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Authoresses Note: The rest on is from Edmunds POV.
All Alone
Chapter 2
When I began to wake up, I found every part of me was sore. With a groan I tried to pry my eyes open. I looked around the room that seemed to be a tent.
Clenching my teeth and manged to push myself up into a sitting position to get a better glance. What in Narnia happened to me? I feel like an old man.
The tent flaps opened causing bright light to fall over me. I blinked a few times trying to adjust my sight.
"Oh thank Aslan! You're alive!" Lucy cried rushing over to me.
"Lucy?" I asked.
She felt my forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. "Your fevers gone." she said.
"Lucy, what happened?" I asked.
"You were wounded badly in the battle. We weren't sure if you were going to live." she replied.
"Wh-where's Peter?" I asked.
She averted her gaze from mine to the ground.
"Luce?" I asked again.
She looked back at me, a tear streaking down her cheek. "He... he didn't make it..." she answered quietly.
I stared hard at her for a moment. It couldn't honestly be true... could it? "Y-you're lying. You have to be." I stuttered.
"I'm not lying, Ed! He didn't make it!" she cried standing up "And you know what's worse? I thought I had lost you too. When we first rode up and I saw you two side by side, bloody and... LIFELESS, I thought I had lost both of my brothers in one fatal swoop. That is an image I will never forget!"
I searched for something to say but found nothing. I wanted to say anything just to get that grief striken look off of her face. To my surprise, it went away on it's own and she spoke again.
"Then I found your pulse. You were still alive. Peter was already gone, but at least I still had one brother." she said looking back at me. She sat back down on the edge of the cot and shook her head. "That still doesn't take the pain of losing Peter away, though. No offense." she said.
"Oh none taken." I said.
She looked down at her hands. "I still can't believe he broke a promise." she said.
"What promise?"
She looked back at me. "He promised you two would be home before I knew it. But only one of you is going to return." she said.
If I didn't know what to say before, I certainly didn't know what to say now. Peter was always the one who knew what to say, and was the one to comfort her if she needed it. But he's gone now and I'm left clueless. There was one thing I did need to tell her though, and I took a deep breath before I spoke.
"I was able to get to Peter before... he passed. And he told me to tell both you and Susan that he loved you. And I know in Aslans Country he still will."
I saw tears come to her eyes but she quickly blinked them away and a small smile came to her face. "Thanks, Ed." she said.
I managed a small smile of my own. "It's no problem. Now come on. We best be getting back to that older sister of ours, eh?" I said.
A wider smile came to her face and she nodded. Though we could smile and laugh, I knew the tears would come eventually. You can block out pain for only so long and then you break. But to break means to accept... and I wasn't ready to accept that I'm the only brother of my two sisters now. Their sole protector. Soon to be High King of Narnia.
I don't want to accept the fact... that my brother is gone.
*dodges plates, eggs, and the occasional knife* Review?
