"Hello, darling nice to see you up and about." I jumped at the voice behind me. I looked at Merlin with panicked eyes and he just laughed. Thanks for the reassurance.

"Hello, darling. My name Gius." I turned around to see an older man with his hand out offering a shake. I gladly shake his hand and tell him my name. He tells me that he is the royal physician. He then excused himself for he has work to attend to. Merlin and I both say goodbye and continue talking to each other.

"So Merlin, What do you do?" I rolls his eyes and is about to answer when- "MERLIN! WHERE ARE YOU!? YOU WERE SUPOSSED TO BE IN MY CHAMBERS AN HOUR A-" A blonde man around Merlin's age storms in and stops dead in his tracks  when he sees me. Once he notices my apparel he turns his head the other direction. "Will you please put close on Miss." I turn a red as a tomato realizing I was only wearing one of Merlins shirts with my shorts that were so short you couldn't see them under his shirt.

Merlin grabs me and pulls me into his room. He walks over to his closet and mumbles a few words and pulls out a dress. It was beautiful. It was light blue with a large golden belt that matched the shoulders. "You had that in your closet?" I raise an eyebrow. "It's for patients. When they need cloths to wear." He stutters out quickly. Sure it is Merlin. Sure it is. I nod and go behind the divider. I hear him leave and talk to the blonde in the other room. The walls are kind of thin and they made no effort to keep quiet. "Really Merlin! I can't believe you. Sleeping with someone you barley if you even know." I blushed. "No! I was taking a walk when I found her just about naked in the forest. I brought her here to Gius. Honestly Authur. I know you don't like me very much but you know me and you should know that I am not like that."

I walk out of the room now fully dressed and ready to go. "Merlin. Who is this?" I asked once next to him. "Oh, Arthur this in Dawn. Dawn this is Arthur Prince of Camelot." I look him up and down, looks like a prince.

"Pleasure to meet you, Arthur." I hold out my hand and he shakes it. "The pleasure is mine, Lady Dawn." I hear Merlin laughing in the background. I chuckle slightly annoyed with the 'lady' thing but whatever.

"Is something funny?" Merlin and I quickly shake out heads still smiling like idiots. He nods. "Well then. Merlin. I need you to polish my armor and clean my clothes." Merlin stares with wide eyes. "That's all!" He asks astonished. I guess he works really hard. "Do you want more Merlin!?" Arthur says sternly and Merlin quickly shakes his head. "Very well. Oh, and remember Merlin. My father had invited you to dinner tonight so come to my chambers before." Merlin gave him a look as to ask 'Why?' Arthur just rolls his eyes. "So you can borrow my clothes. Your not eating dinner with us dressed like that." Merlin nods as Arthur leaves. Leaving me and Merlin alone.

"So you work with the Prince, that's good." I say and he scoffs. "Good? Yes, working hand and foot for this man can be so much fun!" He sits back down and takes an apple out of a bowl. "But it is nice to have a friend with that much power." His eyes widened. "Friend! Please, he hates my guts." I roll my eyes.

"If he hated you, he would have punished you for being late. If he hated you he that much he could have fired you or worse gotten you arrested. If he had hated you then he wouldn't have allowed you to even be invited to dinner, let alone borrow his clothes." I state and watch his face. He looks surprised that he hadn't realized that he was somewhat friends with the prince. He smiled. "I suppose you are right. Now if you excuse me. I have to get to work." He started for the door. "Would you like me to help?" I asked just as he was about to close the door behind him. He stopped and thought.

"Yes. Yes, I would. If you don't mind?" We both leave and go off to where ever Merlin polishes Arthurs armor. Today will be fun.

It only took us an hour to polish  the armor and only 2 hours to clean his clothes and hang them to dry. While me and Merlin were waiting for the clothes to dry he started asking me questions.

"So Dawn. Where are you from?" I froze. What should I tell him? I don't know anything abut this place. Let alone neighboring towns and kingdoms. I could say one from a story I read the other day. Yeah, I could say that.

"Oh, I'm from Prybourne. It's quite far. You've probably never heard it." He nods. "Why are you traveling?" Gods, it's what is this twenty questions?  I shrugged. "I just wanted to get away from my life and go somewhere magical. I guess." That wasn't a lie. I look at him and he put his hand over my mouth. "Don't use the 'm' word. Okay?" I nodded. "Why not?" I ask once he removes his hand. "Well, it's against the law to use magic. It's punishable by death." I gasp. Am I going to get killed? I mean I did use magic to get here. But I won't die, right?

"How do you feel about magic? Do you think that everyone who uses magic is evil or just evil people happen to have magic." Merlin asked with this hopeful look in his eyes.

I thought and looked straight into his eyes. "Well. I think that magic is like a sword. It can protect and cause danger and grief. It depends on the person. Even if magic is mostly used by evil sorcerers. I believe that there has to be some good." He smiled. A smile tht made my heart melt. He looked as if he had been told the best news in the world.

"If you saw someone with magic would you tell the king? I mean he obviously trusts you. If he's invited you to dinner. Would you tell him?" I asked taking some of the clothes off the wire. "Depends on the person. If a bad person told me I would tell but if say Arthur told me they were magic I don't believe I would tell." I could feel the same smile growing on my face. Maybe I should tell him. I trust him and I need a way back home-

Home! I need to go home! They are probably worried sick! They are going to think that I ran away and have a search party after me! Dang... I'm on so much trouble. What am I going to-

"Dawn are you okay you just kind off stopped moving?" He asked poking me. I smiled a fake smile. "I'm fine. Honestly." I don't believe he bought it since I was having a mini-heart attack and breathing heavily.

"Are you sure you look very pale all of a sudden?" He held my face in his hands. My cheeks flared and my stomachs churned as I looked into his eyes. "Okay I want you to breath in very slowly and then out slowly." We stood there breathing. Eventually I calmed down and my breath returned to steady. "Better?" I nod as thanks and we continue work.

Why did my cheeks flare? Why did my stomach get bubbly? And why do I feel weak when he smiles? Oh no.

I'm in love.