Arthur gathered the pile of letters on his desk grumbling something along the lines of killing the messenger before throwing the letter into a sack on the floor.

"Junk mail?" Merlin questioned making his way to open the window it was feeling a bit stuffy.

"Not exactly…" Arthur trailed off as he turned to look at the remaining letters on his desk. Two. How is it that Arthur the King had only received two letters while that man received a bag full? It didn't make sense. The first letter was from a lord to the east of Camelot complaining that the neighboring lord had property on his land and refused to vacate… and the other a letter from Leon who was out patrolling the northern border apparently there were mercenaries who set up shop and were tormenting the villagers… Leon was asking for more men to be sent. Arthur nodded his head before writing a quick reply promising more men and an order to Sir Kay to gather a group of ten knights to go aid Leon in dismantling the mercenary's operation.

"Who's that for?"

"Leon, there's some mercenaries causing trouble."

"Should I pack?"

"Why?"

"To go help. You are going to help?"

"Of course, I am! But I'm king now, Merlin I can't drop everything and go."

"Right. So, who are you sending?"

"Sir Kay and some other knights of his choosing."

"This is Kay's first mission you think he's ready?"

"He's been on missions before I am certain he is capable of leading his men to the north and its just a couple of mercenaries nothing to difficult for him to handle."

"True. Especially with Leon…"

Arthur nodded and looked back to the first letter… He could probably send Elyan on his behalf to help settle the dispute along with Percy and a couple of guards. He wrote a quick reply to the Lord telling him he will be sending assistance in a couple of days. Then another order to Elyan to find Percy and head to his chambers to explain the situation properly.

"I've finished with my chores."

"All of them?"

"Yes."

"Right umm… I guess you can umm…You know what go get my armor I need a break."

"Shouldn't you finish the rest of the reports and make a speech for tomorrow's meeting with the staff and…"

"I'll get to it… it's just so boring. I need to train."

"I can help with the reports if you'd like… it wouldn't be the first time."

"No, it's alright I can do it, but you can work on my speech for me."

Merlin nodded making his to the table to start working only to stop as Arthur called him over.

"You can throw the letters in the bag."

"What are they?"

"There for someone else, but seeing as there is no return address."

"Maybe they're for someone in the castle?"

"Doubt it I know the names of everyone in the castle and there is no one by the name of Emrys."

Merlin paused before looking down at the bag in his hands he quickly reached his hand in and pulled one of the letters out seeing that Arthur was right the letter was addressed to him. Merlin dumped the rest of the letters on the table and quickly went through them. They were all for him as well. Merlin quickly opened one of the letters only for his eyes to go wide.

"Merlin what are you doing?"

"These are umm… well they're mine and I was curious."

"Wait what? What do you mean they're yours? They're for this Emrys person."

Merlin nodded, "Yes well I'm him. That's my other name… well not my other name my name is Merlin it's complicated."

"Other name?"

"Yep."

Merlin said quickly putting the letter back into his pocket before reaching over the pile and opening another letter.

"What are they? Why do you have so many?"

Merlin let out a small chuckle shaking his head at the letter before stuffing it into his pocket and putting the rest of the mail back into the sack to look at it once he was back at Gaius' chambers.

"Just umm… some friends…" Merlin finally answered trailing of and going to the table to pick up one of the blank scrolls on Arthur's desk along with a quill and the spare inkpot the prince had.

"So, this speech what are you trying to say?"

"What… oh right the speech well its… well you know Gwen she wanted to do this whole thing for the staff and all the servants and I… don't really know. I mean Camelot has never done this before. My father would never do something like this you know. Can you picture it. My father actually giving thanks and having a day of celebration for the peasants. Ha!... I mean I know they work hard and according to Gwen they keep the place running and all but…"Arthur trailed off before clearing his throat, "Make it a thankyou to the servants for there hard work… umm include something about a bonus… probably a gold cold coin each or something and keep it brief but sincere."

Merlin nodded and smiled he could always ask Gwen for help later it seems she's far more invested then Arthur. Doesn't mean he didn't care Arthur would give anything he could to help any one of his people rich or poor.

