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How about a game of Hide-and-Seek?

Pitter patter went the rain hitting against the window.

"Gastrovascular," Susan said trying to ignore the feeling of boredom from her siblings and Scarlet, "Come on, Peter, Gastrovascular."

"Is it Latin?" Peter said with a sigh.

"Yes."

"Is it Latin for worse game ever invented?" Edmund said teasingly.

Susan closed the book with great frustration towards her brother.

"Hallelujah! We're not playing the dictionary game anymore!" Scarlet said with a laugh. Then she looked serious. "Susan don't look so sad, not everyone is like you."

Susan looked at her and said, "I suppose so," then a smile came across her face, "but wouldn't it be wonderful if they were?" she said with a laugh.

Scarlet smiled then rolled her eyes. Then everyone gave a sigh of boredom.

"W-we could play hide-and-seek," Lucy suggested.

"But we're already having so much fun," Peter said sarcastically and looking at Susan.

"Come on, Peter, please!" Lucy said pulling his arm.

Edmund rolled his eyes at his sister's persistance.

"Pretty please?" she said with a small pout.

"One, two, three," Peter said with a smile.

"What?" Edmund said thinking that it was so unfair that Lucy got whatever she wanted.

Peter went on counting, "Four, five, six..."

Everyone got up and ran to find a hiding place. Edmund looked under tables and every where, Susan found a wonderful hiding place in a chest, and Scarlet and Lucy looking hastily for the perfect hide out. Then Lucy and Edmund ran over to a curtain, but Edmund pushed her aside.

"I was here first!" he declared.

Lucy gave him a displeased smirk then turned around only to run into Scarlet. They both ran to one door, but it was locked. Then to the second. Luckily that one was open. It was a spare room with a huge wardrobe in it. They stared at it for a minute then walked up to it.

Lucy pulled off the sheet, which covered it. Then they looked at each other.

"It's big enough for both of us to hide in, and if Peter finds me then he won't find you. For he would think that you wouldn't hide in the same place as someone else," Scarlet said persuasively.

Lucy nodded. Pleased with the idea.

They both climbed in. They started to close the door, but remembered to get out they needed to leave it open. So they left it open a crack. Both moved backward steering their way through the thick fur coats. Suddenly Lucy touch a branch. She pulled her hand away surprised at what she had felt. She turned around seeing a forest. She tapped Scarlet on the shoulder and Scarlet turned around to see what she wanted. They stared into the small gap between the trees.

They stepped forward into this wonderful land. They walked through the wardrobe shocked at the snow and the vast amount of trees. Then they stopped at a lamppost, and reached out and touched it.

They looked around quickly for they heard something rustling in the woods.

"AHHH!" Lucy and Scarlet screamed and ran to the other side of the lamppost trying to hide.

"AHH!" screamed the thing running to hide behind a tree.

Lucy and Scarlet bravely went over and picked up some packages that the creature dropped.

"Uh- dr- I," the thing stammered coming out of hiding pointing an umbrella at them.

"Were you hiding from us?" Lucy questioned handing him the package.

He took the packages from them and stammered, "Well no," he leaned down to pick up another parcel that had fallen, "I jus- I- I- no, no I- I- I- just um I just didn't want to scare you."

The whole time The creature spoke Lucy and Scarlet stared at his legs. For they were the legs of a goat but he was also half man. Scarlet, not having studied mythology, and Lucy, who was too young to learn it, didn't know that this creature was a faun.

The two gave a little laugh when the faun had finished speaking.

"If you don't mind my asking, what are you?" Lucy wondered.

The faun looked at Scarlet after the question had been asked, and she gave him a look that meant 'yes what are you?'

"Well I'm a- I'm a faun," he said looking perplexed that they didn't know what he was. "And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf," he questioned.

The girls looked at each other shocked and tickled that he had asked this ridiculous question.

"We aren't dwarves, we're girls," Lucy said. "And actually I'm tallest in my class," she boasted handing him another package.

"If you say so, Lucy," Scarlet said with disbelief. For Lucy was so very small.

"You mean- you mean to say that you're daughters of Eve?" the faun questioned

"Well my mum's name is Helen," Lucy began

"Yes but you are in fact human?" he said a little annoyed.

"Yes of course," Lucy answered a little confused.

The faun looked around suspiciously to see if anyone was watching.

Then he exclaimed, "What are you doing here?"

"Well we were hiding in the wardrobe in the spare room-" Lucy began.

"You see we were playing a game," Scarlet explained.

"Spare Oom? Is that in Narnia?" the faun asked.

"Narnia? What's that?" Lucy asked rather interested

Scarlet looked more intrigued in the conversation now.

"Dear girls are you idiots? Everything from the lamppost to the castle of Cair Paravel, on the Eastern ocean, every stick and stone you see, every icicle is Narnia," the faun explained.

