Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters unfortunately, because if I did then things would very different.
Authors Note: This is my first story, it is definitely going to be multi-chapter and reviews and constructive criticism are always welcome. Please drop me a review if you can, my friend and I have just created this account and we will let you know which one of us is writing a specific story as our writing tastes and styles are very different. Also just a word about this story Character descriptions are based on the actors from the films rather than the books, sorry to any die-hard Book fans but I really like the characters in the films. Thank you and Enjoy! – JKE
Chapter 1- Hello Again! Lucy's P.O.V
Walking along the path back towards the house with Edmund trudging along moodily beside me, I felt that familiar weight of problems and worries land back on my shoulders, not helped of course by Edmund's third attempt to enlist in the army. I found myself again missing Narnia. I missed Aslan and all of the brilliant friends that I had made, Reepicheep, DLF and truffle-hunter. But most of all I missed Caspian. I missed his cheeky, youthful smile and his bubbling laugh which seemed to fill the whole room. But more than anything about Caspian, I missed the company that he provided, the long conversations that we used to have when we were seen as just Lucy and Caspian – the inseparable best friends and not as Queen Lucy the Valiant and King Caspian X.
5 years had passed since my siblings and I were in Narnia last, Peter and Susan will never return but it was said that Edmund and I would. If time in Narnia passed as quickly as it did the last time, then Caspian and all of our friends were long gone. What else would have changed since the last time we were there?
I was pulled from my thoughts as Edmund and I reached our Aunt and Uncle's house. I walked past Edmund, who went straight up stairs, into the kitchen walking past my barely conscious uncle on the way. I set down the groceries which Edmund and I had gotten but no sooner was it that I had set them on the table that I heard yells and shouts from upstairs. I knew that my Aunt was in the garden and would studiously ignore the noise regardless if she could hear it or not and that my uncle was now fully unconscious on the soft chair in the sitting room. So as usual I had to find out what all of the commotion was about.
As I opened the door to my substitute bedroom after stopping Edmund from strangling Eustace, our extremely ... Challenging cousin my melancholy mood returned, but like before my thoughts were interrupted, this time by Edmund's unannounced entrance into my room. I looked up at him just in time to see him slamming the door loudly right into our unsuspected cousin's podgy face.
"What's wrong Lu?" Edmund asked as soon as he had sat unceremoniously on the floor and taken a proper look at my face. I inwardly cursed at my inability to mask the emotions on my face from my very perceptive brother. "It doesn't matter Ed, don't worry about it." I told him but of course Edmund being Edmund he wasn't going to drop it quite that easily. "No Lucy, something is bothering you, please tell me what is making you look so sad." Edmund pleaded with me, looking at me with big, worried eyes. "I miss Narnia Ed, all of the friends that we made and how well we seemed to fit in there, it was like we were finally home and I guess I just miss the feeling of belonging somewhere and having people and a place that seemed to need me in some way." I started and found all of my fears tumbling unstoppably out of my mouth. "What if we never go back Ed, or worse, what if we do go back and find that hundreds of years have passed again and that everyone we knew is gone again, just like before? I am sixteen now Ed and you are eighteen; time is running out for us." During my ramble, Edmund had got up off of the floor and had walked toward the painting on the far wall of my bedroom. He was staring at is as it he expected it to start moving at any moment. "Lucy have you seen this ship before?" He asked me suddenly, seemingly deciding to ignore my previous comments about Narnia. "Yes" I replied quickly. "It's very Narnian looking isn't it?" "Yeah," Edmund said offhandedly, "or just another reminder that we are here and not there." Just as Edmund finished this sentence are infuriating cousin walked loudly into the room taunting us about our "made up world". Edmund suddenly shot away from me and was holding Eustace up by the collar of his shirt saying "If you ever call us orphans or make some silly immature joke about Narnia again then you will ..." But Edmund never got to finish.
"Edmund the painting" I interrupted as I noticed that the waves in the painting of the ocean with a ship sailing on it had begun to move and that the ship seemed to be getting closer. Edmund let Eustace go just as quickly as he had grabbed him and came over to stand beside me. The painting suddenly began to seep water out of the sides of the frame and I got a face full of sea spray as the boat in the painting lurched forwards again.
Eustace whom had been standing by the door for the duration of this new occurrence suddenly decided to make his presence known to Edmund and I again. "I will just smash the old thing" he said as he ran towards it and grabbed it off the wall, now with water rushing out at a great pace, starting to fill up the room.
"Eustace! No!" Edmund yelled as we tried to stop him from pulling the painting off the wall, but it was too late and soon we were all swimming around in the water with bits of furniture floating around beside us. Suddenly we were all fully immersed in the water struggling frantically to get to the surface to allow oxygen into our lungs. I emerged from the water, realising straight away that we were no longer in England; I just prayed to Aslan with all my heart that we were home again. "Lucy!" I heard Edmund call hurriedly at me as I finally noted the humongous ship that had floated next to us. I looked up to see three blurry figures jump off the railing of the ship and into the water a few metres away from me. I still didn't know who they were and I called for Edmund out of fear and apprehension. But suddenly I felt a firm arm wrap around my waste and a wonderfully familiar voice tell me that it was alright. I turned and looked at his face just to make sure that I wasn't imagining it and sure as anything there he was right next to me among the waves. "Caspian!" I said happily as a grin broke out across my face. "Lucy" he replied calmly and with an underlying tone of love that I couldn't help hear. "Edmund its alright" I yelled across to the struggling boys who were trying to get away from the other 2 men. "Its Caspian."
Caspian and I made our way to the plank suspended from rope that hung down the side of the now still ship. As we settled ourselves on it I couldn't help but blush at the fact that Caspian refused to let go of my waist even to steady himself on the way up. I was helped onto deck where Caspian was immediately handed blankets for himself and me and Caspian promptly wrapped one securely around my shoulders, whilst beginning to rub up and down my arms to try and bring back some of my lost body heat. I looked up into his handsome faced and noticed the thick stubble bordering on full out beard and the unruly mop of dark hair that had grown even longer since the last time I saw him. I didn't get to observe him properly as his eyes caught mine and we just stared at each other, him with a look in his eyes that I couldn't quite decipher. But just as I was about to hug him tightly Edmund walked in-between us.
Authors Note - Hope you enjoyed that first chapter, I am making this a very Lucy and Caspian heavy story, lots of nice moments in-between these two with Romance of course- will try and get second chapter up as soon as possible. Hope you all Enjoyed it.