Twins Eyes // Merlin Fanfic

Sir Leon - Chapter 4

I sat bolt upright, nodding. Lighting the candle with ease of enchantment, I looked him in the eyes harshly. "What do you know of Kallah?" I asked quietly, not knowing if I wanted to hear the answer. He rubbed his forehead and down over his eyes in the newly found light. "Kilgharrah mentioned him once. Something about a son...I never really paid much heed; didn't know the last dragon could have a son on his own.

I fought the smirk that tried to force its way onto my face, pushing it away. "Seems that Kallah was born before their kin were wiped off the face of this land." My brother looked at me, his expression unreadable. 

"You know Kallah?"

I nodded, the light casting eerie shadows along the walls.

"But...father to son...you're a-a..."

"Girl, I know." I finsihed for him.

"I know less than you do on the way this works, all I know is I can speak with Kallah as kin and as a friend. I have magic and my mother is Hunith of Ealdor."

Merlin nodded, attempting to process the information which I had burdened him with. I lay back slowly, wondering if Kilgharrah would ever be freed, united with his son.

"I wonder what has become of our own father. Is he in chains, waiting to be freed or killed, in want of his own son? Or does he not know of his children?"

I blew out the candle again, nodding at Merlin's questions. 

"These questions have been eating me alive, every day since I left Ealdor." I heard him turn over, shuffling so thathe was facing away from me onto his comfortable side for sleeping on. "I tried asking mother once, Merlin. She dismissed me so quickly I thought I'd hurt her. I thought about it for a while, realising I had hurt her. I hadn't meant to though. I fear our father, wherever and whoever is he may be, is not a subject to be approached any time in the near future."

He sighed, tired and exasperation woven in his voice. "Would it be so hard," he whispered, "to know the man we were born of?" The lump in my throat grew, and I swallowed my tears. His voice cracked, the disappointment  dribbling out of him in slow tears and quiet, muffled sobs. 

I turned away, after blowing the candle out once more and burying my sorrow in the perlis of sleep.

(Still Kaira's POV)

"Mother?" I called into the distance, a small figure bumbling towards me. "Is that you?"  I received no answer, silence filling the tense air I breathed. 

In a split second, the hooded woman had dissappeared, leaving me seemingly alone. I could feel my pulse rising, adrenaline coursing through my veins faster than my blood. Swallowing the lump in my throat to fill the hole in my heart which my father had left, I stood firmly on the gorund and widened my gaze for any threats which posed danger to my self.

Thud.

Thud.

Thud.

I looked over my shoulder, long, dark waves tumbling over my back. Searching for the source of the drumming, the thumping increased, faster and faster and faster until it was faster than my palpitating heart.

Heavy footsteps could be heard echoing around me, pounding inside my throbbing head. Joining the footsteps, my heartbeat added to the calamity inside my mind and beat against the inside of my skull. Before I fell onto the soft, mossy earth with a final, defiant thud, my vision went black and the footsteps were surrounding me...

"MERLIN!" I screamed, waking up with a cold sweat across my forehead. With trembling fingers, I pulled the rough blanket away from my feverishly tempered body and sat up, trying to control the shaking in my limbs. 

"Kaira? What happened?" Merlin sat up, rubbing his tired eyes with confusion. His dark eyebrows were knitted together in concern, and his posture seemed ready to defend us from any threat.

"Just-just a d-dr-dream," I mumbled, brushing off his worry and swallowing my heart from my throat for the millionth time. "Just a dream."  Repeating, I nodded my head to convince myself more than Merlin.

Glazed over, I ignored the darkness that began to flood the perimetre of my sight. A few long seconds passed tediously, before I lit the wax candle to my side and lay back stiffly.

"Do my dreams mean anything, Merlin? I'm frightened, too frightened of worrying mother. Yet I have no other to turn to, no other to confide in. Kallah... Kallah would not undertsand. He would be angry with me, fo certain." I looked my blood brother hard in the eye, unblinking. "What do they mean?"

Merlin shook his head softly, shadows thrown back nd forth in the shallow glow. "I know not, sister. What you say of Kallah is only too ture: he is young yet of a Dragon, much to learn ahead of him. Try and sleep for now, Kaira, and we shall meet with Kilgharrah tomorrow. I am certain he can provide us with the closure and answers we seek."

We each smiled weakly, a comforting trait we inherited from our brave mother. Not bothring to extinguish the flame in heinsight of forthcoming nightmares, I buried under the thin covers as my boiling fever had reduced, and tried to fall into the grasping tendrils of sleep that tugged at the hem of my mind.

The next day dawned bright, a comforting shade thrown across the back streets of Camelot. In the strange absence of my brother, I dressed quickly and reattatched my cape. Once into the main path of everyday local citizens, I blended in perfectly and so made my way up to the looming castle.

I followed the same route as Merlin had shown me the day prior, intent on finiding Gaius, court physician. However, I was soon lost and fumbling around deep in the castle on unknown territory.

"Stop where you are, or I'll run you through," rang through my ears once. Once was enough. "Show yourself," the booming voice commanded from behind me. slowly turning around, I removed my hood and looked up sheepishly.  

"My name is Kaira, sir," I replied with a small curtsey. "I am lost, only searching for the chambers of Gaius, the court physician, s-sir. I am a new citizen to Camelot, and have ound myself in depper waters than I can swim in." 

His hard expression softened, walking over to me confidently. "I am Sir Leon. I will take you to Gaius, no harm has been done." With a smile, he motioned for me to follow him in a direction I had no recognition of, his fluffy blonde hair bouncing and shimmering in the passing light. 

"Where are you from, Kaira?" Leon questioned politely. "Ealdor, an outlying village sir. My mother and I have travelled long and far to take up a new, safer life within the city's strong walls." The knight nodded, before turning round to face me and stopping dead. "Here are Gaius' chambers. Is there anything else you need, where I can be of assistace milady?" Giving him a shy shake of my head, Leo turned away with a smile and swept down the corridor. His crimson cloak billowed out behind him in beautiful ripples, and I knocked tentatively on the wooden door before me as he disappeared around the corner.

"Gaius? Merlin?"