yes, yes, they're all so screwed, carry on

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Stop the presses! Caspian has managed to learn that the world does not revolve around him. *is shocked*

This would be an interesting story to tell from two POVs, except I swore I'd never do that again after "In Constellated Wars." But still...

*sigh* Actually, to get the transitory aspect of the Caspian of "In Constellaed Wars" and the Caspian of "Once More for the Ages" that y'all keep asking for, I probably would have to do this from Caspian's POV, because all we're getting now is Edmund going, "Good, he's not so annoying, maybe I won't have to kill him and call it an accident after all," and cutting himself open (for, uh, unrelated reasons).

Look, see?

“The High King is in Narnia,” Caspian insists, and keeps talking even when the nix hits him again, spitting the words out along with blood and a shard of broken tooth. “The High King is at Aslan’s How, answering the call of Queen Susan’s horn. Peter of Narnia is here.”

“Lying Telmarine bastard!” the nix declares as Edmund revises his opinion of Caspian substantially.

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"In three months," Susan says. "We're already rushing it --"

"Rushing?" Peta says disbelievingly.

"-- but the baby should be legitimate, and I don't think Peta should be nine months pregnant at the altar."

"She'll just be beginning to show, then," the sempstress says. "I can compensate for that in the design, I'm sure."

"If we have to get married, can't we just get married now?" Peta demands. "Why all the rigmarole? It seems like far too much trouble, and the longer we wait the more chance something will go wrong. I don't want to have to kill another fiance."

"I don't like that idea either," Caspian adds helpfully.

"It's not about the wedding," Susan says briskly. "It's about making a political point about Narnia and Telmarine Narnia."

"Couldn't you just send out a messenger?"

"No," Edmund and Susan say together.

"Really, I think it would be much more efficient," Peta says. "And cheaper."

"No," Edmund says again.

Peta opens her mouth to say something else, then pauses. "I'm going to throw up now," she announces, and makes a hasty exit to the attached bathroom, shortly followed by the sound of retching.

"She's going to start yelling again," Edmund predicts and goes to catch Caspian by the arm, towing him out of the room. "Let's go get something to drink."

"But --"

"She is, isn't she?"

"Yes, but --"

"So we'll be better off. Su can explain everything."

Susan looks up from the fabric samples. "You'll hear the screaming in about five minutes," she says, sighing.

"This is true," Caspian says, "but I don't think I should --"

"Yes," Edmund says firmly, "you should. Before she throws something at you."

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OMG! Commence key smashing: fkjdl;a;ajgkjjfk;a;jdkjfjgjgdk

This is fantastic. I am sort of at a loss for words. Okay, I will try to find some coherency.

I know Lucy isn't really in this, but I love her kicking her feet on Peta's bed and being snarky.

And Edmund and Susan, a united force against the crazyness that is Peta. They seem closer than Peter's Ed & Su, at least the second time around. Also, I love the part where she doesn't know how far along she is and looks at Edmund and he's all "How am I supposed to know?" Ed, you kill me with your awsomeness.

And Peta and Caspian, seriously cavity inducing. I actually really like him, mostly because he's so good to her, it's adorable.

"Really?" Peta says, looking a little more interested. Or at least less like she wants to kill something.

This is my absolute favorite line. Its so Peta. Blah, blah, blah, wedding, blah, red, blah, sex, blah, ... wait, SEX?

And also, "Yes," Edmund says firmly, "you should. Before she throws something at you." Edmund, WHY ARE YOU SO AWSOME?

I am refraining from copying and pasteing like, the whole freaking thing, and I love how my comment isnt in order, uh, at all.

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They are so much fun to write. And so much more functional at this point than in any Peterverse, which is kind of surprising.

Why should Peta know when she got pregnant? She has important things to worry about! It could have been any of...a lot of times. *cough* (Although really, it's the time right after the battle when Peta dragged Caspian off to the side of the How.)

Peta and Caspian. So cute. SO CUTE.

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Although really, it's the time right after the battle when Peta dragged Caspian off to the side of the How.

Is there text evidence for this? There's alot of Peta/Caspian porn floating around, but I can't remember if you've already wrote this and it's just floating around somewhere. *goes off to look for it*

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Uh, here (http://bedlamsbard.livejournal.com/267137.html?thread=1559937).

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oh, the porn. *covers eyes*

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When a queen of Narnia and a Telmarine prince love each other very much...

