A/N: I hoped the last chapter wasn't a disappointment. Mainly because, it wasn't as detailed. But trust me I am trying my best to keep you interested. And just to warn you, this story might be different from other Prince Caspian because of my different kind of Edmund but I am trying my best to place in some of the dialouge from the movie itself.

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Chapter Three: The One with the Ruins

Alaura stared at the sand, lightly traced a word. Finding the softness of the sand reassuring, she sighed before scooping up a handful of the sand before letting the wind blow away the sand away like a trace of magic. The Pevensies were sitting in a circle talking closely of what they should do next. She left them be, not wanting to be a burden so she was staying a safe distance. She left like she was intruding, surely they were the ones called back not her. They had briefly told her about Aslan's work, to bring back the Kings and Queen of Old to help save Narnia once again. But what is it that they need to save, surely he wouldn't abandon them here without any source of food, or fresh water.

She glanced at the ocean where salt lays, swaying with the water. She shivered at the thought of drinking salt water. She brought her knees up to her chest, tucking her chin before sighing heavily. Narnia didn't seem as beautiful as the Pevensie's description, she imagined it filled with trees, not crumbs of walls. Then she let her eyes linger on the ruins, she cocked her head to the side.

The Pevensie's didn't mention ruins in Narnia? Did they? She had been far too busy staring at Edmund, a faint pink tainted on her cheeks at how wrong it sounded before shaking her head, biting her lip before returning her attention to the ruins. Maybe the ruins was the reason they have to return? She sighed before looking back finding Edmund had been watching her with amusement in his eyes before his eyes rested on the ruins.

He cocked his eyebrows before his brown eyes widened slightly, it was then Edmund lifted his hands and motioned for her to join them which she hesitantly obeyed to as she stood up brushing her coloured jeans before slowly walking over to him. He seemed impatient as she finally neared. He then turned to Peter who had looked up at the presence of Alaura, he smiled briefly before Edmund caught his attention.

"I don't remember any ruins in Narnia." he mumbled to them. He lifted and crossed his arms, his brown eyes pinned on the remains of some sort of building. Alaura glanced up at him hoping he would gaze down at him.

His siblings followed their brother's gaze, Lucy's mouth gaping slightly before her eyes trailed the how high it was. "How do you suppose we get there?" she claimed, her blue eyes piercing at him. He merely shrugged like he did all the work before lifting his right arm, pointing his finger, trailing up.

"We climb of course." he replied like it was the most obvious answer in the world. Lucy frowned before eyeing their bare feet.

"What if we get hurt?" Lucy asked him again.

Edmund scoffed in amusement before his gazes switched between Susan and Lucy, "You're starting to sound like Susan, Lu." Lucy blushed before shrugging.

"She's got a point," Alaura softly spoke, Edmund glanced down at her with an incredulous look which she breezily avoided. "how can we climb up with shoes, much less bare feet." she pointed out.

"If you lived in Narnia almost your entire life, it shouldn't be such a problem, " he easily replied to, Alaura turned away so he wouldn't spot the soft pink tainted on her cheeks. "Lucy should have come more often with me when I was patrolling." he whispered. Nodding at Lucy who gained confidence in her brother before nudging Peter.

"What do you suggest, Ed?" Peter asked. Alaura took a step back after noticing, hers and Edmund's arms were barely touching. She glanced up at him , he was staring at the cliff intensely before closing his eyes. Alaura could see a plan forming in his head before she headed to the cliff.

As soon as she was facing it, she placed her pale hand against it. She stared at the texture in fascination, her nails scratched the roughness of the cliff before softly knocking. Her fingers itched to copy the amazing texture before her eyes trailed up, she took slow steps back her eyes taking in the cliff. She was in another land, having no camera, no book to sketch or write in, her shoulders sagged at the thought of leaving this country without any souvenir, what so ever.

