The Impossible Boy

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b>Author: issy5209
Title: The Impossible Boy
Rating: Gen
Pairing/s:
Character/s:  Giaus, Merlin
Summary: When Giaus first meets Merlin, he thinks him impossible, but as he watches he learns the impossible is possible.
Warnings:
Word Count:362
Prompt: Impossible
Author's Notes:

The Impossible Boy

Giaus looked in amazement at the bucket suspended in mid air. Even as he quizzed the teenaged boy, his mind was reeling. This simply was not possible. Everything he had just witnessed, everything the boy was telling him was just not possible. There had been no words, no gestures, the boy barely moved and yet, Giaus was staring a bucket, frozen in the air.   He’d tried to explain it to Merlin, tried to find out who taught him. To do what he’d just done, took many years of study and practice. It didn’t just happen. Nobody was born with magic. The boy shrugged and shook his head, his eye’s twinkling with a cheekiness he would come to know well. “I’ve been able to do things like that even before I could talk” This shook Gaius to his very core. Such innate talent was unheard of. Impossible, he concluded, but it was something he would witness time and time again.

Giaus watched as he saved Arthur’s life and Camelot in a dizzying array of ways. He defeated the Griffin, The Questing Beast, Cornelius Sigan, all manner of threats and enemies, some magical, some not. The list was endless.   He watched as Merlin drew his last breath as they administered the antidote, only to find him sitting up the next minute. He sat and listened as he was told that a dorocha passed straight through him, and he survived.  Surely this was impossible.

He watched as Merlin’s magic grew sure and strong, the boy become a man,  watched as he faced and overcame adversities, struggling and accepting his destiny with a mixture of humility and pride.

He saw the impossible become possible.

He, who had thought he would bear witness to magic slowly dying out and disappearing from the world, whose own magic had withered away like a dried out leaf, saw that this was not to be.

With this boy, this impossible boy, magic would continue. His very presence ensured that it would live on.

So when his ward looked at him in frustration and said “I can’t, its impossible”, Gaius would remember the floating bucket and tell him “Nothing is impossible”

Comments

[drarryisgreen]

Nice.

[issy5209.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[destiny-chicken.livejournal.com]

Lovely piece. I think you captured Gaius' feelings and thoughts quite well.

[issy5209.livejournal.com]

Thankyou!