Wonderful story! So, in this fic, since the Pevensie's and Narnia are real, how does CS Lewis fit into things? And is Middle-Earth real as well, since Tolkien and Lewis were great friends?

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Thank you! In this verse, I suppose Susan told C.S. Lewis the story, and he wrote it down. Not *sure* that means Middle-Earth is real, too, but you never know. :-)

Lovely story. I like how you treated both characters, though I would have liked to see more of Susan. If you like Susan then you might like the short story Neil Gamin wrote for his book of short stories - Fragile Things. The story itself is called The Problem with Susan.

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Thank you for giving Susan a happy ending! I always wondered what happened to her. She always struck me as the responsible grown up of the four, the one who made the hard choice and chose to move on when she though she could never return to Narnia.

In my mind a have this fantasy running around that she became a slayer and that's why she didn't go with her siblings to Narnia in the end. She was needed other places...

Thank you! And you should write your Susan as a Slayer piece!

There have been several "Susan-fixit" fics I've seen in the past. Some absolutely wonderful, some truly horrible. I rather like your view of Susan in her elder years.

Lewis's treatment of Susan: we get near nothing on what happens to Susan, really. And I think that was Lewis's intention all along; his Narnia books have such clear Christian undertones (deliberate on his part) that it's almost impossible to miss them. Remember, we only have a few short sentences from her siblings on what she's doing with her life, and I've long been of the opinion that Susan was going through a period of depression, and what little of her actions we are told of were her attempts to combat it. At no point does Lewis ever declare that Susan could never return to Narnia, and I've long thought that if he'd written a book soley about Susan's life after her siblings preceeded her into Aslan's Country it would have ended with her own return.

Thank you. Yeah, it's not spelled out that Susan will never get back to Narnia, and maybe she will. In fact, I deliberately left it open in the story, and my Susan actually thinks she will get back. She's just come to terms with her life and is okay with it if she doesn't (which probably will help to get her back). I do come down on the side of Lewis not meaning her to get back, though.

Oh, this was lovely. I totally agree with you about Lewis' treatment of Susan. With the religious overtones, it always struck me as "Wear makeup and act like an independent woman and you're going to Hell!" I'm a bit sensitive to things like that, but I'm so glad you gave Su a happy ending. And the crossover was well done--you write Giles splendidly. :)

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I like this ficlet very much. The portrayal of Susan is very nice. It's only natural that she would retain the bearing and skills of a queen. Thanks for bringing the two worlds together.

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I always hated how Susan was treated in The Last Battle. The way Lewis writes her, trying too hard to be a grown-up, and then at the end, nobody addresses the fact that she's the lown survivor. She just gets forgotten about.

Yeah, I could never believe how easily Lucy, Peter, and Edmund just write her off at the end, as though she doesn't even matter to them anymore.

I liked it! The piece has a nice flow, and the crossover aspect works well specifically because it seems natural and unforced.

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Yeah! I love what you did with Susan. I sometimes got the feeling Lewis didn't like adult women very much.

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BEM

Thank you! He certainly didn't like even the slightest hint of worldliness, did he?

Very nicely done. I think I agree with you about Susan, in one sense the whole idea of living out half a life-time and then returning is totally strange. I always hoped for a suitably happy ending.

Thank you! I can't think of a happier ending for Susan than that she had a long and happy life.

I love the story...only wish it was longer :)

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good

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nice work. short and to the point

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I liked Susan as well. I mean she was so disapointed at not being able to go back to Narnia that she would rather pretend it didn't happen.

I never thought of it quite that way before, but that makes perfect sense.

i like this very much =^_^= think it would be interesting to see where it could go if you decided to make it longer.
i disagree on the point of lewis treating Susan unfairly, she was a teenage girl at the end of the books- and many teenagers are full of only themselves even if they don't see it that way, there is also the fact that she was told she was never gonna go back to narnia and could have taken that blow very hard, like a betrayal. but like you i do hope she lived a long happy life- till the day she joined her family again.

but again if you decide to prolong the story i would love to see where you take it =^_^= narnia is one of my favorite collections and to see it crossed with Buffy in a believable way is wonderful.

Thank you! Yeah, I meant that Susan was a teenage girl and shouldn't have been exiled forever for making teenage girl mistakes. So I made her happy. :-)