Merlin was about to start some brief notes before diving into the speech only to have Arthur walk up to him and grab the bag full of his letters.

"These friends what did they write you about?"

"You know… stuff."

"No. I don't know and what friends do you even have all your friends are here."

"Umm they are from Ealdor."

"Didn't you tell me your only friend was Will?"

"There from mum and…"

"Why would your mum call you Emrys and not Merlin?"

"Okay. They're not from Ealdor, but those letter are mine."

"But who are they from and why are they addressed to you. Or Emrys. Which is another thing why did you never tell me you had this other name. And how is it you have more letters from these people than me."

Merlin stared at Arthur before letting out a laugh and shaking his head. "So that's what this is about? You're jealous that I have more mail! Seriously. Arthur you are the King. King of an entire nation just because today you got two letters instead of ten doesn't mean anything."

"I'm not jealous."

"Right. Look just give me back my mail you prat and start working on those reports while I do this speech."

"You don't give the orders Merlin."

"Get to work, Arthur. We can finish this in a couple of hours and if we're lucky the sun will still be up and you can put in some training time to get you back in shape."

"I am not fat!"

"I'm trying to keep you that way."

"I can take down any knight blindfolded."

"I know."

"Good, now get to work. I have reports to do."

Merlin smiled and nodded quickly starting on the speech only to frown when he noticed Arthur was glaring at him trying not to laugh. Merlin let out a soft chuckle and cleared his throat before continuing on the paper.

Arthur sighed he had a couple more reports to get to, but he had an annoying itch on the back of his mind telling him to look at one of those letters… before Arthur knew it he was reaching for the bag with his foot and kicking it towards him inconspicuously he reached his hand in pulled out a letter and kicked the bag softly back to where it was without Merlin noticing. He grabbed his letter opener which was still atop of his desk and slowly opened the letter as quietly as possible only sneaking to glance at Merlin once or twice to catch him still working on the speech.

'Dear Lord Emrys,' Lord? Since when is Merlin a lord?

Arthur gulped as he saw the words on the next line. What does that mean? Arthur may not know much about the old religion but his father taught him enough to recognize the signs and these scribbles were druidic or at least something along those lines. Why would Merlin be receiving letters from the druids. How did Merlin even know druid tongue?

"Sire. I finish… Is that mine? Seriously Arthur? I thought we were passed this."

Arthur stood up quickly and grabbed the sack from the floor holding it behind his back.

"Arthur what are you doing?"

Arthur walked over to where Merlin was near the table and pushed him to sit back on his chair. "What is this?"

"Mine…" Merlin said snatching the letter before his eyes went wide acknowledging what Arthur meant.

"Are you a druid?"

"What? No. Arthur I am not…"

"Then what's this?"

"Umm… French?"

Arthur glared at Merlin and grabbed another letter from the bag ripping it open. "Really because I am fluent, and this is not French. I do know that this is Druidic."

"Arthur please just let it go."

"Why do you have letters in Druidic? Why are they calling you a lord? Tell me the truth. Are you a druid?"

Merlin sighed Arthur was obviously not going to let this go. Merlin quickly rolled up his sleeves and showed them to Arthur. "See not a druid. Come on Arthur you've known me for what almost a decade wouldn't you have seen any druid marks or anything."

"You saved that druid boy with Morgana."

"So, did you. And then you knighted him. You as well as I know that Mordred was that knight. I know he told you his name way back then and I know that you know that the druids are not a threat. They are peaceful they do not want to harm you or Camelot. I trust them."

"What do they say? Why are the druids sending you letters?"

"It's a long story."

Arthur pulled out the chair next to Merlin and took a seat. "We have all night."

Merlin nodded and set his hands on top of the table analyzing them. What could he even say to Arthur without revealing his secret?

A/N

So what do you guys think so far? I know I haven't really given anything away, but I'm hoping for this story to be similar to my 10 Things Merlin Tells Arthur fic where basically each chapter will be Merlin reading a letter from someone that reveals something about himself to Arthur. They can be letters to Merlin or Emyrs and they can be from anyone from Freya to The Great Dragon. Let me know what you guys think and just keep a look out for the next chapter. Thanks for Reading.

~Agent C.