A/N: So my second story and this one is also about Merlin. It starts when Arthur already knows about Merlin's magic and like I wrote in the description the most of the story takes place when they are reincarnated. So please enjoy.
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'Arthur stay here. I will deal with Morgana.' Merlin shouted to his king and he ran away in the direction he had seen Morgana.
'But…'
'Just stay there! I have the power to defeat her.'
Merlin saw that his friend wanted to say something, but he lifted his hand to stop Arthur from speaking.
'Just be safe, you idiot!' The king told the warlock and turned around to help the knights.
Merlin ran through the woods and saw pieces of Morgana's dress appearing and disappearing from his eyesight. He stopped when a lake came into his sight. Morgana stood before the water and looked at him. He walked the remaining distends towards her to stop only a few meters before her.
He saw pain in her eyes. 'Why didn't you tell me that you had magic?'
He sighed. 'Your way wasn't the way I wanted to go. Arthur isn't the same as his father. He accepted me with all my magic.'
'You should have told me!'
'I am sorry Morgana. Maybe if I had told you about my magic then I could have saved you from yourself.'
'But you didn't. I felt so alone.' He couldn't look at her because of the sadness that he saw in her eyes. 'You should have helped me. You had to help me. You betrayed me and our kind.'
'I didn't, you did betray us.' He felt as if everything that had happened to her was his fault.
'The only thing I ever wanted was for someone to accept me for who I was.' She looked at him and her face turned into anger. 'I always had thought that if someone would understand me that it would be you and you where able to understand me, but you didn't.'
Confusion appeared on his face. 'Why me?'
'Because I am in love with you!' She almost screamed and a blush appeared on her face.
'You… you loved me.' He gasped at her words.
'No, I still love you.'
He looked stunned at her and she came closer to him. 'I always thought that when I would be queen you could be by my side, but then you poisoned me and I lost al hope of ever being together with you. You were the one that always was sweet to me, helped me with my problems and never said that I was strange.'
Merlin had a feeling that somebody grabbed his heart. 'I am sorry Morgana. I didn't release that I had hurt you so much, but the two of us can never be together in this life. Not after everything that had happened. I have decided that I will follow Arthur until I die.' He didn't want it, but at the same time he wanted to hold her in his arms.
'I would never follow Arthur.' She looked at him with a mix of anger and pain. 'I guess we can't be together then.'
He closed his eyes, because he didn't want to see her eyes. 'We will stay enemies.'
'Are you going to kill me?'
'I should kill you.'
She nodded. 'Then try it.'
Both the witch and the wizards ran towards each other.
Both their expressions showed the pain they felt for attacking the other. Their fight started and the ground shuddered under the power of these magical creatures. Morgana shot fire to the sorcerer and he responded by using the water of the lake to defend himself. She made the spell even more powerful and he ordered the ground too rise and created a wall around himself. More power was used in their battle and a long time the sound of spell casting and their outcomes could be heard. Trees were burned until there was nothing left, the ground was thorn apart and the two titans where standing opposite of each other. Both of them were wounded and after using so much magic both of them were near exhaustion. Their cloths were ripped and they knew only one of them would walk away alive.
They charged at each other for a last time casting their magic. They finished their attack and ended leaning against each other. They looked in each others eyes and it was Morgana who first spoke with a far away voice. 'I love you Merlin.'
'I love you too.' He told her and she fell on the ground. Her heart was pierced with a sword he created of light. She was dead.
Tears started falling down when he bent over her. 'It's my fault this happened to you. I wasn't able to do anything for you.'
He took a deep breath and knew what he had to do. He took her in his arms and walked into the lake. When the water reached his chest he stopped and looked at the woman in his arms. 'At least let your body rest in peace when I couldn't save your soul.' He let her body go and it sank to the bottom of the lake. Morgana's last resting place.
He walked out of the water and looked one last time back before walking away. He could feel the tears running down his face, but he didn't care. 'I won't forget you, I promise.'
He returned back to where the fight has started to see that it also had ended. The ground was covered in corpses from both sides and the ground was red instead of the brown colour is should have been. The only thing he felt from this place was dead and he know that it would be a long time before anything could live here again.
'Merlin!' He looked to his left to see Arthur running towards him. 'Are you alright? Where are you hurt?' The king began to look for wounds on his friend's body until the sorcerer slapped the hands away.
'I am fine, Arthur.' He said irritated. His king nodded and trusted his friend that he wasn't seriously wounded.
'Where is Morgana?' He looked hopefully at him.
'She is dead.'
