So, I have a couple of ideas for fan fictions for the librarians tv show ( if you haven't seen it, watch it please it's awesome) and I'm thinking about making another one shot book for that, but I won't start it until I've got 50 one shots for this book. this is #40 if you're wondering :) Would you guys read it? Yay or Nay? 

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OK, so the beginning isn't a Merlin one shot, but a cast of Merlin one shot. I saw a post on tumblr of one of the crew members helping Colin up when he was chained for the episode where he was stung a serket, and this popped into my head :) But instead of a crew member, I'm going to have Bradley, Angel and Katie help him up. Then after the mini onset of the Merlin crew, I'll have the actual one shot.

Bradley wanted to do a prank, Angel wanted payback and Katie just wanted to see how this played out, so they decided to play a little prank on harmless Colin Morgan. After Bradley, Angel and Katie had helped Colin up while he was in his chains, they ran away laughing. Colin, now laughing as well, quickly developed a revenge plan. He started hopping after them but, 'tripped' on a tree root in the forest setting and fell with a yelp. Colin stopped his laughing, evened his breathing and shut his eyes, pretending to be knocked out after the fall.

"Colin?" Katie asked, noticing the abrupt stop in Colin's laughing and the yelp, turned around. The other two turned as well. As soon as the trio saw Colin on the ground, they ran toward him. 

"Colin? Colin wake up!" Bradley urged while gently shaking him. Colin, by a miracle, kept his expression neutral.

"Crud." Angel muttered while Kaite whispered "Shit." at the same time.

The trio shook him a little longer and kept saying his name and other random phrases, trying to see if he was faking or not. 

"I think we just knocked out Colin Morgan." Bradley stated the obvious.

"No duh idiot!" Katie screamed at him, beginning to panic.

The trio looked at Colin before getting scared shitless when he randomly yelled as loud as he could:

"SERVES YOU RIGHT!" 

Katie and Angel screamed and jumped while Bradley jumped and yelled "What the fuck?!"

Colin then started rolling about in hysterical laughter. 

"Y-you--should've seen- your f-faces!" Colin spat out in between laughs.

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It was a normal day in Camelot. Sort of. 

It was Yule last week, and everyone was still getting over their money shortage. Besides the King and Queen of course. 

There was one thing though, someone was stealing from the Camelot vaults. Arthur hadn't noticed until about two weeks of it going on when a quarter of the vault was not filled. He had Merlin and Gaius take three days to make a complete list of the things missing. But of course, the thief kept stealing meaning it took another week to get the list completed,with Merlin and Gaius having to  update it daily. 

Arthur kept setting trap in hopes of catching the thief, but alas, no such luck came to him. Every day Arthur became more and more frustrated meaning he took it out on Merlin who had work piled on work. With Merlin ranting about King prat, Gaius was finding more excuses. 

Everybody was starting to get fed up with the theif, who started stealing from the common people as well. Merlin and Gaius were sent to get a list of the things stolen then as well. Then the prat started piling more chores on Merlin and it got the point he barely got any sleep. He had to wake up early to get a list of the things stolen and that took two hours so he had to hurry to Arthur's room while getting his breakfast on the way. Then he got things thrown at him which resulted in a bruise. He got his list of chores which were polish the armor, sharpen the swords, mend any clothes torn, wash clothes from day before, water and feed the horses, muck the stables, clean Arthur's room, train with Arthur, and on every other day, go hunting with Arthur which meant he had to carry the weapons, carry the game, cook the game, serve the game, clean the dishes, prepare the horses and all the other crap Arthur had hm do. Plus every day Gaius has him do some rounds or find some herbs or clean the leech tank and all the daily chores as well. Then he also tries to help any other servants that need it and help the cook. 

Merlin started to over-exhaust himself. If he was lucky, he got two hours of sleep and the only meal he had every day was breakfast which was usually an apple unless Gaius was in a good mood or he woke up early. 

Of course, with his luck, he has to run into the thief when he is already having a bad enough day as it was. 

He had done all the chores he did every day except a servant for a visiting noble was sick and asked Merlin to cover for him so Merlin did. Of course this noble was abusive and demanding and Merlin got behind on every chore.

Merlin left to get some herbs late a night when he saw a figure approaching a house. Merlin being Merlin, went up to the figure and saw what he was doing. It was the thief. The thief saw him and brought out a knife without Merlin's knowledge. Merlin had managed to drag the thief toward the castle and a guard on duty saw the two struggling. The guard started advancing and announced himself. The thief saw a way out and took it. He stabbed Merlin just as the guard was getting close and ran. 

Merlin gasped and collapsed on the ground. The insomnia, dehydration, famine and pain had got to him and Merlin was out of consciousness before he even managed to hit the ground. 

The guard, who had happened to be Gwaine, made a spilt second decision to run after the thief but once he saw Merlin on the ground, all thoughts of the criminal left his mind and he picked up his best friend and all but ran to Gaius's quarters.

When Gwaine got there, Gaius was asleep but Gwaine didn't care and woke the old physician. 

" GAIUS! GAIUS WAKE UP! MERLIN NEEDS YOUR HELP!" Gwaine shook the sleeping Gaius after gently setting Merlin down on a cot near by. 

" What- Gwaine what is the mean- Merlin!" Gaius had started to yell at the knight but saw Merlin and went into action. 

" Gwaine, go report this to Arthur and get him over here. I'll need both of your help" Gaius ordered and Gwaine hurriedly ran out of the room to follow his orders.

" Oh my boy, what have you gotten yourself into" Gaius mumbled and started to get the supplies ready 

Gwaine ran through the halls and burst into Arthur's room. Gwaine practically dragged Arthur out of bed and toward the door

" Gwaine wha- what are you doing?!"  Arthur demanded 

" No time, thief struck again but this time didn't steal something. He stabbed someone and not just anybody. He stabbed Merlin" those were the magic words. Soon enough, Arthur was up and running alongside- if not faster than- Gwaine.

They got there and didn't ask questions. 

" I need you two to get Merlin's shirt off while I finish making a salve to clean his wound" Gaius said and the two did it as quickly as they could without hurting Merlin and threw his shirt aside. What they didn't expect to see but did see was Merlin almost completely covered in bruises, some healing and some fresh, and completely skin and bones. 

" God, doesn't he ever eat? and how did he get all these bruises?" Arthur exclaimed 

" Not everybody gets access to food 24/7 sire" Gaius mumbled, not really surprised by Merlin's appearance 

" I saw him giving out food to some families the other day who couldn't afford it..." Gwaine mumbled, barely able to take his eyes of his starving and hurt friend.

Gaius put the salve on a clean rag and rubbed Merlin's wound gently. He looked worried but didn't let him phase him. 

" We need to have a talk with him when he's better" Gwaine mumbled 

" I second that " Arthur said 

It took all of Gaius's willpower to not scream at the king about how it was all his fault.