Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia belong to C.S. Lewis, not me or am I making any profit with this story. I only own Alexandra and her friends/family or any other character you don't recognize.

Balance. Alexandra thought to herself. That's all that I need. She repeated as she sat in the traditional lotus position inhaling and exhaling every few seconds. Since she had returned to earth, yoga had become the perfect way to learn how to maintain her thoughts and emotions in a peaceful equilibrium.

She could've gone away five years ago, but she remembered her way around the castle as if she walked across its halls every day. That's why Alex had no problem in finding her old hideaway in a matter of minutes. Both Nina and she had taken refuge there since the whole encounter a little more than five hours ago. It was morning time now. She had been meditating all that time.

"This is getting insufferable Alex." Ninarika commented, she had always hated feeling caged, and although it was a pretty decent sized room the one they were in at the moment, she was starting to feel claustrophobic.

The queen took another deep breath before answering.

"I told you Nina, you are free to go whenever you wish to. I think I need more time to relax." She said in her calmest tone, without opening her eyes.

The tigress almost groaned.

"Alex, I understand where you're coming from. You want to make sure you're calm enough to endure another encounter with his 'royal-pain-in-the-ass', but it's been a while now, I think you're fine."

"Being extra careful never harmed anyone." Alexandra tried to win the argument with her guardian, but deep inside she knew the tigress was right.

"There's people who'd say otherwise. Come on, let's get out of here."

"But Nina…"

"I'm not saying you have to go back to see them right as we get out of here, but come on, hiding in the storage room of the library of the castle for more than two hours? Give me a break." Ninarika insisted.

"Fine." The queen sighed, rechecking all her thoughts once more, making sure they were stable, calm and properly controlled. She couldn't allow herself to lose all composure as she had hours before, much less with her family around.

If she could have, Nina would have definitely applauded the queen's final decision. She did hate being in closed spaces, but after all, she was considered a wild animal.

The brunette stood up and was walking down the stairs of the little storage room into the library when she heard hushed voices.

"But my King!" The first one was a female, or so she could hear.

"This shall not be mentioned again Lady Cassandra. Now may I please be left alone? I was looking for someone." Edmund said sternly but with a hint of worry and nervousness in his voice.

"Who on earth is this Lady Cassandra?" Alex wondered to herself with her brow deeply furrowed. "And why does Edmund seem so nervous in her presence?"

"I don't think it's fair to pretend like it never happened your majesty. One cannot cheat the heart after all."

Alexandra had managed to silently sneak closer to the couple talking and had a clear view of how the blonde stepped closer to Edmund and slid her hands up her husband tunic, later on grabbing onto his collar. She saw his every muscle tense, his eyes wondering everywhere, but then he relaxed slightly.

"No way." Ninarika thought, not believing her eyes at all and thinking on how bad would this all end if what they were witnessing was indeed what it looked like.

"YOUR MAJESTY!" Someone barged inside the library, making Alexandra, still in a zombie state, retreat behind one of the shelves.

"This can't be true." Alexandra whispered to her insides.

The servant cleared his throat embarrassedly when he noticed the scene developing in front of his eyes. "My apologies your majesty, my lady." He bowed slightly to both of them and then concentrated on Edmund again. "My king, High King Peter requests your presence immediately."

"I'm in the middle of something Aaron…" He said and then his cheeks turned bright pink when he realized what the guard must have understood by that.

Aaron, although surprised by the Just King's answer, insisted as he had been asked to do so.

"He said it was an urgent matter." The guard insisted. Edmund sighed and Cassandra rolled her eyes impatiently.

"Did he elaborate?" He asked.

"No my king, I only know he was requesting all the other monarchs' presence as well, and that the guard brought a prisoner earlier." The guard spilled what he knew and although he said no names, the fact that there was a newly found prisoner caught the queen's attention. Distracting her from drowning in her dark thoughts about the other woman in the room and her husband's involvement.

"I'll go right away…Thank you Aaron." Edmund said.

The human guard just nodded and when he was turning to leave the room, his attention was called again.

"Yes your majesty?" He asked.

"You didn't see any of this." He pointed towards Lady Cassandra an then himself.

Aaron just nodded quite stiffly and finally left to return to his duties. Everyone in the castle knew who Lady Cassandra was, but that didn't mean they liked her at all.

"We must leave now. I need to know who this prisoner is." Alex thought looking straight at her guardian with an indecipherable expression. She was hurting. And deeply. The tigress just nodded and they silently snuck out of the room towards the dungeons, praying not to run into anyone.

