Hi guys. *sighs in exhaustion"

It's been a very long week and I just now had the time to keep up with my fiction. Sorry for the wait.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Merlin.

"What?" They just stood there staring at Mordred. They couldn't have heard right. It was already too much to take in that someone was watching their computer. To learn that this someone was Lancelot, their dear friend, it was…unexpected.

"It kind of makes sense" Merlin said, after a couple of minutes in silence.

"What do you mean?"

"Back at mom's." he said. "Who else other than Lancelot had the chance to mess with my computer?"

"Oh" the realization was sudden and made sense. Result? One more enemy to creep behind every step of them. They were beginning to swim in too deep waters for their strength, Morgana thought. How could Uther have connections with everyone? How had they managed to get themselves into such a horror story?

"Mordred, what did you tell him on the phone?" Morgana said frantically. Mordred and Merlin looked at her.

"That I had accidentally entered wrong number." Mordred told her. "You don't have to worry about it. Consider yourselves lucky that he told me his name"

"Good"

"So what do we do?" Merlin asked.

"You will first tell me what's going on." Mordred insisted.

"Merlin, we need to warn Arthur. I guess it's time we told him everything."

"Okay" Merlin obviously was not very excited about telling Arthur Pendragon the full truth about his father.

"Mordred, you will come too. It's a long story and it will be better if we discuss it all together." Morgana invited him. "You could come to our place for the night. It's been long since we last were there, but I doubt they will search for us again in our old apartment."

"I will go and get the car" Merlin announced and left.

Morgana paid the bill and they waited for Merlin to come and get them.

"Mordred?" she asked him. "Are you sure you want to get involved?"

"Of course I am"

"You are young, and you have studies, and friends. I don't want you to get in danger" she stroked his arm. She had always been very protective of the boy.

"Come on, Morgana. You know me; I know how to stay out of trouble."

"Oh, I know that" she smiled. Little Mordred was a quiet boy that always let the other go first and spoke only when he needed to.

"Do you have friends here? Or, I don't know, a girlfriend perhaps?" she winked at him.

"Actually both" he said.

"Awww, sweet little Mordred has found himself a girlfriend" she teased him but then hugged him, unable to believe that the little boy had become a grown man. He blushed but laughed at her comment.

"Her name is Cara" he said.

"How is she?"

"She is…great" Mordred said. "I feel like I just…"

"…want to spend your entire life with her" Morgana finished the sentence for him. "I know the feeling too"

"Merlin?"

"Merlin" she agreed.

Merlin had just come from the corner with the car and stopped right in front of them. He opened the car window and joked. "All aboard"

They got in.

"Morgana can you text your brother to come with Gwen at our house as soon as possible?"

"Yeah, sure" she took out her mobile from her bag and texted to identical messages to Arthur and Gwen.

Come now at our house. The old one. ASAP, it's important.

"Done" she said.

"What have you written? Are they going to come worrying if we are still alive?"

Morgana made a grimace. "I think that we are anyway going to worry them. And we should be worrying about that too" she rested her head on the back of the car seat, suddenly pessimistic. What were they going to achieve with all the research they were doing? Were they just trying to survive or did they have a further goal? Uther's punishment could be it, she thought often. But would it be a satisfaction and reward for her to send her own father to jail? He was a brute, that was for certain. He didn't deserve to be free. He was a danger.

Another thought that crossed her mind was that they could not back away now. They were so much involved that even if they stopped trying, they would every day find out a new clue. Every day they were getting closer to the heart of the mystery, the reason why Uther Pendragon raped Vivienne Le Fay and then killed her. They could try and find it as soon as possible or they could ignore the clues and attempt to live a normal life. But their life would never be normal. Her father was a killer. Her stepfather too. Her mother was dead by their hands, Uther's and Gorlois'. How could she ignore all that? How could she not want to take revenge for her mother's death? She opened her eyes with renewed strength and determination.

They were already just outside the building. Merlin got out and offered her an arm to come in.

"Our home" Merlin leaned and whispered in her ear as they got in. She smiled.

They just took a look around. Everything was just as they had left it, when they, with Gwen's help, had tricked Helios and had left for Hunith's.

The doorbell rung and Morgana went to answer.

Arthur and Gwen appeared. Gwen when she saw Morgana fell on her arms and hugged her as if she was sending her off to war. Arthur looked at her the same way too. She realized what Merlin meant by "not worry them too much".

"I'm fine Gwen" she tried to assure her friend.

"What is going on?" she asked her.

"Come in" she led them to the living room. Merlin and Mordred were already there, ready. After she introduced her brother and her friend to Mordred they all sat down apart from Morgana who stood in front of them.

"So, it's been a lot we haven't been telling you, lately" Morgana started. "Gwen, you know it up to a point, and I can guess that you have told most of it to Arthur."

"Most of it" Gwen agreed. Morgana was sure that Gwen had decided to leave out the part that Morgana was Uther's biological daughter.

"We have agreed that you have a right to know the rest of it." She continued.

"Arthur" she turned to her brother. She looked at him, almost pleadingly, worried about his reaction to the news. "We are siblings."

Arthur's jaw fell at the words. His face showed no feelings though. Morgana scrutinized his face for any sign of emotion. None appeared.

"You knew it." She said slowly. It was the only explanation.

"Only suspected" he said blankly. "Why would you hide that from me Morgana? I thought we were close, trusted each other."

"Arthur, you can't imagine what we have gone through for knowing it. I could never put you in our place."

She looked away from her brother to prevent herself from crying. If she started she knew that she would not be able to stop, and it was urgent that the tell Arthur, Gwen and Mordred everything. She waited until she was sure that her voice would not be shaky and continued. "We share a father, Arthur. My mother was Vivienne"

"You mean that father cheated mother." Arthur stated in disbelief. "With Mrs Vivienne"

"That's exactly what I mean." Morgana agreed. "Bu he did not just force himself on my mother."

"But?" everyone was so engrossed in what Morgana was saying that a phone rung several times and no one cared to check it.

"Arthur, I need you to promise me that whatever I tell you now, you won't overreact. Just think about it and try to stay calm. Please."

"Fine, I can't see what could be so horrible after dad with your mother."

"Uther didn't just force himself on Vivienne. With the help of Gorlois Le Fay, we believed he killed her too."

"What?" Arthur stood up and looked Morgana in the eyes. "Morgana that's nonsense"

He told her with an expression like dealing with a five year old kid.

"It is not Arthur"

"I don't know what's gotten over you, but you are talking nonsense Morgana. What a stupid theory. You call me to your house scaring the hell out of me just to joke with me."

"Arthur, you really have to believe me" she had tears in her eyes and she was looking at him pleadingly.

"In what? Dad being a serial killer? Yeah, right. Next you are going to tell me that the earth is flat." He turned his back to Morgana and looked at Gwen.

"We have lost enough time here. Come Gwen, let's go home"

They walked to the door and left, leaving Morgana broken and Merlin and Mordred dumbfounded.

So, Arthur is being a prat again and Merlin and Morgana will have to convince him. And at the same time the UG alliance (love the term, thanks Assassin Of Syria) are plotting behind their backs. And we are getting closer and closer to th reveal!

Thanks for reading.

Yours always.