<i>Sand and Stars</i> -- Todd and Blair Fan Fiction

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Date Posted: 15:22:45 07/25/02 Thu
Author: A7 SOGNO
Subject: Sand and Stars

Sand and Stars

The next marriage proposal....a dream.
This is a fractured first attempt at fan fiction....I have never done this before. If I have posted in the wrong place a thousand apologies....But I was so caught up in the thought of:

What should the scenario be like for the next marriage proposal? ....no group yes....just them....
What would be the scenario for the next marriage proposal?

Ah yes.....the next proposal....no little girls, however wonderful and talented,
no newborns, however delectably cute....

Todd calls Blair....

"Blair....?"

"Todd....I..."

"Blair...just listen...on table near the family portrait..."

Blair listening......how many times she wondered why his voice left her in a mixed state of perpetual anxiety and delicious torture....How does he always manage that sense of....what's next....I can't....

"Blair...!!"

"Go on, Todd...." interrupted mid thought....

"You'll find a letter....(static).....read it...." click....

The phone goes dead....you've got to be kidding? Here we are with two children
and we have a game of "show me"....She drops the phone....she runs to Ruthie....
"Ruthie, I am going downstairs....don't take your eyes off my little angels...."

"Yes, Mrs, Mannning....." Blair doesn't see the smile or hear anything other than yes....So keen is her sense of curiosity......

Under this strange portrait of the Manning Family.....a letter attached to the
urn under the portrait......she reaches in....."what the...."

It's a note...... "In the bedroom, on the table near the bed....open...."

" I could just kill him...." Yet she couldn't erase the goose bumbs....nor deny the exhilaration of the hunt...the fun...the adrenelin is pumping in rhythm.

At the table, she finds a gorgeous music box....As her hands steady , she lifts the lid....Todd's cologne....is everywhere....He hasn't worn that since.....she almost gasps as the melody from the private dining room after their second marriage is playing; a tiny ballerina turns round and round....
Borodin's haunting melody....She always loved that melody, so profound it made her very happy....She is lost in thought, so many memories....surprises her how current they feel,,,,,how strong.

PULL!!!! a little string says on the drawer....the velvet inside boasts an antique key.....

She flashes back on the night of their second date....sledding, she laughs.....
she remembered how she had told him she always dreamed of someone coming and getting her in the orphanage and whisking her away and that man would give her a key...oh my....he remembered?...

Even Vicki knew....she felt oddly satisfied...she felt happy....that Vicki who had always known Todd loved her...even thru the days of the snatched happiness that Vicki thought he might have....with....she gulps hard....

"Viki always knew, Todd loved me...." Her eyes fill with tears...suddenly...it catches her off guard....She squints...the key has a large knob, there seems to be an address....

THE BEACH AT LLANTANO JUST BEFORE THE MOUNTAIN.....SUNSET

She hadn't thought of that deserted but beautiful beach in years....!! Not since Todd's last call before he .....in...Ireland.....He told her they would build a house on LLantano mountain....just their's.....

Her car flew out of the driveway as pebbles and stones flew in every direction as the tires dug a hasty retreat....she didn't notice the little girl at the window.....Starr pulled back the lace curtains....with a huge grin.....

She can't remember how she got there....but she was there in a flowing white and
Gold dress of equal parts silk and lace.....The scene was intoxicating..
the air was warm and full of salt mist....the waters were a titian marvel of greens and blues and the mixture of the sun's bright reds and gold as they melted into the sea......She could taste the salt on her lips...the air caressed
her hair....so gentle....the sand felt so soft on her feet as it raced out of her hands thru her fingers......

A horse appears on the left...way off....

A HORSE? ......Here? Not until the horse, shiny and black and proud and wild.
She knew this horse.....My god....It's Araby....and that's....it can't be....He doesn't ride....he told me that day in the stables...came back with the boots to try and I was so angry....He is riding...! "Todd????!!!"

"Get on....." He looked so strong....so comfortable.....

Could she be any more beautiful?.....her face is so wonderful...so full of life and wonder....thru it all...she is still a child....Her face is so full of hope.
Why must her hair fall that way, with that little dip right by her temple....
I lo-ve her hair like that....I love the part of her mouth that curls up before she smiles...or when she is nervous.....That smile filled him with hope.....

