Sorry peeps! But I know what I'm doing with Caspian and Susan, and they won't be together for a while yet!
I didn't get enough reviews for me to make them meet in this chapter, so instead of punishing the people who were good enough to review I thought, well, here's a possible outcome and I'm going to go with it, but it requires a long waiting for Susan and Caspian to meet up again, but I promise! It'll be worth the wait! So bare with me! But at the same time, the more reviews the quicker they meet, I feel so evil! I think I'm actually blackmailing people I have never met! OMG! I better get to writing some more chapters so everyone doesn't hate me!
Annapfan this chapters for you!!
Chapter Five: Longing
Caspian shifted uncomfortable on the ground, he couldn't sleep, he looked over at Edmund who was lying flat on his back, his mouth open snoring, he looked over at Lucy, and she was curled up in a ball, her eyes closed and her mouth smiling slightly.
Caspian smiled, she looked so cute, He rolled over onto his back and looked up and the sky, the constellation of stars that formed the Archer was still shining ever so brightly, he looked over at another group of stars, this constellation was called 'The Sword' it was named after High King Peter, it was said that this constellation formed the day Peter defended his sisters and killed Morgan and was knighted.
Caspian looked over at another constellation it was called 'The Healer' it was named after Lucy, "it wasn't very creative" thought Caspian, this constellation was simply a cross, he then looked over at the last constellation it was called "The Shield" it was named after King Edmund, it was suppose to represent Edmund's devotion to his family, his need to protect them, like a shield.
Caspian looked back to the archer, his favorite constellation; 'The Archer' was named after Queen Susan.
Susan, how he wanted to see her, to hear her voice, to see her smile, to look into her eyes, to hold her again, to kiss her…
He felt weak; his eyes were beginning to close, he felt tired, so tired, "Go to sleep!" some one whispered, he knew that voice that hypnotic voice, that voice he had dreamed about, "go to sleep" it whispered again, Caspian herd the waves crashing in the ocean, he felt soft cotton sheets, and a hand holding his hand, "I am asleep" said Caspian opening his eyes and seeing the only person in the world that he wanted to see. Susan.
She was sitting on the edge of the bed holding Caspian's hand, he stared at her, she was wearing the blue and white dress that he had seen her last in, "where are you?" asked Caspian staring straight into her large blue eyes, "Here, with you" she said not looking away from him, "where are we?" asked Caspian noticing the archway that had a balcony that held a spectacular view of the ocean, "Cair Paravel" said Susan looking out the archway to the view, her beautiful chocolate curls bouncing as she turned her head back to Caspian, "go to sleep" she said getting up and going to the balcony looking out to sea so her back was turned to him, "Susan" said Caspian getting out of bed and going over to her, as she did he realized that he was wearing the same thing he was wearing the day Susan left, "I'm tired! I'm so tired" said Caspian looking out to sea, "Your not tired, your strong" said Susan, "I'm not strong, I'm not strong with out you" said Caspian looking into Susan's eyes and standing up straight, "You were strong before you met me, and you'll be strong long after I'm gone" said Susan cupping Caspian's cheek in her hand, "You know I wish I could believe that" said Caspian looking down his voice filled with emotion, "You don't need to believe it, because I do, I believe in you" said Susan lifting Caspian's head her voice and eyes filled with sadness, "we barley knew each other a month" said Susan a tear rolling down her cheek, but she was some how still smiling, "But I'll love you for a life time" said Caspian his voice breaking with emotion as he held her by her hips, Susan smiled she then took a step back, breaking free from Caspian's grip.
Caspian was still holding her hand, he knew what was coming next, she was going to leave, "Stay with me" said Caspian, Susan smiled, but took another step back, only there fingertips were touching, "Stay with me!" said Caspian, "I cant" said Susan, and with that her hand left slowly slid out of Caspian's, and then she was gone and Caspian was back on the ground, and Lucy was shaking him awake, "Caspian? Sorry to wake you, but Edmund says we need to get going" said Lucy, "Yeah, ok" said Caspian getting up, he had had that dream before, the conversations were different but she always left him, she always left him when he wanted her to stay, "Are you okay?" asked Lucy, "Yeah, I'm fine" said Caspian rubbing his eye's, "ok, well I got you some breakfast, I swear I didn't poison it" said Lucy smiling and handing him a bowl, "Thank you Lucy" said Caspian taking the bowl, it was porridge, he didn't like porridge but didn't have the heart to tell Lucy so he ate it.
"Come on we have a lot of ground to cover today!" said Caspian getting on Destier, "Caspian! Can we at least have a lunch break today?" asked Edmund, Caspian smiled, "Lets go!" called Caspian spurring Destier.
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"Aim it up!" said Susan guiding a fauns bow up a little, "good, now release" said Susan, the faun didn't and the arrow hit the blue ring of the target, "Thank you! Your Highness!" said the faun, Susan smiled then went over to the target that was on the edge of the cliff, she looked up Peter was sitting on a rock by Shadowfare and Peter's large Brown chestnut horse called Andrew, "Pete are you ready to go?" asked Susan, "one more minuet" called Peter, he was busy going over a battle plan that Trumpkin was going to submit to Caspian saying he had devised it when really Peter had stayed up all night working on it, "Peter, if Aslan finds that we haven't gone to the other camp he's not going to be happy" said Susan grabbing and arrow and knocking it to her bow, "one more minuet, I'll finish this, give it to Trumpkin then we'll go over to the other camp and start commanding the Narnian's and Caspian wont even know we're here, we're doing exactly as Aslan asked, it's going to be fine" said Peter not even looking up away from his book but waving his hand in Susan's general direction, she smiled and loosed and arrow, it hit the target dead in the middle like she knew it would be, "Susan, do you mind that were in Narnia and you haven't seen Caspian?" asked Peter looking up from his work, Susan turned around, her braid sitting on the her shoulder, after a minuet Susan answered, "no, because I know that I will see him, I don't know when but I know will, Aslan told me I will, and I believe him" said Susan knocking another arrow, "Yeah well he also told us we'd never come back and look how that turned out" said Peter looking down at his work, Susan smiled, when Peter was sarcastic it meant he was in a good mood, he was being playful, she pulled the string back and aimed at the target, was that horse hooves? She thought, no, my imagination, she pulled the arrow back a little more and let it go, it hit the dead center, as she knew it would, she lowered her bow and looked down, then she looked to the side she saw a group of horses riding into the camp.
