Caspian/Edmund: Aeternitas

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Title: Aeternitas
Characters: Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie
Relationship: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Silver Chair, I suppose. Sort of.
Notes: Filmverse casting. A wild AU, given how The Silver Chair and The Last Battle deal with the respective deaths of Caspian and Edmund. But I don’t care. I wanted to write a Caspian allowed to die with the Edmund he remembers, and is haunted by, at his side when it happens. The title is the Latin word for eternity. The quote at the beginning comes from the song You Raise Me Up by Secret Garden.
Rating: M
Warnings: Major Character Death
Summary: Caspian is close enough to eternity that he can almost touch and taste it.

Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.

It’s the end of days; you’re close, at last, to eternity. Funny thing, that; it’s more a relief to be near the end of your existence than you could ever have imagined it would be. You can hear the voices of people long-since gone. Drinian’s wry amusement, Lucy’s laugh (as impish as everything about her). The unique cadence of Lilliandil’s voice. Peter, Susan. Rilian. Those you’ve loved, and then lost, over a lifetime. Yet there is still someone missing, and your heart hurts, still, to remember.

Breathing becomes difficult, all of a sudden, and what breaths you take are shallow.

And then, at long last, he’s here. Ed’s grinning at you, his eyes alive with mischief, and to you he’s as beautiful as he was the last time you set eyes on him. You gave him the best of you, because you loved him too much to do anything else. And words can’t do justice to how much you’ve missed him, longed for him, since that second painful good-bye. Part of you had hated the ocean after, sea-farer or no.

It’s been decades since you saw him last, and for a moment you wonder how long it’s been for him. But you stop thinking about that, or anything at all but the feel of him against you, when his arms enfold you in a tender embrace for the first time in far too long.

‘Ed, my love, I’ve missed you,’ you whisper to him. At last, you can tell him exactly what he means to you. You are dying; you don’t need to stop yourself. Not any more. At the feel of his arms tightening around you, you let your adoration of him swallow you whole. This time, this time, you never have to let him go…

And you, Caspian the Sea-Farer, enter eternity in the arms of your everlasting love.

Comments

[magical_sid]

*waves* found out you moved to DW and so here I am back reading and adoring your Fic.

This one is brilliant!

I wanted to write a Caspian allowed to die with the Edmund he remembers
Mission fullfilled and I loved it!

Will catch up with your other stories soon.