Fear of Dragons by glitzfrau [PG13]

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Fandom: Narnia
Author on LJ: glitzfrau
Pairing: Caspian/Edmund

Why this must be read:

Again and again it seems like the Pevensies' are confronted with the knowledge, and self-knowledge, they lost on their return to England. But such things tend to come back on Narnian soil, and things once forgotten are remembered in a new context. That idea is explored in this story, which treads the thin line between Edmund-the-schoolboy and Edmund-the-Just and finds that things are not so easily dilineated.

Edmund thanked his stars that Caspian was there to laugh at Eustace too. Oh, he knew it was beastly to make jokes about his own cousin, but it was such fun when they both pulled a Eustace "you-odious-stuck-up-pig" face at exactly the same time, just before Eustace himself started complaining, or mimicked the way he would pick at a pavander. Only little jokes, because it was a bit rotten to make fun of the chap when he was so obviously down. Anyway, Edmund's spiteful little jokes had caused a great tragedy once, and he had that side of himself firmly under control now. Caspian was a great help whenever Edmund started brooding about the past, always reminding him of his great deeds as a King. Strange to think that it was legends about his own glorious adventures that had kept Caspian's hopes for Old Narnia alive, when Caspian was only a kid and being bullied by that rotten uncle of his.

Fear of Dragons