Susan focused her eye sight, she could see Lucy's red dress, she was riding behind a person who was riding a large black horse, Susan's heart stopped, she knew that horse, her eye's shifted to the face of the rider, and Susan's breath caught, it was Caspian, his hair was falling a little over his eyes, his tanned face was looking about the camp, his eyes were as dark as she remembered, but they didn't seem to have the light in them anymore, his skin looked a little lighter than the last time she had seen him, but maybe it just looked light against his black armor, his hands were holding onto the reins of Destier, his hands, she wanted him to hold him, she wanted to be in his arms.
Peter closed the book, he had finished making the plan, he looked up Susan was staring at something, he stood up Trumpkin was waving madly at him, he looked up Caspian was riding into the camp, oh no, "Susan!" called Peter urgently running to Susan and wrapping his arms around her hips he pulled her started to pull her over towards the horse, "we have to go!" said Peter, Susan stopped staring at Caspian's approaching horse and she started to run over to Shadowfare still holding her bow.
Susan jumped up onto Shadowfare, Peter jumped up onto Andrew, she turned Shadowfare sharply and began to gallop of with Peter.
Caspian looked about the camp, he then looked up at the small cliff that over looked the camp, he saw a the back of a white horse galloping through the trees, his eyes narrowed, who was that? He looked about the cliff a faun was pulling red arrows out of the target, red arrows? Who did he know that had arrows that had red feathers?
"Glad you could make it my King!" said Trumpkin as Caspian got off his horse, "who was up on that hill?" asked Caspian, Trumpkin's heart stopped, "Why no one! Just some Narnian's practicing the archery" said Trumpkin, hoping the king would not suspect anything, "Trumpkin! It's so nice to see you Dear Little Friend" said Lucy running over and hugging Trumpkin, "Come Highness the men have shot a stag so I believe a feast is in order for the return of The kings and Queens of old" said Trumpkin smiling up at Lucy, "feast? Sounds great I'm starving!" said Edmund walking over and thumping Trumpkin on the shoulder, Caspian smiled he couldn't shake the feeling that someone wasn't telling him something, "come lets go" said Trumpkin going to leave, "Edmund, Lucy, when you came back, only- only you came back right?" asked Caspian looking around, Edmund and Lucy looked at each other then to Trumpkin, "Right?" asked Caspian looking around, where they lying to him? Was Susan here and he hadn't seen here, had she been here the whole time?
"Yes! Only Lucy and King Edmund came through, Aslan said Queen Susan and King Peter weren't able to come back, Caspian you know that" said Trumpkin looking at Caspian, "your swear she's not here?" asked Caspian, he couldn't say her name in front of people, it was just, to painful, but he didn't need to, they knew who he was talking about, Adam had been listening to the convocation, Adam was Caspian's Head of guard, he was quite a good friend to Caspian so he was well aware of his suffering and had gotten to the camp an hour after Trumpkin so he was well aware that King Peter and Queen Susan were in Narnia, but Trumpkin had explained Aslan's plan to him, sensing Trumpkin's distress he came to the rescue, "My King, my troops and I landed here and hour after Trumpkin, if King Peter and Queen Susan were here I would have seen them, but I have not, so it would seem that they are not here" said Adam, Caspian stared at Adam, he had known him since before he had become King, Adam had dark ginger hair and was a good friend, not his best friend but a friend and because of this he believed him, Caspian's shoulders relaxed and he breathed out, feeling stupid, "come on lets go have some dinner, it's almost nightfall.
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Susan stared up at the moon through her tent, she hadn't felt like dinner so she just went to bed, Peter was busy going over his battle plan, and after spending the day surrounded by Narnian's Susan couldn't be happier, well… she could be…
Staring up at the moon Susan remembered the last kiss she shared with Caspian, it was a goodbye kiss, it wasn't filled with passion, but it was filled with love, an understanding that they would meet again someday. Someday.
Susan went back to staring at the moon, tomorrow they would be fighting The White Witch, for the last time, would she see Caspian tomorrow? Only time would tell.
Caspian stared up at the moon, it was big, round and bright.
Tonight festivities were nice, Lucy was dancing with the fauns, Edmund was eating to his hearts content, and Trumpkin was watching Lucy dance with the fauns, he may have been smiling but his beard hid it.
Caspian looked through the fire, two Centaurs were kneeling down in the grass, a female Centaur with blonde hair was resting her head on a male Centaur, The female then looked up at the male centaur and kissed him.
Caspian looked on and watched, how lucky they were to have each other, they must really love each other, though Caspian as he looked on, then he remembered Susan, and he relived there kiss, every detail, every look, her lips were so soft and when he held her he never wanted to let go.
Caspian then opened his eyes, he then stood up, and went to his tent, he was tired and didn't want to be around people that were in love for he didn't want to be reminded of Susan, not today, he was going to be fighting the white witch tomorrow and all he could think about was Susan.
Oh he was tired! So tired! He walked over to his bed and lay down and instantly went to sleep.
