So, one by one, the secrets are starting to come out. I haven't yet decided how this fic is going to end, you can be sure, though there's going to be a happy end

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NimbusNight2405

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Morgana was speechless. It isn't an easy realization to make that your father is helping your enemy. Is, in fact your enemy. An ally of the man that is trying to make your life unbearable at the moment, just because you are curious to know about your past. She tried to remember her parents. From all she had heard about them from Uther, Ygraine (before she died), Arthur who was 3 years older, they were a normal, loving couple. Nothing interesting and nothing unusual. How on earth did Gorlois manage to foul his wife, his closest friends, everyone?

And how dare he, Morgana thought, marry a woman so that he could help his best friend get her out of the way!

Morgana realised that they hadn't yet confirmed the way in which Uther and Gorlois had hurt her mother. They should work on it, she thought. Build a case and use it against Uther and Gorlois. Till five minutes ago, for all her life she had longed to see her father one more time, just to speak to him, ask him all the questions she didn't have the chance to. But from all she knew, he was dead and she was never going to see him again. The expected reaction at learning that, after all, he was alive would be a happy one. However, now more than ever, Morgana felt betrayed. Alone. And very scared.

So this is why she never knew that Uther was her real father, she thought. Gorlois and he were friends. They shared everything and hid everything from the rest of the world.

Merlin switched position on the sofa and brought Morgana out of her thoughts. She looked at him, waiting for him to say something.

"Let's go have some rest, Morgana," he told her. "Tomorrow we can think about all this with a clearer mind"

She nodded and followed him.

Next morning, when Morgana awoke, Merlin wasn't at her side. She hastily put on a robe and went down to the kitchen. Hunith was there

"Good Morning, dear. Are you in search of Merlin? He's out. I don't know where to, though"

Morgana smiled weakly as the memories of last night flooded her mind. Gorlois, Uther, their friendship. One by one, she was beginning to doubt every friend and relation of hers. Two of the most important for her had just proven to be set against her. The very foundation of everything she believed in had just been ruined.

She ate her breakfast – hot milk and some chocolate biscuits- in silence. After some time, Merlin came in.

"Where were you?" she asked him quietly, obviously not in good mood.

"I just went to the café we went yesterday to ask the barman if he knew who this man was. I didn't want to wake you."

"And? Did he know him?"

"Yes. Well, sort of."

"Meaning?"

"That he has been coming regularly he last few days but he has never really talked to anyone and is clearly up to something."

"Well, that we know it for ourselves."

They giggled at that and Merlin went over to the kitchenette to make himself some coffee.

"So, next step?" Morgana asked over lunch. They had spent a perfectly ordinary morning, doing the housework. Morgana seemed to have accepted the facts, to a point at least.

"Oh, I don't know. Something I thought, what if Gorlois is in fact going to be at the Green Knight today at 8. And Uther goes too to see what's happening?"

"That's going to be fun" Morgana laughed. "We can't miss it"

"That's what I thought too."

"So, let's do everything that needs to be done till seven thirty. Then, it's party time" Merlin joked and they stood up to put the dishes in the dishwasher.

A few hours later, they put on their coats and left for the location Gorlois Le Fay had indicated. It was a café, actually more of a pub, at the corner of a street. A sign with the name of it was hanged from the wall. They stayed inside the car and turned on the radio. After a couple of minutes, they heard cars beeping and turned off the music so that they could see for themselves what was happening.

Morgana popped her head out of the window but soon she put it back in, laughing. It's Uther. He couldn't think not to take his huge Porsche for a walk to go to an infamous pub. He had to make himself a legend again."

Their laugh was cut abruptly as Uther parked his huge car right next to theirs. Morgana and Merlin had to lower themselves almost under the seats so that they were sure he wouldn't see them.

Uther got put of the car looking warily around and stopped in front of theirs to light a cigarette. He had every right to be cautious, Morgana thought. Someone had hacked his e-mail account and had scheduled for him a meeting with Gorlois. Uther coughed. They both held their breaths. He seemed to scrutinize the car's sign and for a moment both Merlin and Morgana were quite sure he had found them. Then he turned his head as obviously someone had called him from behind. Another man, in his fifties, with black hair and black eyes appeared in front of them. Morgana couldn't believe this was her father. She remembered him so different. Merlin opened slightly the car's window so that they would be able to hear the conversation.

"Do I know you from somewhere?" was Uther's reply to whatever the man had said that Merlin and Morgana did not hear.

"Yes. My name is Agravaine" the man said plainly.

They were not expecting Uther's reaction to the man's words. He ran to him and hugged him. "My very dear brother" he said with a broad smile. "How did you know were to find me?"

"I work for your friend, Gorlois. He told me to come here in his place and tell you that he is going to be a little late."

It was out. What they had just a speck of hope that would be rejected had just been confirmed. Gorlois was very much alive and a friend of Uther's. And this strange black haired man was Morgana's uncle, even though she had never met him.

"Ah, Gorlois. Never on time, it seems. The only problem is that it wasn't me who summoned you here tonight." Uther said.

"If it wasn't you, then who was it?" Agravaine asked. He wasn't of the brightest sort, apparently.

"I don't know. Or at least I don't know for sure. But when I do you can be confident that they will have the same fate as our dear Vivienne. We've done it once. What harm can come from doing it once more?"

That's it. Now we now for sure what Uther is. Drop a line and tell me what you make of it