Just a small disclaimed, discussions of birth control methods...
hey I don't know what people might get offended by... it is a modern day edition!
"Its a fine evening," Mrs Lynde said with a smile to Marilla "I bet one of the best ones left in summer." She looked to Thea's cross stitch "No dear not like that it'll knot see?" Mrs Lynde instructed her taking the piece from her.
"Don't be so harsh on her!" Davy objected.
"Oh hush boy and listen to me, it would have done you good if someone was harsher with you!" Mrs Lynde objected.
"I'm turning out okay..." he said with a slight pout. "I'm fourteen now, I'm a man in lots of ways."
"If you keep friends with Paul Irving you just might turn out okay." Mrs Lynde said with a huff of her own.
Davy muttered under his breath something about how Paul was perfect as he looked out onto the horizon. "Whose that with Anne?" he asked, seeing the red hair in the distance.
"Probably Gilbert." Marilla acknowledged. "You wouldn't know you've been away at summer camp but he had a fall at the end of last term and hurt himself quite badly." Marilla continued and said to a crest fallen Davy's "don't worry he's been fine, but has been calling on Anne quite often over the summer, it seems they've mended whatever separated them."
She managed to finish her sentence before the pair could be seen kissing at the gate at the top of the field.
"I'll say!" Davy gasped, at his reaction Marilla looked up along with Mrs Lynde and Thea. Unknown to the pair the whole of Green Gables watched with agaped mouths.
They headed down the field Gilbert's hand in Anne's when they came to the veranda it seemed for once Anne was speechless.
"Did you have a nice walk?" Marilla asked innocently.
"It was..." Anne started with the smile forming on her lips she turned slightly to Gilbert whose own grin was spreading across his face.
"Refreshing." He said the smirk finally playing on his lips, to which both Anne and Gilbert starting laughing.
"Refreshing." Anne said between her giggles. With that the older women left the veranda going inside the house.
"Is he a good kisser Anne? I bet he's better then Roy." Davy chirped in.
Anne blushed for a moment before Gilbert looked to her confused she whispered "Davy didn't like Roy."
Gilbert silently 'ah'ed and nodded pressing his lips.
"He didn't treat you right Anne." Davy objected.
"That was not the reason you didn't like him Davy and don't pretend like it was."
"It was." Davy defended. "I decided I didn't like him the second he pulled up in his car with you. Gilbert said you can always tell what kind of man he is by if he opens the door for a girl and Roy didn't Anne and he should know better, I knew you should."
"You told him that?" Anne whispered to Gilbert.
"And then there was the way he's off handily dismissed what you said and that was before the presents... " Davy continued.
Anne looked at him surprised "And here was me thinking it was because of the way he wasn't Gilbert." Anne said with a grin to Davy.
"Well he wasn't." Davy said. "He stole you from Gilbert." Davy said decisively.
Gilbert grinned but said to him "Davy that's not what happened."
"They were together when you came back from New York weren't they?" Davy asked.
"Yes," Gilbert replied "but there was no stealing involved. Most of what happened or didn't came down to us not communicating as we should." Gilbert told him.
Davy looked at him as if he was trying to work out if it was true or not before he nodded. "Are you staying this time Gil?" Davy asked. Gilbert grinned and nodded before Davy sprung into Gilbert hugging him. Gilbert was shocked for a moment before he played his arms around the boy. "I've missed you Gil." Davy told him honestly.
Gilbert grinned and said to him "You too buddy." before Davy pulled away.
"Do you think you can stop kissing Anne long enough for a game?" he asked Gilbert, then before Gilbert had the chance to reply he bounded into Green Gables.
Which was probably just as well because in that moment a car pulled up to Green Gables and out popped Diana Wright looking at Anne "I've been waiting since Junior Year of High School to hear about this and I learn about it on Facebook!" she exclaimed going round her car opening the passenger door and pulling out a bag of popcorn and diet coke. "You have to tell me, everything!" Diana exclaimed.
Anne turned and whispered to Gilbert gently "It won't be." She said with a blush and a kiss to his cheek which made Diana squeal. "Come sit on the veranda Diana, lets watch the boys play their football and we can talk. "
It was the Wednesday, before Gilbert's appointment Anne came to Blythe Farm, she knew Gilbert was out for most the afternoon, they'd talked about when she should come over, but it wasn't Gilbert she was going to see. She knocked on the door to be greeted by Mrs Blythe.
"Anne." She said mildly surprised. "Gilbert won't be home for at least an hour yet didn't he tell you? I thought you two were going to the hospital together."
