West's Summer [Comprehensive English and American]

Arthur Pendragon thought he was going crazy.

The last time he felt this way was when he was seven years old, when Uther brought back Morgana, the great demon king, and announced that this was his own sister.The unfeminine woman cut up all his stamp albums when they first met, and laughed loudly at Arthur's hobby "like a shy girl"-yes, he will always remember Morgana proudly uttering this sentence The look on his face, and thus established the mode of getting along with each other for the next ten years, and they never gave each other any good looks.

And now, just like when he wanted to throw the young Morgana out of the window, Arthur now wanted to drive Merlin out of this luxurious duplex.

"Even if you've been here the whole time, that guy isn't popping out from under the bed or out of the cupboard."

Extremely helpless, he looked at the therapist who was lying motionless on the sofa of West's house, his eyes didn't know where to fall.The former King Camelot tried to persuade him to no avail. In a rage, he dragged the man by his collar and pushed him into the bathroom sink:

"Are you sober, Merlin?! If you don't have anyone, go find them, Oxford, London, New York, whatever you want. What the hell can you do like this?!"

"Do you think he hasn't found it?"

Wholeheartedly entrenched at the bar in the living room and gorged on Haisai.Ever since he found his favorite Noka chocolate in the refrigerator of Mrs. Hermit, Gao Wen has been entrenched in the young man's house together under the banner of taking care of Merlin, relying on the fact that the master is not around and the mage is not in the mood to care, he secretly ate all West's snacks Inventory is simply a breath of fresh air in the gloomy town of Oxford recently.

He pried open a bottle of apple juice with ease, and he took a sip of it with relish looking at Arthur's eyes that hated iron and steel:

"On the second day after West disappeared, I accompanied Merlin to turn over the entire academy. His instructor said that he asked for leave and went home, but he didn't know where his home was or how he could contact him."

Looking sympathetically at the mage who was choking half to death in the bathtub, Gao Wen shrugged: "I don't reply to text messages, I don't answer calls, and his student files and basic information are kept confidential, and I can't check them without a valid reason... This can be done." That guy, West, is really cruel."

"Cough cough cough..."

Being stabbed in the heart, Merlin wiped his face vigorously, feeling that the water he spit out turned into drops of blood from his heart.

"He only left me one sentence." Thinking of the babble that he vaguely heard during the deep kiss at that time, the bewildered archmage lowered his eyes, preferring to believe that it wasn't a lie he imagined: "He wants me to wait for him. "

So, he waited at his home.Open the door every morning and leave until evening, repeating the same anticipation and disappointment the next day.The boy's disappearance without saying a word was a great blow to him, but Merlin also knew that it must mean that what he was about to do this time was extremely dangerous... He knew exactly what kind of person West was. .As long as he cherishes it in his heart, there will never be a bottom line for the sacrifices he can make.

He asked me to wait for him, okay, I'll wait.

He didn't want to tell me, well, I won't ask.

But he absolutely can't just disappear in his life.Just like the lakeside of Avalon thousands of years ago, he decided everything in his own good name.

"Speaking of which, what's the matter between you and West? Why does it feel like he's avoiding you?"

Sighing, he neither approves of Arthur's excessive violence, nor expects Gao Wen to help him with anything other than food.Lancelot, who was dragged by Arthur to 'unlock' the mage, finally couldn't stand it anymore, stepped forward, and lifted the drenched Merlin from the bathroom:

"He doesn't look like someone who disappears for no reason? Could it be that he has encountered some trouble, but he doesn't want to drag you down?"

This is indeed a guess that is infinitely close to the truth, and the archmage knows it well.Whether it was Colin or Merlin, he had vaguely glimpsed the shadow of that old enemy that made the hermit extremely fearful.And based on the same mood of worrying about gain and loss, he can more or less guess West's scruples. When it is possible to expose his weakness to the enemy, everyone's first reaction will of course be to hide without hesitation.

Before reuniting with that magical boy, Merlin never thought that he would become someone's weakness one day.He is the only magician in the world, the son of the sky, the earth and the sea. He has survived the baptism of the past thousand years. The magic of Emerys is no longer comparable to the little servant who used books and staffs.Let alone Yi Laizhe, even if the entire Hydra tried its best to chase and intercept Merlin, it might not be able to hurt a single finger of him.

However, West did not know this kind of incomparable power carved by the years.

He has protected too many people, and there are too many people who need his protection.This seems to have become an instinct engraved in his bones, and no one can trust him, let alone entrust him with a heavy burden.

"I'll have a good talk with him."

Talk it out tough, without leaving a slack.Even if some violent means are used, as long as the young man can succumb to the facts, he can clearly stand shoulder to shoulder with him, and any method mage can try one by one.

