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Chapter Two: One Reply
Susan reached home and walked up the steps. She felt drained as if she would never smile again. Entering her house she saw a note on the table.
Took the Thomas out to lunch, be back soon. Love, Patrick.
Susan smiled before she walked up the seven stairs to her small room.
As she entered she stopped. Something was different about the room. Frowning she walked around the square space. As she passed she small writing desk she saw a piece of think paper laying on the oak surface.
Her eyebrows knitted together Susan reached for the paper. As she did so the sweetest smell imaginable brushed around her face.
In crisp neat handwriting on the front of the folded paper was her name
Susan
Her heart started to beat faster as she read this. She knew that neat scrawl.
With hands shaking so hard she was afraid she was going to drop the letter Susan unfolded it.
Our most wonderful sister Queen Susan,
Susan thought her heart was going to stop as she read those words in fact she sank to the floor shaking.
I wanted to let you know…
WE wanted to let you know actually
Again Susan thought she was going to have a heart attack right there on the floor,
Fine then we wanted to let you know that this is really unnecessary.
Not that it is unappreciated
Another jolt wracked Susan body.
Oh no, in fact we love getting them, but that is not the point, we are writing this to you with the permission of Aslan mostly because we think it is unhealthy.
Really Susan we know that you miss us but we never left you.
And it's not like we will ever forget you so don't worry about that, in fact I am sure we will see you one day again.
Susan didn't even have the energy to cry as she read the letter she was still too deep in shock so she kept reading her mind whirling with each word.
Lucy and Edmund seem to have taken over the paper now…
This was my idea Su so don't even listen to him!
Well it was more my idea…
It was not your idea Edmund what are you talking about?
I have taken the paper back now because the two of them seem to think that need to write down every word they are saying.
Susan choked. When she had first gone to boarding school Lucy and Edmund would send her and Peter letters that where more like the conversations they were having then real letters.
They are arguing now, so I guess I'll start Susan. I remember the argument you wrote about well, but I don't think it was so much an argument as a slight disagreement. We have had much bigger fights as you know.
Susan snorted, it was more than a disagreement Susan had slammed the door in Peters face and had broken a lamp.
I guess I am about to start another disagreement between us because I am going to disagree with you. I don't think you ever really stopped believing Susan. I think you just forgot, I think you just didn't understand, that's alright though we all forget sometimes.
Susan let out a sad laugh.
And when you say you knew we had gone? If it had been you Susan we would have known you had gone as well. It's a simple thing really Susan you just never really understood how much we loved you, even when you did start to walk away.
It was then that Susan really started to let the tears fall.
Well Lucy wants to write now so I guess…
Susan! I miss you so much!
Susan smiled through her tears letting out another laugh; it was amazing how even in Lucy's handwriting you just knew what her voice sounded like.
And you let Thomas know that having a pet lion is not a good idea. They are not tame animals after all! Your right though I wish I could have been there when he said that, I am sure it was very cute. Oh and Susan don't try to think of what I would say. I am sure you said the right thing!
There she was, ever confidant Lucy.
Susan I miss you so much! And I do hope you are having a good time where you are. Don't worry about us; we are having a wonderful time. I can't tell you to much though, in fact I am not suppose to tell you anything at all, but I want to let you know that we are alright and please don't worry.
Edmund is begging me for the pen, something about Rabadash…
The smile on Susan's face grew at these words
I had forgotten about those flowers Su! I guess you are not forgetful as you think, I remember that you said they smelt like peace.
Susan bit her lip Lucy was right! She had said they smelt like peace…
And your curtain? Don't you remember Susan? You could never decide on a color, you where always changing them! Sometimes you had the blue ones up, and then the next day you have the green ones up! Edmund always said you where crazy!
Susan I love you and miss you!
Susan let the tears that had clumped in the side of her eyes, fall. It felt good to cry for once; for she was not crying with grief, but with joy. Her sister loved and missed her!
Really Susan you have nothing to apologize for.
Susan smiled her tears of joy still falling.
I never held it against you, you know that! I was sad that you snapped at me but I took it in stride, I can't say I understood you, but I was willing to understand that you were going through a hard time. I am glad you are finally better Su…
'I am glad to Ed' Susan thought wiping a tear away.
Also I hope you punch that kid that looked like Rabadash right in the face. Honestly my blood still boils when I think of that slime.
Susan laughed; it was exactly the reaction she had expected from her younger brother. If he is awful just punch him. In court Edmund might be Just, but when it came to 'slime' that threatened his sister well…
But it does not matter anymore and I hope Patrick had a good reason not to give him that loan. Who knows he might not have been that bad…
Peter just smacked me, he said of course he is that bad otherwise Susan would not have told you. So I take back what I said before. Just punch him.
If anyone had walked in on Susan at this moment they would have seen a laughing young woman who was clutching a letter for dear life as she wiped tears away.
Susan I love you so, and I hope that you are happy with your husband and son, I am sure you're a great mother Su, I know you always wanted kids. And I know for experience you are a great mother. Just don't coddle him too much, it will make him squeamish.
At this Susan remembered all the times when she had coddled her poor little brother. She frowned 'well Ed if I hadn't coddled you Peter would have and he was worse sometimes' But all the same Susan was happy, She knew what her brother meant.
We love you Susan and can't wait to see you again.
Much Love,
Peter
Lucy
Edmund
P.S. Susan we love your letter, but always know that we love you and please make sure that you are happy when you write them. We do so hate seeing you sad. Never forget Susan we ALWAYS will love you!
With that Susan sat back looking at the paper clutched in her hands. It should not be possible, not at all.
But that didn't matter to Susan.
Later that afternoon when Patrick came home hand in hand with Thomas, Susan swept them up into a huge hug.
Far away three people watched a great Lion standing behind them as they smiled at the joy in their sister's heart…
"She was making herself ill with those letters."
"Yeah, but we would have done the same thing, don't you think?"
"I guess, but we would not have as hard a time as her, we never forgot."
"Dear ones, come away now, Queen Susan has come back…"
"We always knew she was not totally gone."
"Oh course we knew that, I knew that day I saw her do her hair like she had for the coronation."
"It was those little things that kept her going I think."
"She will come soon right?"
"Dearest, haven't I told you even hear we cannot know what Will happen?"
"I hope she keeps writing the letters all the same though…"
"I am sure she will, it is Susan, and she will never forget to leave her mark behind…"
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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