Chapter 11.

~ Que Arthur’s Dreams. ~

Mordred was stood behind Arthur. Arthur got up from his crouch at the same time as Mordred swung his sword. The young king parried the attack and twisting his sword in his hand he knocked his adversary back. Mordred stumbled giving Arthur the chance to get to his feet. Again Mordred swung his blade at Arthur, yet again Arthur parried the attack. But before Arthur could counter-attack Mordred stabbed his blade just below Arthur's heart. Arthur dropped to his knees. Mordred stood above him, watching him die. Mordred smirked. “You left me no choice.” Just then Arthur leapt to his feet and stabbed Mordred! Mordred grimaced in pain, he smiled at Arthur. Then he dropped to the floor dead..... Arthur staggered around his wound bleeding heavily. He slumped to the floor...... He had killed Mordred but had ended up dying himself. ‘I wish Merlin were here! Oh great! What a time for me to get sentimental!’ he thought sarcastically. He drifted in and out of consciousness for a while and then darkness took him over.

Dragoon the Great (Merlin in disguise) was walking through the battlefield all battles had ended and there were many lying dead from both sides. But Merlin wasn't interested in them; there was only one person he had to help more than any of the others... Arthur. He came to the place of the battle between Mordred and Arthur. He saw Mordred lying dead, he looked around for Arthur. Arthur was lying slumped against the rock face. Merlin ran over to his friend and placed his hand on Arthur's neck to check his pulse. He could feel the pulse but it was very weak. Merlin scooped Arthur up into his arms and carried him away into the forest. When he reached the forest he used magic to turn his appearance back to normal. He crouched down on the ground by Arthur's feet and started to build a small fire to keep his friend warm. He sat there by the fire watching his friend... waiting for him to wake.

Arthur woke groaning with the pain. Merlin ran over to him. "Lie back. Lie back." he said gently resting his hand on Arthur's shoulder to keep him from getting up.  Arthur raised his hand and gripped Merlin's shoulder "Where have you been?" he asked.

"It doesn't matter now."

"Ow my side." Arthur groaned.

"You're bleeding."

"Oh bleeding. For a second I thought I was dying."

Merlin sighed Arthur always knew how to make a joke out of the worst situations.

"The dragon, the Saxons. It was me." Merlin said close to tears.

"The person who defeated the Saxons was the sorcerer." Arthur said trying to console his friend.

"It was me. I have magic. I'm a sorcerer. And I use my gifts for you Arthur only for you and Camelot."

"Merlin you are not a sorcerer. I would know." Arthur said, trying to console Merlin but he also said it to console himself.

"Yea? Upastige draca!” The flames in front of them leapt up and formed a dragon flying. Merlin looked back at Arthur. He had a look of fear on his face. He tried to move to get away from Merlin, but his side was causing him unbearable pain. "Leave me." Arthur said, still moving to get away from Merlin.

"Arthur?" Merlin said his brow furrowed in confusion. This wasn't how Arthur was supposed to react at all.

"No you heard." Arthur replied solemnly. Merlin moved away from him.

~ End of Arthur’s Dreams. ~

That’s when Arthur work yelling out Merlin’s name. He blinked trying to keep the tears back from his eyes as Merlin entered the room. But the tears rolled down his cheeks anyway. Merlin sat on the bed beside Arthur.

“I’m sorry Merlin.” Arthur said, rushing to wipe away the tears.

“Arthur. What’s wrong?” Merlin asked.

“I’m sorry for how I acted when you told me about your gift. I still see your pained expression.” Arthur said, and with that he did something he had never done before and hugged Merlin. Tawni was stood in the doorway, Merlin mouthed something to her, something that looked a lot like: ‘get a sleeping draught.’ Tawni ran out of the room and scrambled through every cupboard in the house until she came across a cupboard full to the brim with sleeping draughts. She grabbed on and ran back into Arthur’s room. She handed Merlin the sleeping draught and stood there awkwardly as she watched Merlin make Arthur drink it, then when Arthur had finally fallen into a deep sleep, Merlin pulled the covers back over Arthur. He then turned to her and indicated that they should leave Arthur to sleep. “I’ve seen the way you care for him.” Tawni whispered as Merlin shut the door behind them.

“Yeah. Well….” Merlin said, embarrassed, his ears bright red. Tawni smiled and returned to her room. Merlin slowly returned to his, he was slightly rattled. He had never expected Arthur to react like that. Although had it been the other way around, Merlin was sure he would have acted similar to Arthur. He got back into his bed and tried to fall back to sleep.