After Narnia

by Loony123

After the events in Prince Caspian Susan returns to England feeling full of good memories of her adventures in Narnia. But slowly she begins to feel as if Narnia and Aslan have abandoned them in this world. Determined to begin to forget Narnia she begins to distance herself from her siblings. (last battle spoilers).

12. Chapter 12

Susan:

I wake up to hear the sound of a river running beside me, a river that I know all too well.
"Narnia," I say softly to myself. "I must still be dreaming."
Slowly, I stretch my old, aching bones to find that they are no longer as stiff as they should be at my age. Instead they are young and soft. Turning over I find that I am not lying on my bed at all, which I am sure is where I went to sleep, instead I am lying on the soft grass.
"Where am I?" I think out load and then suddenly it hits me. "Alan's country!"
Sitting up I look around there are five other bodies sleeping on the ground, other spirits that have passed through to the next life, everyone is beginning to stir and awake as if from a dream like I did. I stand up and look down at myself. I am wearing a long satin dress that I recognise from the golden age in Narnia, so many years ago. I am young again. When everyone seems to have arisen from their sleep that's when I see him. Standing a few meters away… Aslan. And suddenly we all start to run towards him chasing him through the delights that is Aslan's country. And then I see it ahead of me, Cair Paravel and running out of its doors the four people I love more than anything else that this world could offer… Peter, Edmund, Lucy and… Caspian!

I run towards them and am quickly caught up in a large embrace with my sister and brothers. Caspian stands back a huge grin on his face. After my siblings break away I walk up to him.
"Caspian," I breathe, reaching out to touch his cheek with the back of my hand.
"Susan," he replies, and suddenly we are kissing his lips on mine softer at first then harder. And it feels great. His lips taste of Narnia; the grass, the river, the snow and the sun. Then I know I have reached home! My final home!

It's never too late for anyone to change! That is something that I think we have all learnt, or will learn at some point in our lives. We all make mistakes and all of them are forgivable as long as we turn ourselves around and admit to them. There's room for everyone in Aslan's country, but only if we make the right choices and changes to our lives to get their!

The End