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“Sorry it’s such a rough ride… I need to get you back so we can heal you,” whoever the person holding me said sounding almost tortured. I had figured out a while ago that we were on a horse, and we were traveling fast. I was so soaked from the rain, and the wind from our speed was stinging my skin. I think I’m getting frost bite, or maybe I’m just a wimp. Anyway now that I had figured out pretty much what happened I was working on who the person is. My brain just wont work right though, I should know who it is, I recognize the voice. A branch slapped across my face startling me while dousing me in more water.
“Sorry!” he groaned. “I’m taking a short cut but that was the thickest area.” Oh my god. Edmund. Edmund came and found me. Edmund was the one so concerned for me. He was trying so hard to help me… after I had made fun of him for his religion. Am I a terrible person?
“How long,” I mumbled. I was grateful to him but I wanted to lay down somewhere warm… and still.
“We’re almost there, I promise,” he said and gave my waist a reassuring squeeze. This is a little awkward. Again I’m grateful to him but I wish we had some distance between us. I’m pretty much laying on him, as much as I can while we’re still sitting on a horse anyway. Then again I really don’t think I can hold myself up. I had had my eyes closed the entire time but I slid one open just as we flew into the clearing in front of the castle. I quickly snapped it shut again, I was dizzy and my eyesight was bleary. That doubled with all the movement… I think I’m going to throw up. I felt the horse skid to a stop and Edmund hop off while still holding me up. I opened my eyes and he grabbed my waist again to slide me off and into his chest. Not good.
“Stop,” I said loudly and shoved at him. I was clearly not able to hold myself up still so he didn’t let go of me. He took a step back to try to give me some space, obviously worried that I was still angry with him. I doubled over and, to my relief, he jumped to the side as I threw up. I sagged without his support and he caught me before I completely collapsed. However, as all of my weight rested on his arms, which were around my stomach, it caused me to heave again. I couldn’t believe it; he held me up with his right hand and gathered all of my hair in his left to keep it out of my face. He is so sweet; in fact he is beyond sweet. He is… adorable.
“Ok, defiantly a concussion,” he muttered. “Or I made you motion sick… or both.”
“Both,” I groaned and he chuckled.
“Sorry about that. Come on, you will feel better in five minutes at the most,” he said, I have no idea what he means but whatever. He took my right arm and put it over his shoulder to help me walk. I kept stumbling and sagging into him, I let out a squeal as I felt my legs get knocked out from under me. He was carrying me again. I would have complained but I was way too exhausted. I just hoped he would put me down as soon as we get in the door. He was able to get the door open somehow and I let out a sigh as the rain suddenly stopped and warm air hit my face. I rolled my head to the side to see Peter with his arms wrapped around Keri, who was clearly upset.
“Sorry to break this up,” Edmund called across the hall, causing them to jump apart. “But could one of you go get Lucy?” Peter ended up going because Keri ran across the hall as Edmund set me on my feet. Finally. She must have been really worried, she broke our nonverbal no hugging agreement, which was in place for my benefit, not hers. She threw her arms around me for a second then stepped back.
“Are you fucking insane? You- oh my god. You split your head open!” she said then turned on Edmund. “Dude she needs stitches before she looses too much blood!” Was it really that bad? Seeing as the side of my head feels like it’s pulsating, yes it was. Because Edmund had to make way for Keri, I started sagging again. How pathetic am I? Edmund caught me… again, but this time he brought me to a wall to set me down on the floor. My eyes immediately began to close.
“Kristi,” he said while squatting down next to me. He grabbed my hand when I didn’t answer. “Kristi,” he said with a little more force.
“What?” I snapped, I just want to sleep.
“You can’t sleep. You have a head injury,” he said and shook my arm a little. I knew somewhere in the back of my head that he was right, but I didn’t really care at the moment.
“He’s right man,” Keri said from the other side of me. My eyes were closed so I hadn’t notice her come over. “Hey,” she said sharply and tapped my cheek.
“Whore,” I said.
“Oh thank god,” Edmund muttered. “Lucy,” he called and I forced my eyes open to see Luck running over to me. Why would she matter right now? That question was soon answered for me as she skidded to a stop and took out some sort of crystal bottle filled with red liquid. She tilted my head back and one drop of the liquid fell onto my tongue. It tasted like… sunlight? Weird. I swallowed it after a second and immediately felt a tingling spread through my body. My vision cleared and my head stopped throbbing, I felt maybe even better then when I left. I stood quickly and was finally able to take in everything.
As I looked down I saw that my right shoulder, down my chest and arm to my elbow, was soaked in my blood. And the rest of me was soaked by the rain. I glanced over at Edmund and had to do a double take. He was, of course, soaked as well. His shirt clung to his body showing his subtle but defined muscles. I should have realized he would be toned, he was carrying me all over the place, but the clothes he usually wore hid it from me. Until now. His hair was still dripping and as I looked he shook his head, sending droplets flying, and somehow making his hair sit perfectly on his forehead. He was so…
“Ok so your baths will be waiting for you. Kristi there is a separate bucket for you to rinse out your hair and then put your dress in it after,” Peter said as he walked back to us. Thank god, I feel really gross.
