The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

Song Of The Wise

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Chapter One:

The Train Ride and Meeting Jane Willow

Jane sat beside the window watching the other children say good bye to their mothers, mayhap a few grandparents. She considered herself lucky for she didn't have any family to say good bye too or cry over. However, it did irritate her somewhat; she didn't exactly want to see from the corner of her eye crying children waving good bye to their saddened faced mothers.

Jane Willow lived in an orphanage in Finchley and was being transferred to the country side for fresh air and to be clear away from the Air Raids.

She was very grateful for it.

Professor Kirke was the man who agreed to take Jane, but only Jane. She must have done something extraordinary, mayhap when Mrs Jackson saw Jane reading geography of the world.

Jane is thirteen years of age, and was quite bright at her age, if she did say so herself.

Her thoughts were immediately interrupted when four kids came through the door. The oldest boy looks to be about fifteen or older and had blonde hair; it appears he is the only one with blonde hair. The second one must be the youngest of the bunch, probably around six or eight. She had brown reddish hair that came down to her chin. Even though she looked sad she still smiled at Jane.

Jane on the other hand just nodded her head in acknowledgement.

The third was an older girl with the same hair as the youngest only to have it down to her shoulders and with a bit of curls. She looked to Jane with a not so friendly look.

'Probably still sad of leaving here.' Jane thought

The last one was a boy around twelve, dark brown hair that looked black. There were freckles across the bridge of his nose. And he had the meanest scowl she has ever seen on a child.

She quickly scooted herself and her stuff -only a bag really- a little farther into the corner from them. The train was off; all four of the children sat on the side while Jane sat on the other seat reading about herbology.

After a few short hours, Jane felt as if she was being watched. She looked up to the youngest girl was in fact watching her. The girl smiled, it looked as if the shined onto her face.

"Hello." she said with her eyes sparkling. "I'm Lucy Pevenie."

"Lucy!" the older girl whispered, and made a face that said 'hush'.

"Jane Willow." Jane replies with nonchalant.

She returned to her reading, kind of hoping that that would give Miss Pevensie a hint to leave her be. Apparently she didn't get it, for her smile turned brighter that made Jane wince. Lucy bolted away from her siblings before they could stop her and sat beside Jane. Jane felt rather awkward with the girl sitting so close to her; the scowling boy looked to Jane with a bit of confusion.

"Are you a boy? I mean I know Jane is a girl's name, but you don't look like one." he asked.

The older children looked at their brother in confusion, so was Lucy and Jane.

'Was that an insult or an actual question? Cause if that is an insult that was bad'she thought.

"Because I am a girl, I hate skirts and dresses so I don't wear them, and if you want to insult me try not insulting your stupidity instead." Jane told him.

Lucy and the other girl giggled while the elder boy grinned. The boy on the other hand gave Jane a piercing glare.

If looks could kill Jane would have been dead.

"Ooh, I'm shaking in me knickers" she said sarcastically.

Jane went back to her book not wanting to speak anymore. The boy scowl deepened as he looked out the window.

Once the three recovered, the elder boy tapped Jane's foot to get her attention. It worked, Jane looked up feeling the most annoyed from being interrupted again.

"I'm Peter, and that scowling boy over there is Edmund" he introduced pointing at the boy, "and this is Susan". He ended.

Jane took off her glasses with a sigh and put away her book into her bag since she doesn't think she'll be able to read any of it with these people.

"Charmed." Jane replied before putting on her cap on to cover her red short hair.

Susan wrinkled her nose in Jane's reply. "Your accent? Is it Irish?" Susan asked.

"Aye, me and me fither moved to England after mither died. Or so Mrs Jackson says anyway" Jane answered.

Lucy and Peter looked at her in surprise, while Edmund looked at Jane's tag on her bag. He leaned his head to the side in confusion.

"You are an orphan?" he asked.

Jane narrowed her eyes before hiding both her bag and tag from their eyes.

