Hey guys! Since the previous chapter was quite short and I forgot to upload a Halloween special, I decided to upload a second chapter of PCASPTLS (Short for: Prince Caspian and Susan Pevensie, the lovestory) to make it up to you! I hope you enjoy!
Enya
"Oh my god," I breathed and I ran towards the girl, throwing my bow aside. "This doesn't look good. She's losing a lot of blood."
Peter pushed me softly aside. "I'll carry her towards your camp, but you'll have to lead the way."
"Right." My brother put his jacket over the young woman. At first, I thought she was a girl, but when I had come closer, I saw she had to be at least eighteen years old. Peter lifted her in his arms and started walking.
I ran ahead, making sure the path I had walked to get here was passable for someone with a person in his arms.
"Caspian! Henry! Put a sleeping bag by the fire! Now!" I yelled when we reached the camp. They were checking their weapons and laughing, but once they saw me, they became serious at once. They didn't even ask why Peter was there, or why he was holding an injured girl, they just did what I asked.
"Peter, put her down on the sleeping bag and search in my satchel for a needle and a thin thread so I can sew her wound. Angelique, I need boiled water. Caspian, Henry, find bandages and some painkillers." I never told everyone what to do like that before, but now there was a young woman dying and I. Was. Not. Going. To. Let. That. Happen.
Everyone did what I asked them to do, and I was glad that I had worked in a hospital in England, so I knew what I was doing.
"Hold her down," I commanded, and while Caspian held her feet to the ground, Henry put his hands on her shoulders and Peter held her hand. Angelique helped me with the wound by handing me everything I needed.
"You know what you're doing?" she asked me, threading the needle and giving it to me. I held the needle in the fire to sterilise it the best I could.
"Keep still," I told the girl, before answering Angelique's question. "Yeah. I'm a nurse in a hospital in the human world, don't worry. This girl will live." I'm glad my voice sounded so sure, because that wasn't how I felt. I saved a few people in the hospital, but here, in the middle of the woods, where I had no morphine or anything totally hygienic, the wound could get infected.
Don't think about it, I told myself and I went once through the wound with the needle.
The girl gasped and tensed her muscles.
"Keep her still!" I yelled, and Peter helped Henry with the girl's shoulders.
I went through her flesh for the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth time and the girl breathed through her teeth. Somewhere between the ninth and the tenth time, she fainted and it became easier to help her.
"Caspian, get the tube of betadine for me, will you?" I asked, going with the back of my hand over my face, leaving a red smudge. I didn't care. I took the tube from Caspian and rubbed the brown content over the recently stitched wound. I put wrapped the bandages around the girl's abdomen and lower back, so the wound was covered from bacteria.
I took the water from Henry and gave the girl a painkiller.
"I did what I could," I gasped and sank to the ground. "Now she needs to rest. Maybe we'll see her eyes in the morning."
"I'll watch over her," Henry said, just at the same time Peter said: "I'll stay with her."
I smiled weakly. "I don't care who keeps an eye on her. Just make sure someone does. That girl saved our lives in the form of a dragon. There's no way I'm letting her die."
oO0Oo
AT THE CASTLE
"Edmund," Lucy's voice sounded through the library. "I think I found something."
Edmund put the book he was reading on the table and walked towards his little sister. "What?"
"You said the white cats were spies, right?" When Edmund nodded, Lucy continued. "Well, this book says they also carried many secrets. For example, before the war where Aslan defeated the White Which, she suddenly became weaker, because a mysterious sickness killed most of the cats. They hold the secret to the White Witch' destruction, but also to her return. With a cat like that, it is a matter of time before she's back."
Ed frowned. "How is that possible? I mean, the White Which bred them to spy on her enemies, not to kill her."
"I don't know. But, what I do know is that someone wrote in this book, and thanks to Alex, I know who that someone is."
"Who is it, Lu?"
"Agamon."
oO0Oo
"She's waking up!" Henry yelled and I let the food I was eating where it was.
Indeed, the girl was still pale, but she opened her eyes slowly, and two sapphire blue irises looked at me. "Where am I?" her weak voice asked.
