AN: Short chapter. Sorry. It's a filler, though.
Five:
Peter sat in his office watching birds fly back and forth outside, when his sister comes in. She ran into the room in a hurry. "Oh Peter I am so sorry!" Susan is almost sobbing, and Peter immediately stands up.
"Susan, why are you apologizing? Did you do something wrong?"
"Well, I consider it wrong. And I know you won't be happy." She refuses to look him in the eye, ashamed of what she'd done.
"What is it?"
"She likes Ed, Peter! She likes Ed!"
"Who, Jane? Well we all know that. And even though shes two years older, I don't mind! She's a nice young woman!" Susan starts sobbing for real now. Real and uncontrollably and Peter knows he's wrong. "It's May, isn't it?" His heart sinks.
"Yes! I am sorry! She was asking me questions." And now his hearts sinking even more.
"What sort of questions?"
"Questions about Edmund."
"Ed?"
"Yes! Sh-she wants to marry our brother!" The high King sinks into his own chair, and he swears his heart broke. So it was true. He saw hints of it in the hall earlier this day, but he dismissed them. He thought his mind was just playing tricks on him. But, no. His mind wasn't. He saw the truth. The raw truth, and he was going to change it. Somehow. Someway.
"Susan, you told her Edmund was marrying someone else, right? Because I do not want her hopes up high. And I certainly do not want my brother marrying someone he doesn't want to marry."
"Oh Peter! I told her you liked her!" Peters eyebrows raise up.
"You did?"
"I'm sorry," Susan's voice is almost a whisper.
"I know," and Peters voice is very calm. It's actually scaring Susan.
"Can I go?"
"It probably would be the best thing, Sister." She nods her head, and leaves, while wiping her eyes with her sleeves.