Visibly Invisible

Chapter 5: Love Sick

I couldn't move a muscle as the tiger jumped at me, nor could I register when it bit my arm but all I knew was that a blade plunged right into it and it fell on me, my nose faintly picking up the scent of blood.

'Dy?' I faintly heard as Ed pulled the dead tiger off of me. My eyes were closed and I could barely breathe out of shock and immense pain in my right forearm. I vaguely remembered being hoisted in someone's arms before I passed out.

I faintly heard a cricket chirping in the distance as I managed to make out where I was. It felt like soft grass around my legs but I could register that my head rested on a strong concrete floor or something which was heaving up and down. As I shifted a little on the 'floor', I felt fingers running softly through my hair and a pair of lips pressed to the top of my head.

No prizes for guessing what that floor was though.

It was Ed's chest. Duh.

'Hey,' he softly breathed as I sat up, shaking my head and pulling my hair out of my eyes. I looked at the place the tiger had bit me and saw only a small scar, slightly reddened, but trust me; it didn't hurt one teeny bit.

'What…what happened?' I found it difficult to speak and my head was, now that I noticed, splitting with pain.

'You passed out and we gave you the cordial, but you still had this sudden fever which propped out of nowhere, so Lucy tried another drop and it made it worse,'

Can you imagine that Ed said that in one breath?

My head still spinning, I blinked a little to adjust my vision before letting myself fall freely forward, right into Ed's awaiting arms. His grip had a tension I could sense.

'You okay?' he asked apprehensively as I mumbled words even I didn't make out.

'Ed,' I heard Lucy say before I passed out.

I slowly opened my eyes, trying to adjust myself to the darkness as hands ran through my hair again and I took a shaky breath before sitting up and rubbing my forehead to get rid of the pain. A warm, larger than mine hand covered my small one and rubbing it. I couldn't help it; I just stumbled forward and felt Ed embrace me, rubbing my back.

'Eddie, is she okay?' I heard Susan and felt Ed murmur something. I didn't get it; the cordial always worked. It had to work.

Not today though.

I felt the sounds dying down and with a crunch of leaves, I heard a dramatic sigh.

'Is she okay Ed?' A pang of pain went through me again; Teria.

'Yes,' reply short and cold. Cool.

'Is she okay?' I heard Teria repeat as I snuggled into Ed again.

'It's the same answer to 'Are you retarded, Teria,'' his voice was smooth and despite my pain, I giggled feebly as Teria muttered something and walked off. Listening to her dying footsteps, I looked up at Ed who leaned in and captured my lips in his for a brief moment before looking at me.

'Ed?' I mumbled sleepily as he hugged me close. He fell silent so I continued.

'What…what is the answer to Teria, are you retarded?' I heard him chuckle and he muttered a 'yes'. But I wasn't okay and I didn't even have the strength to say my mind, so I fell asleep again.

'Leave me alone!' I shouted weakly as Peter and Edmund sat me down on a tree stump and Susan stirred a mushy looking deep brown liquid with a dirty looking leaf. It was faint dawn and I had very violently been shook awake from a slumber where Ed couldn't breathe. Lucy figured that if the cordial didn't work on this mysterious fever, they would just stir up a Hon potion to heal it. Trust me, Hon wasn't derived from Honey at all; it was horrible and I had a pretty vague idea from the golden age what had happened when they fed it to me.

'Come on Dy, drink!' Ed put the small bowl to my lips, forcing the liquid down my throat and I choked as the ill tasting thick liquid entered my throat. But I instantly felt better too and my forehead pain ceased. I just slumped on Ed, breathing heavily and out of nowhere I mumbled 'I need a walk,'

Leave it to Ed to fulfill it.

'Teria's as annoying as you put her to be,' Ed mumbled, as I clung to his arm, walking around the forest, giving my legs a move. They had almost cracked when I had first tried to pace.

'Anything my lady wants other than this?' Ed asked me and I, almost in a trance and barely aware what I was saying mumbled something that sounded like 'kiss me,'

Ed blinked at me, then looked at the partially lightened forest around us and pressed his lips to mine softly. What neither of us saw coming was my reaction.

I just pulled him down, my hands on either sides of his face, my kissing vigorous and fiery. I couldn't even understand why I was acting like this, I just felt like I needed this, it was amazing, it was…

Someone cleared their throat just as Ed was getting serious and he slowly detached his lips from mine, looking with an annoyed expression towards Teria who stood there in disbelief.

'Why do you two kiss so much?' she asked and I looked from Ed to her before Ed replied in the patient, smooth voice he used with her.

'Because we're in love,'

Aw, isn't my boyfriend adorable!

We went back to the camp site, hopelessly stalked by Teria who seemed determined not to leave us alone. Peter and Lu were gone, and Susan and Trump were fast asleep. We had barely set a foot forward towards them when suddenly, we heard clanging metal and Lucy scream something distantly. That sure woke Susan and Trump up and we raced to where Ed thought the voice had come from.

It was pure pandemonium. Peter aiming his sword at a dark haired young man who harshly asked him,

'Yes, and who are you?'

Susan ironically screamed Peter's name right on cue and the boy looked at the sword in front of him which turned to be Peter's.

'High King Peter,'

'I believe you called,' Ed and I rolled our eyes as Peter acted like a pompous ass again. I immediately knew who the guy was.

Prince Caspian.

So sorry for keeping everyone waiting! Well, there you go! And the next chapter will probably be up tomorrow!

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