A/N: Another chapter. Your reviews make me want to continue to write more and update more often. In the next chapter Peter and Elsa will start to be nice to each other, maybe there is something growing between them *coughs* I didn't say anything, you will have to wait for the next chapter.
In the mean time, you will start see a glimpse or interest between Peter and Elsa, even if it is very small, for now.
So that's it. Hope you like it and review. Love ya all :)
Together Forever
Chapter 4
They were walking for quite some time now and Elsa's feet were hurting pretty badly. Her long, green dress was dirty on the hem and she was thirsty and started to get hungry now. (A/N: picture in my profile)
She looked at Peter, who was leading them, and she clearly knew he was no idea where he was taking them. She shocked her head. Obvious he was lost but he prefer to be quiet then ask help to those who live there longer them him, but no. He really is stubborn as a mule she thought.
"I don't remember this way" Susan said by her side like she has reading Elsa's mind.
"That's the problem with girls. You can't carry a map in your heads" Peter said with a smirk on his face when he turned to face them.
Elsa looked at him with wide eyes.
"That's because our heads have something in them" Lucy said making Elsa laugh a bit.
"Besides we all know what boys have in their heads 24/7, and it isn't maps" Elsa replied looking at Peter who just shocked his head but he could help to have a smile on his face, which they couldn't see it.
"I wish he'd just listen to the D.L.F in the first place" Susan said to Elsa and Lucy.
"D.L.F?" Edmund questioned looking at the girls.
"Dear Little Friend" Elsa and Lucy said at the same time laughing a bit.
Edmund looked down to Trumpkin, who just stopped looking at the girls.
"Oh, that's not at all patronizing, is it?" he said.
"It could be worst? We could be calling a midget or something!" Elsa giggled and continued to walk.
Suddenly Peter stopped. He was sure he wasn't lost.
"I'm not lost" he said to himself.
"Of course" Elsa said in a low voice.
"No. You're just going the wrong way" Trumpkin said making Peter turned and facing them.
"You last saw Caspian at the Shuddering Woods, and quickest way there is to cross at the River Rush" Peter said clearly upset about the conversation.
"Well there is just one small problem" Elsa said to him.
"What problem?" he said raising an eyebrow.
"It was more then 1300 years since you were here. Narnia changed since you left."
"And unless I'm mistaken there's no crossing in these parts." Trumpkin said looking at them.
"That explains it, then. You're mistaken" he said with a hard face.
Elsa couldn't believe it.
"You're really stubborn you know. Obviously he knows this place better then you. It's so hard to ask for help or let him leading for once? You will not stop being the High King because of that, you know" she said walking towards him, standing in front of him now.
"Well like you said I'm the High King, so whatever I say goes. Got it?" he said looking at her.
"God you are really stubborn!" she said with frustration in her face.
"Look who's talking" Peter said.
"Yup! Love is in the air" Edmund said making Lucy giggling.
"I know right" she said laughing
"Well its better they get used to each other, or that marriage it will not end well" Trumpkin said to himself but a little loud.
"What?!" Peter and Elsa said looking at him.
"Nothing, we better continue" he said trying to avoid the subject.
Elsa looked at Peter and taking a deep breath she started walking, feeling Peter's gaze at her.
"And stopped staring at my butt, Your Majesty" she said not looking back.
"I wasn't. Until now" he said with a smirk and followed her.
The others laughed and followed them.
The six people continue to walk until they reached a cliff, where they could see the river way down there. It was pretty high.
"You see, over time, water erodes the earth's soil, carving deeper…" Susan started to explain.
"Oh, shut up" Peter said making Elsa giggled and Peter looked her.
"I made the Princess laugh" he said with a smile.
"It wasn't a laugh it was giggle, there's a difference" she said still a smile on her face.
"Is there a way down?" Edmund asked looking at Trumpkin.
"Yeah, falling" Trumpkin said with sarcasm.
"Good idea, the High King can go first" Elsa said looking at Peter, making him stuck his tongue to her. "Really mature" she said rolling her eyes.
"Well, we weren't lost" he kept saying.
"There's a ford near Beruna. How do you feel about swimming?" Elsa said to them.
"I'd rather that than walking" Susan said and they were about to walked away when Lucy starts to shout:
"Aslan? It's Aslan over there!" she pointing making everyone looking at her. "Don't you see? He's right…there" she said with a low voice.
There was nothing there.
"Do you see him now?" Trumpkin asked you her like she was crazy.
"I'm not crazy." She turned faced them. "He was there. He wanted us to follow him" she said looking at Peter.
"I'm sure there are any numbers of lions in this wood. Just like that bear." Peter said to her.
"I think I know Aslan when I see him"
"But how?" Elsa asked stepping closer to the cliff "There no bridge, or passage to cross and we can't jump either." She turned looking at Lucy.