"Oh yes we are, but I actually came here a little early to see you Mrs Blythe." She admitted.
"Oh?" Mrs Blythe said surprised. "Come on in then," she said a little confused. "Why would you need to see me?" she asked her.
"I owe you an explanation Mrs Blythe."
"An explanation?" she asked.
"Yes." Anne continued. "An explanation." Anne took a deep breath then said "As to why I broke your son's heart."
Mrs Blythe looked at her surprised, nothing she said would make it better, or at least so she thought, when she remembered her son's words 'You need to start loving her again' he'd said, so she nodded her head and guided her through to the living room.
When they were sitting Anne started "It didn't have a lot to do with Gilbert Mrs Blythe, it started before I even met him…"
She went on to explain what had happened in her past.
"I couldn't help getting closer to Gilbert it kept happening and I understand why now, I know I was falling in love, but desperately trying to stop it, because of what…" she took a sigh trying to contain the tears which were already prevalent on her face.
"Because of what you thought 'love' would do." Mrs Blythe understood. "You didn't want to do that to Gilbert."
Anne nodded "When he kissed me two years ago, it felt as it should, it was…" she half gasped at the memory but blushed at her present company "…you don't need to hear how good your son is at kissing."
Mrs Blythe chuckled through her own tears. "No, no I don't need to. But it's good to know that his affection was returned."
"it was, I was in love, I am in love." She said. "but two years ago, when he told me he loved me it terrified me and all that I heard inside my head was that man telling me, if a man said he loved me he was only ever after…" Anne trailed and blushed again. "I needed time, I needed just a little while inside my head to tell him to find the right words to tell him." Anne sighed. "As it was, through misunderstanding the 'space' Gilbert asked for became a caesium for so long and I was trying to replace him with someone who didn't understand me, who I would never be able to share this part of myself with, but I would see things on Facebook which would make me so jealous, like you said those daredevil stunts and he was always with Christine…"
Mrs Blythe looked up surprised at Anne "You thought they were together?"
"It pushed me forward in my relationship with Roy, I know it doesn't make sense, emotionally, I was a wreck, I was just in a downwards spiral, I lost him, I lost Gilbert, or at least I thought I did."
"That girl was not Gilbert's type, nor was she for him." Mrs Blythe said to her to which Anne looked up confused.
"You didn't like her?" Anne asked.
"I only met her twice, while we were up visiting Gilbert." She admitted. "I knew she had a boy…" she paused before she continued "but she flirted with my friends and yet she flirted with my son like he was hers!"
"I didn't think you couldn't like anyone." Anne admitted confused "Of course, except…"
"No, Anne sweetheart." She told her, her hands coming over Anne's. "I love you, I wanted you to be my daughter in law, I was just bitterly disappointed when it looked like it wouldn't be you." She told her gently "Then over protective again when it seemed as though he was falling for you all over again and you had the power to just crush him at your will."
Anne looked to her shocked her eyes filling with tears "You wanted me?" she questioned.
Mrs Blythe looked to Anne, her eyes filling with tears again "How could I not?" Anne gasped and pulled Mrs Blythe in for a hug.
"Matthew, Gilbert, Diana, Marilla, you." She listed.
"What's that?" she asked.
"All the people who wanted me." Anne said quietly.
Mrs Blythe looked to her sympathetically then told her "You can add John to that list, he adored you, even when I was angry he wouldn't have me say a word against you in front of him, I think, you remind him of someone who he was once very close to." She smiled kindly. "It was before we met but I know he had been in love before, I think she was a lot like you. I never got to know her too well but, I know if anything was ever said against her he would defend her, even many years after they parted ways." Her smiled widened "Well, the Blythe boys always know how they like their women." She said with a laugh which made Anne smile.
"Stubborn, single minded, hot headed..." Anne wiled off.
"Intelligent, bright, unshakable in resolve." She said proudly and she looked at Anne seriously "How do you think I knew you were his type from the first day?" she said with a smile.
"Well I'm glad it had to do with my personality, my looks were never going to get me anywhere." She said plainly, not for sympathy but as a matter of fact.
"Don't put yourself down Anne, I think a pretty face attached to those things qualities had my boy besotted." She took a deep breath "plus, it takes them a very long time to get over past loves." She admitted.
"a quality which only worked in my favour." Anne admitted.
Mrs Blythe shrugged "Well Gilbert has always tried to bury his feelings, not show them, when he was six he claimed the right of Kolinahr." She said with a curious look to Anne to see if she would know the reference.
