Disclaimer: I do not own Merlin
Thanks to my friend weepingelm who pointed out to me the boys would not be drinking lager THANKYOU! Be assured from now on they will be drinking only beer.
Sorry the chapter has taken so long to write, but it is bigger so please forgive, as always any constructive comments greatly accepted.
Hope you enjoy chapter 8!
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Chapter 8
The next morning Gwen was walking toward the medical flight, thinking about last night when she spied someone leaning up against the wall of the building. As she got closer she could see it was Gwaine. With a smile on her face she approached him.
"Hello Gwaine, what are you doing here?" she asked although she did have an idea why he was there at this time of the morning.
"Hello Gwen, I'm waiting for Morgana to finish her shift, how was your night out with Arthur? Did you enjoy yourselves?" he replied with a mischievous grin.
"We had a lovely night, thankyou Gwaine." Gwen told him, 'I'd better get inside so you can see Morgana."
"Thankyou Gwen." Gwaine said.
Gwen went inside, she was still a few minutes early, so she found Morgana in the treatment room. "So Gwen did you enjoy your night out with Arthur?" Morgana asked with a smile.
"Yes I did thankyou Morgana, he wants to see me again, I have never met anyone like him, and we both think we're in love!" Gwen said feeling herself blush and there was a smile from ear to ear.
"That's fantastic Gwen." Morgana said and gave her a big hug.
"You know 'Gana you were the second person to ask me that this morning, the first was Gwaine." Gwen watched Morgana's face to see what reaction this would produce.
'Where did Gwaine ask you about last night?" Morgana asked her green eyes sparkling and her smile was like a Cheshire cat.
Gwen looked non- committedly when she replied. "Just outside of here I think he might be waiting for someone." She started to laugh.
"Really? He's outside." Morgana looked stunned.
"Yes he is there waiting for you, you don't want to keep him waiting do you?" Gwen asked.
"No I don't" Morgana told her. "Thanks Gwen, you should have a good day, I'll see you when you knock off." Morgana gave her another hug and left.
Sqn Ldr Hughes came up behind Gwen "What's got into Morgana Gwen?" he asked.
"She has someone waiting outside for her sir." Gwen looked at him with a contented smile on her face.
"Could this also have something to do with why you look like your walking on air?" He asked his eyebrow rising towards his hairline.
"Yes, I was asked out last night by P/O Pendragon, we had a lovely time." The look on Gwen's face told Gaius all he needed to know, Gwen was in love! Pendragon was a lucky young man!
"Well I hope P/O Pendragon realises he has found a diamond, I'm pleased for you Gwen." Gaius said and patted her shoulder in a fatherly way as he walked past, "Come on Gwen there's work to be done." He told her.
When Morgana walked outside the door she looked and saw Gwaine leaning against the wall just as Gwen said.
"Gwen told me someone was waiting out here for me did you see where they went?" Morgana asked him, her tongue planted firmly in her cheek.
"Only me My lady." Was Gwaine's reply as he took her hand and kissed it while watching her reaction.
"Thankyou Sir Gwaine." Morgana curtsied.
"Will you permit me to escort you back to the WRAF's block?" Gwaine enquired.
"I would be honoured." Morgana told him.
Gwaine fell into step beside her as they started out.
"Did you have a good time last night with the boys?" Morgana asked.
"Yes we found ourselves what looks like being our local watering hole, The Rising Sun, nice little pub." Gwaine looked at Morgana scratched his head and said, "Morgana would you like to come to The Rising Sun tonight? All the boys will be there I bet, and I dare say that Arthur and Merlin will bring their girls, we might be back on Ops tomorrow night. What do you say Morgana?"
"Ok I'll come as long as Gwen comes." Morgana told him as they walked along.
"Alright I'll asked Arthur at breakfast." Gwaine said with a smile, he knew how to get Arthur to ask Gwen out.