“Come on,” Keri said and tugged on my arm. I went with her without a thought, a bath just sounded amazing. Before long I was getting undressed, I rinsed out my hair in a bucket that was on the counter. The water was red when I was done; it made me shiver slightly to look at it. I threw the dress in and slipped into the warm water with a sigh. Lucy’s…potion or whatever healed me but it didn’t take care of how cold I was.
“I’m done,” I called in the direction of the door. Keri came in right away and set up a chair near the door.
“Good. Now, are you gonna tall me what happened?” she asked.
“We fought about stupid things again. I took off and my horse jumped a fallen tree and I fell off. I hit my head on the tree then the next thing I remember is being picked up off the ground,” I said in a monotone.
“Yeah,” she said with a chuckle. “That was something to see. He was framed in the doorway with you in his arms. Both of you soaked. It was a total movie moment; I wish I had had my phone so I could have taken a picture of that. You really should have seen what you looked like.”
“Hey you’re not the only one who should have been taking pictures,” I said.
“What do you mean?”
“The way Peter was comforting you. It was adorable.”
“Ok but not as adorable as you and Edmund… Actually that wasn’t adorable. You were covered in blood. I think for it to be adorable you would have to be not bloody,” she said with a smile.
“Good point. What was adorable was that he held my hair back,” I mumbled.
“Huh?”
“Oh… I threw up and he held my hair while still holding me up,” I explained.
“You’re right that is adorable,” she said with a nod. “And um… I saw that look you gave him.”
“What look?” I asked.
“The one where you eye fucked him after Lucy gave you that… whatever.”
“I was not eye fucking him!” I said quickly.
“Oh yes you were,” she laughed. “I don’t blame you. He looked pretty hot right then. And I wasn’t the girl he saved.” What the hell could I say to that? Had I been eye fucking him? I think I at least have to admit that I was checking him out. And if Keri had noticed, I hope he didn’t, or anyone else.
“Was it that obvious?” I asked quietly.
“Hell yes,” she said then added, “Well actually probably only to me. I know you enough to know when you are checking someone out.”
“Yeah. You mean like when it was so obvious that you liked Peter?” I asked trying to get the attention off of me.
“Yup,” she said cheerfully.
“You should make a move.”
“Nope,” she said in the same cheerful voice as before.
“Why not?”
“I don’t do that. You know that,” she whined.
“You should,” I said, stubborn.
“And why is that?”
“Because he likes you.”
“No he doesn’t,” she said. Man she’s blind.
“Yes he does.”
“Dude, he’s just a friendly person. That doesn’t mean he likes me,” she said, just a stubborn as me.
“Friends don’t cuddle standing up.”
“What the fuck? Ok, you know what. You should have seen the way Edmund took off into the storm after you after he realized you hadn’t made it back,” she said triumphantly.
“He’s fucking insane by the way,” I said while inspecting the different soaps. I decided to wash my hair last because I probably missed some of the blood and I didn’t want the water gross yet. I was enjoying the warmth.
“That’s what you say about me,” she laughed.
“No. I call you crazy. It’s different.”
“Uh huh, sure. So how is he insane?” she asked.
“He said that we’re here because some Lion wanted us here.”
“Aslan,” she said simply.
“You’ve heard of him?” I asked.
“Yeah Peter told me.”
“Well can you tell me?” I asked sounding annoyed. Again.
“Oh, well first of all he is real. They’ve actually seen him and talked to him. As for the ‘God’ thing, that seems real too. I didn’t hear the whole story; apparently something bad happened with Edmund that they don’t talk about anymore. Anyway, Aslan gave up his life for Edmund but then he… came back to life at the next sunrise,” she said while staring off into space.
“Aslan came back to life?” I asked wanting to make sure I heard her right.
“Yes. Lucy and Susan saw the whole thing. His death and his resurrection.” Now she was starting to sound religious. Though she did have a lot of background with this sort of thing. Her dad is a pastor and she was forced to go to church every Sunday while she lived with them. She has actually told me once that she had missed only five days of church until she was 19. And that included Wednesdays during lent and advent. I can’t believe I know that much.
“Well that’s…,” I trailed off. I have no idea what to think about it. So I just won’t. “Well other then that, he was talking to himself.”
“I do that too,” she said laughing hard.
“Do you call yourself ‘your majesty’?” I asked.
“If I was royalty, then maybe.”
“Really?”
“No,” she said with a smile. “Wait. How do you know he was talking to himself?”
“We were just out on horses. I was leaving when I heard it,” I said.
“Dude. You don’t know?” she asked leaning forward a little.
“Know what?”
“He wasn’t talking to himself. That was his horse. His name is Phillip actually.”
