Merlin Oneshot Collection

Initiation to the Knights Of Camelot(Ft falling in love with the king's manserva

Sir Lancelot watches the new knight talking to a servant, pointing at Merlin and the king across the courtyard and crosses his arms.

"We should tell him.” he informs his companions in that 'I don’t want to say it but it's the right thing to do' way

"That is the king and the recruit’s personal matter. We shouldn’t go butting into it." Sir Leon replies primly, as though he wasn’t trying to hide his laughter a second ago.

"Every time someone does it, it's like watching a fool poke a bear repeatedly. Why would you want to stop it?" Sir Gwaine replies jovially, ignoring the disapproving look he got.

Sir Lancelot watched as Merlin grabbed the shield the king asked for and handed it. He watched as the new knight, Sir Garth quizzically looked at the manservant and the king and how the new knight's eyes followed Merlin out of the court.

The noble knight sighed, another one then.

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Sir Garth has been granted the honour to join one of the king’s hunts. Not everyone gets to do this, only the closest and most promising of the knights can join. Since the king doesn't trust many, it is an honour amongst knights to even be invited.

So..... Why was the king's manservant there with them?

He paced his horse closer to Sir Gwaine, getting the man's attention,

"Sir Gwaine?"

"Yes?"

"Why is the king's manservant with us?"

The other knight's mouth twitches and he turns to Sir Garth fully, something flickering in his eyes that he can't identify.

"He tends to do that." the older knight says and doesn’t explain further.

"But why? The hunt's barely for a day, and the food's already been packed what use would we have of him? And even if we do need a servant, why him?"

He had noticed in the last few days in the castle, the king's manservant isn’t the most competent of the bunch. Not to mention at times downright disobedient. He talks back to the king, barely gets his job done and too free with his opinion about the king in front of the knights.

Sir Gwaine looked at him cryptically again before he shook his head, "He's not there just to serve food I can tell you that.”

The other knight fails to elaborate further and Garth hears Sir Elyan and Sir Percival snort. Garth wonders what that was about.

In the end, the king's servant does end up serving the food and Garth gets more puzzled. They leave him to make a fire and to guard their bulky luggage.

When they come back he was playing with a stray rabbit that seemed to be very intent on staying on his lap. A few squirrels chased each other around him and honest to goodness Robins singing over his head. He looked..... Ethereal.... Beautiful.

What Sir Garth doesn’t notice is Sir Leon and Lancelot's sigh Sir Elyan's eye roll and Sir Gwaine and Percival's smirk. All of them had a common meaning of, 'Oh you poor fool'

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"Your name is Merlin right?" Sir Garth asks the manservant one day while said manservant was busy polishing the King’s shield.

“That’s me.” He grins and Sir Garth feels something flutter in his chest. He shakes himself out of whatever it was that possessed him, it would not do to have him moon over the boy.

“Why are you polishing the King’s shield now?” 'As opposed to the night when all the other servants get their work done for the day and get a head start' he thinks but doesn’t ask aloud. It’s understood either way if by the way he grins is any indication.