As they got closer to the WRAF block Gwaine slowed down, Morgana looked at him with one eyebrow raised. "Gwaine what's the matter?"
"Nothing, I've heard all these stories about the WRAF block – I imagined it would have a moat, gun emplacements and a draw bridge, funny it looks normal to me!" he smiled at her.
"They keep the ghouls in the cellar and let them out after lights out if you were wondering." Morgana said with an evil grin on her face.
"Right I'll remember that," Gwaine told her "I better go, breakfast will be on soon and I plan to ask Arthur about brining Gwen along tonight while he is in a good mood." Gwaine leant forward and pecked her cheek. "Can I see you please Morgana?" he whispered into her ear.
"Ok Gwaine but try and get Arthur to invite Gwen out, I don't want to be there with no-one I know." Morgana told him.
"I know how Arthur felt about Gwen yesterday and if he feels the same as Gwen does this morning, it won't take much for them to be there. How about if Gwen does want to come both of you meet us at the main gate 1900hrs ok?"
"Ok Gwaine you've sold me." Morgana said
"Right I'd better go so I can get the good work started, my lady." he took her hand, bowed and kissed it, he then straightened up and started to walk away hearing Morgana starting to laugh behind him, she then turned away herself and entered the WRAF block.
Gwaine got to the officer's mess just as Arthur and Leon got there.
"Morning Gwaine where were you? We stopped by your room no answer." Arthur looked at him, even though he asked the question he thought he knew the answer.
"I went for a walk that's all." Gwaine said with a smile.
"And did you by chance end up near the medical flight?" Arthur asked him.
"As a matter of fact I did, Gwen told me how she had a really bad night out." Gwaine said with a cheeky grin.
"What!" Arthur yelled others had turned around to see what the problem was. "You spoke to Guinevere?" Arthur asked his voice back to normal.
"Don't panic princess – I'm kidding with you, while I was waiting for the fair Morgana Gwen came past I asked her how your night out was, she told me it was a lovely night," Gwaine said "Speaking of Gwen, I was wondering if you could do me a favour sir?" The smile on Gwaine's face got bigger when he said 'sir'.
"And what would that be?" enquired Arthur not sure if he wanted to know.
"Could you invite Gwen to come out with all of us to The Rising Sun – see if Gwen comes so will Morgana and I really want to get to know her better." Gwaine informed him.
"So if I do this for you, you will leave Guinevere alone?" Arthur looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Arthur from what she said and how she looked when she spoke of you no-one has got a chance, not even me!" Gwaine told him.
"Ok I'll ask Guinevere this afternoon when her shift finishes." Arthur said.
"Thankyou Arthur," Gwaine said, "Ok breakfast sounds good to me what about you two?" he asked.'
"Let's do it." Leon said, who had been just watching the other two through the whole exchange.
After they got their tea and toast and got a table. Leon asked Arthur how the night went.
"Fantastic, she is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen," Arthur told them, his smile went right to his eyes. "I feel so comfortable with her, and she said it's the same for her."
"Look out Leon," Gwaine said "I think Arthur's in love."
"Yes Gwaine I am and I told her so and she said she thought she's falling in love with me.' Arthur told them.
"If you ask me Gwaine I'd say our skipper is completely taken, we'll be invited to the engagement party soon I'd say." Leon said looking straight at Arthur.
"A bit premature Leon but don't rule it out." Arthur grinned.
"Ok, so now we have sorted that out, Leon do you want to go back to The Rising Sun tonight, I think the whole crew and significant others should give it a go don't you?" Gwaine asked.
"Yes ok Gwaine I'll be there." Leon told him, "We will have to get onto the boys and get Merlin to ask Freya."
"That was my intention for this morning." Gwaine informed them as they finished their breakfasts.
