Author's note: And so the long awaited third installment of my Narnia stories is here! I wrote this chapter out a long time ago. It was still during school. And I wrote it out on paper because I didn't have access to a computer at the time. So, I've been planning this story for quite a while now. :) It's going to be just as action packed as the others, but it's going to be lighter than the others. Oh, don't worry. The emotion is still going to be there. Just not all sad like last time. It's going to be happy! :D Anyways, I hope you guys like this story. I'm pretty much writing it as I go, so I might not update quickly. So, I apologize in advance. I've got the whole thing planned out in an outline, but I just have to figure out how I want to write it. At least I know where this story is going. Well, what are you doing still reading this? Go and read the story!

Song for this chapter: Monsoon by Tokio Hotel

Ariana Kirke sighed as she pressed the side of her face to the cool glass of the window pane in her school dorm room. Her already pale face was a ghastly white tinged with green. In her lap rested a large bowl that she gripped like a vice. If her roommate walked in at any time soon, she probably would try to drag her to the nurse's station three floors below. Ari would refuse, of course, and insist that she already knew what was wrong. Which was true.

Ari was no fool. She knew exactly what kind of predicament she had gotten herself into, and it wasn't one that she could talk her way out of. A wave of nausea claimed her and she gripped the bowl in her lap tighter. So hard that her knuckles were as white as the sheets on her bed sitting a few feet away. What little food she had consumed earlier that morning at breakfast was shot up her throat like a wave of fire and spewed into the bowl. The smell of it made her sickness worse, and this carried on for a few minutes until she was left retching dryly. After a few more moments it finally passed.

She found herself idly wondering how she came to be in the current state she was in. Of course she knew how it happened. She was there after all. She just wondered why, after everything her body had been subject to just a week prior, it was even remotely a possibility that there was a child forming inside of her womb. After a few more minutes of letting her thoughts wander, something clicked inside of her mind. Aslan. She thought. It seemed to be the only explanation available.

She rubbed a hand gently over her still flat abdomen and sighed. It was difficult to believe that in nearly eight months, she and Edmund would finally have what they had wanted most, above anything else, for many years now. Edmund... She thought. Alarm bells rang out in her mind. How was she supposed to tell him that she was pregnant with his child after everything that had happened to them? She sighed heavily. She could not let his parents discover that the baby was Edmund's. They would be furious already that they were housing her when she was going to be an unwed (at least in England) mother. It would only lead to disaster if they found out that their youngest son had bedded her without being married, and in the process ended up fathering her child. But she had months to figure out how to tell them. Edmund and his siblings were another matter entirely.

It would be easier to tell her family. She wouldn't have to do any further explaining with them. They would already know, and understand. She and Edmund were married and had been for over a decade. They were cursed to be in the bodies of mere teenagers while they had the mentality of middle-aged adults. Adults that had seen, and done, more than most leaders of the present day and age.

She found herself finally fully realizing why Peter was feeling and acting like he had over the past year. To be taken from Narnia, as a respected individual of strong influence on a country, and thrust back into a world where nobody paid you any mind. She felt trapped and helpless. Treated like an ignorant child, which to the mind of the Englanders, she was.

She made up her mind to tell Edmund as soon as she possibly could. Over the next weekend would be the best time to bring this new information to light. She could only imagine the elated look on his face when he heard that he was going to be a father after all. She sighed again.

This was not going to be easy. She knew that from the moment she realized what was going on inside of her body. It was likely that Edmund's parents would send her as far away as they could from the Pevensie household, to prevent shaming them. Although she would be returning to the Professor, it would cause her emotional pain. Being sent back to her professed grandfather would mean separation from Edmund. She didn't know if she would be able to keep herself together if she had to be away from him. Going through pregnancy was going to be difficult as it was anyways. One cannot stand if the foundation upon which they stand is torn from underneath their feet. Edmund was her rock. He held her strong when she faltered.

She was so immersed in her thoughts that she didn't realize that a person had entered the room and approached her. She gave a startled yelp when a hand flashed in front of her face to get her attention. She shook her head to clear the shock from her as she realized the person was familiar. She cleared her thoughts and looked up at her younger sister-in-law.

"What is it, Lu?" She asked, blinking tears she didn't know had been forming away from her eyes. She vacantly wondered how Lucy had sneaked up on her, but then she remembered that Lucy and Edmund were too alike for their own good as far as stealth went.

"The others were getting worried when you didn't show up for lunch a half hour ago." Lucy replied, giving Ari a strange look. She eyed the bow that was still being held tightly in Ari's hands with suspicion. Her perceptive brown eyes stared at Ari.

"I forgot it was Saturday." Ari said, collecting her thoughts. Her throat was still raw from the bile that passed through just moments before Lucy entered the room.

Lucy took another look at her sister-in-law's haggard appearance. A light sheen of sweat covered Ari's brow. Lucy's eyebrows furrowed in concern. She leaned forward and pressed a hand to Ari's forehead. When she felt no fever, she retracted it and folded it on her lap. Ari recognized this gesture as one that Lucy used to hide her barely covered worry. "Ari, you never forget that it's the weekend. Not when you have a chance to see Edmund."

Ari's head snapped up and she gazed at Lucy with an unrecognizable emotion in her eyes. "Oh." She said. She placed the bowl to the side and moved to stand up. She wobbled on her feet and Lucy lurched forward to steady her. Her dark eyes were shaded with concern as she looked Ari over again. She helped her to the bed.

"Maybe we should have lunch up here..." Lucy said slowly, carefully choosing her words. As Lucy spoke, Ari's eyes closed in thought.

Should she tell Lucy the good news first? Surely Edmund would understand and wouldn't be angry with her for keeping it from him longer than his sister. She would have to tell Lucy in order to stop further questioning. She sighed and made to stand up but Lucy pushed her shoulders back gently to lay her down.

"Lucy, I'm fine." Ari insisted. She sat up on the bed, as if to prove her point. Lucy snorted and rolled her eyes.

"That's not what I gathered just by walking in the room." Lucy said, a hind of disdain coloring her words. Ari put her head in her hands. After a few moments she looked up at Lucy with a small, weary smile on her face.

"Lucy, I'm not sick." She said. Lucy opened her mouth to speak but Ari continued before she could. "Just pregnant."

Author's Note: So, there you have it. I promised that Ari and Edmund would get the child they always wanted, and so they shall. I've got a lot in store for this story. Some twists that you won't expect, a few surprises, and a few additions. And before you start suggesting names for the baby, I already have it figured out. Thanks to my bestie Anna, I have names for all of the children. :) I want to see if you can guess what gender it is... You get a virtual pat on the back if you get it correctly! ;)

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