needed was for the charger to get broken.