As they had agreed to yesterday they met up with Merlin, Lance, Elyan and Percy at 0900hrs just near the NCO's mess, from there they all headed out to see how the repair work was progressing. The remains of the old engine had been removed, and the fuel and glycol lines were being replaced as well as the throttle linkages. The new engine would be installed either late that afternoon or the next morning. The repairs to Excalibur were taking a back seat to getting other airworthy Lancaster's ready for tonight's raid. So the boys knew they would not be flying tonight.
After a while they decided to head towards the NAFFI for a mug of tea. When they had got their mugs and found somewhere to sit Gwaine started on the next phase of the plan.
"I was thinking boys how about we go back to The Rising Sun tonight and we bring Skip and Merlin with us seeing they missed out on it last- having better things to do." Gwaine said with a huge wink at both of them.
Percy said "Yeah I'll go back, if just to beat you at darts sir!"
Elyan agreed "Yes look how badly you held up the gunner's honour sir, we have to be a bit better at it tonight!"
Lance looked at the pair of them and smiled "It seems I have to defend my title already, ok I'm in." he nodded.
Arthur said "Ok I've heard of nothing else but this place at breakfast," he lied "I better see if it lives up to the billing."
Leon said "I better go just to see if you can behave yourself Gwaine." A huge smile on his face.
"Merlin?" Gwaine turned and looked at him.
"Sir?" he said with a raised eyebrow, "Yes I'll come."
"Good lad, how about our two Romeos ask their Juliet's?"
Arthur said 'Ok if it will keep you from nagging me, I'll ask Guinevere."
"Thankyou sir." Gwaine nodded at Arthur.
"Ok Merlin what about asking Freya?" Gwaine asked him.
"She doesn't know anyone." Merlin protested.
"She knows us and more importantly she knows you." Gwaine told him.
"Alright I'll ask her but I don't know if she'll come." Merlin replied.
"That's all I could ask for." Gwaine told him.
As they were later heading for their respective messes a four ton truck pulled up along- side of them, the boys looked up to see Freya at the wheel.
Merlin walked over to the cab "Hi Freya." He grinned up at her.
"Hi Merlin." She smiled down at him.
"Hi Freya." The boys chorused.
"Hello everyone" Freya said slightly blushing.
The boys moved off to give Merlin a chance to ask Freya.
"Freya I was wondering if you would like to come out with me again tonight? The whole crew are going to The Rising Sun." he told her.
"But I'll be the only girl there." She said.
"No the skipper is going to ask F/Lt Madden- he's going out with her." Merlin informed her.
"I know her slightly, she is very nice and so is her friend F/Lt Swan.
"I think F/Lt O'Connor is trying to get her to go out with him and he just wants back up for her as I do for you." Merlin said smiling up at her.
"Okay Merlin, I finish 1630hrs, what time are we going?" she asked.
"We're meeting 1900hrs at the front gate." Merlin beamed at her.
"Alright Merlin I'll see you then." She smiled.
Merlin climbed up onto the step and leaned in and gave Freya a quick kiss.
"Thanks Freya." He said as in the background the boys were whooping it up.
Later that afternoon a certain blonde P/O made his way over to the medical flight. He knew he was early but could not wait, he stood near wall just about where Gwaine had stood that morning.
Sqn Ldr Hughes looked out his window and saw him standing there. He stood, left his office and went out to see him.
"Are you here for medical treatment or for some other reason my boy?" he asked a surprised Arthur, who stood to attention –Gaius waved him at ease.
"I'm waiting to see F/Lt Madden sir, I was hoping she might want to go out with me and my crew tonight, I also know that if Guinevere dose come F/Lt Swan will also come, so they won't be by themselves." Arthur told him.
"I noticed you called her Guinevere son, it sounds like she means a lot to you." Gaius remarked.
"Yes I think she is the one girl for me," Arthur looked at the older man, "Do you mind sir?" he asked
"No I tend to think of Gwen and Morgana now more as surrogate daughters, I don't want to see either of them get hurt, if that happens I will make whoever's life a misery." Gaius informed him.
"Now I have two people who will be after my blood if I hurt her." Arthur said.
