I have been trying to update every one of my fanfics lately so please don't be mad at me. At the same time, I am trying to get new ideas for my story "the Gentle Queen's Return" but it's getting a little hard. If you're gonna criticize me on something, please don't let it be about my inability to update fast.

Can't close my eyes, they're wide awake
Every hair on my body, has got a thing
For this place, Oh empty my heart
I've got to make room for this feeling
So much bigger than me

It cannot be
Anymore beautiful
I Can't Take It In

-First verse and chorus of "Can't Take It In" by Imogen Heap

Chapter 4:

Lucy was by the news stand. She was trying to pretend to look occupied since secretly, she'd rather not be near Peter and hear him lose hope on how we're never going to see Susan or Edmund again. Next to her was some older boy she never met before. He looked really nice but at the same time, someone Susan would never have gone out with. He didn't look any taller than what Peter was. He was probably a little shorter being that Peter holds his head up with the "pride of the High King." He wore a uniform obviously showing that he was in Hendon House, the same boarding school Peter goes to. He had glasses and a hat covering his weird hairstyle. He obviously didn't have many friends or tried to see if Lucy had and older sister he could chat with because he started to talk to Lucy. Lucy, being a nice person, tried to speak with him.

"You go to St. Finbars."

"Yes, that's right." Lucy wanted to try and be friends with him only because she felt a little sorry for him.

"I go to Hendon House across the road…I've seen you, sitting by yourself and with a very sad expression."

Their mother was almost right. She was almost like Susan, spending days by herself because no one could relate to her. At least this nice boy was trying to get to know her and be a little open. Him trying to make her feel better by opening up was better than the countless number of boys who only came to her to ask about Susan. Now that Susan and Edmund were apparently "dead" no one really talked much to her or Peter. "Oh well I prefer to be left alone but thank you for being concerned."

"I'm sorry about your siblings. That must have been horrible to leave your hometown for the country already knowing that your siblings were dead." Lucy thought that he was trying too hard to get to know her because she couldn't tell if she was making her feel bad on purpose or really trying to strike a conversation. When she and Peter walked through the wardrobe, all of the events apparently shifted with the deep magic. Susan and Edmund died when Edmund went back in to get the picture of their father. Susan followed to get him back but a bomb was dropped right by the window before they made it out to the shelter again. That was the apparent story whereas Peter and Lucy knew the real one behind it. The only other one who knew the real story was Professor Kirke, being that he understood Narnia and that their siblings were perfectly well if not already dead with time. After the supposed "deaths" everyone knew who the Pevensies were.

"Yes, well my brother and I manage to get through the day."

"You're Lucy Pevensie right? I'm Ash. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"It was nice meeting you too." He was about to start speaking but a group of Lucy's supposed "friends" came up to her.

"Lucy! You better come quickly. Your brother is fighting again." Her friends were hyperventilating since they ran all the way from the underground station.

Lucy ran to where her brother was and Ash followed behind. They finally made it and they saw Peter in another fight with two other boys. He was getting beaten up bad but nothing worse than battles in Narnia. Ash saw the look of sadness and disappointed in his new friend and decided to help out her brother, not knowing that it could possibly get worse. He jumped into the fight and held one boy off of Peter for a few seconds before he started getting hurt. Luckily, the police started to come and pull each boy off the other.

One officer held Peter and yelled at him "Act your age." He pushed Peter aside. Peter grabbed Lucy's hand and walked to one of the benches with Ash still trailing behind. Ash knew that Peter was a little bitter and stubborn and possibly not know that he existed on the face of this earth so he didn't expect a 'thank you' but he made his presence known anyway.

"You're welcome"

Peter looked at him bitterly. "I had it sorted."

Lucy tried to stop the fight that could possibly come. "Peter." Ash looked at Lucy since Peter looked away. She mouthed a simple "thank you" and he smiled, nodded, and walked away before Peter knew that he was still there.

Lucy looked at her brother. "What was it this time?"

"He bumped me."

"So you hit him?"

