Hey guys... so heres the next chapter! it took me a little longer than I wanted but what can ya do? Anyway this takes place about 2 months after the corination and things are running smoothly at the castle... I have a twitter now so follow me on there and I'll give updates about stories and stuff if you have one... I'll also let you know when knew chapters are up so let me know if your following me for that and what story and I'll tag you in updates or when i tweet about a new chapter being up... Im dsesla13 so follow me! any way i want to thank everyone who has favorited/alerted this story or my self and thank you princess emma of narnia and Inotia for reviewing the last chapter... dont own narnia in anyway shape or form just my ocs and plot changes... thanks for reading love you guys and please enjoy...
Just so you know
This feelings takin' control
Of me and I can't help it
I won't sit around
I can't let him win now
Thought you should know
I've tried my best to let go of you
But I don't want to
I just gotta say it all before I go
Just so you know
It's gettin hard to
Be around you
There's so much I can't say
Do you want me to hide the feelings
And look the other way
And I dont know how to be fine when I'm not
Cause I don't know how to make the feelings stop
-Jesse McCartney, Just So You Know
Arianna stopped at the door of her sister before knocking. She heard shuffling in the room and Elyra stepped out smiling up at her sister.
"Good morning sister!" she said happily as they headed to breakfast.
"Yes a fine morning it is! A perfect day to start training again!" Arianna replied. The sisters nodded at a maid that passed by in the hallway. Elyra smiled.
"It's about time! Elijah and Edmund have been so annoying with their incessant complaining about wanting to start training." she chuckled. Arianna rolled her eyes.
"Peter and Devlyn are the same way." Arianna replied.
"Yes well it has been approximately two months since they've had a chance to use a weapon." Elyra added as an afterthought.
"That's only because the Kings and Queens have been learning the ropes and such and I've been working with the soldiers and helping Peter with the soldiers and things have just been hectic. I swear the only time I see Peter we're talking about work." Arianna grumbled. Her sister chuckled.
"Why is it that you sound like a snuffed admirer?" Elyra teased.
"I do not! I'm just merely pointing out I haven't spent any free time with my friend." Arianna defended. Elyra shook her head with a smile but dropped the subject none the less. The two continued on and eventually reached the dining hall. As they entered the others turned to look at them. Arianna and Elyra smiled as Peter and Edmund stood pulling chairs out for each of them. Seeing as there were no others in the room besides the elves and royals no one bothered with titles.
"Thank you Peter." Arianna said happily. He nodded before sitting down also.
"It's such a beautiful day today!" Lucy said happily. Everyone nodded their agreement. Lucy's face brightened instantly.
"We should go to the beach!" she exclaimed.
"Yes it is a good day to go to the beach, but I was thinking about starting to train you guys again today. What do you say training for a little bit and then going to the beach afterwards?" Arianna asked the young Queen. Lucy smiled and nodded.
"Okay, that sounds good!" she said in her normally jovial way. The boys at the table started talking animatedly about training and Arianna rolled her eyes along with Susan.
Arianna stood with Devlyn and Oreius in front of the Pevensies, Elyra and Elijah. Elijah was shifting from one foot to another with a big smile on his face and Arianna and Devlyn chuckled at him.
"Okay, so. Susan and Elijah you will be working with Oreius on archery. Lucy and Elyra, even though you want to be healers you still need to know how to defend yourselves just incase so you're going to sit in on Peter, Edmund, Devlyn and I's sword training and hand to hand combat training. Okay?" Arianna explained the training to everyone. Everyone nodded their agreement. The archers and swordsmen/women split and headed off to the designated training areas. Arianna stood in front of Peter while Devlyn and Edmund stood a few yards away. Lucy and Elyra sat on a bench that had been placed out for them. Arianna smiled at Peter then turned to the girls.
"So were going to start with hand to hand combat and work our way to swords." Arianna stated. Peter nodded.
"Now Lucy you were with Susan when we originally started this so were gonna go back to basics, plus I want to see how much the boys remember." Arianna explained.
"Devlyn and Edmund I want you to work on this too. Dev you know what to do so go ahead and start." Arianna instructed before turning back to Peter. He smiled at her and she smiled back. "Now, I want you to try and hit me, Pete." Arianna told him.
"What?" he asked. Arianna rolled her eyes.
"You heard me. Try and hit me." Arianna repeated. Peter shot a skeptical look to Devlyn and Edmund who just nodded at him. Peter looked back to Arianna who was watching him with a patient look.
"We're just doing this so I can show Lucy and Elyra how to dodge punches and defend themselves hand to hand." Arianna told him. Peter nodded and then threw a punch. Arianna dodged it easily.
"Good. Now I want you to do that again but this time I'm going to retaliate." She warned. He nodded and attacked again. This time though she grabbed his arm as he was pulling it back after she dodged the hit and twisted pushing it up into his back. Not hard so as to hurt him she just wanted to demonstrate. She let him go and turned to the girls.
"Now I don't expect you to learn that quickly especially since I have faster reflexes then you but it comes in handy. If your stuck inside fending off someone you could get them in that position and knock them out against the wall. Very effective. Right Dev?" she asked smirking at the older elf. He rolled his eyes at her.
"What's she talking about?" Edmund asked. Devlyn sighed.
"When I was working for the Witch Arianna was out trying to rescue some Narnians that were being hunted and the Witch sent me out to fight her off. Didn't work out so well in my favor. I had a rather large bump on my head and I still have the scar from my head splitting when it hit the wall." Devlyn explained. Everyone, except Elyra and Devlyn, looked to Arianna with widened eyes.
