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An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind
Chapter 10: The White Witch
"Lucy we're playing hide and seek remember? Peter's coming to search for us be quite." Amelia said as she also peeked though the curtain. As she did so she saw Peter approaching for around the corner. Both Edmund and Amelia rolled their eyes and sighted as Peter said : "You know, I'm not sure you three have quite got the idea of this game."
"Weren't you wondering where I was?" Lucy said as a look of confusion crossed her features.
"That's the point. That was why he was seeking you." Edmund said as if he was talking to a little child much smaller than himself.
"We were playing hide and seek and Peter was it, remember." Amelia said as she explained it to Lucy.
"But that was hours ago, I had tea and cake and all sort of lovely things at Mr. Tumnus' house." Lucy said.
"No, Peter was just done counting." Amelia said.
"Does this mean I win?" Susan asked as she came as she heard Lucy yell a few minutes ago.
"I don't think Lucy wants to play anymore." Peter said as he turned to younger sister.
Why would Lucy stop a game of hide and seek when she asked to play the game at the first place? Amelia thought.
"I've been gone for hours. Come and have a look." Lucy said as she pulled Peter behind her to the spare room.
As Susan separated the coats she and Peter saw that nothing was in the wardrobe except for those coats. Edmund was knocking at the side of the wardrobe to hear nothing special and looked at Amelia who shrugged.
"Lucy, the only wood in here is the back of the wardrobe." Susan said as she stepped out of the wardrobe.
"One game at a time, Lu. We don't all have your imagination." Peter said as he turned to leave.
Why would Lucy lie, she's never lied before but it's just not possible. Amelia thought.
"But I wasn't imagining!" Lucy yelled and as they all turned around Amelia felt as if something would go wrong terribly soon.
"That's enough, Lucy." Susan said as if she were their mother.
"I wouldn't lie about this!" Lucy said It really was there! I know it was! Lucy thought.
"Well, I believe you." Edmund started.
"Eddie don't." Amelia whispered knowing it would do no good.
"You do?" Lucy asked wondering why he changed suddenly.
"Yeah, of course. Didn't I tell you about the football field in the bathroom cupboards?" Edmund said.
He's done it now. Amelia thought as she saw Peter advancing towards Edmund.
"Now will you just stop? You just have to make everything worse, don't you?" Peter said.
"It was just a joke!" Edmund said defending himself.
"When are you gonna learn to grow up?" Peter asked as if he was their father.
"Eddie don't do it." Amelia whispered as she saw Edmund getting red in the face with anger.
"Shut up! You think you're dad, but you're not!" Edmund yelled into Peter's face and then ran away.
"Edmund wait!" Amelia yelled running after him.
"Well, that was nicely handled." Susan said going to see were the to younger boy and girl were off to.
"But… it really was there." Lucy said after everyone but Peter had left.
"Susan's right, Lucy. That's enough." Peter said as he walked away.
With Edmund and Amelia
"Edmund wait!" She yelled again this time with success as he turned around with tears in his eyes.
"WHAT!" Edmund yelled.
"You know he doesn't mean to replace your dad." Amelia said although he had yelled at her.
"Yes he does and you know it! He said so to father that he would be the man of the house!" Edmund yelled.
"WOULD YOU STOP YELLING!" Amelia yelled at the top of her voice getting really angry with her friend. Seeing as Amelia had never yelled at her friend before - well yelled angry that is - this startled Edmund quite a bit. "EVER SINCE OUR FATHERS LEFT YOU'VE BEEN ANNOYING AND IRRITATING TO EVERYONE AND THEN THE EVACUATION JUST MADE IT WORSE! I'M SICK AND TIRED OF YOU DOING THIS! LUCY DID NOTHING WRONG AND YOU KEEP TEASING AND HURTING HER! I WONDER IF YOU HAVE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE HURTING ME TOO!" Amelia yelled fuming and then running away to see where Lucy was.
"Where are you going?" Edmund asked in a small voice.
"To find Lucy, I'll try to undo the damage you've done. Again!" Amelia said yelling the last word. At that Edmund sank down and cried thinking of what he had done wrong.
"Ed?" Susan asked as she came up. "Everything alright?"
"No, of course not!" Edmund said as he lifted his head.
"I saw Amelia storm away. What happened?" Susan said.
"I yelled at her and she yelled back and then stormed away angry." Edmund said and continued saying : "Just leave me alone." Edmund said as he buried his face in his knees and Susan went away.
"LUCY!" Amelia yelled as she looked around. As she passed the spare room she heard crying for the inside. "Hey everything's going to be alright." Amelia said as she hugged Lucy feeling like an older sister to her.
