Summery

What if Maria didn't go back to the Abby after the talk with the Baroness? What if she returned to her abusive alcoholic uncle? Will the Captain find out? Will he try and get her back? Or will she forever be destined to live an unhappy life? Being beating by her uncle for the rest of her life? Read to find out!

"It's very kind of you to offer to help me, Baroness."

"I'm delighted, Maria."

"I-I-I- really don't think I do have anything that would be appropriate."

"Now, where is that lovely little thing you were wearing the other evening when the Captain couldn't keep his eyes off you?" The Baroness says as she walks over to the armoire in search of the dress.

"Couldn't keep his eyes off me?" Maria asks, starting to feel slightly uncomfortable.

"Come, my dear, we are women. Now, let's not pretend we don't know when a man notices us... Here we are." Says the Baroness as she places the dress on the bed.

"The Captain notices everybody and everything." Maria says while walking over to look out the window.

"There's no need to feel so defensive, Maria. You are quite attractive, you know. The Captain would hardly be a man if he didn't notice you.

"Baroness, I hope you're joking." Maria says turning around, looking the Baroness in the eye.

"Not at all."

"But I've never done a thing to -"

"But you don't have to, my dear." Interrupt's the Baroness, "There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him."

"In love with him?" Maria could feel her heartbeat speeding up and could feel herself starting to bush.

"Of Course." The Baroness says with a wicked smile, "And what makes it so nice is... he think's he's in love with you.

"But that's not true." Maria try's to protest but the Baroness wouldn't give up.

"Surely you've noticed the way he looks into your eyes. And you know, uh, you blushed in his arms when you were dancing just now."

Maria brought her hands up slowly and placed them on her cheeks.

"Don't take it to heart. He'll get over it soon enough I should think. Men do, you know."

Everything the Baroness had said was slowly making Maria realise how right she was, but she didn't want to admit it. Maria new that she was sent to the von Trapp's on God's errand, to prepare the children for a new mother, she new that asking for the Captain's love would be wrong. And then there was the Baroness she loves the Captain and he loves her, Maria didn't want to get in the way of that. Plus the Captain was her employer! And she his employee! What would people think?

"Then, I should go. I mustn't stay here." Maria finally says after a few minutes of thinking.

"Is there something I can do to help?" Asks the Baroness with fake sympathy in her voice.

"No, nothing." Maria says trying to hold back tears as the Baroness starts to leave.

"Yes." The Baroness stops and turns back to Maria seeing a single tear slide down her cheek, "Please don't say a word about this to the Captain."

"No. No, I wouldn't dream of it." The Baroness turns away and opens the door to leave when suddenly she stops, she turns back to look Maria in the eye and says, "Goodbye, Maria. I'm sure you'll make a very fine nun."

As Maria makes her way down the stairs carpetbag and guitar in hand she could feel tears forming in her eyes, she placed her bag and guitar next to the door and walked over to a nearby table. Once reaching the table Maria took a letter from her jacket pocket, explaining that she missed her life at the Abby to much and just had to leave, and placed it against the vase on the table, silently hoping that the Captain will find it once the party was over. It was at that moment when Maria realised that she couldn't go back to the Abby, Maria realised that while she loved the Abby and everyone in it she couldn't live the rest of her life locked up behind the Abby walls. But where could she go? She had no one. And that's when Maria remembered about the only family member she had left in the world, her uncle, but she also remembered why she left in the first place, she remembered her uncle being a terrible drunk and always taking his anger out on her. Maria promised herself the day she left that she would never go back to him but she didn't have a choice now, with no money and no home where else would she go? So it was settled, she would go back to live with her uncle. The von Trapp's thinking she was at the Abby, and the Abby thinking she was with the von Trapp's.

And with that Maria left the von Trapp's to live a life of hurt and pain with her uncle high in the mountains and Maria didn't know if she would survive one night, never mind a lifetime. Never seeing the children again, or the Captain. One part of her mind told her not to go, to stay and just watch the Captain live a happy life. She would be with him, but not the way that she wanted. Never the way she would want it.

Authors note:

So this is my very first fan fiction and I don't really no what to think of it, I am not the best writer in the world and will without a doubt get writers block very early on writing this story so please review and if you have any ideas please feel free to PM me or place it in a review and I will be more than happy to find a place for it in my story.

Stories That Never End

AKA - Dani X