Room 303, Sunday Morning

[bitchprince]

Arthur did not awake to the feeling of having slept particularly well. His head wasn't pounding, which was a good sign, but his brain felt like it still wanted to seep out of his head into something nice and unconscious of the sweetest kind.

He was usually an early riser. He was trying to remember why he didn't feel inclined to be so right now.

Of course, that's when he opened his eyes and found two very curious blue eyes peering back at him. "You awake yet?" Gawain demanded. Yes, demanded.

Oh, hell. "Go back to sleep," he ordered.

"But sir," Gawain said, plaintatively, "It's time for morning exercise."

Arthur was going to murder the world.

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[bitchprince]

"Knocking, Merlin--" Arthur started.

Oh, wait. "...Arawn."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"He's very fast," Merlin said, coming up behind the boy into the room.

[bitchprince]

"I noticed," Arthur said, shooting the child a mildly befuddled look.

"Father!" Arawn repeated, and promptly attached to his leg.

This led to more looking. "Have you fed him?"

[destinybitch.livejournal.com]

"Why don't I have my own room in this castle?" Arawn asked, holding on tightly. Climbing on Da was perfectly fine, but Father was king and you did not do that sort of thing.

Unless he did the picking up. He hoped he would!

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I already fed him," Merlin replied, rubbing his forehead in exasperation. "He eats as much as you do."

[bitchprince]

"He's a growing boy," Arthur pointed out, "If he wasn't eating well, there's no way he'd be able to handle a sword." He still was a little confused how he'd wound up like this, but let it never be said Arthur Pendragon didn't know how to roll with it when necessary.

... Give him a minute to deal with the question. "You don't live here," he tried, "We're all just... visiting." Kids.

[destinybitch.livejournal.com]

That appeased Arawn and he disengaged himself from Arthur's leg to very slowly peer over to the other side of the room. There was another bed.

"Is that for Da?"

[bitchprince]

"Er," said Arthur. This was entirely unfair. He should not have to deal with this. "That's-- my roommate's. It's the rules of the castle. You've got to share your rooms."

And he was only barely refraining from mentioning how incredibly stupid he still thought that was.

"Which is ridiculous."

Nevermind refraining.

[destinybitch.livejournal.com]

"Kings don't share," Arawn said, very solemnly climbing up onto the bed.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Arawn be careful!" He'd only been climbing on everything in Merlin's room. Why was he so well behaved here and not there?

[bitchprince]

Arthur would've appreciated it if Arawn found some kind of-- way to make this clear to Leto (possibly involving punting the little tosser out of his window) but he did, in fact, remain quiet on that fact.

"I'm not King yet," he tried, shooting a helpless glance at Merlin.

... an imperiously helpless glance.

[destinybitch.livejournal.com]

"You're always king, father." Well, he'd been all of Arawn's life.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Arawn, how about you show Arthur your sword work?" Merlin said in a desperate hope of distracting them both.

[bitchprince]

"Not yet," Arthur repeated.

Merlin gained another look. Was that really the best he could come up with? "Right," he said, "Your swordcraft. How are you doing on your training?"

[destinybitch.livejournal.com]

Arawn grinned widely and jumped on the bed once. In a princely way.

"'mma be the best knight ever!"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin just went to lean against a nice wall. Thank god there was someone else to watch the boy now.

"He's a page," He added tiredly.

[bitchprince]

"Of course he is," Arthur said, but it didn't hold quite as much confidence as he was going for. "He is my son." As insane as that sounded. He looked up at the child next. "Come and sit down," he ordered.

It wasn't immediately obvious which one of them he was talking to.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

And down Arawn went to sit next to him, bouncing a little in his rush.

"Arthur, he can--" Float things about? Brilliant thing to say.

[bitchprince]

"I know," he just said, and shot Merlin a look that clearly implied he'd intended for Merlin to follow his previous statement. "Sit down, Merlin."

Nice of you to clarify, Arthur.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin sighed and sat down as well, on the other side of Arawn. "Yes, sire?"

[bitchprince]

"I need to get out of here," he said, idly, "I'm starting to worry Leto's brood might plan to rise up and start a rebellion."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin shot the other bed a look. "Hunith is rather well behaved," He ventured, trying very hard not to think about how she came to be.

[bitchprince]

"Yes," Arthur said, flatly, "She would be."