[Fic] "Come Close to Your Own World" -- Chronicles of Narnia

Just FYI, the revised and slightly extended final version of Come Close to Your Own World is now up on AO3! (4,375 words)

Summary: The Pevensies can only take one child with them to America. Mary is the logical choice -- she's the eldest, and the only one who has any interest in Father's work -- but she's not sure that's a good idea. (Part of the As the Morning and the Night genderswap AU)

Note: This fic was written for Cotton Candy Bingo Round One in incredibly belated response to the prompt: unexpected love. It's also in response to a prompt from asphodelimago: Narnia, Peter finds a hobby. Seems like his characterization is all about duty and great earthshaking deeds, especially in Narnia. It’d be neat to see him back in England, finding something quiet and ordinary that still matters, even after all those great deeds. (I am admittedly still smitten with As The Morning and the Night, and Mary or Stephen would also be fascinating for this, but I know you haven’t been back to that AU for a while. It got stuck in my head so hard, and it’s never quite left.)

Thanks to branchandroot for the beta advice!

wherein Liz defeats Cotton Candy Bingo

I would like to state, for the record, that I have finished my first Cotton Candy Bingo card. And by "finished," I mean filled all the squares. It took me two years to do, but hey, I have never claimed to be a fast writer. I have, on the other hand, claimed to finish the things I start, even if it takes me halfway to forever. So yeah, I am going to brag a little bit. :-)

That is roughly 44,500 words of fluff -- for certain values of fluff -- in six (or seven, depending) fandoms. Fourteen Homestuck fics, four Chronicles of Narnia fics, three Star Trek: AOS fics, one Naruto fic, one Harry Potter fic, and two Inception fics (one of which is a fusion with Anita Blake).

*marks item off to-write list*

...

I do have a second Cotton Candy Bingo card, and some unused suggestions from the first go-round, but I'm going to try holding off on those prompts for a few months while I get back to "Trollstuck" and "The Courting Dance" and "Lemonade" and "The Guardian in Spite of Herself" and all my other WIPs. And my NFE fic, of course. Can't forget that. And Yuletide, in due time, and Ladystuck, and all the other things sitting half-finished on my hard drive. Oh god, I have so many things to do...

But hey. I made a thing! And I am proud. :-)