Rescuing Merlin 2/?
Title: Rescuing Merlin
Author: KatelynnLynn
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: Spoilers for 1.10, Moment of Truth
Summary: A series of one-shots written based on scenes/lines from Moment of Truth. Kind-of sequel to Rescuing Arthur.
This chappie actually takes place sometime after “Le Morte d’Arthur”, but still focuses around “Moment of Truth”. Slight spoilers for “d’Arthur” ensue.
“Did you know?”
Hunith looked up, startled from her steady chopping of tonight’s carrots.
“Did I what?”
Merlin studied the table intensely, following a knot in the wood with a finger.
“When you told me…that day…that…that Arthur and I were ‘two sides of the same coin.’ Did you know?” Hunith stood straighter, waiting for her son to spit out what was really bothering him. “Did you know that I…that I-”
“Loved him?” Relieved, Hunith went back to the carrots before answering. “Yes, of course I did.” She scooped the slices up and dumped them into a pot. Looking up, she saw Merlin staring at her, incredulous. She frowned at him. “Merlin, you’re my son. What kind of a mother would I be if I hadn’t known?”
“But…” Merlin was having trouble wrapping his head around this. “But…but I didn’t even know!” Hunith smiled gently.
“I knew that too.” She wiped the knife with a rag. “What made you realize it, anyway?”
Merlin blushed.
How could he explain to her that it was only as Arthur had lain, dying, that the warlock had realized he would do anything, anything, for the prat he called a prince? That when he had learned of Arthur’s recovery, his joy was so absolute that he could’ve jumped out of a window and flown?
How could he tell her that as she herself had lain, suffering, and Merlin had gone to talk to Arthur in what the warlock thought would be his own last hours, he’d caught himself before saying the one thing he’d never thought he’d say?
‘Any other pointers?’
‘I love you!’ Merlin’s mind screamed at him to say. ‘I love you and I did this all for you!’
“You don’t have to tell me.” Merlin jumped as Hunith broke through his memory. “I just feel better knowing you know.”
“Me too.” Merlin forced a laugh. “I do too.”
But he didn’t. At all.
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4