The light gray eyes are slowly covered with a little bright red, even the most tolerant sea will always have a rough day.Merlin's eyes are very calm now, so calm that he doesn't even have a trace of anger, but it is more terrifying than being furious.In fact, regardless of Gawain or Gaius, even Arthur, who is most familiar with him, is very unfamiliar with this kind of magician. It is the silence that rarely appears in his eyes in a long time, and under the calm, But it hides all the unknown stubbornness and possessiveness.

Lancelot shuddered suddenly.

I don't know if he felt something, he put the hand on Merlin's shoulder for a while, and he always felt that some people who don't know what to do now may be in bad luck.

……

"You're about to be unlucky."

Magneto's somewhat gloating voice came from the phone.Westersheng Wukelian rolled his eyes, and wanted to yell, but cared about the other father who was still listening on the phone, so he held back.

"If you're not going to talk properly, please give up the communication to Charles."

Gritting his teeth and trying to convey his contempt for Eric with his voice, the hermit took a deep breath, his face extremely ugly: "At least, you have to let me know what's going on at the school first."

"It's not as bad as you think. Although it was attacked by bionic soldiers, but fortunately, it was well prepared and the loss was not great."

Speaking of this, Eric's tone became low.After West received the message of war brought by the Black Knight avatar on the streets of London, the mutant school in the United States was directly attacked by Hydra.However, although the incident happened suddenly, with the X-Men in charge, it didn't let the opponent take advantage of it.But the direct consequence of this incident is that Magneto gave up the action of destroying and killing Yi Laizhe on the British side, hurried back to New York, and decided to join hands with Professor X to resist the attack that had already started and aimed to use bionic soldiers to wipe out all superheroes. Hero's 'Tower Project'.

And without Eric sitting here, Yi Laizhe's actions suddenly became rampant, which is not so incomprehensible.

"So, I can't leave here in New York, and the lunatic in England can only be left to you to find a way to deal with... and your boyfriend who is being targeted."

The sound paused very delicately.Magneto's expression was uglier than Wester's, and he still couldn't bear the never-ending reprimand:

"I told you a long time ago, don't have too much contact with ordinary people, but you not only didn't listen, but also made such a thing for me-now you know how to be afraid?!?"

...you're never finished.

He rolled his eyes more diligently.If it weren't for the fact that the next attack was crucial to him, he would have hung up the phone directly.West snorted coldly, and just about to retort, that Professor X had already driven Magneto out of the brainwave control room and directly connected with the boy.

"I got him out of the brain. Mobile phone radiation will affect the operation of cereboro, not to mention that now is not the time to talk nonsense."

"...everything Eric said to me boiled down to bullshit."

Suppress the instinct of erecting a mental barrier, and let Charles' consciousness connect with himself.West didn't need to get used to the voice that appeared in his head out of thin air, and soon he could talk to his adoptive father without hindrance.

"However, sometimes I'm still curious about that Merlin. Have you considered taking him back to the United States?" With the addition of Professor X's powerful psychic ability, West can 'see' a wider range than usual .It was easy to spot the figure of the reformed person who appeared on the outskirts of Oxford recently. Charles took a break from his busy schedule and did not forget to care about his son's seemingly unsatisfactory love life: "There are many doubts about him, and you have hidden too many things from him. If If you don't figure this out, you won't be together for long."

"Of course I know." Listlessly determined all the possible routes of the opponent, and found that he was staying in the right place, West simply sat on the bridge railing, dangling his legs and looked at the gurgling stream under the bridge, "You If you want to see him, you can go see him now. Anyway, it’s at my house, not far away, but I don’t know if you can hear his thoughts.”

"That makes me even more curious."

Pausing for a while, the power belonging to Professor X was withdrawn from his mind, obviously following what West said to watch the magician.However, it didn't take long for Charles to connect to Lord Hermit's consciousness again, his tone became a little subtle: "He also blocked my ability, but he is not a mutant. This is not easy."

Shrugging, West was noncommittal.

"Besides, I feel like I've seen him somewhere... No, no, it's not in your memory, my brain hasn't aged to that extent yet." After thinking carefully for a while, I don't know what I remembered, Professor X He obviously choked, and his tone became even more unpredictable: "It should have been earlier, when I was still studying in Oxford."

"……you sure?!"

Although it is very rude to doubt the memory of a psychic, the news was so shocking that West suddenly straightened up and almost fell off the bridge: "Charles, that happened decades ago , how could he always be in his twenties?"

"It's definitely strange, but I won't remember it wrong." Still confused, Professor X muttered to himself: "At that time, I went to the bar for the first time, drank some wine, and saw him sitting alone At the bar, and then..."

