Chapter 3: Wound
I look at the man disgustedly. Behind him was Arthur and Merlin. "Father." I say distastefully, it felt as if the name itself made me want to get it out.
"Anika." He says coldly and I glare at him. "We brought him here on his wishes. He wanted to see how his daughter was doing." Arthur steps into the tense atmosphere and Merlin stands close by simply watching. "Ha. Trying to act like a good father in front of the prince now?" I ask chuckling looking at father. "I am not acting. I am a better parent then your mother at the very least. She was never fit to be a parent. " he says looking down on me like I was the ugliest thing in existence. I stand up defiantly glaring at him. "She was a better parent then you ever have or will be. With the things you have done you are in no place to speak of her that way." I spit at him. My father was 6'0 he beat me by a few inches. But he didn't intimidate me. "You do not speak to your father that way young lady." He scolds. I roll me eyes. "Oh I know. But there isn't a good loving father as far as I can see." I tell him venom dripping from every word.
"Why did you come here?" I ask. He steps back a couple paces. "After being told you were being held I came to see what you did. So what exactly did you do this time, Anika?" He asks raising his eyebrows accusingly. "Merlin surprised me when I was in the forest. Without thinking I attacked in self defense. Someone came and held a sword to my back. Obviously not knowing who it was I attacked them. I was holding them from moving when a knight came and cut me. My grasp weakened and they took advantage of it. They got the upper hand and I'm here." I explain sitting down wincing at the action as it put pressure on my wound. "Tch pathetic. If you were in a battle and someone cut you, you would be dead now then? Weak." He say kicking dirt in my direction. I glare at him. "Last time I checked you fought Arthur only to lose immediately after the match started. At least I lasted old man." I sneered. "Why you-" "are you still wounded?" Merlin asks interrupting my father. "Well your Prince Charming over here hasn't made an effort get me help." I say fixing my glare on Arthur. "You do not address your future king that way!" Father scolds. "What makes him so special that I can't speak to him as I speak to everyone else? No one ever answers this question. All he is, is another result of life, just like the rest of us. Why must I have so much respect for him?" I ask. I look at everyone. "Exactly. You don't get my respect unless you've earned it. And he hasn't. So get over it father!" I exclaim. "But we really should get that treated Miss Anika." The girl from earlier says. I nod keeping my glare on my father.
She helps me get to the door and my father speaks. "If you make it out of court alive, I don't want to speak, nor see you. You will not live in my house any longer." He says looking at me sternly. I smirk at him. "Very well. Have fun with the ladies, father." I say stepping away with the lady.
She takes me to this room. Inside is Gaius and books with serums surrounding the room. At the far end was a door that lead to where Merlin slept. I enter with her help and Gaius greets us. "Hello Guinevere. Who is this?" He asks. She nods. "Hello Gaius. This is Anika. She needs you to treat a wound." Guinevere says moving her hand from my waist so he could see the blood that stained my shirt. He nods moving hurriedly to the table. He moves things over making space for me to sit. "Lag down please I need to inspect the wound." He says and I nod in response. I lay down and Guinevere lifts my shirt so that the wound was visible. Now that I look at it, it seemed deep.
"It's a very deep wound Miss Anika, it would take a few weeks to heal completely though it will leave scaring." He advises. I nod sighing. "I just need to be good enough to go to court tomorrow. I'd most likely be executed so don't put too much thought to it Gaius." I say giving him a small smile. "You shouldn't think like that Miss Anika. Things could happen, I wouldn't put my hopes down just yet." He says and I nod. 'Last time I had hope mother died with it' I think. I close my eyes getting rid of the thought immediately.
After the pain that I endured with having a cloth in my mouth, Gaius has successfully sewed my wound. Though it still hurts he says it should heal within the next two weeks then to return and remove the stitches. Me and Guinevere thanked him and left only to bump into Merlin. We look at eachother and we both hatched an idea. "Oh man. I was supposed to get water before coming here." Merlin groans turning around sadly. Guinevere peps up. "Merlin if it would help I could get the water for you. I should be back before the Lady Morgana would need me." She suggests. Merlin smiles at her. "Really?! Thanks Gwen your a lifesaver." Merlin says and Guinevere looks at me. "I should be fine don't worry. I'll have a guard take me to the dungeon." I say reassuringly. "Ok then I'll be back soon Merlin." She say flashing is a smile then leaving.
As soon as she leaves me and Merlin enter Gaiuss room then walk quickly to Merlins room. He closes the door before Gaius could see me come along with Merlin.
