The New Recruit

Main Points:
Merlin, somewhat universe optional but with the BBC Merlin in mind, with The Secret World crossover.  TSW knowledge would help but isn't required.
Summary: Merlin's now a Templar.
Word Count: 280
Rating: Gen

            There’s the matter of coming to their attention, in some way that wouldn’t lead to the factions fighting over each other for the Merlin, but in the end it’s almost too easy.  An apartment supposedly rented for years, a little trashed, power as close a mimicry as he can get to the others he’s seen and studied.  None of the soldiers treat him as any other than a new recruit, even to the point where they complain about him being Sonnac’s new favorite, and it’s blessedly normal.

            Sonnac will sometimes say a sentence that doesn’t completely fit what he supposedly knows, or give him a look, and it reminds him of Gaius and makes him squirm.  Still, it’s only brief moments here and there, and if the Templars know they’re not saying anything, which he appreciates.  It takes him a little while to get out of the habit of playing the foolish servant, which if nothing else Sonnac sees right through.  He knows it’s not long before he’s sent to a few missions greater than those of the other new recruits, but if nothing else, the magic’s easy enough to master once he knows how it works for the others, and he’s had enough training from Arthur and the knights not to be completely useless with a sword.  Despite what his king might say.

            It might also have to do with the wise things that his mouth occasionally says without permission, but he’s all right with that.  For the first time in centuries, he’s almost at home.  Arthur’s not here, not yet, but he has a new purpose, now, until that day, and he doesn’t have to go mad waiting.