Disclaimer: No. Susan. Is. Not. Mine. Clear enough? Never mind, you already know that.
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Note: Yellow oxeye daisies (see end of last chapter) are also known as black-eyed susans.
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Susan woke up, somewhat disoriented, in a bedroom that she did not recognize. She climbed out of the bed and went to look out of a lace-draped window. The view looked strangely familiar, but she just could not place it.
While Susan was staring out the window and wondering, she heard a door open. She turned around and saw a furry person with whiskers and a flat tail.
"Mrs. Beaver!" exclaimed Susan. "Where am I? Where did you come from? Am I still dreaming?"
"Oh, no, dearie," said Mrs. Beaver. "You are wider awake than you ever have been. You are at Cair Paravel."
"But it was in ruins."
"Not here. But there is no time to talk now. They are all waiting for you downstairs."
Dazed, Susan followed Mrs. Beaver through the door, downstairs, and out onto an impossibly green lawn. There were all sorts of people there. Susan recognized Tumnus the Faun, Reepicheep the Mouse, and many others. And there were her siblings.
"Susan!" cried Lucy, as she rushed to her and flung her arms around her neck. "I am so glad you've come!"
"But aren't you dead, Lucy?"
"Yes, of course," laughed Lucy, "But so are you, or you wouldn't be here."
"Welcome home, Susan," said Edmund quietly, but Susan could tell that he was no less delighted than Lucy.
"You haven't changed a bit, any of you," said Susan.
"And you have?" said Peter, sounding quite serious, although his eyes were twinkling.
"I am older and wiser," said Susan, just a little sadly.
"I've no doubt you're wiser, Su," said Peter, "But are you sure you're older?"
Susan was a bit confused, but then she realized that she was not, in fact, old. She pulled a strand of hair from behind her ear, and saw that it was no longer cut short and permed. The gray had darkened to black, and she must look just like she had during the Golden Age of Narnia. She had been too preoccupied to notice.
"Oh!" said Lucy suddenly, and her face lit up like a lantern. Susan followed her gaze.
And then she saw Aslan.
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...THE END
...or,
more appropriately,
THE BEGINNING
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fledge: I took some of your advice for the last chapter, and went back and deleted half of the quotes, probably before anyone else read it.
animegirl-mika: Yes, you guessed it.
Ozma: Well, it wasn't exactly the ending. And it turns out Susan wasn't exactly dreaming. I don't like sad endings, so... You got this chapter.