The Sound of Music doesn't belong to me.

Got this idea when I was watching NBC's Sound of Music Live

Dresses

If someone had asked Georg von Trapp even as recently as a month ago what he thought of women's fashions he would have looked at the asker in surprise and not a little shock. He was a man and he knew nothing about women or their clothes, as long as the cloth did its job, and covered the woman as it should, he really didn't care. He had no clue about colours and styles, about shapes and sizes, about fitting or loose, as long as the dress in question wasn't too old, well-worn or ugly, he couldn't care less.

Until Maria.

She had shown up at his house wearing the ugliest dress he had ever seen in his life. Maybe that was the reason he noticed all her clothes. Yeah, right.

Yes, Georg tried to convince himself, he only noticed her clothes because they were so ugly and unsuitable. Still, why did they even matter, she was in his home only as the children's governess, no more and she was only temporary.

Still, he couldn't help himself; he could describe all the dresses she'd ever worn since he'd known her starting with the hideous curtain-like dress she'd arrived in to the white dress she'd worn to the picnic the day before. He'd known it was rude – and Georg had been taught never to be rude – but he couldn't keep from staring at Maria. He now clearly understood the statement about a woman making the dress.

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"You've come back." Georg stared at Maria. He'd almost resigned himself to never seeing her again.

"Yes, Captain."

"You left without any explanations whatsoever, without even saying goodbye."

"It was wrong of me, forgive me."

Georg couldn't help himself he had to ask. "Why would you do this to us? Tell me."

"Please don't ask." Maria had been standing demurely with her hands behind her back and now she walked past him to get her things. She had hoped that he wouldn't ask her why she'd left; she wasn't ready to answer that question. "Anyway the reason no longer exists."

"Then you're back to stay." Please say yes, he added silently. Say you'll stay.

"Only until you can make arrangements for a new governess."

Georg couldn't help but blurt out how much he'd missed her but he knew that this wasn't the right time to talk about such things especially with Elsa still very much in the picture. For now he would content himself with the knowledge that whatever her reasons were for returning, she'd come back to him.

As he watched her leave Georg asked the question he'd been dying to ask since he turned around and seen her a few minutes earlier. "Maria, new dress?"

"We have a new postulant."

He smiled thinking how well that green thing fit her.

If only things were different, he would buy her all the dresses she'd ever need.

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