Gaius raised an eyebrow "Who is the other one?"
"Her brother Elyan is my rear gunner and has told me officer or not he will hurt me, I told him if I hurt Guinevere I'll let him hurt me!" Arthur smiled.
"Well then just make sure you don't hurt her then and everyone will be happy." Gaius told him. "I hope you have a good night my boy." He turned back inside.
"Thankyou sir." Arthur said.
Gaius went up to Gwen, "Gwen your shift is over isn't it?"
"Yes sir." Gwen wondered if he wanted her to work back.
"Well there happens to be a certain P/O outside waiting for you, go on off you go." Gaius smiled, "You have found a good one there Gwen, and you would be wise to keep him." He told her.
"I know sir, I very much intend to." Gwen smiled at the older man thinking of him almost as a substitute father.
When Gwen walked out and found Arthur leaning up against the wall. "Just lately this spot seems to be popular with the officers of a certain crew." She said smiling up at him.
"I'm glad we have standards," he said with a broad grin "Hello my darling Guinevere, hope you had a good day." He said.
"Hello Arthur, I did, the hardest part was having Sqn Ldr Hughes telling me I had someone outside waiting for me and that he is a good one and I should keep him." Gwen told him.
"I know I was given the once over practically asked me what my intentions are." Arthur took her hand, I told him I think you're the only girl for me." He told her and brought hand up and kissed the back of it. "Can I walk you back to the block?" he asked.
"Yes please because if we stay here much longer I'm sure we will be watched." She told him.
So hand in hand they made their way towards the WRAF block.
About half way along Arthur turned to Gwen and said, "Guinevere will you come out with me tonight the whole crew is going to The Rising Sun, and Gwaine asked Morgana and she said she will only come if you come, but I want you to come only because you want to." He looked into her brown eyes. "I love you Guinevere, I haven't told you that yet today have I?"
"I love you too Arthur, I'll come because I want to be with you, not because of Morgana." She said.
"Thankyou my darling." He didn't care he bent down and kissed her, when they broke apart, she took hold of his bicep as they walked along side by side.
Lance, Percy, Elyan and Merlin got to the front gate at 1845hrs, they had just signed out and got outside when Freya came shyly out, Merlin turned around and walked over to her. "Hi Freya it's great to see you again." He told her holding her hands.
"Hi Merlin, its lovely seeing you too." She smiled back.
"Come on over and say hi to the boys." Merlin said.
"Ok." Merlin and Freya walked over to where the others were. "Hi Freya." They all said.
"Hi." Freya said blushing slightly.
"Ok guys don't embarrass Freya." Merlin told them.
"Alright we won't will we boys?" Percy asked the others nodded, "besides I would be more concerned with F/Lt O'Connor."
"That's right," Elyan said, "Look out here he comes." He pointed to the guard house, sure enough Gwaine, Leon and Arthur were just emerging.
They came over to where they were and greeted each other.
"Hello Freya, thankyou for coming along, it will make F/Lt's Madden and Swan feel not so awkward with another lady present." Arthur smiled at her, "don't worry about F/Lt O'Connor I think he's mind might be somewhere else tonight." He winked at her.
"Thankyou sir." She said, she really liked how they all always spoke to her whenever they saw her, not like some other officers in other crews.
"Hello boys." They heard behind them, everyone turned around to see Morgana and Gwen coming out to join them.
Arthur and Gwaine moved over to them.
"My lady." Gwaine said bowing to her.
"Sir Gwaine." Morgana smiled at him.
"Hello Guinevere." Arthur said bending down to lightly kiss her.
"Hello again Arthur." Gwen beamed up at him.
They brought them over to where everyone else was, Gwen saw Freya looking like she felt out of place so she went up to her as she stood along -side Merlin.
"Hello your Freya aren't you?" she asked.
"Yes I am mam." Freya said blushing. "How did you know?"
