This chapter is going to be a little sad so brace yourselves.

a/n- I dont own the Chronicles of Narnia


" Darby? What are you doing?" She said coming upon her best friend wondering alone and confused down an empty hallway.

" Just going to breakfast," She continued going in the opposite direction from her room which was the room that they normally had breakfast in.

" Darby, your not going the right way and besides we have breakfast in your sitting room," Susan said forcefully turning the thin girl around by her gaunt shoulders. She had lost a lot of weight and her once curvy and attractive figure was gone and a bony and emaciated form had replaced it. While her eyes were normally bright and blue, they were now dull and lacked the sparkle they had once obtained. Her skin had been the color of a ripe peach, but now it had an ashy gray tone to it. She had the same quirks and features as the healthy Darby, but her good looks were fading and an eerie appearance was taking their place.

" Oh, I'm not?" She scrunched her brows together and cocked her head slightly to the side as she looked at her best friend. As the doctor had said, her memory was going.

" No, your room is this way," Susan remained patient with her without having to treat her like a child, but that was a fine line that wasn't very hard to cross. With Peter and Edmund gone, the three girls had been spending their days talking with Aslan, who had been great company for the lonely girls, and sitting out in the courtyard doing whatever tickled their fancy. Susan would read or sew, Lucy would dance with some of the dryads and play games with some of the animals, while Darby would just sit and enjoy the peace and, most of the time, quiet of the outdoors.

" I can't believe I did that again," Darby smacked herself upside the head with her hand forcefully while her best friend laughed at her antics. " That's the third time this week that I've gotten lost when I was never really lost in the first place. I've been here for almost six months and I know where everything is, but I just cant remember anymore." The girl let out a long, frustrated sigh.

" Don't beat yourself up," Susan said with a smile as she an Darby headed back towards the sitting room. " It's going to happen, just let me or Lucy or Aslan come help you if you need anything. That's what we're here for." Darby smiled and the two girls walked to breakfast together in a comfortable silence.


" Full house," Lucy smiled as she laid down her cards on the small table. The three girls were playing poker, a game that they remembered from their world, and Lucy was better than everyone thought she would be.

" I don't know how she does it," Susan said in amazement as she laid her bad hand of cards down on the table. Lucy had just won every hand the had just played while the two older girls were going on the worst winning streak ever heard of.

" Me neither, Su," Darby laughed as she two laid down her bad hand of cards. " How did you get so good, Lucy?"

" I don't know," The littlest Pevensie smiled charmingly, " I think I just have a knack for card games. Now, what do you want to play? Gin? Go Fish? Uno?"

" No, I think I'll pass," Susan said getting up from the table in Darby's sitting room. " I'm going to go write a letter to Edmund and Peter."

" Darby?" Lucy said looking at the other girl hopefully.

" No, Lu, I'm going to pass also," Darby got up from the table and pushed the chair in. " I'm a little tired, but I promise that we can play again tonight."

Lucy, too, left the room and headed down towards the stables to visit her pony, Rowena, and maybe go out for a little trot to Mr. Tumnus's house. She was about halfway there when her head started pounding intolerably and her legs were starting to feel kind of funny. It's nothing, the little girl thought, it'll pass in a few moments. But it did not pass, but just kept getting worse and worse.

Down in the stables, Lucy saddled Rowena, a pretty white pony that she had received for her birthday last year, and readied her for the short journey to Mr. Tumnus's small abode. Her head was still pounding, but now it was worse and the funny felling in her legs was now passing throughout her small little body.

" My Lady, are you okay?" Rowena, the pony, asked her as her legs slightly gave out from under her, but Lucy caught her balance before she could fall.

"I- I'm fine," Lucy said feeding the pony a sugar cube, but she her legs were shaking and before she could say anything, Lucy passed out on the hay floor of the stable.

" My Lady!" The pony exclaimed.


" How is she?" Darby said running up to a solemn looking Susan who had been pacing in front of her baby sister's door for the last hour and a half.

" I'm not sure. The doctor hasn't come out yet, but she was awake and talking before the doctor came," Susan told her best friend. Darby gave her a sympathetic pat on the back and the two girls waited in silence outside of Lucy's room for a while.

" Did you write to Edmund and Peter?" Darby said quietly. The sun was setting outside and the sunset was shining through the window onto the girls.

" Yes, I sent a little while after lunch. They should get it in a couple of days," Susan said absentmindedly. What if the same thing that was happening to her best friend was also happening to her little sister?

The door to Lucy's door opened and the grim, old doctor, who had treated Darby, emerged out in the hallway where the two girls stood anxiously. His face was grim as it had been when he had been here the last time and he wrung his fingers nervously. He was sweating slightly and both the girls could clearly see that and the three stood in an awkward prolonged silence for what seemed like forever to the anxious girls.

" My Lady, Queen Lucy had the Gray Fever also," He said looking at Susan who's face had gone startlingly pale. Her worst fear was being realized. Not only was she losing her best friend, she was losing her little sister, too. How was she going to tell Peter and Edmund? " There is some type of epidemic going on in Narnia. I have diagnosed 7 Narnians with the Gray Fever in the last two weeks." Susan still stood in silence with a bewildered look on her face.

" Thank you for coming, Doctor," Darby smiled kindly. She lead the girl into Lucy's room and they both say down on the bed beside the sleeping girl.

" How can this happen?" Susan said after about 5 minutes of staring quietly at her little sister's face. " How could this happen to Lucy? Or to you?" She was crying now and Darby was trying to calm her down.

" Shh, it's okay," Darby cooed as her best friend cried into her bony shoulder. " It's okay, Susan." The two older girls sat like this for thirty minutes until they were interrupted by the waking of the young, sleeping queen.

" Susan? Darby?" Lucy said weakly as she slowly opened her eyes.

" Hey, Lu," Darby smiled. She knew exactly what Lucy need because she, too, was going through the same thing.

" Hey," Susan managed to meekly reply. Her tears had stopped but her sniffling hadn't.

" Su, don't cry," Lucy was weak, and her voice was cracking slightly. " Everything will turn out all right."

" I know, Lucy," Susan smiled and somehow this feeling just came over her and she truly knew everything would turn out okay. " I know."


okay, next chapter is going to be involving Edmund and Peter so review and I will post sooner!