“His horse talks?” I asked stopping my washing to look at her.
“Not just his horse. There are animals all throughout Narnia that talk,” she said sounding like a little kid.
“That’s…” I whispered.
“I know! Isn’t it amazing?” she gushed.
“Yeah,” was all I could think of to say. So Edmund wasn’t crazy in the slightest. And I am a total bitch.
“Might be your turn to apologize,” Keri said and stood. “I’ll let you finish.” With that she left me alone in the bathtub with my thoughts. I sat there for quite some time before I washed my hair quickly and got out. I dried off a little and got dressed before I was completely dried. All I had was the clothes we had gotten here with but they were fairly clean. Keri wasn’t in the room so I decided to search the castle for Edmund myself. I just hope I don’t get lost. Despite my efforts, the castle was so big and complicated, I did get lost.
“Fuck,” I groaned as I hit another dead end.
“You do have a mouth on you,” A voice said from behind me causing me to jump and spin around. I almost lost my balance but I caught myself on the wall. Edmund watched me with an amused look.
“Sorry,” I muttered.
“Oh I don’t care really. It just the time I’m from girls don’t really use that kind of language. It’s actually really interesting to hear,” he said and shrugged.
“No I mean I’m sorry… for earlier, on the ride. I had no reason to be that angry with you,” I said staring at his feet.
“And I’m sorry for letting you get lost,” he said taking a step closer.
“No, that wasn’t your fault. It was all my fault, I was an idiot,” I said looking up at him. Why is he so close?
“I should have gone after you,” he said a little bitterly. I just shook my head, how could he think that any of that was his fault? It was really sweet though. I just stood there looking straight into his dark eyes. Again I got the impression that he had been through some shit. Then I remembered what Keri had told me, that something had happened to him that he required saving from.
“No I was being a bitch. I don’t blame you for not following me,” I said quietly. I started to feel a little nervous at how close we were, yet I couldn’t look away from his eyes. I was never one for this sort of thing but I felt as if I could see… not really his soul, but the real him. And I felt as if he could see the real me.
“We’ll just have to agree to disagree,” he almost whispered. We were less then six inches apart now, I held my breath wondering where this might possibly be leading. Then, quite suddenly, he eyes focused again. He smiled at me and took a subtle step back.
“Well, um,” he said and cleared his throat.
“Yeah, I’m lost,” I said quickly to give us both an escape.
“Wow this just must not be your day,” he said with a chuckle.
“Shut up,” I said sending him a fake glare. He laughed again and held his arm out to motion the way I should go. We walked together in silence, we were both lost in our own thoughts. We were to where I was starting to recognize things, when we came around a corner and came to a halt at the sight in front of us. Peter had Keri pushed up against the wall and they were kissing each other so fiercely that they wouldn’t notice our presents any time soon. Edmund and I gave each other a glance with a smirk; we both crossed our arms across our chests at the same time and just stood there. I was just waiting to see if they would ever notice us, I think that’s what he was wondering too. They didn’t.
“Should we leave them be or mess with them?” Edmund whispered to me. I thought about it, half of me wanted Keri to have this moment but the rest of me wanted to mess with her so much. Well from the looks of things they would have plenty more moments like this.
“Mess with them,” I said with an evil smile, and he returned it with a wink.
“Super loud throat clear on three?” he asked and I nodded. “One, two, three.” We both gave ridiculously loud and fake throat clears and they broke apart. I started laughing as Keri actually had to wipe her bottom lip from the amount of spit that was on it.
“Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt,” Edmund said in an innocent voice. Peter glared at his brother.
“Bastard,” Peter mumbled.
“Whore,” Keri said to me.
“From the looks of things… who should be called that right now?” I joked. She glared at me but I saw the humor in her face. She suddenly dashed at me and I jumped back out of her reach. We laughed as that happened a few more times until she caught me and did the only thing she could do. She tickled me. The bitch. I slid down the wall all the way to the ground but she wouldn’t let up. I was laughing so hard I couldn’t see. She only stopped when we heard a shout and laughter behind her. We looked to see Peter with Edmund in a headlock. Boys.
“Seriously guys. We couldn’t resist,” Edmund said once Peter had let him go, his hair was sticking up all over.
“Actually I get that,” Keri said. “And you can expect me to return the favor,” she added with a wink so only I could hear. Bitch. Everyone fell silent, I hadn’t thought about how awkward it would be afterwards.
“Well I was showing Kristi back to her room, so…” Edmund said and walked over to help me up. We walked quickly down the hallway and started giggling as soon as we went around a corner.
“Thank you for getting me out of there,” I said.
“Yeah I wonder how they are handling it right now,” he said.
“I don’t know but I want to hear what happened.”
“Me too,” he said with a laugh as we reached my room. “You can wait here For Keri and I’ll go beat it out of Peter as well.”
“Sounds good,” I smiled and went inside after he walked off with a wave. He was actually really fun to be around… if we aren’t fighting that is.