The Chronicles of Narnia
Peter's Gift
I do not own The Chronicles of Narnia, or any of its characters, but sometimes I wish I did.
Summary: post Last Battle, after the train crash, Susan goes into a deep depression. She locks herself in the house, not talking or listening to anyone. Slowly a year passes and Susan finally forces herself to look through the box that was brought to the house, containing her family's belongings from the day of the accident. When she finds something that belonged to Peter, it will help her in a way that she never thought possible.
Author's note: I know that this is probably not the ages of the Pevensie children when the accident happened, but I made them younger so that Lucy was going to school too.
Chapter One
The day of the Accident
"Come on Su, it will be like old times, just come with us, so we can be together for once," Peter said into the receiver. He had been on the phone to his eighteen year old sister Susan for about an hour, trying to convince her to join him and their younger brother on a trip.
"I can't Peter, I have some studying to do before classes start and besides, I have another engagement; I promised Miss Betty that I would join her for tea this afternoon, you don't want me to go against my word do you?" Susan's voice echoed over the phone.
"Tell her you are going to spend some time with your family, she'll understand," Peter said running his fingers through his sandy hair. "We are going to be meeting with the Professor, Aunt Polly, Lucy, Jill and Eustace, we are going to try and send Jill and Eustace back to Narnia with the magic rings, the same rings that sent the Professor and Aunt Polly to Narnia long ago, years before we stumbled through the wardrobe." Peter said trying to convince her to go with them.
"Why are you trying to send them back into memories?" asked Susan, she had stopped believing in Narnia years ago, she was surprised that Peter still believed in this, he was nineteen years old and still talked about once being the high king of Narnia.
"They are not just memories Susan, Narnia is real, and someone needs help, we each saw it in a dream. Ed, Lucy and I can't go, the professor and Aunt Polly can't go, Jill and Eustace are the only ones who can. The rings had all been buried in a garden of a house in London, but it had been sold. So Ed and I dressed up like workmen so no one would question us, and we went to London, to the house and began searching for them. And well, we were able to fine them." Peter said going into the story. "We are in London right now and will be boarding the school train to join them, the Professor and Aunt Polly are teaching this year so they are on board too, we will try the rings as soon as we are moving, please Su, if you hurry you can make it, your classes don't start for a week yet."
"I don't think so Peter-maybe some other time but not today. Thank you anyway, it was good to talk with you though, I love you, and I'll talk to you later ok? Bye," said Susan and with that hung up the phone.
"Susan? Susan? She hung up," Peter said hanging up the receiver and turning to his sixteen year old brother who had just returned from buying the tickets.
"What was her excuse this time?" Edmund asked as he took a seat beside his brother.
"In her words," "I promised Miss Betty I would join her for tea this afternoon, you don't want me to go against my word do you?" Peter said is his best Susan voice. "I know Miss Betty, she would understand if Susan was going to spend a day with us."
"You know Susan, Peter; she just isn't the twelve year old girl she was, when she was Queen Susan the Gentle, she has forgotten Narnia, and Aslan, so we might as well stop trying to talk to her about it," Edmund said as he handed his brother his ticket.
Peter sighed and put the ticket into his pocket, he fingered the silver box that had fallen to the side of his pocket, it held the four magic rings that would hopefully send Jill and Eustace back to Narnia. They had tried to send them back over the summer but it had taken longer to find the rings then they thought, so they made a plan, they were to get on the train to school and then Peter and Edmund would join them when the train stopped in London.
Peter had a strange feeling, a very strange feeling, he felt as if that was going to be the last time he was ever going to talk to his sister. Peter shivered and pulled out a piece of old paper that had been crumpled into his packet and began to write a note. The note was to Susan, and as he finished it a small tear slide down his cheek and onto the paper, landing just above his sister's name.
Peter sighed again not knowing why he was crying or why he had this feeling to write to his sister, it was almost as if this was going to be the last thing he ever wrote to his sister. Peter folded the paper and wrote Susan's name on it in his fine hand. He pulled out a book from his back pocket and opened it and placed the note inside and put it back in his pocket.
"Here comes the train," Edmund's voice broke Peter's thoughts.
Peter shook his head to clear it, he saw that his brother was now standing at edge of the platform watching the train come in, he stood to join his brother when he saw that the train was not slowing down for the bend in the tracks.
"Ed there is something wrong, it should be slowing down, its going way to fast!" Peter shouted.
All of a sudden the train station was gone, it was replaced by a flash of the purest white light, and it was so bright that Peter had to shut his eyes. When Peter opened his eyes, he saw an open meadow in front of him; he saw Edmund beside him dressed in his kingly robes, with a crown on his head and a smile on his face. Peter turned and saw Lucy at his other side, she was dressed in her long royal dress, she also had a crown on her head.
Peter looked around him, there was the Professor, Aunt Polly, Eustace and Jill, they were all dressed royally, and all had crowns on their heads. Peter look at himself, he too was dressed in his royal robes, he reached up to touch his head and ran his fingers over the points of his crown.
Peter lifted head and looked around his surroundings, over in the distance he saw an animal he thought he would never see again. Aslan stood at the edge of the meadow waiting for them.
As they reached Aslan, Lucy took off running and through her arms around the great lion's neck, burying her face into his mane.
"Oh we missed you Aslan, please don't make us leave you again," Lucy said her voice muffled by the hair.
"Oh young Lucy, you and your brothers will never leave again, you are home, forever," Aslan said.
As he spoke he turned to revile a door, and as it opened Peter walked though it followed by Lucy and the rest, inside they saw Cair Paravel on the edge of the sea and Peter , Edmund, and Lucy's mother and father stood waiting for them.
Peter smiled; he was glad they did not have to leave again; he hugged his parents and then joined Lucy around Aslan's neck as did Edmund.
"Thank you Aslan, we are happy to be home," said Peter. Then he buried his face in the lion's mane and whispered, "Good luck, Susan."
Author's note: I know that Peter and Edmund and so on, don't see Aslan right away in the Last Battle, but I am making this story mostly about Susan so it is going to mainly be about her. Peter and the others will show up in later chapters though. I only ask one thing; if you read, PLEASE REVIEW! Also please check out my other stories and let me know what you think. I try to reply to all my reviewers, but if I miss you I'm very, very sorry.