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Post Date: 3-17-10

Thank you to the 5 people who reviewed Chapter One. Your reviews were very much appreciated. I'm not even going to try to apologize for the months-long gap between these two chapters. Please don't maim me though. Or track down the White Witch's wand and turn me to stone with it- one: you definitely won't get any more chapters, and two: I don't really fancy having either of those things happen to me. Or anything akin to them… uh, yeah.

Okay, a little note about the last chapter: I don't know if anyone noticed, but I used the hide-and-seek game for the second entrance into Narnia. That's how C. S. Lewis had it in the books. I'll be doing this mostly bookverse, but I might throw in bits of dialogue and perhaps scenes from the movie that I like. Kudos to anyone who can catch a little snippet from the movie that I stuck in. Hint: it's something Mr. Tumnus says.

On with the story!

Chapter Two

"I… uh, it's…" Edmund began, unsure of what to say. "Well, um… yes." Lucy let out a muffled squeal and hugged Edmund tightly. Peter and Susan's eyes narrowed.

"Yes?" Peter repeated incredulously. "Edmund, how can there be a land in the wardrobe? It's impossible!" He stared at Edmund and Lucy in disbelief. Susan looked like she had tasted something sour.

"You're just going along with Lucy to poke fun at her again, aren't you?" Susan snapped. "Ever since you started going to that new school, you've been nothing but a beast! You're always talking back to Peter and me and taunting Lucy about something or other- why should this be any different?" Edmund gaped at Susan in bafflement. He had expected Peter to be the one to blow up at him.

Quickly glancing at Lucy and Peter, Edmund saw he was not the only one who had been surprised by Susan's outburst. Peter was the first to find his voice.

"Su-,"

"And you, Peter! You've been trying to act like Dad ever since he went away to the war! Maybe that's part of the reason Ed's been acting so spiteful!" Susan paused to draw breath. Peter seized the opportunity to speak.

"Whoa, cool it, Su!" Peter said. "There's no need to-"

"You see? That's just what I mean!" Susan retaliated. "It's… I wish… It makes me so…" She screamed in frustration and promptly tore from the room, leaving her three siblings to gape openmouthed at the doorway. Peter whistled long and low.

"Well, that was unexpected," he remarked dryly. Motioning to Lucy and Edmund, Peter left the wardrobe room, presumably to try to find Susan. Edmund, who had felt different after his short excursion into the wardrobe, helped Lucy to her feet. She hugged him once again and thanked him for telling the truth before running after Peter and Susan.

Left standing alone in the room, Edmund contemplated what had just happened. His head seemed a bit clearer and his heart a bit lighter since his brief excursion into the wardrobe. Or maybe that was just his imagination. Perhaps the only reason he had told the truth and not made fun of Lucy was so that Peter and Susan would stop berating him. Fat lot of good that idea had done, though. Edmund shook his head and mentally slapped himself for being so nice to Lucy and entertaining such silly notions.

Sighing, Edmund trudged out into the hallway. A grain of curiosity trickled to the forefront of his mind. Just who was this "White Witch" that the faun- Tumnus?- had wailed about? From how scared Mr. Tumnus had seemed, Edmund thought she sounded like a menace.

"I wonder why the king or queen of Narnia does nothing to stop her," Edmund muttered to himself. "I swear, if I ever get back there, I'll find him or her, and make them see sense and put a stop to her." If only to stop Lucy sniffling and weeping about the faun…

Edmund rounded the corner that led the hallway which contained the door to the room that the Professor had set aside for the Pevensies' use. Stepping into the room, he noticed that Peter and Susan were absent. Lucy was curled up in a chair with a handkerchief, sniffling. She looked up when Edmund walked in.

"Oh, Edmund, thank-" Lucy began. Edmund, who had been feeling more and more disgruntled as he made his way back to the "playroom" suddenly sneered.

"Well, I hope you're happy now, Lucy," Edmund hissed. "I told the truth and didn't spite you and look what good that did me! Peter and Susan are even more upset with me than ever, and it's all your fault!"

Okay, before people start reminding me that the White Witch IS the queen of Narnia, I must point out that while you, Lucy, and I know this, Edmund does not (yet). Mr. Tumnus never mentioned it; Lucy didn't either. Just clarifying that.

Another thing: someone thought last chapter that Edmund was too nice. I tried to rectify that in this chapter- make him more malicious again- but was it a little too drastic a change?

And also: SORRY for the long wait and such a short chapter! I'm a notorious procrastinator! I'll try to be quicker with Chapter Three!

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