"Why does he always tease me?" Lucy asked through tears.
"You know he doesn't want to hurt you. He's going through a tough time and..." Amelia started but Lucy interrupted her.
"No he's not and don't try to make it up again for him, he's a jerk and you know it. I wonder why you haven't gotten mad at him." Lucy said as she pulled away.
"I have gotten mad at him just not when you guys are there." Amelia said a bit embarrassed.
"Oh yeah say one time." Lucy said not believing her.
"Just now, he didn't stop yelling and I yelled back at him and in my anger I told him that he's hurting everyone around him.
"Really?" the smallest girl asked as a little smile found her way onto her lips.
"Yes, now are you alright?"Amelia asked.
"I'm fine but why don't you all believe me?" Lucy asked.
"Well I know you've never lied before but it seems a bit impossible. It's not logical." Amelia said.
"You sound like Susan." Lucy said. "But I swear I haven't made this up there really is a world in the wardrobe and I really met a faun there that was called Tumnus."
"Look Lu, I would want to believe you and that would seem really cool but I won't believe you until my own eyes have seen your world in the wardrobe." Amelia said.
"Oh see even you won't believe me!" Lucy yelled as she ran away.
Dinner that evening was very silent except for Edmund laughing at Lucy and 'her' world and nothing else was said even asking to pass the salt was almost too much. As they went to bed that evening Susan and Peter fell asleep almost immediately after hitting their pillows. Just as Amelia started to dose off Edmund came and asked if he could talk to her outside.
"What? It's night Edmund when most people sleep." Amelia said wanting to sleep.
"I just want to apologize for early today that I yelled at you, I'm really sorry." Edmund said.
"I'll think about it." She said as he turned to the opposite side of his room. "Where are you going?"
"To the little boys room." Edmund as he hurried and just as he was done he saw Lucy go off with a light.
"Where do you think you're going?" Amelia asked as she saw him following Lucy.
"I want to see the land." He said. "Come I bet you want to see it too." knowing he was right she followed him. "Lucy? Where are you?" He said as he came in the room.
"If you're going to tease her."
"I'm not. BOO!" He yelled as he pulled open the wardrobe. As he saw nothing he turned to Amelia.
"Lu are you here?" She asked. "If she was in the wardrobe she would have heard that right?" She said looking at Edmund.
"Yea. Come on." He said as he stepped into the wardrobe pulling her with him. "Lucy. Hope you're not afraid of the dark." He said as he closed the door.
"Are you crazy! You just locked us in a closet!" Amelia said.
"No the door can open from the inside as well." Edmund said as he flashed a smile Amelia's way.
"I don't care." She said as she shivered.
As Edmund stepped further he suddenly got a face full of branch. "What's a branch doing in a closet?" He asked.
"Weird." Amelia said as she passed the branch. And suddenly Edmund wasn't stepping on the wood of the wardrobe but on snow and tripped over a branch that was laying on the floor.
"Eddie you alright?" Amelia asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine cold you help me up?" He asked.
"Sure." She said as she pulled him up. "You're heavy." She laughed.
"Hey!" He said pretending to be offended. "But what's this?"
"Must be the wood Lu was talking about." Amelia said. " It's really cold in here."
"Must be winter." Edmund said as he moved on.
"Where are you going?" She asked.
"I'm going to take a look." Edmund said.
"She was right after all." Amelia whispered. "A lamppost, seriously, in the middle of the forest."
"Well maybe it used to be a village and over time everything was destroyed but this lamppost." Edmund said.
"I have given you far too many books." She said.
After wondering around and calling for Lucy for half an hour Amelia said : "Eddie I'm cold and Lucy might already be home again, let's just go home."
"No." Edmund said still looking around.
"Eddie I'm getting a bad feeling." Amelia said as she heard sleigh bells.
As Edmund fell to the ground Amelia saw the sleigh stop and said : "Why don't we get away now." As she dragged Edmund to his feet a little man ran after them and whipped Edmund's legs so he fell to the ground dragging Amelia with him.
As the dwarf held his dagger to Edmund's throat he held the whip above Amelia so she wouldn't crawl away as soon as he was focusing on Edmund.
"Leave us alone!" Edmund yelled afraid.
"What is now, Ginarrbrik?" A bored voice from within the sleigh said.
"Make him let us go!" Edmund said.
"We didn't do anything wrong!"Amelia yelled afraid.
"How dare you address the Queen of Narnia?" The dwarf said making spit fly into Edmund's face.
"We didn't know!" Edmund yelled as Amelia was paralyzed by fear.
