Title: The Known and the Unknown Returns

Category: Narnia

Pairing: Lucy and Caspian

Chapter Date: 2-25-14

Chapter 1

England; Day before Lucy's 22nd Birthday.

"So you are telling me that you are going to disappear back to Narnia tomorrow?" Peter asked shocked. It had been years since he had even toyed with the idea of going back to Narnia and when his younger siblings and cousin had returned Narnia turned into a land that was there but was not accessible. "Why?"

Lucy looked at Edmund helplessly. They had decided not to tell the others about Lucy's set return. At least not until she was going to go soon. Edmund swallowed

"There is something we didn't tell you two about our trip there." Edmund said introducing the topic slowly.

Susan looked at them confused.

Peter being the blunter one said, "What?"

Edmund looked at Lucy. She took a deep breath. She averted her eyes from her older siblings. She knew they were going to freak out and get all super protective.

"I-I-I fel-fell in love. When we were there. But there was a problem. Our age difference. Aslan agreed that would come back here for six years and that only a year would pass there-so that our ages could catch up with one another.

Before Susan or Peter could freak out Edmund cut in. "He is a good man and I gave my blessing along with Aslan."

Susan took a deep breath in. "OK. Who is he? And Edmund yourself said that yourself and Aslan gave your blessing but what of Caspian? We trust him and if he doesn't think that this man is good for Lucy then I don't know."

Edmund and Lucy looked at each other. They seemed to get very nervous at Susan's last question. They seemed to be talking with their eyes. Then Lucy began to look resigned and then nodded to Edmund.

"That's where it gets complicated." Edmund said slowly.

"Complicated how?" Peter asked with a bit of malice in his voice. He didn't like the idea of his baby sister in love.

"Lu?" Edmund said.

"I fell in love with…" She took a deep breath and stood up from the chair she was sitting in. "with Caspian."

When she looked up into her older siblings faces she saw disbelief and shock.

"Caspian?!" Susan said.

Peter just looked gobsmacked.

"Yes. I fell in love with Caspian. But we knew that the age difference was too much so we went to Aslan and he figured this out for us. We were willing to pay the price. The price of spending six years away from him for me. And the price of him knowing that I would have to spend six years away. When he only has to spend one. Our love is so deep that Aslan knew that we could handle the cost of eventually spending the rest of our lives together." She spoke with such conviction that Peter and Susan were unable to say anything. She didn't know if it was because there were shocked or because they just had nothing else to say after her speech.

"OK. If you truly feel that way then I trust your judgment. If you are in love with Caspian so much that you can spend six years away from him, not knowing what is going on for him in the time that you two were separated." Peter said. "But I don't like the idea of my little sister in love."

Lucy ran over to hug her older brother. She squeezed him so tightly around his neck that he began losing air but he didn't mind, she was going to disappear tomorrow and he wouldn't see her until the reach Aslan's Land.

Then Lucy remembered Susan. She pulled back from her hug with Peter to look at her sister. What she saw on her sister's face was shocking. She saw disbelief, betrayal, and hurt. Lucy was insanely confused and one look at Edmund and Peter told her that they were too.

"Susan?" Lucy asked.

"I can't believe you! You go and put on the charms and get Caspian to fall in love with you. He was mine first. We kissed first. We flirted first. We fell in love first. He is mine." Susan shouted.

Lucy felt tears come to her eyes. She backed up blindly into the wall and felt the sobs begin to come. She saw Edmund begin to go towards Susan but then Peter grabbed his shoulder. Peter nodded toward Lucy and then they both came over to her and held her for a couple of moments while she calmed herself down. When she had collected herself, she stood up tall and walked to her sister with a glare in her eyes.

"You know he told me about you two. You were being your annoying-flirt-with-every-man-possible self. And Caspian was just being a gentleman. He wasn't falling for you, he was being nice. And if you remember you flirted with him. You kissed him. And if you had even bothered to actually look at him after you kissed him you would have seen that he was shocked to no end. He didn't want to be kissed by you. He wanted to just be your friend. Not another one of you boy toys." Lucy said. "But when I went there. He wasn't just being a gentleman, we were falling in love. Ask Edmund or Eustace –even if he was a dragon for most of the trip. Everyone saw the love between us. The love between us was true. And it was amazing."

Susan looked shocked and looked very displeased. But when she looked to see her brothers glaring at her, she had the courtesy to not say anything. She settled for glaring at Lucy. Lucy turned to look at her. "Now if you excuse me I am going to spend the rest of the night with my brothers because I know that I will miss them. And that they actually trust my judgment and don't act like a spoiled brat. So I will see you, maybe. If you ever gain the favor of Aslan again."

With that Lucy grabbed her brother's hands and pulled them out of the kitchen and up the stairs to her bedroom.

The Next Morning. England.

When everybody woke up that morning there seemed to be a mist over the eyes of the people who had not been to Narnia before. It was as if Lucy had been on a train ride coming home the night before but there had been an accident. The train had crashed and everybody on it had been lost. When the siblings had realized what it was they all had to go along with it. But Susan didn't seem to be acting and when Peter and Edmund cornered her she broke down in their arms. "I wasn't right last night I was so mean to her and I don't think that she will ever forgive me. And I might not see her again. I'm sorry."

Edmund and Peter felt their hearts break but all they could do was hold their sister and let her get it out.

In Narnia by the Lamp Post.

When Lucy woke up she felt something soft and wet behind her but she didn't register it right away. She looked up and saw the Lamp Post. She felt a smile of remembrance at this Lamp Post. It was where she first met Tumnus. It was where she first entered Narnia. It was where she accidentally left Narnia for the first time.

As she got up she thought about Caspian and how great it will be to see him again. But then she registered the cold. She was supposed to come back an exact year after she left and she was positive that it was summer when she left. She looked around. There was snow covering the ground. And a very cold chill in the air. She also felt an evil presence in the air. A presence that she had not felt in years. One that she felt when her siblings were defeating Jadis. And she didn't like that at all.

She knew that she had to get somewhere safe quickly. She thought of Caspian first nut knew that Jadis would go for the one in charge and knew that there was a possibility that he was frozen under Jadis's power.

Trufflehunter. He was the perfect person to go to and figure out what was going on in Narnia. She just hopped that she remembered the way and could get there without being spotted by the witch's scouts.

With that last thought she headed off to Trufflehuter's tree house.