Alexandra wanted to cheat her heart by trying to focus on whether she'd know the new prisoner or not, but the absolute truth was that she couldn't get the image of Edmund and the blonde out of her head, and at the same time, it hurt like hell to think about it.

They made a record time to get to the dungeons, and thankfully, they were unnoticed the whole time. But it wasn't hard to recognize there wasn't anyone important in the cells when they got there, it was too quiet and there were no special quantity of guards.

"Dammit!" Alexandra hissed. "They must've taken him to the throne room already." She thought.

"Then let's not waste any more time." Ninarika said kneeling and soon they were running through the halls of the castle towards the throne room.

…

Meanwhile, Peter, Susan, Lucy, and Caspian were waiting not so patiently for Edmund to get to the room so they could start discussing the situation at hand. They tried looking for Alex too, as she was another legitimate monarch who also had a say in what was going on, but they knew that when Alexandra didn't want to be found, she wasn't.

Finally, the last king slipped through the door muttering a quick apology.

"Did you find her?" Caspian silently asked, but the raven haired king just shook his head and sighed.

"No, I found Lady Cassandra instead." Edmund said and Caspian almost shivered. She wasn't a very likeable person. But she was definitely smitten with the Just King.

"Pete." Lucy called for his attention. "We're all here, what's going on?" She asked impatiently.

The High King sighed and signaled some guards who left immediately after.

"Our guard has captured another foreign in Narnian lands." He simply said and the tension could be felt immediately in the air. Newcomers were very rarely linked to good news.

"Calormen?" Caspian asked.

Peter shook his head.

"From Archeland?" Lucy tried.

"Earth." Susan concluded and the oldest Pevensie nodded as the doors were opened and a bunch of guards stepped in, a single human walking in the middle of them.

Peter gave the signal for them to step aside and just then they saw a boy, must have been Edmund's same age, with dirty blonde hair and terrified electrical green eyes. The poor thing was chained and his clothes were somewhat stained with mud and grass.

"What is your name? And what would be your purpose here in Narnia?" Peter said all kingly and Lucy scolded him shortly.

"Are you okay? Do you know where you are?" She asked more softly. "We won't do you any harm." She smiled to try to ease his horrified expression.

Narnia was a lot to take in. They would know.

"I-I'm fine." He stuttered, the poor blonde didn't understand what was going on at all, just that when he woke up, he was next to a breathtaking beach in his not so beige anymore suit, and soon after, some strange creatures had brought him to the castle and claimed to be in some place called Narnia.

"What is your name? Where are you from? Do you remember?" Susan gracefully tried to get him to talk a little more.

"I'm from London, England…But I was living in New York City." He said trying to recall what had happened in the last 20 hours.

"And your name?" Edmund insisted, it was the only question he hadn't answered.

"My-My name is…"

"Robert Castille." Alexandra said using a random column in the hall as support for most of her weight.

The blonde snapped his head in her direction and when he recognized it was her, his eyes shone with happiness and excitement. Edmund hated it.

"Lexi?" He asked hopeful and the sixth queen had to smile at him her best smile.

"Are you alright?" She asked kneeling next to him to check for any kind of injuries.

"I-I am! How are you? What are you wearing? Where are we?" He started questioning her, the shock of seeing her dying down.

"It's okay Rob, I'm fine, this is a typical narnian gown and well…That's where we are right now, Narnia." She tried to explain to him, but the confusion in his eyes was more than evident.

Peter cleared his throat, bursting the little bubble of happiness between the queen and her friend.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. Robert, these are the monarchs of Narnia, High King Peter, King Caspian and King Edmund, and Queen Lucy and Queen Susan." She said pointing at each one of them slowly, so he'd remember who was who. "Guys, this is Rob, my…Friend." She hesitated after seeing Edmund's annoyed face and remembering what had happened a few moments ago in the library.

"Any friend of a Queen of Narnia is a friend of Narnia." Caspian said and signaled the guards to release Robert from his chains.

The blonde looked at his friend with a curious gaze.

"Lexi? You? Queen?" He tried to ask but didn't really know how to.

"It's Queen Alexandra to you." Edmund said sternly, making Alex roll her eyes internally.

"We need to talk about quite a couple of things." She said with a small smile.

But right then, Robert's expression changed drastically to a serious one, making Alexandra's heart speed up immediately while she snuck a quick look towards her guardian.

"My sister has a message for you." He said right into her eyes.

Alex's breath was cut short while she prayed to the Great Lion that the message was one filled with hope, and not with despair.