Dan watched as the guard started to reach after Susan. Her sudden hug had startled everyone in the room. The royal one made a motion for the guard not to interfere.

The boy so pointedly dubbed Peter stroked Susan's hair in a comforting fashion. It appeared calm her but she still had tears streaming from her eyes and didn't seem to be willing to let go of Peter any time soon. To Dan it might have been an eternity as she stood watching. Part of her wanted to be jealous of Susan who got to hug such an attractive young man. She understood though that Peter was probably the reason when Dan met Susan that she had been crying.

"Shh," Peter whispered to Susan soothingly. "I'm not going to vanish."

Susan loosened her grip on her brother so she could get a better look at his face. Then she took a slow step back, releasing him in the process. The world had vanished around her. Her big brother was there now. She was safe. He could protect her no matter what threatened. She tried to wipe the tears from her face, but they wouldn't stop.

"The train…" Susan whispered once she had control of her voice again. She was hesitant-afraid that mentioning the accident would make him disappear. She wasn't sure she could find him again. Susan didn't really know how she found him this time.

"Derailed and killed everyone in its path and on in." Peter finished for her, his voice soft and tender.

"But you're standing right in front of me!" Susan found her strength again. Her pure happiness from finding her big brother was giving way to the anger and frustration from earlier in the day.

"There's a lot to explain. I think the full account should wait till Lucy and Edmond can add their parts as well."

"Lucy and Edmond!" Susan cried tears streaming down even harder than before.

"Yes and they're on their way here. In the mean time I think there need to be some introductions." Peter gestured over to royal one and continued adding a regal tone to his calming voice. "This is Prince Aidan, heir to his father King Shea of Tialg."

Peter than placed his arm around Susan's shoulders giving her a comforting squeeze and addressed the Prince and the others around the strategizing table in a quite regal tone. "This is our sister Susan, sometime Queen under us in Narnia, Duchess of Glasswater Creek, Countess of the Southern Mountains, and lady of Cair Paravel."

The Prince bowed low to Susan and Susan responded with a beautiful curtsey. The Prince smiled a majestic but attractive smile at her as she curtsied. She almost didn't notice that Peter had continued on to the rest and she almost missed greeting the first General. There were two. One was very sturdy in stature and had a ragged almost unkind face atop hardly any neck. He was the Commodore of the War ships and went by the name of Moriarty. The second was called Duke Quilan and was introduced as the Prince's Uncle as well as the commander of the troops on land. The Duke was taller than his naval counterpart but wore many scars on his bare arms and long, angular face.

"Now Susan," Peter said slightly less regal in his tone now. "Who is your companion?"

In Susan's joy she had completely forgotten about Dan and almost asked what companion. She glanced in Dan's direction and it all came back to her very quickly. Susan made a face of annoyance.

"I'm Danielle," Dan said from where she was still captive under the guard's strong grip. The guard let go and she made a slight show of standing up straight. Then since she didn't know how to curtsey she bowed in the Elizabethan manner instead although slightly clumsily.

"She was the one who blew my horn." Susan explained with a tone of frustration in her voice.

"Well I didn't know that it would actually summon people. Or that there were even people here," Dan cut in defensively.

"Well of course it would bring someone," Peter replied laughing. "It's a magical horn."

Susan for the first time since her arrival wanted to admonish her brother for talking magic and Narnia. She wasn't so sure about her resolve that magic wasn't real anymore. If magic was real then she really was with her older brother and her younger siblings were coming to her. If magic wasn't real then this was all a dream and she was all alone again. Susan wasn't sure she could handle being alone.

She grabbed Peter's hand to reassure herself with physical touch.

"You're a friend of Susan's from school are you?" Peter inquired with uncertainty laced in his words.

"No. Not gonna lie. Never even seen her till just before the horn incident." Dan gestured with both hands actively as she spoke.

"She's American," Susan explained smartly.

"I should have guessed from her speech," Peter chuckled.

"American?" The Prince cut in.

"America is a country in the same world as our own," Peter clarified.

"World?" Dan exclaimed furrowing her eyebrows with worry.

"You're in another world," Peter explained as if this was something Dan should be excited about.

"And who are you? All knowledgeable one." Dan locked her eyes with Peter waiting for an answer. Her accusation laced with sarcasm.

"By the gift of Aslan, by election, by prescription and by conquest, High King over all Kings in Narnia, Emperor of the Lone Islands, Lord of Cair Paravel, and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion." He matched her sarcasm with his full formal title and almost mocking her with his imperial stance and manner.

"I refuse to call you that," Dan replied with a sigh, and proceeded to mutter something under her breath that almost sounded like. "That's hot."

"Peter Pevensie." He offered the hand that was not preoccupied with Susan's clutching grip.

Susan set her jaw as her older brother almost flirted with the obnoxious little blonde.

"If it pleases your majesties to carry on with the planning, I think we should continue where we left off." Susan's thoughts were interrupted with the rough voice of Moriarty.

"Yes," responded Prince Aidan with a nod but then he turned to Susan smiling. "We should see our guests taken care of first. Captain Niall if you would see them fed and shown to my sister's tent to rest in."

"Yes sir," The dark haired captain opened the tent flap to girls to go out.

Susan looked up at her brother not wanting to leave him. Her face spoke her plea in such a way that Peter knew her meaning.

"I'll come to you when we're finished here. I promise it won't be long." Peter pulled her into a strong hug before sending her after Dan who was getting ready to exit.

Dan gave a congeal wave to everyone and winked at Peter before sweeping out of the tent.

Susan was upset about having to leaver her brother's presence but she couldn't understand why Dan was getting special treatment as well. She wasn't a queen of Narnia and certainly wasn't special at all. Susan certainly didn't like at all the way she spoke to Peter.

"Wow," Dan said in a way it was almost a muttered exclamation if that makes any sense.

Susan ignored her.

"So, what's for dinner?" Dan asked the captain instead.

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Well I'm sorry that this took so long to write. I'm a junior in high school doing my freshman year of college onto of being on a competitive gymnastics team. It makes life busy. I love all the reviews I'm getting. Amazing. Thanks for all the support. And I promise everything will be explained soon. Oh Yes and I'm playing with the cannon a bit but that's what fanfiction is so whatever. On a last note I took Peter's titles from Prince Caspian and used altered his introduction of Edmond for Susan. Plus I really wanted to use the Royal We, because it's entertaining.