Ch. 74 (PG-13): Loving from the Heart, Part 1

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“N&S: John Thornton, Love Lessons”, Ch. 74 (PG-13):  Finding Our Way to Loving from the Heart, Part 1,  August 12, 2014 Gratiana Lovelace  

An original fan fiction copyrighted by Gratiana Lovelace;   All rights reserved; Based on the Elizabeth Gaskell novel, North & South and its  2004 BBC adaptation; No copyright infringement intended)

 

[I will illustrate my story using my dream cast from the 2004 BBC production of “North & South” and other actors for additional characters:   Richard Armitage for John Thornton, Daniela Denby-Ashe for Margaret Hale, Lesley Manville for Mrs. Maria Hale,  Tim Pigott-Smith for Mr. Richard Hale, Sinead Cusack for Mrs. Hannah Thornton Ogilvy, Jo Joyner for Fiona/Fanny Thornton Ogilvy, Brendan Coyle for Nicholas Higgins, Graham McTavish as Dr. Cameron Ogilvy, Holliday Grainger for Angharad Ogilvy MacIntosh, Simon Woods for Baird Ogilvy, and Emma Ashton as Mrs. Dillard, John Light as Henry Lennox, Tim Faraday as Watson, Gillian Anderson at Carlotta Quint Watson, Jeremy Northam as Dr. Miles Houghton, Gerard Butler as Lord Jamie Ogilvy, and Juliette Lewis as Lady Thistle Ogilvy, etc.]  [(1) story logo, top right]  

Author’s Mature Content Note:  “N&S: John Thornton, Love Lessons” is a story with mature themes of love and relationships set within a period drama of the 1850’s.  As such there will be heartfelt moments of love and sensuality (S)--as well as other dramatic emotions (D), including some violence (V)--and I will rate those chapters accordingly.  If you are unable or unwilling to attend a movie with the ratings that I provide, then please do not read that chapter.  This is my disclaimer.

Author’s Recap from the previous chapter:  It is Thursday, April 9th, 1855 and John and Margaret Thornton are to celebrate the fourth birthday of their beloved daughter Audrey Grace in 2.5 months time. They are gloriously happy as a couple and as a family, but for one aspect--they wish to have more children.  However, childbirth is too dangerous forMargaret to contemplate becoming pregnant again.  But John and Margaret both want at least a son to join Audrey Grace.  So they have talked at length about adoption. They hesitated about a boy baby two years ago and the child ended up being adopted by Lord Jamie and Lady Thistle Ogilvy.  And now, when John and his family travel to Scotland where Cameron and Hannah have organized a small orphanage in AirlieCastle, there is a complication.  John is caught off guard to discover that the boy baby they are to consider adopting now, also has a two year old sister that Margaret wants to adopt with the baby.  John becomes furious at Margaret for her keeping this information from him. John desperately wants a son of his own, so he doesn’t know if he can accept an adopted child.   However with Cameron’s guidance, John realizes that in loving and nurturing a son John feels that he can make right what was done wrong to him by his late father’s early death.  So John is calmed down and he and Margaret make up. Luncheon is next.

“N&S: John Thornton, Love Lessons”, Ch. 74 (PG-13):  Finding Our Way to Loving from the Heart, Part 1

John and Margaret Thornton regain their composure from their argument--over her not apprising John that the baby boy they are considering for adoption has a two year old sister--in their tender reconciliation over their mutual need to nurture and be nurtured.  They will be parents of more children.  And each of them realizes--especially John now--that the children they adopt and bring into their home will be their children.  Because it is their loving hearts that cause John and Margaret to choose adoption. 

Their tears dried and their faces splashed with water to refresh themselves, John and Margaret walk down the grand central staircase in Airlie Castle to greet their little four year old daughter Audrey Grace holding the hand of her grandmother Hannah Lady Airlie, and John’s little three and a half year old brother Lord Gavin holding the hand of his father Cameron, Lord Airlie--the children now also having clean faces and hands courtesy of Gavin’s nanny.

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