The Chronicles of Narnia

You'll Come Back - An Edmund Pevensie Story

Summary: Edmund's dreams have always been haunted by her, ever since he betrayed his family. He isn't so sure he deserves the title 'King' not being the traitor he is. What else does can he do? He runs. May contain EdmundXOC later

A/N Hey Ya'll, I'm back! I know I haven't updated my other story "Love Story?…Oh Bullocks" for awhile but NEVER FEAR! I'll get to it, I promise! This is just a little side project I've got going. I had an idea for The Chronicles of Narnia. Since I'm such a big fan of the 'Edmund' character, I wanted to write a whole story about him, which is exactly what this is…obviouslyyy duh. Plus I just love me some Skandar Keynes ;) Anywhooo this is like an Alternative Universe, takes place in the golden age and will sort of be combined with Prince Caspian, I guess they'll all just be a little older. I always wanted to do an Edmund&OC romance type thing so I'm thinking about maybe adding something like that in. But that will be in wayyyyyyyyyy later chapters if at all. And DO NOT post intentionally rude and mean comments, just constructive criticism and whatnot. I do not tolerate mean people like that...OH! One last thing, this story is going to be pretty dramatic; I'm not really used to dramatic stories so I may add in some comic relief every now and then (Comedy is my thing!) ;) just to keep it fun and holy shit this author's note is long, well I'll just shut up now! Thanks and enjoy!

Chapter 1

Susan ran her hand across the smooth white parchment, elegant script filling the paper.

Peter, Susan, and Lucy

I know you won't understand why I'm doing this. I don't really want to myself. I know you've all forgiven me for doing what I did. I am grateful for that. But there is still one person left that hasn't yet forgiven me, myself. I can never forgive myself for betraying my family, the people I love most. People will treat me as a King, but deep down they'll always know what I really was when I came to Narnia. A Betrayer, an evil, selfish little boy, a traitor. Someone like that doesn't deserve a place at Cair Paravel. They do not deserve the title, King. You'll be better off without me. I'm just ashamed of myself. I'm sorry but this is the only way. It'll be as if I've never existed. You three will be the greatest rulers Narnia's ever seen. You don't need me. I hope you spend the rest of your days happily.

Love, Edmund

Susan shed a tear; it rolled down her cheek and splashed onto the perfectly preserved note.

"Susan?" a small voice asked

She spun around to see her small red haired sister. She gave a weak smile "I'm here Lu, what is it?"

"I just wanted to see if you were alright. You've been locked up in here for ages."

Susan bowed her head "Sorry if I worried you."

Lucy looked down at the letter in her Sister's hands "I miss him too Susan but... he won't come back. You know how hard-headed he is." she gave a slight smile but it didn't quite reach her eyes.

Susan wanted to try and cheer up now too, but she just couldn't. She and Edmund had always been close, just like Lucy and Peter were close.

It had been that Susan would listen to Ed when he lost it and became angry with himself, and Edmund always had a comforting hand to place on her shoulder when she was sad.

She missed him the most out of the three siblings left. Not that Peter and Lucy didn't of course, they just tried to get on with life and cope with the changes, no matter how difficult they were without him.

"I know." Susan said quietly.

After all it had already been four years since he left. They had searched for him as soon as they learned of his disappearance. But after they saw his note it became clear he didn't want to be found.

After a year Peter had called off all searches, deeming it hopeless and saying Ed would return only when, and if he wanted to.

Susan begged him to keep searching but his word was final. Lucy agreed with her up until a point when it became clear to her he wasn't coming home.

"Do you want to go riding? Or to the beach?" Lucy suggested

Susan's eyes remained on the letter "No." she answered softly.

Lucy slowly turned toward the door "Okay…" she said uncertainly "See you a supper then."

Susan sighed sadly "I wonder what he's doing right now…"

"Where are their armies headed?"

"Into the heart of Narnia sir, right to-"

"Cair Paravel." The other man finished. He wore a black mask that covered half his face, his dark brown hair flopping over the top. His armor was just as dark, and a lethal sword hung at his side.

"Yes sir, the home of the Kings and Queens. The question is can they handle it?"

"The High King will have a plan I'm sure. We will intercept when needed but the Narnian armies are a great number on their own, it's possible they will not need our help."

"I'm not sure sir, ever since King Edmund the Just left; the armies have decreased greatly in skill."

The other man smirked slightly "You think so do you? And tell me why should they not have found someone to replace him by now?"

"It's rumored that the Kings and Queens were so distraught by his leaving that they put everything they had into finding him, but they never did. They must have loved him very much."

The younger man scoffed "Love. What a pathetic excuse to put your own neck on the line just for that King."

The other man looked skeptical "Yes well, my sources do say that there is a telmarine prince that may take the throne soon."

"Who?"

"Caspian. Prince Caspian the tenth."

"Find out everything you can about him, report back to me."

"Right away Sir. But uh…Captain? When is it we should reveal ourselves sir? This organization of the Secretum Societatis Fraternitatis has been under wraps to everyone's eyes now for four years. How much longer can we keep it up? They will know someone else is involved in this war soon enough. We've caused enough chaos that they should know something by now."

"Yes. When the time is right, everything will fall into place. Wait and see Thornton."

He bowed his head "Yes, my lord." He walked out and began shouting orders at the other swordsmen.

"Wait and see..."

A/N Oooooooooo CLIFFY! So who do you think the Captain of the Secretum Societatis Fraternitatis is? Hmmm? Hmmmm? Lol I'd have thought I'd be pretty obvious. Anyway let me know what you think? Does my idea suck or…? You wanna see more? TELL ME! …hehehe Oh! And just so you know in this story, it's been two years since the Pevensie's have begun their rein, which makes peter 15, Susan 14, Edmund 13, and Lucy 10. This means Edmund left when he was 13 and since it's been four years since then he is now 17. Does that make sense to you? Well it should. I think I calculated right… Oh and that means Peter is now 19, Susan is 18 and Lucy is 14. Get it? Got it? Good.