Her fingers left the surface of the cliff at the thought, before another thought came across her mind. Would she ever leave the country? Is she stuck in this land forever? She shivered before a picture of her mom and her boyfriend flew into her head. Immediately Alaura turned her head slightly, spotting Edmund watching her every movement, biting her lip she realized that Edmund was a resemblance to her mom's boyfriend, she shivered before shaking her head.

There was soft footsteps behind her, "What are you doing?" his deep velvet voice asked. Alaura whirled around surprised at his sudden appearance, she expected one of the Queens to come to her. Her jaw worked trying to gets words scrambling to her head, finally she sighed and touched the cliff again.

"I get attracted to-" she trailed off after seeing how intense Edmund's gaze was.

"Certain textures?" Edmund suggested, narrowing his eyes. Alaura weakly nodded, he sighed running his finger through his hair, she wondered how it would feel to have his silky hair run through her fingers. But that thought left her head after Edmund gave her a pointed look, frustrated at her constant blanking out.

"I'm just love to collect remainders whenever I visit some place new." she whispered finding his harsh voice uninviting.

"Are you going to help us or not?" he asked her rudely. She snapped her hazel eyes back up at him in shock, she started moving away from him. She closed her eyes as her mind flew back to Earth, what was her mom's boyfriend doing to her? She trembled slightly as she realized how dangerous Edmund could get.

"I-well-I-didn't." she stumbled over her words, her nose crinkled as she realized Edmund was the kind of person that she would at times can't reply to. He leaned against the cliff, his eyes narrowed at her failed response.

"This isn't a trip. Well for us it isn't, but if Aslan sent you here then it isn't for you either." he told her harshly before pushing himself off the cliff, he started making his way back to his family. His legs making long strides in a hurry to get away from her.

She scoffed in disbelief before following him back, as soon as she join them again she felt Edmund tense. Her eyes found the sand once more before Susan broke the silence, sensing the tension between the two teenagers. "So. We are to climb?" she asked formally. Was being a Queen a bad influence in the later life? Loosing their free will not to talk so formally?

She peeked from her curtain of her red hair, glancing at Edmund who didn't catch her gaze as she watched his jaw move stiffly. He was talking to Peter, but no words came to her, she had drowned out their words before her eyes lingered at how different his posture was from the others. His hands were balled into fists, shoved in his pants, his back slightly arched. He was stiff, like he was suffering from something, harsh, the way he looked at her made her feel unsafe. She felt a shiver run down her spine as she saw his eyes look down at her through the strands of his hair that had fell to his eyes.

She looked away quickly, she gulped wanting to moisten up her dry throat. "Alaura?" her head snapped up finding it was Peter who spoke to her.

"Yes?" she asked quietly, she had reached up and hugged her arms around each other. With Edmund looking at her constantly she felt insecure of how she looked, maybe that's why he constantly looked.

"Think you are able to climb up with us?" Peter asked unevenly, judging by how small she was, almost fragile. Alaura looked up at the cliff.

"Depending on how high it is, or how slanted the cliff may be." Alaura told him, before shrugging her arms, "Forgive me. I am not the strongest of people."

Peter chuckled before nodding, "Well. If you feel like you are slipping..cry out for help, surely Edmund would be there?" he glanced at Edmund who stiffened at the sound of his name, "Won't you?" he asked. Edmund closed his eyes before finally nodding.

"That's okay." she rushed nervously, her clasped hands turning clammy. "Edmund doesn't have to look after me. I don't want to be a burden."

Edmund chuckled with no laughter, "If you die. Then it will be." she glanced uneasily up at him.

"Edmund!" Susan cried out in dismay. Edmund shrugged before glancing over to the ocean. Susan spotted the nervous girl, looking up at the cliff, "Sorry. Edmund that wasn't a nice thing to say." she hissed.

Edmund rolled his eyes, "Let's just get going. It will be sunset soon enough, we have to set out camp too." he told her before Peter nodded, leading the way. As Edmund passed her he gave her a nod at her shoes.

