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Chapter Eight

Over the last months the couple had gotten used to being in nineteen sixty-eight. They watched TV which Rhett thought was inane babble. Scarlett liked the comedies. She especially like Get Smart and Gilligan's Island. Rhett would watch Gilligan's Island with her but not Get Smart. She also like the show The Wild, Wild, West mainly because she thought the star Robert Conrad was handsome. Jasmine liked that one too. She said because it dealt with her favorite time in history which may have been true, but Scarlett thought Jasmine thought Mr. Conrad handsome also.

Jasmine made Rhett drive them around so they could look at all the sights and so Rhett could practice his driving.

Rhett read the Times-Picayune every day. Rhett asked Marshall over supper one night, "Who is this Martin Luther King, Jr that was killed?" Marshall and Jasmine explained what civil rights were and what Reverend King had been trying to do. Marshall said, "They were marching for civil rights. Civil rights are the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. The Blacks want to have equal rights to white people."

That was hard for Scarlett and Rhett to understand because of the culture they were raised in. Yet Marshall and Jasmine felt that the couple was trying to understand it. Finally, Rhett said, "If the government says they are citizens they should have all the rights of a citizen."

"I agree with Rhett. I don't agree with darkies becoming citizens but if the government says they are citizens they should have all the rights like everyone else."

Jasmine said, "Dear, the correct term is Blacks not Darkies."

"Alright."

"Don't use that other word that starts with an 'n.'

Scarlett looked at Rhett and he whispered in her ear. She said, "I would never use that word."

"Good."

That night as Jasmine and Marshall laid in their bed. Marshall said, "They are exactly like they have been described in all the literature. Proud, arrogant, and so very charming. They are both selfish and self-centered, yet they have been wonderful house guests these last months. They have not expected us to wait on them although we know they are used to having servants to wait on them.

"They would be what we would call a 'power couple."

"Yes, they are. Are you going to tell them their future?"

"Why? If they don't go back."

"They need to know."

"Why?"

"In case they do go back. I like them despite their rough edges. I really don't like the future in store for them especially not losing all their children."

"I don't know if I can tell them their horrible future."

"I will. Once you have told a person their loved one has been murdered nothing else is ever that bad."

"Thank you, Marshall. Not yet though."

After they had been in their new timeline for six weeks, Scarlett started experiencing morning sickness. After a month of morning sickness and two missing flows, Scarlett asked Jasmine, "Will you take me to your doctor. I think I am with child."

Jasmine said, "I don't need to take you to the doctor. I know you are pregnant."

"How do you know?"

"Because in your first future you got pregnant on your honeymoon. There is a test to determine if you are pregnant, but it is expensive."

"There is no need for me to take it. I know I am pregnant also. This is the third time I have gotten pregnant on my honeymoon. Relations were horrible with Charlie and Frank. I just laid there and thought about something else.

Jasmine knew she shouldn't ask but the question was out of her mouth before she knew it. She blurted out, "What about with Rhett?"

Scarlett blushed and said, "Relations are much better now that we have made this leap forward. I now feel that Rhett is engaged in the act. Before I felt like he was just going through the motions. I mean I know he was getting his satisfaction but now I feel like it is something we are doing together."

"Like he was holding himself back?"

"Yes, it doesn't make sense to me."

"Me either."

"Jasmine, I sure am glad you found us. We have certainly needed your help."

Jasmine smiled and said, "Yes, you did."

"Thank you for letting us stay with you and Marshall until Rhett figures out how to make money in this time."

"I love having you. I feel like we have been friends forever."

"Me too. Which is strange because other women usually don't like me, and I usually don't like them."

"Maybe you were just too modern for them. You certainly are not a typical nineteenth century woman. Of course, if you had been you wouldn't have been in the encyclopedia."

Scarlett said, "Is it a girl or a boy?"

"Rhett may not be happy but it's a girl."

"He will be happy he wants a girl. Jasmine, I don't want to be pregnant again. I don't want any more children. I guess I will go tell Rhett but not that it is a girl. I don't want him to know he is getting everything he wants."

Jasmine smiled as she watched Scarlett walk out of the room.

Scarlett found Rhett in the living room reading a book. The book was the Odyssey. The normalness of the situation calmed Scarlett down so much. She said, "Let's go for a walk."

After they had walked a little ways Scarlett said, "I'm pregnant. You didn't even try to not get me pregnant."

"Scarlett, we have been over this. No, I didn't."

Scarlett wasn't happy with Rhett's statement but at least he wasn't denying his actions. After they had walked three more blocks, Scarlett sobbed out, "I don't want any more children."

"I will be more careful in the future."

"What are we going to do?"

"Nothing. I would not let you go to a butcher in our time, and I certainly won't let you go in this time. I am not going to let you kill yourself to rid yourself of a child. Do you understand?"

"Am I that important to you?"

In a moment of total openness Rhett said, "Yes," He waited for several seconds before he added, "I might need you to get back to eighteen sixty-eight."

When Scarlett scowled, he smiled his playful smile. Finally, she smiled back. He said, "Yes, you are that important to me."

During the next two weeks Scarlett and Rhett got used to the idea of them having a child. Rhett was secretly extremely happy. Scarlett was openly extremely unhappy.

One night as they were lying in their bed, Scarlett said, "If we stay in this timeline, I don't want to have anymore."