"You will know her better hereafter!" The dwarf nearly yelled as he raised his dagger to cut Edmund's throat.
"Wait!" That voice from the sleigh yelled.
As the dwarf lowered both the whip and the dagger Edmund and Amelia stood up and saw a very tall woman that was wearing a white dress and had white fur wrapped around her.
WOW She' s so beautiful! Edmund thought while at the moment Amelia thought Somethings not right with that woman.
"What is your name, Son of Adam?" The woman said ignoring Amelia.
"Edmund and this is Amelia." Edmund said gesturing to his best friend.
"And how, Edmund did you two come to enter my dominion?" The woman said as she narrowed her eyes.
"I'm not sure. We were just following my sister." Edmund said while Amelia started pulling on his sleeve whispering : "Eddie I think we should go. She and the dwarf give me the creeps."
"No, you're just paranoid." Edmund whispered back forgetting he had the creeps of the dwarf just moments ago.
"Your sister? How many are you?" The woman said.
"Edmund, stranger-danger, don't tell her." Amelia whispered.
"Four." Edmund said tuning Amelia out. "Lucy's the only one that's been here before. She said she met some faun called T-T-Tumnus. Peter and Susan didn't believe her. We didn't either." Edmund said.
"Edmund, you look so cold. Will you come and sit with me?" The woman said.
Edmund looked to Amelia who was frankly shaking her head NO! Totally choosing to ignore his best friend Edmund followed the Queen to her sleigh.
As he sat down she wrapped the fur all around him and Amelia watched hoping all this would be over soon because she couldn't even feel her toes anymore of fingers for that matter.
"Now; how about something hot to drink?" the Queen said her face really close to Edmund's face.
"Yes, please, Your Majesty." Edmund said while Amelia thought Why is he being so stupid? What part of I have a bad feeling didn't he understand and a dwarf trying to kill us! And then he goes and drink something he must have lost it!
When the Queen took a little vail and let a little drop fall a goblet started to appear and filled with hot chocolade. WITCH! Amelia thought now really wanting to go.
"Your drink, sire." The dwarf said handing the goblet to Edmund.
"How did you do that?" Edmund said taking a sip from the goblet.
"I can make anything you like." The Queen said making a gesture with her hand feeling that Amelia wanted to say something to ruin her plan and doing so no sound would come out of the girl until she had left.
"Can you make me taller?" Edmund asked.
"Anything you'd like to eat." The Queen laughed.
"Turkish delight?" Edmund asked it being his favorite sweet. The Queen looked in surprise but dropped another drop out of the vial and a box of Turkish Delight appeared from the snow. And Amelia saw the dwarf take the goblet from Edmund and throwing it away but before it hit the tree it turned into a snowball.
As Edmund took the first bite a delicious taste erupted in his mouth but Amelia felt sick to the stomach as she saw Edmund devour more and more pieces while the Queen asked him questions and Amelia caught somethings Edmund said such as : "They're nothing special." which she was sure the they're were Lucy, Susan and Peter. She saw the witch turn Edmund's head right before them and was sure she was showing him something. As the witch suddenly yelled "NO!" very loudly both Edmund and Amelia jumped and then she said something to Edmund and closed her eyes and Amelia felt as something sinister was happening behind that smile.
As the witch rode away Amelia almost yelled : "Can we go NOW?"
"Why you don't like the Queen?" Edmund asked looking weird to his best friend.
"I absolutely detest her." Amelia said.
"Edmund, Amelia?" She heard Lucy say from behind her.
"Don't say anything about the Queen." Edmund almost ordered scaring Amelia a little.
"Oh, You two got in too! Isn't it wonderful!" Lucy said as ran to hug Amelia as she knew Edmund would just push her away.
"Where have you been?" Edmund asked.
"With Mr. Tumnus. He's fine. The White Witch hasn't found out anything about him meeting me." Lucy explained.
"The White Witch?" Amelia asked thinking she knew who it could be.
"She calls herself the Queen of Narnia, but she really isn't." Lucy said as she lowered her voice and Amelia shot Edmund a look which he didn't answer. "Are you two alright? You look awful." she continued seeing Amelia's blue lips.
"Well, what'd you except? I mean, it's freezing." Edmund said.
"How do we get out of here?" Amelia asked.
"This way." Lucy said as she dragged them through the wood chattering about what she had done with Mr. Tumnus. I wish I had come in with Lucy. Amelia thought as she smiled.
I'm going to end the chapter here, because it's long enough as it is.
At first I was going to have Amelia comfort Edmund but then I thought that even she must be fed up by his stuck up behavior so I made her angry. Please tell me what you thought of this chapter! In other words Review ;)
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