A/N: Set in the first part of the season 4 finale in Ealdor. AU.
Replies to guests:
Mersan123: This time around, Merlin got his happy ending. He'd earned it. (Also, it would have hard for things to have gone worse.)
Wolfdragon: That was a perfect explanation of Uther's thought processes. Be careful; you don't want to be accused of mind reading in Camelot . . . I'm glad you enjoyed the freylin!
This afternoon I will be taking a trip to the Lonely Mountain. As I will be carried by the Eagles, I ought to be back by tomorrow, but it is entirely possible that fighting the orcs will leave me too tired to write.
In other words, I'm going on a brief trip and may not have a post up tomorrow. Sorry. Hopefully you'll at least enjoy today's!
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It wasn't that Merlin hadn't trusted him that bothered Arthur; with the whole Agravaine incident still so fresh and still reaping consequences, it would have been rather hypocritical of him to think otherwise.
It was the fact that Merlin's first reaction to realizing Arthur had seen his eyes glow as he healed a sleeping Isolde had been to step in front of his mother.
The law, of course, said that they should both die. Arthur could understand why his friend would fear that his duty would overcome his concern for his friend.
But how could Merlin ever believe he would lay a hand on Hunith?
It might say something about Merlin and the paranoia he had to live with.
Arthur feared it said more about himself.