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The Return

Chapter 4. Together

Alex's POV

When I awoke I opened my eyes and slowly sat up.

"Careful there." I heard Trufflehunter say as he walked over.

Caspian looked away from the window and over at me. Apparently he was almost asleep. "Oh good your awake." he said walking over.

"Is she awake yet!" came Nikabrik's call from another room.

"She just now woke up." Trufflehunter replied.

"Finally. Scare us half to death." Nikabrik said walking in the room.

"I... scared... you? That's not possible." I said.

"Well you did. For a while there we thought you were dead." he replied.

I smiled and then looked out the window. "What time is it? We can't be late." I asked.

"Calm down, we have just enough time to eat and leave." Caspian said.

Trufflehunter nodded.

We walked over to the table, although Caspian had to help me, and as soon as we had eaten, we prepared to leave.

"Alex, take this." Nikabrik said as I strapped my bow around my back. He handed me a sword, but it was made for a dwarf so it was small for me. It would make a perfect defense tool, since I was ordered to do no fighting thanks to my pregnancy.

I took it and smiled. "Thank you Nikabrik." I said.

"Now, don't go thinking you can fight, it's for defending yourself in case we can't. Only." he said.

I nodded my head. "Understood." I said. I put the small belt around my waist.

"Are we ready then?" Trufflehunter asked.

I nodded my head and pulled the hood of my cloak over my head as we stepped out of the cabin. Something was wrong. I looked over at Caspian. "Pull your hood up, we need to stay as hidden as possible." I said. He nodded and did as I had said. Nikabrik and Trufflehunter did as well. I looked around and pulled my bow. "Stay here." I whispered.

Caspian caught my wrist. "Where do you think your going?" he asked.

"I'm going to investigate. I'm the quietest out of us, it has to be me. I'll be fine." I replied.

"But what if they catch you?" he asked.

"I'll call for help. Don't worry." I replied pulling an arrow and walking in the direction I knew the danger was coming from. When I did I saw two Telmarine's searching around.

"He has to be here somewhere." one said.

"We saw them come this way." the other said.

"At least Miraz finally gave us the order's to kill him and get it over with instead of bringing him back." the first said. I fought the urge to gasp. They were looking for Caspian, and they wanted to kill him, they had orders to kill him. But it looks as if they were the only two who saw which way we had come.

"Should we kill the girl that was with him?" the second asked.

"No, leave her. They seemed close. She's probably his lover. That'll mean she'll be miserable without him." the first said.

They were so wrong, and so right at the same time. He's not my lover, that's Edmund, but I would be miserable. He's the only human I know that doesn't want me in their capture, or dead.

I had made a promise not to fight, but I wasn't fighting if I shot them, it's defending someone I care about. I pulled the string back to my ear and aimed at the first. I let it fly and it struck him in the heart, but it caught the other ones attention.

"You little rat!" he yelled, charging after me.

I swung up in a tree, thank you dryads from the golden age, and shot him as well. A second later, Caspian, Trufflehunter, and Nikabrik came up.

"Where is she?" Trufflehunter asked urgently.

"Look up." I called with a chuckle. All three of them looked up.

"What are you doing up there?" Nikabrik asked.

"It was either this or get captured." I replied.

He grunted. "Good choice then." he said.

I jumped down, and I felt that familiar pain, but it eased and luckily it went unnoticed. Well slightly, I got a worried glance from Trufflehunter and Caspian, but I shook it off and we started towards the Dancing Lawn.

When we got to Aslan's How, it was pretty late, but we still had work to do. We searched the How, looking through the rooms. And when we came to one hallway, my breathing hitched. The wall's were covered in picture's of Lucy, Edmund, Susan, Peter, and I. I looked at the picture's of their coronation. And not to far from that was a picture of Edmund and mines wedding. I ran the tips of my finger's across that one.

"Alex, are you alright?" Caspian asked walking up.

I sighed and nodded.

