Final Chapter. I really hoped you enjoyed reading it and I hope that you didn't find my writing too boring, my story incredibly boring. Also please excuse my awful writing - halfway I kind of realised how bad my stroy was, but any way. Here you are and goodbye.


Chapter 12 – Lost

There was that awkward moment between them when they recognised each other, but it was broken by Tethat hugging Peter and nuzzeling her cold wet face into his warm chest. Peter, startled by her physical contact slowly put his arms around her and held her like that.

They staid like that for a long time while Peter brushed her hair with his hand. The sun rose and they sat down together, never letting each other go. Tethat put her head on Peter's lap and closed her eyes. She heard Peter's breathing and felt his hand caressing his face.

"I love you." She whispered. Peter smiled and replied.

"I love you too."

They were happy there, content. They didn't want to let each other go. But they had to stand up and leave. When they returned they found Ogni alive and well. Apparently he had drifted into a sleep but Aslan had woken him up and now felt young and rejuvenated.

Everything was set right on the island and Peter insured this by going to every single household and turning their allegiances to Narnia. His days were busy but so were Tethat's.

She was no longer looked down upon. She was a friend of the High King and everybody respected her. But she did not welcome the attention. She still liked to remain in the shadows. Tethat still liked to run through the forests and let her hair flutter in the wind. She loved to spend her days watching the sun set by her secret place.

At first Peter would always accompany her there and they would sit in silence. But as they days passed, and as the months passed Peter came less and less. He spoke less and every day he would come home more tired, until finally he left.

Peter returned to Cair Paravel and Tethat stayed on the island helping Ogni in hi daily chores. Peter and Tethat corresponded for a while by letters but these letters became formal and were sent less frequently. Time passed and Tethat grew into a fine young woman. She was quite the talk of the island.

One day she went down to shore and net a fisherman from Calormen. He was very polite and quiet. Tethat fell in love with him and soon they married. Later that year Peter came back. He was very polite and courteous to both Tethat and her husband but they all seemed uncomfortable. Neither Tethat nor Peter spoke of their past relationship, that was all forgotten.

Peter left and Tethat soon found she was pregnant. She bore her husband's first child. It was a young girl that looked identical to her father. She was called Azim after the city that Tethat's husband considered to be most beautiful in the world.

Several years later Tethat found that once again she was pregnant. Her Husband set out the next day to Narnia to buy a grand gift for their baby when it was born. However he was caught up in a storm and his ship was crashed upon the rocks and so he drowned.

When this news reached Tethat she cried but the tears seemed forced and she did not feel as sad as she should have felt. Many condolences were sent to her including one from Peter. He hoped that she was well and he said he was planning a visit to come and see her. He never fulfilled his promise.

She grew very close to Ogni during this period and whenever she was so sad she would just go to him and he would comfort her.

The months passed and her stomach grew ever larger. When she was eight months pregnant news came of the monarch's disappearance. Tethat did find this out until one day she went down to the market and was buying some cotton to make some clothes for her child. She however bumped into Cora who told her everything.

Tethat fainted there and then and had to be carried back home by some store owners. Cora accompanying her the whole way, told Ogni what had happened and indeed Ogni was very sad. As the days went past Tethat would spend every minute in her secret place. She told herself that somebody had no doubt kidnapped the Kings and Queens and they would surely return, but deep in her heart she knew this not to be true.

She tried to cry herself to sleep at night but found herself too sad to shed a tear. Peter's disappearance had stirred old feelings inside her. Her sadness for Peter's disappearance was greater than her sadness for her own husband's death.

She loved Peter and she couldn't exist without him. The only thing that kept her alive now was the child growing in her womb, the child of a man that she thought she loved. She would leave this child to Ogni so that it would grow up with a good honest man and not a traitor.

Azim tried to help her mother and comfort her, but every time Tethat looked into her eyes she saw her dead husband. Most people thought that the grief of her dead husband mixed with the grief of loosing such a great friend had driven her to this delirious stage.

Oh but they were wrong. Tethat did grieve her husband but Peter was driving her mad. Every day she would think of him and think of her love for him. When the baby was finally born it was a fair skinned boy, she considered this boy far more beautiful than Azim although many people were of a different opinion. This boy showed no traits of its father and was shy, calm and brave much like its mother.

Tethat called this child Peter. She looked after it for several months so that it was healthy and in a good state. One day when Peter was asleep in Ogni's arms and Azim was playing outside Tethat said she was going for a walk.

That night Tethat did not come back and Ogni sent out a lookout party for her but they never found her. Years passed and neither the monarchs nor Tethat were ever found again.

THE END


Typing those last two words was kinda sad. Oh well.