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Chapter 4.
Edmund woke up because his stomach demanded some food. He lazily opened his eyes. He closed and opened a few times to get use to light. He saw his bed. 'The bed?' He thought.
"Lucy!" he whispered while he sat straight immediatly. She wasn't there. "Lucy!" he shouted and he approached to the end of his bed. He had gotten stuck with the covers and when he tried to stand up, he fell down over his back. Without his pants.
"Ouch!" he shouted. Then he noticed that he was pantless "Damn!" he shouted again and stood up to quickly grabbed his pants 'I seriously should stop wearing this, they are so big on me.' he thought. When he was putting his pants on he heard a noise in the bathroom.
"Damn!!" he whispered. He finished right when he heard the door opening. With his pants-problem solved, he turned to the door.
"Edmund..." Lucy was on the door, with a blanket over her shoulders.
"Lucy!" They both walked towards each other "Oh, Lucy. You're fine"- He hugged her like he held onto life "Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, I was so scared yesterday"
"Edmund, what happened?" she asked hugging him back.
"You silly girl, went out with just a piece of cloth. You were like frozen" He told her and kissed her on her forehead "You scared me" He said serious and looking in her eyes.
"It was because of the fire. I was scared too" She said looking up at him "I, I...I feel weak, Ed" Lucy placed a hand on her head. She was dizzy.
"I should ask that they bring some food to us. You better stay in bed, Luce" He told her and walked her to the bed and help her get covered "Thanks Aslan you're fine" he said and before leaving he gave her a peck on the lips.
Lucy didn't react until she heard the door closing. 'Did Edmund just...kiss me?' she thought while placing her fingers over her lips. She had seen once or twice that Peter had done that with Susan, when they 2 were alone, and she left before interrupting them. It was a well-known-secret that those two loved each other more than siblings, but they never had got to something, formal.
Lucy placed her head on a pillow, facing to Edmund's side. She was wearing his clothes when she woke-up, well they had fallen a little. She thought that they did not even fit Edmund, obviously they wouldn't fit her (so she had to grab them when she walked). She closed her eyes. She had spent the night on his chambers and she didn't remember about it.
'Well, the las thing I remember is sitting on a couch' she thought. She heard the door and opened her eyes to see Edmund sitting on the bed and reaching for the covers. She did the same and Edmund quickly went on helping her to sit and placing a cushion on her back, he also place an arm around her. He could tell she was tired.
"How are you feeling?" Her brother asked.
"Fine, I think so. Just a little weak" she answered with a quiet voice.
"Don't worry, they are bringing the food to my chambers. They were so worried about you" He took one of her hands and start playing with it "I was too."
"I know...well I don't, but if this happened to you, I would have been too."
"I know, Luce, I know..." he interlaced his fingers with hers.
"Seems like we won't go to Galma today or tomorrow, will we?" Lucy told him staring at their hands.
"No, Lucy, we can't. Actually, I'm thinking on kidnapping you on my room for a while. You are way too weak, my Little Princess" Lucy gave him a weak smile. Edmund kept staring at her, he loved her smile. He would have kissed her but he heard knocks on the door.
"Come in" he said loudly. The door opened and his and Lucy's maid came in with trays.
"Good Morning" they both said and made a reverence.
"Good Morning" they replied. Edmund took his right hand from Lucy's and replaced with his left one.
"Is High Princess feeling alright?" Her maid asked her. Myrza was like her nanny.
"Yes, thank you" she tried to looked as healthy as possible to not worry them.
"Yesterday King Edmund worked so hard to wake you up" the other maid said.
"My brother is the best" she said. Edmund blushed a little. The maids left the trays on the table Edmund had on his room.
"Hmm... Queen Lucy will stay here today" Edmund started "I don't want anyone else but you two to come into these chambers"
"Yes, sir" they both said. Edmund stood up from his bed carefully (so he didn't have another accident) and walked to the door with the maids. He told them something that Lucy didn't get to hear, she started feeling dizzy again. Then he came back.
"Lucy, are you ok?" he asked.
"I just need to eat something" she told him. Edmund help her to stand up and walked with her to where the trays with food where. He moved one chair so he could sit next to her. They both were having breakfast when they heard some noises on the other room.
"Edmund..." Lucy told him "what are those sounds?"
"The maids, I told them that we were going to eat and you were going to have a good sleep, so they shouldn't come in"
"You should have some sleep, Ed. You really look tired"
"Be quiet, Lu. I already look at myself in the bathroom" He did when he went out to get the maids.
"Why, Ed? You went to a ball yesterday or something?" Lucy still had her weak face and pale look, but her humor was coming back. Her brother laughed with her comment.
"I wished that was the reason, Luce" he said after drinking some water "I stayed up late watching over you" Edmund was a bit pale and he had shadows below his eyes.
"Sorry..." Lucy apologized and looking down.
"Lucy, don't feel guilty, it wasn't your fault" He said tried to cheer her up "Come with me, Luce" He said and took her hand. He lead her out of his bedroom.
"What is these doing here?" she asked.
"I asked the maids to bring them. Unless you want to keep wearing my clothes. Don't worry, they look great on you, but they fit me better" they laughed together.