"Mind ye business lad, and I shall mind mine" She grumbled before pulling her cap over her eyes and nose to get some shut eye.

"Way to go Edmund, you got her angry at us" she heard Susan whisper.

"I'm sorry, I was just-"

"Shhh, Jane is sleeping" Lucy whispered, interrupting Edmund.

To everyone's surprise, including Edmund's. Lucy leaned her head against Jane's shoulder and instantly was asleep, gripping Jane's arm.

'Is she always this affectionate to strangers?'she thought before falling asleep herself.

For eight minutes, Susan and Peter tried to get Lucy onto their side of the seat without waking their Irish friend. Sadly they given up and also fell asleep; Edmund was the last to go asleep.

The next day, Jane didn't know how or why but she found herself on the floor with three of the Pevensies. Edmund was half way off the seat. Jane was using Peter's stomach for a pillow, Susan used Peter's thighs for a foot stand, Lucy was curled up beside Jane, and Peter's hands were either around her or on her forehead.

Jane's hat was gone.

'Where the devil is me cap' she thought to herself looking around herself.

When she was about to move when the train decided to stop, instantly making Edmund fall off the seat and right on top of Jane, barely missing Lucy.

"Duuu!" Jane said when Edmund hit her in the stomach forcing the 'Duuu' out of her.

Edmund was blinking a few times before realizing who was beneath him.

"Get off me ye great lummox!" Jane growled before pushing him off.

"Hey!" Edmund shouted.

With all the commotion the others woke up moaning and groaning before a woman came in with a trolley of food. Even though the other three didn't know what happened this morning but they could guess from Edmunds blushing every time he looked at Jane, or her glaring at him. They suspected Edmund did something unseemly.

They had finally made it to their stop. Only to be once more surprised to see Jane walking out with them. Jane was more annoyed then surprise.

'Why are ye being annoying with me milord?" Jane thought putting on her glasses.

They heard a car pull up; they went towards it... except for Jane who was now reading a pocket book of Math. The car drove right by the Pevensies without slowing down; all watch it go by then back down the road whence it came from.

"The professor knew we were coming." Susan said as if assuring them.

Edmund checked his label. "Perhaps we've been incorrectly labelled."

"That does happen." Jane said, and without looking up from her book and walked off the platform towards the Pevensies, the siblings watched her in curiosity.

Jane book marked her book with a piece of paper, then took out a pocket watch from her chest pocket, and began a countdown. "5, 4, 3, 2,-"

"Come on!" a woman called out, catching the children's attention.

"Right on schedule." Jane murmured putting her watch back into her chest pocket.

Lucy looked up to Jane in awe, like she did the most wonderful trick in the world. Around the corner came a woman driving a cart towards the children. The Pevensies looked at one another, before looking back to the woman who had stopped the cart in front of them.

Peter gulped before speaking. "Mrs Macready?"

The woman in question looked at each one of them in dislike. "I'm afraid so."

She looked at them once more, "Is this it then? Haven't you brought anything else?"

"No ma'am," Peter replied looking to reach of his siblings and Jane before looking back to Mrs Macready. "It's just us."

Mrs Macready gave them a lopsided grin, "Small favours"

Jane instantly began putting her suite case full of book on to the cart. And was followed by the others, she helped the Pevensies get up into the cart with Peter. When it was Edmund's turn, he shoved both Peter's and Jane's hands away from him and got up by himself. Jane really wanted to push him back to the ground for his rudeness, but only rolled her eyes and sat beside Lucy.

They drove to the mansion in a few minutes, according to Jane. When they entered through the door, Mrs Macready instantly began telling them rules.

"Professor Kirke is not accustomed to havin' children in this house," she started.

"You call this a house? More like a manor." Jane murmured, Lucy giggled.

"And, as such, there are a few rules we need to follow. There will be no shoutin' or runnin', no improper use of the dumbwaiter, and no touchin' of the historical artefacts!" She raised her voice at the end when she saw Susan reaching to touch one of the statues.