"It's ok Freya, your Arthur's crew's driver right?" Freya nodded. "I had heard that Merlin was going out with their driver, it's nice to meet you although I think I might have seen you a few times in the block." Gwen smiled at her.
"Thankyou it's nice to meet you too mam." Freya said.
"Morgana come and say hello." Morgana came over, "This is Freya she is Merlin's girl and the crew's driver, so we all have a similar interest in this particular bunch of boys." Gwen said winking at Freya who giggled.
"So you're the one who takes them out to Excalibur and brings them back?" Morgana asked.
"Yes Mam." Freya replied.
Arthur came over then. "How about we start to make our way to The Rising Sun?" he asked.
"Good idea." Gwaine said, he walked up to Morgana and offered her his arm which she happily accepted.
Percy, Lance, Leon and Elyan began to walk along the side of the road, Gwaine and Morgana started to follow behind.
Merlin turned to Freya. "May I?" he asked her holding out his hand.
"Certainly," she told him taking the pre offered hand I hers they started to follow the others.
Arthur turned to Gwen. "Thankyou for coming darling." He bent down and kissed her gently on the lips again.
"Oi Skipper are you coming or would you rather be alone?" Percy asked. Leon and Lance were laughing, Elyan had a huge smile.
"We better go," Gwen told him,"thankyou my love it's always a pleasure to be with you." They turned and started to walk along behind the others, Gwen's hand went to its normal position wrapped around Arthur's bicep.
They had been walking for a few minutes when a four ton truck passed them, slowed and stopped. A girl's head poked out the passenger's window. "Freya is that you?" a voiced asked.
"Yes Mary it's me." Freya replied.
"Where are you going?"
"To The Rising Sun." Freya told her.
"Hop in the back, I'm going to Scampton for mess supplies." Mary told her.
"Thanks," Freya said then "This is Merlin- I was telling you about him and this is the rest of his crew." She then introduced them all and then introduced Gwen and Morgana.
"Hello everyone," Mary said "I'm going to be coming back around closing time so I'll pick you if that's ok?" she asked.
"That's very generous of you Mary," Arthur said "You would get into trouble?"
"No sir, we usually come back at that time." She informed him.
"Thankyou very mush then." Arthur smiled at her.
They all piled around the back of the truck and climbed in. The boys gave Gwen, Morgana and Freya a hand to get in, when everyone was settled Arthur hit the back of the cab and they were off.
Five minutes later they were bidding farewell to Mary and heading into the pub.
Leon led the way in, Gilli looked up "Hello gents back to give my humble pub another go?" he asked grinning at them.
"Yes Gilli we came back like we said we would and brought some more with us." Percy told him.
Arthur walked up to Merlin and Freya "What would you like to drink I'm buying the first round." He told them.
"A beer for me please Skip, and Freya?" Merlin turned to her.
"A lemonade please- I'm driving from 0600hrs." she said.
"Ok." Arthur said, he turned to Gwaine and Morgana. "What would you like?" he asked.
"Beer for me and the fair lady will have a…?"Gwaine looked at her.
"Shandy for me please, thankyou sir." Morgana said with that trade mark impish smile on her face.
"Away from the base please call me Arthur." He told her, she nodded. "Ok that's two beers, a lemonade and a shandy." He then turned to the boys. "What will it be boys?"
"Don't go easy on him boys," Leon told them, smiling at Arthur "remember he's the one with the money."
"Remind me why it was a good idea to have you in the crew Leon?" Arthur grinned at him.
"Somebody has to keep an eye on you and since I already had the experience at Oxford it feel upon me to do it." Leon told him.
"Anyway boys what will it be?" Arthur asked again.
"Beer thankyou Skip." Percy told him.
"Sounds good to me too." Elyan said.
Lance said "Yes a beer for me to thanks Skip."
Arthur looked at Leon "Stout if they have it, if not a beer,"
"Right five beers, a stout, a lemonade and a shandy." Said Arthur keeping a record.
