Ok so here is the next chapter, I hope ya'll enjoy it. Please don't forget to review and tell me what you think.

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From the day the Butler family had went to Atlanta their lives had been wonderful. From thinking that they would never escape the horrors of death and other problems they had finally broke free and their life in Savannah was what they had always wanted calm and peaceful. While in Atlanta they had sold the house to an orphanage and Ashley had decided to give Rhett and Scarlett full custody of Beau. By Beau's own choice his name was changed to Butler.

From Atlanta they visited Tara and Scarlett finally put an end to her horrible relationship with Suellen. Once the Butler's were back home in Savannah they prepared for the arrival of the baby, little did they know they were expecting a little less than what they got. Susan Eleanor Butler was born on a beautiful spring morning and so was her twin brother Rhett Kinnicut Butler jr. From the day he was born Rhett jr. or Kinn which he was later nicknamed, was the splitting image of his father. Melanie resembled both her mother and her father in a very flattering way. She had Rhett's dark brown eyes and Scarlett's soft features.

The Butler household was a normal one as everyone settled into their life with two new babies in the house. When the twins were five years old Scarlett had another baby named Katie Scarlett Butler. Kat was the image of Scarlett all the way down to her green eyes. She also resembled Scarlett in behavior. Their lives went on basically uneventful from the day Kat was born and that was the way they liked it.

Wade, who was now 34, went to Harvard and became a lawyer. When Henry asked him to take over his law firm he jumped at the chance and moved to Atlanta. He met a sweet girl named Molly Pickard in Atlanta and they were married and had three children: Charles Andrew age 12, Henry Rhett age 9, and Ellen Maybelle age 5.

Beau, now 32, and Ella, now 30, had grew up together the last half of their childhood, but couldn't fight the love bug when it came biting and they were married when Beau was twenty and Ella eighteen. They had stayed in Savannah and with Mark's help, Beau studied and became a doctor. They now had four children: Melanie Scarlett age 11, Bonnie Lorain age 10, Frank Ashley age 8, and Laura Lea age 3.

Kinn, age twenty, was currently enrolled at West Point military college He had always strived to be just like his father and when he found out that was were Rhett went to college nobody could change his mind from going. What Kinn didn't know was that Rhett had been kicked out, Rhett and Scarlett had decided against telling him that. Kinn had been engaged once but his fiancé ran off with another boy. He was over her by now but he like his father before him had decided that he wasn't a marrying man. Again Kinn had no idea that his father had once felt the same way he had. Kinn couldn't imagine his father not married to his mother.

Susan ,who was also twenty, had married a man from Charleston, Richard Brewton, when she was nineteen. She had met him on a family trip to Charleston when she was seventeen and they had kept in touch through correspondence. He was considerably older than her but they were madly in love and no one could get between them. Scarlett and Rhett weren't about to object because if anyone cared to do the math Rhett was seventeen years older than Scarlett, which is quit a considerable amount. They were now living in Charleston where Richard was the owner of a large building company. They were expecting their first child in a few months.

Then there was Katie who was only fifteen and had no plans on getting married or having a family anytime soon. She had dreams of seeing all the world and doing everything she wanted. She was an example of what Scarlett might have been if there were no war or Ashley Wilkes. She was spoiled crazy by Rhett and trained perfectly in husband catching from Scarlett. Kat loved spending time with her parents, they were the most interesting people she had ever met. Over the years they had taken her and the other children to all kinds of places over the summer breaks from school. They had gone to Ireland and England and India and many other exotic places. Kat like her mother had a great head for figures and she secretly desired to run a business or something that involved lots of math.

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Scarlett sat at her vanity staring at her face. She smiled when she thought about how well she had aged over the years. Today was her fiftieth. The thought of turning that age had been scaring her for the past couple of weeks, but now that it was here she realized it wasn't such a big deal. She knew that she didn't look a day over forty and Rhett was just as much in love with her now as he ever was.

"There is the birthday girl. What are you up to?" Rhett came up behind Scarlett and kissed her cheek.

"I was just thinking." Scarlett turned to take a good look at Rhett. At sixty-seven Rhett had only seemed to grow more handsome with age. "Now that you're here are you going to tell me what you had planned for tonight?"

Rhett laughed, he knew that he had been driving Scarlett crazy the past two weeks, "I'll give you a hint, we are going to go do two of the things you love most."

Scarlett thought on what he had said, "Let's see two things I love most and we are going to go somewhere to do it. Hhhmmm…are we…"

"Nope stop right there. I'm not going to give you any more. You can guess all you want but you won't get anymore until I'm ready." Rhett knew he wouldn't be able to keep a straight face so he quickly walked out of the room.

Scarlett finished getting ready for the day. Before she could get up catch up with Rhett to badger him some more there was a knock at the door. "Come in."

With that said the door burst open, "Happy birthday mama." Scarlett's youngest daughter, Kat, ran to her mother giving her a hug and kiss.

"Oh thank you kitty cat." Scarlett paused for a moment, "Kat your father hasn't told you anything about tonight has he?"

"No you don't mama, I'm not saying a word. Besides he already warned me this morning that you would try to pry it out of me. I just figured you would wait a little longer." Kat had been helping Rhett plan the entire thing.

Scarlett frowned, "I guess now I know where your loyalty lies."

Kat knew her mother was joking, "I believe I helped keep your Christmas present for daddy a secret, so now it's daddy turn. Besides you've made it this far, can you stand it just a few more hours?"

"I suppose, I just don't like not knowing what's going on. I am guess that the surprise isn't planned until tonight so why don't the two of us go do some shopping." Scarlett finally realized that she wasn't going to get anything out of anyone.

"Yes I think we have time to do that." Kat loved doing things with her mother and this was no different.

