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Author's Note: Okay, this was originally intended to be a prequel to Keeping the Faith and Learning to Walk Blindfolded (which I promise I'm working on ::grins::); now, though, I'm thinking this will be a standalone (and multi-chapter) fic. Don't know. We'll see. I can't promise I'll be updating regularly—as seems to be the case these days, I'm working on all of my fics sporadically, when I have the time, or when I just need to get away from Grad School and everything that comes with it. I hope you enjoy!

Rating: T

Summary: Edmund learns what it really means to love…(Book and Moviebased) (NO Slash)

"Speech"

/Personal Thoughts/

Memories/Quotes (Italics)

All Things Have Their Time

By Sentimental Star

Prologue: On the Nature of Learning and Time

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace—Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

(Spring 1946, England)

It was both a gift and a curse that the Pevensie siblings felt so deeply, far more deeply than many of their age-mates. It hadn't always been that way, and especially not for Edmund.

He knew when it had started—when things had gone so wrong that they just had to go right. /Of course,/ he reflected wryly, sitting on the edge of his older brother's bed and watching Peter, back home in Finchley for a short visit from the university, sleep, /it's my own fault that they went wrong in the first place.../

Tbc.