'That's fantastic! Great job Merlin.' He hit Merlin on the shoulder, laughing like only he could laugh and walked away to tell the others about the news. Not noticing Merlin's sad expression when he left him behind. Merlin looked at the prince who disappeared from his sight while he remained where he was. He didn't follow his friend and felt alone.
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'Where am I?' She tried to look around, but could only see darkness. When she wanted to lift her hand she finally understood it. She didn't had a body anymore, but she didn't feel sad, because she understood.
'So this is what it means to die. What am I supposed to do now?'
'Don't be afraid my dear.' It was a voice without emotion.
'Who… who are you?'
'I am nothing and also everything. Some call me dead and some call me life.'
'What do you want from me?'
'It's you that wants something from me. Your soul doesn't want to reincarnate yet. Even if you didn't mean to do it, your magic prevented you from moving on.'
'What are you going to do to me?'
'Nothing, you can decided for yourself what you want to do. It's your soul.'
'What was I supposed to do?
'1593 years, 12 days, 3 hours and 18 seconds after the day you died you would have reincarnated. You and many people that were close to in your past live will reincarnate around the same time. It was set before you were even born in your past life, because your war hasn't ended yet. Eventually all of them will remember their past and so would you have.'
'Why do you tell me all this.'
'Why shouldn't I tell you?'
'I don't know, what does it mean that I am still here?'
'Your will is so strong that you can decide yourself if you want to be reincarnated again or not.'
'Will he be there?' She asked with a hopeful voice.
'Yes.'
'Then please, I want to reincarnate, only if it's to see him again.'
'As you wish.' After his words she felt sleepy and after what felt like seconds all her memories started to disappear and she knew that it was time to be born again.
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'They are so cute when they are playing together.' The blond woman said with and smile to her friend.
The other woman also smiled. 'You're right. I am glad that they like each other so much. Maybe we will become family one day.' Both of the woman laughed and looked at their children again. 'We will see what the time will make of it. They are only ten and eleven years old so everything could happen.'
The two children where playing hide and seek and when they were exhausted they went to their mothers to get something to drink.
'Morgana, Merlin what do you want to drink?'
'I want some juice!' The boy screamed full of happiness and the girl agreed with him.
'Morgana, would you help me?'
'Of course mommy.' The little girl said and she walked with her mother to the kitchen.
The little girl followed her mother and when they where halfway she froze on the spot. She felt an overwhelming feeling of sadness rush into her mind and pictures began appearing before her eyes. The girl started screaming.
Her mother turned around after hearing her daughter scream and ran towards her. 'Morgana? Morgana, what's happening?'
The little Morgana looked up and she made an expression which her mother had never seen before. 'I am fine mother.'
'Are you sure?' The woman asked concerned at her daughter. The girl only nodded. 'If you're sure than you should go sit with Merlin. I will get the drinks.'
'No, I will get it.'
'You don't have to get it.'
'No, I want to get it. Because Merlin is going to be my husband and I should take care of him.' She smiled at her mother and walked past her to the kitchen leaving her mother stunned behind.
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The boy grinned at the girl in his arms. 'Do you like the movie?' He knew she wasn't such a fan of action movies and only watched it because he liked them.
She turned her head upwards to look at him. 'It's nice, but I enjoy being with you even more.' She smiled and kissed him.
He couldn't help to stare into her eyes. He loved them. 'I love you so much Morgana.'
She smiled and put her head on his chest. 'I love you too Merlin.'
Both of them gave each other another smile, before turning towards the movie again.
The movie had ended and Morgana smiled. 'This movie was kind of nice. He picked a good one to watch this time.' She looked at him, but she knew already that he had fallen asleep. She carefully stood up making sure that she didn't wake him and looked at her boyfriend. He was so cute when he was asleep and she couldn't help but sigh at the sight of the sorcerer.
But she knew what she had to do, before he would wake up. She placed her hand above his chest and said words of the old religion. For a moment his chest lighted up and her eyes flashed gold. She sighed. 'The spell is still in his place. He can never remember his past or know that he has magic. I'm never going to let him go. I won't lose him again. He's mine and I will never give him away.'
She placed her hand on the side of his face and smiled. He woke up from her tough and looked dazed at her. 'Did I fall asleep again?'
She sat down on his lap and looked at him. 'I'm never able to watch a movie with you if you fall asleep every time.'
'I'm sorry Mor.' He said and shame appeared on his face.
She smiled and kissed him. 'Don't worry, I will always love you.'
He smiled back at her. He was the one person she wanted to have in her live. Every time she was with him felt so wonderful and she only had to look in his eyes to feel happy. She would never let him go.
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'So do you think it's really true?' Gwaine asked and Arthur could see that the knight was really exited.
