Chicken Surprise
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issy5209Title: Chicken Surprise
Rating: Gen
Pairing/s:Arthur/Gwen
Character/s: Arthur, Gwen, Merlin
Summary: Its Arthur and Guinevere's first wedding anniversary and Arthur tries to be romantic.
Warnings: Non
Word Count: 733
Prompt: Surprise
Author's Notes: Something just a bit silly, poor Arthur, he really does try.
Chicken Surprise
Merlin entered the King’s chambers to find Arthur sitting at his desk waiting for him and looking down at a chicken in front of him. A very dead chicken “This can’t be good”he thought to himself
“ Why’ve you got a dead chicken?” He asked, wondering if there was any way a chicken could be thought of as magical or some such thing.
“I killed it”Arthur told him
“Why? What did it do to you?”Merlin joked
Arthur ignored him, and said “As you know it is mine and Guinevere’s first anniversary today”
“Yes I remember, I reminded you about it yesterday actually”Merlin said
“Yes, I know that” Arthur said, scowling and waving his hand, as if he didn’t need the reminder that he’d had to be reminded.
“And I want to do something special for her”he continued. “Remember that time when I stayed at her house when I was fighting in the tournament pretending to be a farmer? And one night I cooked her dinner?”
‘Umm, you didn’t cook her dinner that night, I brought you a meal from the kitchen if I remember correctly”
“Yes, yes,” Arthur waved his hands again “But not this time, tonight we’re going to have this chicken!”Arthur said triumphantly waving it around.
“Oh, so you want me to tell the kitchen not to prepare you both a meal as you’ll be cooking then?”
“No, I want you to tell the kitchen staff not to prepare us a meal as you’ll be doing the cooking”
“What”Merlin exclaimed
“Well, you can’t expect me to skin the animal and cook it do you, I’m the King and have to attend the council meetings, train the knights and I’ll just be too busy”
“You don’t skin a chicken Arthur, you pluck it”
“There you go then! Have fun”
“So what’s the surprise then?”Merlin asked wearily
“She’ll think that I cooked it, she won’t know the difference, just don’t use the the kitchen plates will you? Last time they were a dead giveaway”
“Fine” Merlin grabbed the chicken off the desk and went to leave
“Remember Merlin, it’s a surprise, so I don’t want her finding out”
“She’ll figure it out” Merlin warned him
“No she won’t”Arthur assured him, “as long as you don’t blab or anything to her”
“Fine”Merlin stomped out of the room with the dead chicken swinging from his hands.
“Great” he mumbled to himself as he made his way to the palace kitchens, “as if I didn’t have enough to do already, now I have to pluck and cook a chicken”
He went to the kitchens where he plucked it, stuffed it, trussed it and roasted it, along with vegetables and Gwen’s favourite pudding. He even managed to decorate the table with some flowers and candles.
“This looks lovely”Gwen said as she walked in with Arthur.
Arthur blinked in surprise but recovered nicely and said to her “yes I did everything myself, Surprise, Happy Anniversary”
Gwen smiled knowingly
Merlin served the dinner as normal, both King and Queen tucking in heartedly, and stood back, waiting to see the reaction to dinner
“If that is all” he prompted
“Oh, yes Merlin, you can go”
“ Oh and Merlin” Gwen added smiling at him “Delicious chicken as always, thankyou”
“ Hey, I cooked it” Arthur exclaimed
“ Did you?, what did you put in it then” Gwen asked sweetly, but somewhat sceptically , Arthur thought.
“ Errr, Chicken” Arthur replied
“ and” Gwen prompted, still smiling sweetly
“ and.... stuff” Arthur replied, lamely, knowing that the gig was up. “ All right, I didn’t cook it, but how did you know?”
He turned to Merlin “ You blabbed, didn’t you?”
“ I certainly did not! ” Merlin said defensively
Gwen laughed, “ Didn’t you know that Merlin’ s chicken is well-renowned throughout the Palace? It’ s even better than the head cook’s. I thought everybody knew. I’m sorry Arthur, there is no way you could have cooked this”
“I had no idea” Arthur muttered
“ Surprised?” Merlin asked, feeling rather pleased with himself.
‘ Yes, I suppose I am” Arthur admitted “ Next time I’ll make you cook something you’re no good at, now you can go and get pudding”
“ Yes, Sire” he left the room, and said under his breath smugly and just loudly enough for Arthur to hear, “Good luck with that then"
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Date: 2013-06-05 05:51 am (UTC)And what is it about some men and thinking their partners can't see right through them. Silly Arthur *pets him*
Oh, and Merlin's line at the end = priceless!
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Date: 2013-06-05 05:58 am (UTC)Poor Gwen, she really has to put up with a lot, but he always had good intentions, but Merlin did warn him. (and of course Merlin is a good cook!)
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Date: 2013-06-05 09:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-05 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-05 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-05 09:19 pm (UTC)didn't end up in shenanigans, because there was distractions for the writer along the way
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Date: 2013-06-06 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 11:19 am (UTC)Merlin came back after a long hard day at his company. It had always been his dream to have a recording studio, but today the artists had been very much divas. They had almost started a fight and Merlin had to threaten to throw them out without a refund before they behaved and they got shit done. He tossed his backpack in a corner and toed his shoes off.
"Merlin!"
Arthur's almost panicked shout sounded alarming, so Merlin rushed over to where the sound came from: The kitchen.
"No, don't. Stay out!"
But it was too late. Merlin stood in the door, his jaw hanging down, his eyes wide as he took in the whole level of destruction.
Arthur stood in the middle of it, his hair all toussled, something that Merlin couldn't define smeared in it, his face bore marks of...what was that? Brown sauce? Merlin hoped it was just brown sauce. The stuff that stuck to the cupboards might have been pieces of chicken - in a former life. The place looked as if a bomb dropped and Arthur just looked at him with this puppy eyes, trying to wipe his hands on an apron that had seen better times.
Merlin felt a hysterical giggle bubble up and soon he couldn't do anything but gasp for air, tears of laughter rolling down his face.
"Stop laughing," Arthur murmured.
"Sorry, but...," another giggle fit shook Merlin, "what exactly was it supposed to be?"
"Chicken surprise." Arthur worried his lower lip with his teeth and looked as if he was unsure if it was okay to laugh with Merlin.
Merlin took a step forward and plucked some chicken skin off Arthur's hair. "You sure did surprise me."
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Date: 2013-06-06 07:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-06 09:29 am (UTC)