"Better take those off. You'll slip easily." he instructed. Alaura looked after him in confusion, he was such a mystery, the first he was harsh, cruel to her, next he's making sure she's safe, cared for. She shook her head before frowning as she took off her shoes and socks and leaving them in the pile with the rest of the shoes.

She hurried to catch up with the others, Peter already climbing, Susan just a few paces behind him, Lucy after Susan, Edmund just above the ground as he just started climbing. Alaura bit her lip had enough that she could taste the blood, licking her lips her hands hitched on the first thing she spotted before her other hand, somehow found another gap.

She hissed as she pulled herself up at each step, beads of sweat formed at her forehead. It felt like forever having to search out holes in the cliff, her heart leaped as her feet slipped slightly. She stopped afraid to go on, afraid to climb as she knew she was going to die.

"What's wrong?" Edmund called out from up above. He had finally pulled himself up with the others finally,land, once again before spotting her down,with her eyes closed. Her teeth gritted, praying that she would be safe.

"I'm scared." Alaura said unevenly as her arms ached from staying in a position so uncomfortable.

"You're almost there," he told her reassurringly, getting impatient as she still didn't move, "Come on. You're holding us up."

Alaura growled at how rude he was before looking up finding there she was almost there, "It's nice to know some people care about my saf-oh!" she cried out as her feet slipped again, "I'm not going!" she finally decided.

Edmund sighed, "And what? You're going to stay here the entire time?" he asked sarcastically, "Well good luck with that."

Alaura whimpered as her finger began to stiffen in the position before her hands blindly found another hole before pushing herself up, her fingers slipped slightly. "I'm going to fall!" she cried out, loosing hope.

"You're a tough lass, come on." he urged as he saw her trying to move again. Alaura huffed before her another hand found another spot before pulling herself up. Edmund gave her a crooked smile before he raised his arms as she took another step, he gripped her arms and grunted as he started pulling her up.

Alaura snapped her eyes open finding Edmund's burrowed eyebrows working hard to pull her up, "Are you going to help me?" he asked sarcastically before her hands relucantantly let go of the edge and worked itself up, her fingers finally clutched his shirt before she started pulling herself up. Her feets scrambled to get up before her body rested on top of his, she blushed at their position before rolling off breathing heavily.

"Thank you." Alaura whispered as he sat straight up groaning at his aching muscles before narrowing his eyes at her.

"I never thought someone so small like you could weigh so much." he teased, though his gaze never lefts hers. She bit her lip before turning away. "Come on. Let's catch up with the others."

Alaura nodded before she scrambled up catching his amused expression, she cocked an eyebrow at him before he shook his head and motioned the direction they left to. Having his hands shoved in his pockets, he lead the way as she timidly trailed after him. They spotted them waiting patiently under the shade of an apple orchard, having Lucy munching happily into an apple.

She found the apple rather delicious spying one far from her reach, she frowned as a pale hand easily snatched it from it's roots before her eyes looked down finding Edmund handing her one with a smirk, "Don't judge me. I don't like being small either." she whispered before wiping the apple with her sleeve then taking a bite, moaning at how delicious it tasted.

"I'm not judging," he defended himself as he watched her munching into the apple with a satisfied expression, "I think being small fits you." he commented. She stopped chewing on her apple before arching an eyebrow at him waiting for a catch.

"What? So you can tease me?" she asked, he shook his head with a smile tugging on the corner of his mouth. He didn't reply to her comment as he kept walking up, trailing after his family.

"Did anyone still have their sandwiches?" Lucy asked after gulping down a mouthful of her apple. They slowly worked themselves up the slanted land, Alaura narrowly avoiding fallen branches.

"Well," Peter began with a teasing tone as he shook his blonde hair out of his face, "I left mine in my bag, and I left my bag in the train station," he stated, "And then I left the train station in England." he looked back at us. Alaura caught his glanced before she started laughing quietly. As Edmund snickered by her side, she gave him a small smile before taking another bite.

