"Arthur Pendragon! I cannot believe you talked me into this!" Gwen scolded as she followed her husband.
"Gwen, you were just as excited as I was by the idea when I told it to you when we were in the room; we are just closing in on the Hot Spring and you want to nag now?"
"I am not nagging!" she defended.
Arthur turned around and gave her look that made Gwen lose her seriousness and sigh in defeat.
"I just think we should have told someone before we left" she admitted.
Arthur sighed too as he turned around to continue on, forcing his wife to pick up the skirts of her dress and hurry after him.
"We left a note."
"Which could easily be blown away by the wind!" Gwen argued.
Arthur wanted to sigh again until he heard something odd.
Heavy breathing?
He turned to his wife and signaled to her to keep quiet. Without saying a word; he carefully and as quietly as he could together with his wife, walked toward the strange sound and what they found there made their faces flame in embarrassment.
"A-arthur, we have to leave...we shouldn't be watching this..."
The blonde Pendragon was about to reply until he recognized a familiar birthmark on the right shoulder blade of the naked woman straddling her lover in the water of the Hot Spring.
The birthmark was as big as his own hand and it was of a bird form, with outstretched wings.
This woman...is the hooded lady...
The one that bathed in the waterfall...
The one I confided to...
The one with a son...
The sorceress...
Gwen could not help but stare at the woman's naked and curvaceous body. She had flawless skin the colour of peaches and cream that seemed to gleam under the moonlight with her perspiration. Her tawny-brown hair was tied into a bun on top of her head. Long, lean and in Gwen's opinion, manly arms were wrapped around tightly around the woman's waist.
"Layla..."
Arthur froze because finally, he knew the woman's name.
So it's Layla...it's a pretty name though...
Layla...
Gwen on the other hand, had shivered when the man said his gorgeous lover's name.
The man's voice was low, deep and raspy. It was nothing like she ever heard before. Not to mention, it was quite arousing.
They couldn't see either couple's faces because the woman's back was facing them and from what they could hear, the man was focus on giving hard, breathy kisses on his lover's body.
Gwen's eyes grew wide with alarm when she saw the woman move her hands slowly onto the man's shoulders while he moved his hands to her hips. She shivered underneath the touch of his fingertips on her skin before he squeezed her hips hard, teasing her and causing a loud moan to escape his lover's lips.
"We have to go...now!" the queen hissed, grabbing her husband by the arm.
However, in her haste, she had not realized that a branch was close to her and she stepped on it hard causing the sound to echo in the trees.
Arthur froze and dared not to turn around so he closed his eyes and strained his ears. Gwen too, had frozen and bit her lip, unable to find the courage to run away from the situation at the moment.
Finally, the royals heard one of them speak.
"My l-love w-what was?"
Her voice was soft but loud enough for Arthur to hear, confirming that Layla was indeed the sorceress he had been encountering all this while.
The man said no words and shushed his wife gently, moving his hands on her beautiful body to do the talking for him and thus causing his wife to moan in pleasure.
Hearing the distraction, Gwen tugged her husband by the hand, quickly but as quietly as possible out of the area.
That was beyond embarrassing...
The next morning
The knights, Merlin and Hunith watched as the residing couple in the cottage, begrudgingly enter the room with black bags underneath their eyes.
"What plagues you in your dreams milord?" Percival asks, worried.
The two just sighed and settled into their chairs where Hunith immediately began handing them their breakfast, studying them as she did so.
What could have happened?
Gwaine however who like Mordred and Merlin only slept for 4 hours didn't seem bothered.
"Don't worry everyone, I bet they were just shagging all night."
Much to the man's amusement, he saw the couple flush however everyone else knew better.
If they did was Gwaine had said, the couple would be in an insanely good mood but this was different.
"That isn't it...so what happened?" Leon asked, clapping his friend on the shoulder.
Arthur looked down at his plate as he spoke while his wife fumbled around with the eggs on her plate with her fork.
"I had the idea of going to the Hot Spring with Gwen late last night but when we got there, there was already a couple there...engaging in intimate relations..."
The reactions were immediate.
Gwaine whistled whilst the other knights and Hunith showed embarrassment on their faces however it was Merlin that had the loudest reaction. He spat out his orange juice and covered his mouth.
God...that was them?!
Everyone stared at Merlin, surprised but the dragonlord paid no heed because his eyes were closed and his mind was working quickly.
They couldn't have seen my face or Layla's because if they did, Arthur would have woken me out of bed to demand an explanation.
But damn, to be seen in such moments with your wife is so embarrassing...
"Merlin"
The man looked up and his mother passed him a towel. He took it gratefully to clean up.
"Geez Merlin, that was some spitting there."
Gwaine's joke made everyone chuckle, the atmosphere now less tense than before.
Leon turned to Arthur, squeezing his shoulder.
"So your dreams were plagued by this intimate couple?"
The knights snickered but Gwen on the other hand was not amused.
"We were restless and didn't sleep" she snapped as she stabbed at her bacon with her fork.
Mordred was curious at the couple's unusual mood, "How come?"
Gwaine leaned his body to the side to whisper in the teen's ear, "They were becoming really hot and bothered."
Merlin who heard them, chuckled however Arthur was unamused.
"After breakfast, I need to go on a walk to clear my head."
"Need some company Arthur?" asks his manservant, wary of his bad mood.
"No thank you. I want to do it alone."
"Please be careful when you're by yourself milord" Percival tells the blonde.
Arthur nods and continues eating his food, not saying anything else.
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