A walk into the sunset
Prolong: War!
A/N: Hi everyone I re-did this chapter I was told that there where a few run-ons and typo's. So I went back through it tell me if you see anything:) Thanks and enjoy:)
When the war began, people had forgot what it was like to be a Southerner. They had forgotten what things tasted like.. Not being able to take a stroll down Main Street with the people they loved. Women had forgotten what it was like to have new dresses made up of amazing fabric. No, all that was gone when the war swept through Atlanta Georgia over five months ago. People had forgotten about themselves. They would spend long hours in the saloons and bars, wanting to get drunk to forget about the hardships of the war: the war that would ruin everything and everybody, even the ones that thought they where safe from the gun shots and the stench of death.
But there was one girl, one girl who thought nothing would happen to her during this hard time. Her name was Scarlett O'Hara. Her father, Gerald O'Hara, had the biggest Plantation Atlanta had ever seen, and that was Tara. But Scarlett knew that death and the smell of blood filled the streets of Atlanta. After all, she did help out at the local hospital.
Day after day, many men came through the hospital injured and even on the verge of death. But Scarlett had to keep going for her family's sake. If she gave up hope then she knew the Southerners would lose the war. They couldn't let that happen, they just couldn't. What the soldiers needed wrtr prayers at this point during the war, not people's tears of fear and sorrow... So Scarlett refused to cry at this point. She had done all that long ago when the war first started. But Scarlett was wrong; the tears where far from being over: just like the war it was far from being over.
Her husband, Charles Hamilton, was in the war as well. Even though she didn't love Charles she still cared for him a little bit. The only reason she married him was to get close to Ashley Wilkes, but did that work, no, it just made things worse. Scarlett had to wear long black mourning dresses instated of the bright colors she was used to. There was no such thing as going to any party and she couldn't even dance with the soldiers that where coming home for a little while.
Everyday ,Scarlett could hear the guns firing and fires being started through out the town. Just when Scarlett thought the war was going to be over news came that it was just getting worse. The fires were getting bigger and bigger, and every second water had to be put on them. The gun shots where just louder then ever because the Yankee's where getting closer and closer to Atlanta. Scarlett could just hear the beating of the enemy's heart.
"Fiddle-Dee Dee, when will this war ever end?" Scarlett asked herself as she headed to the hospital for her rounds. Scarlett really didn't care for the idea of nursing; she only did it because her mother did it.
Scarlett knew that if she didn't do nursing her mother would be very disappointed in her. Who knew what her mother would say or do to her if she found out that she didn't like being a nurse and helping people when they where in need?
It's not that she didn't like nursing, except it was. She did it and hated it because it always smelt like death knocking on the hospital's doors.
"Miss O'Hara, Dr. Meade wants you. He needs you're help cutting off an arm," one of the volunteer nurses said, handing Scarlett a piece of paper with the soldier's information on it.
Scarlett looked down with her eyes going wide. It was one of the Tarleton twins! Stuart Tarleton! Je was one of her long time beaus before she had married Charles.
"Oh, poor Stuart, what will happen to him?" Scarlett asked herself going to look for Dr. Meade. "Dr. Meade, finally! What happened to poor Stuart?" she asked when she found the doctor.
"He was in Gettysburg when he was shot in the upper right arm. Unfortunately we have to take it off," Dr. Meade said looking at Scarlett with sad eyes. He knew that at one point he was one of her beaus.
"Can I see him before…before you take the arm off?" Scarlett asked, looking at Dr. Meade for a short time.
"Yes, my dear, you may" Dr. Meade said with kindness.
"Dr. Meade, you're wanted at once," a nurse said coming up to Dr. Meade and Scarlett.
"I'm coming," Dr. Meade said, leaving Scarlett to find Stuart by herself.
"Excuse me, could you tell me where Stuart Tarleton is?" Scarlett asked a near by nurse.
"Right over there, miss," the nurse said before pointing to a bed two down from where she was.
"Thank you," Scarlett said, walking away.
"Well if it isn't Stuart Tarleston!" Scarlett said going over to Stuart with a brave face.
"Scarlett, Scarlett O'Hara! It's been a while hasn't it" Stuart said with a smile looking up into Scarlett's dark green eyes.
"Great balls of fire Stuart, I'm so sorry for this happening to you!" Scarlett said pouring a glass of water for him.
"Don't be, Scarlett, it happened for a reason. But Scarlett, it's just awful out there. We don't know how much long we can keep it up. The Northerners are killing all our men," Stuart said in a weak voice. His twin brother was still out there somewhere: shot or killed perhaps.
Before Scarlett could answer the Doctor came back over. "I'm ready to remove the arm now, Scarlett," he told her before going to what was the operating room.
As they whiled Stuart into the room, he didn't want the arm cut off. He begged and pleaded for them not to.
"Scarlett! Tell them not to!" Stuart yelled out into the large room of people.
Scarlett just turned around and left. It was just too much. She had to get out of here to get some fresh air or something.
"But Scarlett! Dr. Meade needs you're help!" One of the younger looking nurses said following Scarlett out into the war zone.
"I don't care! I'm sick and tired of all this death and war," Scarlett said, pushing through the doors and leaving the hospital and dying soldiers behind. All she needed was fresh air that was all and then she would be better.
A/N: I would like to thank my beta reader Fireflies Glow. With out her I would still be having spelling and gramer errors lol. So what do u think so far? Should I continue with this or not? It's your call. Your probably wondering where I'm going with this well review and you will find out.