Title: A New Face in Narnia
Author: CosmicalKeviee (CosmicalMadison and Keviee)
Summary: Peter knew there was something special about Lily Johnson, the American transfer student, from the moment he met her. When her mysterious locket transports them both to Narnia, some mysteries will be solved and more will be raised.
Setting: Post Prince Caspian movieverse, AU
Rating: K
Genre: Adventure/general
Pairing: Eventual Peter/OC

Chapter One: The New Girl

It had been close to a month since they had helped Prince Caspian reclaim his throne and subsequently returned to Earth, but Peter Pevensie still couldn't let Narnia go. He felt like he had lived so much of his life there that he was now out of sync with the "real world." All he wanted was to go back, though he knew he could not. Aslan had said so.

Peter added a few more lines to the picture of the great lion he was drawing in a notebook while completely ignoring his geography lesson. The sketch was amazingly detailed, but it didn't begin to approach the glory of the real thing. Peter sighed deeply. If he could only see him again…

There was a sudden knock at the door that caused himself, the rest of his class, and their teacher, who had been droaning on about South African mountain ranges up until a moment ago, to look up curiously.

"Excuse me one moment, class," said the teacher, putting down the pointer he had been using to refer to the map hung on the board and going to open the door.

Standing there were the principal and another girl Peter had never seen before. She looked about his age and had a short bob of brown hair and green eyes. He couldn't help thinking that she was pretty, and for a moment his thoughts of Narnia were forgotten.

The two adults spoke quietly for a few moments before the principal left and the teacher came back into the room, the girl trailing behind him. "Class, today we have a new student," the teacher said. "Say hello to Lily Johnson, who has just moved here from America."

"America!" the class exclaimed.

"What's it like?" a boy in the back asked.

"Is it true that girls can wear pants there if they want?" a girl sitting next to Peter asked.

Lily looked around nervously. When she saw Peter, she stopped. The two stared at each other for a long moment before the teacher interrupted them.

"Lily, you can sit in that empty seat behind Peter," he explained, gesturing to the boy. "We were in the middle of our geography lesson."

"Oh!" was all Lily said as she made her way to her desk. She sat down and began staring at the back of Peter's head.

Peter was frozen, now hearing the teacher even less than before as he returned to the lesson. The boy's heart beat furiously. In that moment he had locked eyes with Lily, something had passed between then - a kind of connection, like an electric shock. There was something about her…

Asked two years ago if he believed in such a thing, Peter would have scoffed at the very idea. But going to Narnia and seeing and experiencing all that he had there, he now knew that fantastical things really did happen in the real world. He had learned to trust his judgement.

And he trusted that Lily had felt the strange thing as well. The way she had looked at him in that moment, and the way her eyes were now boring a hole in the back of his skull left no doubt. She had felt it too, and like him wondered what it meant.

Peter was determined to find out. Slowly and carefully, so as not to attract the teacher's attention, he pulled a small piece of paper from his notebook and printed on it, "Meet me after class." He casually stretched his arm out behind him and dropped the note on Lily's desk, then held his breath as he waited for her reply.

A few heartbeats later, he heard Lily shift in her chair, and she whispered in his ear, "All right; I'll be there."

A shiver ran through him at the sound of her voice. There was definitely something about that girl…