"This is an awfully big wardrobe," Lucy murmured.

Scarlet gave Lucy a nod as to agree.

"Wardrobe?" the faun half questioned half muttered. Then he said, "Please let me to introduce myself, my name is Tumnus."

"Pleased to meet you Mr. Tumnus," Lucy and Scarlet said in unison.

"I'm Scarlet Montgomery," Scarlet said cheerfully.

"I'm Lucy Pevensie," Lucy said happily as well.

They both stuck their hands out for him to shake. He smiled and swayed back and forth then stared at their hands, which were stuck out before him.

"Oh you shake it," Lucy explained.

"Why?" he asked curiously.

"I- I don't know! People do when they meet each other," Lucy said rather confused herself.

Mr. Tumnus looked at her with a look that said your human customs are rather ridiculous. He set his parcels aside and took both of their hands and shook them. Then Lucy turned it into the proper way to shake someone's hand. So Mr. Tumnus thought this must be some sort of fun game and he put in his share of the fun. They all started laughing.

"Well then Lucy Pevensie and Scarlet Montgomery, from the shining city of Wardrobe, in the wonderous land of Spare Oom, how would it be if you came and had tea with me!" he asked letting go of their hands and opening his umbrella.

Scarlet sighed and looked at Lucy wonderingly.

Lucy looked back and said doubtfully, "Well thank you very much. But we probably should be getting back."

"Yes but it's only just around the corner, and there'll be a glorious fire, toast, and tea, and cakes, and and perhaps we will even break into the sardines," he coaxed.

Scarlet gave her a nod.

"Well alright if you have sardines," Lucy said even though she detested sardines.

So Mr. Tumnus took their arms and headed towards his house.

Before going in Mr. Tumnus looked about trying to see if anyone were watching.

Meanwhile Lucy and Scarlet started a conversation.

"Brr," Scarlet said rubbing her arms.

"It's not that cold," Lucy said.

"Speak for yourself. All I'm wearing is a short-sleeved cotton dress shirt, a skirt, and a thin blue sweater. Not to mention thin black ballet flats,"

"I can see you, you know," Lucy said rolling her eyes.

"I suppose I will live, but it shall be a hard fight," Scarlet said teasingly acting as if she were dying.

"Oh you're as bad as Edmund!"

"Well-"

Their conversation was cut short when Mr. Tumnus came in. They walked around admiring his little knickknacks. Lucy picked up a picture and admired it.

"Ah that is my father," Mr. Tumnus said proudly while hoping she wouldn't drop it.

"He has a nice face. He looks a lot like you," she declared.

"No I'm not very much like him at all really," he said quietly.

"My father's in fighting in the war," Lucy and Scarlet said in unison. Only they said it in quite different tones. Lucy said it like she missed her father very much, but Scarlet said as if she detested her father or she was displeased with him. But that is a different story.

"My father went away to war too," said Mr. Tumnus, "But that was a very long time ago. Before this dreadful winter started."

"Winter's not all bad there's ice skating, snowball fights, oh and there's Christmas!" Lucy answered while browsing through his books.

Scarlet, who was on the other side of the room listening to the conversation while admiring different knickknacks, sighed at the word Christmas because she never really had one. Then she walked over to the small coffee table and two chairs and seated herself on the floor.

"Not here we haven't had Christmas for a hundred years," Mr. Tumnus replied to Lucy.

"What? No presents for a hundred years?"

Scarlet thought, Not everyone gets presents for Christmas. Like me, I've never received a Christmas present. Oh my dear friend Lucy if you only knew how fortunate you are!

Mr. Tumnus stopped her thoughts by replying to Lucy.

"Always winter, never Christmas. It's been a long long winter," he said giving Lucy and Scarlet a cup of tea, "but you would have loved Narnia in the summer. We, fauns, danced with the dryads all night and you know we never got tired," he gave Lucy and Scarlet some cream and went on with his story. "Music ah! Such music! Would- would you like to hear some now?"

Scarlet smiled and nodded her head while taking a sip of her tea.

"Oh yes please," Lucy said with a glimmer in her eye.

Mr. Tumnus reached for a box on the mantel and pulled out an instrument.

"Now are you two familiar with any Narnian lullabies?" he asked looking eagerly into their eyes.

"Not me, but how 'bout you Lu?" Scarlet answered and asked.

"Sorry no," Lucy answered meekly.

"Well that's good, because this probably won't sound anything like one," he said humbly.

Scarlet and Lucy gave a little laugh but quickly hid it by sipping their tea.

He started playing, it was rather queer but lovely. They looked into the fire and saw a unicorn made of fire run in a circle in the fire. The two girls jumped a little but relaxed again quickly. Then some fauns were dancing they must have been having a party. The music got more intense and very soon Lucy and Scarlet fell asleep and their cups dropped to the ground and broke. Then suddenly a lion roared at Mr. Tumnus. He got frightened a stopped playing.

