Timeless

The Water

"You do realize that it's only 3:30 in the afternoon right?" Merlin says as she pulls up to a huge house that has cars parked everywhere. "Why are we here so early exactly?"

Holly turns the car off and turns to look at Merlin with a hard stare, which looks even more intimidating because of her hair and outfit. Sorta. "Merlin, honey. Listen to me. And listen closely." She says and grabs his hands making him frown at her weird behaviour. "You need to get out. Like, outside and be social. You need to meet others- and no not for a one night stand like Archer. Now here is the answer to your question, people who like to party and celebrate holidays always start early so it seems to last longer. Get with the program for once Merlin and maybe get your head from the past and into the present." She says before letting go of his hands and getting out of the car, leaving Merlin to think of what she just said.

He frowns after a few moments and he finally climbs out of his car and smoothness out his shirt and feels weird being in these clothes.

Where did he get them from?

Why is this now just occurring to him?

"Merlin!" He hears Holly shout and he looks up to see her standing by the door looking at him like he's on drugs or something along those lines.

He looks beside her and sees her friend- Jessica- chuckling as Holly looks back at her and says something then they both look at Merlin before Holly throws her head back and groans.

"Merlin lets go!" She tells and Merlin finally moves towards them and stands beside Holly as Jessica looks his outfit over and giggles.

"Nice clothes Merlin." She says as she lets us inside and he rolls his eyes but smiles either way.

He walks in and a bunch of people are dressed up as random characters from random stuff. From animals to monsters to nurses.

He turns to look at Holly. "Am I the only one as a myth? An old folk tale?" He asks scrunching up his face as Holly laughs nodding her head.

"Yes."

"You're awful. I hope you know that." He says turning back around and goes straight to the kitchen for a nice strong drink.

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"Merlin what are you doing?" Holly asks coming over with a drink in her hand. You can tell that this is definitely not her first and he highly doubts it's going to be her last.

"I'm sitting here ignoring most people who make Merlin jokes at me." He says taking a long sip of whatever is in his cup. Something with alcohol that's for sure.

Holly giggles. "Well why by yourself? Merlin, find someone." She sings the end before walking away, her tan trench coat flapping behind her.

Merlin chuckles taking another sip of his drink. Maybe he'll get drunk enough to forget this night and not go home alone if he's lucky.

Yeah to stuffy in here he thinks as he throws his cup out and makes his way outside to the backyard and faces the woods as the music plays loud in the house, so loud he can hear every word coming from some song.

"Oh Merlin!" He sighs and looks behind him to see Holly with some guy dressed in jeans, a plaid button up shirt and a leather jacket making Merlin even more confused on who he's suppose to be. "Where's your prince Arthur?" She giggles as it seems mystery boy and her are clinging to each other to hold each other up right. He turns around to face the woods again feeling weird.