A/N: Hi everyone! My first order of business is to politely ask you all to please go vote on the poll in my profile. I would love some input!

Secondly, I love brotherly/sisterly love between Edmund and Lucy. It has to be my favorite to read, so I tried my hand at writing one. This story will just be a collection of one-shots dedicated to them, from all different times in the books and movies.

This little one-shot is placed roughly a year after Voyage of the Dawn Treader, with Edmund being 14 and Lucy 12.

Third, I SUCK at coming up with titles, so I apologize. Lastly:

Disclaimer: I do not in any way, shape, or form own the Chronicles of Narnia, and in no way mean to offend Lewis Enterprises or any one affiliated. I hope I do these lovely characters justice!

She was standing before him, her ice blue eyes glittering with cruelty and mercilessness. He wondered how he had ever thought she was good, how he had missed the now obvious signs. Of course, he had been young and naïve then, without the age and experience he had now. Despite being much older now, his stomach was knotted with fear and pain.

Quite unexpectedly, three figures appeared around her. One was lying very still on the floor, the other trapped beneath her foot, and the last person struggled against her arms. Edmund blinked, trying to figure out who the people were, despite his fright. A strangled gasp escaped him as he recognized the people.

Susan, lying still in a pool of her own blood; Peter, barely breathing and unconscious beneath her foot; and dear Lucy struggling against the witch's arms, a knife at her throat.

"Edmund." Jadis whispered, "Don't you see what you have done? By trusting me, then turning traitor, you have doomed your siblings. Yes, darling Edmund, it is all your fault. If only you had stayed by me, we would have ruled together and never given a second thought to these poor creatures." Her voice was cold, and terror ran through his veins that he had not felt in years. All his fault. His eyes watered, and suddenly he was angry. He would not believe her lies. Why was he just standing here when his siblings needed him?

"I am not a little boy anymore, Jadis. I am a king, a warrior, and strong enough to take on you!" Edmund lunged at her, or at least attempted to, but chains appeared and hindered him. Jadis laughed humorlessly.

"Look at yourself, fool. You are but a child, and now you will watch the effect of your treason." Edmund was suddenly aware of how small he was, and how his sisters and brother looked. They were all the same age as when they had entered Narnia, and that was not to their advantage.

The ice queen slashed her knife down, slicing Lucy's neck and chest open with a shallow wound. The auburn haired girl winced and gritted her teeth. Determination was in her eyes, but the steely look disappeared as Jadis frowned, and then stabbed the knife into the young queen's shoulder. An awful scream ripped its way out her throat as the Jadis twisted the sharp knife deeper into her flesh, and Edmund screamed with her.

Movement caught his attention through his teary gaze, and he cast his eyes downward towards his older brother. Peter groaned, and then snapped his eyes open and immediately let out a yell and started writhing.

"Silence, cur!" She hissed, and then raised her foot and brought it down with a sickening crack on Peter's neck.

"NO!" Edmund screamed.

"NO!" Edmund shot up, groping blindly for his sword through his tears. It took him a moment to realize he was in his bed in England, back to his 14 year old self, alone in his and Peter's bedroom. Peter wouldn't be back from school for another week, and Edmund was terrified at the moment, heart racing as he tried to remember where his dear brother was.

Suddenly, the door flew open, causing Edmund to give a terrible start and again reach for his non-existent sword.

"Oh Edmund, are you alright?!" Lucy's voice calmed him slightly, though he still could not shake the images of Lucy being tortured, and his other siblings dead. He had experienced so many nightmares before, but this one was especially hard to get out of his head.

She opened the door a little wider, having received no answer, and gave a soft cry as she saw her brother's tear streaked face, red eyes, and twisted bed cloths. Though obviously concerned, she approached slowly as though her dark haired brother was a wounded animal.

Upon seeing her, though, Edmund lunged at her, drawing his younger sister to his chest and sobbing into her sweet smelling hair.

"Ed, it is all right. Shh, she cannot get you here. Aslan will always protect you, and so will I." She kept murmuring in his ear, until he calmed down enough to ask her frantically if she was alright, and where Peter and Susan were.

"Edmund, I'm okay. Susan is in the room across the hall, and Peter is at school." He pulled away to look at her, assuring himself she was not injured.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course. I can go get Su if you want."

"No! No. Please stay.' He clutched her desperately to him again, not wanting to let his beloved sister out of his sights. Lucy reached up to smooth his hair and continued to reassure Edmund.

"What was it about?" she ventured carefully.

"Jadis had the three of you. I had to watch her torture and kill you all." His sister's wizened eyes filled with sympathy, and she gripped him tighter in a gesture of comfort.

They sat like that for a while, the Valiant Queen holding her Just brother tightly as he soothed himself by breathing in her comforting scent, which even still smelled vaguely Narnian.

Lucy yawned, and Edmund immediately felt guilty for keeping her awake.

"I'm sorry for waking you. You can go back to bed if you want."

"No, Ed. I am going to stay right here. I know how terrible it is to go through the aftermath of a nightmare alone. Besides, it is very comfortable right here." Immediately Edmund felt troubled. He asked in a concerned tone,

"When did you have nightmares alone?" From what he had recalled, the last nightmare Lucy had was at the Scrubb's house after leaving Narnia for the last time. Edmund noted that his sister looked a bit sad.