"Alright. As you said in this timeline, we can still have fun without making children."

"True."

"Since you can't get any more pregnant than you are, let's have some fun."

"Yes, let's have some fun."

And fun they did have.

Scarlett got even more depressed as the days went by. She was in a strange time without her children, and she was pregnant. The only light in her life was Rhett, Jasmine, and Marshall. She was so glad she had them. She thought about Ashley, and she knew he would be no help in this situation. In fact, she realized he had been no help to her at all since he came back from the war or before for that matter. He had just burdened her with his pregnant wife. Melanie would be a help. She always had been. She didn't want to think about Melly, it remindered her too much of the loss of Wade and Ella. For the next two weeks Rhett and Jasmine let Scarlett wallower in her unhappiness.

After two weeks Scarlett said to Rhett, "You are happy about having a child."

"Of course. Every man wants his progeny to live on after him. I just didn't think I would ever have the opportunities since I was never going to get married," As Rhett saw Scarlett start to speak, he added, "I have tried very hard to never create a bastard."

"Humph."

"Marshall got me all the information about the World Series of Poker in Reno. It is the first weekend in September. It starts on Friday night. With a twenty-five thousand dollar buy in you get a seat at the table. The last person to have any money earns one hundred thousand dollars. Marshall said there were people who make a living going from casino to casino across the country."

"That is only a month away."

"Yes."

"How are we going to get there? I am not getting on a plane, and you are not going without me."

"I would not leave you behind. I will have to buy a car."

"How will you pay for it."

"I will have to sell a piece of your jewelry."

Scarlett sighed and said, "What is a casino?"

"A place where games of chance are played."

"No, we, and I mean me and the baby, are not going to be traveling from one saloon to the next."

"From what I have found out they are not saloons, but places were respectable people go."

"Really, Rhett? Is alcohol served there?"

"Yes."

"There are games of chance?"

"Yes."

"Are there harlots there also?"

"I don't know. None of the literature said anything about harlots."

Scarlett looked at Rhett and knew he was teasing her. She smiled at him. She said, "I'm sure there are. Those type of women seemed to be everywhere."

"Fortunately!"

"Rhett!"

"Not for me, of course, for all the other fools who aren't lucky enough to be married to the fabulous Scarlett O'Hara."

Scarlett smiled at Rhett and shook her head.

That night over dinner, Marshall said, "Jas and I signed up a while ago to participate in a Civil War reenactment on July thirty-first. It is this Saturday. Do y'all want to attend?"

Rhett said, "What is a Civil War re-enactment?"

"It is when we recreate the appearance of a Civil War battle."

Scarlett said, "God's nightgown! Why would you want to do something stu… something like that?"

Marshall laughed and said, "We find it fun. Jas and I met at a reenactment. I was a general and she was one of the townswomen."

Jasmine said, "Most of the participates are Civil War buffs like us."

"Buffs?"

"Someone who knows a lot about a particular subject. You must come."

"You could wear your original clothes."

"You could tell us everything we are doing wrong."

Scarlett said, "Reenacting a battle is wrong."

If Jasmine and Marshall had not spent over three months with Scarlett, they might have been offended but they had quickly learned that Scarlett rarely minced her words. If she thought something was stupid, she was going to tell the person that.

Jasmine said, "True enough but do say you will come with us."

Marshall said, "It is not like you have anything else to do."

Rhett laughed and said, "Alright. Scarlett and I will go with you."

Scarlett scowled at Rhett, and he just smiled back. He knew that she was still slightly annoyed at him. She probably would be her entire pregnancy but at least she wasn't openly hostile towards him.

The next afternoon Jasmine took a box out of the back of her closet. Inside it was hers and Marshall's reenactment clothing. There in the bottom of the box was her great, great grandmother's spell book. Jasmine remembered when her grandmother had given it to her when she was sixteen. Her grandmother had said, "This has been passed from redheaded mother to redheaded daughter or granddaughter for many years. This is a spell book. There is some powerful magic in this book. Be careful with it. Don't play around with it."

Jasmine had laughed when her grandmother had given it to her. She had said, "Why only redheads?"

"Only the redheads have the second sight."

"Second sight?"

"The ability to foretell someone's future. I don't know how strong your talent will be. It may just be that you know things without knowing how you know them. Your talent will have been diluted because it passed through your father. Only females have the talent. It will materialize in your twenty-third year. My grandmother, Marie Laveau, could see people's future by touching them. She told me it was a blessing and a curse. To see people's future and a curse not to be able to change their future. After I got my second sight, I too stopped touching people."

"But you touch me all the time."

"I touch you through clothing. The only person I touch skin to skin is your grandfather. I already know his future."

Jasmine had laughed and said, "Do you know when he is going to die?"

"Yes,"

Jasmine was stunned into silence. Her grandmother was serious. Jasmine had never been able to foretell someone's future but sometimes she knew something was true. She had no reason to believe it was true, but she knew it was. Just as she had known that Rhett and Scarlett were the real Rhett and Scarlett Butler.

Just as she had known that Marshall was her true love just by touching him. She had been right then also.

Author's Notes: To my guest reviewer who wanted Rhett & Scarlett to experience a sonogram and all the modern technology. This is the late sixties and there were no sonograms or most of the modern technology we take for granted today.