Merthur oneshots

Pinecones

A/N: Hello! This is another part, so three parts in one day. If anyone is reading this, you're welcome. LMAO. No jk, I actually want to thank you if you are reading this. Anyway, I'm going to continue with the story. In this, The knights and arthur know about merlins magic. Okay, Read on!

It was late in the afternoon and the sun was setting as Arthur came back to his chambers. When he opened the door, he found the place to be a complete mess. Clothes thrown on the bed, a bowl of half finished soup from when he had eaten lunch, and his bed not yet made. Clearly, merlin hadn't done the cleaning up, meaning he hadn't even been in the room considering he could have used his magic to clean. Arthur looked around the room, trying to find a sleeping merlin somewhere.

Arthur had been extra hard on him lately considering merlin had left for two days supposedly to "collect herbs" for gaius. Arthur suspected that he was out with a lady friend.. not that he cared about that, his excuse being that he was upset he wasn't there to polish his armour and wash his dishes and clothes. Arthur looked in his chambers and after 5 minutes, he decided that merlin was not there. He wondered if merlin had left, or quit somehow. Arthurs mind often jumped to conclusions about merlin leaving or quitting, even though that is almost impossible. He couldn't stand how much he thought about merlin whether it had been about what he was doing or what he was going, merlin always seemed to be on his mind. Arthur shook off his thoughts most of the time, but this time he was dwelling on them. He went and sat down on his bed, messing with the strings on his shirt.

As much as he would not like to admit it, he missed merlin. He hated missing people, or feeling any emotion that showed vulnerability for that matter. He would not stand for this, he told himself. He was going to go look for merlin. Arthur got up from his bed and went to walk out of the room but decided to bring his sword before he did. He had an eerie feeling about all of this for some reason. He left his room and turned the hall, then walked over to an area where the knights usually hung out. He strangely hadn't seen any of them all day either. At this point he was starting to get worried, so when he turned the corner into the room, he wielded his sword. Arthur was very worried to say the least.

What he saw left him utterly shocked. Merlin was standing there in the middle of the room with the rest of the knights, Smirking. Arthur then looked above merlin and the knights heads only to see pinecones floating in the air with a message. The pinecones in big letters spelt out the question "You were scared, weren't you?". Arthur looked down at merlin and the knights, then back up at the pinecones, then at the knights again. Merlin started chuckling, and the rest of the knights followed suit. As soon as everything set in, arthur ran up to merlin and hugged him which was, lets say not normal.

"I'm so fucking glad you are alive. Never scare me like that again" Arthur said in a hushed tone so only merlin could hear him. It was already weird enough he was hugging merlin, the knights couldn't here what he had said to merlin or else arthur would be made fun of by them for the rest of his life. After arthur had hugged merlin for another few seconds, he then released merlin and stared at him for a second. Second to worried, arthur was pissed. He'd just been pranked. He then glared at merlin and the knights, about to say something until gwaine interupted.

"Merlin, i's suggest you run" Gwaine said and then merlin took off running through the castle. Arthur immediately chased after him.

"Merlin! I swear to god! I'm going to get you back for this!" Arthur said while running after him whilst the knights were sat there laughing. To say the least, Merlin was in deep shit, but arthur was still content with knowing merlin was okay.

A/N: I wrote this on my computer, so if there are typos i'm sorry. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this one shot! I'm now going to go to bed because i'm tired and this is honestly all my pea brain can handle typing right now. I'll possibly post tomorrow, but i've posted a lot today so i'm not sure. See you guys in the next one shot! Thank you for reading this!

-Avril