"What? I was pissed off and protecting Narnians. You know his mom always said he was going to need a good head bashing when he grew up…." Arianna defended trailing off. Elyra busted out laughing and Arianna just smiled. The Pevensies and elves continued training for about an hour and a half before going inside and changing out of sweaty clothes before going to the beach.
Arianna sat down in the sand watching as Lucy, Elijah, Elyra and Edmund played in the water. She started chuckling when Elijah pushed Elyra in and she got up and started chasing after him extremely angry. Peter chuckled from behind her causing Arianna to look up and smile softly.
"May I join you?" he asked. Arianna nodded.
"Be my guest. You are king you can do whatever you wish." Peter smiled fondly and sat down beside her. The two continued to watch the others in the water.
"Where have Susan and Devlyn gone off to?" Arianna asked aloud.
"Susan forgot a book up at the castle, Devlyn went with her to retrieve it." Peter answered.
"Ah. I have a feeling he fancies her." Arianna told Peter smiling. Peter nodded with a frown on his face.
"Yes I do too, I also believe that she has feelings for him also. Though, I'm not to bothered as long as there are no marriage proposals anytime soon." Peter said. Arianna giggled.
"Well you know it's only natural. This is the prime engagement age." She teased. Peter scowled. Arianna let out another laugh.
"It's not funny. She's to young by my standards." Peter told Arianna. Arianna quirked an eyebrow.
"Well then what age is a good age to be married at according to you?" she asked.
"25." he stated simply. Arianna looked away.
"Well I'm sorry to say this, but as High King, it is expected that you be married by your 21st birthday." Arianna said softly.
"What?" Peter exclaimed. Arianna cleared her throat.
"Well marriage might be different where your from but here in Narnia and the countries surrounding it for that matter it is rare to be married after the age of 18 and so the High King is expected to be wed before 21, so you do actually get extra time than what a normal marriage age is." Arianna rambled.
"So you mean to tell me I have to fall in love and be married by my 21st birthday. What if I have someone I'm in love with back in my world?" he exclaimed.
"Do you?" Arianna asked, her heart stopped at the thought.
"Well no, but still." he said as he stared into her violet eyes.
"Think about it this way, you have four and a - approximately four years to find someone and about half a year to plan the wedding if it takes you four years. So just don't worry about it right now. You have enough on your plate." Arianna said trying to soothe the frazzled king. Peter sighed and looked up at the sky. What if he had already found someone? He wondered sending a quick glance at Arianna. He wasn't quite sure if he was in love with her or not, but he knew he had strong feelings for her. In the two and a half months that he'd known her it had grown. From friendly, to butterflies and a fast beating heart when he was her, and then to a full out war in his stomach and it felt like his heart would beat out of his chest whenever he saw her let a lone her smile or talk to him. If they bumped into each other on accident or he escorted her somewhere, wherever she had touched would burn with her touch for hours. Yet, he chose not to act on these feelings ever for the reasoning that she may not feel the same way. Little did he know that she did.
"What if I don't find anyone?" he asked her. Arianna sighed and looked at him.
"Then I believe that the advisors will set up an arranged marriage." Arianna told him softly. Peter sighed also.
"I don't want that. A loveless marriage where I might not even like the girl." Peter said quietly. Arianna took hold of his hand in comfort. Both hands burned from the touch of the other but they ignored it. As they stared into each others eyes, Peter came up with a plan.
"I've got it! If I don't find anyone, I'll just marry you! It'll be perfect, you're already my best friend and I won't have to marry a complete stranger." Arianna smiled on the outside, but inwardly she was holding back tears. She felt slightly, well a lot put down. She was a back up plan to him, but she couldn't tell him how she felt. He was High King for Aslan's sake.
"Alright. If you don't find anyone to marry by your 21st birthday, I will marry you so that you won't have to marry some stranger." she told him. He smiled brightly at her.
"So have you seen any girls that you're interested in?" She asked slightly curious. Peter paled slightly, should I hint? He wondered.
"Yes, but currently I'm not sure if she feels the same." Arianna's heart broke slightly. She cleared her throat.
"I'm sure she does. Who wouldn't feel that way about you? In case you haven't noticed Pete, you're quiet handsome." Arianna said smiling.
"You wouldn't feel that way about me." he mumbled under his breath so she wouldn't hear, except she did. He had forgotten about her hightened hearing.
"Me? Did you just say me?" she asked. Peter blushed and looked down before looking back up and her confidence shining in his eyes.
"Yes, yes I did. I've been hiding these feelings for the past two months and I'm sick of it. I have feelings for you Arianna. Strong ones. And I'm not quite sure where things will take us, but I want to give things a try." He said leaning slowly towards her, his eyes looked down to her lips and then back up into her violet eyes. "And now, I'm going to kiss you." he told her before leaning in the rest of the way and capturing her lips in a slow and passionate kiss. As they pulled away she whispered his name.
"Peter." Then there was a shaking and then a falling motion and he opened his eyes sitting up and looking around. He was still on the beach but it was dark. He realized the whole feelings confession had been a dream. He silently cursed in his head and looked to Arianna who was standing above him with a smile on her face.
"Good dream?" she asked. Peter nodded and stood up following her back to the castle.
Son of a nutcracker... it was just a dream... lol it wasnt gonna be originally but if they got together now I wouldnt be able to put in all the drama i wanted to so... yeah anyway review and tell me what you think oh and feel free to ask any questions in a pm a review or on twitter... follow me please! dsesla13