'Leon said it's true so lets hope for it.' The blond said.
'If he remembers then he is the last one of the knights that remembered.'
The king looked at his friend. 'Then let's find it out ourselves.'
The two men walked towards the apartment they shared with Leon. They walked up the stairs and Arthur grabbed the keys out of his pocket. He opened the door and walked towards the living room to see that Percival sat on the couch.
'Hey buddy, I heard you remember the past.' Gwaine said and he put an arm on the shoulders of the other knight.
The knight smiled at Gwaine and then turned to the king. He then placed himself on one knee. 'My lord.'
The others in the room started to grin and Arthur gave his friend a hand. 'We aren't back in Camelot so you don't have to speak like that to me.'
Percival smiled and grabbed his friend's hand. 'Sounds good, so who remembered?'
Gwaine grinned. 'Everyone…' He looked at the king. 'Except Merlin, we can't find him.'
'So maybe he already remembered and can't find you.'
The king shaked his head. 'If he remembered then he would try to find us. I guess we just have to wait.'
'I always had thought that he would be one of the first that would remember, but some need more time then others.' He looked at Percival and grinned.
Arthur slapped Gwaine at the back of his head. 'We can't all remember at the age of twelve.'
'You didn't had to hit me.' The knight mumbled while rubbing the back of his head.
'So do you know if Morgana is also here?' Percival asked.
Arthur sighed. 'I don't know, but we all reincarnated so there's a big change.'
Knocks were heard from the front door and Leon stood up to open the door. Gwen came half running to the living room and she almost thrown herself at Percival, after her Lancelot and Elyan walked into the room and both men smiled at the sight of their old friend.
'I'm so glad you remembered.' Gwen said while she hugged her friend.
'Give him some room to breath, Gwen.' Lancelot said and Gwen released him from her grip and sat down next to Lancelot on the couch.
Arthur looked sad at Gwen. Things could change, Gwen was now together with Lancelot. She had told Arthur that even when she remembered that once they were together she wanted to stay with Lancelot. They were a couple before any of them remembered their past.
'Let's celebrate!' Gwaine screamed and everybody knew what it was he meant by that.
Leon rolled his eyes. 'Go get your alcohol.' Gwaine grinned and walked to the kitchen.
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'So do you need something from the shops?' Morgana asked through the phone.
'No, but why are you going to the north part of the city. If you want to go shopping why don't you go to the mall here?' Merlin asked on the other side of the phone.
Morgana rolled her eyes. 'Because I have seen everything here already and Ann told me of a great little shop there. So I want to give it a try.'
'Oh, okay have fun. Love you, bye.'
'Love you too.' She pushed at the off-button on her phone and placed her phone back in her purse and took a little paper out of it.
She had drawn the route to the shop on it. 'I really can't draw.' She sighed when she tried to discover if she had to go left or right.
'You!' A voice said disgusted. She turned around and saw Arthur standing a few meters behind her. 'So he is also here.'
'What do you want, dear brother?' She said and she tried to look as disgusted as possible.
He frowned. 'So you remember?' She saw that his loyal knights also stood besides him and she panicked a bit.
'So what do you plan on doing? It's not like you and your little friends have your trusted swords with you and I still have my magic.' She turned around while making sure that they didn't follow her and walked towards her car. She didn't want to be with them and tried to leave them behind as soon as possible. She quickly grabbed her keys and drove away from the king and his knights.
She began to panic. 'They can't be here! He can't destroy my life again. Merlin. I should go to Merlin. They can't find him. I have to make sure he would never meet them. He has to stay with me!'
She parked her car in front of Merlin's house and ran towards the front door while grabbing her keys. She could hear his voice while she walked into the house. 'Who is there?' He walked out of the kitchen and saw her standing in the hall. 'Mor, what are you doing here?' She could hear the surprise in his voice.
She couldn't talk and only ran into his arms. He held her and after a few minutes he placed his hands under her chin to lift it. He looked into her eyes and she could see that he was concerned. 'What's wrong Mor?'
'I…I…' no she couldn't tell him, he can never know about Arthur. 'I was almost hit by a car.' She lied to him.
'Shh..Sh… It's alright.' She could hear he was shocked and he walked with her to the living room and they sat down on the couch. He still held her in his arms. 'Everything is alright. Nobody is going to hurt you.'
She nodded and looked into his eyes. She loved his eyes they were so tender, it was everything she needed to calm herself down. 'Promise me that you will always stay with me.'
He looked at her in surprise. 'Of course I will stay with you. Why would you ask me that?' Concern was heard in his voice.
'Forever?'
'Forever.' He said with a smile and kissed her tender on the lips.