Disclaimer: I don't own Narnia, I only own Sophie. Yeah that's the story of my life.

Chapter 20

Sophie

Dream Sequence

I woke up to the sun in my eyes. I looked around at my surroundings and I was back in the woods. I didn't see Caspian, Susan or the others.

What's worse is I didn't see Edmund.

How the hell did I get back here? I saw to my right the same way I came into Narnia. I was back in the woods that led to the park. I stood up and I could see that I was in my clothes that I wore when I first arrived.

Either this was happening for real or I must be dreaming.

I walked slowly from my spot as I take in my surroundings. This couldn't be happening. It can't. Could it?

I stopped short when I saw someone ahead of me. I continued to walk towards the person until the person turned around and I recognized it was Jason.

"Jason holy crap" I said, running towards him. "As much as it's a surprise, I'm happy to see you. You won't believe what happened to me."

I looked at him and there was something different about him. It wasn't his clothes, his looks or anything. It had to do with the expression on his face.

"Um, dork it's me remember?" I asked.

"Who are you?" he asked cryptically.

I looked at him in shock. This couldn't be my brother. "Jason what the hell is wrong with you?" I asked. I felt the wind blowing around us and I turned back to the way I came and all of a sudden, there was a maze.

Where did that come from?

I looked at my brother who had the same expression on his face and then I saw the maze again. I walked over towards the maze and I stepped in it, not knowing what I was getting myself into.

I saw two different paths. I decided to stick to my right and kept on walking. I looked around as I walked deeper in the maze. I didn't even know where I was going.

"HELLO?" I called out. But all I met was silence.

I started to shake and breath heavy as I ran through the maze. This wasn't happening. It can't happen. I need to find someone to help me.

All of a sudden, I felt something grabbing me and I was pulled into another place. The next thing I knew, I was tied up against a wall in a dark room. I started to thrash around to get out of the chains but it was no use.

"Now, now, you don't want us doing anything you might regret" a voice said.

"Who are you? Let me go!" I cried out.

I continued to try and get out but it was no use. "ED! HELP! SOMEONE!" I cried out as I felt tears going down my face. I saw something shining in front of me. When I realized it was a knife coming towards me, I started to scream.

"NO!" I cried out.

Then I felt something going through my stomach and I screamed out in pain, thrashing around.

"NO! DON'T DO THIS! HELP! SOMEBODY!"

Then I felt something twisting inside of me as I let out a blood curling scream.

End of dream sequence

"Sophie, Sophie, SOPHIE!" I heard someone calling my name as I screamed and thrashing around. I felt hands on my wrists as I was moving around. My eyes shot opened and I shot up gasping for air.

"Sophie, what happened?" I turned and saw Edmund sitting on my bed with a frantic look on his face. I felt my stomach and looked at my hand which had nothing on them as I was catching my breath. I looked up at him as I was trying to calm down.

"Y-You weren't there" I whispered as I felt tears coming down on my face.

"Weren't there for what?" he asked softly.

I started to cry and lunged at him and just held him as I buried my face in the crook of his neck. He immediately wrapped his arms around me. We just sat like that on my bed as I cried with him, rubbing my back comfortingly.

"It's alright, I'm here, and I got you. No one's here to get you, I'm here" he said, comfortingly.

"It felt so weird none of you guys weren't there" I sobbed.

"I'm here Sophie" he said. I wiped my eyes and I can see some of the eyeliner on my hands along with the water from my eyes.

"Do you think you could stay here with me tonight?" I asked, not looking at him.

"You don't want to be alone" he stated.

"After that nightmare, I don't think so. Unless you don't want to" I said.

"I'll stay with you" he said. "I just need to change quickly but I'll be back, okay?"

I looked up at him and nodded wordlessly before I pressed my lips on to his before I got off the bed. I went in the closet and grabbed a nightgown before I went in the bathroom. I heard my bedroom door open so I'm assuming he was going across the hall to change.

I took one look in the mirror and saw my eyeliner running down my face and my eyes red from crying. I look like complete crap. I washed my eyes and changed into the nightgown as I left my boots in the bathroom and tossed my dress on the chair after I left.

Everything felt like it was going into slow motion as I collapsed on the bed. My head on the pillow and I felt a few more tears coming down my face.

That nightmare felt real. It can't be real. I started to breathe heavy in anxiety as I continued to think about it. I don't know why but it felt forever since Edmund has left for his room.

I heard the door open and I saw him coming inside. He was wearing a white nightshirt along with a pair of pants on him. He came over with a sad smile on his face.

"Got room for one more?" he asked as I shared the blanket I had on me.

"I can't believe I'm acting like this" I said.

"Acting like what?"

"A child" I replied. "Over a stupid nightmare."

"Can you tell me what it was?" he asked.

"I don't know" I said, looking at the blanket.

"Please?"

I looked up at him before I took a deep breath and sat up. "I was back in the woods, before I came to Narnia. I see Jason and when I approached him, he looked different. As if he didn't recognize me or even knew that we were related. The next thing I knew I was in some maze and then somehow I'm tied up. I tried to get out, I tried calling for you guys and…"

"And what?" he asked.

"And then I got stabbed. Twice" I replied softly as I felt tears coming down on my face. "And the really bad part was when no one was there. Your siblings, Caspian they weren't there to help, but the worst part was when I called you, you weren't there."

I saw him lean down and kissed me a couple times as he wiped the tears off my cheeks. He pulled away and looked at me.

"I'll always be here and I'm not going anywhere, do you hear me?" he said.

"I know" I replied.

He pulled me closer to his body as I wrapped my arm over his stomach. I felt his fingers running through my hair which felt relaxing and I calmed down a bit but my eyes felt sore from crying so hard.

"You think you'll be able to sleep tonight?" I heard him ask.

"I don't know" I replied. "Maybe."

"Just try and get some rest" he said.

"Will you be here when I wake up?"I asked.

I felt movement as he looked down at me with sincerity in his eyes. "I'll be here" he replied.

I looked at him and I noticed something underneath his shirt. I took a deep look and saw that it was a scar that was peeking out of his shirt.

"Where did you get that?" I asked, pointing towards the scar.

Edmund looked at me for a long time. I started to worry since I had to ask that question. Of course, me and my big mouth had to start something.

"I-I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked…"

"No it's not your fault I was just taken back by your question seeing as I don't like to talk about what happened when we first battled for Narnia" he said.

"She gave you that scar didn't she?" I asked, knowing my answer. He just simply nodded as he lied back down on his spot.

"I'm sorry" I whispered. "For what happened to you, you know that, right?"

"I know it's just after what I did and what she made me do, I didn't think I would ever be the same after that" he said softly.

He looked up at me and traced his finger along my cheek. "I just hope I won't make the same mistake again."

"You won't" I said. I lied down next to him in his arms as he continued to comfort me as I felt a few more tears streaming down my face.

"You won't" I whispered before I felt my eyes closed and I entered into a world of slumber.

A/n: Okay so this is somewhat planned but it's something. I'll try and update again I'm currently having laptop battery power issues at the moment and I'm at the point of ordering a new one offline so I'm a little worried about that and trying to fix it.

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