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The next morning Caspian, Edmund, Peter and Sir Gwaine were in the training field. Peter and Edmund were duelling as Caspian and Gwaine were. Peter and Edmund, fought swiftly and smoothly with big grins on their faces until they drew as a draw. Susan walked out with Lucy both gossiping about weapons. An unusual topic for Queens. Lucy stopped at the throwing dagger targets, and Susan stopped at the archery targets as she glanced over at Caspian duelling Sir Gwaine. Both were like wild panthers unleashed from their cages. They leapt onto benches, jumped in the air bringing their swords down on each other. One would think they were really in battle if it wasn't for the grins on their faces. She couldn't help admire how his body moved whilst fighting. She heard loud girlish giggles and she saw a small group of young ladies swooning over Caspian as he won the duel knocking Gwaine flat on his back and then helping him up laughing. She huffed lightly and turned around to see Trumpkin stood next to her with his bow in hand his eyebrows raised at her. "I saw that..." he said to her and he turned to notch his arrow.

"I don't know what you are talking about." She replied coolly as she too notched hers.

"Course you don't" he said as he released his arrow hitting bulls eye.

"You know this archery range is impressive, challenges you much more than the usual target practice." She said with enthusiam, trying to aviod that subject. And she too released hers hitting dead centre.

"I'm glad you like it, I designed it me'self, "he said. He pointed over to some other targets. "See over there, those targets move at high speed, I also designed an archery horseback obstacle course. If you wish I c'uld take you one day."

"Oh DLF!" She said in awe whilst observing some of the nights use the moving targets. "Oh I could kiss you."

"That's alright, yer majesty, the people are still talkin' about your last public kiss." He said to her mischievously.

Her face dropped and she felt rather embarrassed. "Yes I erm... suppose it was rather unethical of me." She said quietly as she released another arrow hitting another bulls eye.

"Nah don't feel embarrassed,pretty boy over there enjoyed it and most of the people are fond of the idea." He said trying to ease her discomfort and she laughed.

...

Caspian and Gwaine walked over to Edmund who was having a drink. Peter was being chatted up by some ladies off to the side. Gwaine collapsed on the floor panting for breath. "You were like a raging panther." He said to Caspian, who just laughed and sat next to Edmund trying to catch his breath. Edmund handed him a waterskin and gave him a pat on the back. Caspian ran his fingers through his hair grudgingly as it kept getting in the way and he almost lost the duel because of it. "Ahhh I need a haircut." He stated.

"Hmm yeah, any longer and you'll look like a disproportionate female with a beard." Edmund joked. Caspian got him into a head lock and knuckle headed him. Edmund broke free and gave him a dead arm as they both laughed.

"Looks like Peter's got some admirers." Said Gwaine noticing how Peter held himself with a puffed out chest. Caspian and Edmund sniggered at him. Even in the golden age, Peter always enjoyed the attention of the ladies. "I don't know what your sniggering at Caspian, almost every female at the ball tomorrow will be throwing their attentions at you." Caspian paled slightly resulting in Edmund laughing harder. Caspian gave him a playful shove and grinned.

"Well I'll just have to send them in both of your directions" he said.

"I hope that's a promise." Gwaine said with a smirk as he rested his head back on the grass.

Caspian grinned and drank his water skin thirstily, and poured some over his head to cool himself down. Then he heard his favourite sound, ringing through the fields. He turned round to see Susan stood with Trumpkin at the archery range, laughing. She was dressed in a hunter green dress, designed much like the purple dress she wore when they first met. Her hair was in a messy bun, the odd strand falling down and shaping her beautiful face. Edmund crawled on the floor and lay down like Gwaine, both of them enjoying the sun. Caspian stood up and grabbed his crossbow and walked over to Susan.

...

Lucy was still hurling daggers at her targets hitting bulls eye each time. She was wearing a brown plain dress that was fashioned the same as Susan's green one in LWW. Her hair was styled the same way she wore it on the voyage. Peter walked up to her.

"Impressive." He said grinning at her.

"Thanks "she replied.

"You still remember how to sword fight?" he asked and she raised her eyebrows.

"You should have seen me fight on the lone islands" she said triumphantly.

"Let's see what you got then." He said playfully.

They both walked over to the weaponry and got Lucy a sword. She quickly turned on Peter surprising him but he easily block her blows towards him. He quickly had her fighting in defence as he instructed her best footing. She took it literally and stamped down on his foot causing him to stumble slightly, and she tapped his butt with the flat of her sword, whilst laughing at him. He gave her a goofy grin and he quickly disarmed her.

