Disclaimer: I own nothing in regard to GWTW

Author's Notes: Thank you for all the many reviews and the feedback. Thank you for taking this trip with me.

Epilog

Scarlett was incredibly good in her job. She was assigned to the programing department and her star began to rise. After five years she was promoted to manager of her group. She was not an easy person to work for. She was a power to be reckoned with. Furthermore, if she felt like she was being discriminated against she had no problem speaking up.

She loved her work but at five o'clock it was time for her to go home. It was time for her to be a wife and mother. There was nothing more important to her than Rhett and her children. Scarlett Butler demanded perfection in everyone and would not settle for less. Nobody was immune from her wrath. Her co-workers and her bosses were always happy when it was five o'clock.

Fortunately for Rhett and the children she was happy to leave her work at IBM. When she was home, she was home. She was never late for dinner.

Jasmine didn't go back to work until Amy started kindergarten. She then went back to teaching part-time. She didn't need the money. She was still receiving money from the trust fund that Rhett had set-up all those years ago. Rhett had left written instructions on which stocks to buy so like Rhett's trust fund the moneys had kept growing. Jasmine knew there was going to be lots of money in the trust for Sophia and Amy.

Marshall was promoted to Chief of Detectives. He accepted the assignment because the position had set hours and he was off the streets. Yet he did miss solving cases. He would often sit in the Bull Pen with his detectives talking to them about their cases. He often opened up a new line of investigation for them. It wasn't as good to Marshall as actually solving the cases, but he had other responsibilities now.

Even getting to see her grandchildren did not provide Jasmine's mother with enough incentive to enter Marshall's home for which Marshall was grateful.

After ten years of working for IBM Scarlett was offered a promotion that would have required, she move to New York. She didn't want to live in the North now any more than she had in eighteen seventy-four. Besides her entire life was in New Orleans. She and Rhett had lots of friends and the children were settled there. She could not disrupt their lives again.

Rhett owned a yacht and often took the family and the Wilsons sailing. They met other yachting enthusiast and joined a yachting club.

Rhett and Scarlett were a popular couple. They had a busy social schedule, yet their children were always first. Most of their social activities involved their children but they had embraced the concept of date night. They went out alone once a month and the only subject they couldn't talk about was their children.

Scarlett and Rhett were happy in their new life. They often reflected on how fortunate they were that Marie Laveau sent them into the future. She had saved them. They knew they had provided her, her mother and all her female descendants a better life.

Jasmine was happy her power had been diluted. She remembered what her grandmother had said about never touching anyone. She wouldn't like that, and she really wouldn't want to know people's awful futures.

Wade Butler became a writer, historian, and journalist. He primarily wrote about the Civil War and Reconstruction. The most often thing reviewers said about him was, 'It is like he actually lived through those time periods.' He had played baseball all throughout high school and college. He had even been offered a contract to play professional baseball. He had turned it down. Although he loved playing baseball, he loved writing more. He was quite vocal in his condemnation of the re-enactments. He would say the real battles were brutal not the sanitize version the re-enactors pretended them to be.

He married a lovely girl he had met in one of his college classes. They had lived together for a couple of years before they got married. Scarlett and Rhett were appalled but they kept their opinions to themselves. The standards were entirely different than the standards of their day. His wife, April, worked but it was not a career. She just didn't want to stay home with the children all day. She enjoyed the social aspect of having a job. Wade worked from home, and he was happy to raise their three boys while April worked. It was what he had grown up with. Dad had been at home while Mom had been out working as far back as he could remember. Dad had been the original Mr. Mom.

Beau Butler became an obstetrician-gynecologist. He ran a clinic for high-risk pregnancies. He had never forgotten how his mother had died. He knew now that his mother had preeclampsia. He would think sadly that she should have trusted her doctors. Women still died from it even in the modern age. He married his college sweetheart and she had supported them while he was in medical school, his internship and residency. Sort of. She made enough to pay their living expenses while Dad paid the educational expenses. If Scarlett gave Beau some money from time to time to tide them over nobody said anything about it. As soon as Beau had set-up practice Abby started having children. They had seven children before Beau had a vasectomy and put an end to their baby making days.

When Ella Butler had told her mother at sixteen, she wanted to start taking the birth control pill. Scarlett wanted to tell her no, but she took the girl down to her gynecologist. Scarlett knew that if Ella was asking to be on the birth control pill that she and her boyfriend, Jacob, were already having sex. Scarlett knew that if Ella was already having premarital sex she needed to be protected. Ella went to the University of New Orleans for two years because her father made her. Finally, her father let her marry Jacob, her high school sweetheart. At last, Ella became a wife and mother. Just what she had always wanted to be. In eighty-eight when Ella was pregnant with her first child and Rhett and Scarlett's first grandchild, she had a sonogram. She had found out the baby was healthy, and it was a girl. Rhett and Scarlett were stunned and amazed at the technology in the world. They would continually look at the picture. One of them would always say, "I know it is a baby but how can they tell it is a girl." Ella and Jacob had three more children. Two boys and another girl.

