What If He Tried To Get His Father's Attention?

But when it came to trying to get Uther's attention, he changed. Leon knew Bors had tried to speak to the king in order to get the man to pay a little more attention to his son's training, making sure he always praised Arthur in the king's hearing, but Uther always waved him off, claiming he trusted Bors' abilities to make a fine knight out of Arthur. The prince had come to the conclusion that if he wasn't going to get his father's attention through being good, then he was going to find other ways to get it. Harassing staff, stealing from the kitchens and generally making a nuisance of himself had turned the boy everyone had loved into someone they backed away when seeing. Leon hated it – he knew why Arthur was doing it, but he could never catch Arthur doing anything bad enough to truly reprimand him other than a scolding. Arthur was toeing a line, making sure he stayed on the right side of the knights but deliberately trying to get his father's attention.
He would speak out in the few council meetings he had been allowed to sit in on and find himself forcibly escorted from the room. Leon knew what was grating on the fourteen year old was the fact his father would then take into consideration what the prince had just said, yet still punish him for it anyway. Arthur was simply desperate for some sort of affection from his father and Leon knew the chances were that he would never get