Jadis' Daughters

Attack

Miranda's pov:-

My eyes widen as I recognise the wolves in front of me. They are Maugrim's brothers, most vicious of the wolves besides Maugrim himself.

I look over at Edmund and his face shows absolute terror. I motion for him to stay behind me. He nods.

"Which one of you wants to go first?" I ask. They exchange a look before looking over at me.

"Come with us your mother is worried about you. She is more than ready to forgive you." One of them say.

"Please do you expect me to believe that?" I ask, my voice lacing in sarcasm.

Seeing the one in front nod it's head, I use my ice powers. They were expecting it and were able to dodge it. So I conjure up two fireballs and throw it towards them. Before they can even register what is happening their is nothing left of them.

I feel movement behind me and turn around to see a wolf lying dead and Edmund holding a bloody sword. "What happened?" I ask.

He takes a shaky breath before answering, "When y....you were burning those w......wolves this one jumped out from that bu.....ush and tried to pounce on y.....you. I saw it and just br.....brought my sword down and it.... it died." He says all this in a shaking voice.

I notice he is shaking so I pull him into a hug. We stay like this until he stops shaking. "Let's get out of here", I say.

We get on our horses. He gets on Philip without my help. When we have ridden for an hour, I assumed we will be safe. "We will stop here for the night."

We get of our horses. "Ed, I am proud of you", I tell him using his nickname on purpose.

He sighs. "I don't know what came over me. All I know is that I saw the wolf coming at you and I moved my hand. Then it died."

"You wanted to protect me and that you did. You killed the wolf. If you hadn't then it could have killed me. Not could have but would have."

He nods his head. I hold my hand out to him. He takes it and I lead him to a tree. We sit down under the tree. I notice him shivering. I move over to him and wrap my right arm over his shoulders.

"It's okay you can move closer I won't mind", I tell him. After hesitating a little, he moves closer and wraps his arms around my waist.

"How are you holding up?" I ask.

"I don't really know. I have never killed anything before. And I don't know exactly what to feel. I feel like I did the right thing but there is a small part in me which feels like I did the wrong thing."

"You atleast feel like you did the right thing." I notice the confused look he's giving me. I sigh and tell him what happened.

"The first time I killed it was to prove that I can kill anyone Jadis wishes. The only thing that it did wrong was be happy in front of her. When I killed it Jadis praised me but I felt bad about having to kill it."

We sit in silence for a few minutes. "Let's go to sleep", I tell him.

After a few moments he moves and I look down to see him staring up at me.

"There is something I want to tell you", he says nervously. I frown. What can make him nervous? I try to understand.

"What is it?"

"After what happened today I don't want to wait to tell this to you", he says leaving me even more puzzled. I raise an eyebrow.

"I.. I like you", he says stuttering a little.

I look at him surprised. After a minute I break into a wide smile. "I like you too."

His face breaks into a huge grin. He tilts his face towards me and I close the gap between us. We stay in the kiss for a long time. Finally he pulls apart gasping for air.

We get more comfortable and then drift of to sleep.

Elizabeth's pov:-

We have stopped for the night. "How much further do we need to go?" Lucy asks almost whining. I smile a bit at her tone.

"Not much further dear. We will reach the frozen river by tomorrow noon and once we cross it, it's less than a day's journey", Mrs. Beaver answers.

I am sitting near Peter. We have grown closer throughout the day. I asked him questions and he asked me as well. By the end of the day I had learned quite a lot about him.

An hour later everyone is asleep or so I think. I look over to see Peter standing on a ledge nearby. I walk over to him. "Having trouble falling asleep?" I ask.

He lets out a small chuckle knowing I copied him from last night. I walk over to stand beside him. He let out a sigh. "No good conversation starts with a sigh", I joke. He manages to crack a little smile.

"Do you think Ed's okay?" He asks. I know what the answer should be but I don't want him to get his hopes up, so instead I answer more truthfully.

"I think so and besides Mira is with him. She can do magic so I wouldn't have much worried but... ", I trail off not knowing if I should continue.

"But?" He asks looking at me.

I sigh. "Mira is afraid of Jadis. I don't know what will happen when they come face to face. As much as I would like to reassure you that he is safe I don't want to lie to you."

He stares of into the distance. I turn around to go but he reaches out and grabs my hand. "Please stay."

I go to stand beside him. He puts one arm around my waist and looks at me with questioning eyes. I nod my head to give him permission. He smiles a little before pulling me down to sit leaning on a tree and wrapping me in his arms.

I feel safe in his arms, warm even but I don't understand why. I am feeling all this when he speaks up again.

"All I want right now is to hug Edmund and tell him I am sorry for everything. When the war in our world started and Dad had to go away all Edmund wanted was some sort of comfort. But I acted like I am Dad and the distance between us kept growing. I knew all this but chose to ignore it. I listened to Lu but not to Edmund. If I had then the Witch couldn't have put a spell on him that easily." His voice breaks. I look over to see a single tear making its way down his face. I reach over and gently wipe it away.

"You will say sorry to him. I will make sure of it. I promise", I tell him. He just nods his head.

We stay like that and slowly fall asleep.

Looks like Ed and Mira finally confessed to each other and Eliza is still oblivious to why she feels like that around Peter.

Peter really needs to apologize but when the time comes can he do that?

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