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Chapter 30

Edmund

I woke up awhile later and I saw that it was dark outside. It took me a second to realize where I am until I saw Sophie lying next to me sleeping. She looked peaceful only with a small frown on her face as she slept. I stroked her hair as I continued to watch her. I looked down and saw my clothes somewhat dried from being on the beach earlier.

I got up from my spot and kissed Sophie's head as I went across the hall and changed. I changed quickly and made it towards her door when I felt a hand on my arm. I spun around and saw that it was Peter standing there.

"You could've said something," I said.

"I wanted to but I didn't know whether or not you were asleep," he said.

"Well I'm not," I said.

"Listen, Caspian wants to talk to us about something," he said.

"And whatever he wants to talk to us can't wait until the morning?" I asked skeptically.

"Not exactly," he replied.

I looked back at the door that had Sophie behind there and at my brother. I just hope that she'll be alright. I know she will be but I don't know, maybe I should just stay with her for tonight. Knowing her, she would insist on letting me go with Peter and Caspian.

"Alright but he better have a good reason," I said as we headed towards the study.

"Okay so what do you need to talk to us about?" I asked Caspian. He looked nervous like he was afraid to ask me and Peter something.

"Well, it's something that I hoped you two would grant me permission seeing how that Susan have you two here now," he said.

"Whatever it is, I'm sure we'll be reasonable," Peter said.

"Okay," Caspian breathed out before he spoke again. "I want to ask you two permission for Susan's hand in marriage."

That I wasn't expecting. Okay, so maybe I had a feeling her wanted to marry her but I didn't expect him to propose soon. I looked over at Peter as he had an eerily calm look on his face.

"Go on," I said.

"You see obviously I love and care for her so very much. I would do anything for her and you know that. I just hope that you will let me be her husband," he said.

The room got quiet. I didn't know whether or not this would be a good thing. I cleared my throat as Peter sent me a look. He looked back at Caspian as he approached him slowly.

"Will you love my sister and treat her with the utmost respect?" he asked.

"Of course," Caspian replied.

"And you do know that if you ever do anything to hurt her, I won't hesitate to kill you," Peter warned.

"I know that and you two know that I would never ever hurt her in anyway," he said.

"Then my friend, you got my permission," Peter said.

"Same goes for me," I noted.

"Thanks my friends," he said. "I was afraid that you two would say no."

"It's no problem and I will admit, I couldn't picture any other suitor for Susan," Peter said.

"Yeah, I mean I know she'll say yes but how do you plan on proposing to her?" I asked.

"I don't know but I do hope she'll say yes," he said.

I couldn't help but try to hide my laughter as Caspian was acting nervous from before. But then it got me thinking about me and Sophie. I do want to marry her and I even told her I would. It wasn't exactly a proposal I would imagine considering the circumstances with what happened a few days prior. I love her so much that I would go to the ends of the earth for her.

After we had got done talking, we parted ways for bed. I quickly rushed up the stairs and slowed down when I got down the hallway. I quietly opened up Sophie's room and to my surprise and shock, I saw her sitting up in bed, clutching to herself tightly.

"Sophie?" I asked, worriedly. She didn't respond but stared straight ahead.

"Sophie, what's wrong?" I asked as I rushed over.

I only shook her once and she snapped out of her trance and stared at me with wide eyes. She was breathing heavy but sighed in relief at the same time.

What on earth happened to her?

"Sorry," she breathed out.

"Don't be, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, I just woke up from a really weird dream," she replied.

"Want to talk about it?"

"Not really no, but what did Peter wanted to talk to you about?"

"You heard us?"

"Yeah, since Peter doesn't have the quietest voice outside my room," she said with a slight smile.

She got out of bed and walked over towards the balcony doors and stared out into the night. I followed her and wrapped my arms around her and rested my chin on the top of her head.

"What did Peter want?" she asked.

"Actually he was the messenger from Caspian," I replied.

"Really?"

"Yep, Caspian wanted to get permission from us to marry Susan," I said.

"That's sweet," she said. "I think I see those two married already. But I think it's respectfully for him to ask you guys permission."

"Yeah," I said.

"Do you think anything's going to happen with everything that happened? I know it didn't make any sense," she said.

I chuckled lightly as I pressed a kiss on her head. "Sense or not, I hope nothing else will happen," I replied.

"I don't know…"

"What?"

"I mean, what if the leaders see what I did to their men wasn't self defense?" she asked.

"You did what you thought was the right thing while you were being attacked," I said.

"I know but…" she said as she turned to face me. "I don't know I get this weird feeling that maybe something might happen. I could be wrong and worry over nothing but knowing me I am and…"

I sealed off her rant by kissing her softly on the lips. We pulled apart a second later as I stroked her cheek lovingly.

"Do you always have to do that?" she asked.

"Well it's the one way to shut you up when you ramble, which I don't mind," I said as she slapped me on the arm. "And also because I wanted too."

She rolled her eyes as she shook her head before she cuddled next to me as we stood by the window before I heard her sigh.

"You'll sleep fine tonight?" I asked.

"I think so, why?" she asked, looking at me with a weird look.

"Well, from the way you were looking before, it seemed to me that you just had a nightmare," I pointed out.

"Did not and besides; I told you I had a weird dream," she said.

"It didn't look like you came out a weird dream."

"What are you the dream police?" she mumbled, separating us and walked over to the bed with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Must you be so stubborn," I said. "Sophie, you can't keep hiding things from everyone."

"And why the hell not?" she snapped.

"Because, if something happened then we have to know in order to do something about it," I said, feeling my patience was wearing thin so quickly.

"Alright fine you want to know, then I'll freaking tell you," she said. "Things happened back at the How that I still feel a bit traumatized about it and I don't want to talk about it because I don't know how you guys would react. I know you damn well you'll go crazy but there are things you don't know that happened back at that How when I was ambushed. You wouldn't understand and neither would Susan, Lucy, Caspian and Peter."

I stared at her in shock as she looked back at me with tears threatening to fall from her eyes. She turned away as she was wiping her eyes and staring down at the comforter on the bed. I walked over there and sat next to her. I grabbed her wrists and she looked up at me with the saddest but scared look on her face.

"What happened?" I asked.

She hesitated before she took a deep breath. "It happened back at the How after Lucy left…"

A/n: So in the midst of hell week, aka the end of the semester, I was intentionally going to make this another filler and fill the next chapter with other stuff but then this last bit just came to me and bam, there you have it.

Sophie's story will happen in the next chapter and remember, she never told anyone what happened back at the How when she was ambushed. How will the others react? I'll leave that up for you to decide.

You know what to do! I thank for your patience and support throughout this journey. You guys rock! I'll try and update next week and if that doesn't happen then the following week.

Until then,
Spikeluver89