Lucy and Scarlet awoke. They looked out the window and saw that it was quite dark.

"Oh we should go," Lucy said rising from her seat.

"It's too late for that now," said a voice that sounded much like Mr. Tumnus but rather frightened and sinister.

Lucy and Scarlet got up and walked over to him.

"I'm such an awful faun," he said frightened.

"Oh you're the nicest faun we've ever met," Lucy inquired while Scarlet smiled at him.

"Then I'm afraid you've had a very poor sampling."

"You can't have done anything that bad," Lucy smiled and gave him a handkerchief.

"It's not something I've done Lucy Pevensie and Scarlet Montgomery, it's something I am doing."

"What are you doing?" Lucy rose and looked at him seriously.

"I'm kidnapping you," he said.

Lucy and Scarlet started to back away.

"It's that White Witch! She's the one who makes it always winter, always cold. She gave orders if we were to ever find a human wandering in the woods w- w- w- we'er suppose to turn it over to her!" he said sadly.

"But Mr. Tumnus you wouldn't, I thought you were our friend," Lucy said with a little hope.

Something came over him. Something told him to take them to safety... so he did.

Next thing they knew they were dashing through the snow.

"Now she may already know you're here! The woods are full of her spies! even some of the trees are on her side! he explained in a panic.

They finally arrived at the lamppost.

"Can you find your way back from here?" Mr. Tumnus implored.

"I think so," Lucy said trying to catch her breath.

"Alright."

"Will you be alright?" they asked the faun.

He started crying.

"Hey hey hey," Lucy tried to comfort him.

"It's alright," Scarlet comforted.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Here," he gave Lucy her handkerchief back.

"Keep it. You need it more than I do," Lucy gave a forced laugh.

"No matter what happens Lucy Pevensie and Scarlet Montgomery I am glad to have me you. Now go!"

Lucy and Scarlet ran as fast as they could and even fell out of the wardrobe.

"We're back! We're back! We're alright!" they shouted.

"Shut up he's coming!" Edmund warned, but it was too late Peter had seen them.

"Are you sure you three quite got the idea of this game?" Peter asked.

"Weren't you wondering where we were?" Lucy asked quite confused.

"Lucy-" Scarlet tried to tell her to forget it but Edmund interrupted her.

"That's the point he was seeking you!"

"Does this mean I win?" Susan asked coming from her hiding place.

"I don't think Lucy wants to play anymore," Peter said dismayed.

"But we've been gone for hours," Lucy said confused.

They all looked at them in disbelief and went to go search the wardrobe.

They knocked on the wardrobe, went behind the wardrobe but couldn't find anything.

"Lucy, Scarlet, the only wood in here is the back of the wardrobe," Susan said.

"One game at a time Lu, we don't all have your imagination," Peter told them.

They started to walk away when Lucy exclaimed, "We weren't imagining!"

"That's enough Lucy," Susan scolded.

"You think I'd lie about this!"

"It's the truth we did find a forest!" Scarlet declared.

"Well I believe you!" Edmund said.

"You do?" Lucy said meekly.

"Didn't I tell you about the football field in the bathroom cupboards?" Edmund said teasingly.

"Oh you just have to go and make everything worse," Peter said annoyed.

"It was only a joke."

"When are you going to grow up?"

"Shut up! You think you're dad but you're not!" Edmund yelled.

Then he started to marched away

"How can you be so mean to your sister, Edmund, when we're telling the truth?" Scarlet asked with a small choke in her voice.

He turned around and looked at Scarlet.

"Why should we even believe you? We barely know you! you're probably just some useless orphan whom nobody wants!"

"Shut up! You don't know anything about me!" Scarlet screamed with tears in her eyes.

She ran away weeping as she ran she thought, I don't care about Edmund and Peter... even if I thought I liked them... that way.

Edmund then marched away thinking, Who cares if she's pretty?

"Well that was nicely handled," Susan said sarcastically glaring at Peter.

Susan stomped away thinking, That Scarlet is such a pest! Telling Lucy her fairytale is true!

"But it was there," Lucy defended quietly.

Peter turned and looked at her and said, "Susan's right, Lucy, that's enough.

Peter left leaving Lucy all alone thinking, Hmm maybe Scarlet isn't the best influence on Lucy. Going along with the fairytale. Even though she is beautiful maybe I shouldn't have feelings toward her. Yes I will just ignore my feelings toward her.

Lucy gave a small sad sigh then walked over to the wardrobe and closed the door. As Lucy walked away she thought sadly, Oh if they only believed!

Author's Note: Hello? Is anyone still with me? Comment to tell me any criticism or praises! I would love to hear from you! Next chapter will be up shortly!