He went to Gwen "Sweetheart what would you like to drink." He asked her.
"A shandy sounds good to me too thanks darling." She said.
"Right so it's six beers, two shandies, a stout and a lemonade.
Arthur started to head to the bar, Merlin and Gwaine went with him to carry the drinks.
The others found two tables that were empty so they put them together.
At the bar Gilli came over and said to Gwaine "So you have found us some more customers I might have to start giving you a finder's fee Gwaine!" he laughed.
"No Gilli this is our Skipper Arthur and our very own Merlin, and yes those are their real names, they had better things to do than be with us last night, they were with their girls weren't you boys?" Gwaine grinned at them.
"Yes we did Gwaine." Arthur said, he looked at the publican and held out his hand, 'I'm Arthur sorry if this one was any trouble last night."
"I'm Gilli and no they didn't cause any trouble, they provided us with some entertainment with the darts matches." He laughed.
Arthur gave Gilli the order, the stout was not a problem. After Arthur insisted on paying- Gilli was going to put it on the house. Gilli got a tray – the boys drinks went on that, Arthur took it over to the tables then went back to get his and Gwen's drinks. Gwaine took his and Morgana's and Merlin had his and Freya's.
When everyone found their seats, they all sampled their drinks and thought it was a good place to come to.
As they sat around and the banter started the girls were fairly quiet until Gwaine said to Elyan "So what is it like having a sister who you have to call Mam and do as she tells you?"
"It's no different from when we were kids." Elyan said with a huge grin on his face.
"It's not!" Gwen said laughing, "We always did things together remember?"
"Yeah we did, but I can still get a rise out of you Gwennie!"He winked at her, she tapped him on the shoulder, as they had sat next to each other.
"Ok you win." Said Gwen laughing.
Arthur put his arm around Gwen from the other side and pulled her towards him, "Its ok darling I'll protect you from the riff raff." In his best plummy upper crust voice. Everyone nearly fell off their seats laughing.
Percy looked over and saw the dart board was empty, "How about a game?" he asked.
"I think the nurses should go first to see how well they throw their needles!" Elyan said poking his tongue out at Gwen, the boys agreed.
Gwen turned to Morgana "What do you think?" she asked.
"I'm game." she replied.
"Ok." Gwen said.
They made their way over to the board, everyone else came too.
They played 501. All the comments were along the lines of "Thank God we are not their patients!" were used. Morgana won the game, Gwen wondered aloud if that made her the better or worse nurse.
"Definitely better darling," Arthur said as he came up behind her and slipped his arms around her. "I have proof the way you treated me that morning you strapped my ankle." He bent down and kissed her neck.
"Thankyou Arthur." Gwen turned around in his arms and reached up and pulled his face to hers and kissed him.
"Ok you two break it up." Morgana said Gwen and Arthur came up for air.
Gwaine- who had come up behind Morgana and put his arms around her said, "Our two Romeo's should have a game, what do you boys think?"
There was a chorus of "Yes's"
Arthur turned to Merlin, "What do you say"
"Ok Skip." Merlin grinned.
Leon said "Now we'll be able to see if the Skip can drive by himself or has to be told where to go!" the place erupted with laughter again.
"I'll tell you where to go Leon." Arthur said with a huge grin.
"Thanks Arthur but I can navigate already." Came the reply.
Arthur won the game just.
The next game was Percy and Elyan which Percy won, Gwaine was next against Percy. Percy came away with the win, Gwaine claimed he was distracted- he kept looking over at Morgana.
The last game was Leon against Lance, Freya declined saying she was having enough fun this time just watching she did promise to play next time. Gwaine said she had seen what the completion was like and was going to practice.
Leon's game was better but Lance still won, Leon brought the last round.
As Gwen came back from the ladies Elyan came up behind her. "It's good to see you so happy Gwen." He said.
"Thankyou Elyan, Arthur is the best man I have ever met, he told he loves me and I know I love him." She blushed.
