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Disclaimer: I do not own Narnia or any of the characters in it.

Prologue

"We will." Susan spoke up.

Lucy and Edmund looked at her in surprise.

"What?" Lucy asked.

"It's time for us to go back." replied Peter.

"But we will come back one day?" Edmund asked looking from his older brother to his older sister. They looked down their eyes filled with uncertainty.

"We will come back, won't we?" Lucy questioned, for her every second of silence was spelling that they wouldn't. Sadness and confusion filled her face as her older siblings would not respond.

"Yes you will dear one."

Up until that point all four Pevensies had forgotten that all there were other people and creatures there. All four stared at Aslan, relief and hope crossed their faces. As to stop any further questions that could be back Aslan swiftly added, "All four of you will be back."

Smiles spread across their faces. They then went to say their goodbyes. A few tears were shed between sibling and friends. Peter handed it over his sword to Caspian, "Keep it safe for me." A pleading air to his voice.

"I will." Caspian replied, "I will keep everything safe."

Peter nodded towards Caspian; he was never great with goodbyes. Edmund then came over; he offered his hand for Caspian to shake, "Bye Caspian." Edmund said a slight air of sadness in his voice.

"Bye Ed." Caspian replied.

Lucy then came over, curtsied and said, "Bye Caspian, I will you."

"As will I Lucy." Caspian said to her offering his hand for her to shake. She shook it and went to stand beside her two brothers. Last to say goodbye to Caspian was Susan. They stood in awkward silence for a moment and then they shook hands, lingering with their hands still together. Then, very quickly, Caspian pulled Susan in for a kiss.

"Eww!" whispered Lucy while smiling.

"You'll understand when your older." Replied Peter.

"I'm older and I don't think I want to understand." retorted Edmund.

Peter tried to stifle his laughter at his younger siblings comment. Meanwhile Susan and Caspian had broken apart from their kiss and had embraced each other.

"Bye Caspian." Susan said tears brimming in her eyes.

"Bye Susan, I'll see you again." Caspian replied sadly.

As she went to line up with her sibling, they all looked at her with a knowing smile. Peter lead the walk through the tree, Edmund followed as did Susan, but just before Lucy stepped through the porthole she looked back, Aslan nodded slowly at her. She responded with a sad smile for as she walks through the tree everything changed; They were no longer outside, they were in the dank, dirty underground; they were no longer dressed in their royal clothes, they were dressed in their school clothes, with their hair exactly as it had been the day they left. They were no longer in Narnia, and as Lucy looked backwards for the second time, she did not see the tree; she saw the rest of the ugly station. Her disappointment was mirrored on her other siblings faces.

"Are you coming Phyllis?"

All of them looked up confused. A boy with glasses and dressed in a Hendon House uniform, like Edmund and Peter, had just addressed Susan as 'Phyllis'. Realisation dawned. They scurried around collecting all their stuff and boarded the underground train. Just before the doors closed Edmund asked, "You don't think theirs anyway we can get back do you?"

The others looked at him in confusion. Edmund spoke up again in an exasperated tone, "I left my new torch in Narnia!"

All four of them laughed. The doors closed and the train swiftly departed the station and as it did a lions roar could be heard.