Re: [Merlin and Morgana]exiledskepticApril 25 2011, 12:48:43 UTC
Warren might have to find his friend or his master's mother, as neither yet know of his resurrection.
Some of her hair's escaped the veil while asleep. Over the past three days, she's been meticulous about her mourning dress, so it would've upset her upon awakening. One of the maids had volunteered to order more mourning attire, as tradition states it would be a full year for a husband. The time of what others would've seen as her engagement, has become her mourning period instead.
The touch rouses her a little from sleep. The kiss a little more, but after three days when the number of sleeping hours could easily be counted on one hand, it is the voice that finally brings her to.
Unlike Tarrwyn, with her easy acceptance, or Gwen and Arthur with their optimistic greeting, Morgana's first response is to sit up in surprise, and shock. Thus, what she says might be surprising, but given her mental gifts, perhaps not.
"Apparitions are supposed to appear the night they die. Why have you taken so long?" She pleads. Morgana's had them before, but only a handful of times in her life. It's why she didn't sleep at all the night Merlin died. She'd been waiting.
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]secrettalentsApril 25 2011, 13:01:32 UTC
Merlin smiles, this was a reaction that he knew he could count on Morgana for. It is not that Arthur or Gwen had more faith in him, though perhaps Gwen argued far less, and she trusted him without needing explanations the majority of the time. It was simply that the idea he would be anything less than what he claim would not occur to them.
Whereas getting Morgana to believe him if he said that day always followed night was a struggle. Instead of correcting her assumptions, Merlin simply plays along with it. His sense of humor being famously inappropriate.
"You would be disappointed if I were to follow all of the accepted rules."
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]exiledskepticApril 25 2011, 13:49:33 UTC
It is famously inappropriate, as is Morgana's sense of what is appropriate as well, as she realizes her hair has escaped it's white veil, and she tucks the errant strands back underneath.
"If you could break all the rules, you would not have died." For an apparition, he is clearer than even her father was, her real father, not the man history will record as such.
"Why was that the one rule you had to follow?" As much as it pains her, she cannot cry. This will be the last time she'll see any form of him, and he looks so healthy, so at peace, she wants to remember this, as opposed to the corpse in the physician's chamber.
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]secrettalentsApril 25 2011, 13:59:14 UTC
"Well, that is something of an interesting story.. you see, I have no intention of going anywhere." Merlin smirks a little, wondering how she might take to the idea of being perpetually haunted.
"It seems that Avalon is not yet ready to receive me properly, and the next time that I die I expect to be given some full recognition." He actually means that the land of immortals will owe him some credit. Though the matter of his mortal funeral will be brought up with some disgruntlement eventually as well.
"I am not dead, Morgana. Or more accurately, I am not dead again. It seems that this has happened to me on several occasions before, only that they were not as obvious as a public assassination."
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]exiledskepticApril 25 2011, 19:12:49 UTC
Her immediate response should've told her that Merlin is really in front of her, and not literally an apparition. "Do not tease me. You have come to tell me you did not approve of the hastiness of your funeral? If you were so disapproving, you should not have died."
As much as she is determined not to finally give in and weep, she can feel tears, which only frustrates her. This insistence he is not dead is what's upsetting her, the idea of hope.
"Even you could not beat death, Merlin." Perhaps he does not know he's a ghost at all. Morgause didn't, but Merlin is different -- awake and conscious when he was killed.
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]secrettalentsApril 25 2011, 19:47:52 UTC
"Only you, my love, would attempted to argue with a ghost. Though I am glad to say, it is not the case this time."
Merlin leans up and kisses the first of her tears. "Feel me, am I not warm? Do I not have a beating heart? It seems that I can indeed beat death. I have- and I have come back to stay."
He gently removes her mourning veil, freeing her hair from any covering.
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]exiledskepticApril 25 2011, 20:17:40 UTC
When Morgana had awoken, she felt warm. It wasn't much, just the natural warmth that comes from being near anther person. She'd felt it on her face, and on her lips, but in her semi-conscious state, Morgana had not realized its meaning.
She risks putting a hand to his neck. She wants to feel if he's warm, and the pulse. It's a risk because even though it's not looked as such, Morgana's made sure the girls are looked after. She's done research on something she has no intention of telling this apparition about. Morgana's managed to get up, and dressed, and check on Gwen's medicine, even mixing a new batch yesterday. In short, Morgana's functioned, which she would be unable to do if this was a cruel haunting by something wholly unnatural.
The hand is the only response he's going to get right now. She's tentative feeling the beat of his blood under his skin, and how warm he is. There's a lack of tiredness on his face that's plagued them both of late. Her face is the opposite. She's functioned almost entirely without sleep.
When he's focused on taking off her veil, she whispers, "I am afraid you are not real. I am afraid I am imagining you." She's heard of this type of madness, but never thought she would experience it.
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]secrettalentsApril 25 2011, 23:06:07 UTC
"Do you trust me, Morgana?" Which is a delicate question to ask, all things considered. They have never had great reason to trust each other, and really, he could not blame her if she elected not to. Merlin will always be one to keep some secrets, be they from Morgana, Arthur, or even Gwen.
