A/N; I'm back, MWAHAHAHAHA! Anyhoo, I wanted to do some Narnia bc I've drifted back into it. This is during VoDT, and is between Edmund and Caspian, NON-SLASH, may I repeat, NON-SLASH, sorry, ya'll, but I don't really do that, so….

ANYWAY, I hope you enjoy!

-P&R

The ship rocked with a gentle rhythm as he stood facing the waters. The night was cool, the moon was full and the crew was long asleep. Lucy was asleep too, and Edmund knew he well enough should be, but this was… one of those nights on the Dawn Treader. He leaned further over on starboard side and reached down to feel the mist on his hands. A roar sounded in the distance, and then the call of a horn. He shot up, and expected Susan and Peter to be beside him. Nope. Maybe it was just in his head. Who knows?

"And here we have King Edmund the Just, pondering life once again." The teen whirled around and met Caspian's dark brown eyes with his own. He turned towards the ocean again and leaned on the rail.

"Caspian, I don't deserve the King's title." The twenty year old chuckled and leaned beside him.

"You deserve that and much more. Why don't you think that?"

"Peter."

"I beg your pardon?" Caspian wasn't so much trying to understand Ed, he was trying to get the King to understand himself.

"He should be here, not me. He can fight, protect…. He's- well, he's the 'Magnificent'! What else is there to know?" Edmund sighed stared up at the moon. ""I just don't understand why Aslan locked him out. How could anyone possibly learn everything from here? I… I feel I haven't even gotten started yet."

"I understand. Well, not fully, because my only sibling drove me out of Telmar, but I miss Susan every day. That's strange I guess, knowing that I'm five years older than her now, but... I can't help but wonder as well. How could anyone forget years of life?" Edmund smiled sadly and side-hugged the taller man.

"I'm sorry, Caspian." He nodded before heading back to his quarters.

"Don't stay out too late, Ed." The boy sighed and stared back up at the moon, hardly noticing the cloudy mist gathering under his hand.

"Edmund…?" The voice was hardly familiar but he recognized it.

"Pete? Peter?!" He whipped around to find his brother, dressed in University clothes. Peter's eyes had a hollow look to them as the blonde beckoned for Edmund to follow. The mist swirled around his head as he followed his brother blindly. He found himself suddenly at home, in Finchley. Peter stood beside Susan who was dressed quite English, in a fancy way.

"Su?" She smiled, but her eyes were blue and cold. "Where are we? Where'd Narnia go?"

"Narnia?" His sister asked, as Edmund expected. He turned, instead, to Peter.

"Pete, where are we? How did we get here? How did you get into Narnia?"
"Narnia?" He asked, blue eyes clearly puzzled. "Ed, what are you talking about?"

"I mean.. N- Narnia, Caspian, the Telmarines?" His siblings approached him slowly as he scrambled backwards. "A- Aslan?"

The mist swirled once again as a cold voice pierced his mind and his siblings disappeared. "Oh, Edmund. They don't know what you're talking about. You let them forget.. You left them behind."

"I- I don't understand! How-"

"Don't you know? Once a traitor, Edmund, always a traitor." Edmund screamed as Jadis' face appeared, swirling in the mist.

"Stop! Peter!" Caspian rushed out of his quarters and towards the scream. Edmund was punching at the air with one hand and gripping the boat with the other. Caspian sheathed his sword and grabbed Edmund by the shoulder.

"Edmund! Snap out of it!" The younger boy struggled in his grip and continued yelling.

"Peter, no! Please, what did I do? Stop!" Ed somehow managed to yank his shoulder out of Caspian's hold and scrambled away. Unfortunately for him, the side of the boat was low. With a scream, the young King tumbled into the cold waters below. Caspian ran to the bell and clanged it, waking Lucy almost immediately.