A/N: Hello again, Readers! I get so much positive feedback from this story, so don't stop! It helps me hopefully to be a better writer so keep the reviews coming! :) For fans of Susan Pevensie you are going to love this chapter, but there's still quite a lot of Edmund and Peter too. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Narnia or any of the characters except my own. Boy, how much I would give to own Peter or Edmund Pevensie :) ... ahem anyway, carrying on...


An extract from "A History of Narnia" written and bound during the illustrious Golden Age of our High Kings and Queens, by their royal advisor and most trusted companion Tumnus, the faun:

In the dead of winter of the year 1013 (the thirteenth year of our High King and his King and Queen's glorious reign) there came unto those four chosen of Aslan a young man, torn and bleeding from his travels. He told our noble king Peter the Magnificent that he had once been the son of a rich and very powerful Duke who had owned a small fort on the outskirts of our neighbouring Archenland, but through a number of great misfortunes leading up to his father's death, he had been pronounced illegitimate by his own subjects and banished from his province. On hearing his story our Kings and Queens welcomed him into our court with open arms, and it was there he stayed, for a time.

It soon became clear to all at court that the young man soon became somewhat infatuated with our Royal Highness Queen Lucy the Valiant, and that our grace returned his feelings. On realising this young man proposed to her, and gained the respect and love of her royal siblings. They were to be married in the thaw before spring, to symbolise the time that our beloved kings and queens seized the throne from the usurper Jadis, the White Witch. Little did our gracious rulers realise, however, that this wedding was not meant to be, for the Ice had not yet thawed in some people's hearts…

Earlier that night:

Susan Pevensie smiled as her elder brother led Lucy towards her room. Although she didn't often show it, she liked it when her family were this close; it reminded her even more of Narnia, and how they had ruled there for so long. She often worried that with all her friends and parties she had here in England, she would forget all about it, and she never ever wanted to do that. Narnia had been her soul and her life and she couldn't wait until they could go back, but sometimes, when times had been bad or she had got so caught up in her own social life that she had forgotten even for a moment about her siblings, she swore she felt a thread of memory fall from her mind, and it scared her. It made her more desperate to hold on Narnia, and although she knew that she wasn't Magnificent or Valiant, and not even Just, she was never going to let go, because she was Queen Susan the Gentle.

She turned round to smile at Edmund, who had been following her up the stairs, and thought how much he had grown up since they had come back. Of course she had seen him grow up once before, but for some reason it felt a lot different seeing him here in England. She could never figure out if it was a good or bad difference, but all she could tell was that he was definitely a lot more sullen and laid back than he had been in Narnia. Perhaps it was the absence of his best friend Philip, or even General Oreius, which had brought this on, but Susan could tell that there was something a lot darker about her younger brother, as if he always knew more than he let on.

"Lucy, you're going to have to go with Susan back to your own room now!" she heard Peter laugh as she watched him struggle to walk into his bedroom with Lucy in a death grip around his leg. He pathetically tried to kick her off, which only resulted in her hugging him harder. "Su, help me!" he begged, trying to morph the glee on his face into mocking terror. His sister laughed as she picked Lucy off his body, making her squeal and jump from her grasp, running into the next bedroom. Susan smirked and said to her brothers,
"See you tomorrow," before walking into the girl's shared bedroom, where amazingly Lucy had already managed to get into bed and was now falling asleep.

"Goodnight Susan," was all she was able to say before she began to snore quietly against the pillow. Her older sister waited for a few moments, before getting herself ready for bed. Just as she was about to turn out the light, she walked over to the window and, as she always did, gazed out onto the night sky, and wondered if either the Emperor-over-the-sea or even Aslan himself was staring back at her. She paused for a while, then slowly pulled the curtains closed and went to bed, her last thoughts as she fell asleep being those of Narnia, and returning someday.

Unlike most nights, as the Gentle Queen went back to bed it didn't occur to her to shut the window itself.

Now:

Edmund rushed into his sister's room, followed closely behind by a groggy and slightly bemused Peter. He quickly switched on the lights, causing Susan Pevensie to sit up and look at her brothers with an annoyed frown. "Ed what's wrong?" she muttered as the brothers entered and ran over to her, both of their faces concerned. They began to calm down as soon as they saw that their sister was alright, and Peter sat down beside her.

"Listen Susan we don't have much time to explain," Peter began as Edmund made his way across the room to Lucy's bed to wake her up, "As soon as Ed gets Lucy to wake up we'll tell you the whole story, but for now all you have to know is that the White Witch is back! Now there's no need to panic, as soon as…" he trailed off as he saw Edmund whip off the duvet of Lucy's bed, only to reveal a few pillows and her teddy bear. They stared for a moment, and then panicked.

"Lucy!" Edmund gasped as he dropped the duvet, his eyes scanning the room frantically as if he expected his little sister to pop out of nowhere, telling them that she was alright, but there was no one. He suddenly saw out of the corner of his eye the tell-tale flapping of the curtains, and running over to them he ripped them apart to reveal the open window and the front garden below, where he saw the muddy footprints leading out of the shrubbery, which had been crushed due to a large weight using it to break their fall, and over their fence into the streets of Finchley itself.

Lucy was nowhere to be seen.

Edmund felt Peter push beside him as he looked out of the window and came to the same realisation that was now slowly forming in the dark haired boy's mind. He turned to his brother and trembled, "The Witch took Lucy. Oh my God," before he sank down onto the window pane in despair.

"Hello! Can somebody please tell me what's going on here?" Susan screeched from behind them, walking over to the window where Edmund turned around, stopping her. "Susan, calm down and listen. What would you say if I told you that the White Witch has started to take over our minds and make us do thing without realising, and she may have just possessed Lucy and taken her on some weird tour of London?" he answered. Susan looked at him wildly, and then began to scream.

"Shut up! Do you want Mother to wake up and realise what's happened?" Peter hissed, shoving his hand over Susan's mouth to stop her from yelling. She froze in fear, then cooled down and removed her brother's palm.

"Well what do you propose we do then? Call the police and tell them to look out for a girl who is most likely possessed by a Witch?" she said sarcastically, staring at Peter and waiting for him to take charge like he used to in Narnia.

"There's only one thing we can do." The two older siblings looked startled at the voice and spun round to find Edmund, who was standing by the window again, "We need to follow her."

"Are you nuts? We don't know where she's going, or who's going to be there when she arrives. It's too dangerous." Peter argued as his brother walked past them. He ran through the bedroom door and down the stairs, grabbing his coat and waiting as his elder brother and sister appeared from the bedroom, regarding him with a joint scowl. "Oh come on!" Edmund whined, "We have the footprints! Besides, even you have to admit that we're pretty much alone in this."

"I don't know why I'm going with this, but you do have a point," Susan was the first to break, walking down the stairs and catching the coat that Edmund unceremoniously threw in her direction. They slowly slipped their shoes on and opened the front door, turning back to look at their older brother.

"Coming Pete?"

"Alright then," he sighed before rushing down the stairs and grabbing his coat, following his two younger siblings out of the house and into the outside world, where they had no idea what, or who, was waiting for them.


So, what did you think? The first bit at the beginning was relatively new, so do you think it added to the story? All will become clear about how it links in with the story in later chapters. But for now, thanks for reading so far and review if you can!

Btw: For those of you who have noticed, I've recently had to update this chapter, as someone pointed out to me that I had got the timeline completely wrong x( and so originally Lucy would've only been 10 years old. Needless to say, i've changed the date so she should be in about her 20's in the first bit. Will have to remember to check facts next time.