Nine Misadventures
Title: No Pets
Fandom: Black Books
Rating: PG
Word Count: 427
Summary: Manny wants to help a friend. Bernard is unimpressed. For robert_frogg
“Manny,” Bernard said, his voice calm in a not-very-calm sense. “What is that?”
“Oh Bernard,” Manny said. “Bernard, my friend Rosie, you know, Rosie with the dark hair - ”
“Rosie the Idiot,” Bernard supplied.
Manny gave him a hurt look and then continued.
“Rosie, she’s had to move out of her flat briefly - terrible misunderstanding with her landlord about a hoover - and she’s staying with a friend and she asked if I could take care of Snookums while she was there.”
“Snookums?” Bernard repeated. “Snookums? Who is Snookums? What is Snookums?”
“She’s a cat,” Manny said.
“WHAT ARE THE RULES, MANNY? YOU KNOW THE RULES!”
“No pets allowed, but that’s just in the shop, she’d be in the house!”
“The house is part of the shop!” Bernard bellowed. “You know how I feel about cats, Manny! You know how I feel about their evil slobbering darkness!”
“Cats don’t slobber,” Fran said helpfully from where she was sitting. “That’s dogs.”
“Whatever!” Bernard said, clearly dismissing the difference as irrelevant. “You know how I feel about pets! They do things to you. One moment you’re normal, eating, smoking, drinking. The next you’re a monster, boring everybody stupid about what Tiddles is up to and how he looks so cute if you give him a ball of string to play with, complaining when people don’t want to touch your flea-bitten beast! I won’t have one in this place!”
“But Bernard, I promised!” Manny protested. “It’s only for a few days! And look at her! She’s adorable!”
He held up the pet carrier and a small tabby cat peeped out, mewing and putting her paw on the bars.
“Aww, she’s lovely,” Fran said. “She really is, Bernard, look.”
“You take her then!” Bernard snapped.
“Oh no, I can’t,” Fran said. “My flat doesn’t allow pets and anyway, I have an allergy to cats. Besides, I don’t even know Rosie, she’s trusting you two and it’ll be good for you to have a little responsibility for once. You keep her.”
“Fine,” Bernard snarled, clearly realising he was outnumbered. “Fine! But on your heads be it!”
Fran and Manny ignored him. They had removed Snookums from her carrier and were cuddling her, making cooing noises. Bernard scowled horribly and folded his arms.
“It’ll all end in tears,” he mumbled.
*
A few days later, Rosie received her cat. It appeared mostly unscathed (bar an odd smell of lemons) but from that day forth, Snookums seemed unable to see a bottle of red wine without hissing. Rosie thought it was better never to ask.
Title: Waiting
Fandom: Sarah Jane Adventures
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Rani and Clyde have probably made a mistake ...
“I think we’ve messed up,” Clyde said mournfully.
Rani looked at the ticking clock in front of them and the flashing red lights.
“Me too,” she said. “What do we do now?!”
Clyde didn’t answer. The ticking seemed to get louder, the red lights flashed brighter. Rani stepped away from it and reached out for Clyde’s hand without thinking about it. Clyde squeezed back, his face grim.
“It’s going to blow up,” he said. “In some … unspecified alien time. If we touch it, it’ll blow up faster.”
“Well then,” Rani said. “We’d really better hope Sarah Jane arrives soon.”
Title: Dancing
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: G
Word Count: 331
Summary: Rory isn't sure about all of these people. Written for sabethea.
“Are they done yet?” Rory asked. “I’m not looking up until they’re done.”
“Nope, they’re still dancing,” Zoe said cheerfully. “I don’t know why it’s bothering you so much, they’re all having a lot of fun.”
“Because they’re dancing on a stage,” Rory said. “With a recorder. And high kicks.”
“Oh really, Rory,” Zoe said, shaking her head. “They’re having fun! Your Doctor’s ever such a good dancer, better than mine!”
Rory decided not to answer that. Zoe was apparently totally unconcerned about the fact that there were now two Doctors running around - despite the fact that they had greeted each other with horrified cries about the space-time continuum. Then they’d decided to go to a bar and perform. Apparently, the space-time continuum could be worried about later.
The recorder music had finally stopped now and there was a lot of applause which proved that everybody in this place was absolutely barking mad. Some happy noises came and then everybody was sitting down beside them again.
