Match Maker Part 2

                                    

                                          
(Merlin x Arthur)
                          
"Do you mind if I bring one of my knights with us?" I ask Arthur smiling sweetly as if I was another princess swooning in his presence. I look back at my fiancé as I twirl the ring on my finger, that if Arthur is to ask about it I'd just say it was a gift from my mother.
                          
"I do not mind at all," He nods walking off to talk to his man servant as I stand next to Al as Alice gets my horse ready for our picnic.
                          
"You sure about this?" He asks as we look after the two boys as Arthur pushes his servers shoulder laughing.
                          
"One hundred percent," I say nodding as I walk over to my horse petting her snout and giving her an apple. I step beside my horse as Al stands behind me to make sure I don't fall. Sure, I know how to ride a horse but it doesn't mean I'm the best at getting on one. "Alrighty!"
                          
"Let's go!" Arthur says as we all have gotten on our horses. I nod in his direction and we're off, our horses taking long gaits to get out of the kingdom. Once we are outside the walls we slow to a trot as I am beside Arthur, Alice and Merlin are behind us, and Al is in the very back.
                          
"So Arthur, who is this?" I say loud enough to grab his servant's attention.
                          
"That is Merlin, he is my man servant. And who is this?" Arthur asks glancing at Merlin then Alice before looking back at me.
                          
"This is my maid servant and best friend since birth, Alice. Her mother is my mother's maid servant so she's always been there," I smile back at her to which she returns it happily.
                          
"Well, it's easy to serve Serena because she is so kind. She often offers to help if I will let her, which I typically don't," Alice say laughing and Arthur seems taken back that Alice seems so open and is allowed to talk so freely and says such kind words.
                          
"Your lucky," Merlin says smirking at Arthur who turns to him with a glare that I can easily tell is hiding his affection for Merlin. "This prat here makes me do everything all the time, and it's exhausting. I clean his room, his clothes, his stables, and I even have to change him, it's too much. And do I get a thank you? No."
                          
"Well, it is your job," Arthur counters receiving a glare in return.
                          
"Don't you have a stable boy?" Alice asks gaining the attention of the two boys. "That cleans out all of the stables."
                          
"Um, no," Arthur says scratching the back of his head, probably thinking that that should be a brilliant idea.
                          
"Please!" Merlin pleads looking in Arthur's direction and gaining his attention. "If I ever have to look at horse poop one more time I swear I'll throw up!"
                          
"Yeah yeah," Arthur says rolling his eyes and returning to facing forward with a smile on his face.
                          
"So, where are we going?" I ask lookin around us at the beautiful, rolling fields thinking anywhere would be a perfect picnicing spot.
                          
"Just a little further then we'll settle down," Arthur responds smiling in my direction to which I return it kindly.
                          
We travel for another twenty minutes before we come to a stop and hop off our horses and Merlin spreads out the blanket. He walks around setting things up when I see an opportunity. So, when Merlin isn't paying attention my eyes flash and Merlin's foot catches on the corner of the blanket making him fall into Arthur. He catches him, as if it were an instinct, with his arms wrapped around Merlin's waist to hold him up.
                          
"You alright?" Arthur asks looking down at the boy in his arms, obviously not paying attention to the position they are in. I look to see Al and Alice chuckling, they now realize how right I am.