Jane and the three Pevensies tried to hold in their laughter from Susan who was frowning a bit at Mrs Macready's back.

"And above all," she continued, "There will be no disturbin' of the professor" she pointed out a door before walking upstairs.

When Mrs Macready and the others left Lucy and Jane behind, they looked at the door.

"She makes him sound like he's some kind of King or something." Jane said before leaving Lucy.

A few minutes later, Jane heard Lucy follow alongside her gripping her hand.

Mrs Macready showed the children to their bedrooms, once they have settled in the boys came into the bedroom. Peter had turned on the radio sat on the window sill looking outside into the night. Jane was sitting on her bed reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Susan sat on the love seat also reading, Edmund was in the washroom, and Lucy was lying in bed but hadn't fallen asleep yet.

The radio began talking about the bombing last night which gave no comfort for Lucy to sleep. Susan got up and went to turn it off, Peter was about to protest when Susan pointed to Lucy who was sniffling.

The two elder siblings sat on Lucy's bed, while tried to concentrate on the book.

"The blankets are itchy." Lucy mumbled, glaring at her blankets a bit.

"The war can't last forever Lucy, we'll be home soon" Susan reassured Lucy.

It was working for a bit till Edmund came into the room saying "Whatever that's left of it."

Susan rolled her eyes, annoyed and turned to Edmund. "Shouldn't you be in bed?"

"Yes mom." Edmund replied sarcastically.

"Edmund!" Peter warned his brother.

Jane had enough of this; she put the book onto the night dresser and began rummaging through her duffel bag. The Pevensies watched this curiously as she cussed and cursed about some bauble she couldn't find. Peter looked back to his youngest sister.

"This house is huge, and we have it all to ourselves. It's going to be great, really" he said to her.

"What will be greater is for us to get some shut eye" she added, her head now inside the bag, "and the only way, by me calculation is to get this munchkin to sleep." she stated.

"Munchkin?" the four children asked curiously.

"They are a distant cousin to the dwarf and are much more cuter." she answered, finally she got what she was looking for. "Ah ha! There ye are!"

When she got out of the bag, she saw that Lucy was smiling very brightly at her. Jane realized what she had had said and winced, Lucy jumped out of bed and sprinted onto Jane with a hug.

'Ewww cooties!' Jane thought grudgingly, patting the top of Lucy's head a little.

Jane wasn't exactly use to this kind of contact.

She unwrapped herself from Lucy and gave her to Susan who put her back to bed. Jane took out the ball from the bag and let the children see it, then she showed the lily shaped ring on her left middle finger.

She put her ring into a lily shaped hole on the ball and began to twist it. "I only do this in emergency, but to get some shut eye around here, I'll make an exception."

The Pevensies sat on Lucy's bed, even Edmund. Watching as Jane twisted one last time before putting it where everyone could see.

A tune began as the lid lifted up to reveal a girl sitting on a stomp playing a flute for a huge black wolf; the background was in a forest of all colours. The wolf and girl began to twirl around inside the music box. The children gasped in awe at the contraption, they stared at the Jane when she started to sing along with the tune.

As the moon kindles the night

As the wind kindles the fire

As the rain fills every ocean

And the Sun, the Earth

With your heart, kindle my heart

Take my heart

Take my heart

Kindle it with your heart

And my heart cannot beat

Kindled without you

With your heart kindle my heart

Jane took her ball away when she saw Lucy was asleep and the others were half asleep.

As they all went to bed, Jane laid on her bed listening to the other song in which the others could not hear. When the other tune began, the wolf and girl began to change, for out of the black wolf was a boy and he was laying his head on the girl's lap asleep as the girl hugged him.

A new song played.

Hearts call
Hearts fall
Swallowed in the rain

Who knows?
Life grows
Hollow and so vain

Wandering in the winter light
The wicked and the sane
Bear witness to salvation
And life starts over again

Now the clear sky is all around you
Aah aah...
Love's shadow will surround you
All through the night

Star glowing in the twilight
Tell me true
Hope whispers and I will follow
'Till you love me too

Ah, ah, ah...

