Chapter Five~

As Jessie stares at Mrs. Beaver upon hearing those words Lucy turns to her and takes her hand, apparently her face has gone pale and she wants to comfort her friend. Even Peter looks worried as he asked,

"And you think we're the ones?"

"Well you better be, because He's fitting out your army!" Mr. Beaver shouted so that Jessie in surprise cried,

"Our army?!" before Susan turned to Peter tugging on his arm saying as she did,

"Mum sent us away so we wouldn't get caught up in a war!" so that Peter nodded and turned back to the two expectant beavers saying to them,

"I think you're mistaken, we're not heroes!" before Susan and Peter stood from the table and began to head for the door with Susan saying as she did,

"Thank you for your hospitality, but we really have to go." but Mr. Beaver cried that they couldn't just leave since they had just arrived and Lucy added,

"He's right, we have to help Mr. Tumnus!" only Peter looking to a silent Jessie who had stood up also though she made no movement to leave said,

"It's out of our hands. I'm sorry, but it's time the five of us were getting back—" then he looked around for Edmund only to find the front door wide open and said,

"I'm going to kill him." yet Mr. Beaver said to him,

"You may not have to, has Edmund been in Narnia before?" next thing the four plus the beavers knew they were racing up a hillside to try and catch Edmund before he reached the White Witches house. Peter kept calling 'hurry' as Jessie held Lucy's hand before they came to a stop atop the hilltop seeing his figure entering the massive ice crystal home of the White Witch as Lucy cried out,

"Edmund!" making Mr. Beaver hiss,

"Hush they'll hear you!" then Peter began to run down the hill only Mr. Beaver grabbed onto his leg making him cry out,

"Get off me!" yet the beaver wouldn't let go as he rolled around with Peter saying desperately,

"You're playing into her hands!" as Susan watching snapped,

"We can't just let him go!" and even Lucy added,

"He's our brother." as Peter managed to tumble free of the beaver so that Jessie helped him to stand upright which he was surprised for put he muttered a thanks as Mr. Beaver snapped at them all,

"He's the bait! The Witch wants all four of you! I'm surprise she hasn't found out about the fifth!"

"Why does she want all five of us?" Jessie wondered panting slightly as Mr. Beaver turned to her and said in an annoyed tone,

"To stop the two Prophecies from coming true, to kill you!" then Susan turned on Peter and started shouted at him,

"This is all your fault!" so that he laughed shortly saying,

"My fault?"

"None of this would have happened if you would have just listened to me!" she continued so that Peter again said,

"Oh so you knew this would had happened!" at this Susan retreated into herself a bit so that she said honestly,

"I didn't know what would happened, that's why we should have left while we still had a chance!" by now they were close to each other so that Jessie stepped between them saying hotly,

"Stop it, this won't help your brother you two!" so that made them stop and blink in surprise that she was getting into the thick of it when she wasn't even a part of the situation, well, sort of so that Mr. Beaver said,

"She's right, only Aslan can help your brother now." so that Peter, Jessie, Susan and Lucy turn to look back at the White Witches fortress as Peter says,

"Then take us to Him." so they slowly and dejectedly head back to the beavers dam as Jessie says to Peter,

"I'm sorry about Edmund." making him turn to her and smile shortly as he says,

"Thanks Jessica."

"It's Jessie by the way now, your sister Lucy dubbed me so." Jessie laughed so that even Peter managed out a chuckle as they suddenly heard a wolf howl making Mr. Beaver cry,

"There after us!" so that they dash into the dam as Mr. Beaver cries to his wife that they were being chased so that she begins to pack making Susan ask what on earth she was doing. Once they were done they hear they hear the wolves attacking at the dam itself so that Jessie looks around and seeing a wolves muzzle grabs a stick and jabs it at the muzzle so that Lucy giggles while the beavers wave the children towards a hidden doorway saying,

"Come on then humans!" so that Peter makes sure they all get in with the beavers first, then they follow behind with lit torches. As they shut the door behind Mr. Beaver says how his friend Badger dug this hole to lead out to his friend's house as Lucy trips on her coat, Peter holding her hand to help her up as they hear the wolves inside the tunnel as Jessie cries,

"They're inside the tunnel!" so that they run hunched over in the tunnel and suddenly find themselves appearing outside once more into the cold as they help each other out, Peter having to help Jessie since she had caught her coat on a branch. Then as they look around all the animals including Badger, Mr. Beaver's friend, have been turned to stone.

"What happened here?" Jessie asked sounding angry as a figure appeared turning out to be a fox that says,

"This is what becomes of those who cross the Witch." so that Mr. Beaver turns angry himself as he says,

"You take one more step traitor and I'll chew you to splinters!" the Fox laughs softly to himself as they talk about him being a traitor but he says while looking over to the covered tunnel space,

"Right now we've got to move." indicating the wolves breaking loose so that Peter jumps at the chance to be safe along with his family and says,

"What did you have in mind?" so that the children along with the beaver climb up a tree with Peter helping the girls while the Fox covers their tracks before the wolves break into the encampment.

"Greetings gents, lost something have we?" so that the lead wolf Maurgrim snaps at him in a growl,

"Don't patronize me! I know where your loyalties lie, we're looking for some humans." making the Fox laugh as he says,

"Humans, here in Narnia? That's a valuable bit of information don't you think?" so that one wolf jumps on the fox grabbing the fox in between his jaws and squeezes down so that Lucy cries out only Jessie covers her mouth.

"Your reward is your life. It's not much, but still. Where were the fugitives?" so that after a seemingly forever while the Fox says,

"North—they ran north." and the wolves cried,

"Smell them out!" throwing the Fox causing him to hit a tree and whimper out and as the children waited for the wolves to leave it was Jessie who jumped down first and go over to the Fox to ask,

"Are you ok?" while Peter started up a fire and Jessie gently helped the Fox over to the fire so that he could be warmed up.

"Thank you my liege and majesty." the Fox said before the others sat around the fire looking at Jessie so that she shrugged, but deep down wanted to know why the Fox was also calling her 'majesty' and 'liege' when there were only four thrones—right?