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Book and Movieverse
Just a set of thoughts, mostly set in the Movieverse. I started wondering what the Pevensies were thinking when they received their gifts from Father Christmas. And then I wondered what Edmund must have thought when he was given his battle gear, and who gave it to him. So of course I had to write it.
Gifts
Lucy
Lucy was just beginning to doubt her belief in the unseen—for how could Fairies and Father Christmas and Angels exist when Daddy had been taken away, and then Mommy had sent them away—when she stumbled into Narnia. Years later, when she looked back on it, she knew that Narnia was the salvation of her deepest self. Just like the day Father Christmas gave her the Cordial of fire-flower juice, and she knew that Someone understood her ever present desire to help and heal. The dagger confused her momentarily, until she remembered that the Narnians expected Peter to be a king. That must mean that he would sometimes have to do things without her in the future. Of course that meant she would have to learn to protect herself. She tried to stand up tall, and told Father Christmas that she could Probably be brave enough to use it.
Lucy wondered fretfully if she would need to use her cordial soon as she sat at Aslan's camp, watching the Narnians make weapons and practice fighting. Already a centaur had come to teach Peter how to use his sword. She put unpleasant thoughts from her mind and followed Su to the little river.
The first time she used her Cordial, it had been for Edmund. Lucy's hands still shook sometimes, when she remembered that day. The brother she had been afraid she had lost was bleeding from a hole in his stomach, and she felt the same sweeping panic that had descended when she watched him walk into Jadis' castle. And even before that, the fear she felt first time Edmund had come home from boarding school and knocked her down on purpose. She felt as though part of her heart was being ripped out. But then Edmund opened his eyes, and Lucy knew she had been right to trust in the gift from Father Christmas. When she looked up and saw Aslan waiting, a look of summoning on his face, Lucy jumped to her feet and put her gift to further use. It was then that she realized that if the Narnians need her to help them, she could do that.