Title: missing
Day/Theme: 18. Hum
Series: Chronicles of Narnia
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, implied Susan/Caspian
Rating: PG



Sometimes, when she had time, Susan sang Lucy to sleep.

She didn't have time a lot. She had social appointments and boyfriends and even a job, and was here and gone leaving only traces of perfume and the echo of high heels and the tightness in her voice when she complimented Lucy on her imagination, trying too hard to sound airy and only sounding like someone wounded.

Sometimes her voice got soft enough, drifting into a gentle hum, and her eyes unfocused and face gentled, fingers stroking tenderly over Lucy's forehead, that Lucy felt she knew her again.

That she had her old sister back, too-practical and sometimes prone to lecturing but still a Narnian Queen, still the girl who had swung off the horse and looked up at Lucy with her clear, gentle eyes and sent her on, unflinching at her own fate.

And then--because of how much Susan shunned the word Narnia--Lucy asked instead, once, "don't you miss him?"

And one hot tear dropped on Lucy's face, and then another, trailing down her forehead and cheeks in a steady rain, and Lucy's throat went tight as well with shared pain.

After that, she didn't ask.

Tags: lucy pevensie, susan pevensie, susan pevensie/prince caspian x