Disclaimer: I do not own any of this. Narnia, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Lord of the Rings all belong to their respective owners. All characters are fictional. Any resemblance between a character and any person, living or dead, is merely coincidental.

Susan sighed. She was going home for Christmas Break after a long year at boarding school, and normally it would have been her favorite part of the year. But this year would be the first Christmas the Pevensie siblings would spend without their father, who had been killed in the war. Their mum had recently remarried, though the siblings hadn't met their new stepfather yet.

"Susan!" her thoughts were interrupted by her younger sister, Lucy. "We're here!" Lucy shouted as she shot out the car door. Susan couldn't help but smile. Lucy was almost always cheerful.

After letting her younger brother, Edmund, out of the car, she paid the cab driver and grabbed her and her siblings' luggage. Almost as soon as they approached it, the door was opened by their oldest sibling, Peter, who had just gotten home from college.

"Hi Peter!" Lucy exclaimed as she hugged her older brother.

"Well, you've certainly grown up," Susan remarked to Peter after they had exchanged greetings. "How's college going?"

"Good, but it's rather hard to adjust," he said to them. Just last year Peter had been accepted to Oxford University, while Susan, Edmund and Lucy had been attending boarding school.

"Where's Mum?" Edmund asked.

"She's getting dinner ready," Peter replied.

"Have you met Bill yet?" Lucy asked the question that was on all of their minds.

Peter was slower to reply this time. "Yes," he said finally. "He's…interesting."

"What do you mean?" Susan asked him.

"Well," at this Peter lowered his voice to a whisper, "He's not exactly the nicest man I've ever met."

"Oh." Lucy looked dejected.

"It's alright, Lu," Edmund tried to comfort his sister. "I'm sure we'll have lots of fun."

Although they talked for a bit longer, there was one thing they didn't talk about: Narnia.

Although it had been two years since Susan last went, the pain was still raw for her. After their last visit, she was very upset. So she had thrown herself into her social life, hoping it would ease the pain. But that only made it worse. And now Andrew, a boy from her school, kept trying to ask her out. She had to say no; the memory of Caspian was all too real. And then, when Edmund and Lucy had told her that Caspian was married, it nearly broke her heart. But it wasn't just Caspian; it was Narnia altogether. She had surrounded herself with tons of friends, the most popular kids at school. But they didn't understand about her life as a queen; the only people who knew about her and her siblings adventures in Narnia were the Professor Kirke and their cousin, Eustace. Nothing would be the same.

"Susan!" her Mother's voice broke her thoughts. She ran to greet her eldest daughter.

"Mum!" Susan shouted. No matter how sad she was, she was glad to be with her family for Christmas.

"Oh you've all grown so much since I last saw you!" Her mother exclaimed. She grabbed the suitcases. "Here let me take that."

Just then the door opened and a 40-something man came in. "Helen, I'm-" he stopped short when he saw the Pevensie kids. "Oh, you must be Susan and Edmund and Lucy," he said. "I'm Bill, your new step dad." Susan didn't want to hug him; she just shook his hand instead.

"Well shall we have some dinner?" Mrs. Pevensie broke the tension.

Dinner was quiet that night, with only a few words spoken here and there. Afterwards, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy gathered in the girl's room.

"Well that was awkward," Edmund was the first to speak.

"Talk about it," Lucy remarked. "Why did Mum marry Bill anyhow?"

"I think she was so heartbroken over Dad's death that she just didn't care anymore. She wanted some comfort."

"I know how that feels," Susan remarked, more to herself than anyone else.

"What?" Peter asked her.

"Nothing." She paused "Oh, who am I kidding? I just wish we could be back in Narnia. My life hasn't been the same since Aslan told us we couldn't come back."

"I think we all wish that, Susan," Edmund said to her.

"It's cold in here," Lucy suddenly remarked

"But the windows are all shut, and the heater's on," Susan replied, surprised at how cold it was.

"Then why is there wind?" Edmund asked quizzically. The wind was picking up, but before Susan could say anything something hit her in the head and everything went black.

Meanwhile, in present-day New York….

"I can't believe this," Alex Russo said to her older brother Justin.

"What?" He asked.

"It's a Friday night, school is out for Christmas, and we're working in the sandwich shop."

"Well the only reason we're doing that is because Mom and Dad are out Christmas Shopping," He replied, use to 17 year-old Alex's complaints. At 19, Justin considered himself the most mature teen in the Russo family and was constantly bailing Alex out of trouble.

"Yea but I should be out with Harper," Alex retorted. "Our life is so boring. You'd think that since we're Wizards we'd have lots of excitement"

"You never know; something could happen in the blink of an eye," Justin said.

Just then their younger brother Max walked in. "Finally!" Alex exclaimed. "Where were you?" the dinner rush is about to start."

"Homework," he said.

Justin raised his eyebrows. "Are you sure?"

Max looked sheepish. "Well I might have watched a little bit of TV…."

"Oh never mind that; just get to work," Alex told him.

Pretty soon the Sub Station was all filled up and the Russo kids were running back and forth trying to fill orders. Things were just starting to slow down when Alex saw a familiar blond-headed girl coming in. She stopped in her tracks when she realized who it was. She jumped under the counter, pulling Max down with her.

"Hey! What was that for?" he asked loudly.

"Shh. You need to be quiet! Gigi's here," Alex told him. "We can't let her see us."

"But then who will serve her?"

"That's the point!" Alex told Max. "If no one serves her she'll leave."

Right then Justin came by and almost tripped over Alex and Max.

"What are you guys doing?" he asked.

"Just get down here," Alex told him. "Didn't you see Gigi out there?"

"Well, yea, but-"

"Why is everything spinning?" Max interrupted him.

"Probably because of that spell you did the other day.." Alex told him.

"No, I feel it too," Justin said.

"This is weird," Alex said as the room started to spin. "Max what did you do?"

"Nothing. Honest!" They had to yell now to be heard.

Strangely enough, they were the only ones who seemed to notice

Just then the Sub Station began to disappear, and everything went black.