Back to the Beginning
Disclaimer I do not own Sound of Music, though it would be nice.
Chapter one
Maria walked dimly into the old villa that they left 5 years before. So many cobwebs and dust, but nothing was touched or broken thankfully. It was all the same as when they had left.
"We're finally home, Georg," she said quietly, tears running down her face.
"I know darling." He kissed her hair.
"Mother! My doll's still here!" Gretl, now ten came running, her golden curls bouncing. "Just as I left her!"
Maria smiled. "Where are your brothers and sisters?" she asked.
"They're looking around. Liesl still has Lucas with her," the ten year old said.
Maria nodded. Lucas had been born a year after fleeing from Austria. Now almost four, he looked like his father with dark hair and eyes, but had Maria's personality to a point.
"Its all so different
But yet the same,
The feeling of this place
Like I'm awake in a dream
And looking over a cloud
Down on my life.." she sang softly
"When times bring you down
And your forced to flee
So you gather your children
And leave your home," Maria sang.
"It's all over. We don't have to hide any longer," Georg whispered in her ear.
"I know. It's just so unreal right now to think that we're actually back home and here standing in this foyer," she said back softly.
Georg kissed her mouth. "Let's get this place cleaned up. Children!" he shouted.
One by one they came to their parents. Liesl had Lucas in her arm, her fiancé behind her. Then came Friedrich, now almost twenty and as big as his father, with looks that often got more attention from girls then he wanted. Louisa was now almost eighteen and still as beautiful as she was at thirteen, though she hadn't grown an inch since she was fourteen, and was barely taller then Maria. Kurt, who was sixteen, well he was Kurt just the same. Brigitta was fourteen and still had her nose stuck in books most of the time, and since she thought Louisa's obsession with boys was stupid, she often spent her time with twelve year old Marta and ten year old Gretl, who often felt left out of their conversation, but loved to help look after her baby brother Lucas.
"We're going to clean this place up. You're each going to do a bedroom and a downstairs room. But leave my study alone, and my and your mothers bedroom alone," Georg said. "You know where the cleaning supplies are."
"I didn't think I would ever be happy to see that ugly picture with the geese," Maria laughed.
"That was my father's Maria, but come to think of it, it is rather funny looking," Georg replied.
Maria giggled and dusted off another shelf before yawning and sitting down.
"We have to tell them sometime, Georg. They are going to notice," she said.
"Then let them find out on their own 'Ria," he said, grinning at her. "Plus, the girls will start saying they want another sister, but the boys well want another brother. Remember last time?"
"Yes Georg I do, but I'm only going to get bigger, not smaller." She looked at him.
"Well then I guess we're just going to have to tell them," he said, with the same expression on his face as when the children went to find Maria and lied about the berries.
Maria hit him lightly before cuddling up to him in the crook of his arm, yawning once more. "I'm glad were home again," she said. "Now we can finally start a life together in this house as we planned. But with a wedding to plan…" She sighed.
"Yes, it seems like yesterday when Liesl was so tiny and fragile." he said. "Now she's engaged to be married. Have you talked to her?" he asked.
"Yes don't worry Georg," she laughed. "This is the '40s, she said she's known since she became a woman."
"I still remember Brigitta crying because she thought she was dying." Georg laughed out loud at the memory.
"That's not nice, she was scared to death as most girls are, you have no clue what it is like and never will," she said, defending her daughter. "Would you like to have a cycle every month until you're 50?"
"No I don't, but it was still funny," he said.
"Wait until I send Marta to you next time! Let's see how well you'll explain it to a scared young girl!" Maria countered him.
"Fine you win, not that you always do anyway..." he grumbled, giving up.
Maria smirked. "I'm hungry. Let's go see if the kitchen was cleaned yet," she said, getting up.
Georg chuckled and followed her. It was hard to believe she was his wife at times. She was so beautiful. She had let her golden hair grow out, and now she kept it to her shoulders. Her body was still tiny and thin, her waist as narrow as before she gave birth to Lucas.
She was his soul mate. Yes he loved his first wife, but it was different, maybe every marriage was, he still loved his first wife, but he learned to once more with Maria and her enchanted voice and personality. She taught him to love again after five miserable years of being alone, she saved him from what would have been a disaster of a marriage with the baroness.
"Penny for your thoughts," Maria said smiling. "What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing important," he said smiling. "Just how you changed my life for the better."
"I did?" She looked at him inquisitively.
"Yes. Without you, our children would either be still in their uniforms or at boarding school with Elsa for a stepmother," Georg said, looking at his wife.
"Well then I guess I did change your life," she said. "I wonder if we have any pickles?"
Georg laughed. "Oh you! What am I ever going to do with you?" He wrapped his arm around her shoulders. Together they went to the kitchen.
They ate in the dining room as one big family. Fabian, Liesl's fiancé, with them. All one big happy family that were finally home.
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Its all fixed up I got a beta finally others are coming.
The song is mine, I wrote it I'm currently working on chords for it.