Chapter 3: The Call back Home
AN: Beginning is VERY movie based. The only thing that sticks to the book is Prince Caspian himself. SPOILERS!! Different timeline! Now Peter is 15, Susan 14, Edmund 13, and Lucy 11. I'm sorry it is so movie inspired.
"Someday
When
my life has passed me by
I'll lay around and wonder why you were
always there for me
One way, In the eyes of a passerby, I'll look
around for another try
And'll fade away
Just close your eyes
and I'll take you there
This place is war without a care
We'll
take a swim in the deep blue sea
I go to leave as you reach for
me
Some say, Better things will come our way
No matter what
they try to say you were always there for me
Someway, When the sun
begins to shine
I hear a song from another time
And'll fade
away, and'll fade away" By SugarRay
Lucy runs, dragging Edmund along, across the street, a car screeching to a stop. The driver yells "Watch where you're going." Lucy smiles sweetly and says "Sorry." Edmund rolls his eyes and asks Lucy "Didn't we ever tell you to look both ways before you cross the street?"
The two run to Susan who is standing talking to some boy. "My name is Phyllis." Susan says only to have Lucy yell "Susan!" Susan shut her eyes in exasperation, and turned away from the boy more to Lucy and Edmund. "Peter sent me Susan, the train is about to come."
Edmund gave the boy a pity smile and a nice nod, the boy was slightly embarrassed but nodded in return.
This was Lucy's first year in boarding school, as well as Edmund's. Edmund was supposed to of started before but the war interfered with that. The memory of bombs falling and Peter dragging him to the fallout shelter are mainly replaced with the clash of swords and shields upon Beruna battlefields, and Peter screaming out orders. The boarding schools are separated by sex, but, luckily, the boarding schools that they are attending are right across the street from each other.
The three headed towards the train. They were stopped by a mass of school kids gathered about yelling "Fight, fight!" The three siblings broke their way through. Susan first and Edmund still holding onto Lucy's hand as last in line. Peter was in a fight with a group of boys, Edmund let go of Lucy's hand to go to his brother's aid, Lucy shouted "Edmund!"
Edmund jumped right in and tackled Peter's strongest assailant. The fight was fairly even, the two Pevensie boys against a group of five or more. Quickly, soldiers who had just exited from their train coming home from war; saw the brawl and brought it to an end
Lucy hurried to Edmund and helped him up. Susan had already begun scolding Peter. The younger two followed their bickering elder brother and sister and took a seat on a bench, waiting for a train.
"You're welcome." Said Edmund
"I had it sorted."
"What was it now this time, Peter? Did they look at you wrong?"
"No, one of them bumped into me."
"Oh, so you hit him?"
"No. He told me to apologize and then I hit him."
"Oh, Peter. Really, how hard is it just to walk away?"
"I shouldn't have to! I mean, don't you ever get tired of being treated like a kid?"
"But we are kids." Edmund, who had Lucy cuddled up to him, said in an amused voice.
"I wasn't, we weren't always, Edmund. I was a king."
Susan sighed and said "You were a king. We are in England now, we have been here for almost two years now, and we must all learn to adjust back."
Edmund had his arm around Lucy and pulled her closer, in attempt to keep her. Peter said "Aslan said we would return."
"We just have to come to terms with the fact that we are here. We are no longer kings and queens."
"Once a king or queen of Narnia always a king or queen of Narnia!" harshly whispered Peter, Edmund, and Lucy in unison.
Susan rolled her eyes, only to spot the boy she had blown off previously and said "Pretend like you are talking to me."
"We are talking to you. You just happen to be speaking rubbish."
"We have to accept the reality that we might never get back." Said Susan
"Ow!" said Lucy
Edmund asked, worriedly "Luc?"
Peter then said "Ow! Edmund, stop it!"
"I'm not doing anythi—ah! That hurts."
"Whatever are you going on a-aw! What is that? Can you here it?" Susan said
"It feels like we are getting pulled." Said Peter
"It feels like magic." Murmured Lucy
"Everybody hold hands!" Yelled Susan
"I don't want to hold your hand." yelled Edmund at Peter.
The train station that surrounded them started to break away. The place that they were was disintegrating, blue and glistening gold filled in the spots that use to be the dark area of the train station. The train whizzed by, the horn sounding nothing like the usual train horn.
The train faded away into the distance in a blur. The sun was shining brightly, the water was shimmering and reflecting light, the gold sands glistened. Lucy was the first to kick off her Mary-Jane shoes and threw off her jacket and sweater. Peter, Edmund, and Susan followed sequentially.
The warm water lapped at their bare feet. Edmund lifted Lucy up and threw her in the water. She gasped and kicked his feet so he tumbled into the water. Under the water they shared a quick kiss before they emerged to get air. Peter and Susan were kicking water at each other.
They played, just as carefree and joyful as they were during peace times in the Golden Age.
"Where do you suppose we are?" Asked Susan, Lucy smiled brightly and exclaimed "Where do you think? We are back in Narnia." "I do not recall any ruins in Narnia." was Susan's response.
"We are on island of sorts." informed Edmund as he looked and saw no connection to the larger land that lay across the bay.
"Let us go exploring to figure out where we are." Instructed Peter
"I'm hungry." Whined Edmund, Lucy said "I am far more thirsty than hungry." Fortunately, they found a stream. They drank to their hearts content and Lucy than complained "Now I am awfully hungry, far hungrier than when my thirst was what I had to deal with."
They walked about Lucy whispered "This place does seem familiar."
Edmund picked up an apple from the orchard they quickly came upon and threw it to Lucy, who took a bite, and he picked up one for as his own.
Lucy looked about the destroyed remains of this once possibly great building. Then, a gleam caught her eye. She dropped her apple and walked to the gleam. She picked up the gold chess piece and said "I found something."
Edmund walked over, took the knight, and said "Hey that's from my chess set!"
Susan looked confused and said "From which chess set?"
"Well, Susan, I do not exactly have a solid gold chess set back in Finchley, do I?" said Edmund, holding up the knight that glimmered in the sunlight. Susan walked to him and took the knight for inspection.
Lucy spoke, quietly, "I wonder who lived here."
Susan said "I suppose we did."
Peter, who had ventured further, had heard what they said and was looking around frantically.
Lucy said, "This is Cair Paravel!"
"We didn't plant the orchard so close to the gate. We weren't that stupid."
"But we were only here less than two years ago!"
"Come here. Stand here, Peter, you there Susan. You go right over there Edmund. Now look around."
"Bloody hell, it's Cair Paravel!!" Shouted Peter
"Wow!"
"But Cair Paravel was not on an island."
Peter was uncomprehending, "But it was but two years ago..."
"Narnia's timeline has always differed to our world's. We were not gone from our world but for a mere minute and we spent a life time there. Does it not make sense for time to have passed like this? Water's rise, lands change, this is simple geography" Lucy explained, even though she had never considered geography her best subject.
"Now, we know where we are, now we need to find out where are dinner is." Edmund said.
Peter and Edmund had there sandwiches in their pockets, Lucy and Susan had left their sandwiches in their little bags, which dissolved with the rest of the train station. They agreed they should eat the sandwiches before they go bad. Peter shared his sandwich with Susan. Edmund was willing to give Lucy his whole sandwich, though he was very hungry, but she declined, and together they ate the sandwich.
They all ate apples.
