This is a new story of mine that I decided to write. I hope that you like it! :)
Chapter 1
Where are we? I think as I stand up.
"Mamma! Where are we?" My four year old daughter, Capri comes running up to me. I take a deep breath to steady myself and catch a smell so familiar Narnia!
"Come here, baby." I open my arms and my precious daughter hops into my arms. "Peter! Edmund! Lucy! We're back!"
"We know, Susan. No need to holler so."
"Uncle Eddy." Capri jumps from my arms and into her favorite uncle's arms.
"How? None of us were to come back." Peter says. I look over at Capri.
"I think that it's because of Capri." I say.
"What is because of me, Mamma? And where are we?"
"Princess, come here." She walks over to me. "Remember the stories Mamma told you?"
"You mean about Marmia?" I almost laugh at my makeshift name for Narnia in the stories I told.
"Yes, darling."
"What about them?"
"They are real."
"Stop being silly Mamma. Where are we? Uncle Eddy?" She says, turning to Ed.
"Your Mamma is telling the truth. Only it is not Marmia, But Narnia" Ed never lied to her.
"Then who is Queen Sarah?"
"It's Queen Susan, the Gentle." I say, turning the young face towards me. "But you know me as Mamma."
"Wait. King Edward." She says, turning to Ed. "You are King Edward."
"King Edmund, the Just." Ed sweeps done and kisses her tiny hand.
"Queen Lily." she says, pointing to Lucy.
"Queen Lucy, the Valiant." Lucy says, with a curtsy.
"King Patrick." It was Peter's turn to kiss her hand. "Then I'm Princess Callie. And King Caspian is my Papa." One name I couldn't bear to change.
"Yes, my smart little one."
"What is his real name?"
"Caspian." Lucy say, kneeling beside the little girl. "Your Mamma loves him very much. She loved to hear his name from your mouth." We all stood and brushed off our clothes, for they had gotten dirt on them, when we heard the sound of approaching hoof-beats.
"Capri! Stay behind Mamma." I commanded. Capri crouched behind me. The boys armed them selves with large branches. My fingers itched for my bow, but it must be in Caspian's castle. The hoof-beats came closer. Two horses and a pony galloped into the clearing.
"Susan?" That voice. How I missed it.
"Caspian?" I looked into the face of my love. He swept off his horse.
"What are you doing here?"
"I don't know."
"Mamma." Capri crawls from behind my leg. "You said that we were here because of me." I grip her little hand and pull her into my arms.
"To be sure that is what I am assuming."
"I'm sorry. I don't believe I've met you, dear child. Pray tell, what is your name?"
"Capri Pevensie." She says, meekly.
"Pleased to meet you, Capri. I am King Caspian, the tenth."
"Mamma. You said that King Caspian was my Papa. Is he my Papa?" I look over my shouulder at my siblings with a look of pleading. Ed walked up.
"Now. Why don't we save this conversation for later. For now, we should be getting to some sort of shelter. Where are you staying, Caspian?"
"At Cair Paravel." He replied, still in a sort of daze. I gasped. "I had it rebuilt. It was my way of honoring you." He means all of us, but he is looking right at me.
"Cair is rebuilt. Well, that is just lovely. Hello Caspian." Lucy says, walking up. That seems to snap Caspian out of his daze.
"Hello Lucy." Caspian and Lucy briefly embrace and him and Ed shake hands. Peter walk up but just glares at Caspian.
"Peter, be nice." I whisper. He looks at me incredulously, "Fine, just say hello."
"Hello Caspian." Only Peter could find a way to make that threatening.
"Hello Peter." Caspian says, suspiciously "The castle isn't too far away. Shall we walk?" There were nods of assent all round. We walked through the forest a ways and then we came out in a new clearing. In that clearing, like from one of her dreams, was Cair Paravel, restored to perfection. We walked through the village and up to the castle. We walked like the royalty that we are, at least, my siblings did. I was carrying a four year old in a world so much different then our own world. I brought her up the way that a princess would in this world, because I know somewhere inside me, that she would come here. But, as small for her age as she is, she is pretty heavy.
"Here Susan, let me take her." Ed says, reaching for his niece. We stop so that I can gently place her in his arms. It is around the time for her nap, so she is starting to fall asleep. Ed holds her bridal-style, like he did when she was born. Ed stayed with me through the delivery. Peter tried but he couldn't handle it when I had a contraction. Lucy was in and out.
We got to the castle and Caspian led us to a study, beautifully furnished. This must but his private study.
"Mamma." A small voice came from the litle bundle in Ed's arms, for Peter had wrapped her in his coat. Raising Capri was a joint effort by all, so we were all very protective of her.
