A/N: My first Narnia fanfic...hmm...we'll see how this works out...But after seeing Prince Caspian, I decided I wanted to write something that ends a little happier than the movie did. I've always hated the end of Caspian, because Susan and Peter can't go back to Narnia, so, of course, all four children will return home...because I really think they feel like Narnia is more their home than England could ever be...

Set between Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader; definitely movieverse

Prologue

It had been three weeks since the Pevensie children had returned to England. All four siblings were a bit morose for a few days, but they brightened up some when they returned home. Susan was coping better than Peter could have hoped.

Now all that Lucy could talk about was when and where Aslan was going to send her and Edmund.

"Maybe we'll go only a few years into the future, and we'll get to see Caspian again!" She would say, and Susan would get this sad, lost look, and Peter would shush his youngest sister. But she ignored him, going on to say, "Or maybe we'll go thousands of years later again, and we'll get to experience a brand new age of Narnia!"

"I don't care when it is, as long as it happens soon," Edmund would reply excitedly.

They seemed to have this sort of conversation every day. It made Peter and Susan uncomfortable, but they knew their return would be impossible. Even so, the eldest Pevensies would never give up hope. After all, hadn't they heard, so many times, the saying, "Once a king or queen in Narnia, always a king or queen in Narnia"?

But the more Lucy mentioned Caspian, the unhappier Susan got, so Peter finally had a talk with the girl who had been known as the Valiant.

"Lucy, you know that all four of us love Narnia, just as much as you do," Peter began.

"Oh Peter, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you sad by talking about it!" Lucy apologized immediately.

"No Lu, it's not me. It's Susan," Peter replied, a bit uncomfortably.

"What about her?" Lucy asked.

"Narnia really changed her Lu...because even though we all love it, Susan fell in love in Narnia," Peter explained.

"With Caspian?" Lucy inquired, sounding a bit confused.

"I know it may not have seemed that way, but she cared for Caspian more than I think even I knew. And it hurts her when we talk about him."

"I don't want to hurt her," Lucy said earnestly.

"I know Lucy, and I know you didn't mean to, but let's not talk so much about Narnia," Peter declared, tugging affectionately on one of his little sister's braids.

"I just miss it, Peter. I wish I could stay there forever!" Lucy confessed, a tear sliding down her cheek.

"I think, in a way we all do, Lu," Peter replied. "But just think, if we never came back, we'd never see mum again, and we'd never get to see dad when he came back from the war. Plus, no electricity forever?" He grinned.

"But if I remember right, High King Peter, we've already lived a life without those things," Lucy whispered solemnly. But she soon got up and skipped happily away, humming Mr. Tumnus' lullaby.