New chapter is up, just like I promised so do your part and read and review for me! I dont expect there to be too many more chapters so this story should be over soon. I've known for a while what's going to happen in the end but if anyone has any suggestions they can email or leave a review about it.

A/N- I dont own the Chronicles of Narnia


It was a beautiful, sunny day in the Narnian apple orchards as the five friends sat in the shade under the tall, blossoming trees. Edmund, who was busy consuming tons and tons of apples, laughed quietly as Susan was desperately trying to teach Darby to use a bow and arrow. Let's just say she wasn't doing very well. Peter and Lucy were playing a card game and of course, Peter was letting his little sister lose.

" Hey, Ed, do you want to play?" Peter asked as he was shuffling the cards.

" No, I'm having to much fun watching the two of them," Edmund pointed to Darby, who had just shot an arrow at a dryad accidentally, but fortunately she missed, and Susan, who was trying to tell the dryad that Darby didn't mean to try to shoot her.

" I do believe your right, Ed," Lucy had an amused look on her childish face, " This is more interesting than a card game."

" Su, I'm beginning to think that archery isn't my thing," Darby said as the two girls sat down to join them under the apple trees.

" Me, too, Darby. Me, too," Susan laughed as she picked up a ripe, green apple and took a small bite out of it.

" It's a beautiful day," Lucy stated after a while of calming, not awkward, silence passed over the five of them.

" Yes, it is," Peter smiled at his little sister. Lucy had always had a soft spot in his heart since the day she had been born.

" How about we race, Peter?" Edmund suggested referring to the boys' horses who grazed slightly to the side of them.

" Good idea, Ed. Darby would you like to come along?" Peter laughed. He had always found Darby's strange fear of horse funny, but the look on her pretty face was priceless when he ever suggested her riding one. It was a look of pure horror and disgust at the same time.

" Uh, no. I do believe I'll sit out," Darby had that look on her face again while the four Pevensies laughed at her. Riding to the apple orchards had been enough for her.


flashback

" Just come on, Darby," Peter said holding his hand down towards her from up on his high horse. She just gave him a skeptical look that said ' Are you crazy?'.

" I promise I wont let you fall," He smiled as she hesitantly took his hand and he helped her up onto the horse.

" Peter, if you let me fall," Darby's face was one of pure terror, " I will never speak to you again."

" Well, I wont let that happen," He caught the soft smell of her hair. Honey and Vanilla, that's what she smelled like. He smiled gently and he knew that he loved her and he was going to stop this Gray Fever thing from killing her if it was the last thing he ever did.

flashback


" You better cheer for me then, Darby," Peter sarcastically warned her, " or I'll never speak to you again." She laughed the laugh that he loved to her and playfully hit him on the arm.

" No, Peter, I'm cheering for Edmund," She rolled her eyes. Now, this was the Darby he loved. Not the Darby that laid in her room all day, not the sick Darby.

" Okay, on your mark. Get Set. Go!" Lucy said waving her hand in front of her two brothers. Peter and Edmund had to race from the end of the apple orchards and back to win and from the looks of it, Peter was ahead.

" Go Edmund!" Lucy cheered as the boys had reached the back of the apple orchard and were turning around. The two of them were neck and neck, but Edmund looked as if he was about to pull ahead.

Edmund crossed the makeshift finish line just seconds before Peter did and in sportsman-like fashion, the two boys shook hands and Peter congratulated his younger brother on a ' fine race'. Darby smiled as Peter walked over to her with a sarcastic frown on his face.

" I lost," He said while trying to hold back a grin.

" I know," She laughed at his pitiful attempt at Lucy's puppy dog face. " But I still think you did good."

" Well, don't I get to be comforted because I lost?" He asked, again trying to use Lucy's puppy dog face that always managed to make Darby melt, but Peter's puppy dog face looked more like a puppy in pain.

" No, losers don't get anything," Darby laughed before she gave him a small kiss on the lips, but the two were interrupted by Edmund.

" Ew, go get a room," The boy said in disgust whiled his sisters ' oohhed' and 'awwed' over the two of them.

" One day, when your older, Edmund," Peter said ruffling the boy's hair, " You'll understand what it's like." Edmund still had a look of utter disgust as Peter took Darby's hand a lead her away from his brother and sisters.

The two walked a short way out of sight from the other three and a comfortable silence settled over them. To Darby, it felt right, as if they were always meant to be together, as if by some fate unknown to man, they had been brought together by that stupid connecting bathroom of hers.

" I have to tell you something," Peter told her with a solemn look on his normally happy face.

" What?" Darby smiled hoping that the look on his face was one of humor and not actual sadness.

" Edmund and I have to go to war in two days, and this time we really have to go," He said sadly. They had stopped walking and a look of grief came upon her pretty face and Peter unwillingly cringed on the inside because the last thing he ever wanted to do was make her unhappy.

" Why? Why can't you stay here with me? With Lucy and Susan?" She said softly, avoiding his penetrating eyes. " You can't go. What happens if I..if I die before you come back? I might never see you again."

" You won't. I wont let you die, Darby," He said with this look in his eye that Darby had never seen before. " I'm going to save you." Darby sighed.

" Peter, don't make promises to me that you know you can't keep," Darby said finally looking up into his bright, blue-gray eyes. " I'm going to die, Peter. This thing is incurable."

" No," He yelled at her, something that Peter had never done before, " I wont let that happen. Not to you."

This side of Peter was one she had never seen before. Of course, she had seen the brave and strong and protective Peter that she always saw whenever she was around him, but this Peter that yelled and made unreasonable promises, was starting to scare her.


Thanks for reading, guys! I'm going to make some changes to the previous chapters of this story so you might want to go back and re-read them! Please review!