He looks at me and I look at him as if trying to read eachother. "You know me, right?"I ask him. He nods. "And you know me?" He asks. And I nod. "I've seen you in my dreams I always thought you weren't real." I say reaching out to touch his face curiously. "The same here." He says looking at me curiously as I basically caress his cheek. I retract my hand getting prepared to ask him a serious question. "Do you practice magic?" I ask and he tenses up. I grab his hand calmingly. "Don't worry Merlin. To speak the truth with you so can I. But it's different." I say. His eyebrows furrow. "Different how?" He asks. I lift my hand thinking of fire. It appears and my eyes turn the same bright turquoise once again. I imagine a crown and I shapes it out, then a bed, then Merlin. He looked at it focused. "How did you do that without saying a spell? It's done that for me but only like an instinct." He says looking at my hand inspecting it. "I don't know. I think of what I want to happen and it does. Always has." I say bringing my hand closer to my face inspecting it.
"MERLIN!" We hear from the entrance of Gaiuss room. Both our eyes widening. "He's in his room sire." We hear Gaius say and we panic. We hear footsteps and I think something on the quicks. The door flings open and Merlin looks up from 'putting something in his drawer.' "Yes sire?" He says. "Have you seen Anika? She's supposed to be getting healed by Gaius but as I see she's not here." He says. I put a hand over my mouth as Arthur was right in front of him. To everyone but Merlin I'm nothing, not there. "No sire, she left and Guinevere went to get water." He says. I quietly walk over to behind Merlin and pull on his hair. "She LEFT?" He asks. Merlin nods jaw clenched. "And you let her leave on her own? Are you an idiot?" Arthur scolds and I get pissed. I walk quietly to the front of Gaiss room removing the spell. I lift my arm up as far as I could reopening the wound. Opening and slamming the door as if I just came in. I open my mouth letting out all the pain I felt. "Ugh Gaius. The wind opened again." I say limping over to where he was. He rushes over sitting me down. "Boy's one of you come help me. I only have two hands!" Gaius scolds. They rushed over. "What do you need Gaius?" Arthur asks. I glance at Merlin and he looked at me worriedly. But there was that hint of a 'are you an idiot' look on his face too.
"One of you get me the thread and needle I have over there and a cloth. And the other one lift her shirt so I can see how bad it is." He says but the boys looked hesitant. "Should we really be doing that? Wouldn't it be disrespectful..?" Arthur asks. "I bite my lip in the pain. And with gritted teeth say. "Just get the damn thread." I say and lift my own shirt up. Merlin brings me the cloth and I grab it. Arthur comes with scissors, and the thread and needle.
"If you guys are nauseous I would suggest you leave the room." Gaius warns. They simply sit down to the side and I put the cloth in my mouth biting hard. Soon enough Guinevere comes in with the bucket of water while Gaius barely finishes removing the previous stitches. She gasps when she sees me putting down the bucket of water and rushing over. "What happened?!" She asks worriedly. "I don't know but we'll find out when I finish." Gaius says and continues.
After another painfully long while later her finishes and Guinevere comes with a wet cloth to clean up the blood. "Thanks Guinevere." I say giving her a smile. I roll to the side standing up. "What happened? I had left you with Merlin." She says confused. I sit down groaning and everyone's ears perk up. "After you left Merlin took me to a guard that was taking me to the dungeon. On our way there I tripped and the wound reopened. So I made my way here." I say drinking what Gaius had given me. "Well why didn't the guard come with you." Arthur asks. "Although he insisted I told him not to. Why be a bother am I right?" I say directing my glare to Arthur. He rolls his eyes standing up. "Well we don't have time to waste, because I don't have my schedule with staying in the dungeon."he says mocking me. "And I don't have my schedule filled with getting people put in dungeons." I say giving him a tight smile. He sends a glare and I simply ignore it. Thank you guys. Have a good night!" I say to the people in the room. The wave and Arthur slams the door in my face. 'If he was my long lost brother I wouldn't be surprised with the amount of attitude he gives me.' I think rolling my eyes at him. I walk a few paces behind him and I mostly zone out thinking of what would happen tomorrow. I don't know if I was ready to meet face to face with the man who killed my mother. We reached the dungeon and I didn't say a word just say down and let the guards out the shackles on my wrists. Once they left I removed them my eyes glowing then returning to their brown color. I got a piece of bread putting in my mouth. 'Mmm so good' I think eating the rest. I stuff the rest in my mouth, then go the the corner. I lay down straight avoiding to touch my waist. I found laying in my back the least painful so that how I slept.
And for the first time in ever, Merlin wasn't what I dreamt about.
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