Susan's story

Chapter twenty-two

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"I mean, if I wasn't so horrible to you, maybe you wouldn't have to leave."

"Oh...it's not your fault. I forgive you."

"Yes it is. I am so sorry, and since I was stupid enough to do all this, you deserve this." He pulls the crown out of a bag and gently sets it on my head. "This is yours, Once a king or queen of Narnia always a king or queen, even when I took it you were and always will be Queen Susan the Gentle."

Tears fill my eyes as I hug him as tight as I can. "Thank you. I love you." I say crying into his shoulder. I don't want to break apart from him, I don't want to tell him I'm not leaving. "Peter, everybody, I have a confession to make." All eyes fall on me, "I'm not leaving I made it up."

Peter's face grows beat red. "You mean to say YOU SET THIS ALL UP!" He shouts fire in his eyes.

I flinch as I nod. The crowd is cheering and Peter's face is still red.

"I'm sorry I wanted to mend the family, end the hate, I knew this would work."

Peter throws his arms around me and I freeze in shock.

"No, don't be sorry, you made me realize so many things. I love you!"  Lucy, Edmund, Jill and Eustace run up and hug me crying tears of joy and the crowd shouts out, "Long live Queen Susan the Gentle!" My life in Aslan's country is turning from horrible tears and trials to wonderful faith and smiles. It sounds cheesy I know, but it is the only way I can possibly explain anything its not even close! Banquets are being held, parties that last all night, delicious foods, wonderful music with such entertainment, all of our old Narnian friends such as Tumnus, The DLF, Reepicheep and of course our Telmarine friend Caspian. All these things are mine there with me and they will be forever, because I put my faith in Aslan, the one who comes through for everything. My king, The King over all high kings, Aslan."---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,

At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,

When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,

And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again." 

― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver; "don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you." ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

"He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion." 

― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

"It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"

"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.

"Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.

"I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there." 

― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

"And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."

― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

THE QUOTE THAT INSPIRED SUSAN'S STORY:

The books don't tell us what happened to Susan. She is left alive in this world at the end, having by then turned into a rather silly, conceited young woman. But there's plenty of time for her to mend and perhaps she will get to Aslan's country in the end... in her own way.-C.S. Lewis

Authors note: If you read this to the end I thank you. I worked hard on this story because I love Susan and have full confidence that she got to Narnia, she just needed time. The moment I thought of that I knew I had to write the story fulfilling Susan's story because after all, "Once a king or queen of Narnia always a king or queen."

- JuTay19