Genie Butler became a defense attorney. She had spent her life arguing with her father, her mother, and her older brothers. Rhett had instilled in her a concept that she could do anything she wanted to do. She had often jokingly said, "I'm going to be the first female president." Nobody said she wouldn't do it. She had worked for another attorney, Donald Walker, for five years then set-up her own practice. She was extremely successful. After being on her own for one year, Genie said to her parents, "Don and I are getting married at the courthouse next Wednesday."

Scarlett said, "I thought he was married."

"He was. He got a divorce."

"Genie…"

Rhett said, "We will be glad to be there. What time?"

"Thank you, Dad. I so want y'all to be there."

Scarlett in a sharp tone said, "Genie, are you sure? He is going to come with a lot of baggage."

Genie smiled at her mother and said, "Yes, Mom, I am sure. I love him. What's more he doesn't want children either."

"Make him go get a vasectomy. Accidents do happen."

"That's my mom always practical."

Scarlett found out a couple of months after they had gotten married that indeed Don had gotten a vasectomy.

Sophia Wilson Perry had also become an attorney. She had been hired by the district attorney's office. On the rare occasions when Sophia and Genie had come up against each other Sophia had always reclused herself from the case. She would say it was because she and Genie were too close of friends, in fact, they were almost as close as sisters, but the truth was Sophia didn't want her conviction rate to go down. Genie rarely lost. Sophia had married a man named Jack Perry who was a detective. Her father had introduced them.

Alex Butler got an MBA from Tulane and came home to help his father with the family money. He married Amy Wilson after he obtained his MBA.

Amy Wilson Butler went to Tulane also. One day when she was a freshman and Alex was a senior, they had run into each other on campus. They gave each other a quick hug and Amy knew in that minute that she and Alex were going to marry. With that knowledge Amy had started flirting with Alex. Alex, who up to that point had always thought of Amy as a sister, realized that the thoughts he was having about Amy were not brotherly in the least. He also decided that Amy was a beautiful woman. Alex asked her out in that moment. After that it was just a matter of time before they married.

After Amy graduated from Tulane with a degree of Criminal Investigation, she joined the New Orleans Police Department. She was soon promoted to detective. People would marvel at her solve rate. It was like she truly knew whether someone was guilty or not.

At Alex and Amy's wedding Jasmine and Scarlett had looked at each other and had known they were definitely meant to be best friends forever. Once Amy was married, Marshall and Jasmine sold their home and moved into a townhouse. They were empty nesters now.

When Amy shared with her mother that she thought Alex drank too much, Jasmine told Scarlett and Scarlett told Rhett. Rhett sat the boy down and said, "You are my son. It is too easy for us to get lost in the intoxicating effect of the brown liquid. We think we are in control because we never get drunk per se, but it loosens our tongue, and we say things we regret. Like super assholes we then never apologize. I quit drinking almost thirty years ago because my rude mocking comments were destroying my marriage. It was the best decision I ever made. Amy and your two boys are worth it. And, son, shut the hell up about how ugly you think the living room furniture is. Do you want to live with beautiful furniture or your beautiful wife? You can't have both. I chose my wife. You decide. Bye now."

After Amy's second son was born, she had a tubal ligation. When Scarlett and Jasmine talked about it, Scarlett said, "Do you think your granddaughters will have the second sight?"

"If I have any granddaughters. No, not enough to matter. Not much more than the general population."

"What did you do with the spell book?"

"It is still with my nineteenth century memorabilia."

"Why don't you destroy it?"

"I can't. It is my heritage. Yet I know I should. Maybe when I get closer to the end of my life."

"Are you going to tell Amy?"

"No, Marshall and I agree. It is a burden she doesn't need to carry."

"For what it is worth I agree too."

Scarlett smiled at her best friend. Her friend that she had to travel through time to meet.

Gabriel Butler also got an MBA from Tulane. He went to work for the state of Louisiana in the state comptroller's office managing the state's money. He was handsome, funny, personable, and rich. He was also a sworn bachelor. His mother never worried about him finding a wife. He was happy and that was all that mattered. His mother had also watched as a slew of women had floated through Gabriel's life. She knew like his father Gabriel was not emotionally involved with any of them. Scarlett just hoped that when the right woman came along Gabriel was a lot smarter than his father had been.

