For LARM on her birthday -- Susan and Tebbitt AU

[rthstewart]

For l_a_r_m  on her birthday.  Birthday fic!  The first part some of you might recall from the Give the Pevensies a friend commentfic.  This expands it a little bit.  Years and timing and dates are wrong wrong wrong.  Also, I borrow heavily from the ideas of John LeCarre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.  The ideas are, in sum and substance, his.  I've just

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[rthstewart]

This is AU and LARM's birthday fic and she's the one who is very fond of illegitimate children all over the place. As said, this is not TSG compliant. That line was put in for her.

HOWEVER....
I wrote myself into a corner on the Narnia side of things given that offspring and succession are such a huge issue in this vision for the Narnians and they are not above overt manipulation to accomplish their goals. All of this was to have been addressed in Harold and Morgan, but well, we know where that one went and I'm assuming that readers just aren't that interested in that side of the picture. I have come to assume that I'm one of the few in the fandom who wanted to concoct a vision of a peaceful, benign, organized (but yes, sad) transition of power. That was where the H&M story would have ended.This was a big reason for the introduction of Aidan and his numerous relations -- his nieces and nephews and his own children.

So, uhh, where was I? Oh, yeah. Pevensie offspring in Spare Oom. In TSG. I'm not vigorously opposed to it. It may not work with where I'm taking them, but that will become clearer later in the story and maybe readers will have some ideas there. Fandom is so rife with it that it makes me reluctant to go there, but in the end, that shouldn't stop me either. And wouldn't. As I think people are gathering, there will be "romance" in TSG. My whole sneak peek included an adult-oriented segment.

I have to concede that my fandom roots and inclination are more in the vein of the unfulfilled romance -- the chance missed, the opportunity lost. In that sense, the Maenad story is actually truer to my fandom roots than anything I've done in Narnia fic, save for the Edmund humor/lust/banter with Morgan in the earlier chapters of RBD. I don't do OTP's and the Narnia story is very much about promise cut off too soon.

In answer to this AU version of TSG. Who? I could make an argument for all three of them. In my head canon, Peter, Edmund or Lucy could have had a child. I tend to prefer out of wedlock situations in fic but that's not set in stone either and I have a hard time imagining duty-bound Peter doing anything but marrying the woman. I also love the idea of a Lucy who is so unconventional she doesn't care a whit about flaunting social convention. She loves her partner very much, but really, marriage? Not so much. And her parents would be THRILLED to have a grandchild.