nonstop (merthur AU)

thirty six

gwen had been giving arthur dirty looks all morning but to be completely honest, arthur couldn't care less.

he figured it was probably because they were sitting back with percival and the other idiots.

he looked over to where the three of them usually sat to see a sad, lonely bench that seemed to be in a darker light than anything in the building.

the clattering of lunch trays would have completely overwhelmed his sensitive ears if he wasn't so distracted. merlin had somehow dropped out of arthurs universe, no matter where arthur looked he wasn't there. he wasn't distracted enough to see the nod that percival and gwaine exchanged from across the hall that made his stomach sink again

something bad was going to happen and he could feel it.

'arthur!' morgana whispered from across the table, pulling him out of his thoughts 'can i borrow you for a second?'

arthur furrowed his eyebrows at the girl, he had barely ever talked to her and now she wanted to... borrow him? whatever that meant

she started to quickly walk towards an empty hallway, arthur following behind in a confused daze

'arthur, i was wondering if you-' morgana started, fingers running through her long black hair nervously

'look im sure you're a lovely girl but i have a boyfriend and im very happy with him'

morgana scoffed and looked at arthur in disgust

'oh of course! a girl is talking to me that obviously means she wants to fuck me!' she chirped in a high pitched voice making arthur blush embarrassedly

'i just- i didn't mean anything like that' arthur attempted to apologise

'just shut up and let me talk!' she silenced him

the hallway echoed her sentence until it fell into complete silence.

'i-i shouldn't even be telling you this' morgana spoke quickly, as if the words were putting up a fight in her brain 'i could get in real trouble'

'morgana, is this putting you in danger?' arthur asked

she nodded and looked around the hallway

'then please, don't tell me' arthurs protective instincts kicked in 'are you safe? do you need any help?'

who on earth could be threatening someone's safety in high school? surely no one cares that much about this hell hole

'it's about merlin'

arthurs blood ran cold

'w-what?'

'look, i don't know the whole story but gwaine and percival we're speaking to some strange boy out the front this morning' morgana said 'they were talking about... catching someone and percival had a knife'

morgana continued when arthur gave no response

'and at first i thought - maybe it's isn't merlin, maybe im just paranoid- but then gwaine told percival that he was gonna meet him at the field after school, which is what he said to merlin in fourth period today'

arthurs heart was running faster then his brain could catch up with. he was wrong to have told himself the day couldn't get any worse that morning after the fight

'when did you say they were meeting?'

'about 2:30ish?'

'what time is it now?'

'three'

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HOLY SHIT SO I REMEMBERED MY PASSWORD!!! i couldn't reset it because i accidentally made a typo in my sign up email... fml

anyway yeah i hope you're all doing swell, will hopefully have an actually decent update tomorrow