Merlin Fanfiction

[nessaniel]

Title:  Aprons and mud
Rating:  PG-13
Warning: Slash!! (male/male-relationship) although not that obvious
Words: 698 (I don't have a Beta for English so all mistakes are mine)
Spoilers: none
Characters: Percival/Gawain, Leon, Elyan from BBC's Merlin
Summary: A nightly encounter in the knights' quarters doesn't go unnoticed. (vague description is vague...)
AN: for merlenhiver because I love fangirling with her about BBC's Merlin and because we ship the knights as if there was no tomorrow

"Percival!!!"

Gwaine's shriek was nearly as undignified as his current state of clothing: naked with something tied around his hips that looked like one of the handmaidens' dirty aprons soaked from head to toe in the muddy, slimey contents of one of the castle's ponds and screaming bloody murder across the quarters of the knights of Camelot.

In the middle of the night, mind you.

Sir Elyan was the first to get out of bed and into the hallway, sword drawn and yawning while yelling for the disturbance to be abolished.
He blinked a few times until he recognized Gwaine. He stared at him.

"What's that for?", he asked pointing at the apron and just then it hit him that it might be appropriate to burst out into cackling laughter. He threw his sword to the ground and held his belly.

"Stop laughing you imbecile", Gwaine cried, cheeks turning crimson red now and to make it even more embarrassing he began to shiver violently. "I will run you through with a rusty spoon if you don't stop!"

Elyan just snickered louder and Gwaine was about to throw himself at him when suddenly another door opened and Sir Leon appeared, holding a small oil lamp in his hand.
"What is this atrocious behavior in the middle of the night?!", he demanded to know in a booming voice and it would have come off just as serious as Leon's usual words of reason if he hadn't put on his shirt the wrong way and if he had fastened his pants all the way up. Incredulously he stared at the pair in front of him. His lips twitched suspiciously and only Gwaine's murderous look kept him from joining Elyan in mocking laughter.

"You...ah you seem quite ah indisposed, Gwaine", he said and couldn't prevent his lips from splitting into a huge smile.

Gwaine was on the verge of tears. He opened his mouth a few times but whenever he wanted to say something Elyan had a new laughing fit and wouldn't let him speak.

Leon honestly didn't know what to do so he just stood there watching as Elyan gracefully (and still laughing) avoided Gwaine's furious punches.

"I will kill you! I will hunt you down you sorry excuse for a knight and kill you with my bare hands" Gwaine threatened. Elyan didn't seem very afraid unfortunately.

All of a sudden a huge figure appeared next to Leon in the hallway and drew closer to the squabblers with long hasty steps.

"Ah, Percival", Leon greeted him smiling. "Join me, it is quite a sight..."
But Percival didn't want to watch his laughing or half-naked friends embark on a fight on the contrary he managed to get them apart, grabbed Gwaine at the waist and slung him over his shoulder.

Gwaine apparently needed a moment to understand why he suddenly saw no more than Percival's butt upside-down but when he did he resumed his screaming and threatened to beat the living daylights out of him and each and everyone of his descendants even the girls. He wasn't given any answer only low furious growls of the incomprehensible kind.

Leon and Elyan watched them leave until they went around the corner and Gwaine's shouting became a mere whisper.

"I think he pushed him out of the window", Elyan said after they had heard a door falling shut. He stood up dusting down his clothes and picked up his sword. "HIs room is above the pond after all."

"Why would he do that?" Leon asked.

Elyan sent him a pitying look. "Maybe they went wild with the kissing and groping. Percival isn't that patient when it comes to Gwaine..."

Leon's entire face heated up and he tried desperately to remain calm. He cleared his throath. "Yes. Yes I think..."

Suddenly Elyan was in front of him, very much in front of him and cut him off with a big fat kiss right on the cheek.

"Never stop being so chaste, Leon" he purred into his ear. "It makes you all the more attractive."
Leon stared flabbergasted at his laughing friend, then he retreated hastily into his room.

Elyan's laughter though he could hear through the door.


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