“You were wonderful!” Zoe said happily.
“Aye, of course we were!” Jamie said. “No Scot alive canne do a reel like that!”
“Helped of course, by my excellent playing,” the other Doctor said happily. “Some people don’t appreciate my skill on the recorder but I think it is a very underrated instrument.”
“I quite agree!” Rory’s Doctor said happily. “Recorders are cool!
“You’re both mad,” Amy said happily. “Oh Rory, are you still being a grumpy pants?”
“Yes,” Rory said firmly but he couldn’t help smiling when she kissed him. Amy was like that.
“Well, this is lovely!” the other Doctor said happily. “I have to say, I’ve crossed my time stream a few times - very naughty I know but still - and you’re very much the nicest me I’ve ever met!”
“Aw!” Rory’s Doctor said. “That’s lovely! That’s the loveliest thing I’ve ever said to myself!”
They hugged. Jamie shook his head slightly. Rory closed his eyes. This was going to be a long night.
Title: Romantic Date
Fandom: Getbackers
Rating: PG
Word Count: 180
Summary: Ginji knows a lot about dates. Akabane however, can never be predicted. For delfeus
Ginji hadn’t watched very many romantic film but Natsumi-chan had told him lots and lots about them. So he felt that he really knew a lot about different ways of dating and different sorts of dates.
And he knew that this date with Akabane-san was badbadbadbadbaaaaaad. But luckily, he also knew what to do because Natsumi-chan had told him! When dates were going really bad, you said you had to go to the bathroom and then crawled out of the window.
So when Akabane-san came back and gave Ginji his drink, Ginji told him he needed the bathroom and went to climb quickly out of the window.
It then occurred to him that he had made two small mistakes. One was that Akabane-san had that terribly creepy habit of always knowing what he was doing and where he was going.
The other was that the bathroom was on the second storey.
As he plummeted into Akabane-san’s waiting arms, it occurred to Ginji that this date was going to be much more awkward than most of the ones Natsumi-chan had described.
Title: Telegram
Fandom: Willard Price's Adventure Series
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: The telegram Hal recieves is not the one he expected. For r05km.
Hal was staring at the telegram in his hand, looking completely bewildered. It only contained three words.
It’s a girl!
Which wasn’t very helpful when it came to working out what his father wanted him to capture for a zoo next.
“Maybe it’s in code?” Roger suggested. “Something really secret?”
Hal decided not to dignify that with a response. Perhaps they had a baby sister? He wasn’t sure he wanted a baby sister.. Wouldn’t he have noticed his mother was going to have a baby?
“Or it could be the wrong telegram?” Roger ventured.
“Oh,” Hal said blankly. “Or that.”
Title: America
Fandom: Death Note
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Ide does not what Matsuda to tell him the obvious.
“Ide … ” Matsuda said.
“Do not say it,” Ide said through gritted teeth. “Do not say it, Matsuda. I mean it.”
“Okay,” Matsuda said agreeably.
They continued to walk. Ide had always thought this English was fairly good but listening to all the Americans around him made him realise that he wasn’t as fluent as he’d thought. What were they all saying? What were they thinking? Would they understand him if he tried to talk to them?
“Ide,” Matsuda said again.
“Don’t say it, Matsuda!”
“We’re lost,” Matsuda said firmly.
“I hate you,” Ide said, gloomily accepting the truth.
Title: Gwaine's Plan
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Gwaine doesn't think it was his fault.
“Well done, Gwaine,” Arthur grouched. “Really well done.”
“This is not my fault,” Gwaine said firmly.
“It was your short cut,” Arthur growled. “Your idea. You and your babbling about how this would get us through the wood quicker and oh, of course you knew what you were doing.”
“I did,” Gwaine said. “There wasn’t a bog here before.”
Merlin couldn’t help sniggering at that, even though he was waist deep in mud. Arthur made a snarling noise.
“Ah, shut up Princess,” Gwaine said cheerfully. “It’ll be fine. Percival will arrive soon and save us.”
“I hate you,” Arthur said.
Title: Attack of the Naughty Bubbles
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 308
Summary: When things like this happen, Merlin swears he won't do ridiculous magic again. Written for versipellis.
Every time something like this happened, Merlin swore he would never do another spell “just to see what happened.”
