Yuletide Celebrations! OR What Camelot's servants do on their time off

[merlinastrice]

"Don't worry, Gaius, I'll find my own way to the Yule festivals." Merlin smiled. He waved the old man out of the physician's chambers and huffed a sigh. "All right." He really hoped he can pull this off as he dug around his room for the community book. How was it that he sent the message to other worlds again? ...He could try the spell he'd been

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[torchwoodteaboy]

Ianto had been surprised to read the parchment, not quite expecting it to just show up like that, but then this was Merlin and considering who Merlin was, well, it wasn't that much of a surprise. Ianto picked up a pen.

Merlin,

Just two, Sulu and I. I'm afraid that I didn't really have that much of a chance between then and now to ask anyone else. Also...arrive how, exactly? Where?

~Ianto J.

Within seconds of finishing his note back to Merlin, the parchment disappeared, presumably back to Camelot.

[merlinastrice]

He had been pacing until the note reappeared with Ianto's handwriting. Merlin smiled and quickly gathered the potion bottle. He had been working on a spell. Again, another one of his own creations and he had tried it out on himself a few times. Mostly, they worked. The last few trials did at least. He carefully wrapped up the bottle with instructions on the same bit of parchment and sent it on its way:

Ianto,

Make sure you and Hikaru touch this bottle. It should bring you directly to Gaius' chambers. Just a warning, it may make you a bit dizzy.

-Merlin

[torchwoodteaboy]

The parchment appeared much as it had the first time, only this time it was accompanied by a bottle that magically appeared on the table next to it. Ianto was careful not to touch it, not knowing what it was until he read the letter. He read it aloud to Sulu, who had been waiting with him for a little while then, in preparation for going to this Yule celebration of Merlin's, the two of them agreeing that it sounded sort of like their portkey, and the only thing to do would be to make sure they touched it at the same time. And so, with a nod to each other, and a quick count down from three, the two of them grabbed the bottle together, and were instantly sent hurtling from where they stood in Ianto's apartment to Gaius's chambers, wherever those were. Ianto stumbled, catching himself on a table in front of him. He still wasn't anywhere close to being used to that sort of transportation...

[merlinastrice]

Merlin stood back as the swirling figures seemed to materialise before him. Gaius' chambers looked very much like a medieval science lab. There were bottles littered everywhere as well as strange smelling liquids, poultices, mortar and pestle, everything. He had pushed one of the longer tables out of the way in anticipation of their arrival.

"Hikaru! Ianto! You've made it!" he laughed. Merlin held up two breeches and tunics out to them. "Here, you'll need these and...maybe need to pretend that you can speak like you're from Albion..."