"N&S: John Thornton, Love Lessons", by Gratiana Lovelace (2013-2014) (Done)

Ch. 29: Fanny and Baird Courting in London

"North & South:  John Thornton, Love Lessons", Ch. 29:  Fanny and Baird Courting in London,   February 10, 2014 Gratiana Lovelace 

(An original fan fiction copyrighted by Gratiana Lovelace;   All rights reserved; Based on the Elizabeth Gaskell novel, North & South and its  2004 BBC adaptation; No copyright infringement intended)

[I will illustrate my story using my dream cast from the 2004 BBC production of "North & South" and other actors for additional characters:   Richard Armitage for John Thornton, Daniela Denby-Ashe for Margaret Hale, Lesley Manville for Mrs. Maria Hale,  Tim Pigott-Smith for Mr. Richard Hale, Sinead Cusack for Mrs. Hannah Thornton, Jo Joyner for Fanny Thornton, Brendan Coyle for Nicholas Higgins, and Graham McTavish as Dr. Cameron Ogilvy, Holliday Grainger for Angharad Ogilvy MacIntosh, Simon Woods for Baird Ogilvy, and Emma Ashton as Mrs. Dillard, John Light as Henry Lennox, Tim Faraday as Watson, and Gillian Anderson at Carlotta Quint Watson, etc] [(1) story logo]  

Author's Mature Content Note:  "N&S: John Thornton, Love Lessons" is a story with mature themes of love and relationships set within a period drama of the 1850's and beyond.  As such there will be heartfelt moments of love and sensuality (S)--as well as other dramatic emotions, including some violence (V)--and I will rate those chapters accordingly.  If you are unable or unwilling to attend a movie with the ratings that I provide, then please do not read that chapter.  This is my disclaimer.

Author's Recap from the previous chapter:  Hannah and Cameron  had not seen each other for two days since he proclaimed his heartfelt and desirous love for heron Wednesday evening.   But John and Margaret's initial attempts to get the two lovebirds back together at Saturday luncheon when they revealed their baby news, misfired and Hannah gave back Cameron's engagement ring--because she did not feel that she could be a proper loving wife to him after the emotional damage she felt when her first husband killed himself. Cameron promptly threw the engagement ring into the fireplace in John's study as he stormed out. Frantic, Hannah retrieved the ring from the fire only to burn her fingertips.  Cameron heard her screams of pain and came to her aid. They made up with each other with Cameron resolving to treat Hannah delicately and not pressure to her love him and devotedly as he loves her--and keep her wished for friendship marriage request if that is the only way that he can be in her life.

John Thornton, Love Lessons", Ch. 29:  Fanny and Baird Courting in London

To say that Fanny Thornton is making up for lost time in her second visit to London is an understatement!  Born and bred in Milton, but with a keen eye for the culture and hum of life of 1851 London, Fanny Thornton decides to take the town by storm.  And Baird Ogilvy can only watch in bemused wonder at her audacious antics--as well as, be charmed by Fanny's innocence.

Fanny has only just settled into Aunt Shaw's and Edith & Maxwell Lennox's London home on the afternoon of Wednesday Feb. 7th, when Baird Ogilvy calls upon her.   Baird is led upstairs by a footman accustomed to seeing the future Earl of Airlie in the Shaw-Lennox home.  Baird finds Fanny not in the parlor, nor even in the conservatory, but in the nursery playing dress up with Edith's six month old baby girl Tamsin and her two year old son Sholto while the Lennox's are out shopping.    It is about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

Fanny and Tamsin are sitting on the floor--Fanny not wearing a hoop skirt today she has more freedom of movement.  While Sholto stands next to them shifting his feet back and forth in his uncomfortable attire.  Tamsin shakes Fanny's paper fan with all her might--tearing it all to pieces since as a six month old she does not as yet know how to be gentle with delicate items.   And paper fans are not baby proofed.