Elizabeth Butler was the apple of her father's eye. Not that he loved her any more than his other children. Yet, she was his last daughter. The daughter he didn't think he would get. Furthermore, she looked similar to his mother. Despite her father's coddling Liz was as strong and determined as her older siblings and her mother. She went to LSU and became an architect. She worked for an architect firm in New Orleans. Like her mother before her she was a power to be reckoned with. If she thought she was being treated unfairly she didn't mind making a fuss. She wasn't afraid of being fired. She knew her father would be happy to support her until she found another job. She had been dating the same guy since her freshman year at LSU. Greg Baxter had moved to New Orleans to be with her. Greg and Liz lived together. Rhett thought Greg was a wimp, but Liz loved him. Scarlett and Rhett were appalled but these weren't the standards of the nineteenth century. They hoped they would get married but that was their decision.

Rhett and Scarlett lived through the entire Y2K scare. They were actually quite amused by all these people panicking about it. On January second two thousand Rhett said, "Miraculously the world has continued to spin."

To which his wife rewarded him with a laugh.

Rhett had set the trust up that it would be dissolved at the turn of the century. All the money would be divided between the beneficiaries. There was only one beneficiary on January first two thousand, Jasmine Wilson.

When it became the twenty-first century Rhett and Scarlett were truly empty nesters. When they found out the townhouse next to Jasmine and Marshall was for sale, they bought it and sold their house. It was like living together but not. Ethel came with them. Scarlett still wouldn't clean toilets.

When the twins had gone off to college in ninety-five, Mary Ann had been given a nice severance check and sent on her way. She had worked for the Butlers for over twenty years just doing the laundry. Mary Ann had often marveled at how lucky she had been to land the job with the Butlers. She knew she wasn't very smart. She had barely finished high school. Yet she had an excellent job for over twenty years simply doing laundry. She had been able to save enough that with her husband's salary she would never have to work again.

Marshall had retired from the New Orleans Police Department in 2001 when he turned sixty-five. Jasmine continued to teach part-time. They were empty nesters long before Scarlett and Rhett. They had traveled but not as extensively as Rhett and Scarlett. The Wilsons just like to take weekend trips. Marshall was hired back by the New Orleans Police Department to work cold cases. It kept him busy. He got such a thrill when he solved a murder that had gone cold. Solving mysteries was not only Marshall's vocation but his calling.

Liz and Gabriel had gone off to college the couple had traveled to Europe. They had already driven to everywhere in North America with the children then just the two of them when the children had lives of their own. Their trip to Europe was the second time the couple had ever gotten on a plane. Before they booked their trip to Europe, they flew first class to Atlanta from New Orleans. They actually enjoyed it very much. They knew that after everything they had been through an airplane ride was old hat. They also knew that the worst that could happen was that they die and if they died together, they were alright with that too.

Amazingly all Rhett and Scarlett's children had lived into adulthood. The couple had struggled with raising the children with the same trials as every other parent in the late twentieth century, drugs, alcohol, pre-marital sex. What amazed Rhett and Scarlett was none of their children were contented living off Rhett's money. They had all made their own way. When Rhett and Scarlett finally passed away each child would receive over a million dollars.

Neither Rhett nor Scarlett had any regrets. Their children and their grandchildren were alive and well. No, they didn't understand the new technology but neither did Jasmine or Marshall, so all was well. They were together so all was well. Rhett had not gotten cirrhosis of the liver, nor had he died from lung cancer.

Scarlett had continued to be a power to be reckoned with at IBM until she had retired in nineteen ninety-five. IBM had offered her a lot of money to retire at age fifty. She had accepted it. She had been tired of working. She still did some programing part-time. Scarlett was an excellent programmer and Rhett knew it was the way her mind worked. In programing everything was yes or no. In Scarlett's brain everything was either yes or no.

In January of twenty oh one Scarlett said, "Liz and Greg are going to get married."

"When?"

"On February fourteenth."

"Is that before the baby is due?"

"Yes, my love, the baby isn't due until May."

"That's the last one."

"What about Gabriel? He isn't married."

"And he won't get married until a green-eyed vixen steals his heart."

"She doesn't have to be green-eyed."

"That is true."

"Hush now. I want to watch this program on the Travel Channel."

"What is it?"

"It is about the Taj Mahal. Have you seen it?"

"No. Do you want to go?"

"No. I am not going to a third world country. It would be like we were back in the nineteenth century."

"I'm sure they have modern amenities."

"Hush, Rhett I can't hear the show."

Rhett smiled and snuggled up with his wife. His wonderful wife.

After the show was over, Scarlett said, "He did all that after she was dead. You let me build the mansion while I was still alive."

Rhett had held her close and said, "I loved you so much."

Playfully Scarlett said, "You don't love me that much now."

Rhett had smiled and said, "Let me show you how much I love you."

"Yes. Show me."

When they went to their room, Rhett had indeed shown his wife how much he loved her. Thanks to Viagra, he was able to rise to the occasion.

Author's Notes: As much as women believed the birth control pill was a miracle pill, men believed Viagra was a miracle pill.