Hi! Back from vacation with an update. Hope you like hearing from Scarlett. As always, please REVIEW!!
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He didn't love her anymore. The thought echoed in her mind, like a bell clashing against the inside of her skull. She sat on a little stool in the middle of the front hall at Tara as thoughts of Rhett swirled in her mind. He didn't love her anymore. His cold words haunted her seeming to come from the darkness like demons to attack her.
Pity and…and…kindness? What does he think I am, a puppy? Damn you, Rhett Butler. This wasn't the way things were supposed to be. She'd already discovered with Ashley that deciding you were in love did not solve all of ones problems, but hell. If two people were in love with each other things should be different. There was no war, no one else intruding in on their happiness. Why couldn't they be together?
Because he doesn't love you, a voice seemed to whisper mockingly out of the darkness.
"Oh, god. Now I'm going crazy. Go away!"
Face the truth for once, Scarlett O'Hara. You were right the first time. He didn't want you. He lied. He wanted your body and he wanted your love, but not because he hoped to cherish it. He wanted control over you. He wanted to make you beg, crush your heart under the heel of his boot the way you did with all those men when you were young.
"And he did," she whispered to herself, as a wave of pain swept over her. She felt her chest constricting as though her heart were truly breaking. "Oh, Rhett. Why couldn't you have loved me?"
He did, answered the voice. You just didn't accept his heart when you had the chance. You killed his love. You're a monster, Scarlett O'Hara. You killed something as beautiful and precious as love. You think your heart is breaking. Impossible! You child, what do you know of love?
"My heart is breaking," she insisted. "I do love him. I do! I do!"
But he doesn't love you, jeered the voice.
Scarlett collapsed forward, her face in her hands, elbows braced on her knees, crying her heart out for the love that she had lost, mourning it more than she had the death of any of her husbands.
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OK. Yeah. I don't love my ending either. Also, some of you may be mad at me for making Scarlett so weak. It'll get better, I promise. Just remember, these two were not in great shape at the end of the book and the movie.