It could have been worse, he supposed. Everybody he’d seen so far seemed to be rather enjoying the bubbles that he’d unwittingly unleashed on Camelot. Enjoying them a bit too much really. Not that Merlin could really blame them - the bubbles did tickle in rather distracting way …
Now probably wasn’t the moment to think about that.
Who would have thought bubbles could be such a problem? They looked like normal soap bubbles, fragile and pretty. They felt soft and gentle and sort of warm when they bumped into you. And then they just … kept bumping. In that soft and gentle and warm sort of way.
Gwaine had been the one who had alerted him the problem.
“It’s not that I’m not having a lot of fun,” he’d said, his cheeks flushed, grinning rather sleepily. “But there’s more than one person that I never needed to hear having that kind of fun, you know what I’m saying?”
Merlin knew what he was saying. Moving through Camelot had meant that he’d heard more than he’d ever needed. Had he ever needed to hear Lord Agravaine shouting with pleasure? No. No, he really hadn’t. And never needed to again.
To his utter relief, Gaius wasn’t in his rooms. The last thing Merlin wanted was to see him surrounded by bubbles. He dived into his bedroom, grabbed the magic book and quickly gasped out the spell that ought to have dispersed the bubbles.
It didn’t quite work. Instead, Merlin found himself dive-bombed by what seemed to be millions of bubbles that appeared to have no other desire in life than to make Merlin feel very, very pleasant indeed.
Merlin decided he could live with that. At least for a short while.
Title: Lost and Found
Fandom: Merlin/Harry Potter
Rating: G
Word Count: 527
Summary: Merlin isn't sure what to make of Luna Lovegood. Written for delfeus
Merlin didn’t know what to make of Luna.
She was sitting in his room in a very calm and cheerful sort of way, reading his magic book. The fact that she had apparently travelled backwards hundreds of years and was now in a place where magic was banned didn’t seem to be bothering her very much at all.
“Hello Merlin,” she said, smiling at him. “This book is very interesting. Nothing like the books at school but with very beautiful pictures.”
“I’m glad you like it,” Merlin said. “I … haven’t found anything yet.”
“Oh, that’s all right,” she said, calmly unconcerned. “I know that Daddy will be looking for me. He’s quite powerful you know, he’ll be able to contact me I think. And you’re ever so powerful so I expect you’ll be able to link with him.”
“Um,” Merlin said. “Yes.”
Luna looked at him and then gently put his book aside.
“You’re not really what I expected, you know,” she said.
“I know,” Merlin said glumly. “I’m too skinny and ridiculous and have big ears and am too young, right?”
“No,” Luna said. “You’re just … sadder than I expected, really. I thought you’d be ever so powerful and happy but you seem quite lonely.”
Merlin didn’t know what to say to that. Luna had been making him rather uncomfortable since she’d stepped out of the blur of light that had deposited her here. She was so … open. She didn’t seem worried, even though she apparently understood that Arthur would probably have her executed. She was quite happy to sit in his room quietly but had clearly known who he was - and who Arthur was too. It was just … very strange.
“I’m not lonely,” he lied. “It’s fine.”
“If you say so,” Luna said comfortably. “We learned about you in school you know, but it all got a bit muddled. They don’t talk about Arthur much, you see. After all, he’s a Muggle.”
“Muggle?” Merlin repeated.
“Not a wizard,” Luna said. “I don’t think that matters though. Not if you love him.”
Merlin choked on a breath.
“Love him?! What have they been teaching you?”
“Oh, they didn’t teach that,” Luna said. “I just guessed it. After all, why would you spend so much time around him if you didn’t love him?”
“I don’t really get a choice,” Merlin said. “It’s a magic destiny thing.”
“Destiny only works through you,” Luna said placidly. “If you couldn’t love him, it wouldn’t be your destiny, would it?”
Merlin didn’t know what to say to that. Luna really was strange. He shrugged his shouldered instead and looked away. He’d had to make all sorts of excuses to Arthur to explain why he was sneaking off which was always asking for trouble. Arthur was bound to find out something. Never the truth but always something. He was tired of all the excuses and lies and inventions but what else could he do?
“Don’t worry,” Luna said peacefully. “It will all be all right, you know. Not just the major things but the little things too.”
She sounded so positive that Merlin found himself almost believing her.