Clear skies are all around you
Aah, aah...
Love's shadow will surround you
All through the night

Star glowing in the twilight
Tell me true
Hope whispers and I will follow
'Till you love me too

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It was raining the next day; Lucy was looking out at the rain from the windowsill in longing. Edmund was under a chair picking at something, looking very bored, so bored that he failed to notice Jane tying his shoe laces together.

"Gastro vascular." Susan said to Peter out of the dictionary.

Peter watched Jane with a playful grin, and then raised an eyebrow as Jane quietly began counting in Latin. Jane has been giving clues to the siblings for the past half hour.

"Come on, Peter, Gastro vascular." Susan said again.

Peter sighed and asked. "Is it in Latin?"

The way he asked it made Jane's lip twitch a little.

"Yes." Susan answered.

Edmund came out from under the chair. "Is it Latin for 'worst game ever'?"

Susan glared at him before slamming the book shut and putting it away.

"Now, now grumpy," Jane scolded him lightly. "She was the only one that could come up with an idea to do; I didn't see you popping with ideas."

Susan smiled at Jane for standing up to Edmund, who was scowling at her for the nickname. Lucy went off the windowsill and walked over to Peter.

"We could play hide and seek." She suggested.

In an instant, Jane began crawling away, not wanting to be a part of it, only to have Peter grab her by the waist with his legs to stop her escape, without even looking at her. Edmund smiled smugly as Jane glared up at Peter, who looked over to Susan.

"But we're already having so much fun." he said sarcastically as he looked back at Lucy.

Susan sighed in annoyance as she narrowed her eyes at her brother.

"Come on, Peter, please!" Lucy begged as she sat on top of Jane. "Pretty please?"

Lucy gave him the puppy eyed look as Jane looked up at Peter annoyed. "What am I, a foot stool?"

Peter grinned down at Jane for a bit before looking at Lucy. "One, two, three, four…"

"What?" Edmund exclaimed, looking at his brother in disbelief.

Susan just shakes her head smiling as she headed off out the door. Edmund got up but ended falling back down; Jane laughed at him before Lucy grabbed her and dragged her off the ground and away from Peter's legs.

"Come on Jane, we'll hide together." she said.

Both went out of the room with Edmund following behind them. They found a curtain that had a window seat and was about to get in when Edmund shoved them aside.

"I got here first!" he whispered harshly.

Lucy stuck her tongue out before she dragged Jane away, Jane saw Edmund stick his tongue out as well and almost laughed. The two girls checked the hallway's door; about all of them were locked. Jane thought about how Peter said they had the house to themselves. Jane was about to give up looking for a hiding place when the door she was trying opened.

"Lucy!" she whispered, pointing to the opening.

Lucy smiled at her as she ran over and went inside before Jane; Jane was on look out, waiting for Lucy's signal.

"Jane." She whispered.

On her call, Jane went inside to see a wardrobe it was big enough for the both of them and was quite an interesting piece of wood work.

"Hmm, interesting," Jane said, "I'm intrigued, are ye?"

She turned to Lucy who nodded smiling. Suddenly, Peter's voice carried through the door.

Lucy went in first as Jane looked at the door with a raised eyebrow.

"How in God's name did his voice carry up all the way here?" she asked herself.

She shrugged and was about to go into the wardrobe when Lucy shot out of the wardrobe, ten seconds later, smacking the door into Jane's face, knocking her unconscious.

That was gonna be painful when she wakes up.

A/N: AHHH! Rewriting my poor Narnia Fic, and in thanks of BWA, my motivation in my Narnia story has taken flight once more. And to answer some questions, Jane is not a red head because it would look like she was related to the Pevensies what with the girls having reddish hair. So she has gold blond hair.

Okay so I am rewriting my work so I hope you can forgive me as I delete the old ones and put in the new.

And no she doesn't have any supernatural powers, just like the Pevensies.