He pulled my sleeve up to see what it was, and when he did he looked at me shocked.

"What are you doing with the druid marking on your arm, little sister?"

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ARABELLA'S POV

I knew that this would have come up eventually, so I wasn't very surprised when he asked.

"Brother, please just wait a little longer, for I am telling Arthur and the rest of the knights in a few minutes. If you can wait until then you will know everything." I told Gwaine as I grasped his hands in mine and met his eyes. He nodded grudgingly and we went back to catching up until the meeting, where things would get interesting.

When it came time for the meeting, we walked to the round table room together and Gwaine went to sit down while I stood next to Mordred. When Gwaine sat down, he looked around until he found me, he gestured for me to go sit by him, but I shook my head. A few minutes later, all of the chairs at the table were filled, along with other people standing around the room. In my nervous state, I reached over and grabbed Mordred's hand. He squeezed it but didn't let go knowing that I needed the comfort.

"Knights, friends, welcome. This meeting however, is not about me, or this kingdom, but a newcomer to us. She came to us, simply looking for her brother, but she told us that she has much more to tell us, which is why she has called this meeting. Arabella, the floor is yours." Arthur nodded to me and I walked over, bringing Mordred with me, and started telling my story.

"Well, my story starts where my brothers leave off, he told everyone how our mother had pleaded for the king to help us, but I did not go with them to meet with the king. I instead stayed with another family living in our village. One day, I decided to go and pick flowers by myself on the outskirts of our village, only to find that a group of bandits were waiting for me. The grabbed me and before I could scream, they had tossed me into a cage with two other girls, and started riding away, taking me from my home. I had never in my life known fear, until the moment where I was captured.

"The other girls and I stayed huddled together, for days we rode, not stopping for anything, until the cage stopped suddenly and all of the men were sent flying into trees or just out of the way and away from us. I quickly looked all around us and saw a group of people wearing hoods walking towards us from every direction. I wasn't afraid, I knew that they weren't there to hurt us," I turned to smile up at Mordred. "Then I saw a boy around my age with the most magnificent eyes standing at the cage door staring at me. The men wearing cloaks started chanting and the cage door blasted off and I crawled out and stood in front of this boy. He held out his hand for me to take, and, when I took it, he led me away from the cage and towards their camp. I was rescued from these brutes by a group of Druids, a group of people I had never met. I stayed with them for around two winters, before the Druids decided that my destiny would be closer to coming to pass if I were to be adopted by a far away king.

"In that time, I had gotten closer to that boy, until I cared for him in the only way that a six year old could. I was sad to leave my best friend, but I knew that I must, so together with the group leader, the three of us made our journey to the land of King Vincent.

When we got there and he saw me and was told my story up until that point, he was only too glad to adopt me, for he had no children of his own and his wife had died of an illness. So when the time came for me to say goodbye to my best friend, I waved goodbye and walked over to my new guardian sadly. I lived there for several years, still moping in a way that, apparently, would drive Arthur mad," I smiled in said King's direction.

"The king then asked me about my family. When he found out that all I had left was my older brother, he offered to send a few knights out to look for him. From then on, I was the happiest I had ever been, and the king started having tutors brought in for me to learn how to be a noble, and other things that noblewomen need to know, including lessons to teach me more about music. Then he also brought in my nanny, Magdalena. She kept me kind and humble when I wanted to act like a brat. I lived with him for years never wanting for anything until he gave me some of the best news he could. He had found the only thing I truly wanted with all of my heart that he could not give me. He had found my brother. Through finding him, I also found the little boy with magnificent eyes who had saved me from brutal bandits, all grown up, but with the same eyes I had come to love." I turned and rested my head on Mordred's shoulder, he responded by resting his head on mine.

I could feel my powers trying to calm everyone down, but instead they were making me more nervous. Mordred could feel it, so he wrapped his arms around me and held me until I started to calm down. When I did I kissed him on the cheek, and looked over to my brother, to see him fuming and staring angrily at the top of the table. I rushed over to my brother and sat on his lap pulling him into my arms, and he wrapped his arms around my waist, his face hidden in my hair as I used my power to calm him down. After a few minutes, he was calm enough for me to turn in his lap to nod at Gwen and Arthur before I stood up. I walked back over to Mordred, took him by the hand, and walked out the room with him.

I walk over to the stables where the servants had prepared two horses for us along with a small basket of food. I mounted one horse while Mordred mounted the other. I rode in front of him, leading him to a clearing I had found, where I stopped to lay out the blanket I had brought as he brought over the basket and pillows that were strapped to his horse. He put the pillows down and I immediately laid down on them as he opened the basket and pulled out plates of fruit meat and cheese. He looked over at me and lay down with me putting his arm behind my head and I finally started to relax.

"I don't know what to do Mordred! I can't tell them about the prophecy, or about what I have to do for their peace! You, Gaius, and possibly Merlin are the only ones who know what I must do. I don't know how many more of these secrets I can keep from my brother. He is going to ask so many questions that I am not allowed to answer. If you weren't with me I don't know if I could do this, without you there to help me get through everything!" I moved my head to his chest from his shoulder, and I wrapped my arm around his waist. We lay there for a minute, until I sat up, grabbed the plate of fruit and set it on his stomach.

I grabbed a berry and held it up to his mouth for him to take a bite of. He did, but he pulled me back down, and he picked up another berry to feed to me, and we continued doing that until all of the berries were gone. We then just laid there until, all of a sudden heard the sound of horses galloping toward us, and Mordred grabbed his new sword and jumped up in front of me in defense. When the rider came into sight, I groaned and pulled Mordred back down.

"Gwaine, what are you doing here? How did you know where to find me?" I was a little bit frustrated that our moment was being interrupted, though I was curious as to who told him about this spot.

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here with him? What is going on between you two, and how do you know him?" I looked at my older brother in disbelief, had he not listened to the last part of my story? I asked him just that, and he had the decency to at least look ashamed. He told me that he had stopped listening after the part where I had been adopted by the king.

"Also, I am here because the king wishes to speak with you, probably about your story, or at least parts of it that may concern this kingdom." He was still glaring at Mordred, so I decided to show him how upset I was with him.

"Fine, we will go see him, but you must clean up all of this by yourself, and if you ask or tell Merlin to do it, I will find out!" I pulled Mordred up and we walked over to our horses and rode back to the Camelot.