When Edmund opened his eyes, laying in the ruins of Hogwarts, Hermione wasn't by his side. No one was by his side, for that matter. He got up, disoriented.

"Ed!" A familiar voice suddenly called.

He turned his eyes to the voice, and before he could do anything, Peter was holding him in his arms.

"Okay, what did I miss?"

"Voldemort gave an ultimatum to Harry."

To Harry?! So it worked! We did it! Where is he?"

"I don't know. I saw him go upstairs. He saw Fred, and he ran away."

"Fred?"

"He got hit by a curse. He's..."

"What about Lucy?" Edmund asked urgently, before adding: "What about Susan?"

"They're making rounds in the castle to help the nurse."

"Pete, I need you to take me to the Weasleys. Quick. Where are they?"

"In the great hall, but..."

Before Peter could say anything else, Edmund was already running. Once he arrived in the great hall, he saw a gathering of ginger heads, mourning over Fred's body. He quickly went toward them. George turned teary eyes to him.

"Hey, Pervensie... Long time no see. If you wanted to talk to Fred, you're a bit too late."

"No, Georges, not necessarily. I think I can save him."

"What? What are you talking about?"

"You say you can save him?" Molly repeated in a high-pitched voice.

"Yes, Mrs Weasley. I can bring him back. Let me see him."

"Move away!" George ordered his family.

And everyone except him took a step back, giving space for Edmund to act. The young king took out the second necklace from his pocket, and put it around Fred's neck. Nothing happened. And then he heard the voice whispering again. The same voice he had heard when he had given the young man the first necklace. The same sentence.

"Death for life, blood for death."

He repeated the sentence, voicing it in a whisper, over and over again, until suddenly he understood.

"Lucy!" He exclaimed. "Lucy! Where's Lucy? She's the key. Death for life, blood for death!"

"Edmund, what are you going on about?" George asked.

"Trust me, I know what I'm doing. That voice, it's the Priestess. LUCY!"

"Edmund?" His sister's voice sounded.

"Lu, there you are! Thank god! I need your help to save him."

"What do you need?"

Her tone was serious, and she wasn't questioning his claim.

"Just your hand." He replied.

He took the medallion in his hand, and carefully ran his finger around it, until he found what he was looking for. A tiny needle. He took his sister's hand, pricked her finger, and then put the needle with her blood back in the pendant. Lucy had a gentle smile, and then walked away. The medallion started shining with a blue light, and then Fred started to breath, and to move, and finally opened his eyes.

"What's going on?" He asked with a sleepy voice.

George pushed Edmund away without consideration, and came to hold his brother in his arms, shaken by uncontrollable sobs.

"Don't you ever do that to me again, do you hear me? Never! You were dead!"

"Ouch! Easy, Georgie! My whole body aches! What do I look like?"

"You look like you're just out of your grave..." Edmund let out with a smile.

"Pervensie! Still got the same killing humour, I see!"

Molly held Edmund in her arms with all her strength, and also brought her two sons to her.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She said.

And she let them go.

"It's my sister you should thank. If she hadn't taken the curse instead of Fred in the other reality, I couldn't have brought him back. But if you really want to thank me, I'd like you both to do me a favour."

"Anything you want, Ed." George said.

"In the requirement room, there is a man who's been sleeping for the last three years. I want you to wake him up, get him away from Hogwarts, and stay with him."

"You want us out of the battle, is that it?"

"I've been told that me coming back home depends on you both staying alive, so yeah... please, stay safe."

"Then, that's the least we can do." George declared.

"You stay safe too." Fred added. "We wanna see you alive when we come back."

"Yeah. I'll do my best."

Fred had a weak smile, and then, with the help of his brother, got up, and walked toward the doors. From a distance, Edmund saw Ron and Hermione at the entrance of the great hall, and he could almost read the shock on Ron's face before his brother held him in his arms. He then saw George pointing him to Hermione, who sent the young king an astonished look, to wish he replied by a simple wave, before looking away and moving away from the family.

"Ed!" She called him a few minutes later.

"Pevensie?" Ron asked, surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"It's complicated. What's going on, now, Hermione?"

"Harry went to the forbidden forest to fight Voldemort. He's the seventh horcruxe. The one Ben... I mean the monk told me about."

"I think we both kind of knew it, didn't we?"

Hermione looked down.

"I hope he makes it back..."

"Don't worry. Aslan watches. Meanwhile, I'm gonna go find my family. You should do the same."

And he walked away, and went to find the other Pevensies. He found them by the main stairs, with Caspian.