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Peter Goes To College
Chapter 8. Dreaming Bad Dreams
Edmund's POV
"EDMUND!" an excited voice yelled. I turned around and saw my precious Haley. She ran over to me and hugged me. I was so happy to see her again. Then she looked up at me.
"Oh I missed you Edmund!" she said.
"I missed you to." I replied. Then I bent down and kissed her. When we broke apart, I was shrinking. Haley screamed. And soon she dissapeared and I was looking at the Great River. I heard a scream somewhere up river, and when I looked, Peter, Susan, and Lucy were floating down the river on a block of ice. It was Lucy who screamed, and I saw why, she was slipping. And soon she completely dissapeared. Susan and Peter didn't seem to notice.
"LUCY!" I screamed. I jumped in after her, and the water was freezing! But I didn't care. If Peter and Susan weren't going to look for her, I was. I looked around frantically under the water and saw her. She was floating to the bottom. I swam down. By now she had completely reached the bottom. I picked her up and kicked the bottom of the river to get up to the top quicker. But by they time I had reached dry ground, it was to late, Lucy had drowned. Then she dissapeared. It changed to an image of Susan by a little stream.
She was crying. Then she slipped trying to stand up and fell in the water. She walked up to grab a towel off the tree. When she did a wolf jumped out. I screamed along with her, when she saw it.
"ED! GET IN THE TREE!" she yelled reaching for her horn, and just barely grabbing it as the wolf jumped her. She blew it and the wolf bit her neck.
"SUSAN!" I screamed jumping out of the tree, and pulling out my sword. Why hadn't I thought of my sword before? I finished off the wolf and Peter was just coming up. We ran over to Susan who was breathing hard. We had barely gotten to her when she stopped breathing. Then they both dissapeared and I was watching the dual between Peter and Miraz. Peter turned his back on him for just a moment and Miraz picked up a sword and attacked.
"WATCH OUT!" I yelled. But it was to late, Miraz had struck him in his chest. "NO!" I screamed running forward and pushing Miraz back. I was about to attack him when I felt a shakey hand on mine. I looked down and it was Peter. I immediately turned my attention to him.
"It was a dual... to the... death. I... lost." he said simply.
"I don't want to live alone Peter! I can't!" I said, tears running freely down my cheeks.
"You'll... surv...survive E...Ed. You... Your stro...strong." he said, starting to stutter more and more.
"But I'm strong because of you. If you'll notice I've been getting weaker, with each lose of a loved one. If you die, I'll be nothing!" I said.
"Nar...Narnia nee...needs at lea...least o...one mo...onarch le...eft." he stuttered.
"Please Peter! This can't happen!" I screamed. I heard a roar and not but a few seconds later, Miraz was laying dead, from the mighty bite of Aslan.
"ASLAN! You've got to help!" I said. He shook His head. I looked back down at Peter. Blood was trickling out of his mouth. "Come on Peter! Stay with me! You can do it!" I said.
He shook his head. "Remember Ed, I'll always love you." he said perfectly, before he stopped breathing.
"PETER!" I screamed. I looked up at Aslan. "WHERE WERE YOU 5 MINUTES AGO!" I screamed.
"This is the way things must happen." He said.
"What next?! Caspian's gonna die and I have to take up the throne by myself?!" I asked. About that time an arrow struck Caspian from the oposite side.
"YOU'VE GOT TO BE JOKING! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" I screamed. I picked up a crossbow that was right beside me and shot the man who had shot Caspian, yet no one shot me back. "COME ON! YOU'LL KILL MY BROTHER! YOU'LL KILL YOUR OWN KIN! AND YET YOU WON'T KILL ME! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!" I screamed. I looked back at the Narnian archers. "I don't suppose any of you would be willing to shoot me, would you?" I asked.
They shook their heads. I muttered a curse under my breath. "I refuse! I will not be King! Not alone!" I yelled, mounting up on a horse and taking off for the woods. I rode, and rode and rode, until the horse had had enough. As soon as he had a rest, we rode again. I found the little land with the boat, Peter, Trumpkin and I had been in not to long ago. I made it to the land Cair Paravel's remains were on. I ran to where Susan, Lucy, and Haley's graves were. Lucy's was on the end, and by the time I got to hers I was crying hysterically.
And not but a minute later, there were two new ones, Peter's and Caspian's. There should be one next to Peter's, mine, but there wasn't! Oh how I wished there were. But was I brave enough to kill myself? I looked at the dagger that somehow magically appeared in my hand. I braced myself and pulled it back aiming for my heart.
