Time seems to fly by us, as Morgana's the first one to excuse herself from the table as she and Gwen go back to her chambers. It's another hour or so later that Uther bids us goodnight himself, leaving right after saying that too.
"Merlin you ca-" "Sit!" I interrupted Arthur as he was trying to make Merlin leave us two alone together. Merlin looks at the both of us, only to then sit by Arthur. I was slightly mad at Arthur more than Merlin, but they still both put themselves in danger for me.
"What did you two do when I was dying from that poison?" I ask both of them, eyeing them slightly, just waiting for someone to say something. They look at each other, sighing loudly as if they were caught red-handed by me.
"I disobeyed my father's orders to stay at the castle to save your life, Mira you were dying, I couldn't handle it anymore, seeing you like that, the both of us went to get the flower that saved your life." Arthur tells me.
"You could've gotten hurt, killed even! It was dangerous what you both did, but..." I stop, only for them to stare at me still.
"I would've done the same thing if it was one of you that was the one who drank from that goblet." I say smiling at them this time, both doing the same too. Merlin leaves after a while, Arthur and I walk around the castle for some time.
"I should've thanked the both of you for what you did for me." I tell him, pulling my cloak tighter around myself as it's kind of cold in the castle tonight.
"What's on your mind, Mira I can see somethings bothering you greatly?"
Arthur asks me once I invited him into my chambers so we could talk. My shoulders slump down as I look away from him, busying my hands with anything I could find at this moment. At this point, my hands wouldn't stop shaking like crazy until Arthur's hands wrap around my own I couldn't stop looking at them for some time.
"Why me, why do you care for me so much?"
My voice cracks a couple of times when saying this only for him to turn me around as our hands are still touching; until he lets go of mine only to place a finger under my chin so I'll look up at him, his sparkling blue eyes staring into my brown ones.
"Because I think you're beautiful, kind, good-hearted, caring for others, you brighten up any room you come into, you've made my father smile and Morgana thinks you have taken a place in her heart to call you a sister, she's happier with you around, same with everyone really, even me. I'm not sure why, but ever since Merlin and I found you, I feel that we connected, I can't explain it at all. But why are you doubting yourself?" He asks for the last part really.
"For years I've been yelled at, beaten, bruised, stabbed, cut-up from the ones who I called family, I don't want that to happen again, I want to breathe without feeling scared that they'll find me and hurt me again. For so long, I felt alone but now I have you and everyone around me in the castle and I never want that to be ripped from under me. I can't help but feel things for you that are harder for me to understand, even it's hard to understand myself anymore. If anything happened to any of you I couldn't live with myself, I would fight by everyone's side, by yours for as long as I'm breathing and fighting for my life. No matter what I want, I want to be by your side because you are my life." I explain to him, eyes staring right into mine still.
"You'll never need to run again, they can't hurt you anymore because I'll make sure they'll pay for what they did to you. Like I said this all before, you make this place better. I would fight for you like you said the same before. I promise you'll never be alone again." He says to me, for him to wipe my tears away from my face before I rest my head against his chest as he hugs me tightly.
"If you need to talk to me because you're feeling this way ever again just send someone to get me because I'm here for you no matter what, day and night." He whispers again in my hair, rubbing my back slowly. His scent fills my senses, as it calms me down enough to end up falling asleep in his arms.
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((ARTHUR'S POV))
I softly laugh not to wake her up as I notice she fell asleep as I was holding her just now, so I pick her up laying her in her bed, and lay the covers on top of her as she sighs in her sleep once I sweep a piece of her hair out of her face, bending down to kiss her forehead, pulling away from her after a bit seeing her smiling as she sleeps, making me smile as I quickly/quietly walk to the door of her chambers opening it as softly as I can to not wake her. I can hear her mumbling in her sleep as I turn to see her, then closing the door. Both Sir Leon and Tristian are standing on the other side of the corridor, I just look at them both nodding understanding that I want her door to be guarded at all times during the night as I walk back to my chambers to go to bed.
I wake up slightly before dawn, wanting to watch the sunrise from my window, seeing the colors always helps me to think. I'm excited to spend the whole day with Mira and Morgana, but I wish it was just Mira and me alone. I think back to what she and I talked about last night, with how upset she was when we were in her chambers. Even what she told me that they did to her made me see red, I want to protect her from the whole world now, my feelings for her still grow day and night.
"You're thinking about her are you?" I hear from behind me, seeing Merlin standing there as he sets down the things he must've finished cleaning last night for me in a basket, a smirk on his face as I nod at him now with my own smirk too.
"You like her?" He asks, I nod again this time.
"She knows I care for her deeply and she does me, we talked last night after you left she just wanted someone to talk to." I tell him placing a hand on his shoulder, smiling. He and I talk about the plans that I have for the whole day, he actually helped with making a couple of them as well.
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The Shapeshifter Witch and Future Queen: Lady Mira/Arthur Pendragon (((SMUT)))
Fantasy(((BBC MERLIN))) Mira's been through a lot, even being King Cenred's twin sister. Not understanding from a young age that there's a curse on the girl's side of her family. It was a curse that started when her mother died because it was the doin...
