The Night We Met- Modern Merthur (Arthur returns)

Bonus Chapter 1: The Headache

The first bonus chapter. I am going to write some more when I get the time or another idea. 

Merlin decided to take the boys out to do something fun one night. He found an arcade nearby and thought teaching them games would be amusing. Especially because Arthur and Gwaine's competitiveness was never ending. There were too many coins wasted over the claw machines by Arthur because he couldn't understand the concept of a scam and he didn't want to admit defeat to a machine despite Merlin telling him it was impossible to win. In the end, the king managed to get the claw on a white unicorn teddy, with a secret spell by the warlock. Arthur had been getting physically furious at the machine and Merlin thought he may as well give him a little help. The unicorn was pushed into Merlin's arms, "told you I could get it. That's for you," grinned Arthur.

"For me?" Merlin smiled up at him.

"Yes," his arms wrapped around Merlins neck, "because I killed that unicorn and now I'm getting you a new one." The smaller boy laughed and brought his lips to Arthur's, kissing him. The teddy being squashed between their torsos. They reminded Merlin of two lovestruck teenagers on their first date, but they had to make up for the time they missed somehow.

Gwaine came around the row of claw machines with Leon, wolf whistling. "Can't keep off eachother, can you, lovebirds? Even in public?"

Arthur sent Gwaine a rude hand gesture, without moving away from Merlin. Merlin laughed against his mouth, "that's not nice, Arthur."

"It's Gwaine," shrugged the blonde, he put his arm around Merlins shoulders.

"We need more money, Merlin," Gwaine asked.

"Already?!"

"I needed to beat Leon at the car race game," his voice lilted with reasoning.

"I still won every time," Leon added with a smug look, "and at the shooting too."

"Fuck you, no need to brag."

"As if you wouldn't brag either."

"Alright," interrupted Arthur, "where to next?"

"The test of strength," Gwaine stated dramatically.

"What?" Merlin questioned. Gwaine led them through the dark dimly lit room to a boxing machine. Merlin's eyebrows rose in realisation, "the punching machine?"

"Yeah," Gwaine mimicked throwing two punches in the air, "I am so going to win, my nickname is literally strength."

"Pass me a coin, Merlin," Leon scoffed at Gwaine's confidence and took the coin Merlin pulled out from his pocket. Once the coin was in the slot, he braced himself to punch. No one had expected that the winner towards the end would be Merlin. He'd beaten Gwaine by a hundred points who was closely followed by Leon and Arthur tied one point behind him.

Gwaine walked around Merlin inspecting him closely, "what the hell, mate? How did you do that?"

Arthur frowned, "you didn't do magic, right?"

"No, I didn't. You were watching me the entire time!"

Gwaine was looking at Merlin incredulously, "you're a stick, Merlin! You don't have any muscles!" He poked the warlock's arm.

"There's a trick and I've learnt it but I'm not going to tell you how to do it," he boasted proudly.

"Damn you," Gwaine stuffed the unicorn back into his arms and took some coins to his next game. Arthur and Leon went off to play Pac-Man for the second time, so Merlin followed the long-haired knight. He had stopped at the game called whac-a-mole with interest, Merlin thought Gwaine's short fuse would burn fast and was not a good idea.