A/N ok, here's another chapter, please enjoy it, things are going to start focusing more on the war and the relationship between Peter and Rebecca, i promise, soon.
Your Author in Training,
havah
Peter wasn't full out grinning, but he had a nice smile on his face. Rebecca was blushing, and she had a very thin smile on. "Well, um…that was, well, why does this keep happening?" asked Rebecca after a few minutes of thinking. This was the 2nd time that they have kissed accidentally; maybe it wasn't quite as accidental this time.
"I don't really know, it just seems to, I-"Peter stopped himself before he could ramble on about nothing. Rebecca looked both amused, and slightly pained. "Are you alright?" asked Peter, switching to concern.
"Yeah, I'm fine, I just don't think that I should be doing this, I mean, you're the high king of Narnia, and I almost killed you, a couple of times!" Said Rebecca, putting great emphasis on Peter's status as king.
"I am the high king, but not by anything short of being born a human, and happening to enter Narnia, I didn't earn this, I'm no more a king then you are a queen," said Peter. He didn't want to loose Rebecca, as a friend, or anything else. There was an attraction between them that he didn't want to loose. "Besides, I kissed you, you didn't just kiss me!" Peter realized the truth in this, and he wanted to make it known to her that he cared.
"Yes, well, I think that you deserve to be king. You are brave, and you love Narnia. You earned, you just don't see it I guess. I'm sorry if I'm becoming angry, it's just that, well, this is a whole new experience for me." Rebecca smiled at Peter, and giggled shyly at having admitted her lack of romantic experience.
"Oh, and you think I have had an experience like this? I have nothing to compare this to. Every since coming to Narnia nothing has been the same, and when I go back home, it's still going to be different," said Peter, for the first time mentioning returning to his home.
"You plan on leaving Narnia? When? How?" asked Rebecca. She had never really planned on leaving, but without Peter and the other Pevensies was there really any point to staying?
"Well of course I do, but not until I get much older here," said Peter.
"Wait, but it won't be odd to have grown up in Narnia, then go home fully grown, and live as an adult in the human world?" asked Rebecca, not quite sure of how this worked.
"No, when I go back I'll still be young," said Peter, he knew from Lucy's experiences that no time has passed while they are in Narnia, so he knew that he could back and be young again, kind of live two lives.
"How?" asked Rebecca. All of a sudden it hit Peter, Rebecca didn't know that they weren't losing any time here.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think that you wouldn't know, no time at all is passing at home while we are here. When we go back, it will be as though we never left," explained Peter, trying hard not to sound rude.
"Oh, well, that's a bit confusing, but I guess that it makes sense. May I ask, what if one of us were to die here?" asked Rebecca, wondering what would happen then, and also if they went back, would they loose their feelings for each other?
"If you die here, it will be as though you never existed in the other world. The only people who will remember you are the ones in Narnia that have gone back to the human world. We will remember all of our experiences still," explained Peter. We will also remember our feelings from Narnia! Thought Peter, the same thing on his mind as Rebecca's. "You could come back with us when we go, I guess, and then we could help you find your fa- foster parents," said Peter, catching himself before he mentioned family.
"I don't want to go back to my foster family. I think that I'm going to stay here, and die here when the time is right," said Rebecca, there was no one outside of Narnia who cared about her, in fact, she was pretty sure that Peter was the first person who had ever really looked inside of her.
"Why? You could have another life, another chance, and a whole bunch of advanced knowledge. We will probably do quite well when we re-enter the human world, as long as we keep our experience on the quiet side, and don't flaunt our knowledge," said Peter. When they got back to the human world, they would have the knowledge of Narnian adults.
"I don't have anyone outside of Narnia that cares about me. I'm just a nuisance for a bunch of social workers and foster families. Unlike you, I have no siblings, no friends, no home and I'm, never mind," said Rebecca, stopping before she said to much, she revealed enough of what she was thinking already, too much would be bad.
"I'm sure that someone cares for you, besides, if you went back with us, you would have four friends, Lu, Ed and Susan like you, and I think you can probably tell that I care for you," said Peter. "You could either live with us, or with the Professor that we are staying with. I think that he has been to Narnia before. He is very nice, he has been watching over us while the war is going on, and I don't think that he would mind having you for at least until we go home, and I dare say our mother wouldn't mind having you."
This was the first time that Rebecca had felt that someone actually cared what her life was going to be like. She couldn't even begin to express how much she would like going to live with the Professor or the Pevensies, but she didn't want to sound eager, for there were other reasons that she couldn't go back, and anything could still happen in Narnia.. They still had a war to fight, and wars kill, just like in the human world. "I wouldn't want to be any trouble, but I will think about it. We still have a war to fight," said Rebecca.
"Oh, may I ask you something about the war?" asked Peter
"Yes, of course," said Rebecca.
"I don't want Lucy to fight in any battles, because we need at least one of to live and go back to mother. I want you to look after her, and if I die, and especially if Ed, Susan and I all die, I want you to take her back home. I want you to go live with mother and Lu. Can you promise me to do that?" asked Peter.
"You mean to say that I am not to fight in the battle?" asked Rebecca, both relieved and hurt. She wasn't very able, or ready to fight, but she didn't want Peter to think that she was weak.
"I don't want you, or Ed or Susan or Lu to fight, because I care about you to much. Ed and Susan have minds of their own, and there's nothing that I can do about them, but Lu will understand, and I really want her to have someone. It's not that I don't think that you are capable," said Peter, reading Rebecca's mind, "It's just that I don't want anyone to be alone, and I want Lu to go back home, even if I can't go with her." As Peter finished, Rebecca understood even further the deep caring that Peter was capable of giving.
"I promise you that I will, at all costs, even death, look after Lucy. Please though, in war, be careful, don't leave her, or me, alone," said Rebecca.
"You will not be alone if you have each other. I will try to win, and to survive, but I will do what I must for Narnia." Peter knew his duty, and as much as he wanted to live, and go back home, he knew that there was a strong chance that that would not happen.
