She Dreamed of Paradise ❈ Suspian

Mad Hatter

"I'm peeling the skin off my face
'Cause I really hate being safe
The normals, they make me afraid
The crazies, they make me feel sane
I'm nuts, baby, I'm mad,
The craziest friend that you've ever had
You think I'm psycho, you think I'm gone
Tell the psychiatrist something is wrong
Over the bend, entirely bonkers
You like me best when I'm off my rocker
Tell you a secret, I'm not alarmed
So what if I'm crazy? The best people are
All the best people are crazy, all the best people are."

- Mad Hatter by Melanie Martinez.

Alternative ending: Susan dreamed it all up, thus ending up in an asylum.

Susan was awoken by the usual sounds of an alarm at 7AM sharp. It was the beginning of her second year at Cerulean Heights Mental Institution, hidden away in the countryside of Buckinghamshire, away from almost all forms of society to help their patients be treated for their various mental issues. In all honesty, Susan despised the place. She'd tried everything to get herself out during her two years there but nothing seemed to have worked, so it seemed as if she was stuck there permanently. She wasn't exactly going quietly with her stay in the asylum – she was one of the more destructive patients; she'd scream, fight and curse her way through the asylum.

Susan was known as a patient to avoid, it said so on her profile;

NAME: Susan Annabelle Pevensie

DATE OF BIRTH: 23rd July, 1994

DATE ADMITTED: 3rd September, 2014

DATE DISCHARGED: Unknown – highly recommended to never be discharged without permanent supervision.

FAMILY: Alexander Pevensie, father; Eliza Pevensie, mother; Peter Pevensie, brother; Edmund Pevensie, brother; Lucy Pevensie, sister.

NOTES: Patient shows signs of depression, anxiety and a small case of delusion/insanity – has a short temper, must be kept away from other patients and most staff unless she shows signs of progress due to fights with other patients and vulgar actions towards staff during therapy sessions. Extremely vexatious, do not engage without proper authority. Will not stop talking about a land called "Narnia", talked with Dr. Bumby and he believes it is a coping mechanism to deal with her anxiety.

Yeah, she really was that bad.

Sitting down at her table, Susan glared at the plate of energy bars placed in front of her, not eating any of them. She hated the food which mostly consisted of energy bars and some healthy green stuff which tasted like someone had thrown up a pine tree and placed it in a microwave before they served it up and called it "food". It was disgusting. No wonder Susan was severely underweight with the garbage they were served which Susan chose not to eat just over how disgusting it looked and tasted.

"I recommend you eat those energy bars, you'll need the energy for exercising later today." The sound of one of the doctor's annoying voices brought Susan back into her reality, reminding her that yes, she was still in the asylum and no, nobody was going to save her anytime soon.

Susan gave the doctor a cold glare before launching herself towards the doctor, screaming at the top of her lungs as she attacked the doctor. "I recommend you shut the fuck up." She spat, holding the doctor down with all the strength she had.

But before she could do any serious damage, Susan was grabbed by several orderlies and dragged towards solitary confinement, kicking and screaming the entire way. She was shoved into the dark room and the door shut and was locked behind her. She let out one last loud and long scream before spitting towards the door and moving into one of the corners, bringing her legs into her chest.

After a few hours, Susan must have fallen asleep because she woke up when the moon was shining into her cell, and a plate of food had been pushed into her cell through the bottom of the door. She crawled across the floor towards the food and devoured it within seconds, she was starving. Once she finished eating, she moved back to her corner and stared up at the moon, something she couldn't see that well from her room. One of the only upsides to being in solitary confinement; you got a pretty good look at the moon if you were in the correct space.

"Susan..." a voice called out to her from the darkness, she knew that voice and she hated it as much as she hated the orderlies.

"Fuck off, Aslan. You're the whole reason why I'm stuck in here anyway, so fuck off." She hissed towards the darkness, moving slightly to ignore the voice even more and maybe go back to sleep, which she eventually did.

Susan remained at Cerulean Heights Mental Institution for another two years before she eventually decided to at least try to get better and she eventually achieved mental stability and she was later discharged on the 3rd of September, 2018, exactly four years since she was first admitted into the asylum. It is unclear what happened to Susan after she was discharged, but the doctors hoped that Susan lived a happy and normal life, without the worrying of the things that happened in her past which caused her to stay in the asylum.