Merry Christmas!
A/N- It's so cute how a lot of people who review my stories say things three times like Nanny in Eloise...:) Just thought I'd mention that.
CHAPTER SIX
The von Trapps were in one of the sitting rooms in the villa, amongst numerous mugs of hot chocolate delicately topped with fluff. There was a roaring fire in the fire place.
Appropriately, the family was even roasting chestnuts.
They were singing songs, Christmas songs, of course. Maria accompanied on guitar; the Captain accompanying on piano.
They sang all of the carols anyone could think of, going from Away in A Manger to Do You Hear What I Hear to Walkin' in A Winter Wonderland, but not necessarily in that order.
No one could think of any Christmas songs starting with "Z."
"Children, it's time for bed." Maria told the children as she saw the time about an hour and a half later. Groans filled the air quickly after her remark.
"Must we?"
"Mother, it's Christmas Eve!"
"But-"
The Captain voiced his opinion, "Children, The faster you go to sleep, the sooner Christmas will be here and the sooner Kristkindl will have come."
Reluctantly, the children started to head upstairs.
Georg walked up behind and put his arm around Maria, who was watching the children slowly drift upstairs. Gently, he kissed her temple. "Should we go tuck them in?"
Maria smiled at her Captain. "I suppose so."
Frau Schmidt busied herself in the kitchen. It was the first time in four or five years she couldn't find anything to do on Christmas Eve. In the previous years she had basically set up the tree, cookies, candies, and presents for the children; the task filled with too many memories for the Captain. This year he and the Baroness were doing practically everything, not leaving much for her to tackle.
Frau Schmidt wandered aimlessly, really just pacing up and down the kitchen. She didn't really want to go - knew she couldn't - help with preparing the ball room for the children though. She had walked in there planning to help once already: walking right in on the Captain and Baroness sharing a rather impassioned kiss.
"Maria, thank you."
"For helping set up the tree and things? Really, Georg, you needn't thank me. You know I enjoy it..."
He cut in, "Not exactly for that, dear, although I do thank you for it. I meant for making Christmas meaningful to me and my family again." He paused thoughtfully a moment before going on, " For seeing what was wrong with my family and fixing it...For loving me. For basically being yourself."
"Oh, Georg..." She hugged him tightly, not quite knowing what to say and responding to a slightly sudden desire inside of herself instead.
"My love..." He whispered softly in her ear, holding her closely and soundly.
Zooming out from our favorite and lovely couple for a moment to give them a moment, we notice a gorgeous ballroom as a backdrop. A large, deep green, beautifully and almost perfectly shaped Douglas Fir pine tree came close to scraping the ceiling once the shiny, golden star was added. The tree was covered in candles, ornaments, cookies, and candies. The few tables not covered in presents had plates with weihnachtsbaeckerei, an Austrian cookie, marizipan, fruits, and candies. There were wrapped packages of varying sizes almost completely surrounding the tree, chairs, our lovely kissing couple...Oops, private moment...(bad author!) Moving on to the only thing not hidden by gifts, a lovely little manger sitting under the tree. This particular manger had been in the von Trapp's family for generations, and was intricately and beautifully hand carved.
The room was waiting for one final touch. Baby Jesus to be added into the manger scene.
Now that we've given them a couple minutes, back to our lovely couple.
"Maria, would you like to do the honors?" Georg asked his wife, pulling a small figurine out of his pocket.
"I'd love to!" Maria gave him one of her smiles, taking the minature carefully.
She gingerly walked around the many boxes and packages to the manger scene, Georg following right behind her. As the clock struck twelve, she gently placed Baby Jesus in His proper place.
As she came out of the crouched position she had assumed to fix the manger, Georg kissed her fully and soundly. "Merry Christmas, my love."
"Frohe Wiehnachten, darling!" Maria replied with a smile before kissing him back with a passionate kiss that quite matched, then surpassed the previous one.
A/N- I know that they should have had dinner and opened their presents, according to Austrian tradition. I am deeply sorry for changing a centuries long tradion, but it allowed me to enlongate my story. :) There will be another chapter. Maybe if I get a lot of inspiration there will be two. :) Maybe I'll continue it to New Years...That might be a good idea!
I luv Julie Andrews- She truely is. I'm glad you're enjoying this. :)
cremated affection- So glad you like this! Thank you for giving me my memory back as a Christmas present! Consider this chapter your gift in return...I know it's not quite as good as meeting Julie, but you can pretend...
jenna lynn- Nope! I thought it would be...but it wasn't! And I'll probably write more...I like Adelaide...I had an inspired moment when I created her...Although I owe some awknowledgement to TSOM fan for putting the idea in my head...
megslife-Glad you like it! I know! I love Christmas:)
The Lonely Goatherd- I met her in a recieving line at the Goodspeed Opera House (in Connecticut)'s Gala Night last August. Best moment of my life. There was a dinky, short little red carpet, like 5 feet long, and my aunt and I were like: Do you think she'll come out on it? Lo and behold, she did:) And I saw the Boy Friend twice. I now own three different sound tracks (of course including the one with Julie Andrews) If you can I strongly recomend going to see it...
lol, I would be collecting JA's too, but I don't think my parents will let me see all of them...I got a new one for Christmas though!(Thoroughly Modern Millie)And I've already seen it twice:)
Sweeetpassion/Amy-I'm glad you liked it! I am SO flattered that you got an account just so you could add me as your fav author/get updates on me. That is just SO sweet and flattering...THANK YOU!
TSOM fan- Thank you! We might see more of Adelaide...