Title: It's Like Magic
Author: Kiki1770
Rating: T for Language
Setting: Season 2
Summary: Apparently Arthur's way of showing compassion involves swords...
A/N: I should be prepping for the Science Competition tomorrow...but I really wanted to put this wonderful friendship one! It's been done before but hopefully mine is still fun to read. Wish me luck, and enjoy the drabble! P.S This is dedicated to Shadow-StrikeRaven! She left me so many wonderful reviews!
Friendship 6: The Arthur Way
Bang. Clash. Slink. Bang. Clash. Merlin let out a mighty huff of air and collapsed in a soft patch of grass. Please let me be dead, he prayed silently. Merlin was tired. He was so tired of Arthur constantly beating down on him with his sword, his mace, his javelin, and he might even thought of using a lance.
"Come on, Merlin. Get up already!" Arthur irritably poked his manservant in the gut. Merlin propped himself on his elbows, unamused. He glared at the facetious expression on Arthur's face. Arthur had finally hit his last nerve.
"No." Merlin glared at him coldly.
"No?" Arthur asked in disbelief.
"Why bother? You're just going to knock me down again anyway. Besides, if you wanted to train, shouldn't you be training with someone who's actually worth a challenge?" Merlin said bitterly and laid his head back down. Arthur quickly caught onto his friend's rotten mood. He sighed, and plopped down next to Merlin, and folded his arms under his head. The pair of them stared into the empty blue sky.
"I wasn't training…" Arthur slowly began, unsure of how to say it.
"So you were just bullying me?" Merlin snorted and rolled his eyes. He covered his bitter disappointment with sarcasm. But for Arthur to just use Merlin for entertainment hurt him. What was he to the Prince?
"Nah…that's just one of the perks of me training you." Arthur replied casually. Merlin sprung upright, he stared at the Prince, his jaw sagging in disbelief.
"You were…training me?" He asked baffled. This time, Arthur rolled his eyes.
"Yes you idiot, I was training you."
"But why? Shouldn't you devote your time to your knights? I'm just your manservant." Merlin scanned Arthur's face for any sign of teasing or pranking him. But the prince looked sincere.
"Well a good manservant is hard to come by, and I doubt you can get away with hiding under rocks every time you rush off into battle with us." Arthur snickered. But then he used his sharp Prince Prat voice. "If you can't hold your own Merlin, I can't let you go on quests with us." He said sternly. Merlin's eyes softened.
"You were trying to teach me to protect myself weren't you? Never knew you cared, Sire,"
"Shut up, and get off your lazy arse!"
"Yes sire!"
Would you think? Would you think?
By the way, do you have any prompts for me? I'm running a little low on ideas :)
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Kiki1770