Visibly Invisible 2: Prince Caspian

Chapter 12: Shifting personality

Yeah, I'm still alive and I don't CON. If I did, Dylexia would've been there. On with the story!

Edmund's POV:

I woke up with a slight weight shifting on my chest as a fist closed and then opened near my waist. Sighing and blinking, I looked around, trying to get the darkness away so I could see something around me before I realized it was night, and I couldn't grope through the faintly moonlit night. Smiling unconsciously, I put my arm around the form on me I knew was Dylexia. It had been a close one; the Telmarines had almost caught as and I had to lie to Peter about both our arms by making up a stupid story about…I'd rather you not hear about it. Lucy gave us the cordial, knowing it wasn't about the man eating bunnies…oh look, I gave the story away.

'Ed,' I heard Dylexia mumble against me and I fought the urge to just kiss her senseless; with her, it just came out from nowhere at random moments.

'Ed,' she mumbled again, and I noticed she was asleep, and obviously uncomfortable, so I just slid her body down next to me, turning on my side as she curled up against me, her ice cold hands stinging my chest even over my shirt.

'Ed,' she whimpered again, her legs tangling almost painfully in mine, her arms around my waist as she sighed and went back to sleep again. Unsurely, I patted her head, before burying my face in his neck and trying to sleep.

Yeah, I succeeded.

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'Be careful,' she told me for the millionth time as I put on my armour, and ruffled her hair playfully.

'I will, it's alright,' I assured her, pulling her closer and kissing her softly before letting her go.

'Now, stay put where you are,' I added sternly, ruffling her hair again. Dy looked irritated.

'Do I have a choice?'

'Not really,'

She pouted before smiling at me softly.

'Please, at least let me out of here. I'll stay with the troops, like…pinky swear,' she hurriedly put up her finger, batting her eyelashes. I laughed humourlessly.

'Not going to work Dy, you know it's dangerous,'

'But I'm the only one to be staying inside the How, it sounds weird,' she grumbled before huffing in the opposite direction. I wasn't bothered; she'd come around anyway. I had bigger fish to fry right now.

Dylexia's POV:

I grinned to myself idiotically for the millionth time, staring at the armour I had nicked. Ed thought I'd actually stay at the How alone, he was dead wrong.

'You can't do that,' Teria grumbled again, but you know what I did. I ignored her.

Like I always do.

'You nearly killed yourself last time,' she urged, and her voice was softer than I had ever heard it. I paused my hand over the armour and looked at her weirdly. She just smiled.

'I'm staying in the How, too. Would you like to keep me company?'

I blinked at her. Wow, was she shifting personalities or something? She laughed softly.

'You'd be wondering why I'm being so nice. You want to know?'

I could just nod.

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'Okay…,' I trailed off, absorbing what she had said. Ashton had met her, he'd knocked sense into her, and he had told her that there was her own fairytale just "waiting around the corner". For once, I loved Ashton, I mean Ashley, I mean…damn it.

'Aslan also said…,'

'Aslan!' I remembered and grinned as she laughed. I don't actually want to admit it but she was nice to me, and I forgot I was supposed to go out and betray Ed and get a whole earful, and now that I looked at it that way, Teria looked natural, beautiful. Wow, weird that, coming from me.

'I'm sorry, by the way, for trying to ruin your life,' she sighed with a small smile and I leaned back and grinned, listening to the clashes of swords outside.

'What do you think is happening?' I asked, feeling irritated.

'If I had any idea, I would've been doing a running commentary,' she laughed, and I laughed with her. She was being awfully nice to me; at least I wasn't in the How alone.

'I am going to break up with Caesar when we get back,' she muttered, her face saddening; this was getting weirder and weirder. Caesar had been her egotistical, captain of the football team boy jerk for about three years. They had been voted couple of the year for two years in a row now.

'And why…?' I trailed my question off as she looked at me.

'Now that I think about it, he's just a shallow jerk,'

'You were kinda like that when you came here,' I muttered, but she didn't seem to mind. She laughed. Note to self: something wrong with Teria must be a head injury.

'So, now what, you're going to be friends with me?' I tried to lighten my mood and she nodded, sticking a hand out which I unsurely took.

'When we get back, you'd never have to walk to school. We'd go together and…,'

'I don't want to go back,' I blurted, earning a look from her.

'Why?'

'Because Ed goes to his own time, and we get separated and…,'

'Time?' she raised an eyebrow. She didn't know.

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'He's from…,'

'Yes,' I was getting irritated. She wasn't really ready to believe that he wasn't a 21st century jock or something. I opened my mouth to explain that Narnia worked in mad ways, when a loud rumble cut me short.

'They shot him! Treachery!'

I leapt to my feet as did Teria, and looking at each other, we understood.

War.

Okay, so the chapter was short but extremely important. Teria's redemption thingy happened people. Next chapter is going to be third to last. Yeah, this is ending too.

Xtreme!

But BTW, on fiction press, I'm starting an original. If anyone wants to read it, then say in your review people and I'll upload it or something there. Just let me know.