The sorcerer wrapped a huge invisible fist around Susan, trapping her in place, while he stalked over to Caspian, who still lay on the ground breathing hard, and stunned. She struggled against the hand, predicting what was about to happen but her effort was of no avail and she was still trapped. The sorcerer stood towering over Caspian and kicked him hard in the stomach causing him to groan in pain.

"Get up." He growled. Caspian flinched but didn't move, or more likely couldn't. Fajad kicked him again is the same place and she heard a crack "Now. Or she gets it." His eyes widened in alarm and he struggled to his feet. Fajad picked him up with magic and threw him through the air, Caspian hit a tree trunk with a cry of pain and crumbled in front of it, unmoving.

"CASPIAN!" She screamed, at the sound of his name being yelled with such pain and fury her lifted his head and tried to haul himself to his feet, but Fajad lifted him a few inches on the ground and slammed him back down. Caspian lay on the ground, still. She screamed his name again loudly, and now Fajad moved to her, but Susan was anything but afraid. She wanted to rip that- that... but surprisingly Fajad let go of her.

"Tend to him. You have 2 hours." Then he disappeared. Pushing all her anger aside she ran over to Caspian and crouched down beside him, she could see the shallow rise and fall of his chest and knew that he was breathing thank Aslan. She put her hands on his back, and tried to pull him up onto her lap, but having woken up he flinched away and whimpered in pain, thinking she was Fajad. Tears filled her eyes and blurred her vision,

"Caspian, it's ok. It's just me, Fajad is gone. He can't hurt you anymore... It's ok..." She whispered. Again she tried to lift him up onto her lap and this time her let her, "Caspian, what hurts most?"

"Everything... My abdomen area, my right arm I think, my legs and my back, I don't think I can move." He breathed. She quickly lightly ran her hands down his ribs and her stomach lurched, just as she feared, there were at least 5 broken ribs, 3 on the left side and 2 on the right. Then she moved on to his right arm. She felt around his wrist and elbow, they were broken too.

"Caspian, you have 5 broken ribs, your right wrist and elbow are broken and you have several bruises... and now I am going to check your spine, is that ok?" She asked gently, he barely managed a tiny nod. She took a deep breath and slipped her hand onto his back, then slid her hand down his spine, there, there and there she winced. His spine was broken in 3 places, for the first place near the top of his back it seemed as though part of the bone had shattered. The second midway down his back was the worst, the bones seemed to have almost completely snapped and were almost separated, and the third place in his lower back, one of the bones had nearly completely shattered. The tears that she had been holding in for so long finally broke free and sobs racked her body. Shakily, Caspian lifted his unbroken left arm and brought it to her cheek.

"Hey, why are you crying Susan? It's ok love, shhh. It's ok. Don't cry love, it's ok... Is this about what Fajad did to me?" Susan nodded the slightest bit before a fresh round of tears took her over. "Don't worry Susan. I'm okay, I will be fine. I always am, shhh, it's ok love, I'm fine. Fajad didn't hurt me, I'm ok and your ok. Shh. Don't worry Susan. I will be fine. I'm alive aren't I?" He rasped

"Yeah." She whispered back hoarsely,

"Your ok aren't you?"

"Yeah,"

"So there is no need to cry."

"Yes there is Caspian!" She shouted pushing his hand of her face. "He told me that he would be back in 2 hours. It has been 20 minutes already!" At this Caspian fell silent. Just at the mention of Fajad he remembered flying through the air and painfully colliding with a tree, his back felt like it snapped in half and he resisted the urge to scream in pain. He remember screaming loudly and fighting to not beg Fajad to stop when he pinned him down to the ground earlier and stepped on his arm, applying more and more force till he could hear the bone break, then repeated the action near his wrist. He remembered as Fajad kicked him in the back so hard he was tossed through the air and landed a few feet away. He felt like yelling and screaming in anger at Fajad and his breathing grew faster.

But then he remembered Susan.

The entire time Fajad was torturing him, she had been forced to watch. She had been forced to see the one she loved in so much pain he couldn't move. Susan kicked and screamed and fought the magic restraining her, yelling at Fajad to torture her and not him. She tried to save him the pain though she knew she would bear the consequences. She was forced to stand there, helpless as Caspian cried out, and screamed in pain. She could see the pain swirling through his eyes and the determination not to beg. She was forced to look as he was beaten and tortured to an inch of his life. And he calmed down. Because she loved him. And that would always be enough. No matter who was there, what happened to him, not even if they were in different worlds. It wouldn't matter. For they loved each other, and that would always be enough.