Synopsis-

"It started out as a feeling..."

Susan has spent a year and half missing Caspian and trying to come to terms with Aslan's decision to send Peter and herself back permanently. When the family is reunited and promptly lands back in Narnia, what will happen?

"Now we're back at the beginning, it's a feeling and no one knows yet…"

A/N: Although I wasn't thrilled with the deviation from the books when the movie first came out, I've come to love Susan and Caspian together. And I started to wonder, what would have happened if Lewis had put them together? So I decided to see if I could find out.

This story will be a mix of book traits and ideals along with the movie's storyline, by which I hope to keep the integrity and richness of Lewis' beloved Narnian tales and the possibilities left open to us by the film makers. The title and some, if not all, chapter titles come from the song The Call at the end of Prince Caspian.

Susan POV:

"It wouldn't have worked out anyway. I am thirteen hundred years older than you."

The words, said to comfort my breaking heart as I said goodbye came back to haunt me once again. It has been a year and a half since Peter and I have been to Narnia, and six months since Edmund and Lucy came back from the Dawn Treader voyage. Normally I can push Caspian to the back of my mind, but Peter and I just picked the younger ones up from the port, and watching them drift to sleep, the steady rocking motion of the train lulling their tired bodies to rest, makes it hard to forget. Lucy's cheeks are still a bit pinker than normal from the Narnian air, even after the transatlantic trip, and neither one of them could keep quiet about all that had happened, never mind that they'd already written it all in our letters.

Lucy mentioning that Caspian is still lacking a queen just about sent my heart out of my chest, especially after Ed gaged and complained about his sentimentality, explaining that he'd said he couldn't find anyone to "equal your sister." While I hadn't tried to move on by finding a suitor, I had continued my life, and hoped Caspian could find a way to be happy too. Aslan had said we weren't coming back, and the sooner I dealt with that reality, the better; Even if my heart wouldn't allow me to move on with another man. I would have been tempted to believe Narnia was simply a beautiful dream, or carefully crafted fantasy we'd all cooked up in Professor Digory's wardrobe, but the pain I felt was as real and stabbing as the time I'd slit my hand with a knife peeling potatoes in the kitchen. As easy as it could have been to trust it all a delusion, I knew Caspian, and the agony of being separated, was as real as Pete and I, as real as Ed and Lu. I'd fallen for him faster than I ever thought you could fall for someone. He was just so good. He reminded me of the best parts of my brothers in that way. And then he'd come riding in and saved me after I'd sent Lucy off. That had really been my undoing. It was hard to believe how short a time we'd had left in Narnia after that. I couldn't help wondering what would have happened if we could have stayed. I could feel the tears threatening, and glanced over at Peter, who was cradling Lu's sleeping body carefully and smiled ruefully. He grimaced back. He knew my pain better than anyone, since the younger ones had been with our Aunt and Uncle and I couldn't very well tell Mum or Dad what was bothering me. Thus, it had fallen to Pete to soothe my tears and aching heart more than once.

Ed's head slipped onto my shoulder as the train lurched. Then a metallic shrieking sound filled the air as the train jostled again. Ed popped off my shoulder, startled, as Peter braced his feet on the floor and tightened his hold on Lucy. Smoke filled the air, and I clutch at Ed as sounds of terror begin.

Heat comes rushing at us…

As quickly as it began, it is over. The smoke clears, and we are sitting on a pier, looking up at a restored Cair Paravel. The air is cool. Pete and Lu are across the way, just as they were moments before on the train. Lucy takes one look around and shrieks with glee, while Edmund, Peter and I share confused glances.