While they were shopping Rhett was busy organizing everything. The lucky thing was that Scarlett had wanted to go shopping because if she hadn't Kat would have had to figured out some other way to keep her busy. Rhett left the house as soon as they were gone his first stop was Mark's house. There he was to find the three of his children and their families that lived out of town. Rhett had made arrangements for them all to stay at Mark's house until the party that night, that way Scarlett wouldn't know they were in town.

When Rhett got there the maid let him in and he walked into the living room almost unnoticed, "You would think I would get a better welcome than this." Once he said something everyone looked up.

"Oh hello Daddy!" Susan ran to her father and threw her arms around his neck. Along with Melanie ran a bunch a small children yelling grandpa.

"Hi Susie baby, how is my girl?" Rhett was trying to talk while hugging all his grandchildren individually.

Susan took Rhett bye the arm and lead him to the sofa to sit down, "I'm fine. I am so glad that you planned all this. Has mama figured it out yet?"

"No she doesn't have a clue." Rhett look away from his daughter to his two sons who were smiling at their sister for hogging their fathers attention like always. "Wade, Kinn it seems I haven't been able to say hello to the two of you. How are you all?"

Kinn walked over to his father and shook his hand, "It's good to see you dad."

"We are all fine, how is everyone at home?" Wade was sitting in a chair directly across from Rhett.

"Everybody is fine. Scarlett and Kat are out shopping leaving me to easily pull everything off." Rhett smiled his crooked smile which was duplicated by his near twin Kinn.

That night Rhett took Scarlett out for dinner while Kat stayed home to welcome the rest of the family and help set up for the surprise party they had been planning for months. Other friends and family arriving were: Suellen and Will Benteen with three of their children, Carren or Sister Mary Katherine, Eleanor and Rosemary Bulter, Sally Brewton, Andrew and Sarah Hamilton, Mark and Julia Williams, and other friend Scarlett had made in Savannah.

After their dinner Rhett had Scarlett close her eyes as she was unknowingly driven back to her own house. Rhett held her eyes closed all the way up the walk and into the front hall.

When he finally took his hands off and she opened her eyes she look disappointed. "You made me close my eyes so you could bring me home? But you said thing morning that we were going to do two things I loved. We ate and well I thought maybe dancing would follow. What do I love doing in my own home?"

By now Rhett was laughing, "Why don't you just go into the living room and see for yourself?"

When Scarlett sung open the door she was assaulted with the loud noise of everyone yelling 'SURPRISE'. Everyone took turns giving her hugs and kisses and greetings of all kinds. By the time Rhett and Kat who were at the end of the big greeting line got to her she was in tears and speechless. She ran to Rhett throwing her arms around his neck and kissed him right on the lips. This caused a chorus of youngsters moaning and shouting, "Gross!" The rest of the night was filled with the joyous sounds of laughter, stories, and songs. The party went on way into the early morning hours.

Scarlett wanting to speak privately with Rhett snuck him outside into the garden. "Rhett I can't tell you how much this means to me. Thank you, I love you so much." Scarlett reached up ready to give Rhett passionate kiss.

"Rhett are you out here?" Rosie wanted to talk with her brother about something.

Rhett gave Scarlett a somewhat annoyed look, "Yes Rosie. I'm over here."

"Well it is quit a lovely party isn't it. I hope you are enjoying it Scarlett." Rosie couldn't see that she was interrupting something, she was never very good at seeing things like that.

Scarlett smiled sweetly, "Yes Rosie I am and I'm so glad you could come."

"What is it that you wanted Rosie?" Rhett wanted to get back to what him and Scarlett were doing.

"Oh yes, well I was just looking for Rhett, but I'm glad you're here too Scarlett. I wanted to apologize for how I acted when you two first got back together. I know it's been a long time, but I don't think I ever actually said I was sorry." Rosie knew they had already forgiven her but all day she had had the nagging feeling that she needed to do this.

Scarlett couldn't believe Rosie was still holding on to this, "Your right Rosie that was a long time ago and I know that I forgave you a long time ago too." Scarlett and Rosie had became fairly good friends over the years.

"Yes Rosie I thought we had all gotten over that years ago." Rhett couldn't believe Rosie had been fretting over this for so long.

Rosie looked a bit embarrassed seeing how Rhett and Scarlett were completely over it, "I guess it was just something I had to say is all."

Before anyone could say anything else they were yet again interrupted, "There you are." Andrew walked up joining the group. "I was just coming to tell you that we are leaving."

Scarlett started to smile when she first heard Andrew's voice and by the time he finished talking she was chuckling.

Rhett as well as Rosie and Andrew were completely confused, "Scarlett what are you laughing at?"

"Oh I'm sorry. It's just that I couldn't help but think about how familiar this scene is." Scarlett was trying to stifle some of her laughter. "This is almost exactly the way the first party we all attended turned out. Remember Rhett and I were in the garden at Andrew's house at his birthday party and both Rosie and Andrew went out looking for us."

Rhett smiled that she remembered it so vividly, "That is ironic Scarlett, who'd have thought we would be almost in the same position twenty-one years later. Two surprise parties ending the same way."

"Wait Rhett my party wasn't a surprise party, I knew every thing about it." Andrew didn't want Rhett to have his facts wrong.

Scarlett smiled and looked into Rhett's eyes, "It was for us Andrew, we didn't know the other was going to be there and we haven't been apart since that night. It was a big surprise for us."

The End!

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In case anyone was confused I advanced the story about twenty years. Forgive me if I got any of the ages wrong, I was kind of guessing on how old they all were at the end of GWTW. And yes that is it that's the end of this story. I hope ya'll enjoyed the story as a whole. Again, dont forget to tell me what you thought.