Susan shook her head before grinning at Lucy, Alaura then spotted a strap on Edmund's shoulder. "Hey," she began and almost backed out at how cold his eyes were once again, "How come you still have your bag?"

He shrugged before speeding up his pace, "Maybe I had it on?" he said sarcastically.

Alaura frowned before picking at the root of the apple she usually twisted out before eating. "Well I just thought that your belongings disappeared when you came." she retorted, feeling offended.

Edmund rolled his eyes and used a branch for leverage pulling himself up before she copied, "Not everything is magic, Alaura." he told her. Alaura sighed before spotting the wrecked building they came up to.

With the apple in her mouth, she gaped, the apple falling. She fumbled trying to catch it before another pair caught it where she didn't bite in, Edmund stared at her before handing it over. "You are quite clumsy." he pointed out.

"I am no-" she began to say before her feet got caught by a branch, she squealed as her face neared the ground before a pair of strong arms snaked around her waist bringing her upward. She gasped before looking up finding herself gazing into a pool of murky brown eyes, Edmund cleared his throat as she looked away blushing before brushing out her clothes and muttering a thanks.

Unknown by them, Lucy had looked behind just as Alaura tripped on the branch. She contained her squeal as Edmund caught her, before they started gazing at each other before awkwardly letting go. Lucy munched into her apple letting her happiness go as Alaura might like Edmund, and Edmund might just fall for the shy girl.

Unfortunately, Alaura caught Lucy's gaze her eyes widening before looking down as Lucy skipped off catching up to Susan. She groaned before suddenly loosing her appetite, "Okay. Maybe I am clumsy." she concluded.

Edmund chuckled before nodding over to his siblings finding that they had fallen behind. Alaura nodded, "Right." she said before trailing after his figure. Having spotted them she saw Lucy gazing out into the ocean. She turned around facing Susan and Alaura, "I wonder who lived here?" she asked.

Susan bent down spotting a chess piece, Alaura gaped at the solid gold item before darting her gaze back as Edmund slowly came forth, "I think we did." Susan stated eyeing the chess piece as Alaura played with the apple's root, twisting it around waiting for the root to break off.

"Hey," Edmund began taking the solid gold chess piece from Susan's hand, "That's mine. From my chess set." he pointed out, twirling around the item in his hand.

"Which chess set?" Peter asked doubtful. Edmund rolled his eyes grasping the item before shrugging and gazing over to the ocean.

"I didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchely did I?" Edmund retorted at how clueless Peter can be. Alaura gazed them in wonder.

"You come from Finchely?" she asked, feeling stupid as the only thing she was interested in was the place they came from not the solid gold chess piece Edmund was grasping. Then she realized that the Pevensie's might be standing in their own home's wreck, she bit her lip from saying so as she found the details on certain columns were the kind that might belong in a castle.

She bit her lip before tracing the lines, brushing the column before her attention was grasped by Lucy. "It can't be." Lucy gasped in sorrow before running up a small hill, with hints of cement stuck on the solid ground. Alaura trailed after them as Lucy asked, "Don't you see?" she asked wildy before positioning Peter. Alaura glanced up at them, her eyes lingering on broken structures behind them.

"What?" Peter asked.

"Imagine walls." Lucy stated pointing at the trees, causing Alaura to whirl around her eyes darting everywhere.

"And columns there!" Lucy cried out, so she was right. It was columns, broken ones that row down neatly though they were destroyed as if they were making way for them.

"And a glass roof." Lucy finished standing in her position. Alaura then found herself in an elegant castle, with fawns they described and centaurs before she looked up and found a glass roof.

"Cair Paravel." Peter stated with a cracked voice. Alaura felt a wave of dread pass over her as the Pevensie's realized that their castle has been destroyed. Alaura longed to see Cair Parvel, now it seemed useless.