"Mmmm....I like your clothes, I'll change later. We better sleep a little" she told him.
"You just read my mind" And they got back to have some sleep.
Edmund have fallen and woken-up holding Lucy's hand. They hadn't moved an inch since they fell asleep. Edmund opened his big dark eyes and looked at Lucy, who was laying next to him, sleeping. Her pale look was still within her, it just didn't fade. Her body was cold, he could tell by her hand.
He had to stood up, it should be around 12:00 or 1:00 p.m., and he had duties, that he had postponed because of their trip to Galma but since they we're there, he had to work. Afraid of leaving her there, slowly started unfolding form her grip. She didn't wake-up. He watched her sleeping away. 'So peaceful' he thought.
He bathed and dressed quickly and left his chambers quietly. He walked to the end of south wing and greeted the guards in the entrance.
Lucy's dreams make her wake up. She kept staring at the ceiling, she still felt weak. 'Weird' She thought 'I haven't done anything this exhausting'. She felt like her body didn't answered to her. Lack of energy, and she didn't know the reason. The yesterday seemed like rounded in fog. She was so confused that she hadn't asked Edmund about a few things. A pure evidence that she was not thinking straight.
While Lucy was trying to organize her mind, her two assigned maids came in.
"Oh! You are awake, my High Princess" her maid told her. Lucy just smiled.
"Ready to get up? If you stay there, the bed will starting draining your energy" the other maid asked her sweetly
"I think it already does, but I'll really appreciate your help" Lucy told them as she tried to sit straight and the maids approached to held her "And also if you would...please... help me... to get a bath" she asked a bit embarrassed "I'm afraid to drown if I go alone."
"Of course, your Majesty" and after helping her to sit she went to the bathroom to prepare the bathtub.
"Are you hungry, my Queen?" Myrza asked her politely.
"Well, not exactly, I just feel weak"
"Well, then a warm soup, that I presume is delicious, will renew you"
"I hope so"
Lucy had her meal sitting in the bed. The maids didn't let her stand up, arguing that she should not waste energy. And when she was done with the food they help her to have a hot bath. And when she was done with the bad, they help her to get dressed and to comb her hair (because it was such a mess! she didn't comb it because she left her bathroom running).
They dressed with one of her informal winter dresses: a long sleeved, velvet green dress with golden details. They left her long brown hair just attached with a golden flower broach in one side. She felt very comfortable since they didn't make her wear a corsé, if Susan find out, she would scold her. Lucy smiled and laughed mentally because Susan had made her (and Susan herself) wore that 'bloody thing' since she was 12. She had forgotten how freedom felt while wearing a dress. She could even have a sleep with it.
After they had set her in the bed again she asked the maids if they could bring one of her books to her. After they had brought it to her, she told them they could go.
She opened the book in the page she had stopped reading but she didn't actually read. She started wondering.
"Edmund" she said in the lowest whisper. And she started remembering.
The things he shouted to Prince Albert, the discussion they had, the fire in her room, her dreams, the 'kiss' he gave her. There where so many thoughts in her head that she went blank. She was staring at the words in the book, but wasn't reading. She was glaring at space.
"Lucy?"
"Ah...what?...Hi, Ed" she smiled as she obviously went back to Narnia.
"Are you alri...Lucy, you look so..." Her brother's worried face change to a joyful one when he saw her.
"So what, Ed?"
"So...fine" He approached to her and sat by her side.
The girl wasn't smiling at all. It was a weak grin which she already had used due to her lack of energy. She looked at him with her brown eyes, that looked pretty widened with her still pale skin. He was smiling. And Edmund wasn't used to do it. Just Lucy could bring out those real smiles, and not fake grins.
"Thanks...I think. Where were you?" she said by staring at his clothes.
"I was taking care of my responsabilities, my young Queen" he said with a formal tone, obviously joking.
"I'm so glad, my King. But what will our country think of their Just King, if he sneaks out to see his sister?"
"Certainly, they will think, my Fair Queen, that their King loves his Queen" Lucy gave him a half smile.
"Edmund... have you talked to Prince Albert?" Edmund visibly tensed "I mean, does he know what happened?"
"No, I haven't talked to him. But he may have asked to the maids."
"Would you inform him? Please? I don't want him to think that we are being a quite mean to him, and after you told him all that, it would be good if you apologize and inform him that I won't be able to talk to him" That was a great speech, considering Lucy's weakness, well that's what Edmund thought.
"My High Princess, you're such a caring girl. I'll tell him. I promise." Edmund looked at her with the sweetest eyes. "Now have some rest, I have to go. I'll be back as soon as I can... "
"Be nice to him"
"I will"
Edmund left her in his room, pretty well covered. Lucy looked at him as he walked away. Edmund had changed a lot. The little spoiled mean brat that he once was, was now a great king. King Edmund the Just, ruler of Narnia. And Lucy had to accept it, he was a man now. With his bright black hair, his beautiful dark eyes and his fine nose. And his body, well, he wasn't a kid anymore. He was 18, and all that training was not in vain. He had a wide back, narrow hips, and strong legs... And Edmund finally reach for the door and went out, so her thoughts about him stopped.
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