I have had this story in mind for awhile now, I have 7 chapters partially written and ideas for several after that. So I do have an end for this and will get there eventually, but for now my Merlin story is my main focus when I have time to write, so I'll fit this in when I can. I love the book and this is what I envision for the years after it ends.
I don't own anything because I am not as awesome as Francis Hodgson Burnett.
A Rose By Any Other Name
Chapter 1: The Letter
Dear Uncle Archie and Colin,
I am sorry to have to do this to the two of you. You know I love you both very much, you are my only family and you gave me the only loving home I have ever known. I greatly regret that what I am about to do will hurt you both, but I must follow my own path.
I am going to join the war effort. I can no longer sit by and study deportment and art and pretend that there is not a greater world out there. The Glittering world of society that you keep pushing me to accept will never make me happy. I want to be of use to the world, not just be another pretty face in a new gown.
I will write to you when I can, but for obvious reasons I cannot give you an address to write to me. I am so sorry to grieve you, please try not to worry overly, I will be as safe as I can be. I feel this is something I must do, please try to understand.
I love you both,
Mary Lennox
And so Mary Lennox left behind the London she despised and the moors she loved to serve in the war effort. As she had excelled at studying French in school she was able to convince the young secretary at the Red Cross office that she was a French orphan who had been sent to London before the war to study. She lied about her age and gave her name as Marie Girard. The Great War had been going on for more than two years by that time and those in the medical field were in great need, Mary was accepted into the Red Cross as a Nurses Aid without any questions about her background and was quickly sent out for the minimal training she would be given before being sent to a medical facility.