"Forget worry, be with me." He moves to join her on the very small cot. Placing a kiss to the freckle on her neck that has always fascinated him deeply.
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]exiledskepticApril 25 2011, 23:44:06 UTC
At first, Morgana doesn't answer anything he says, but she does move to allow him onto the cot. She stares at him, half in grief, and half in hope that she isn't imagining this in a fit after days lacking sleep, and upset she's refused to show to anyone. Her other hand brushes his cheek, a mimicking of what she did to the body in the physician's chamber -- a futile way of trying to erase that memory.
The question of trust is a long one. At this moment, it's herself, and whether or not he is real that she's not trusting.
But when she finally speaks, her response is meant to be in jest, but it sounds too desperate, like she's grasping for an answer. "You would not compare yourself to other men, in reality or any other way. Say something else," she's holds his head to stare in his eyes, the one place she could always see him. "Say something telling me how great you are. Anything, please. Make me believe it is you that is real, not any man."
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]secrettalentsApril 26 2011, 13:57:08 UTC
"I will say this then.." Merlin tightens his arm around her a little. Holding her gaze and stating simply.
"I have seen the Isle of Avalon, I have been welcomed to the land of immortal youth. One day I will return there, but I choose that day to be far from now. Someone may kill me, but I will not die."
And he is going to use this to put terror into Urien's heart, and the heart of any enemy of Camelot. Though first, he will need to fix Excalibur.
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]exiledskepticApril 27 2011, 01:43:47 UTC
Morgana glances down at the arm around her, and it feels real. She closes her eyes and leans into him while he speaks. Merlin feels real.
Her immediate response is a slight shake of the shoulders. As Morgana's contradictory by nature, she is both laughing and crying. Finally, she looks back up at him, "Only you would tell death it must respect your decisions."
Morgana isn't entirely sure how to feel. For someone who usually shuts down, she couldn't over the time he was gone. She felt every excruciating moment of it. The mix of grief, and guilt, and rage, cannot dissipate in one moment and a little of it comes out here. "You cannot leave me again." She sticks a finger into his chest. "Do you understand me? You may not leave me again."
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]exiledskepticApril 27 2011, 02:20:24 UTC
This would definitely not be the moment to distract the point. Morgana almost responds with the truth of what she's been doing when hidden from most of the court's view, but that would be a distraction in itself. As Merlin has returned, it's now irrelevant, other than the discussion of the morality of things.
Morgana does not wish to discuss any of it, right now. Instead, she scrutinizes him, as if she would be required to draw a perfect replica of him at this moment from memory. In truth, she's searching to see if Avalon's taken anything from him. Magic has a sense of balance that is often cruel. What would Avalon take for his return? For whatever the balance would be, Morgana can't see what it is right now.
There's only one truth in the matter, and something she needs to say, almost as a replacement for the last time she said it, "I love you." She could have said something else. She could have talked around it as they will sometimes do. For someone forced to do nothing but feel for the past three days, she needs this emotion to push out the others.
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]secrettalentsApril 27 2011, 18:53:15 UTC
In some ways, the agreement between Merlin and old magic had already been struck. By giving him a destiny such as he was, it is almost Merlin's right to have the ability to see it through to the end. He may not yet know what is to come, for Merlin has always had a dislike of seeing the predicted future, but he will be there for all the final moments.
If there is any price at all, it is the knowledge that he cannot escape what must be done, whether he wishes to or not.
"I know." He will also get her ring back from Mordred. Though he is not sure if it will still contain any traces of magic.
Re: [Merlin and Morgana]exiledskepticApril 27 2011, 19:53:26 UTC
There is a great deal Morgana would have been willing to trade just hours ago to have this moment, but she's been almost physically craving the return of her ring. She's had a need to have something of his to hold onto, and the ring would not only provide that, but be a continual reminder of her commitment to him.
"That is not how you are meant to respond," she almost laughs, and gives him a series of light kisses down his cheek, and on the corner of his mouth, which is a little sweet, and very teasing, as she stops before kissing him properly.
There's something important about starting this slowly, as if starting again.
Some of her hair's escaped the veil while asleep. Over the past three days, she's been meticulous about her mourning dress, so it would've upset her upon awakening. One of the maids had volunteered to order more mourning attire, as tradition states it would be a full year for a husband. The time of what others would've seen as her engagement, has become her mourning period instead.
The touch rouses her a little from sleep. The kiss a little more, but after three days when the number of sleeping hours could easily be counted on one hand, it is the voice that finally brings her to.
Unlike Tarrwyn, with her easy acceptance, or Gwen and Arthur with their optimistic greeting, Morgana's first response is to sit up in surprise, and shock. Thus, what she says might be surprising, but given her mental gifts, perhaps not.
"Apparitions are supposed to appear the night they die. Why have you taken so long?" She pleads. Morgana's had them before, but only a handful of times in her life. It's why she didn't sleep at all the night Merlin died. She'd been waiting.