She turned back finding Edmund with his eyes closed, possibly remembering their castle. His eyebrows scrunched as he clutched the end of his shirt before reopening his shirt catching her gaze. She blinked before breaking it, she started walking towards them.

Edmund stepped down before Alaura realized that they structures destroyed behind them were their thrones. She rushed up to the them, her fingers brushing the legs before sighing. Glancing behind her she found Edmund bent down his eyes scrutinizing a boulder, stained with faded red. Almost magenta looking.

"Catapults." Edmund muttered in recognition. Alaura narrowed her eyes at his statement before joining him on the ground.

Her fingers brushing the stained rock before meeting Edmund's intense gaze, she bit her lip before nodding. "This didn't just happen," he continued never leaving her eyes, "Cair Paravel was attacked." Alaura took an intake of breath, closing her eyes before reopening them finding Edmund had stood up.

She stood up shakily, finally realizing that the situation was dangerous. She felt unprotected, like someone was spying on them right now. She looked to Edmund wanting to find some kind of distraction before finding that he was helping Peter push aside a stone wall, crawling with vines before exchanging brief looks with Susan and Lucy.

They reached Edmund and Peter. Edmund brushed his hands after his work, slowly taking a step back as Alaura arrived, accidently bumping each other's shoulders. Peter began wrenching away the weak wood scattering them on the ground before pushing at the door, the door creaked open crashing against the wall.

Peter flicked his blonde hair out of his eyes before cutting a piece of cloth from his school uniform. The fabric gave a shrieking tear before snapping off, he bent down picking up a fallen branch and began wrapping the fabric around it tying a knot at the before passing the branch over to Edmund. "I don't suppose you have any matches, do you?" Peter asked.

Edmund gave a hard stare at the branch before flipping open his bag before taking out a torch, silver and new. She smirked at their newest technology, "No. But will this help?" he asked teasingly waving his torch around. Before he carelessy threw away the branch and flicking on the light.

Alaura stifled back a giggle as Susan smiled with a hint of laughter as Lucy gave a giggle. Peter sighed at his brother.

"You could have mentioned that a bit sooner?" Peter asked in disbelief, with a hint of mocking. Edmund smirked at his brother before flashing his torch down the stairs. Susan entered as Peter offered for them to go first. Alaura gave him a thankful smile before making her way down.

As they reached the last stair, Alaura suddely felt her feet leave the stair she shrieked before grasping the gate just a few steps away before she could fall face first on the hard, cold ground. "Clumsy." Edmund snickered, Alaura gave him a hard glare before removing herself from the bars as Peter reached the last stair before opening the gate.

"I can't believe it," Peter chuckled in amusement, "it's all still here."

The Pevensies rushed forward as in the room held four chests needing to be dusted, she looked above the chest finding a statue of each Pevensie when they were older. She looked at Peter's scoffing in disbelief as she spotted a beard, she bit her hand to stop herself from laughter before finding Peter brushing off debris off a certain structure, she join him silently finding he was gazing down at a lion.

"Is that Aslan?" she asked pointing at the lion. Peter looked at her quickly before nodding.

"I was so tall." Lucy stated holding up a elegant dress just a few inches taller than her.

"Well, you were older than." Susan told her with a smile as she remembered their old times. Alaura shifted awkwardly as they reminisced their past, she noticed Susan was holding a pair of bows and arrows tightly as Lucy smiled at her before folding up her dress.

"As opposed to a hundered of years later," they turned finding Edmund wearing a silver head armour, to large for his head, "When you're younger." he chuckled. Alaura smiled as he turned away removing his head gear before his eyes brightened that the sight of his trusty old sword.

"What is it?" Lucy's worried tone made her look back at the girls as Susan searched her chest, worry planted on her face before turning to Lucy.

"My horn," Susan told her giving up on looking, her eyes darting on the ground, "I must have felt it on my saddle. The day we went back."

