A/N: Sorry for the gap, I'm a university student okay.

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After witnessing someone lose their head, it takes Amelia a while to recover due to the fact that she comes out of the situation traumatised. Amelia has quite a few nightmares about what she saw for a couple of years after but Gaius and Helen, as well as Morgana, bring her a lot of comfort. She supposes the one good thing that came out of this situation is that she is able to grow closer to Gaius more than she already had because before there were not many opportunities for Amelia to spend time with him because she was considered too young to spend too much time in his chambers due to all the chemicals and artefacts in there. However, after the execution, he allows her to spend more time with him and tries to teach her about medicine and the like while growing closer and he becomes more like a grandfather to her as the years go by.

Another thing that Amelia has slipped down from her list of priorities is meeting the dragon due to how she was always too young to be left on her own and was constantly watched so Amelia was unable to search for the entrance to where he was kept. But when she was 8, she seizes her chance.

Amelia knows that the Dragon is kept below Camelot and Merlin was able to get to him by going through the Dungeons so she knows she has to start there. Being small is an advantage as this means that people do not notice her much and Amelia is more able to hide so as not to be caught. After sneaking past the Guards located by the stairs, she begins to wander deeper into the Dungeons and right into the depths until she reaches a set of very familiar steps leading into the darkness.

Amelia notices that the gates do not seem to be locked, which she finds very strange. Amelia supposes that Uther did not think anyone would try to go down there and is not worried about the dragon escaping as it is chained up. She decides not to think about it too much and just be thankful she does not have to work out how to open the gates before pushing them open.

At this moment Amelia remembers her fear of the dark and grabs a torch that sat next to the gates out of its handle, which is a bit difficult as she is not very tall and struggles to hold it as well. Amelia then begins the descent. After what she feels was too long, she comes to the end of the stairs and onto what Amelia calls 'Merlin's platform'.

"Hello?" Amelia calls out feeling a bit awkward as it seems she is calling out to no one. "Hellooooo?" Amelia almost calls out for a third time before the flapping of large wings makes her close her mouth.

She watches as the Dragon flies down from above towards the large rock in front of her. Amelia can't believe that he is in front of her; he seems so much larger gliding down to the rock in front of her than he did on screen. Amelia can not help but stare at him with her mouth hanging open.

"Ah, hello young one." Kilgharrah literally booms causing her to snap her mouth shut.

"You know who I am?" Amelia questions hopefully. "Good 'cause I have a few questions," She says while actually putting her hands on her hips, which probably looks quite comical as she is physically 8 years old.

"Of course you do," he chuckles. "You want to know why you are here."

"Well obviously!" Amelia says angrily. "I shouldn't be here! I should be dead!"

"You were reborn into this world for a very important reason." Kilgharrah continues.

"Really and what's that?" Amelia implores.

"To fulfil your destiny." He answers.

"My destiny!" Amelia exclaims. Well, this is a typical fanfic component.

"Yes young one," Kilgharrah says obviously ignoring most of her muttering and exclamations. "You will one day face two paths. One that will lead you to the light and one to the dark."

"What does that mean?" Amelia asks. "Do I have magic then?"

"All will be revealed young one," Kilgharrah responds before beginning to fly away. "One day."

"Wait I've got one more question!" Amelia cries trying to stop him from leaving.

"Goodbye young one," he says. "We will meet again soon."

"Please wait! Who was that woman when I arrived?! Is she someone important? Who was she?!" Amelia cries desperately knowing it is pointless as he has already left her sight but tries anyway.

Amelia does not know whether that meeting gave her more questions or even answered any of her original but after that, she feels like she has a more important role in this new world than she did before and that she'll likely play a big part in the future.

Life basically continues on as normal. Well as normal as a fantasy world that used to be fictional with one of the people, i.e her, being mentally older than their own body can be. So normal-ish she would say. Though Amelia is a little blind on what will happen in between now and when Merlin arrives, which makes her a little nervous.

However, one incident that causes the normal-ish flow to be broken is when Gorlois dies. When Amelia is 9, making Morgana 10 years old, Uther had sent Gorlois into some battle, don't ask what battle or what for cause since she was 'only 9' they don't tell her anything, but had died, again she doesn't know anymore. Morgana is initially inconsolable when she learns of his death and the only person she will talk to is Amelia. It is strange comforting Morgana, who now believes that she is an orphan, knowing that Uther is her father. With this knowledge, Amelia cannot help but observe Uther often, particularly in the company of Morgana, to see what he is feeling. He never gives much away, always staying impassive.

The peace is later again broken the next year when Amelia begins to have nightmares (visions of the future). Now she is originally in denial about what kind of nightmares it is as she does not want to believe that, like Morgana, Amelia is having dreams of the future, but when some of them begin to happen, she begins to realise that her worst nightmares have become a reality. Literally.

At first, they are not too specific, things like Amelia dreaming that there will be a storm and that her, Morgana and Arthur won't be able to go riding like they wanted to and it is not too strange but then they do get quite specific. For example, dreaming that Helen's horse when she is riding it, will get spooked by a storm that was coming in and making her fall off hurting her leg and then not being able to ride again for a while then it actually happening, leaving Amelia a bit spooked.

Amelia "learns" that Morgana is also having dreams as well around the same time when she confides in her about what she has dreamt. Some of their dreams are sometimes the same, sometimes one will have a dream and the other wouldn't. As Amelia is in Camelot for the majority of the time due to her lessons, they will often sneak into each other's beds, they share a room, comfort each other then fall asleep in the other's bed.

Amelia is the first one to decide that they should go to Gaius as she knows that this will help calm Morgana down but also he will provide them with sleeping draughts, which she knows will initially work and that is what she needs for the time being. Gaius is very caring and understanding about their situation and though Amelia knows he is not really telling them the truth, she can tell by his face that he is scared about what will happen as he knows what this symbolises.

The frightening part of her dreams of the future became a real reality when Amelia turned 13. She has a horrible dream one night of Helen and George leaving Camelot on a ride to spend some time together and getting attacked and killed. She wakes up screaming so loud that her new maid, Emma, wakes up and has to comfort her and tell her it was all a dream so she will go back to sleep, though Amelia fears it wasn't.

This dream occurs while she, Helen and George are not at Camelot Castle but in their "home" in the countryside. This means that she does not have Morgana or Gaius to offer comfort or understanding. Amelia still only lives in the castle temporarily now and again while Morgana, since Gorlois' death, has begun to live in the castle permanently as Uther's ward.

When Helen and George a couple of days later announced they are going for a ride with just the two of them, Amelia panics, fearing this is the day and begs them not to go. But since she is only "a little girl", they ignore her and tell her that everything will be alright though they assure her that they will be careful.

Amelia is right to be fearful as when it is nearing night and they have not returned, a couple of their male servants leave to search for them and come across their bodies. They had clearly been attacked. Even though Amelia never truly saw them as her parents, they were a good second and had cared for and looked after her for 13 years and she is still devastated when she learns what had happened. Almost immediately they, her and the servants, pack all of Amelia's things including items of Helen's and George's that she wants to keep and leave for Camelot Castle.

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