Hey guys! Just wanted to let you know that there is a poll on my page about which story I should write after this one is completed. I am going to write a story for each couple (Four stories all together) and I need your help to pick! You can vote for up to two choices, so please make sure you vote for your two favorites. I have titles on the profile page, and I already have some of each story written, so please let me know which one to work on. Thanks, and onto the story!
Susan's POV
Susan found David outside the fortress, sitting on a rock high up. It was a grassy rock, which overlooked the field. It was a large field, with wide open space and surrounded by trees and forests.
"I'm sorry for Peter's comment." Susan whispered to David as she sat down beside him.
"It's okay. Maybe it's better if we leave anyway." David responded quietly.
"Don't say that! I would miss you so much if you left." Susan's sentence trailed off quietly.
"Would you?" David turned to her, "because I would miss you terribly." He smiled at her gently. "You've gotten me through so much Susan, and I think I'm falling for you."
"Well, that's just a good thing, because I'm falling for you too." She smiled at him, but just as they were about to kiss, Susan spotted something out of the corner of her eye.
"David! Look!" David turned to look where Susan was pointing. When he did, his face filed with horror. Marching across the field was an army of soldiers from Miraz. "We'd better get inside and tell Peter!"
David's POV
"That's your plan? A girl left by herself in the forest?" David scoffed at Peter. "That's just dangerous!" Everyone was together in the fortress, trying to come up with a plan against the coming attack.
"She won't be alone," Susan replied. "I'll be going with her." David's heart filled with dread. Susan going out in the woods too could be dangerous.
"Well, it doesn't appear that we have any other choice. In the meantime, there's a tradition that we could use to by ourselves some more time. Miraz won't ignore traditions. If you challenge him to a duel, and tell him that the reward is total surrender from the opposing army, I think you'll get him to agree Peter." Edmund informed his brother.
"Then let's go. Susan, you and Lucy get ready to go. Danielle, you stay here with Ricky. Edmund, you go and get Miraz to agree. David, you come with me and help me get ready, and then we can go explain to our generals what's going on. Elise, you should stay here as well." Peter explained to everyone what they were doing.
"I don't want to stay here! I want to fight!" Elise protested.
"Well it could be dangerous!" Peter argued. "There's no reason for you to risk your life too."
"Peter Pevensie! I will fight, and you can't stop me." Elise's eyes flashed. David knew that she would get her way, she always did. Inwardly, he grinned at his sister's courage.
Elise's POV
After the meeting, everyone disappeared to their various preparations. Elise stayed behind to talk to Peter.
"Peter please! Let me help fight! I want to help!" She begged him.
"Elise, do you really think I could let you put your life in danger? I can't do that!" Peter sighed.
"Well, do you think I can just stay here, having no idea whether your dead or not?" She responded with a fiery tone.
"No, I guess not." Peter said quietly.
"Then please! Why won't you let me?" She asked, some of the fight gone out of her.
"I don't want to risk losing you. After everything these last two days, you mean the world to me, and I can't even imagine losing you." Peter admitted. Elise put her hand on his face and gently caressed his cheek.
"I promise, nothing will happen to me." She assured him. He bent his head and kissed her softly.
Danielle's POV
"Edmund!" Danielle argued. She was in much the same situation as Elise had been with Peter.
"I won't let you fight, and that's final. The battle is no place for a woman." Edmund folded his arms and stared at her.
"Well that's just a chauvinistic attitude if I ever heard one!" She protested.
"I don't care. Whatever it takes to get you to stay, that's what I'll do." Edmund answered her, with a hint of a smile on his face. He pulled her into his arms and held her gently. Then without a word, he disappeared to watch Peter's fight with Miraz.
David's POV
"Be careful Susan! Promise me!" David begged Susan as she got on the horse with Lucy.
"I will David, I promise!" She smiled at him. He wanted to kiss her more than anything, but Lucy was there. So he simply grabbed her hand and squeezed it gently, and watched as she rode out of the hall.
David had been watching the fight with Elise for the last five minutes, but he all of a sudden felt an indescribable worry for Susan. He whispered to Elise where he was going, and grabbed a horse. With that, he rode off into the forest.
Riding through the trees, he saw to his horror that Susan had fallen and was lying on the ground and was surrounded by two soldiers. Both of the soldiers had their swords pointed at her, and the fright on her face would make anyone's heart melt. He rode towards the soldiers, holding his sword, and killed both of them, extending his hand to her.
"I thought you promised to be careful!" He scolded her.
"I was trying, but I was outnumbered." She realized then that he was only half serious, and she smiled at him. He couldn't resist anymore, and he leaned toward her, and his mouth met hers in a passionate kiss. After a few seconds he deepened the kiss before pulling back, leaving them both breathless. Without a word he turned and rode back to the battlefield.
Susan's POV
Susan felt her lips while they were riding back to the battlefield. She had been kissed before, but never like that. No kiss had ever felt like that. Fireworks, sparks, electricity; it was amazing.
"Focus!" She whispered to herself.
As they arrived back at the battlefield, she saw that Peter was sitting next to Elise, who was holding his arm while Edmund re-adjusted it. Susan jumped off the horse and ran to her brother.
"Pete! Are you okay?" She asked with worry in her voice.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little dislocated that's all." Peter deflected the worry. Susan could see the adoration in Peter's eyes as he looked at Elise and the love in her smile. Even though they had only known each other a few days, Susan knew they were going to be together. She couldn't have picked a better girl for her brother. But then she was drawn back to reality. The fight was over, but Miraz's confidant shoved an arrow up his chest and killed him. Susan saw it with her own eyes. Then he shouted.
"TREACHERY! They shot him! They killed our king!" The man cried. The army protested loudly and began to shoot cannonballs at the fortress and the grounds around it. David glanced at her, then pulled her into his arms and held her tightly. Susan knew the unspoken message there, and she smiled at him before running up to the fortress with the archers and getting ready.
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