Sorry...I guess I took a little longer than a month on this one... :o)
Disclaimer: (as thegentlequeen said so beautifully)I own Nothing, not even Susan, But of course, C.S Lewis has to beat me to it!
"Goodbye Aunt Alberta." Susan was at the train station, preparing to board the train. She had convinced Alberta to let her go on the train, and find the professors house to try and find out how the rings worked.
"I still don't know why you need to go there, Narnia is just rubbish-child's play, I thought you were grown-up."
"Yes Aunt Alberta, I just want to know how they work, that's all."
"Please prepare to board the train, the seven o'clock train leaving in five minutes" came over the loud speaker.
"I need to go now, thank you"
"Goodbye love, and keep safe. Martha (Alberta's sister-in-law) will be waiting for you" she said
Knock, Tap, Tap,
Susan was at the professor's house. The yard was overgrown with weeds, and rambling vines of ivy snaked up the stucco walls of the house, the trees were all dead.
"Hello?" she called out, as her knocking had summoned no reply.
There was a scuffling sound behind the door, it creaked open, revealing a rugged face, with spectacles, half broken perched up on his nose, his eye's though were alert, and darted around taking in his surroundings. His hair was a shock of white and gray, sitting up on his head in a tangled mess.
"Whaddya want" he croaked, his voice hoarse, and hard
"Are..you the care...caretaker?" Susan managed to say, half in shock and surprise
"Nay, I'll be Andrew"
"Andrew?"
"yes"
"Is this the professor's house"
"I'll don't know of any professor"
"Are you the Andrew, Uncle Andrew?"
"That was once my name"
"You have the meaning of the rings then?"
"What 'rings'? Oh...those rings." he said, his green eye's lit up as Susan revealed the rings, his long lost possessions.
"Can you show me how to use them?" Susan asked cautiously
"Y-yes of course" he murmured, as if in a trance, his eye's still on the magic rings.
"C-could I come in?"
"Mmm? Oh...y-yes of course..." he repeated, his eye's following the rings at every movement of Susans' hand.
He held the door open for Susan. She stepped over piles of newspapers, and chunks of metal, and old pipes, and all sorts of junk. "Please excuse the mess" he said with his back to Susan. Waving his hand he gestured to the rubbish. He seemed to have revived from his earlier state.
"Come to my study" he said
The house was barely recognizable, it was in such a mess. Susan was shocked when Andrew led her to what she remembered as the Professor's study.
She sat down on something that could hardly be called a chair. "Well, these are the rings, How would one use them?"
"When you want to get somewhere you slip the yellow one on you finger, and when you are somewhere and want to get back to where you were before, you put the green one on. Simple."
"Is that all?"
"Yep. But..I would like those back now."
"What?" she said hardly able to believe her ears
"I said, I would like those back" He made a swipe at her hand.
"No!" she exclaimed, clenching the rings in her fist
"Give them back!" Andrew yelled like a small child, and trying to snatch them away
Susan ran from the house, the rings closed in her hand, Andrew running after her.
She escaped out the old rickety door, and Andrew stood watching her, panting.
Running to the coach waiting by the door, Susan jumped up onto the drivers seat, pushing the cabby out the way, and galloped away.
She swerved around a corner, almost hitting a lamppost. "Aggghhh" she screamed. The horses frightened easily, swerving around on the road, Susan saw them heading for the side of a red bricked building. Squeezing her eyes shut, she slipped the yellow ring on her finger.
