Silver and Gold

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It had been a few days since the note had arrived, and nothing drastic had happened. But that didn't mean peter still wasn't worrying about it.

There had still been no luck with finding the witch's remaining followers, even after peter had tripled the amount of narnians in the search party.

Peter stared at the note more often than he should. For what felt like the millionth time, peter picked up the note from his desk and read it again.

"you can't protect a traitor forever"

"watch me" peter muttered in frustration, determined to protect his little brother at all costs.

He hadn't told anyone about what the note said. Not Lucy, not Susan, and definitely not Edmund. Mainly for edmunds own safety...but peter also didn't want to worry his brother.

Most of the nobles and centaurs knew about it, mainly because they were who peter put in charge of protecting Edmund in case anything were to happen.

Around 6pm peter made his way down to the throne room where narnians sat happily, talking. He spotted Lucy talking with tumnus whilst the beavers seemed to be enjoying a competitive game of chess. Mr beaver kept complaining when Mrs.Beaver kept winning.

Edmund was in another corner of the room, talking with the fox. He excused himself from his conversation when he saw peter, and rushed over to him.

"Hello brother who hasn't talked to me all day" Edmund said with a slight joking tone.

Peter glanced at Edmund apologetically as he stopped in his tracks.
"Look...I'm sorry Ed. I just got really busy with...'high king' stuff" peter replied.

"Oh, right. High king stuff." Edmund said with a slight nod.
"Well I'm also a king, so I am interested to know what you were busy doing" he added hopefully.

Peter sighed, "just trust me Edmund and please let just work without getting involved" he said.

"You keep saying I should trust you. And you're clearly avoiding me. Is something going on? Has something else happened and you're not telling me?" Edmund questioned, his tone becoming a little snappy.

"No, nothing has happened." Peter lied. "Why don't you go and talk to Lucy and tumnus" he suggested.

"No. For the past few days, you haven't been letting me be involved as much. I'm a king too. I should get to know everything that's going on in the country we rule" Edmund stated as he folded his arms.

"I'm trying to figure something out, Ed. I promise I'll explain everything once I've dealt with it" Peter stated.

"Is it about the witch's followers note?" Edmund immediately asked.

Peter sighed, but didn't reply. He hated lying to his brother.

"Doesn't matter. You probably wouldn't tell me anyway" Edmund said, his hurt voice breaking slightly. And with that, he turned around to walked away.

"Ed, wait" peter said, "where are you going?" He asked when Edmund didn't stop.

"I'm going out riding" Edmund stated simply.

"Not alone, you're not" peter exclaimed as he caught up with his brothers pace.

"Yes, alone. You have better things to do" Edmund replied, rather sarcastically.

"At least let a guard accompany you" peter suggested.

"No, I need to be alone right now" Edmund replied, his anger getting worse.

"Edmund, I forbid to leave this castle alone!" Peter said, his voice raised. He was loud enough that everyone in the throne room went silent.

Edmund stopped in his tracks and swerved around to face his brother.
"Try and stop me." Edmund replied angrily before continuing to walk off.

Peter, who was filled with fury, tried to go after him but someone caught his arm.
"Let him go" Susan said as she kept hold of peter.

"Why doesn't he just listen to me" peter said angrily.

"Because you're not his father, Peter. You're his brother. And ordering him around won't make him listen" Susan explained.

"I didn't mean to demand anything, I just got frustrated and I worried for his safety" peter explained.

"He's probably going riding down at the beach. It's safe there, he'll be fine" Susan explained.

Peter sighed as he gave up, "I guess you're right" he muttered.

But peter had this horrible feeling that Edmund should not be outside the castle again, and he was right.