Every Season
Summary: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer-four seasons. Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy- four children. Four connected drabbles.
Author's Note: I'm not really sure what this is. It's definitely different from anything I've written before, but my brain needed the study break. Enjoy!
Autumn
It is only fitting that the oldest Pevensie is associated with autumn. After all, Peter, while the oldest, is also the transition in the family. He makes all the parts work together perfectly, bridging the gap between the vibrant life of summer and the dead of winter. You wouldn't think they would work so well together. And without autumn, they wouldn't.
Do these leaves fall? Of course, it is inevitable. But they do not fall in such a way that it makes one think of death. For Peter, autumn is the scene before a resurrection. The things that are dying fade away, and soon new life will come. Like a snake shedding its skin, so Peter finds freedom from all the things that once enslaved him. He is ready to undergo the forging process.
Winter
She is winter. She is the dead of night. But this death, so far from making Susan weak, only makes her strong. Stronger than rock, or sword, or a mighty nation. Susan is cold. Her heart has become so heavy that no one can open the door that leads within anymore.
But she is not without hope, and she knows it. For winter will be strong in stubbornness for awhile, but eventually it will give way to spring. To birth, to new life, to a second chance. She waits for it.
Spring
Spring knows better than the other seasons what it feels like to be winter. For Summer is much too removed to even be able to imagine what winter must be, and autumn only stands on the precipice of winter, but Spring has been there. And so has Edmund.
For Edmund alone must know how Susan feels, because he has been there himself, but now has let himself be swept with the light of new life and he basks in it. He knows that one day Susan too, will gave way to spring. Edmund knows, however, that he cannot push winter along. He can only be ready and waiting at the end of the tunnel with a warm embrace.
Summer
Out of all the seasons, summer is the least transitional. It follows spring and goes before autumn, but it does not realize that. Lucy has always been bright, and she will always continue to be so. It is just the way the year progresses.
Her bright disposition stands in stark contrast with the milder of seasons, autumn and spring, but while she can understand the deep stance that is winter, she cannot comprehend the depth. For Lucy is all sunlight and flowers. This way, so far from being a rejection of reality, is really the deepest reality she can understand. Her one meaning in life is to spread this light, and she does so with ease.
A Year
Peter is autumn, Susan is winter. Edmund is spring, and Lucy is summer. Each one of them is so very different, and yet all four are needed to create the perfect year. And together, they do so.