onceandfutureprat

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To anyone that I have sparred with since arriving here, or even anyone new who would be interested, would you happen to have any spare time today for another match?

[Private to Merlin]

[This took him like six times to actually put down on paper. And he still doesn't think it's a good idea.]

What really happened with the Questing Beast?

[Private to Charles]

Do you have a moment?

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That's fine. Level five, room eleven, I'll leave the door unlocked.

Thank you.

[He's coming as fast as he can, without seeming obvious or agitated about anything but that's probably failing. Arthur knocked politely before letting himself in.]

"Charles?"

[That's alright, Charles has the class not to totally call you out on being freaked by what's going on, although he certainly understands why this would be unsettling.

And of course, he still manages to look concerned for him, because again. Unsettling.]

"Arthur." [He turned to face the door more properly and came a little closer towards him so that they weren't projecting across the room at each other.] "I saw you'd spoken to our latest... arrival. Are you alright?"

[Do you understand, Charles? Do you have a sister that you just found out about because she tried to steal your birthright and kill all of your people?

You're also a creepy stalker. But it's too late to realize that he should have made that conversation private.]

"She's my half sister. And she has no idea."

[No, he just has future students who have taken pleasure in telling him how he's going to die. The Barge sucks.]

"About anything?"

[Look, Merlin does the same shit to him too. Stupid idiot.

Arthur shook his head lightly, and started to pace a little.]

"I can't tell her."

"Probably a smart idea." [Also an incredibly difficult thing to put yourself through, but.] "She's a warden?"

[He'd spoken to her, but only briefly before Arthur had asked to speak with him, so he didn't have all the details, but it seemed like the thing to assume.]

"She made a deal to save my life." [His mind is blown because of this.]

"You two used to be close." [What happened there, bro. :|]

[It's her fault :|]

"Yes."

"Do you mind if I ask what happened?"

"We drifted apart. I had other pressing concerns and then I returned home from a mission and she and Morguase had taken over Camelot. Morgana had herself crowned queen. I have no idea how long she was planning it."

"And she's telling the truth, that she doesn't remember anything?"

"She swore it on her mother's grave." [Which in Arthur land, is not something you do lightly.]

"What are you going to do?"

[Arthur paced for near on a minute before shaking his head again and throwing his hands up.] "I want to believe her. I want to believe that there's a chance to stop her from turning into that woman."

[Charles listened and paused a beat before answering, churning through all that, not sure if Arthur should know that traditionally, Morgan Le Fay was certainly an enemy to him.

But he was a different Arthur, this was an incredibly unique situation, and he wanted to believe Erik could change here, too. Who was he to deny that Morgana might have the same chance?]

"Maybe there is. I'd hesitate to say there's a genuine purpose to things like this, but maybe this is your chance to alter the future. And her chance at playing a better part in it."

[The concept would be lost on Arthur anyway. Since if he knew the whole of those stories, then he wouldn't take them with anything more than a grain of salt. Since Merlin had nothing to do with his birth, was younger than him, and he was raised in court not as someone's bastard ward. To name a few disparities.]

"Merlin said she would not be here, if she is lying, as an Inmate if she could not change."

"I'd like to think almost anyone can change." [Except for say, Hitler or probably Shaw, but both of those references would mean nothing to him.]

"How is she handling the news that you obviously survived the incident she made a deal for?"

"She seemed shocked. Understandably."

"And she isn't planning on turning right back around and going home?"

[He didn't think of that. But he also made his deal, saw it come true on the Camelot side and then came here, so. Who knows.]

"Can she even do that?"

[Charles shrugged.] "Did Morgana play a part in saving you from what happened?"

"Not that I'm aware of. But I also just learned of how involved Merlin was." [And turns out, that little idiot is still an idiot.]

[Oh good god Merlin JUST TELL HIM EVERYTHING YOU'RE DIGGING A DEEPER GRAVE FOR YOURSELF BRO. :C]

"Then maybe her being here influenced how that played out, and the timestreams's just messy." [After a beat, he adds:] "Or it might not have. I mean, I hesitate to say anything as 'this definitely happened' given the nature of this place."

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