Merlin: Arthur's Return (Halloween Special)

Part Three: Merlin's Undoing

Gwaine's POV

I find myself pacing the corridor upstairs outside Merlin's bedroom. It is strange how quick I have come to adapt to the way people live now including these type of houses.

I need to speak to Merlin.

I continue to pace the corridor until Merlin comes out his bedroom. He looks up and finds me pacing. I stop and approach him.

"You wish to speak to me?" he asks.

"Yeah I do," I begin.

"I am sorry Gwaine. I am sorry that I never told you. I couldn't tell Arthur he would of have me executed including Uther he would of been even worse. I had so many times when I could of told you or Arthur. Many times when I wanted too but in the end I knew I couldn't. I had no choice. I am sorry Gwaine I want you to know that but its been so long since then, so much has happened since then."

"I know. It must of been hard. I understand why you never told me. I am just so sorry that I had not been there for you when you needed me the most. If I had not been such a fool, and got myself killed. I am sorry too. Merlin are you worried?"

"Of course I am Gwaine. Even I would be stupid not too be. I fear what is going to happen. I worry that everything is going to turn out like it did last time. I don't think I can go through with it again. I don't want to watch Arthur die in front of me or die in my arms again. I don't want to be left alone again.  I am scared I will not be able to stop his fate as with you. What is to come...I am concerned about everything but we all have a destiny. We can not walk away from it. We have to face it scared or not. I wish it would be easy but its not going to be. I am immortal Gwaine. Yet again I may be the only one to live another day."

"I understand."

"I know where this is going to begin. We better go."

Merlin's POV

I stand on the bridge the Big Ben to my left and the London eye in the distance. I can feel it already consuming me. I feel sick and light headed. I know its almost upon us. I feel myself collapse to the pavement.

"Merlin what is wrong?" asks Arthur

"It's almost here. I can feel it," I say as I begin to shake and tremble.

"What is going on!" Gwaine shouts this time.

"It can't be...no why?" I now plead with myself more then anyone else.

"Oh Sir Gwaine or is it just Gwaine now. Maybe its because he can not believe that I am back," laughs the women I had come to hate, a women I had pitted and had blamed myself for how she turned out. Morgana.

"Why are you here? Why are you back?" I now ask.

"I thought you would know such a thing. You are immortal, your this almighty Emrys and you have come to know this world a lot better then any one else here. I thought you would know," she sneers.

"I don't know. I have no clue," I whisper.

"Of course you have no idea. Why would you know," she laughs.

"Leave him alone!" snaps Arthur.

"Oh dear brother," she laughs.

"What do you want revenge!" snaps Gwaine.

"Maybe," she laughs.

Gwaine glares at Morgana. I am certain Gwaine would want revenge on her. She had been the one to take his life away from him way too soon. She had been the one to ruin everything. Why is she back? All she brings is disaster and pain.

Suddenly a flash filled the air blinding everyone on the bridge. Morgana screams but it had been my own screams that ripped the air. My own screams that shocked me to the core and made everyone freeze in horror at such a horrid scream.

I open my eyes to find the creature/ human in front of me and I find my t-shirt covered in blood, the blood dripping onto the pavement. I look up at it in complete shock. People had stopped in there cars, some had pulled out cameras and one women pulled out her mobile to begin to film what is happening.

My stomach has been badly cut into. "No Camera's!" shouts the creature.

"What do you want with me?" I ask it in complete shock.

The creature goes over to the women and chucks her off the bridge into the Thames below. The creature comes back towards me as I try to get to my feet it knocks me back to the ground and I hiss in pain as it claws more down my chest.

Arthur comes running over to me sword in hand, I have no idea where he got that from. He begins to slice towards the creature and it backs away annoyed.

"This is going to be Merlin's undoing. Merlin will be put to rest!" it shouts.

I can not quite believe how he had managed to hurt me. How it had managed to come out of nowhere and knock me down with out myself even knowing. I feel so weak. He has hurt me. What am I going to do?

Suddenly the ground beneath us began to shake and the bridge begins to crumble. The creature then disappears right in front of our eyes. Gwaine and  Arthur come over to me and help me to my feet.

"Where did Morgana go?" Gwaine asks.

"I am right here!" she shouts.

"Don't you want to kill us!" Gwaine shouts again.

"Maybe," she says again.

The bridge continues to crumble and fall. "We need to get off this bridge," says Arthur.

I begin to pant really loudly. "Is he going to be okay?" Morgana asks.

"Like you care!" shouts Gwaine.

"I am not sure," I whisper.

The bridge keeps  crumbling. Suddenly Morgana shouts a spell loudly and we find ourselves of the bridge, near it but off it all the same.

We watch as the rest of the bridge crumbles and caves until it all collapses into the Thames. I look at Morgana. "You saved us," whispers Arthur.

"Maybe."

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