"Well, before you came back here for break (I had gotten out earlier then you), I had one. It… it was awful." She shuddered. "I went over to Susan, seeking a bit of reassurance, but she told me that I was being childish and to go back to sleep." Edmund scowled. His Gentle sister had been forgetting, and was apparently not so gentle anymore.

He snuggled closer to her, "I am sorry, Lu. She shouldn't have done that. Obviously she has forgotten what things we have seen to make us experience such terrors at night. I would never do that to you. You can always come to me, okay?"

He missed the way everything had been in Narnia, even if it had been three years. The four of them had been so close, but now Susan was forgetting their true home and school spread them apart. No one cared for their opinion, and dismissed them as childish and seeking attention.

"Thank you Ed." She whispered, and then giggled as he pulled her down next to him on the bed and curled around her. She turned over, to see a tear slip out of her adored brother's blue eye. Her soft thumb wiped it away, and her brown eyes prodded gently.

"I… Do you ever miss how we were? Strong and beautiful and older. With adoring subjects, amazing friends, a beautiful country, authority?" Edmund asked sadly.

"All the time. But Aslan sent us back for a reason, and we have to trust him."

"I know, and I do trust him, with all my heart. I sometimes wish we could go back to when we could make a difference, though. I wish we could act like we truly are, a 25 year old king and a 23 year old queen."

Lucy stated passionately, slipping back into more eloquent speech as she did so, "My dear Just one, do you not see? We need not go back; we can still make a difference. Every lesson we learned, all the things we were taught, and our physical advancement in Narnia is still with us. Are we both not the fastest and strongest in our grades? We are in all the advanced classes, and much wiser than our peers. We are still the same, to some extent, as we were in Narnia. I do believe it is time we show everyone who we truly are, and to stop hiding."

"Valiant Queen, this is one of the reasons I love you! You give me hope and inspiration even in my darkest times."

"Can I confess something in you Edmund? You must promise to not act all embarrassed once I say it."

"Okay…"

"I always feel awful because being among three siblings can tend to become annoying, despite how close we are. Due to this, we subconsciously chose our favorite, the one that least bothers us. Everyone assumes it is Susan who is my favorite, because we are the two girls, though it is not true. You are my favorite, Ed, and I feel as though I do not show it enough."

Moonlight danced in her earnest brown orbs, and Edmund felt his deep love for her well up. "You are also my favorite, Lu. Though do not tell Peter that, I do think he will be jealous."

Lucy's clear laugh was broken by a yawn, and she buried her face in her caring brother's chest.

"I missed this." Edmund could feel her talking against his chest.

"What?"

"Acting like this. Intimate, affectionate, like we did in Narnia. We are closer than most other families, you know. I can't wait for Peter to come home, but I am glad you came home sooner than him. That way I have you all to myself." Her voice drifted off sleepily, though her words made Edmund smile, because he felt the same way. He told her as much, but found she had fallen asleep.

Comforted by her presence and exhausted from their late night talking, Edmund pulled up his covers over the two of them and drifted off to sleep.

The next morning, awoke before the sun to kiss her husband goodbye before he went off to work. After left, Helen crept up the stairs to check on her children, though they did not need her anymore. She checked the girl's room first, and was surprised to find Lucy absent from her bed. Spinning around to the boy's room, she found the door ajar and poked her head in.

There Lucy was, curled up tightly aside her brother. Edmund's body curved to envelope her, and Lucy had brought Edmund's hand to her face, where it rested. Lucy's auburn hair fanned across the bed, and Helen noticed that Edmund's face was swollen and marked with tear tracks. Helen frowned. She wished her children would come to their parents for comfort, but it was always their siblings.

Helen used to find all four of them crammed into Peter's bed after they came back from the country. After Susan turned 14, though, Helen never saw her dark haired daughter in a bed with any of her siblings. The other three, however, more often than not were found together. As a mother, she knew it wasn't always because of nightmares, and she assumed they did partially because they wanted to.

Sadly, she shut the door softly, trying not to awake her children. Immediately, though, Edmund and Lucy were awake due to their sharpened senses. Edmund was none too happy about. Blinking groggily, he moaned,

"The sun isn't even up yet, why is Mum stomping around?"

"Mum isn't 'stomping around'. She was just checking on us like she usually does. It is not her fault we have amazing superhuman hearing."

"Amazing superhuman hearing? More like we hear everything because of a crazy paranoid Centaur who insists we be aware of everything." Lucy laughed sleepily at Edmund's grumpy early morning wit.

"You are so grumpy in the morning, no matter how used to waking up early we all are."

"It is not natural for a normal human to be up before the sun."

"You should be used to it by now."

Edmund flopped back onto the bed dramatically, "Now I'll never be able to fall back asleep!" Lucy laughed again.

"Don't be so dramatic!" she teased.

"Well I can't help it if you are a morning person and I'm not."

"I know what will cheer you up!"

"Pancakes?" Edmund asked hopefully.

"Yes, but you will have to catch me first!" With that, Lucy sprang off the bed and took off, grinning devilishly. Thus was the sun greeted by the sight of the Valiant Narnian Queen laughing gleefully as the Just Narnian King chased her throughout the house.

A/N: Thank you all for reading, I hoped you enjoyed it!