the beauty of the sound / edmund pevensie

twenty nine

"Ed!" I yelled as I ran throughout the icy castle that has haunted me forever. "Eddie! Where are you?" I cried as tears streamed down my face.

"Nellie, w-what are you doing?" I heard Edmund's voice echo throughout the throne room. I looked around to see that Edmund was no where to be found.

When I turned in the direction of the throne my blood turned cold.

Standing in front of the throne was Jadis holding her hand out for me to take.

"Hello my dear." She spoke, her voice sending chills all throughout my body.

I shook my head and closed my eyes. "No. No!" I began as I started to slowly walk back. "You aren't real. I-I killed you. I-" My foot suddenly hit something causing me to turn around.

Before my very eyes laid Edmund's still lifeless body. His skin was pale and cold, his eyes no longer beautifully brown for they were now dull. His clothes were stained with body while different places on his skin had blood on them as well.

"No!" I cried as hot tears streamed down my face. I collapsed onto the floor near Ed and then cried into his lifeless body.

"You did good, little one." Jadis said from behind me as she placed a hand on my shoulder. I moved my head away from Ed's chest to look at her with a confused look.

Her eyes shifted down to my hands before going back to my eyes. I slowly looked down at my hands to see that they were covered in blood. Edmund's blood.

My eyes widened and I quickly pushed myself away from Ed's body, screaming.

"No! No! No!" I screamed as I sobbed. I felt my body begin to shake.

"Nell!" I heard a voice echo. "Nell wake up!"

I quickly sat up with a scream to see Theo, mom, and Penny all standing around me. I could feel all the tears streamed down my face as I looked at them.

"Oh honey." Mom whispered before climbing into my bed with me. She quickly wrapped her arms around me as my body shook violently with my sobs.

Ed and Lucy have been gone for about 2 months and every night since then I've had incredibly bad nightmares, but they had never been as bad as they were tonight.

My hands clung to Mom's shirt as my tears turned the light blue fabric into a shade of dark blue in certain spots.

When the tears began to slow down a bit, I looked up from Mom's shirt to see Penny and Theo still standing there. I motioned for them to come on the bed with us. Theo came and laid down on the other side of me while Penny climbed on top of me.

Theo has wrapped an arm around me while Penny wrapped her arms around my torso, burying her head in my chest.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" Mom asked me while moving a strand of my hair behind my ear. I quickly shook my head so she nodded.

"Will you guys stay with me tonight?" I asked. Penny looked up from my chest and smiled with a nod. Theo rubbed his hand up and down my arm before nodding as well.

Mom smiled at me before kissing my forehead. "Of course, sweetheart." She smiled at me before wiping away the last of my tears with her thumb.

And so that night we all fell asleep together. Four people on one double bed, but that didn't matter to us.

...

One morning, about a week after my horrible nightmare, I came running down the stairs and into the kitchen where Penny, Theo and Mom were.