West was still waiting for the "then" behind the plot, but Charles suddenly got stuck, silent for a while and refused to say any more.Obviously remembering something very difficult to say, his expression gradually became strange, embarrassing and embarrassing.

"Then what happened?" The hermit was about to be driven crazy by this half-spoken behavior: "Don't rely on me not to fool you, just play me like this!!"

What good would he do in a bar when he was young, can that be said?West was so angry that he jumped off the bridge.

What's more, he seems to have finally...

His lips moved, and he finally realized where his sense of familiarity with Merlin came from. Professor X almost wanted to laugh now.

"Go back and ask your boyfriend if you want to know, he will definitely be willing to tell you."

Make up your mind not to open this mouth.Charles coughed lightly, directed his consciousness in another direction amid the instantly collapsed face of his adopted son, and said solemnly:

"And now, you still have something to do... Don't you keep saying you want to protect him?"

"If I get distracted in the middle of a fight and get stabbed, it's all your fault, Charles."

Choked to vomit blood, but could not refute.Sensing the feedback from the surrounding airflow, malicious brain waves had already entered his hunting range. West stood up and stood on the narrow bridge railing, looking at the dense and dark woods not far away, the corners of his mouth twitched A cold arc.

No matter who it is, if they want to attack Merlin, they have to step over his corpse first.

But Yi Laizhe doesn't have this ability yet.

……

After visiting the supermarket with Gaius, the black-haired mage was walking home with a shopping paper bag.The moonlight in the sky was cold, casting on him, leaving a long shadow on the ground.

Just like Merlin's current mood, it is dark, low, uneasy, and the fear of possible loss is also increasing day by day.On the seventh day after West disappeared, he finally began to doubt whether what he had seen was just an illusion that was too real.

He is not without such precedent.In the too long 1000 years, sometimes Arthur and the others have not been reincarnated, and he can no longer bear the loneliness, so he will use magic to construct a wonderful dream for himself in order to escape reality.Otherwise, even a powerful mage like Emerys would be killed by loneliness.

So, now, has he been defeated again in the hopeless waiting, lost all courage in the day-to-day search, and unconsciously fabricated such a fascinating reunion?

——Merlin couldn't believe himself now.

"He'll be back, Merlin."

Walking side by side on the street, of course one could see the depression of the doctor—in fact, it was to let him relax that Gaius would take him out for a walk—the old doctor still patted the boy with a smile Thin shoulders, on the contrary, are very optimistic about it:

"West is not a person who breaks his promise. Since he can offer to be with you, he will definitely not give up halfway...Maybe, when we get home, he will be waiting for you in the living room? "

"Really." Not thinking it was so funny, Merlin just hooked the corner of his mouth reluctantly.

Gaius was always keen on West matters.When he brought Arthur back to the palace from the shores of Lake Avalon, his heart felt empty as if a piece had been gouged out. He knew that he might have forgotten something, but he couldn't remember which part of his life he was missing anyway.Knowing that West had achieved this step, but he never planned to come back, the old doctor didn't say anything, but silently covered up all the traces of that boy in their lives, and kept his mouth shut in the face of his persecution, until finally he passed away suddenly. Nothing was revealed.

Therefore, this is probably the reason why he is sure that West will come back.

If one is really determined to disappear from a person's life, that person can be absolutely more decisive and ruthless than he is now.

Thinking of this, the mage finally felt a little better.

The way back to the residential area from the supermarket is not too far, even with the old man's footsteps, it only takes more than ten minutes.Merlin and Gaius didn't say anything after that, but walked on the street in silence with each other, counting the pale and hazy moonlight along the way.

However, when they walked downstairs to the apartment, they all stopped involuntarily.

"Did you turn off the lights when we left?"

Seeing the bright lights emerging from his living room, the old doctor turned his head and asked with some doubts.

"of course."

Frowning, he clearly remembered that he not only turned off the lights, but also locked the door.There was a trace of wariness in Merlin's eyes, and he signaled Gaius not to speak out first, while he himself quietly stepped forward and gently pushed open the half-covered door.

Although those who are familiar with it know that the house key is pressed under the flower plate on the window sill of Gaius's house, but generally speaking, no one will come to visit at this time.And every time before going out, in addition to locking the doors and windows, Merlin would also secretly place some small magic at the door to prevent thieves. If someone he did not approve of, they would be attacked as long as they approached the house.It stands to reason that apart from him and Gaius, it would be difficult for anyone to come in so swaggeringly.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything.

Seeing the figures in the living room clearly, the mage was stunned for a moment.

A faint smell of blood floated in the air, lingering on the tip of his nose.Under the warm orange light, West, who had been missing for a long time, hugged Gaius' long-haired puppet cat, pinched one of its paws and raised it, and greeted him with a smile:

"Meow~"