"NO! NO! GOD GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Edmund tossed and turned in Peter's bed, pulling the blankets around him. "PLEASE! STOP! I CANNOT DO THAT! GET THE HELL AWAY!" Edmund's screaming jerked Peter and Caspian awake and both boys rushed to his side. Edmund was sweating and flailing around the bed, salty tears mixing with the sweat.

"What do we do?" Caspian asked, looking to Peter as Edmund continued to scream and jerk around. Peter shrugged, but didn't take his eyes off of his brother.

"I have no idea…I mean I would say that he needs Jack, but I don't think that's possible." Peter shook his head. "No…we have to figure out how to do this ourselves."

"Alright…well, just tell me what to do."

"Ok." Peter nodded and sighed as he sat down on the edge of the bed, his hands on Peter's shoulder. "Edmund? Ed, come on…wake up." Peter gently shook him but Edmund didn't respond, he just kept pulling and flailing. "Edmund, wake up!" Peter pulled Edmund into his arms and rubbed his back. "Come on, it's ok, no one's going to hurt you, thinks will be better if you just wake up."

"Call him Eddie," Caspian whispered. "That's what Jack does…"

"He hates being called Eddie, only Jack's allowed to call him that."

"Would it be so terrible to let him think that you're Jack just for a few seconds?" Caspian asked. "It might wake him up."

"Well…here goes…" Peter sighed. "Eddie, come on, wake up." He held Edmund tight and the boy stopped screaming.

"P-Peter?" Edmund looked up at Peter and sniffled.

"God…is it like this every night?" Peter gently laid Edmund back on the bed. "Does Jack do that for you every night?"

"No." Edmund shook his head. "He does more. He holds me, he kisses me, he tells me that everything's going to be alright, he sleeps with me…I don't know…" Edmund sighed. "I'm sorry that I woke you up…just…just go back to sleep, I'm going to do the same, I'm exhausted." Edmund pulled the blankets around him and closed his eyes, blinking back tears. Peter kissed him on the forehead and Caspian squeezed his shoulder before the two older boys climbed back into bed.

"He is going to be alright," Caspian assured Peter, whispering in to the blond's ear so that Edmund wouldn't hear. "You are a good brother, you will take good care of him, I know you will."

"Thanks…" Peter smiled weakly and kissed Caspian passionately. "I love you…"

"I love you too."

o.o.o.o.o.o.o

"Edmund…we need to talk." Jack tapped Edmund on the shoulder at breakfast. Both boys looked tired and neither one looked terribly happy.

"Ok." Edmund nodded and stood, following Jack just outside. "What?"

"I think that it would be best if we didn't…you know…if we weren't together anymore." Jack sighed. "I love you, but if we're going to have inconsistencies like this then it's never going to work out…I'm sorry, I really am."

"I know." Edmund nodded. "You're right…I mean if you can't believe me and I can't make you then there's no possible way we could make it. Is that all?"

"Well we need to talk about sleeping…"

"We can still be room mates, we don't have to be lovers, we don't have to be best friends to share a room." Edmund shrugged. "I'll leave you alone, I promise."

"Eddie-"

"Don't call me that." Edmund interrupted Jack, shaking his head.

"Fine…" Jack looked slightly hurt, but he shrugged it off. "Edmund, are you mad at me?"

"A little." Edmund shrugged.

"I'm sorry…"

"It's not your fault, you can't make yourself believe something, even if it's true, there's nothing that either of us can do about that, I just wish that there was." Edmund walked off, leaving Jack all alone outside. Roughly ten minutes later, Peter stormed over to Jack and grabbed his throat, pressing him up against the wall of the dining hall.

"You promised that you wouldn't leave him!" Peter snarled, looking at Jack threateningly. "You said that you would never hurt him and here you go, breaking his heart. I thought you were better than that, Andrews, I really did. I thought that you cared about him, that you loved him enough never to let him get away from you, and here you go, taking the best thing that Edmund had going for him away. He loved you so much, he trusted you with everything and how do you repay him? You don't believe him and you break his heart." Peter pushed Jack harder into the wall and glared at him for a second before letting him fall to the ground. "I wish that I had seen this coming, I wish that I could have protected him from you."

"No…Peter, it's not like that!" Jack looked up at Peter, a lump in his throat. "I love him so much, but he deserves to be with someone who will believe everything that he says, he deserves someone who will trust him unconditionally, he deserves someone better than me."

"Are you saying that you're doing this for him?" Peter asked menacingly. "Are you saying that you broke his heart to save it?"

"Yes!" Jack nodded. "If I thought that it would be fair for me to stay with him than I would in a second. I would lie to him to keep him, but he doesn't deserve that. I'm in a corner both ways. Lie or tell the truth, either way two hearts get broken, one just brings it about sooner than the other, because Peter, your brother is smart, he would have figured it out sooner or later."

"I know," Peter sighed. "I just…why couldn't you just believe him?"

"I want to Peter, I really do…" Jack brushed the dirt from his clothing as he pulled himself to his feet. "There is nothing that I wouldn't give not to believe him, but I can't make myself think things that I don't already. I can't lie to Edmund and I definitely can't lie to myself. I'm just sorry that it had to happen like this."

"Me too, I thought you were different, I thought that you would understand when the time came, but I guess I was wrong." With that, Peter turned and headed back inside to find his brother and Caspian.

"You didn't hurt him, did you?" Edmund asked, surprisingly dry eyed, though upset.

"No." Peter shook his head. "I wanted to, but I knew that you didn't want me to, so I didn't."

"Thank you." Edmund nodded gratefully. "I really, really appreciate it."