The Fifth Pevensie

Chapter 1 - a sad farewell

*Scarlet's pov*

"Edmund Get Away from there! What do you think you're doing?!" I hear mum yelling at Eddy from the window, where German bombs have started to explode.

"Peter!" She shouted for my older brother as he came into the room and grabbed Eddy,  "Come on! To the shelter, now!" He shouts at him over the noise, practically dragging him out of the room.

I know that my older sister Susan is collecting her and my things from our bedroom we share with my youngest sister Lucy, so I quickly collect a few photos from the livingroom, including a picture of Peter(Pete), Susan (Sue), my little brother Edmund (Eddy), Lucy(Lu) and myself. I turn on my heel and start to run out the house after my siblings but stop myself at the livingroom door. "Dad!" I remember, rushing over to the last picture in the room and quickly grabbing it and rushing back out.

I finally catch up with my siblings and we are all running to the shelter, "Hurry up! RUN!" Peter shouts, ushering everybody into the bomb shelter. Edmund turns around, and starts to run back into the house "Wait, dad!" He yells, I realise what he's doing and quickly run and grab his arm (a bit more forcefully than I thought).
"It's okay Eddy, I've got him" I say as we both Sprint back to the shelter. Once we are inside, I look up at my older brother who is not happy with us at all.

"Why do you always have to be so selfish! Why can't you ever do as you're told!" He yells at us as he slams the shelter door down.

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Train Station~~ the next day
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"Attention, would all parents ensure that their parents have the appropriate identification papers." The loud announcement voice reminded as we made our way on the platform to the train.

"Now you have to keep this on you. Be sure and keep this on." Mother said, attatching our ID tags onto us. "If Dad were here he wouldn't make us go" Eddy whined. "If dad was here, the war would be over we wouldn't have to go." Peter pointed out.

"You will listen to your brother, won't you Edmund?" Mother asked Edmund and hugged him tightly before turning around to face Peter, "Look after the others" she told him and hugged him too "I will mum" he assured her, trying not to cry. She released him and embraced Susan.
"You be a big girl now Susan", Susan simply nodded and hugged her tightly.
Then mum turned to me and engulfed me into another one of her hugs "Dont get into too much trouble Scar." She told me though her voice was muffled by my hair. "I won't make any promises mother" I teased as we both pulled apart.

"There now... off you go." Mother told us through tears, ushering us rowards the train. "Come on, we've got to stay together now. Everything's going to be okay" I heard Peter saying to Lucy behind me.

We all walked over to the ticket master and suddenly Peter got distracted by the soldiers marching through the station.
"Peter," I nudged him trying to get his attention to the ticket master who was asking for our tickets.
"Peter!" Susan yelled, snatching the papers from his hand and showing them to the man. We all started clambering towards the train, although Edmund was lagging behind. "I know how to get on a train" he insisted, following is up and into the train. "Bye Mom, we'll miss you" we all shouted from the window, waving at our mother for possibly the last time as the train pulled out of the station.  "Good-Bye my darlings!" She shouted back, waving with what I could clearly tell was a fake smile, but I returned it anyway. Maybe it'll make her happier I thought.

Once we were all on board and the train left the station, we started searching for an empty compartment but we couldn't find one. So we went into a compartment with two other children inside, a boy and a girl.

The start of the trip was pretty boring to be honest, no-one really talked so instead, I decided to read my book called "The Hounds of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle I'm already on the third book of the series, how cool is that! I thought to myself.

The train pulled up to another station and the two other children got out, leaving Lucy, Sue and Eddy on one side of the compartment and me and Peter on the other. I was sat with my feet up on the seat and my back to the window as I read.

Finally we got to our stop, no one had spoken to each other in a little while so I bet our voices had gone funny. We ran to the side of the platform and close to the road as we heard a car driving up the road. However as we got there, the car drive straight past us. "The professor knew we were coming.." Susan remembered, looking somewhat confused. "Maybe we've been incorrectly labled?" Edmund questioned, looking intensely at his lable mother gave him earlier. Suddenly, a woman came down the road, driving a horse drawn cart.

"Come on, hup! And whoa. Whoa." The lady told the horse.

"Mrs. Macready?" Sue asked

"I'm afraid so. Is this it, then? Haven't you brought anything else?"
I stepped forward. "No, ma'am. It's just us." She looked down to see me, "Small favors." She said, and ushered us all into the cart.