My First Fan-Fic

"oh Emily!" Lucy breathed.
"I was still mostly in shock when my best friend Tessa was sent out to the country. Mother had intended to send me out with her on the same train, but I didn't want to leave her alone. It still frightens me a bit when I think of how close I came to getting onto that train with Tess."
"What happened?" Peter asked.
"The train collided with another train, killing almost everyone on it. Tessa died a few days later. I - I was with her." Emily paused for a moment to wipe a few tears away that had begun to run down her face.
Lucy patted Emily's shoulder. "There, there," she whispered, "it's alright, it's alright."
Emily sighed. "It was hard. I had no one to talk to, to tell them how I felt."
"Didn't you have friends that you could talk to?" Susan asked.
"Does the outcast ever have many friends?" Emily replied.
"What about your mother?" Peter asked.
"Mother was never the same after all of this happened. She kind of drew into herself and never talked much. She wasn't the same. I couldn't talk to her. I was frustrated, and it showed in my writting. My teachers were upset with me for venting my feelings in my writtings, and my schoolmates laughed at me for getting bad grades." Again, she paused to wipe a few tears away.
Susan put her arms around Emily. "You poor, poor thing," she murmmered. "You've had it very hard."
Emily just sat there and cried, harder than she had in a long while. The three others sat with her, comforting her the best that they could.
 
Finally, Emily looked up and wiped her tears away swiftly, as if she were a little embarassed that the had seen her crying. She stared into the water again and was silent for a few minutes. Then, without looking up, she said, "When he left, my Father told me that even though times were hard and we were having a rough time of it I should never give up hoping because "No matter how long it is, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel". It was his favorite saying." She looked up and met her friends' eyes. "I - I think I'm beginning to see that light that he was talking about."
 
We're beginning to near the end of this story!! I can't wait to start the next one!!

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The next morning, Emily was up with the others, to find that Edmund had just been brought into the camp. He was talking with Aslan when they saw him.
"Edmund!" Lucy shouted, and she started to run towards him, but Peter stopped her.
Edmund and Aslan turned to look at them. Aslan said something to Edmund and the boy began to walk towards them with Aslan coming behind.
Once they reached them, Aslan said, "What's done is done; there is no need to talk to your brother about what is passed." The lion then turned and left.
Edmund looked down at his feet and said, "Hello."
Susan smiled and hugged them. Then, she held him out at arms length and asked, "Are you alright?"
Edmund nodded. "I'm a little tired, I think."
Lucy laughed and threw her arms around him. "It's good to have you back, Edmund," she whispered.
"You should get some sleep," Peter said quietly.
As Edmund left them, Peter added, "And Edmund?"
Edmund turned.
"Try not to wander off."
Edmund smiled.
 
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Once Edmund had rested a little, they all had breakfast, and while they ate, they talked. Edmund, of course, was a little curious to know about Emily's past, and so she told him about what had happened to her. He was very quiet afterwards, and looked like he was thinking. His brother and sisters had noticed that he seemed to think a lot more than he used to. Peter, too, was thinking about something that morning.
Finally, Susan asked, "Peter, what's wrong?"
"I - I've been thinking about this a lot and, well, I've come to the conclusion that it isn't safe for you here."
"Peter, what are you trying to get at?" Edmund asked.
Susan sighed. "Do you mean that we're going home?"
"Yes, you are," Peter said.
"But Peter -" Lucy began.
"No, Lucy. I promised to take care of you. You must go back, and I'll stay," said Peter, cutting her off.
"But they need us; all five of us!" Lucy said.
Emily sighed. "True. And you're not my brother, Peter; so I can stay if I want to."
"Both of them are right, Peter," Edmund said. "These people need us, and we have to help them! I can't leave them to suffer for what I've done to them."
They were all silent for a moment.
"Well," said Susan, standing up. "I suppose that's it then."
"Where are you going?" Peter asked.
Susan laughed and picked up her bow and quiver. "To get in some practice."
 
Lucy jumped up. "I'll come with you, Susan!"
"Well, at least someone's excited about this," Emily said, smiling a little.
"What do you mean, Emily?" Edmund asked.
"Did you ever think about who it is we're facing, Edmund? You and I should both know, as we've both encountered her, in one way or another," Emily answered, watching Lucy and Susan walk down to the archery range, laughing and talking.
"There is something that you haven't taken into account yet, though, Em," Peter said.
"What's that?" she asked him.
"We have Aslan on our side," Peter answered. "And if Aslan is for us, who can stand against us?"
 
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