"Ohhh can you teach me that move?" she requested, grinning at him and he laughed at her amount of enthusiasm and began teaching it her.

...

Trumpkin saw Caspian approaching and he cleared his throat and said "Well, I err, think that's enough archery practice for me today." He said to Susan. She looked down at him and smiled.

"You afraid of losing to a girl DLF?" she teased, not having seen Caspian.

"Well you are the Archer Queen are you not?" Caspian said, making his presence known to her. Trumpkin nodded at them and walked towards Lucy and Peter. Susan took in the wet sight of Caspian that showed his muscles through his white shirt and water droplets dripped from his hair. He couldn't help but notice her stare and they both blushed slightly. She cleared her throat "I am rather out of practice; I intend on getting my bow calloused fingers back very soon though." She said smiling at him.

He looked towards her target which had all her arrows in bulls eye. "Not too out of practice it seems," he said motioning towards her target and she smiled gently.

"Have you been keeping practice?" she asked gesturing towards his crossbow.

"Pick a target" he said to her. They both smiled remembering the last time they were at an archery target together. She automatically pointed high up in a distant tree. "It's not an acorn is it?" he asked her playfully.

She smiled at him. "You remember..." she said gently.

He looked down into her eyes, "I remember every moment, with you." And she smiled beautifully up at him causing his heart to skip a beat.

"I do too..." she said to him quietly. And he smiled gently at her. He turned and aimed at the tree she pointed at.

"Which one would you like me to shoot?" he asked still looking at the tree. She moved to his side and lifted his crossbow as she did the last time. He felt her body lightly press against his and his eyes flickered to her. She looked back at him with flirtatious eyes and said. "That one." He swallowed hard and his eyes flickered to her lips but he managed to quickly pull himself together and he looked at where he was now aiming. He was in full concentration and Susan watched intrigued as to whether or not he would hit the pine cone this time. He squeezed the trigger and it went through the pine cone and landed in the ground. They both smiled.

"You've been practicing." She said smiling.

"Well you did rather bruise my ego the last time you challenged me." said Caspian in a sympathetic tone.

She smiled mischievously back at him "Awww, you poor King." She teased and he raised his eyebrows at her grinning.

"Indeed, I had to train hard to earn at least some of it back." He said and she laughed.

"Well it seems to have paid off. I'm impressed." She praised.

"Now your turn..." he said to her.

...

Peter was now sat resting on a bench watching Susan and Caspian, with Edmund lay on the floor next to him.

"She's going to get hurt." Said Peter with a sigh. Edmund didn't even need to look up to ask what he was talking about.

"Kings travelled from afar begging for her hand and she never had any feelings for her like she does for Caspian, Peter. We know Caspian and he's better than all of them idiots put together. I know he would rather gouge his eyes out than hurt Susan. Not to mention he knows we would both kill him if he did, King or not." Edmund said, in a rather bored tone.

"We don't know why we are here yet or if we are staying for good. You know what it did to her the last time she was forced to say goodbye to Narnia and to him. If we have to leave again I'm not sure if she'll come back from it." Peter said as he ran a hand through his hair. "Plus there's tomorrow night's ball..."

Edmund propped himself up on his elbows and snorted, "For three years all the women have thrown themselves or have been thrown at him and all he could say to me about the matter, was that not one of them compared to Susan. He only agreed to the ball because Narnia would be under threat if he didn't have an heir, you where at the council meeting, you saw how reluctant he was to the entire situation. Do you really think that he will just marry some random woman? Especially now that Susan is back in his life."

"But for how long Ed? Trust me I hate that thought as much as you do, Susan might act like she's not thought about it but we both know she can't help herself, she won't stay this happy and free spirited for much longer. Her fear and doubts will continue to grow inside her damn logical brain and she will put those barriers back up and her heart will grow cold again." Said Peter with a heavy sigh.

"Well your negative energy won't help anyone. We have to have faith Peter, I know we have never stayed before, but we weren't supposed to return and yet here we are and Caspian has rebuilt or home. I will do as much as I can to help her, but she opens up to him. He's good for her Pete, the more time she spends with him the more she follows her heart and not her head, and she becomes the real Susan we knew in the golden age. She clearly feels he's worth that risk, so let her take it Peter otherwise she will hold it against you." And he stood and walked off, heading toward Susan and Caspian leaving Peter to his thoughts.