Once a king or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen
"Where's Lucy?" Edmund exclaimed, his gaze resting on the empty space on the bench beside Susan.
"Wasn't she right behind us when Aslan opened the door?"
Peter and Susan looked at one another; Susan was white as a sheet.
"Do you suppose she got lost on the way back?"
Peter smiled sadly, shaking his head. "We'll never know Su, but if I were to hazard a guess I'd say that Aslan has another task for her."
Susan's eyes filled with tears. "Do you really think so?"
Lucy's faith in Aslan was the strongest out of all of them; after all she'd been the only one of them to see Aslan when he appeared to them, little before they met Caspian.
"Don't cry Su" Edmund hugged his sister. "I'm sure she's safe where ever she is"
Lucy Pevensie sat in the middle of the Narnian field still dressed in her tunic, tights, and chain mail; in a state which could only be described as shock. She didn't understand. Hadn't Aslan told them that it was time to return to England?
"You are troubled, Daughter?" The Great Lion himself had come to sit beside her.
"Oh Aslan, why am I here?" she asked, burying her face in his thick golden mane. "It isn't that I'm not happy to be here it's just..."
"Lucy" Her name in Aslan's voice calmed her instantly. "You were not meant to return with the others. I have a task for you here"
"What Aslan?" She stared at him. "What would you have me do?"
"You must rebuild Narnia; you never lost your faith in me. Prince Caspian needs that faith if he is to become King."
Lucy looked up at Caspian who was standing with the other Narnians, simply watching the Queen of Old and the Great Lion interact. He looked like he had in her dream; that dream seemed so long ago now.
"Will I ever see Peter, Ed and Su again?" she asked him
"That is a story for another time, Daughter" Aslan told her as they rose together and walked back towards Caspian's army. "Come now, Cair Paravell awaits its Queen's return."
Just a one shot but I'm considering expanding it... what do you guys think?