Peter who just opened his chest immediately spotted his sword, Rhindon. He gingerly picked it up gazing at the maroon leather sheath before grasping the handle and pulling the sword out. Alaura could see the pure awe on Peter face as he gazed at his sword, gleaming bright as he read out, "When Aslan bares his teeth, winter meets it's death."

Alaura took a step forward, Peter held out the sword for her to study the markings on the side of sword, "When he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again." Lucy finished as Alaura flipped it to the other side just as Lucy said the rest.

She glanced up finding Lucy's icy blue eyes filled with tears, "Everyone we knew," she began, once again Alaura shifted awkwardly as she felt like she was interrupting a family moment, "Mr. Tumnus and the Beavers.." Lucy sniffed glancing at the ground.

"They're all gone." Lucy finished. Alaura couldn't take everything in, she didn't think that hundreds of years could have past just by one year in their time. She shivered at how time is working, people from the 1940's here with her a girl from the 21st century. She couldn't felt but feel sorry for the Pevensies as all their good friends have died, either at war or by old age, especially Lucy which her close friend that found her in Narnia, was gone.

"I think it's time we found out what's going on." Peter decided finally realizing that things are different as he sheath his sword once again before nodding, "You girls dress inside here. Me and Edmund will head outside and dress out there." he intructed as Edmund began pulling out a blue tunic.

They're murmurs of 'okay' and 'alright' before the guys disappeared from their sight. Alaura swayed on the spot as the girls finished dressing. She leaned against the cool wall before Susan finsihed doing her hair before spotting her, "We need to get you dressed more appropriate." Alaura narrowed her eyes at her words before catching Lucy's smirk before she shrugged and pretended to act innocent.

"Lucy?" she began to say warningly, Lucy spun around with a grin, "I know you saw me and Edmund."

Lucy giggled and shook her sister's arm, "You can never believe what happened!" Lucy squealed. Alaura groaned and covered her ears, as Lucy began to retell the 'moment' between Alaura and Edmund. As soon as she finished Susan smirked before continuing her search.

"I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up together during the journey," Alaura sighed at Susan's comment before shaking her head at Lucy, "So let's get you fancied up for Edmund to see."

Alaura groaned, "Really? Why aren't you grossed out? Especially since he is your brother." she pointed out.

"Yes. But we love teasing him." Lucy told her and squealed as Susan found the perfect dress. She pulled out a dress with soft yellow and soft mixutre of green and blue almost making it look light green. It had a V-neck, coming down and revealing a puffy arches of yellow, bellow was a dark green bow before the rest of the dress came down with a V, the outside were light green while in the middle was a soft yellow. The arms were light green coming down to the elbows were then soft yellow came cascading down the rest of my arms. It almost looked like a nightgown, she thought if it was a nightgown.

"Are you sure?" Alaura asked touching the fabric.

"Yes. It's the only size and dress that will fit you. Lucy's are rather small so I believe this is the only dress, I know it will be hard to run in." she shook her head and gave them her thanks.

She slipped on the dress and made her hair into a waterfall braid, securing it she glanced up into the light.

Funnny enough this dress was comfy. Alaura grinned before hugging herself, she was involved in a new journey, mixed emotion were coursing through her, excitement, worry, fears. She looked at her hands, closing and reopening them finding that she still needed to ask Susan for a weapon, if she can handle it without falling to her feet.


A/N: I hope you enjoyed this actually quite long chapter. I'm proud of this one, more detailed just the way I like it and hopefully you do too. I think I'm getting a hang of the whole, jerk, cruel Edmund. Kind of caring. And no, they aren't developing feelings yet, Alaura blushes because it was rather embarrassing. I know I might blush if the whole falling incident happened before a guy catches me and well you know what I mean.

Yes. My version of Prince Caspian is much more longer than the other because I have my own twist on it. Because of the bad Edmund thing.

Sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes. I'm not very good at English.

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