"Look, I'm not about to jump off a cliff after someone who doesn't exist" Trumpkin said to them.
Elsa was surprise hearing that.
"I can't believe what I'm hearing! You, of all of us, should be the first to believe Lucy. If she said she saw Aslan, it's because she saw. She wouldn't lie about this!" Elsa said looking at him.
"Besides the last time I didn't believe Lucy I ended up looking pretty stupid" Edmund said, giving a small smile to Lucy and Elsa.
Peter didn't know what to do! Lucy was no liar, but in a way, even if he hated to admit, Elsa was right, there was no bridge or passage, so how they could cross. And why he didn't see Aslan. He was the High King, after all?
"Why wouldn't I have seen him?" he asked to Lucy.
"Maybe you weren't looking" she said to him.
"Or maybe your heart isn't opened enough yet to have faith in Aslan" Elsa said, this time with a serious voice.
Peter looked at her and for the first time, they could actually know what each other were thinking, without words. It felt weird and they had to look away.
What was that? Elsa thought to herself.
Peter thought for a minute, he wanted to believe Lucy but it just couldn't risk the other's lives.
He looked at her:
"I'm sorry, Lu" he said sadly to her and walked way, followed by Susan and Trumpkin.
Lucy looked at the cliff and then looked at Edmund and Elsa, who were still there.
"Come on Lu" Elsa said wrapping her arm around Lucy shoulders and they followed the others.
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Caspian was sitting alone. He was thinking about the council he had a few hours ago. It went well, he had the Narnians by his side and he was planning an attacked to Miraz camping to get weapons.
He just wish his cousin where here with him. He was sure she would love to see all the talking animal, dwarves, and centaurs.
Glenstorm walked towards him:
"Worried about something?" he asked in his deep voice.
"Well, I'm just thinking about my cousin Elsa. She loves Narnia and I know she would love to be here with me" he said looking at him. "You would love her. She is the best and strongest girl you would have met"
"I know. She would be a great Queen" he said making Caspian looked at him.
"Queen? No, no, I love her like a sister, not in that way"
"I know." He said
"Then why you called her Queen?" Caspian asked him.
"As a centaur, I watch the skies for a long time. I know every star in it." he said looking at Caspian. "Every person has its own star. When your aunt gave birth, a new star born in the skies, it was one the most beautiful star and the brightest too. There are only a few stars like that."
"And to whom belongs that stars?" he asked
"To the Kings and Queens of Old, and hers appear right by the High Kind's star. We were expected this but we lost hope until that night when she was born. Then we knew she was the one"
"My cousin and the High King Peter will get married in the future?" he just couldn't believe it.
"Yes, they will."
"When she found out she will freak out" Caspian said with a smile. He knew Elsa always had a crush on High King Peter.
"Well they will know, but at the right time. You can't tell them, not now" Glenstorm said.
"Don't worry, I won't" and with a nodded Glenstorm walked ways leaving Caspian in his own thoughts.
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They were walking down, in the direction of the ford of Beruna. Lucy was still quiet; she was still upset that Peter and the rest didn't believe her when she said she saw Aslan.
Elsa was walking beside her when she stopped. She saw something on the corner of her eye.
"Elsa?" she heard Lucy calling her. "What is it?"
Everyone stopped and looked at Elsa, and then they saw it too. Something moved between the trees, and started to form into a human being made of leaves. They knew what it was: it was a Dryad, a Tree Spirit. It looked like she was suffering and with a scream she vanished.
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what just happened, but then they all hear: the sound of wood been cut.
They all crawled and gather behind a pile of tree trunks. They saw man, building a bridge. They were cutting trees, that's why they saw the Dryad vanished, her tree must been cut.
They heard horses and they duck more so they couldn't be seen. Elsa stomach twisted, it was her father, he was doing this and for the second time she felt ashamed to be his daughter.
"Perhaps this wasn't the best way to come after all" Susan whispered to Peter.
Trumpkin just finish too put an arrow on his bow when Elsa stopped him:
"What are doing? Stop it?" she whispered grabbing his arm.
"If I kill him right now, we can end this quickly and your cousin will be safe" he replied back.
"If you do that now, people will find out we are here and we're dead. We are six against hundreds of them. Got it? We can't fight them alone, we need more soldiers on our side and we only get them if we reach my cousin." Elsa said looking at him.
"Why are you doing this? It's your father!" Edmund whispered to her.
"I have my reasons." She said looking at him clearly didn't want to talk about it.
Peter sighed
"Elsa's is right, we can't fight them alone, and they are too many. We need more man. That's why we will get back up and follow Lucy's plan."
With a nod they returned to the cliff, where Lucy saw Aslan.