Title: Something mature about Edmund
Rating: PG-13
Summary: There is something mature about Edmund and it best shows when he looks at Caspian.
Warnings: slash
Timeline: any moment from Prince Caspian onwards I guess, didn't have a specific time in my mind, movie-verse.
Author's Note: Please, someone, invent a better name for this! It's a drabble so I haven't named it before but needs a name for it.. :P damn. Well, I hope you enjoy it anyways! It's shameless Edmund-worship! :D

A Narnia fan fiction story by The Little Green Voice:

Something Mature about Edmund

It is those eyes, Caspian thought, those dark, intense eyes and the way his gaze never strayed from his target. Of course he is used to being looked at, he is of royal blood, raised to rule a country - but others always look at him differently: lower than his eyes, or past him, perhaps downwards and then back at him only for a moment, fidgeting, unsure, humble and respectful. As good subordinates should be.

But not King Edmund. He is different, equal, and it shows in his actions. When he looks at Caspian, his eyes fix on the other's eyes in an intense, profound look. It feels more like being observed closely than being just looked at. It is captivating.

To say that it unnerves him would be the understatement of the year. It always makes him jumpy and up-tight in the inside. He feels like he can't think or speak properly if those eyes are fixed on him and it is just plain ridiculous. He is older, he shouldn't be the least bit intimidated by this young man. By this boy.

But Caspian also recognizes the truth that Edmund is not only a boy. No child could wield two swords with the pure skill and experienced smoothness Edmund does. No child could understand the diplomacy of a conflict so naturally as Edmund understands. No child would look at him the way Edmund does. There is something very mature about Edmund and it best shows in his eyes when he looks at Caspian.

They are not the eyes of a young boy.

Caspian knows that there's much more in Edmund than what meets the eye and that is what the young telmarine finds so intriguing about this. About him. This young-looking Edmund also is the legendary King Edmund the Just who lived and ruled a lifetime in Narnia thousand years ago, and that is what makes Caspian tremble under his gaze.