“N&S: John Thornton, Love Lessons”, Ch. 69 (PG-13): Returning to Airlie Estates in Scotland, July 05, 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 Ogilvy, Jo Joyner for Fiona/Fanny Thornton Ogilvy, Brendan Coyle for Nicholas Higgins, 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, Gillian Anderson at Carlotta Quint Watson, Jeremy Northam as Dr. Miles Houghton, Gerard Butler as Lord Jamie Ogilvy, and Juliette Lewis as Lady Thistle Ogilvy, etc.] [(1) story logo, top right]
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. As such there will be heartfelt moments of love and sensuality (S)--as well as other dramatic emotions (D), 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: In late August 1851--after baby Audrey Grace’s christening just after her two month birthday August 21st--Margaret and John are finding their way through their grief over Margaret’s parents the Hale’s passing. Their eased minds are mostly due to the joy they feel with their little baby. And finally, Margaret and John renew the passionate lovemaking in their marriage--taking care not to get Margaret pregnant since Baby Audrey Grace’s delivery was so difficult for Margaret. But that is not to say that there won’t be more babies in the Thornton family as both John’s mother Hannah and his sister Fiona/Fanny await the births of their babies.
“N&S: John Thornton, Love Lessons”, Ch. 69 (PG-13): Returning to Airlie Estates in Scotland
The Autumn months of 1851 fly by with a flurry of science and technology highlights as The Great Exibition ends in mid-October, two new moons of the outermost planet Uranus are discovered and named (Ariel and Umbriel), and telegraph cable guarded by submarines is laid [(2)]. So it should be no surprise to anyone in the Thornton-Ogilvy family that Fiona Thornton Ogilvy has taken it upon herself to have the most modern, most technologically advanced, and most pampered pregnancy and delivery on the planet.
Hannah and Cameron Ogilvy had travelled to Airlie Estate in Angus, Scotland in late October since Hannah’s due date is late November to early December and they want their baby to be born on Scottish soil--it thus having dual citizenship. And technically, the heirs of the Airlie line--be they son or daughter--are proscribed to be born on Scottish soil. And the issues of the Heir Presumptive Baird Ogilvy must also be born in Scotland. So in late November, Fiona and Baird also travel to Scotland--since Fiona’s due date is somewhere in January 1852. Then the rest of the family will gather in December to spend Christmas at Airlie Castle.
Cameron takes a large enclosed carriage to the Angus, Scotland train station on Friday, November 21st to collect Baird and Fiona. And per Baird’s telegraphed request, a large wagon trails behind for their trunks and such. Cameron is a little on edge to be away from his Hannah even for a few hours since as an older woman of fifty being pregnant, she is likely to deliver early. However, upon greeting Baird and Fiona at the train station, it is Fiona whom Cameron develops a watchful concern--since at being nearly eight months pregnant, Fiona has quite surpassed even her mother’s full term pregnant size.
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"N&S: John Thornton, Love Lessons", by Gratiana Lovelace (2013-2014) (Done)
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