"I've told him if he hurts you I'll hurt him." He told her.
"No you won't you both mean so much to me, so you will have to look out for each other ok?" She asked.
"Ok." He said.
"What's ok?" Arthur asked coming up behind Gwen.
"I just told Elyan you two mean so much to me that you have to look out for each other." She told him.
"Of course we do, we're a part of a team." Arthur told her.
"Time please ladies and gentlemen." Gilli announced.
Outside the boys waited separately from the couples to give them some time alone.
Merlin and Freya stood wrapped in each other's arms kissing at the edge of the car park.
Gwaine and Morgana went a little away from them, "Morgana I would really love to go out with you again, but this time just the two of us, what do you think?" Gwaine asked her.
"I would like that very much." Morgana told him.
"Oh thankyou my love." Gwaine said and bent down and kissed her fully on the mouth, his arms wrapping around her waist while hers found their way to his shoulders. When they came up for air they kept their foreheads touching.
Arthur and Guinevere were near the trees at the back of the car park completely unaware of the others just lost in the moment of kissing each other senseless, when they did come up for air Arthur panted "My darling I just can't get enough of kissing you!"
"I know what you mean!" came the breathless reply.
"When we get more time off will you come out with me, I think I would like to go for a picnic in one of the places I have seen when we were doing our familiarisation flights." He asked.
"I'd love too." Gwen told him and kissed him again, "That's something to look forward to."
"I look forward to seeing you every day darling." He told her.
"As do I sweetheart." She replied holding close.
In the distance everyone could hear a heavy truck engine gearing down, and as they were on the flat they all knew it was Mary keeping her word to pick them up. They all gathered near the road as the truck pulled up along- side.
"Have a good night folks?" Mary asked.
"Yes thanks Mary." Freya spoke for all of them.
After everyone got in the back of the truck and found places to sit in amongst the sack of flour, vegetables and all the other items that were there, Arthur again tapped the back of the cab and the truck started to move.
About a quarter of a mile from the front gate Mary dropped them off when they had all got off Arthur thanked her again, she waved and took off.
They walked the last bit altogether, the couples arm in arm.
After they had signed back in Lance, Percy and Elyan bid everyone else goodnight and headed to their dorm room telling Merlin as they left not to be late back.
Leon said his goodnights and headed to officer country.
Merlin and Freya were the first to head towards the WRAF block as Freya was on duty at 0600hrs the next morning. As they got close to the block Merlin turned her towards him and kissed her a long goodnight kiss, when they broke apart he said. "Goodnight my lovely Freya I'll try and see you if I can tomorrow."
"I'd like that a lot," she told him, she leant forward and kissed him again, "I'd better go, goodnight my love." She turned and walked into the block with Merlin watching her.
Gwaine and Morgana were a little behind them, Gwaine had found the side of a building and took Morgana there so they could kiss goodnight with some privacy. When they broke apart he said, "Morgana I can't wait to go out with you alone, I'm so glad you said you would come out with me."
"That's my pleasure Gwaine, I have wanted to get to know you better since the first time we met." She told him.
He took her hand and led her towards the block, he then bowed and kissed the back of her hand. "My lady goodnight, what time may I escort you to medical flight?" he asked.
"I'm on the morning shift how about 0645hrs here?" she asked.
"Sounds good to me," he kissed her again, "Goodnight my love."
And turned and walked away.
Arthur and Guinevere hung back from the others for a while, they too had found a building to hide behind, they stood there cuddling deeply wishing they didn't have to part.
"What time do you want me to walk you to work darling?" Arthur asked.
"I'm on an evening shift so 1400hrs would be good."
"Ok." He bent down and kissed her deeply.
When they broke apart Arthur said, "I love you Guinevere."
She replied "I love you with all my heart."
Arm in arm they then reluctantly headed over to the block and Arthur stood and watched until Guinevere was inside.