Hey guys. Since I've been lurking around the C.S. Lewis fandom for some time I decided that I would contribute at around 2:30 in the morning. I've gone through and checked a bunch of times but there's probably more mistakes. If you find any, CC is appreciated :D.
This is set (quite obviously) before the Peter and Edmund go to Narnia.
Enjoy. Hopefully . . .
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They don't hate each other. No. But there definitely is a rift between them. It is a yawning, gaping chasm thirsty for more uncertainty, more insecurity and hostility. They are, now, nothing like they were when they were younger. When Peter was seven and Edmund was four Peter was always there for Edmund to offer his naïve knowledge and blindly honest protection while Edmund was always there for Peter to display his love, affection, and warmth.
Now, however, Edmund is always there for Peter to constantly remind him of his failures and, apparently, his mind numbing amount of faults. Conversely, for Edmund, Peter is always there to make sure that he knows he isn't worthy of his approval. That he knows that he is too ghastly to possibly ever win a tender, loving hug or a strong hand prideful on his shoulder.
Sometimes, though, the ravenous gap between them is temporarily sated and they let down their defenses to share a surprised smile when Susan gets told off or feel a horrible rush of terror and a selfless fear when the other is too close to danger or death.
Although other times they are so inexplicably angry with each other that it almost comes to the blurred, vague line of hatred and they wonder, with slight alarm and an uncomfortable uncertainty, if they really do hate each other. It is when they both stand at opposite edges on the lip of that accursed abyss glowering fiercely into one another's eyes, their bodies tense with resentment and bristling with hostility they question themselves with growing insecurity: "Is our love really lost?"
Their rift is one of extremes but they don't hate each other. They don't. They can't.
They're brothers.
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Well, what'd you think?