Hey guys! Sorry it's been a while I think... This chapter is just really blah to me but I was kind of stuck and I had to get them to Archenland and this is what came out when I sat down to write... Thank you everyone who has alerted/favortied this story and thank you princess emma of narnia, Lady Firewing, and EdmundsGirl1985 for reviewing on the last chapter! So review please guys everyone, ya know push the button and tell me what you think and what you want to see! Thanks love ya!


(it's ridiculous)

It's been months

And for some reason I just

(can't get over us)

And I'm stronger than this

(enough is enough)

No more walking round

With my head down I'm so over being blue

Crying over you
And I'm so sick of love songs

So tired of tears

So done with wishing you were still here

Said I'm so sick of love songs so sad and slow

So why can't I turn off the radio?

So Sick, Ne-Yo

Susan stood next to Devlyn watching the strange interactions between the others. They had just set up camp for the night and one would've expected Arianna and Peter as well as Elyra and Edmund laughing and joking about the fire but that was not the case. Peter sat on one side of the fire with Edmund both quietly discussing something, both looking slightly upset and, Arianna sat on the other side staring into the fire sadly whilst her sister continued to glare at the High King. Lucy and Elijah were getting themselves soup and having what seemed to be a quiet conversation not wanting to interrupt the unnatural silence. Susan turned quickly to Devlyn.

"How do we fix this?" she asked. Devlyn sighed softly having been thinking the same thing.

"Truthfully," he started, "I don't think we can. This one is all up to Peter. Knowing Arianna's ability to hold grudges it's going to take a while for her to forgive him." he told the Queen.

"She forgave you." Susan argued.

"Yes, but only because Aslan told her to, and even then it took years before you arrived and she did finally forgive me. You have to realize, Su, that I put her through hell. Aside from Aslan I was the person she trusted most in the world and trust is a major thing with her. Then when you lot arrived and I saw how she was interacting with Peter I knew right then that things with him would be different. Even then she looked at him differently then she had ever looked at me. He had her trust from the moment they met and that is a near impossible thing to happen with her." Devlyn explained. Susan watched Devlyn and the way that he talked of his friend, his sister, his ex fiancé and wondered if any feelings were still there.

"Do you still love her?" Susan asked softly. Devlyn smiled at her.

"As a sister yes, I do. But that's all I see her as anymore. I've got my eye on someone else." he stated winking at her. Susan blushed and looked away.

"Well I'm going to retire to my tent for the night." she stood. "Goodnight Devlyn." she smiled. He nodded and returned the smile.

"Goodnight Your Majesty." After the Gentle Queen had left Devlyn turned back to watch the group around the fire and noticed something Arianna had said just sparked more of Elyra's little temper and she looked as if she were about to castrate, maybe even kill Peter. Hmm that is not good, he thought to himself. He stood and quickly walked over to the two Kings. He sat next to Edmund and leaned close whispering softly.

"So I'm pretty sure Elyra's about to attack Peter, maybe go and take her to spar or something, help her let out some anger." Devlyn suggested. Edmund looked to his friend and nodded quickly going and retrieving her. Arianna still didn't look up from the fire and Peter sighed watching her.

"I've got to fix this with her." Peter mumbled, before getting up and retiring to his tent for the night.

"Are you going to bed, Ari?" Devlyn asked.

"I've got to take the first watch." she said.

"I'll do it, your head isn't in the right place at the moment. Go get some rest I'll wake you up later." Devlyn told her.

"No this is my job, I can't let my personal feelings get in the way." she said stubbornly.

"Then stop letting them. This last day and a half, all the ignoring and brooding and snarky comments. They are unneeded." He said softly. "The Arianna I know wouldn't let this happen. She'd get pissed and yell at whoever had her mad, not just shut everyone out and brood like me. That's what I do when I'm mad, not you. Your temper is what makes you, you and you've got me worried right now, you've got Susan worried and you've got Peter worried."

"I don't care if he's worried about me. Really he should be scared of me. You're right, this isn't me. Just give me tonight, I'll be back to normal tomorrow." She stated before she walked off towards her room.

"This is going to be interesting." he said smirking.

"Really Dev, really? I wanted to see her come out of this on her own. Let's not encourage her temper, she might just actually set Peter on fire." Elyra said from behind him. He jumped and smirked at the girl.

"Sorry, but you know I'm right. Especially with us being on this trip and being almost to Archenland we need her at her best, and well she's at her best when she's normal, not all broody."

The next morning Arianna was the first one up having relieved Devlyn of his duties, and she had, had a lot of time to think some things through. Once the others were up and seated around the small fire eating breakfast she cleared her throat. Everyone turned to look at her.

