July 3rd
Before you...
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"You wanna know what happened before you came back?" Peter whispered. "That first night you were gone."
Edmund hesitated, but turned to face him after a moment.
Peter swallowed hard. "I cried." He whispered. "For the first time in years I cried, I full on sobbed into my coat."
Edmund's mouth opened just slightly, but no words came out.
"Because I was scared," Peter admitted. "I was scared that she was going to hurt you, and I wouldn't be able to stop her. Ed even when we didn't get along, even when I knew you'd betrayed us, it did not change my love for you, and I want you to know that."
Edmund stared at him for ages, before he took a deep, shaky breath. "Thank you." He whispered.
Peter smiled weakly. "You should get back to sleep." He said gently. "You're tired."
Edmund didn't even argue and just lay back down, and within minutes he was fast asleep again, buried beneath the blankets that his older brother had laid across him.
Peter watched him for a while, hardly even blinking, before he too found himself nodding off, and before long, both brothers were fast asleep.
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