Peter's POV
I was riding my horse through a clearing. I hear Susan and Lucy laughing not to far away. And when I look a little ways away, I see them dancing through the midst of butterfly's. It was one of the most beautiful sights I had ever seen, other than Aslan. Where was Edmund though? I look behind me and he's trying to catch up with me on Phillipe. We rode up to Susan and Lucy who were laughing at me for some reason.
"Um, Peter. " Edmund chuckled.
"What?" I asked.
"There's... uh... there's a bug on your head." he replied.
"What! Get it off!" I said nearly yelling.
"Ok." he said reaching for my head. And when I looked I wanted to kill them.
"IT'S A BUTTERFLY!" I yelled using fake anger.
"Yep." Lucy laughed.
But it changed from that wonderful moment, to my bed back in England. Edmund was still beside me, but he was shaking in his sleep, and mumbling things I couldn't understand. And then he stood up and walked over to the chester drawers. He pulled out the knife I had given him and pointed it toward his chest. Why couldn't I say anything.
I jumped up. The ending of that dream was horrible! But when I looked over, I found it wasn't a dream! Edmund was pointing the knife toward his chest, and I could see he was getting ready to strike himself.
"EDMUND! NO!" I screamed panicking and jumping at him before he could kill himself. And then I saw his eyes open.
Edmund's POV
I was thrown back, and the knife was ripped from my grip. I looked over and saw Peter. My heart lifted, and then I realized, it had been a dream, only a dream. But why had Peter knocked me out of the bed?
"Peter what are you doing?" I asked.
"STOPPING YOU FROM MAKING THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YOUR LIFE!" he yelled. What did he mean by that? Was I about to kill myself, in real life?
"What was I about to do?" I asked.
"Like you don't know!" he said.
"I don't." I said confused.
"Ed, you were about to kill yourself." Peter said.
My own heart stopped. "What?" I asked.
"I woke up and you were holding the knife not to far from your chest. It looked like you were about to kill yourself. Why would you do that?" he asked.
"I don't know. I mean, I didn't, I had a dream I was about to do that, and... and... I don't know." I said. Susan and Lucy came in the room.
"You had a dream you were about to do that?" Peter asked, in a near whisper. I nodded my head.
"Do what?" Lucy asked.
"Commit suicide." Peter said looking at them.
Susan's eyes went wide. "OH ED! YOU WOULDN'T!" she cried.
"No! I wouldn't! But you didn't see the dream I had!" I said.
"What was it Ed?" Lucy asked walking up to me. I shook my head.
"Come on Ed. You know you can tell us." Susan said.
"Even if it has to do with Narnia?" I asked.
She nodded her head. So, we all went to sit on the bed, and we all ended up laying down, with me in the middle. Peter and Lucy were the closest ones to me. And how we all fit was beyond me!
"It started out with Haley. She said she missed me, I kissed her, and she disapeared. Then it went to something I've never seen before, the Great River frozen, and then being broken, with you three floating down it on a big peice of ice." here Susan and Peter gasped, so somehow they knew what I was talking about "then Lucy slipped off. I jumped in after her, but by the time I got her to the surface, it was to late. Then it turned to Susan by a little stream. When she reached for a towel, a wolf jumped out. It bit her neck, and by the time I killed the wolf, it was to late, she was dead. Then it turned to the battle between Miraz and Peter. At the point where you turned around to walk back, and you had the PERFECT oporrtunity he stabbed you." I said my voice becoming suddenly hoarse "And then one of the Telmarines shot Caspian. Then Aslan came up, killed Miraz, stopping him from killing me, he told me I had to rule Narnia BY MYSELF! I was so upset, I went to where they had buried Susan, Lucy, and Haley. And the suddenly, Peter and Caspian's graves appeared. I remember thinking I should be buried next to Peter. A dagger appeared in my hand, and something was telling me to do drive it into my heart. Before I could finish, I woke up to Peter nocking me down, ripping the dagger out of my grip." I said finishing "If Peter hadn't stopped me..."
"YOU'D BE DEAD!" Lucy finished burying her face into my shoulder, crying. I held her close. I could hear Susan crying too, and I felt Peter shaking beside me, meaning he was getting close. But I wasn't much of a sleep walker, so why did it happen THIS time? Eventually I felt Lucy calming down, and then she fell asleep where she was. And pretty soon Susan was asleep too. And soon I felt myself drifting to sleep too, but not before I felt Peter's arm go over all three of us, pulling us as close to him as possible, with Lucy and I in the middle. I felt comfort like I hadn't in a long time. And most likely, with my siblings wrapped around me, was the ONLY thing that let me give in to sleep.