"I want to apologize for how I've been behaving these last few days." she said.

"Don't worry, Ari, you were upset, it's fine." Lucy told her with a smile.

"Thank you Lucy, but it's not fine. I let personal feelings get in the way and I'm lucky there were no attacks from Witch supporters, because my head was not in the right place at all. So I'm sorry. I won't let personal feelings get in the way any longer." she said glancing at Peter out of the corner of her eye. Elijah opened his mouth to tell her not to worry about it, but he was pushed off of the log he was sitting on by his brother.

"Don't argue, how often does Arianna apologize? When she does it's best not to argue, because you will lose little brother, you know this." Devlyn told Elijah after being shot a scathing look. Lucy giggled at the look on her friends face as he grumbled and returned to his spot.

"You really don't have anything to apologize for, Arianna." Peter stated. She sighed.

"Yes I do, I also need to apologize for the way I blew up at you back at the castle."

"What!" The others exclaimed. Peter just looked confused.

"No you-" Arianna cut him off.

"Yes, yes I do. You are a grown boy, a King no less and you can make your own decisions and decide to do whatever it is that you please. You and I aren't courting so you can do what ever you wish with a woman and I should just stay out of it. It's not my business." The girl said though it was tearing her up inside.

"Arianna, I understand why it was that you got that upset, had the situation been reversed I would have done something more than likely worse then just yelling at you, I would most likely have fought the man." Peter said standing up.

"Yes well we aren't together Peter, and I have been doing some thinking and I'm not sure if we ever should be." Arianna yelled standing also. Peter took a step back shocked.

"Wha- Why?" he asked. Arianna sighed and turned around walking away.

"I don't want to talk about this right now in front of everyone." she said. Peter strode forward and grabbed her arm.

"Well that's to bad because I want to talk about it now." he said.

"You really want to know why? I'll tell you, because if you and I become something more it will become increasingly harder for me to keep my personal feelings out of the battle field or a fight with any enemy and it will distract me from my duty to keep you and your siblings safe. What happens if we are in a battle and my feelings cause me to pay closer attention to you than all the others and in that time frame something happens to one of them. I would never forgive myself, I would have failed my duty to Aslan, and you would never forgive me. I have to be worried about all of you. Not just you, granted you are the High King and will have the most threats but I need to worry for the others also. Not to mention worrying about my own siblings on top of that. Falling in love can be a great thing, but in all honesty there is no place for it in my life. Plus I'm actually kind of sick of it. It's so much work, and there's tears and sadness and lots of time involved; time that I could spend doing my job rather than just waiting to get my heart broken again." Arianna ranted. "Everyone please pack up once you're done eating, we should head out, if we leave within the hour we should arrive by around midday." Arianna said before heading to gather her things. Peter just stared after her completely heart broken. Is this how she felt the other day? He wondered vaguely.

"Way to go Devlyn." Elyra hissed.

"I didn't tell her to do that, I just told her to stop brooding. It's his own fault I said not to argue when she was apologizing." Devlyn mumbled back. Elyra and Elijah proceeded to push him off of the log.

After packing up the group headed out and like Arianna predicted they reached the Archenland border around midday and were escorted to the castle by about 10 castle guards. Arianna immediately struck up a conversation with one that was about two years her elder and was quite handsome. Peter developed a sinking suspicion that she did it to make him jealous but he couldn't be sure. He just glared at the back of the man's head and rode on in silence, at least until his sister started scolding him.

"Peter Pevensie, you knock it off this instant." Susan chastised. He then turned his glare on his sister.

"Leave me alone." he muttered.

"Don't you start that now. She has a right to make whatever decision she pleases and you need to respect that. She's doing what she feels is right." Susan said gently.

"But it isn't right. It's not fair to either of us. I love her Susan, I completely screwed up but I love her and I wanted to fix things but how will I be able to if she doesn't want to be with me and has such logical reasons to back her up?" Peter asked. Susan sighed.

"Just give her time and try to at least win back her friendship. Don't pressure her, just let her come to you. She's hurting that's all it is."

"No it's not. She meant everything she said earlier today, you couldn't see it, but I could it showed in her eyes."

"She loves you too, Pete. Like Susan said just give her some time." Devlyn said coming up next to the two siblings.

"Start trying to win back her friendship again, you said? Alright." Peter said before riding up farther towards Arianna.

"You know if he wasn't a King she'd hit him right now." Devlyn stated. Susan giggled and the two continued to make small talk on the way to the castle.