"Yeah well, I'm goin' to probably find myself grounded," he admitted, snorting as he tried not to smirk. "And by that I figure he's got a cell somewhere I'm gong to find myself in."

And much as he made it sound like a joke, he wasn't sure it was.

"Yeah and he came and you... To hear him talk about it, I think you tried to flatline or something on him. He's a better man than me. He can stay away for your good. I couldn't."

He said it calmly, even if was the truth and hurt, and yet he didn't want Harry to think bad about Merlin.

"Sides, he has to be the grown up. I don't."