"That's you and King Edmund?" he half asked, half stated.

"Yes" I replied.

He sighed and looked across the walls. "Do you think they'll come?" he asked.

"That's up to Aslan." I replied.

He nodded his head. I walked further down and squinted as it got darker. Caspian came walking beside me, torch in hand. Apparently we both had adventurous minds. We came to a room, but it was so big it was hard to tell what was in it.

"What is this place?" I asked, my voice echoing through the room.

He got a funny look. "I think I may know." he said walking to the right.

He put the torch to a little wall that went around the room. Apparently there was oil on it, because the fire went all the way around the room, making it clear, and before me I saw the Stone Table. There was a picture of Aslan behind it, and it took my breath away.

"Beautiful isn't it?" Caspian asked, sounding as in awe as me.

"Oh yes." I replied.

"Your majesty's? Are you in there?" we heard someone call.

Caspian turned around. "Yes." he replied.

A faun walked up. "Trufflehunter says you both need your rest." he said.

I chuckled.

"And he said especially you." he said looking at me.

I nodded. "Thank you." I said.

I walked from the room and went to find the place we had chosen as the place I would sleep. I placed my arm around my stomach, and fell asleep.

A few days later, we were out scouting the area. Trufflehunter, Nikabrik, and I were becoming more and more afraid that Trumpkin was dead, so we had started looking around the woods in hopes that he had gotten free and would come to the How. And my hope was that he wouldn't be alone, and that he would have Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy with him.

I was going to check out a new area when I felt a hand go over my mouth and I was pulled back. I looked around and it was Caspian. He pointed and I looked, only to see a familiar boy pulling his sword, and walking towards one of our minotaurs.

Caspian pulled his sword and whispered "If he's going after one of our fighter's, I'm going after him." He then attacked the boy.

I watched as the fight continued on. The other boy got his sword stuck in the tree, and Caspian kicked him away. He then tried pulling the sword out, but the boy had picked up a rock. Anger filled me and I jumped up.

I jumped on his back and forced the rock out of his hand.

"No stop!" I heard a familiar voice call.

Lucy! So this had to be... uh oh.

This caught me off guard and Peter threw me off. As the ground came to me with a sudden jolt, so did the pain in my stomach. I gave a cry of pain, and gripped my stomach, curling into a ball.

"Alex!" Caspian exclaimed.

I looked up at him and he was finally able to get the sword out of the tree. He kneeled beside me and looked at Peter.

"Keep your distance." he growled.

I looked up at Peter. "Whe...where's Edmund?" I mustered the strength to ask.

Apparently unable to speak, he pointed behind Lucy.

I struggled to my feet and no sooner had I gone past her, did I run straight into Edmund. I looked into his eyes as a smile grew on my face.

"Ed!" I exclaimed throwing my arms around him. He pulled me tight against him, as I cried tears of joy. I heard him sniffle, which meant he was crying too. We pulled back and looked into each others eyes and I had been right he was crying. I heard Lucy sniffle.

"I missed you!" I exclaimed just before he kissed me.

But suddenly that pain in my stomach returned, it had gone away when Edmund pulled me into his arms but now it was back... full force. I pulled away from him and let out a cry of pain. My knee's buckled, but he already had me in his arms, so I didn't fall.

"Alex." he gasped.

He bent down, so I was laying down partly. I heard someone else walk up. I looked up, but my vision was blurry from both pain and tears but I could just barely make out Trumpkin's face. I felt him kneel down beside me.

"Trumpkin?" I asked, through the pain.

"It's me." he confirmed.

I smiled as wide as I could. "Thank you." I said.

"For what?" he asked.

"Bringing back what I had lost." I said looking up at Edmund.

I heard Trumpkin reply, but I wasn't focused on him. I suddenly felt myself going unconscious. My smile faded and I fought to keep my eyes open. I heard Edmund call my name urgently, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't stay conscious, I soon lost the fight. But the last thought that popped into my head was, "Will I wake up this time?"