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Post by Sw on Oct 27, 2004 21:21:47 GMT -5
“She shouldn’t, Bonnie was sound asleep last time I checked in on her.” Melanie said as she walked past the nursery door. “I guess I’ll see you in the morning Scarlett, and of course, Captain Butler is welcome to stay the night as well.” Scarlett just smiled, leave it to Melly to think of the matter of where Rhett was staying, when all she could think of at the moment was telling Rhett of Bonnie. Opening the nursery door slowly, so as to not wake Bonnie, Scarlett walked in, the lamp in the corner still burning bright. Scarlett had to check that lamp ten times a night to make sure it hadn’t gone out. Bonnie hated the dark. At first Scarlett had thought a baby couldn’t hate anything, but her daughter had taught her another wise. Right after her birth Scarlett had decided the baby would sleep in her room with her. It was difficult at first getting awoken at all hours of the night with crying, Bonnie wanting to be changed or feed. But over time, Scarlett had learned to accept being woke from cries and now that Bonnie didn’t cry as much in the night, Scarlett would wake just to check on her. It had been hard for Mother and daughter both when coming to Atlanta on this visit and learning they wouldn’t share the same room. But Scarlett knew it was for the best, if she did get Rhett back, he might not want a baby sleeping in their room. Blue eyes met green as Scarlett looked down into her daughter’s crib. Bonnie was wide-awake, looking up at her, “Bonnie baby, whatever are you doing up?” Scarlett asked then laughed at herself for asking her tiny daughter such a question. “I have a wonderful surprise for you.” Scarlett said as she gently picked up her baby and was relieved when she didn’t cry.
“Rhett is going to be so happy to see you.” Scarlett then turned around with Bonnie in her arms walking to the door. She couldn’t wait to see Rhett’s face when he saw Bonnie. There wasn’t any way possible Rhett wouldn’t recognize Bonnie, even though she was so tiny. Rhett had been the one who had taken care of Bonnie, when she was a baby the first time. Scarlett now understood how Rhett could play with and just hold Bonnie for hours at a time, because she did all of those things herself this time around. Taking one step at a time ever so slowly, mindful of her baby daughter in her arms, Scarlett looked at the light cast on the floor before the parlor. “Well this surprise I know you’ll love Rhett, so close your eyes.” Scarlett called out, looking at Bonnie’s curly head. Taking the last step off the staircase she asked, “Are they closed yet?” “Yes my love, they’re closed, you can come in now.” Rhett answered just as he closed his dark eyes. He wasn’t sure just what Scarlett was up too, but whatever it was, Rhett knew it was making Scarlett happy and that’s the one thing he always wanted to do from this day on. Hearing footsteps stop right ahead of him Rhett asked with closed eyes. “Can I open my eyes now?” Scarlett took a few seconds before she answered Rhett’s question as she held Bonnie in her arms so the tiny baby would be facing her father. “Okay Rhett, open your eyes.” Rhett had his eyes opened in a second’s time and was greeted with the sight of his wife holding a baby. At first glance Rhett had thought, not allowing his heart to hope for the impossible, that Scarlett was holding Wade as a baby. To show him, she hadn’t been wrong and that Wade was alive, but wasn’t her’s. It only took Rhett another second to realize that thought was wrong. Rhett knew those black curls and tiny smile anywhere. It was Bonnie Scarlett was holding. His precious little angel, Rhett looked up speechless into Scarlett’s misty emerald eyes. “How?” he asked as his trembling hands moved in order to take his daughter into his arms. “Really Rhett, I’m positive you know more about the bird’s and the bee’s then I do.” Scarlett joked as she felt Bonnie being lifted from her arms. There was no mistaking the look of utter joy and amazement on Rhett face as he held their daughter in his arms.