Fandom: Black Books
Rating: PG
Word Count: 427
Summary: Manny wants to help a friend. Bernard is unimpressed. For robert_frogg
“Manny,” Bernard said, his voice calm in a not-very-calm sense. “What is that?”
“Oh Bernard,” Manny said. “Bernard, my friend Rosie, you know, Rosie with the dark hair - ”
“Rosie the Idiot,” Bernard supplied.
Manny gave him a hurt look and then continued.
“Rosie, she’s had to move out of her flat briefly - terrible misunderstanding with her landlord about a hoover - and she’s staying with a friend and she asked if I could take care of Snookums while she was there.”
“Snookums?” Bernard repeated. “Snookums? Who is Snookums? What is Snookums?”
“She’s a cat,” Manny said.
“WHAT ARE THE RULES, MANNY? YOU KNOW THE RULES!”
“No pets allowed, but that’s just in the shop, she’d be in the house!”
“The house is part of the shop!” Bernard bellowed. “You know how I feel about cats, Manny! You know how I feel about their evil slobbering darkness!”
“Cats don’t slobber,” Fran said helpfully from where she was sitting. “That’s dogs.”
“Whatever!” Bernard said, clearly dismissing the difference as irrelevant. “You know how I feel about pets! They do things to you. One moment you’re normal, eating, smoking, drinking. The next you’re a monster, boring everybody stupid about what Tiddles is up to and how he looks so cute if you give him a ball of string to play with, complaining when people don’t want to touch your flea-bitten beast! I won’t have one in this place!”
“But Bernard, I promised!” Manny protested. “It’s only for a few days! And look at her! She’s adorable!”
He held up the pet carrier and a small tabby cat peeped out, mewing and putting her paw on the bars.
“Aww, she’s lovely,” Fran said. “She really is, Bernard, look.”
“You take her then!” Bernard snapped.
“Oh no, I can’t,” Fran said. “My flat doesn’t allow pets and anyway, I have an allergy to cats. Besides, I don’t even know Rosie, she’s trusting you two and it’ll be good for you to have a little responsibility for once. You keep her.”
“Fine,” Bernard snarled, clearly realising he was outnumbered. “Fine! But on your heads be it!”
Fran and Manny ignored him. They had removed Snookums from her carrier and were cuddling her, making cooing noises. Bernard scowled horribly and folded his arms.
“It’ll all end in tears,” he mumbled.
*
A few days later, Rosie received her cat. It appeared mostly unscathed (bar an odd smell of lemons) but from that day forth, Snookums seemed unable to see a bottle of red wine without hissing. Rosie thought it was better never to ask.
Title: Waiting
Fandom: Sarah Jane Adventures
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Rani and Clyde have probably made a mistake ...
“I think we’ve messed up,” Clyde said mournfully.
Rani looked at the ticking clock in front of them and the flashing red lights.
“Me too,” she said. “What do we do now?!”
Clyde didn’t answer. The ticking seemed to get louder, the red lights flashed brighter. Rani stepped away from it and reached out for Clyde’s hand without thinking about it. Clyde squeezed back, his face grim.
“It’s going to blow up,” he said. “In some … unspecified alien time. If we touch it, it’ll blow up faster.”
“Well then,” Rani said. “We’d really better hope Sarah Jane arrives soon.”
Title: Dancing
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: G
Word Count: 331
Summary: Rory isn't sure about all of these people. Written for sabethea.
“Are they done yet?” Rory asked. “I’m not looking up until they’re done.”
“Nope, they’re still dancing,” Zoe said cheerfully. “I don’t know why it’s bothering you so much, they’re all having a lot of fun.”
“Because they’re dancing on a stage,” Rory said. “With a recorder. And high kicks.”
“Oh really, Rory,” Zoe said, shaking her head. “They’re having fun! Your Doctor’s ever such a good dancer, better than mine!”
Rory decided not to answer that. Zoe was apparently totally unconcerned about the fact that there were now two Doctors running around - despite the fact that they had greeted each other with horrified cries about the space-time continuum. Then they’d decided to go to a bar and perform. Apparently, the space-time continuum could be worried about later.
The recorder music had finally stopped now and there was a lot of applause which proved that everybody in this place was absolutely barking mad. Some happy noises came and then everybody was sitting down beside them again.