"Yes, princess?" I say, taking her out of Ed's arms and setting her on the floor.
"That nice man, King Caspian, he is my Papa, isn't he?" I turn to look at my siblings again. They all give me looks that say go for it. I swing her into my arms with ease.
"Capri, meet your Papa, Caspian, meet your daughter." Capri jumps out of my arms and hugs his legs.
"I knew that I would find you someday." Capri exclaims and hugs his legs. Caspian just stands there, looking at me.
"She's my what?" He says, almost angrily.
"Capri, go with your Aunt and Uncles."
"But, Mamma..."
"Now!" Capri scurries to her Aunts arms and they walk out, to wait in the hallway
"Why didn't you tell me?" He practically growls.
"Because the Narnia-England mail system is rather slow." I say, sarcastically. This seems to snap him out of his anger.
"She's mine?"
"Yes."
"You're sure?" Am I sure? Of course.
"Yes, Caspian. You are the only one that I did, that, with."
"Sorry. Just checking."
"That's okay." I say. Awkward silence. "So do you have a wife?" Stupid Susan. Bad question. To my surprise, he laughs.
"Not one to compare with you." He smirks.
"I missed you so much." I throw myself into his arms, where I am received warmly.
"And I you, my Queen." He lifts my head and captures my lips in a wonderful kiss. We spend about 5 minutes just kissing and telling each other how much we love each other.
"Alright you guys, you can stop listening at the door." I say, full knowing that my brothers were listening at the door.
"Susan! How can you know that? They are probably just talking in the hall." He says, walking to the door. "See, I'll prove it." He opens the door and my brothers fall into the room.
"Told ya." Lucy says, like she would if we were in England. "She has a sixth sense."
"It is pretty handy when you have a kid." I say smirking.
"I would assume so." Caspian says, still smirking at the rather unignified look of the two Kings.
"Mamma?" Capri says from behind me.
"Yes princess?"
"Is Papa mad?" I look over at Caspian and mouth 'it's now or never'
"No dearest, Papa is not mad, merely, surprised." He says, tenderly. At that, Capri runs into his awaiting arms and Caspian pulls her up into his arms and settles her in one of his strong arms and puts the other around my waist. "Come on, everyone. I will show you to your rooms." Peter and Ed pick themselves off the floor and follow behind us. Servants bow and give Caspian, Capri and I odd looks. Caspian instructs one of them to set up four of the royal rooms. Caspian leads us into what looks like a very large sitting room with a fireplace.
"This is the royal family room. By the Telmarines it is called the royal planning room, but I have learned that this is where you would have Christmas, so now I call it the family room." Caspian explained.
"Papa?" Capri says, from Caspian's arms.
"Yes, dearest?"
"Can you turn up the heat?"
"Heat?"
"That means it is cold in here." I turn to address Capri. "Here there is no heat. There is fireplaces, that heat the whole castle."
"Wow. That means that they are a lot of fireplaces, right?"
"Yes, dearest."
"Your majesty." A maid appears. "The rooms that you requested are ready."
"Thank you. Can you have a small extra bed in the room right beside Queen Susan's room, as well as the small dresses from my sisters young years."
"As you wish." As soon as she leaves, I turn on Caspian.
"You have a sister?"
"Yes. She was sent away to the Archenland court by my mother, before she died."
"Why?"
"To protect her."
"Oh. We should invite her back here. It is perfectly safe now."
"Yes, um, perfectly safe."
"Really, Caspian? We were on the Dawn Treader you said-" Ed is cut off by Caspian.
"Shut up, Edmund."
"No, Ed go on." I say, staring intently.
"Come on, Capri. Let's sneak out before Mamma notices." I hear Caspian whispers.
"Another step and you will have a black eye, Caspian."
"Oops Papa, did I forget to mention that Mamma has super good hearing."
"You may have forgotten."
"Caspian, who are we at war with or in enmity with?"
"Telmar."
"Telmar?"
"They command that I step down from the throne and that I am a traitor. Many of our telmarine troops had joined their side. We even have a spy there."
"Who?"
"My friend, Marty or Restimar. He is the son of Lord Restimar."
"Ah. I still think that we should have your sister come here."
"If it makes you happy we will."
"Good. Lucy, will you write the letter?" Lucy was the best at writing letters in the Golden Age.
"Sure. Caspian where is my room?"
"Just ask one of the maids. Why don't you all go and freshen up?"
"Alright." Peter and Ed agree. Caspian ends up showing us to our rooms. He puts Capri in hers and follows me into mine.
I hope that you liked it!:) :) :) :)
