Prince Merlin [Merlin Fanfic]-Discontinued

Part 1

Author's Note: All character's are played by the same actors from the show Merlin. I do not own any of them I only own the plot. I hope you enjoy.

Third-person pov.

Merlin has a lot of titles he goes by honestly it's a miracle he can keep track. In fact just thinking about all of them gave him a little bit of a headache but meh. Anyhooooooo, back to the present. Arthur decided that it was good day to go hunting even though he knows Merlin hates hunting and it's Merlin's day off...... he's such a prat. Really though Merlin is having a terrible day, it's the anniversary of his kingdom getting taken over and the whole royal family having to flee including him.

He's depressed as hell and having to trudge through the woods while constantly being called a clumsy idiot, because he has to keep the pretense of being a simple farmers boy, is annoying.

Ughhh, why couldn't he just tell them already. God he's such a chicken, they would probably help him get his kingdom back and get revenge for his father... but noooo he can't suck up the courage. He's a leader by blood. Yet, he still can't do it, he doesn't want to see the betrayal and hurt in their eyes. Apparently while he was lost in his thoughts he stopped because he was standing still and the knights and his king were nowhere to be seen. He may not like hunting that much but he's still great at it, so huffing in annoyance he searches for signs of humans and started tracking them. About ten minutes into his tracking he hears them speaking.

"Wait, where's Merlin?" Gwaine asks looking around frantically for his lost friend. Wait they seriously didn't even notice him missing until now. Wow, such great friends. Don't even get me started on their observance skills. They haven't even looked in my direction yet. You know if they ever find out about who he is he's going to train them and Arthur better, because this is just pitiful.

"He was right behind us a second ago." Percival said while worry and concern filled his eyes.

"He's probably just looking for herbs, it is Merlin after all I'm sure he's fine." said Lancelot. Even though he said that you could still see the worry in his eyes, he wasn't very convincing.

"Sire, there are known to be bandits in these woods." said Leon trying to convince Arthur.

"We should go back." said Elyan with determination in his eyes. Arthur rolled his eyes at all of them.

"You don't need to try to convince me to go and look for him, he's as much my friend as he is yours...... if any of you tell anyone I said that I'll put you in the stocks for a week." he said with a serious expression. They smiled fondly at the threat finding it amusing, they all knew he would actually do it. Gwaine was grinning like a maniac.

"Oh don't worry Princess I won't tell anyone." said Gwaine with false sincerity in his voice. Everyone rolled their eyes at the usually drunken knight and started walking in the direction they came from. Well I suppose it's time to make my appearance known.

"Won't tell anyone what?" I said making them all jump and look in my direction. Gwaine yelped, and Arthur tripped over a root, Merlin has to keep myself from chuckling.

"Merlin!" Gwaine screamed like a two year old and a happy grin on his face. Arthur looked cranky, very cranky.

"Merlin, where were you?" Leon asked.

"I got lost in my thoughts, stopped walking, looked up and you were all gone." He said. He didn't really want to lie to them when it unnecessary.

"You what!" Arthur shouted," If you ever and I mean ever worry me like that ever again I swear I'll put you in the stocks for a week and make you clean all of the stables!" now he's making me angry.