Hi!

This is my very first published fic so give me a fair go and I might write more. This fic is set after The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and mainly focuses on the characters of Edmund and Eustace. I must warn some readers that it may contain high religious content so don't flame me just because you don't like it.

 Lirimaersenshi 

Disclaimer: I do not own the Chronicles of Narnia no matter how much I'd like to. They are the genius of the late CS Lewis so please don't sue me.

Redemption

Prologue

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It was a warm summers day and Eustace Scrubb and his parents were relaxing by the swimming pool at their holiday home. His cousins, Lucy and Edmund had been sent back to boarding school a week early because there was not enough room to accommodate them there.

"Hmph" thought Eustace, "More like they didn't want them here". And it was true.

Eustace had grown a distinct dislike for his parents lately. Things that used to impress him about them like how perfect and sure of them selves they were, now made him want to be sick. His parents had noticed a change in their son also. He now spent a LOT of time with his cousins talking about fantasy worlds and magical creatures, the sort of things that no sensible, respectable person should get into. Not that they had any religious beliefs about it they were just terribly practical.

It was one of those days for Eustace that just seemed to go on forever. He saw his parents sitting on their deck chairs and saw his chance to get something off his chest, something that had been burning in him for weeks now.

"Why can't I go to school with the Pevensies?" he said.

His parents looked at each other with surprise and even maybe disgust.

"Now why would you want to do a thing like that?" said his mother, "The school that we've put you in is first class"

"But I don't have any friends there"

"Well you've only been there for a semester, you'll make friends soon enough" said his father.

"Now why don't you have a swim Eustace", quickly trying to change the subject.

"You still haven't told me why I cant to their school"

His parents paused for a moment, and then his father said calmly, "We think that you have been spending far too much time with them already"

"What!" cried Eustace

"I mean all that fantasy rot they go on about. It's nonsense. All this stuff about a land where animals talk and a lion, what was it. Albane?"

"Aslan!" cried Eustace

"Yes yes…"

"It's not only that Eustace," said his mother, "we're not going to invite them back next summer"

"Why?" Eustace was getting angry now. How dare they?

"They're unstable," she said quietly, "They actually believe in these stories and we think that they are having too much of an influence on you."

Eustace snapped.

"How dare you say that about them. They never did anything to you. You're the horrible ones"

And with that he ran. Out of the backyard and down the street. He could hear his parents yelling at him from behind to come back and apologise but he didn't care anymore. All he knew was that he had to get away from there. Away from them.

He used the only money he had on him to by a train ticket to London. He sat down on the train and tried to compose himself. He was now completely on his own. He couldn't go back, not after what they had said. To think of all the things he had been through in the past month. His trip to Narnia had been both the best and the worst experience of his life and it had opened his eyes to a whole new way of living. And best of all, he had come face to face with the magnificent lion, Aslan who had shown him forgiveness and mercy beyond all measure and Eustace would never forget it.

He still had had no idea of where he was going to go until he remembered that Edmund went to school just on the outskirts of London.

That's where he would go.

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