Prompt: "a different pevensie is the traitor"
Pairings: Gen
Content Warnings: N/A
Chapter 46: You're going to regret that
Susan only followed Lucy into the wardrobe because she was worried her sister was setting herself up for heartache, even though she was still smarting herself from the row from earlier. Peter and Edmund had ganged up on her, upbraiding her for being uppity, of all things, while Lucy only sulked because she was still mad about no one believing her about the wardrobe. Well, someone had to keep this family together and it surely wasn't going to be any of her siblings.
When the pale woman in the sleigh stopped to speak to Susan, she seemed chilly as the snow around them, but after a moment she thawed and spoke to Susan politely, calmly, and Susan beamed at being treated like an adult. Surely this was all a very strange dream, but the woman, this Queen, was so reasonable and charming that Susan agreed to anything she asked. It's just a dream, some fancy, after all, no matter what Lucy tried to insist to their brothers.
When the beaver came and tried to coerce them into following, Susan put her foot down. Maybe this place wasn't some dream, but she was not following some strange animal deeper into the woods who seemed to be in league with some criminal faun Lucy met. She shook off her siblings and that strange creature and headed back to the lantern and the wardrobe. But when she reached the lantern, she paused and looked to where the Queen had told her to look, to the mountains-they didn't seem too far actually.
She decided in an instant-she would seek out someone wise for a change. Maybe the Queen could talk some sense into her siblings and get them away from these strange criminals.
Susan took the first step on a journey she'd never forget, no matter how she tried.
