Okay, so here's the third chapter. I dunno if I'm gonna do Peter or not. We'll see. Anyway, hope you guys like this one as much as the previous two. I'll talk to you later. See ya!

Disclaimer: I don't own TCoN, and I most definitely don't own the fact that the Pevensies all die.

Susan was in her room, sitting at her vanity when she got the news.

She had just applied her dark red lip gloss and had put the eye pencil to her eye when she heard the radio announce a train wreck. Dear, she thought, those poor people. Lucy will probably want to go down there and make sure the families are okay.

And then she realized where Lucy was at that moment.

Lucy was on a train. Along with everyone else she cared about.

Susan listened to the radio as it said what train had crashed, hoping to God, if there was one, that she wouldn't hear what she thought she would. She wouldn't hear that her siblings and parents were dead. She wouldn't hear that her cousin and what she had come to think of as her aunt and grandfather were gone. She wouldn't believe what her ears were hearing at this moment.

But she knew that it was true. She slammed down her makeup pencil and stood up, her makeup running with the tears that were already falling down her face. She stood and jogged to her bedroom door, throwing it open as she picked up her skirts.

And then she ran.

She ran down the street, not caring that her heels were digging into her feet as she ran. All she knew was that she had to get there right then. She had to get there and tell her siblings that she was wrong, and that she didn't mean the hateful words she had told them. She wanted to see them alive and smiling when she got there so she could hug them all again.

She wanted to see Lucy standing by the platform, helping the officials as they helped those injured or killed. She wanted to see her little sister, so young and so pretty, standing by her other siblings and trying to get them to let her stay to help as she needed, to be mumbling to herself that she wished she had her cordial with her so that she could help.

She wanted to see Edmund and Peter, her wonderful brothers, trying to hold Lucy back so that she wouldn't get hurt, telling her that they would get her cordial when they eventually got back to Narnia as they so wanted, as they were going to do before all this business with the wreck started. She wanted to see them all alive.

She ran farther than she ever had before, but she couldn't seem to get tired. Adrenalin coursed through her veins, giving her an endless amount of energy and making everything around her disappear except for the knowledge that she had to get to the train station to see her family.

She finally made it to the train station. All the outside was filled with police sirens and lights on the cars, and there was a big crowd around there being held back by policemen. Susan saw a small gap of space where there was nobody, and decided to try to get through.

Using stealth she didn't know where or when she had learned, she got around the policemen. It wasn't until she was halfway to the door that someone spotted her. "Hey!" a police officer called. "You can't go in there!" She ignored it and kept running.

She ran inside and almost stopped cold where she was.

There were body bags littering the floor and policemen everywhere. The tile flooring that used to be there was all crushed up, and the mess all led up to something even worse. The train wreck was exactly that: a train wreck. There was a part of it still on fire, and the part that wasn't looked horrible. There was metal everywhere, curling around itself.

Susan convinced herself not to stop, to go on for her siblings. She walked through the room and to the train. What she saw there made her want to vomit.

There was a little girl of about seventeen in the wreckage. She was definitely pretty, but not what most people would call beautiful. She seemed peaceful, even amidst the chaos all around her. Susan almost believed for a second that she was alive.

"Lucy!"

Susan almost looked around to see where the horrible screaming was coming from before she realized that she was the one making it. But she couldn't stop. Sobs choked her, and her heart felt as though it would burst. Her chest seemed to be constricting, and she couldn't breathe.

Her whole world went black.

She woke up sitting on a floor. Or, what she assumed would be a floor. Everything around her was black. And then suddenly she saw a light a little ways a way. "Aslan?" she asked, for indeed the giant Lion was walking up to her. She burst into tears. "Oh Aslan! My whole family is dead! Why? Why would you do that to me Aslan?"

"Hush, dear one," he said, his voice as great as always. "You will understand in time why things are how they are. I have made them so for a purpose greater than any other. Susan, you will find that I will always be there, even if you cannot see me. I am in your world as well, you only have to find me."

"But Aslan," said Susan. "Where is my family?"

Aslan smiled. "They are in my country," he said. "And will remain there until the end of time. They will be there when you come as well, should you earn the right."

"But how do I do that Aslan?" she asked, her eyes pleading.

"You must learn to have faith in things you cannot see with your senses. You must learn to accept me into your heart, even when you can't see why I do the things that I do. All things happen for a reason, my dear, and nothing happens the same way twice."

Susan nodded. "I will," she said. "I will learn to have faith. I will see my family again. I promise to keep my faith, Aslan."

The Lion smiled at her. "I've no doubt about that my dear," he said. "You only have to continue to think that way, and the path to my country will show itself to you sooner than you think." Susan nodded, tears streaming down her face. "Yes Aslan," she said. She ran forward and hugged him. "Thank you," she whispered.

And then all went black again.

Susan lay in a large bed, covered in blankets, with a machine slowly beeping to her right. A nurse had just left, leaving her completely alone.

She was near eighty years old and had long since lost all of her beauty, but she had never broken her promise to Aslan and she now followed him even in her world. His Book lay net to her on her bedside table, where she had put it down a few minutes ago.

She could feel her last few minutes of life draining out of her, but she wasn't scared like most would be. She was happy, and a smile lit up her old face, making her grey eyes twinkle. "I'm going to see my family again," she whispered to herself happily.

She lay her head down on the pillow behind her, closing her eyes.

When she opened them back up, she was no longer in her bed. She was standing, something she hadn't done in nearly ten years, but she didn't waver. She looked down at herself. She was wearing a very familiar grey dress with blue cape. A small weight was on her head, and she reached up to see what it was.

She was wearing her silver crown, she was surprised to find. But she was even more surprised to find that her hands were free of wrinkles and filled with color again. She looked twenty again. She smiled.

She looked around her and took in all she saw. It was a wood, and there were lush green trees all around her. The ground she stepped on was of green grass, and there were butterflies and flowers everywhere she looked. The trees seemed to be dancing, as they had done in the Golden Age.

She looked in front of her and a grin set itself upon her face. "Lucy! Peter! Edmund!" she yelled, running forward. Her siblings grinned back at her and they all embraced her as well. They all wore their coronation clothes as well. "Where is everyone else?" she asked.

"Over there!" said Lucy, pointing.

Susan saw Cair Paravel, in all of its glory, and it looked young too. But she didn't dwell too much on that for what she saw.

All of her friends from both the Golden Age and thirteen hundred years later were there, standing in front. She ran to them and embraced them each in a hug. There was Tumnus, Caspian, Reepicheep, and many others. She made her way back to her siblings and smiled again for what she saw.

Aslan stood with her siblings, and she ran forward to hug him. "Thank you Aslan," she said. "I am so glad you let me in after all I did when I was young."

Aslan smiled. "It is alright dear one," he said. "We mustn't dwell on the past. This is a place free of pain and suffering, and you earned it when you accepted me into your heart."

Susan smiled. This feeling, she decided, was better than any sort of makeup she had ever worn.

So? What did you think of my second attempt? I liked writing it, if that counts for anything. I am so happy that you all wanted another one! I was sure you would prefer my other ones. Well I'm sure glad I didn't follow that hunch! Again, thank you so much all of you.

This one is really long, almost as long as my regular chapters for stories, but I couldn't make it any shorter without leaving out something I really wanted there, so I settled for letting it be this long. I hope you all like this one as much as the last one! Please review!

-CahillGirl2001