"Somewhere safe," I smiled and I held a leaf with water at her mouth. She drank thirstily.
"Thanks. What happened?"
Peter helped her to sit up. "Actually, we were hoping you could tell us."
"The only thing I remembered was Geroldus – that's the black dragon – attacking something on the ground and when I smelled it were humans, I intervened."
"You intervened looking like a dragon," I said and a weak smile tugged at her lips.
"Right. I think I owe you an explanation. I'm Ariadne, Aria for the friends. I was born with the gift to turn in every animal I could possible want. I've lived my whole life in the woods, so if you're going anywhere, I should know the way."
"Who are your parents?" Angelique asked.
"I don't know. I never knew them. My mother died giving birth to me, and when my father saw what I could do, he left me behind in these woods. Or at least, that's what the faeries tell me."
"Faeries, huh?" Peter laughed softly and I could've sworn he gulped when she looked at him with a furious gaze in her eyes. "Sorry."
She wanted to sit up straight, but the colour drained from her face when she did. "Gosh, Geroldus got me good."
"Are you all right?" Henry asked and I grabbed fresh bandages and the betadine when I saw red on the white cloth around her abdomen.
"Yeah," Ariadne answered. "People like me heal fast, but since Geroldus' claws are toxic, I needed the fixer upper you gave me."
"You should thank Susan for that," Caspian said and I waved a little sheepishly when her eyes seemed to ask who Susan was.
"You saved my life, Susan," she said to me. "I'll never be able to repay you, but at the moment, it's rather cold without clothes, so could someone lend me a shirt or something? A pair of trousers would be nice, too."
A blanket covered her legs and her hips, but she only had her hair as protection for her upper section, so he shook of his jacket and pulled his shirt over his head, so she could put it on. "Take it."
"Thanks," she smiled, taking the shirt. "Turn around. All of you."
We did what she said and gave her the time to put Henry's shirt on. "Tell me something about you."
"My name's Angelique, this is my brother Henry, this is King Caspian, that's Queen Susan and her brother, Peter, is sitting next to you. We're here because –"
"Hush," Caspian did, silencing Angelique. "Don't take it personal, Ariadne, but I don't trust you. At least, not yet."
"No, no," she said, "I agree. I wouldn't trust myself, even after I saved your lives."
"Ariadne –"
"Just kidding," she smirked, "relax, all right? If you won't tell me what you're up to, fine, but at least tell me something, so I can help."
"One quick question before we start," Angelique said, "Where are your clothes?"
That made Ariadne laugh. I noticed how Henry looked at her. I couldn't blame him, Ariadne was a beautiful woman. She had sapphire blue eyes, long wavy fair hair, a slightly tanned skin and beautiful shaped lips. She probably was just as long as Henry and she was very, very brave. "It's been awhile since I was human. I think it was fifteen years ago."
"How old are you now?" Henry's question came out too eager and with a blush, he looked at the floor.
"Twenty-one, why?"
"Just curious."
"Now, like I said before, it's been awhile since I've been in my human form, because I didn't have a reason to be one. Believe me, being a dragon, being able to fly and rule the skies is so much more fun than playing ruler of the world on the ground as a human. No dragon needs clothes, so when a fire dragon burned all of my clothes, I just let it go and turned into a dragon for a very long time. I didn't even know I would be older in my human form, but it's a nice surprise."
"You could say that." Angelique smacked her older brother over the head and I swallowed a laugh.
"Are you going to tell me anything about the reason you guys are wandering these woods?" Ariadne asked.
Caspian stood up and pulled me to my feet. "Soon, but first, eat something and sleep."
"Something tells me we'll walk a lot more than just ten days," I said to Caspian and he nodded.
"Yeah, but we need to know who she is and why there are dragons in this part of Narnia. Only then I'm telling her about our mission."
oO0Oo
AT THE CASTLE
"Agamon!" Edmund yelled and the boy turned around. "Wait up." He, Lucy and Alex were walking through the hallway and surrounded him when they reached him. "We've got some questions for you."
A smile tugged at his lips. "I see you've finally figured it out."
"Figured what out, exactly?" Alex asked.
"You figured out that I'm not the bad guy."
