Okay this chap. has some Peter/Darby scenes in it so I hope you like it!

a/n- I dont own the Chronicles of Narnia!

" What time are you leaving?" Darby and Peter were sitting alone in her sitting room, the day before Peter was to leave for war in Archenland. He had come to visit her and to bring her flowers like he did once every week, and casually she brought up the topic no one wished to talk about.

" Sunrise, tomorrow," He stated while fiddling with the sleeve on his blue tunic. Darby remained stance at the large bay window and looked out at the churning water on the beach. He cant leave tomorrow, she thought, what could make him stay? Silence came over them for a few minutes and both of them were just waiting on each other to say something, anything. Finally, Darby gave in.

" I don't want you to leave," She sat down next to him on the loveseat next to the small table they ate breakfast at every morning.

" I don't want to leave either," The disease was starting to control her. Earlier that morning he had found her wondering around in the hallway trying to find her room. When he had asked her what she was doing, she had repeatedly called him Edmund, but right now as she lay silently in his arm, she was just the same as she had been when he had first met her.

The grim, wrinkled doctor had come again around teatime to check in on her, and he had delivered them the news on her condition. The Gray Fever was moving quickly and she could be dead in he next two months. Yesterday, she had asked him what would happen if he wasn't there when it happened? And he had told her that it wouldn't happen, she would live, but what if he couldn't save her? He couldn't just stand back and watch her die.

" Peter?" She broke him from his silent trance. " Are you okay?"

" Oh, yes, Darby," He said smiling at her then placing a chaste kiss on her hot forehead, " I'm perfectly fine."

"Lu?" Susan asked her little sister. " Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, Susan," Lucy was laying down during the middle of the day, something that she normally didn't do.

" Are you sure?" Susan wasn't convinced. Maybe I should get the doctor to come check on Lucy, she thought while feeling Lucy's small forehead to check and see if she had a fever. " Because you're burning up."

" Yes, Susan, I'm completely fine," Lucy whined, " Could you please leave so I could sleep a bit?"

" Of course, Lu," Susan said leaving Lucy's bedroom and closing the door quietly behind her.

Susan contemplated going to get the grim, wrinkled doctor again to check on Lucy because she was worried. What if the same thing that was happening to Darby was happening to Lucy ,too? It was going to be hard enough to lose her best friend, but what if she lost her little sister, too? I think I'll go check with Peter and Darby, she thought.

" Peter! Stop it!" Darby said in between giggles. Peter was chasing her around the sitting room tickling her because she had called him ' slightly predictable'.

" No! Not until you take it back," He laughed, cornering her between a chair and a small bookshelf. Darby laughed and went to run around the chair but tripped over the leg and fell on top of the couch. Peter just laughed at her and sat down next to where she had fallen and continued to tickle her.

" Stop it!" She said trying to breath in between her constant giggling.

" Not until you say that Peter Pevensie is the most unpredictable person in the world," He smiled and continued tickling her.

" Fine!" She breathlessly got out. " Peter Pevensie is the most unpredictable person in the world!"

Peter put his arm around Darby's waist and looked down on her smiling face. Like the grim, wrinkled doctor had said, her skin tone was turning slightly grayish because of the disease, but Peter still thought she was the most beautiful girl, or women really, he had ever seen. He had seen his fair share of beautiful women before but she was by far the most beautiful.

" What are you looking at?" Her hand flew to her face, wiping off imaginary dirt or soot that was never there. " Is there something on my face?"

" Oh, uh, nothing," He smiled grabbing her cold hand and rubbing it in between his to try and warm it up. " Your hands are freezing."

" Yea, I am so cold," She said looking up into his blue eyes.

" Well, let's warm you up then," His lips closed in what little space between them remained and the two were lost in each others touch and kiss for who knows how long.

" Peter, Darby, I-" Susan walked into Darby's sitting room without knocking, but was immediately wishing she had. Her brother and her best friend were in a embarrassing position on the sitting room couch.

" It looks like I'm interrupting something, so I'll just leave," Susan had to shake the idea of her best friend and her brother out of her mind.

" No, Susan, what did you need?" Darby said getting up off of the couch and smoothing down her roughed up hair.

" Well, its about Lucy," Susan sat down in the chair beside the couch. " I'm worried about her."

" I bet that was embarrassing," Edmund laughed as Peter told him the story of what had happened to him and Darby earlier that morning. The two boys were in Peter's room while finished packing everything he needed while he was away.

" It was," Peter said running a hand through his blonde hair.

" Is she going to come say good bye tomorrow morning?" Edmund asked his older brother.

" I told her not to, but if does, she loves me," Peter said to a confused looking Edmund.

" What? I'm confused," Edmund's face was one of utter bewilderment. He never had much experience with girls, but that was just a weird idea that Peter had.

" You see, if she comes and says good bye that means that she loves me, and if she doesn't…well, that means she doesn't, but she will. I know she will," Peter explained.

" Girls are so confusing," Peter laughed at his little brother.

" Like I said yesterday, Ed, one day when your older you'll understand everything that I'm going through," Peter said while packing up the last of his stuff.

" I sure hope so," Edmund said with an exasperated tone to his voice, " I don't think I could go on this clueless for the rest of my life."

It was five minutes before the two brothers and some of their guards were supposed to leave and still no sign of Darby. Every few seconds Peter would check the palace door and every few seconds there would be no Darby. He had been sure she would come, but at this moment in time, he was really beginning to doubt it.

" Your highness," Orieus, a centaur and one of Peter's trusted advisors, approached him, " we have to leave if we are to reach the outskirts of Anvard by nightfall."

" Just a few more minutes, Orieus," He once again looked back to the palace door where no one stood.

" Peter, he's right," Edmund came up beside him, " we have to go."

" Fine, lets go," He gave one last look before mounting his horse and riding up next to his brother. " I guess she's not coming."

" Guess again," Edmund smiled as Darby finally emerged from the palace door.

" Peter!" She said running up to him. He met had already gotten of his horse and grabbed her in a gentle yet firm hug.

" I'm glad you came," He smiled pushing a piece of midnight hair behind her ear.

" Well, I couldn't let you leave without saying a proper good bye," She smiled and kissed him long and hard on the lips with what little strength she had.

" Write to me," He told her after the kiss had been broken and he had once again mounted his horse.

" I wouldn't dream of not doing it," She smiled as she let go of his hand.

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