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Whereas getting Morgana to believe him if he said that day always followed night was a struggle. Instead of correcting her assumptions, Merlin simply plays along with it. His sense of humor being famously inappropriate.
"You would be disappointed if I were to follow all of the accepted rules."
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"If you could break all the rules, you would not have died." For an apparition, he is clearer than even her father was, her real father, not the man history will record as such.
"Why was that the one rule you had to follow?" As much as it pains her, she cannot cry. This will be the last time she'll see any form of him, and he looks so healthy, so at peace, she wants to remember this, as opposed to the corpse in the physician's chamber.
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"It seems that Avalon is not yet ready to receive me properly, and the next time that I die I expect to be given some full recognition." He actually means that the land of immortals will owe him some credit. Though the matter of his mortal funeral will be brought up with some disgruntlement eventually as well.
"I am not dead, Morgana. Or more accurately, I am not dead again. It seems that this has happened to me on several occasions before, only that they were not as obvious as a public assassination."
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As much as she is determined not to finally give in and weep, she can feel tears, which only frustrates her. This insistence he is not dead is what's upsetting her, the idea of hope.
"Even you could not beat death, Merlin." Perhaps he does not know he's a ghost at all. Morgause didn't, but Merlin is different -- awake and conscious when he was killed.
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Merlin leans up and kisses the first of her tears. "Feel me, am I not warm? Do I not have a beating heart? It seems that I can indeed beat death. I have- and I have come back to stay."
He gently removes her mourning veil, freeing her hair from any covering.
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She risks putting a hand to his neck. She wants to feel if he's warm, and the pulse. It's a risk because even though it's not looked as such, Morgana's made sure the girls are looked after. She's done research on something she has no intention of telling this apparition about. Morgana's managed to get up, and dressed, and check on Gwen's medicine, even mixing a new batch yesterday. In short, Morgana's functioned, which she would be unable to do if this was a cruel haunting by something wholly unnatural.
The hand is the only response he's going to get right now. She's tentative feeling the beat of his blood under his skin, and how warm he is. There's a lack of tiredness on his face that's plagued them both of late. Her face is the opposite. She's functioned almost entirely without sleep.
When he's focused on taking off her veil, she whispers, "I am afraid you are not real. I am afraid I am imagining you." She's heard of this type of madness, but never thought she would experience it.
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"Forget worry, be with me." He moves to join her on the very small cot. Placing a kiss to the freckle on her neck that has always fascinated him deeply.
"I am as real as any man."
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The question of trust is a long one. At this moment, it's herself, and whether or not he is real that she's not trusting.
But when she finally speaks, her response is meant to be in jest, but it sounds too desperate, like she's grasping for an answer. "You would not compare yourself to other men, in reality or any other way. Say something else," she's holds his head to stare in his eyes, the one place she could always see him. "Say something telling me how great you are. Anything, please. Make me believe it is you that is real, not any man."
"I do not want any man."
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"I have seen the Isle of Avalon, I have been welcomed to the land of immortal youth. One day I will return there, but I choose that day to be far from now. Someone may kill me, but I will not die."
And he is going to use this to put terror into Urien's heart, and the heart of any enemy of Camelot. Though first, he will need to fix Excalibur.
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Her immediate response is a slight shake of the shoulders. As Morgana's contradictory by nature, she is both laughing and crying. Finally, she looks back up at him, "Only you would tell death it must respect your decisions."
Morgana isn't entirely sure how to feel. For someone who usually shuts down, she couldn't over the time he was gone. She felt every excruciating moment of it. The mix of grief, and guilt, and rage, cannot dissipate in one moment and a little of it comes out here. "You cannot leave me again." She sticks a finger into his chest. "Do you understand me? You may not leave me again."
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He brings her finger up to his lips and turns the hand over so that he can kiss her palm.
"I came back from Avalon to be with you." And Arthur and Gwen. But Merlin was not going to distract from the point.
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Morgana does not wish to discuss any of it, right now. Instead, she scrutinizes him, as if she would be required to draw a perfect replica of him at this moment from memory. In truth, she's searching to see if Avalon's taken anything from him. Magic has a sense of balance that is often cruel. What would Avalon take for his return? For whatever the balance would be, Morgana can't see what it is right now.
There's only one truth in the matter, and something she needs to say, almost as a replacement for the last time she said it, "I love you." She could have said something else. She could have talked around it as they will sometimes do. For someone forced to do nothing but feel for the past three days, she needs this emotion to push out the others.
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If there is any price at all, it is the knowledge that he cannot escape what must be done, whether he wishes to or not.
"I know." He will also get her ring back from Mordred. Though he is not sure if it will still contain any traces of magic.
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"That is not how you are meant to respond," she almost laughs, and gives him a series of light kisses down his cheek, and on the corner of his mouth, which is a little sweet, and very teasing, as she stops before kissing him properly.
There's something important about starting this slowly, as if starting again.
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