“You were wonderful!” Zoe said happily.
“Aye, of course we were!” Jamie said. “No Scot alive canne do a reel like that!”
“Helped of course, by my excellent playing,” the other Doctor said happily. “Some people don’t appreciate my skill on the recorder but I think it is a very underrated instrument.”
“I quite agree!” Rory’s Doctor said happily. “Recorders are cool!
“You’re both mad,” Amy said happily. “Oh Rory, are you still being a grumpy pants?”
“Yes,” Rory said firmly but he couldn’t help smiling when she kissed him. Amy was like that.
“Well, this is lovely!” the other Doctor said happily. “I have to say, I’ve crossed my time stream a few times - very naughty I know but still - and you’re very much the nicest me I’ve ever met!”
“Aw!” Rory’s Doctor said. “That’s lovely! That’s the loveliest thing I’ve ever said to myself!”
They hugged. Jamie shook his head slightly. Rory closed his eyes. This was going to be a long night.
Title: Romantic Date
Fandom: Getbackers
Rating: PG
Word Count: 180
Summary: Ginji knows a lot about dates. Akabane however, can never be predicted. For delfeus
Ginji hadn’t watched very many romantic film but Natsumi-chan had told him lots and lots about them. So he felt that he really knew a lot about different ways of dating and different sorts of dates.
And he knew that this date with Akabane-san was badbadbadbadbaaaaaad. But luckily, he also knew what to do because Natsumi-chan had told him! When dates were going really bad, you said you had to go to the bathroom and then crawled out of the window.
So when Akabane-san came back and gave Ginji his drink, Ginji told him he needed the bathroom and went to climb quickly out of the window.
It then occurred to him that he had made two small mistakes. One was that Akabane-san had that terribly creepy habit of always knowing what he was doing and where he was going.
The other was that the bathroom was on the second storey.
As he plummeted into Akabane-san’s waiting arms, it occurred to Ginji that this date was going to be much more awkward than most of the ones Natsumi-chan had described.
Title: Telegram
Fandom: Willard Price's Adventure Series
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: The telegram Hal recieves is not the one he expected. For r05km.
Hal was staring at the telegram in his hand, looking completely bewildered. It only contained three words.
It’s a girl!
Which wasn’t very helpful when it came to working out what his father wanted him to capture for a zoo next.
“Maybe it’s in code?” Roger suggested. “Something really secret?”
Hal decided not to dignify that with a response. Perhaps they had a baby sister? He wasn’t sure he wanted a baby sister.. Wouldn’t he have noticed his mother was going to have a baby?
“Or it could be the wrong telegram?” Roger ventured.
“Oh,” Hal said blankly. “Or that.”
Title: America
Fandom: Death Note
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Ide does not what Matsuda to tell him the obvious.
“Ide … ” Matsuda said.
“Do not say it,” Ide said through gritted teeth. “Do not say it, Matsuda. I mean it.”
“Okay,” Matsuda said agreeably.
They continued to walk. Ide had always thought this English was fairly good but listening to all the Americans around him made him realise that he wasn’t as fluent as he’d thought. What were they all saying? What were they thinking? Would they understand him if he tried to talk to them?
“Ide,” Matsuda said again.
“Don’t say it, Matsuda!”
“We’re lost,” Matsuda said firmly.
“I hate you,” Ide said, gloomily accepting the truth.
Title: Gwaine's Plan
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Gwaine doesn't think it was his fault.
“Well done, Gwaine,” Arthur grouched. “Really well done.”
“This is not my fault,” Gwaine said firmly.
“It was your short cut,” Arthur growled. “Your idea. You and your babbling about how this would get us through the wood quicker and oh, of course you knew what you were doing.”
“I did,” Gwaine said. “There wasn’t a bog here before.”
Merlin couldn’t help sniggering at that, even though he was waist deep in mud. Arthur made a snarling noise.
“Ah, shut up Princess,” Gwaine said cheerfully. “It’ll be fine. Percival will arrive soon and save us.”
“I hate you,” Arthur said.
Title: Attack of the Naughty Bubbles
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 308
Summary: When things like this happen, Merlin swears he won't do ridiculous magic again. Written for versipellis.
Every time something like this happened, Merlin swore he would never do another spell “just to see what happened.”
