Once_A_Monarch
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I'll paint you a throne/ and sculpt you out of stone by Once_A_Monarch
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
01 Jun 2026
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Hours after his coronation, Caspian finds Peter back at the How. He doesn't look up and Caspian can't quite see what he's doing with his body blocking the light but there's a quiet, intermittent clinking sound from where he stands by the wall.
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Peter knows how to carve stone, it turns out.
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this is a gift, it comes with a price by Once_A_Monarch for Zannolin
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
31 May 2026
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He notices three sets of eyes on him and sheathes his sword. They continue to stare.
"What?" He bites out.
Lucy and Edmund look down and away but Susan fixes her gaze on his. "Apologies. The tapestries never quite got your face right."
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The Kings and Queens of Narnia's Golden Age die during their reign. When Caspian blows the horn over one thousand years later, they return.The Pevensies return to life as adults (for the most part).
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This work is complete! After the initial 5, I will be publishing 2 chapters once per week and then the final 3 all together.
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I hit the ground hard. by Once_A_Monarch for Zannolin
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
28 May 2026
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He knows. They know. He knows they know and they know he knows and still he says, so they don't have to: "have none of you guessed where we are?"
The words sit heavy on his tongue, cloying and rotten. Peter thinks it's the worst thing he's ever had to say.
Because how do you broach the idea that you're back in the place where you lived for fifteen years, the place where you grew up, where you became the people - the Kings and Queens - you were meant to be? How do you even start to comprehend, let alone acknowledge, that your home is empty and lies in ruins when you've only been gone a year and you never wanted to leave at all?
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Peter leaves. Peter returns. Peter loves. Peter loses.
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- Part 2 of we used to be something to see
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I'm at best/ half sure what happened. I want to start over. by Once_A_Monarch
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
27 Apr 2026
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Susan sits on her own on the train back, looks in the window and sees the reflections of her siblings across the aisle. She wonders if they'd forgive her for it: for letting their home lie in the past, for burying the little that remains to her, for no longer clinging to every tiny fragment of fable to try and piece together how she was once Gentle, how she was once a Queen.
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Susan struggles. Susan forgets. Susan moves on. Susan remembers.
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- Part 1 of we used to be something to see
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If I'm good, will you come back? by Once_A_Monarch
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
15 Apr 2026
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You do not have to be Gentle, Just, Valiant, Magnificent. This is not your fault.
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Musings on leaving Narnia
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we used to be something to see by Once_A_Monarch
Fandom Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
27 May 2026
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Peter and Susan, after the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe all the way to the Last Battle and beyond.
Fics can be read in either order and work standalone.
Caspian POV fic currently in progress...
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That creaking you hear in my bones it's not pain, it's applause by Once_A_Monarch
Fandom Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
27 Mar 2026
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Digory Kirke plants an apple tree to protect Narnia. She stands in place for one thousand years.
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I had Thoughts about the apple tree that Digory plants in the Magician's Nephew. This is what happened...
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I'm the hardest goodbye that you'll ever have to say by Once_A_Monarch
Fandom Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
04 Nov 2025
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The Pevensies are seasons and Eustace is (was) a dragon
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'Cause when I stand oh those folks will run (and tell the tales of what I've become) by Once_A_Monarch
Fandom Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Narnia - Fandom
13 Mar 2025
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The Pevensies as the Four Horsemen
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