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I'll say.

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Or really, at that point, when a queen of Narnia wants her way...

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... it would be idiocy to refuse her.

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Also, the history fascinates me.

And my Narnian wedding, do we mean earth bond? Does this mean Peta never had the earth bond with Narnia during the Golden Age? Or if she did, who did she have it with?

Also, I just remembered that all these Pevensies die, and now I'm really sad. I mean, I know we still have Peter's Pevensies, but it's still really depressing to think that these Pevensies end up getting killed or commiting suicide.

Now I am wondering what would have happened if Peta's Pevensies didn't really die and Peta's Pevensies and Peter's Pevensies meet up when Peter's Pevensies went back to rescue Caspian. I am imagining the Edmunds being really skeptical and distrustful and the Lucys being really excited and the Susans being wary.

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No, the earth bond's different than the wedding/ritual. The earth bond basically involves, in its rawest form, Peter mixing her blood with Narnian earth, drinking it (in wine) and swearing an oath. The wedding is actually an ancient fertility ritual that guarantees a good crop, healthy land, so on and so forth. Peta (and Peter) did it with Edmund the first time 'round, and usually the "bride" in this case gets possessed by Narnia (bride here being Edmund both times). I am not sure if Narnia actually possesses Caspian or not, but there's a reason the Pevensies want to get him drunk first, and only part of that is that it's going to be public sex in the fields surrounded by drunken Narnians.

*cough* I have nothing to say to the rest...

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Oh, I didn't realize that Edmund had the wedding/ritual with Peta too. I wonder how Caspain will react to that.
Caspain: We're going to do what? In front of who?
I guess that's why they want to get him drunk first, but do they ever actually tell him about Narnia the vindictive country?

LIES! You are bursting with opinions! It's even crazier than Peter and Peta because at least with them there is some sort of distinction, but with the others it like meeting your clone or your evil twin.

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By I wonder how Caspian will react to that I meant the ritual part itself not the Edmund part, but the Edmund part is interesting to think about, too. I'm assuming Caspain never knows in Peterverse, but does he in Petaverse? Do they ever tell him. I'd imagine they won't have too many secrets after 13 years of marraige. Wait, were they married for 13 years or 15 or 18?

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They were married for thirteen years, but if we count how long they were actually together, it's just short of fourteen. But, it's two years in Narnia between Peta leaving and coming back, and five years in England between Peta arriving and leaving. (I wanted them to be closer in age than they would be if it was, a, the same amount of time, or, b, longer in Narnia, since Peta would have been sixteen again when she came back England, and Caspian would have been thirty-four. As it is, when she ends up in Narnia again, Caspian's thirty-six and Peta's twenty-one. AWKWARD.)

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I read this so fast that I had to read it three times before I actaually understood it, lol.

That is kind of awkward, but it isn't too bad, and age is just a number anyway. So are Peter and Peta both the same age again but Peta just grew up twice? And when she grows up the second time is she the same age that she (and Peter) was at the end of LWW? I think the math adds up. This leads me to my crack theory that the Pevensies are incapable of growing beyond the age they were in LWW (and the second time around in Peta's case) and thats why they were pushed back.
Now I am having all these ideas about Immortal!Pevensies that I would like to share if you are interested. ;)

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Share away! I am always interested. (Although I will note that that's part of the basis of my immortal!Susan story -- she's stuck at the age she was when she left Narnia.)

Hang on, now I have to think about it. Curse you, time travel!

Okay, during the Golden Age, the Pevensies were in Narnia for fifteen years; my Peter went there when he was fifteen and came back when he was thirty. Same for Peta. And with the Second Summer (her reign with Caspian), she went when she was sixteen and came back when she was...thirty.

OH HUH. I didn't think of that! On the other hand, there's, uh, secret twist character...okay, at this point, I think it's fair to say that the secret twist is that one of the other Pevensies Isn't Really Dead.

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Alright. So this is like my crack fanon to your crack canon. They don't die on the train because they are all immortal which leads us to your Immortal!Susan and the Peter&Batman story, but now Edmund and Lucy are immortal, too, so what are they doing? You said once that Edmund would make a beter James Bond than Peter, so my theory is Edmund IS James Bond. Bond totally dies on one of his early missions and Edmund is for some reason there when he died (maybe he killed him, *muses*) and it's like the Dreaded Pirate Roberts and so Edmund just tells everyone he is James Bond and he just becomes Bond and somehow it works out and it is awsome.