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Post by Sw on Oct 27, 2004 21:22:36 GMT -5
Laughing at Scarlett’s joke, Rhett just held his little girl closer. Scarlett froze as father and daughter got to know each other. Tears ran down her face, so Scarlett’s dream the one she had, had since learning of her pregnancy was playing out before her very eyes. Rhett sat himself on the loveseat as he smiled at Bonnie and received a smile from her in return. Scarlett took the empty seat next to them, and Bonnie eyes fell onto her Mother. Scarlett knew what that look meant, Bonnie was about to start crying for her. And while she had never minded it before, Scarlett didn’t want Rhett to feel Bonnie was rejecting him with her cries for her Mother. Right now Rhett was thrilled, he had his daughter back. Soon though, he would realize that if he had returned sooner, he could have been here when Bonnie was born. “What do you think of your Daddy Bonnie? Do you think we should keep him?” Scarlett asked, trying to soothe the baby. Giving Bonnie her finger, Scarlett giggled at Rhett’s laughter. “She’s so small, I almost forgot Bonnie had ever been this little.” Rhett stated aloud, his eyes glued on her. “I know.” Scarlett said as Bonnie started to fuss, she was just about to reach for her when Rhett rocked Bonnie gently back and forth in his arms. In less then a second, Bonnie had stopped and was smiling once again. “Nice trick, I usually have to take her from whoever is holding her when she starts fussing up. Bonnie like to monopolize all my time.” “Has Bonnie done the impossible Scarlett?” Rhett said looking from his daughter to his wife “Dare I say it? Bonnie has made you this time around want to be a mother.” Scarlett had expected a question along this line. After all when they were married before she hadn’t been much of a mother to any of her children then. It still sting her heart though that he couldn’t just tell by the way she looked at Bonnie how much she loved the child. “I love her Rhett, so much at times I just want to hold her and never let go.” “We’re going to have lot’s of fun aren’t we Scarlett, fighting over who gets to hold Bonnie?” Rhett jested. It was going to take awhile for Rhett to be able to believe his eyes not only did he have Bonnie back, but Scarlett had grown up as well. “We will Rhett, if you don’t learn to share Bonnie.” Scarlett stated wanting Rhett to now she didn’t plan on going back to her earlier motherly ways. “As long as it’s with you, I can share Bonnie, but I don’t know about anybody else.” Rhett said as Bonnie’s blue eyes started to close. He knew soon his little angel would be asleep. Laughing, which made Bonnie’s eyes open wide Scarlett said, “Pa just might fight you over that Rhett, he’s taking a liking to as he calls her his Bonnie Blue O’Hara” “O’Hara?” Rhett questioned. He knew Scarlett was still his wife so logically their daughter held his last name, not her mother’s maiden. “Not to worry Rhett, Bonnie has your last name. But Pa just won’t accept it, he keeps trying to bully me into divorce you.” Scarlett said shaking her head. “I’m sure if I hadn’t turned up pregnant with Bonnie, Pa would have had our marriage annulled. You’re not his favorite person Rhett.” she finished lightly, leaving out the many times Gerald O’Hara had threatened to kill his wayward son-in-law. “From what I recall about your father Scarlett, I didn’t expect to be.” Rhett said as Bonnie started to cry after a few moments and the rocking didn’t seem to work. Rhett raised an eyebrow in question to Scarlett. Seeing it, Scarlett took the crying baby from her father and held her close, rubbing her back. In no time at all Bonnie’s cries stopped and the baby girl was asleep in her Mother arms. “Bonnie cries like that when she’s tired.” Scarlett explained, proving to Rhett just how much she had truly changed. “Do you want to help me, put Bonnie to bed?” Scarlett asked standing up. Rhett nodded his head ‘yes’. As they made their way up the staircase, Rhett chuckled as he realized in all the years he had been in Miss Hamilton house this was only the second time he had been on the second floor. The first time being the night the Yankee’s took Atlanta. And Rhett wasn’t in the mood to look around he was to worried at the time with getting Mrs. Wilkes out of here. Looking around now Rhett could tell that it was women who lived alone in this house. It had a feeling of a dollhouse to it.
