Hey, guys. I'm...BACK! I finally found the movie at Wal-Mart! On discount! YAY! I should now be able to update quite regularly. Thanks for reading this story and loving it so much, guys. I mean, come on, 1,217 views?! That's awesome! And not even two months in. And I've received views from over 20 countries. So thank you all! But enough of my rambling. Here's chapter 6 of A Diamond In The Rough. P.S. I kinda gave up on the whole British term thing. :)
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(Peter's P.O.V)
When we arrived in Susan and Lucy's room, there was a radio broadcast playing about the air raids. Susan saw Edmund and I enter and quickly turned it off. Lucy let out a little sob from her bed. "The sheets feel scratchy," she said.
"Wars don't last forever, Lucy." said Susan with a smile. "We'll be home soon."
"Yeah," Ed piped up. "If home's still there." He chuckled to himself.
"Isn't it time you were in bed?" Susan sighed.
"Yes, Mum," Edmund said sarcastically.
"Ed." I scolded. I turned back to my youngest sister. "You saw outside," I said. "This place is huge! We can do whatever we want here. Tomorrow's gonna be great. Really."
However, it was the opposite of great. All four of us woke up to pouring rain. We were all in a parlor with Lucy staring out the window, Ed laying on the floor, and Susan quizzing myself on the roots of big words. "Gastrovascular," she said, earning nothing from me. "C'mon Peter, gastrovascular."
I gave a sigh. "Was it Latin?"
"Yes," she said, rather annoyed.
"Is it Latin for worst game ever invented?' Ed said playfully while he sat up. Even I had to chuckle at my little brother. Susan slammed the heavy dictionary shut.
"We could play 'hide-and-seek'," Lucy suggested, coming over to us.
"But we're already having so much fun." I said sarcastically.
"Come on, Peter, please!" Lucy begged, slightly pulling on my arm. "Pretty please." I looked at her and smiled.
"One, two, three, four," I started to count, earning a What? from Edmund and an eye-roll from Susan. I walked to a cabinet and covered my eyes before counting to 100.
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(Third Person P.O.V)
The three remaining Pevensie siblings all looked around for different places to hide throughout the enormous mansion. Susan hid in a trunk, Edmund hid in a closet and that left Lucy to look for a different place to hide. She went from door to door, but they were all locked. Until she came to one that wasn't. She opened the door and entered the room, only to immediately become transfixed on the object that was draped with a white sheet. The girl closed the door and walked towards the sheet. With one majestic sweep, the sheet fell to reveal a wooden wardrobe. Lucy opened the door and saw nothing but some fur coats. Perfect.
She stepped inside and closed the door, leaving it open a crack. She knew it was very foolish to shut oneself in a wardrobe. She continued to walk backwards so she could hide among the coats. Lucy held her hands out so she could feel the back wall of the wardrobe, but she didn't. She withdrew her hands the instant the touched something. Something...cold? Lucy slowly turned around, and was awestruck at what she saw. There before her was a mystical wood of evergreen trees, completely covered in snow and ice. The girl walked through the woods, catching snowflakes in her hands and gazing at her surroundings with astonishment. She walked through the woods a little ways more before she saw the strangest thing. She gazed up at a black iron lamppost, and she saw that there was a beautiful golden butterfly inside, but the strange thing was that it wasn't burning. It was very much alive. She was looking at the creature in so much depth that she all but jumped at the sound of a snapping twig. She looked all around for what made the noise before hearing tromping footsteps. She turned around and saw a very strange looking creature. The girl screamed and hid behind the lamppost, and the creature hid behind a tree.
Lucy noticed he had dropped his parcels, so she came out from her hiding place and picked up one of the packages. The creature made a sound and tried to speak. He came out from behind the tree, pointing his umbrella and stuttering. Lucy looked down at his feet, and saw he had the hooves and legs of a goat. "Were you hiding from me?" she asked.
"No," the creature replied as he moved to pick up another parcel. "I just didn't want to scare you."
"If you don't mind my asking," Lucy said. "What are you?"
"Well, I'm a faun," the creature said as if Lucy should of known that. "And what about you? You must be some kind of...beardless dwarf?"
"I'm not a dwarf." Lucy replied. "I'm a girl!" The faun looked back up, shocked. "And actually I'm tallest in my class." Lucy bragged, handing him his last package.
"You mean to say, that you're a Daughter of Eve?" said the faun.
"Well my Mum's name is Helen-"
"Yes, but you are in fact...human?"
"Yes, of course." said Lucy.
"What are you doing here?" asked the faun.
"Well," said Lucy. "I was hiding in the wardrobe in the spare room, and-"
"Spare Oom?" the faun interrupted. "Is that in Narnia?"
"Narnia?" asked Lucy. "What's that?"
"Well, dear girl, you're in it," the faun chuckled. "Everything from the lamppost, all the way to castle Cair Paravel on the Eastern Ocean. Every stick and stone you see, every icicle, is Narnia."
"This is an awfully big wardrobe." Lucy whispered.
"Oh, I didn't properly introduce myself," said the faun. "My name is Tumnus."
"Pleased to meet you Mr. Tumnus," said Lucy before introducing herself and sticking out her hand. "You shake it," she said, since Mr. Tumnus didn't know what to do.
"Why?" he asked.
"I don't know. People do it when they meet each other."
The faun shook it and laughed.
"Well, Lucy Pevensie from the shining city of War Drobe, in the wondrous land of Spare Oom, how would it be, if you came and tea with me?" he asked, holding up his umbrella.
"Well thank you very much, but I should probably be getting back." Lucy replied.
"It just around the corner," begged Mr. Tumnus. "And there'll be a roaring fire with toast, and tea, and cakes, and perhaps, we can even break into the sardines."
"I don't know."
"Come on. It's not everyday I get to make a new friend." The girl gave in.
"Well," said Lucy. "I suppose I could come for a little while." She linked arms with her new friend. "If you have...sardines"
"By the bucketload." chuckled the faun. Arm in arm, the two new friends then went to Mr. Tumnus's cave for tea.