It could have been worse, he supposed. Everybody he’d seen so far seemed to be rather enjoying the bubbles that he’d unwittingly unleashed on Camelot. Enjoying them a bit too much really. Not that Merlin could really blame them - the bubbles did tickle in rather distracting way …
Now probably wasn’t the moment to think about that.
Who would have thought bubbles could be such a problem? They looked like normal soap bubbles, fragile and pretty. They felt soft and gentle and sort of warm when they bumped into you. And then they just … kept bumping. In that soft and gentle and warm sort of way.
Gwaine had been the one who had alerted him the problem.
“It’s not that I’m not having a lot of fun,” he’d said, his cheeks flushed, grinning rather sleepily. “But there’s more than one person that I never needed to hear having that kind of fun, you know what I’m saying?”
Merlin knew what he was saying. Moving through Camelot had meant that he’d heard more than he’d ever needed. Had he ever needed to hear Lord Agravaine shouting with pleasure? No. No, he really hadn’t. And never needed to again.
To his utter relief, Gaius wasn’t in his rooms. The last thing Merlin wanted was to see him surrounded by bubbles. He dived into his bedroom, grabbed the magic book and quickly gasped out the spell that ought to have dispersed the bubbles.
It didn’t quite work. Instead, Merlin found himself dive-bombed by what seemed to be millions of bubbles that appeared to have no other desire in life than to make Merlin feel very, very pleasant indeed.
Merlin decided he could live with that. At least for a short while.
Title: Lost and Found
Fandom: Merlin/Harry Potter
Rating: G
Word Count: 527
Summary: Merlin isn't sure what to make of Luna Lovegood. Written for delfeus
Merlin didn’t know what to make of Luna.
She was sitting in his room in a very calm and cheerful sort of way, reading his magic book. The fact that she had apparently travelled backwards hundreds of years and was now in a place where magic was banned didn’t seem to be bothering her very much at all.
“Hello Merlin,” she said, smiling at him. “This book is very interesting. Nothing like the books at school but with very beautiful pictures.”
“I’m glad you like it,” Merlin said. “I … haven’t found anything yet.”
“Oh, that’s all right,” she said, calmly unconcerned. “I know that Daddy will be looking for me. He’s quite powerful you know, he’ll be able to contact me I think. And you’re ever so powerful so I expect you’ll be able to link with him.”
“Um,” Merlin said. “Yes.”
Luna looked at him and then gently put his book aside.
“You’re not really what I expected, you know,” she said.
“I know,” Merlin said glumly. “I’m too skinny and ridiculous and have big ears and am too young, right?”
“No,” Luna said. “You’re just … sadder than I expected, really. I thought you’d be ever so powerful and happy but you seem quite lonely.”
Merlin didn’t know what to say to that. Luna had been making him rather uncomfortable since she’d stepped out of the blur of light that had deposited her here. She was so … open. She didn’t seem worried, even though she apparently understood that Arthur would probably have her executed. She was quite happy to sit in his room quietly but had clearly known who he was - and who Arthur was too. It was just … very strange.
“I’m not lonely,” he lied. “It’s fine.”
“If you say so,” Luna said comfortably. “We learned about you in school you know, but it all got a bit muddled. They don’t talk about Arthur much, you see. After all, he’s a Muggle.”
“Muggle?” Merlin repeated.
“Not a wizard,” Luna said. “I don’t think that matters though. Not if you love him.”
Merlin choked on a breath.
“Love him?! What have they been teaching you?”
“Oh, they didn’t teach that,” Luna said. “I just guessed it. After all, why would you spend so much time around him if you didn’t love him?”
“I don’t really get a choice,” Merlin said. “It’s a magic destiny thing.”
“Destiny only works through you,” Luna said placidly. “If you couldn’t love him, it wouldn’t be your destiny, would it?”
Merlin didn’t know what to say to that. Luna really was strange. He shrugged his shouldered instead and looked away. He’d had to make all sorts of excuses to Arthur to explain why he was sneaking off which was always asking for trouble. Arthur was bound to find out something. Never the truth but always something. He was tired of all the excuses and lies and inventions but what else could he do?
“Don’t worry,” Luna said peacefully. “It will all be all right, you know. Not just the major things but the little things too.”
She sounded so positive that Merlin found himself almost believing her.