To which she received a sweet laugh "Oh that's so typically him." She smiled and could see the look in Mrs Blythe face "The Vulcan study of logic, what triggered that?"
"He tried out for..." she started but Anne didn't need to be told.
"The ice hockey team!" Anne gasped. Mrs Blythe looked to her surprised. "It was one of the first things he told me about himself."
Mrs Blythe was taken aback looking at her seriously "he never tells anyone about that."
Anne took a deep breath and said quietly "we seemed to have always told each other things we don't share with others."
Mrs Blythe nodded "he was bitterly disappointed, but instead of dealing with it he tried to just push the feelings away rather then deal with them, he said he'd rather miss the highs then deal with the lows."
Anne took a deep breath "That's so sad." She whispered. "I can't imagine Gilbert without his..." she looked up "I was going to say smile, but I mean emotions."
"I love my son more than anything, you know he's never been able to handle negative so well." She said. "I think..." she said with a smile "I think you should help with that." She told Anne, "You know I always wanted a daughter to go shopping with and play with her hair and really have that mother daughter bond, with." She took a deep breath and said "now I know you have Marilla for that, but is there room for a good in law?" she asked her.
It was then Gilbert walked in his girlfriend and his mother sitting on the sofa in the living room. His mother's eyes glazed in tears holding Anne's hands. Gilbert knew instinctively Anne had told his mother everything.
"I'll um," Anne said quietly "I'll wait for you in your room." Anne stated getting up and kissing Gilbert by way of hello before she went up the stairs.
His mother sat quietly for a moment before she leapt up and went to Gilbert hugging into him as she started to cry. "How long have you known?" she eventually asked him.
He sighed gently and licked to lips to start speaking "since mid-term." He admitted. "It's how we started talking again." He admitted.
"Oh Gilbert!" his mother cried. "Our poor Anne!" she broke. "How can she bare it?! How is she who she is? How is she not full of hate and pain?"
Gilbert smiled gently and looked down at his mother who looked up at her son
"Because she is our Anne." He whispered.
She suddenly struck his arm in a slap "Ouch!" he exclaimed.
"You treat her right Gilbert Blythe do you hear me?!" she exclaimed.
"Mom!" he exclaimed rubbing his arm where she had hit. "Of course I'm treating her right!" he exclaimed.
She stiffly nodded her head and broke into a smile "Now you get up those stairs and spend some time with her!" she exclaimed. "Oh and tell her she is welcome whenever she likes, even overnight, Oh and now, do you have condoms in?"
"Mother!" Gilbert exclaimed. "We're not having sex yet, slow down!"
"Don't be ridiculous!" she countered "You need condoms, I'll get you some."
"No! Mom I don't need you buying condoms for me, please leave it to me?" he asked her. "Mom please?"
"Oh alright, just don't leave it too late okay? And be gentle when you do…" she continued then pinched her son's cheeks "Oh my grandbabies will be so cute!" she exclaimed. "Oh I can just picture them! Imagine her red hair on a baby!"
Gilbert fought back a smile, truth was he had imagined his children with Anne more times than he could count but he wasn't going to give his mother that satisfaction yet. He simply rolled his eyes and said "You know your going about getting grandbabies the wrong way if you buy me condoms." He said with a cheeky grin which only made his mother smile as he opened the door to the living room to go up the stairs to his room. He closed the door and watched Anne, with a glint of admiration in his eyes as she played with her phone for a moment before she looked up.
"That was really brave Anne." He said to her softly.
"She needed to know." Anne admitted. "I could already see you having to choose between your mother and your lover and I didn't want to be the cause of a rift between your mother and you and one day it would happen if she didn't know, if it carried on as it did." Anne admitted. "… and you'd resent me one day, I couldn't stand the thought."
Gilbert smiled and said "she practically told me to come up here and start to copulate!" to which Anne giggled. "I'm serious she's expecting grandbabies and everything." He said laying on the bed letting Anne slide next to him and cuddle into his side. They were silent for a moment before she asked
"You're not about to tell me I shouldn't have told her, are you?" Anne asked.
Gilbert looked down to her his eyebrows up in shock "No, love. It's your past to share." He said quietly. "It was really very brave." He said admiring her kissing into her hair.
"I said she could tell your dad, but to be sure it went no further. I think the people who need to know should, all of this affects them too." Anne said quietly. He nodded in agreement "Thank you." She told him.
"Thank you?" he asked.
"Thank you for supporting me." She said softly.
"Every day, every moment. Forever." He whispered.
Anne smiled cuddling into him. "Gilbert Blythe, you really are the most romantic man I have ever met!" she squealed as she hugged into him.