HOLY CRAP A WILD MORGANA

[stubbornprat]

They'd been searching for months. Months. So of course, of course the day after Arthur had argued with his father over the logic of still searching, he stumbled over her. Almost literally.

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Yes, a wild Morgana appears!

[skepticseer]

Morgana's sleeping when he trips over her. Awakening with a start, and a yelp, she's afraid her sister didn't honour her promise for some time to thing, and, at the same time, she's afraid it's one of the King's men.

What if Merlin told everyone about her magic? What if the hunt for her is as some of her sister's followers suggest: a hunt to kill another person with magic.

She scrambles back, a crab walk really, on the ground, until she realizes who tripped over her, "Arthur?!"

[stubbornprat]

"Morgana!" Arthur drops to his knees and reaches a hand out to her. This was absurd. Months and she was practically at their damn door. It made no sense and yet, there she was.

"You look horrible."

[skepticseer]

After months of not seeing her,that's the first thing he says.

That offered hand is going to be rejected. Morgana is going to reject that hand and back farther away. She's looking around as if she expects an attack.

"What are you doing here?" Alone she was promised, time alone to think, not knowing that Morgause knows just how well Morgana does at being alone.

[stubbornprat]

He stays where he is. For once. He's hunted enough skittish animals in his time to know what fear looks like.

It's more than a little disturbing that he can make that comparison here.

"We've been looking for you for months."

[skepticseer]

"We?" Is there someone else coming? Is she being taken alive to be used as an example to the rest of the kingdom as to how far Uther will go to stop magic?

None of Morguase's spies have found out what those in the inner circle know and don't know. Morgana could not return to Camelot without knowing.

"Who is with you? Your servant?"

It's always the ones who look harmless who are the most dangerous, as Merlin proved.

[stubbornprat]

"Yes. We." Arthur shuffles closer, still maintaining more distance than he would have preferred.

He'd much rather shake her. Or hug her. Get her to Guinevere and safety and away from this place before anyone else gets funny ideas about stealing Morgana again.

"Morgana, you were kidnapped. We weren't going to allow someone to take you like that."

[skepticseer]

"Kidnapped?" How could that be believed? People where there, they saw, did they not?

"But I can be murdered by one of your own." She all but spits it at him, the earlier wariness turning into vicious anger.

"But no, you cannot permit me to be kidnapped." Maybe they could not allow her to be saved.

[stubbornprat]

"Speak sense, Morgana. No one tried to murder you." Arthur frowns. He's used to her anger, but the abruptness of it makes his head spin. "You were unconscious and stolen right in front of us."

[skepticseer]

Morgana pushes herself up, crouching, either to run, or attack and either is a possibility. Although, she's seriously thinking of punching him for accusing her of speaking nonsense.

"I was dying, because of what was done to me. Are you blind, or as stupid as I always thought?" That's not entirely true but if he's going to insult her --

[stubbornprat]

"I wasn't in the room!" He hadn't been. He'd been off fighting the undead, Morgana. It wasn't his choice idea of activities when it meant leaving you, Merlin and his father to an uncertain fate and he had barely been able to stand as it were.

[skepticseer]

Morgana wouldn't know either, not at the very end. She can only go by what Morgause has told her, and there's this implication that everyone knew.

"No --" She's going to argue but he had left the room to defend his father.

That's enough to bring back the rage. "You had to save your father. Why did you reject being king!"

She'd thought that was to happen, yet it didn't. Remove Uther, and replace with Arthur, but no, nothing changed.

[stubbornprat]

"I had to save all of you, Morgana. Not just him."

He frowned. "I rejected nothing. Had father died..." Arthur would have done what he must. Not that he liked the prospect of it. He would have done what was best for Camelot. It wasn't even a question.

"We all had been in danger. What would you have had me do?"

[skepticseer]

"You do not know anything that happened, do you?" As always, Arthur's left in the dark of everything, though it's not just Uther, but also Arthur's dog who is hiding truths.

[stubbornprat]

"I came just in time to see you taken, Morgana." It's as close to admitting to his cluelessness as he ever gets. Arthur hates, hates, hates that people hide things from him. He isn't as stupid as everyone thinks he is, but he'd be better if his people TOLD HIM things. "All I know is you've been missing for over a month only to have you show up almost at our gates."

[skepticseer]

"Where?" Morgana hadn't realized she was so close. How odd. Why wouldn't Morgause tell her?

"I was not taken! I was saved!"