Narnia: Memory of Heaven by corbeaun (Edmund, Lucy)

It's easy to forget that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe takes place during World War II and the London Blitz. corbeaun's Memory of Heaven remembers. Neither of Edmund's worlds really exists independent of the other -- the one bleeds into and infects the other, and his actions and their consequences are not so easily shakeable simply because he is living a new life.

The story is very short, more of a vignette really, but it's exactly right, exactly what Edmund must be, given the historical context of the book and what we know of him. Even Lucy is finely drawn, in just the perfect amount of words -- perfectly chosen words. The whole thing is sort of breathtaking.

Narnia: Growing Up by sheldrake (Susan, Lucy)

sheldrake's Growing Up is a story for everyone who had issues with C.S. Lewis's treatment of Susan in The Last Battle. Susan and Lucy are sisters -- their wants and desires may be different, they may be strangers to each other in certain respects, but they still share that one common ground. This story understands this, in a way that Lewis's published words apparently didn't. The ending is incredibly poignant.

Narnia: Buried by Ivy Blossom (Edmund)

ivyblossom's Buried is actually the third story in a trilogy which posits a relationship between Edmund and Bacchus, but I read it without reading the former two, and it felt fine to me. It takes place in the ordinary world of England, during The Last Battle when Peter and Edmund search for the rings. Edmund's ambivalence toward Narnia and his own post-Narnian life is intriguing -- there's a lovely sort of disquieting mood pervading the whole story, even though nothing much happens in it.

I think this Edmund is a bit older than I picture him being in TLB (he's only meant to be a year or two older than Eustace, who was still a schoolboy in TLB, right?), but if you can get past that, it works.