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Post by Sw on Oct 27, 2004 21:23:29 GMT -5
Rhett just followed Scarlett as she stopped before a door. “Allow me.” Rhett said as he stepped in front of Scarlett to open what he would guess to be the nursery door. “Thank you.” Scarlett whisper as she entered Bonnie’s room. Rhett closely on her heels watching as she laid their sleeping daughter down for the night. Both stood there for a few minutes watching Bonnie sleep. A smile lit up Scarlett’s face as Rhett reached for her hand. “Rhett why don’t we go to my room so we can talk?” Smirking Rhett walked towards the door they just entered a few minutes earlier. With Scarlett right behind him he asked in a low tone, so not to wake the other people in the house who were sleeping. “Which room is your’s Scarlett?” Taking the lead once again Scarlett who’s hand was still holding Rhett’s pulled him along until they stopped at the bedroom door next to Bonnie’s. “This is Honey’s room. But Melly insisted I use it, because it’s the closest bedroom to the nursery.” Scarlett said, turning the doorknob ever so slowly. Scarlett was afraid of what would happen next. It had been over a year since she and Rhett had shared a bedroom as husband and wife and that had ended badly the only good thing coming from it being Bonnie. This time things were different Rhett remembered everything and he loved her, he wasn’t going to leave her again. Rhett pushed the door open wide once Scarlett had opened it. He could sense her apprehension, but Rhett also realized there was little he could do other then show Scarlett in every way possible he wasn’t leaving, “So this was young Mr. Hamilton’s room at one time?” Scarlett shook her head ‘no’, “That would be the nursery. Melanie told me Honey couldn’t bear to stay in Charles’ old room without him. So Honey moved to the guestroom.” Scarlett said wondering if something were to happen to Rhett if she would react the same way? Somehow Scarlett didn’t think she would though. “Such a shame, I had always wanted to see what your bedroom here looked like.” Rhett said, looking around the room that screamed it didn’t belong to Scarlett. It was too plain and simple and had a dull look too it. This wasn’t a room Scarlett would want to live in for long. “This house even when I owned half of it, never felt like mine Rhett, and as for the room it looked much as this one does.” Scarlett stopped, unsure if she should continue or not. Rhett’s eyes pleaded with her to go on, to open up not just her heart but her mind to him as well. “Frank felt at home here but I never did, there is only two places I ever felt at home at. Tara and our house Rhett. Looking back or ahead I’m, never sure what to call it. I figured out why, living at Tara and with you Rhett were the only times I ever felt loved.” Rhett listen and found himself smiling, not at Scarlett mentioning Frank, he could have gone without hearing that, but that finally he could himself talk to someone else about the future without being thought crazy. “I’m glad you felt loved Scarlett, that’s exactly how I wanted you to feel.”
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Post by Sw on Oct 27, 2004 21:24:00 GMT -5
“I just wish I could have made you feel the same way Rhett.” Scarlett said standing on her tipping toes to kiss Rhett’s tempting lips. “I’ll make it up to you I promise.” “I’m going make sure you keep that promise Scarlett and make one of my own. I promise to never walk away from you and Bonnie again.” Rhett supplied in-between kisses he bestowed upon his wife. “That’s good to hear, I’m afraid your Mother wouldn’t have been happy to received another letter from me asking where you were.” Scarlett stated as her knees became weaken from Rhett’s passionate kisses. Laughing Rhett picked Scarlett up holding her close to him. “I wanted to kill you when my Mother refused to answer any of my letters. I was sure you had told my Mother in order to punish me.” Kissing Scarlett to silence her from replying he pulled away then said. “I know now that wasn’t the reason my love. Scarlett you just wanted to know where I was. I’m not angry any longer. Mother, I’m sure will be thrilled to learn that we’ve reconciled and that she has a granddaughter.” Scarlett winced a little at Rhett’s last words; he noticed of course Rhett always noticed everything about her. “I kind of wrote your Mother about Bonnie.” Scarlett could see Rhett was upset that he wasn’t the one who got to tell his Mother about their daughter. “Rhett I did it for you. My Mother was writing her sisters about the baby. I felt it was my place as your wife, for your Mother to hear such good news from family, not friends.” ‘Leave it to Scarlett,’ Rhett thought ‘to make me start out upset at her then switch and be anger at myself.’ Scarlett had been only thinking of his Mother. And Rhett had to admit to himself he was grateful to Scarlett that his Mother learned it from, as Scarlett’s had said, family. “Since you’ve been in contact with my parents Scarlett, tell me, how has my Mother and sister been doing?” Rhett asked as he sat Scarlett down on the edge of the bed. “Good, both keep begging me to bring Bonnie on a visit.” Scarlett replied, leaving out anything about the note Rhett’s father had wrote her, asking for her forgiveness for his ungentlemanly son’s actions and stating that she and Bonnie would always have a place in his home. “Nothing less would I expect from my Mother and Rosemary. When I brought Bonnie with me to Charleston, they both thought they were in heaven.” Rhett said ,remembering that trip that he took so long ago now. “I’m sure they will be again, when we visit.” Scarlett said as Rhett took a seat next to her on the bed. “We can go anywhere you want to Rhett, there’s nothing holding me here.” “That’s good to know my pet, but with the war going I think Atlanta might be the safest place for now.” Rhett said as he pulled Scarlett onto his lap. “I probable should be going now my love, Miss Pittypat I’m sure wouldn’t want me spending the night under her roof.” Rhett said wanting to see just how far Scarlett would go to get him to stay. “That’s nonsense Rhett, Melanie told me when I was getting Bonnie that you could stay.” Scarlett had victory written all over her face as she leaned in to kiss her husband. “That was nice of Miss Melly, I’m sure she’ll hear her Aunt complain about a scoundrel like me sleeping in her house later.” Rhett said after they broke for air. “Let’s not talk about Pittypat, Melanie or anyone else, don’t you agree Rhett would have better things we could do with our time?” Scarlett asked flashing her dimples to Rhett. “Just what better things do you have in mind Mrs. Butler?” Rhett asked in return with a look crossed between teasing and passionate. As the answer to Rhett’s question, Scarlett kissed him holding nothing back ,showing Rhett in that one kiss how much she had missed and loved him. Both succumbing to their desire Rhett and Scarlett decided no more words were needed this night between them. Each knew the other loved them, that was all that either found mattered.
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Post by Sw on Oct 27, 2004 21:24:39 GMT -5
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Rhett, who had never been to Tara before, watched through the window waiting for the plantation to come into view. Scarlett had insisted upon an enclosed carriage for her return trip to Tara. It seemed Bonnie had a dislike for open carriages. It probably was the wind blowing in her little face that bothered his daughter. Rhett wasn’t at all surprised when Miss Hamilton didn’t try, as Melanie had, to talk them into staying a few more days. He knew Pittypat was happy to see the Butlers’ leave her house. “Oh Rhett I can’t wait to show you my Tara.” Scarlett said while holding Bonnie, the baby making happy baby noises as she looked at her father. “And I can’t wait to see it my pet.” Rhett replied as he rubbed Bonnie’s little head. This was how things should have been between Scarlett and he in the beginning. Rhett had let his fear of Scarlett learning of his love for her and turning it into a weapon against him, stop him from showing her any tenderness or kindness. Stopped him from shower Scarlett with the affection she had so deeply longed for. Rhett could call the kettle black and admit now that during their first try at marriage, he had been cruel and mean spirited to Scarlett. Always finding he never could punish her enough for not loving him as he loved her. All the while giving her no reason to fall in love with him. How Scarlett had fallen in love with him, Rhett found still amazed him. Last night Scarlett demonstrated just how deep her love for him ran; Rhett couldn’t help but smile at that thought. Rhett knew the day ahead would be long and demanding. Gerald O’Hara would not be easily convinced of Rhett’s good intentions. It was going to take time to convince his father-in-law, Rhett knew but Scarlett and Bonnie were both well worth the effort on his part. “I hate to sound like a child Scarlett, but are we there yet?” Rhett asked teasing. “Are you sure not sending a telegram telling or our arrival was best my pet?” he asked turning serious for a moment. “Yes quite Rhett. No need to give Pa time to get his shotgun ready.” Scarlett said coyly as she handed Bonnie to him. “As long as you’re holding his granddaughter, Pa won’t try to hurt you Rhett.” Scarlett said laughing. “Ha ha . . . very funny my love.” Rhett said as Bonnie grabbed his finger with her tiny hand. “But I’m not afraid of your Father, Scarlett. Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t put it past Mr. O’Hara to want and try to kill me. It’s you Scarlett I have confidence in. Your ability to wrap your Father around your little finger.” “Whatever gave you that idea Rhett?” Scarlett asked coquettishly, as the carriage turned onto the road that led to Tara. “Because my pet, even since the day I laid eyes on you. You’ve had every man within a hundred feet of you wrapped around you finger.” Rhett said as he noted Scarlett moved closer towards the carriage door. “Stop the carriage.” Scarlett called out as she opened the door while it was still going. With one thing on her mind, she wanted Rhett to see the view of Tara from this distance. It always took her breath away. An instance later, Scarlett was out of the carriage and running towards the tree that held the view she wanted. “Rhett are you coming?” Scarlett asked as she looked over her shoulder to see what was keeping her husband. Rhett was following Scarlett with a smirk on his face. She looked so like a child who couldn’t wait to show off her new toy. As he and Bonnie reached the tree Scarlett was standing before, Rhett was about to ask his wife what this was all about when his eyes caught sight of Tara. Before him was green grass and a white two story house, it was all exactly how Rhett had pictured Tara, but much more beautiful. Rhett could see know why Scarlett had come to him offering to be his ,istress to save this plantation. “It’s breathtaking Scarlett.” “Thank you.” Scarlett replied taking Rhett’s words as a personal complement. “I’ve always loved the view from here, this is Pa and my special place. We come up here all the time and just sat for hours talking. Bonnie loves it here too.” “It’s easy to see why Mrs. Butler it’s beautiful. I can see why you and your father love it so.” Rhett stated as he held Bonnie out for Scarlett to take. Once Bonnie was safely in her Mother’s arms Rhett leaned against the tree behind Scarlett, then pulled his wife into his arms. Holding his family close Rhett watched the wind blow on the grass and treetops before them. “Have I told you today Scarlett, how much I love you?” Rhett asked as he used her shoulder to rest his chin on. “No . . . not today” Scarlett answered as she felt Bonnie kick her little legs back and forth. “Well I do. More then anything or anyone, except maybe Bonnie.”
Scarlett just closed her eyes and sighed with a smile on her face. Scarlett had everything she could ever want holding her or her holding it. “I love you too Rhett, and as much as I would love nothing more then to sit here in your arms all day, we must be getting to Tara. I can’t wait for you to get to meet my Mother.” Rhett exhaled and watched as Scarlett with Bonnie made her way back to their carriage. Following her, Rhett turned to see once more the breathtaking view of Tara and noticed how the wind of a few minutes ago left many objects on the path ahead. A smile appeared in his dark eyes as a second wind came along, one that blew away all the objects the first wind had left behind. Leaving nothing in it’s wake but a clear and clean path ahead for them to take. Scarlett smiled sweetly at Rhett as he entered their carriage and they once again started off for Tara. Silently Scarlett thanked God for giving her and Rhett this second chance with Bonnie and their life together. This time she wouldn’t mess it up with childish infatuation. Scarlett had no need to, all her dreams for tomorrow and countless ones after that had been answered today with Rhett by her side. As the carriage moved onward and the wind blew on. The Butler’s had finally found the happiness they always wanted.
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Post by ASCARLETTFANNN on Sept 25, 2005 22:23:34 GMT -5
This is so good!!!!!!! Could you update? Scarlett starting all over again at 16 then Rhett remembering all of a sudden. I really am wondering what will happen next. I will check everyday to see when their is the rest of the story finished. I love this story!!!!!!!
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Post by ASCARLETTFANNN on Sept 25, 2005 22:25:37 GMT -5
This is so good!!!!!!! Could you update? Scarlett starting all over again at 16 then Rhett remembering all of a sudden. I really am wondering what will happen next. I will check everyday to see when their is the rest of the story finished. I love this story!!!!!!!
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