"No, after he bumped me they tried to make me apologize. That's when I hit him."

"Really Peter, what would Edmund or Susan say if they saw this?"

"Edmund would no doubt do what that other kid did and Susan would just look at me disappointed and lecture me."

"First of all, he has a name." Peter just smirked and looked away. He obviously didn't care about the other boy's name. "And second of all, you still probably wouldn't have appreciated the help or Susan's advice to just walk away."

Peter couldn't argue knowing that she was right but he still did anyway. "Well I shouldn't have to walk away. I mean don't you ever get tired of being treated like a kid?"

"Um, we are kids." Lucy silently laughed to herself. That was something Edmund would have said.

"Well I wasn't always. It's been a year. How long does he expect us to wait?" Lucy knew that Peter really wanted to get back into Narnia and possibly find out what became of his younger siblings but he was slowly losing hope. That was proven when he finally sighed and said…

"I think it's time to accept the fact that we live here." He held his head down in shame. "There's no use pretending any different."

Lucy rubbed his arm but then jumped up in pain. "Ow!"

Peter looked at her. "Quiet, Lu."

"Something pinched me."

"What are you talking about?" Peter then jumped up. "Something tugged on me."

A strong gust of wind started to pick up. "It feels like magic." Lucy was all too excited.

"Quick, Lu. Hold my hand." Soon the train station disappeared and they found they were on a beautiful beach. The water was a perfect color of light blue and the sand had not been walked on. Lucy turned to Peter and smiled. He smiled back and soon they both ran inside the water taking off their shoes and as much of their ugly uniforms as they could.

They started splashing around and since Lucy was so light, the waves started to push her hard until she kept falling.

"Peter? Pete. What is it?" She was now trying to get Peter's attention since he stopped to stare at something.

"Where do you suppose we are?" Lucy thought that was a little bit of a dumb question.

"Well where do you think?"

"Well I don't remember any ruins in Narnia." Lucy stopped dead in her tracks. She stared at where Peter was staring. He was right. There were ruins that she had never seen before. She and Peter started to climb and see if it was something that they knew about before leaving. As soon as they got to the ruins, they could tell it was a building of some sort because of the stairs and columns that were still standing. They walked around more and Peter found a nice apple tree and grabbed a shiny red apple.

He wiped it on his shirt and tossed it at Lucy. "Lucy."

She grabbed it and took a bite. "Do you still have your sandwiches we packed?"

"Well I left mine in my bag and I left my bag in the train station. And then I left the train station in England."

Lucy smiled at how her brother was now being more fun than bitter. Lucy looked at the view overlooking the beautiful ocean while Peter still wondered.

"I wonder who lived here."

Peter stepped on something which made a nice noise so he picked it up. It looked familiar. He could have sworn that he had seen it somewhere. "I think we did."

"Hey that's Ed's. From his chess set."

"Which chess set?"

Lucy wondered if Peter was all for stupid questions today. "Well he didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchley, did he?" Lucy knew she was sounding like Edmund but she couldn't help but fill that void. She grabbed it and put it in her bag. She looked in another direction and then realized something.

"Can't be…" She whispered to herself. Lucy ran to what she saw and Peter followed. "Don't you see?"

"What?"

"Imagine walls, and columns there." She pointed to everything she remember and moved Peter in front of his broken throne and moved herself in front of her own broken throne. "And a glass roof…"

Peter could see it now. "Cair Paravel."

Throw it away
Forget yesterday
We'll make The Great Escape
Won't hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Watch it burn
Let it die
'Cause we are finally free
Tonight

-Chorus of "The Great Escape" by Boys Like Girls

Yes I know it's been a while since my last update and I'm sorry on all of my stories. Life has not been giving me much time to work with and this chapter was hard being that there's only two of them. The next chapter is gonna be even harder which is why I split it up even though I planned on putting it with this chapter. Trust me the only reason it's hard for me to write is because I put a weird little twist to it. I hope it's worth your painful wait. Again…sorry.

Please review even after all that I've done.

-tin2lo