So if the Pevensies where immortal: Susan and Peter would be in Gothum doing Batman and Edmund would be James Bond, my only problem is I don't know what Lucy would be doing. Dude, Lucy should totally go to Hogwarts... or Forks, lol.

one of the other Pevensies Isn't Really Dead I seriously screamed when I read this. *crosses fingers for Edmund* Can you tell, I'm a little biased towards him?

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ahahahaha. I am kind of tempted to pull Edmund back from Aslan's Country too, like Peter.

ARGH NOT FORKS NO NO NO NO. Hate Twilight. Spork my eyes out with a chainsaw.

One of the Pevensies isn't really dead, one of the Pevensies is really dead (Caspian saw their head; boy, aren't those Telmarines nice?), and one of the Pevensies may or not really be dead; I haven't decided yet. And Rilian's not dead and Caspian's not dead, obviously.

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Which is kind of awkward, because since it's a fertility ritual, the question is how did Edmund avoid knocking up Peta, especially with magic involved?

Maybe? It's not the issue with Peta that it is with Peter, so it's not as important.

There's a good reason Peta wants to get Caspian drunk. *smirk*

No, I, uh...secret plot twist.

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Maybe they used magic contraceptives. It probubly would have been frowned upon becasue it's a fertility ritual, so they they would have had to use secret magic contraceptives, but nobody wants an incestious hier running around, so...

Also, some for thought: I know it's a little late now to change, but why was it Edmund at all? The reason he voluntered in Peter's case was becasue they didn't want and incestious hier so it wouldn't make sense for Edmund to volenteer when they know there's a chance for her to get pregnant. He would have been the last person to volenteer. It makes more sense for Susan (or Lucy, but I imagine they vetoed Lucy) to volenteer to be the "bride" because they know they can't impregnate eachother. Please feel free to contradict as they are your characters (well technacily they are Lewis but, whatever).

DUN DUN DUN! Secret plot twists make me happy.

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Some food for thought. *headdesk*

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No, uh, this is a good question. I'm growing as a writer/worldbuilder. Watch me make something up off the top of my head!

Peter prefers men. (Actually, my Peter's bi, but he strongly prefers men.) Peta also prefers men. There's a lot of magic in being willing and a lot of magic in enjoyment/happiness/sexual fulfillment, and the effect of the ritual would have been stronger if Peta's, um, in the mood? So to speak. And it's stronger with a man and a woman, even though it actually ends up being two women, which weakens it (see, with Peter, it's Peter and Narnia, who's female, so it is male and female, and it's sexist magic, what can I say. It would have been pretty darn strong no matter which of his siblings Peter was with).

And Susan was very, very opposed to the whole idea, and the "bride" needs to be willing.

If that made any sense. At all.

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So does Peta like women even a little bit? She must have experimented, right? Even Susan did. The "sexist magic" thing makes sense but as the bride needs to be willing, I can't imagine Edmund would be too willing when he knows the possible consquences. But then again he kind of was sleeping with Peta anyway, so he might just be in it for the sex but on the other hand there's no way he would do it just for the sex; I mean he can get sex from so many other places so it's more likely that he'd be running for the hills.

Susan was really opposed to it, but Lucy was rather willing, wasn't she?

At any point you can say "THAT'S JUST NOT HOW IT IS!" and I will shut but I think it's fascinating and kind of important to explore this from all differnt angles.

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Peta definitely experimented, but she's more straight than Peter is gay. (Oh, god, this is such a weird conversation. *facepalm*)

Well, no one really knew what was going to happen. Peter/Peta was having sex dreams (thank you Narnia) saying that it had to be one of the Pevensie siblings, but the knowledge of what the ritual meant had been lost to Narnia thanks to the White Witch. So -- as far as the Pevensies are concerned, it's probably just sex, with a little magic mixed in. (And then it happens, and, uh, hell no.)

I'm not sure if Edmund and Peta were sleeping together yet. This is in about, oh, year four, year five. Peta would have been 19-20, Susan would have been 18-19, Edmund would have been 16-17, and Lucy would have been 14-15 -- so too young, there; Peta would have drawn a line.

There are probably contraceptives Peta used. Huh, maybe that's another reason the bond wasn't as strong...