A/N: Thank you to everyone reading this story! Hope you stick with me until the end!
Chapter 11
Lucy found herself instead of in the bathroom, in what seemed like a forest in...
"Narnia!" She exclaimed.
Edmund had followed Lucy by then to see the door opening to a forest.
"Edmund! We're back in Narnia!"
They looked around in awe, remembering how beautiful Narnia was. The sun beamed through the trees and leaves danced around in the breeze.
"Anna!" Edmund called as he saw a girl on the ground not far from where they stood.
She looked up and smiled faintly.
Lucy ran up to her behind Edmund.
"Edmund, maybe if we can find my"
Edmund nodded before she could finish her sentence.
They both looked around and found what seemed like a castle luckily not too far away. Edmund reached for Anna and helped her up.
"Do you think you can walk a little?"
Anna nodded even though she could barely stay standing without leaning on his shoulders.
Lucy led the way as they slowly walked through the woods. When they finally reached the castle after what seemed like an hour, they were greeted by a stairway that made Edmund and Lucy feel sorry for Anna.
They walked up the stairs, Anna leaning on to the railing for support, and finally got her in a room and let her lie down on the bed.
"Take care of her, will you Ed?"
Edmund nodded. Lucy left the room to search for what she thought could make Anna feel better: the healing cordial.
It was almost an hour before Lucy returned and Anna had already fallen asleep with Edmund sitting in a chair and watching her.
"Did you find it?"
"Yes, should we give it a try?"
They both nodded and Lucy let a drop of the cordial slip in Anna's slightly open lips. Soon, Anna's expression relaxed. Lucy and Edmund sighed in relief.
"Let's let her sleep for a while."
"I'll leave a note for her on the bedside table." Lucy said as she grabbed something to write on.
Lucy placed the note beside the candle and left for her own room. Edmund followed after taking one last glance at Anna. Her face was no longer distraught and she was sleeping very peacefully. He closed the door quietly, so as to not wake her up.
Anna woke up to a dimly lit room. She wasn't in her room. She slowly started to remember what had happened. There were trees and they walked up stairs in some old castle like building. She looked around. The room looked like it could be of a castle with the big bed she was lying in and an antique looking chair and desk. The light seemed to be coming from the candle on the bedside table. By the candle was a note with writing that looked familiar.
'Anna, I hope you are feeling well. I'm in the room on the right and Ed is across from yours if you need us. -Lucy'
Anna decided to go find Lucy since she had been the one to leave the note. She walked out of her room to find herself in a hallway, also dimly lit by candle light. Then she realized she didn't know to which right Lucy was referring to since there were doors on either side of her room. She decided to go to Edmund's room instead. This she knew for sure must have been his room since there was a similar door right across from her room.
She tried knocking. No answer.
"Edmund?"
She tried turning the doorknob which surprisingly was not locked.
When she peeked inside she saw Edmund sitting at his desk reading something intently.
"Edmund?" She tried again.
He looked up this time startled, then smiled to see it was Anna.
"Anna, how are you feeling?"
"What happened? Where are we?"
Edmund let out a laugh. Anna didn't answer his question but she seemed well enough to be asking questions.
"Well," he started to tell her about Narnia and a little about how he had been here before. He didn't expect Anna to believe him instantly and was getting himself ready for more questions to follow but she sat down on his bed and stayed quiet.
"How are you feeling?"
Anna thought for a moment, then realized that she felt normally healthy for the first time in a while.
"Fine, like normal fine."
Edmund smiled.
"Lucy gave you a drop of her healing cordial that I just told you about. It must have worked."
Anna looked at him wide eyed, surprised that anything like that could actually exist.
"So I'm not dreaming all of this? My sickness isn't making me have weird dreams?"
Edmund shook his head, smiling.
She stared off into space trying to process what he had just told her. He walked over to her and sat on the bed facing towards her.
He looked into her candle lit warm, coffee brown eyes. He realized that she didn't have the crease in her eyebrows that he had gotten to know when she was having a 'sick' day.
"Do you believe me?"
She came back into the moment and stared at Edmund instead of through him.
"I guess so. If I didn't, I would be in denial since we're actually living it, right?"
He smiled. He liked how she thought of things. She was a little different from others he knew, but in a good way. She always seemed to be seeing the light in every situation.
"You should get some more sleep."
Edmund stood up and stuck his hand out for her to take. She took it and let go as soon as she was standing. He walked her over to her room and opened the door for her.
"I'll see you in the morning, right?"
"Of course"
"Good night then, Edmund."
"Good night, Anna."