He couldn't believe how sore his thighs were. How will I walk once I get off? Is that why her thighs were always so strong...? Todd Manning on horseback, go figure.....

She held him close as they dashed....amazing how well the horse responded to Todd.....He once told me...I was like this horse...wild and free....That's why he gave it to me,,,, that day in the stables.....He was the only one who could tame me...Her reverie and blushing cheeks give way to Todd's abrupt halt....

"Okay, that is one thing I will have to show him....My, his arms are so strong...".

He is lifting her off the horse....his looks disarm, his charm deceives...how could he be so strong....? So lean and muscular.
...a thing of beauty, she loved to watch him walk......like a tiger....lethal yet beautiful.....

The scent of her body, like wild flowers and honey....Intoxicate Todd, he leads her to a tri cornered tent with flaps open and a sumptuous dinner and music...from where....? (Rachmaninov....Piano Concerto #2 for those who care)

The candles and the music and the wine....all rush around her...what is real? what is a dream?.....It seems like moments are engraving themselves into some giant book of life, where only moments of awesome, awe inspiring events are recorded in that life....she could feel the page turn....as Todd....pushed aside the curtain......

an antichamber by the entrance to the tent....pillows and throws and every manner of comfort were tossed with no particular thought, but all together, made a giant area to lie down and see the sky thru the open flap of the tent....The Stars were like pieces of jewelery......so beautiful she felt she could touch them.....as she lay staring at this blanket of twinkling diamonds in the night sky.....

The lights of the candles and the warmth of the wine in her veins came to a boil as Todd peeled his shirt off as he came to lie beside her on the pillows and the throws.....He begins to tease her with his mouth.....The sound of the pounding waves...Is that his heart? Her heart?

The scene continues as he clasps her to him removing her fluid white and gold
liquid....she always looked like a free flowing liquid...so beautiful. almost panther like her moves...she could move like lightening or so slowly and suggestively....she caresses his face, runs her fingers across his cheek tracing the ancient emblem of a past Todd, a broken Todd...a man he would always be in some way yet .....it was her scar with him....a gesture of acceptance between them, the understanding...for better for worse....in sickness and in health....

We get, because this is a soap of course....and we can't go too far....rats...
we get a montage of their greatest most passionate nights, xmas,fourth of july, the stables.....

It comes back to Todd and Blair, one atop the other....out of breath......as Todd says breathless and soft....

"Blair...." she tries to focus......"Blair..."

He said her name twice at the hour of his "death", now he adds another at the beginning of a new life......

"Blair..." His breath is hot on her face, leans into her mouth....

"Todd....." finally the words come...crashing waves and his gaze...she melts...

as he whispers into her mouth.... "You're mine."

The sound of his voice....she gathers her thoughts....
yes, she thinks to herself, she has been, always will be...he knows that....she knows that....she answers his gaze....with great meaning.....

"Her eyes", he thought...."Could anything be more beautiful? So filled with love and they are looking at me!...." this part always surprised him...He said he loved her and she stayed....!!!!

He could get lost in them....which sea? The one around him or the green of her eyes....she became the ocean to him in that moment.....
He pulls her hair.....with emphasis.....she grabs his arm with a gasp.....
grasping his hair firmly.....she sighed in his ear, "YOU'RE mine." tugging his hair slightly.....they knew. She wolf and frat boy bad boy,,,,

Even longer quiet.....
Sound of the wind in the trees. palm noises gentle obligato of the evening.....

He pulls away for a moment as he turns to look at the sky so drenched in stars...He reaches up to the flap in the tent....and seem to take something out of the sky....When he turns to her again....lying back against the throws and pillows....he reaches above her head and takes her hand...without ever losing her eyes, he puts a diamond from the sky on her finger....she kisses him slowly, languidly....her soul rushes to her lips as she says...."yes, Todd...Oh yes Todd. Todd....." as he consumed her mouth and breathes her soul into him...she can feel him give her his.....they are as they have always been.....ONE.

FINI

So, why not?

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