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SUBMISSION FOR RAMPART BASE: Tears on a white dress by Robin R. Neher
Date:
Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:29 AM
Copyright:
October 2003 by Robin R. Nether
THIS
STORY IS WRITTEN FOR PLEASURE AND IS NOT
INTENDED
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SHARE WITH FRIENDS, BUT NOT FOR PROFIT.
THIS
STORY IS FICTIONAL, A WORK OF THE WRITER'S
IMAGINATION.
THE CHARACTERS AND INCIDENTS
USED IN
THIS STORY ARE PURELY FICTIONAL AND
ARE NOT
BASED ON ANY PERSON AND/OR PERSON'S
ACTUAL
EXPERIENCES.
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Title:
Tears on a white dress
Author:
Robin R. Neher
Status:
Complete
E-mail:
NRobin1027@aol.com
Rating:
PG.
Pairing:
N/A
Archive:
Yes
Random:
Emergency!
Summary:
Dixie is stood up on her wedding day.
Content
Warning: Hanky alert!!
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"Dixie?
Are you still here?" Peggy McCall asked her daughter. "Honey, he's not
gonna show."
Dixie
McCall looked up at her mother. Peggy's heart broke to see the tears in her
only child's eyes.
"Is
there anything I can do?" Peggy asked, gently.
"Mama,
how could he?" Dixie, A nurse at Rampart General hospital asked.
"This was supposed to be the happiest day of my life!"
"I
know, Baby." Peggy reached out to Dixie. "Kel really did it this
time.
What
was that man thinking?!"
"I
should've seen the signs!" Dix cried. "I was a fool to think that
Kelly Thomas Brackett could ever love me! I was lying to myself all along!"
"Dixie, I see me when I was young in you." Her mother told her as she took a seat beside Dix on the pew. "Your father was just like Kel is now."
"Oh?"
Dix sniffed.
"Honey,
men like your Kel and David McCall are not marriage material. These kind of
men are the cowboys of today. They need their freedom. They are not the type
that would be happy as husbands. We would just tie them down."
"This whole thing was his idea!" Dix wept. "I was so happy when he popped the question! I was like a school girl for days afterwards. I was showing that big, gorgeous diamond ring to everyone and anyone! Maybe it was my fault. If only I hadn't put so much pressure on him."
"Hon,
Kel wasn't man enough to do the right thing." Peggy soothed. "Maybe
he got cold feet. Maybe he just couldn't step up to the plate when the time came.
Whatever
happened, it wasn't your fault."
"If
only I hadn't forgotten my pill that day!" Dix cried.
"It
takes two to make a baby." Kel Brackett spoke up. "Dix, I'm so
sorry."
"Kel,
why?" Dixie sobbed.
The
dark haired Doc came over and knelt in front of his fiancée.
"I'm not ready." Kel stated, simply. "When I bought you that ring six months ago, I did it thinking that it'd make you happy that we were at least engaged.
I never
dreamed that you'd get pregnant so suddenly."
"When you found out she was pregnant, you felt backed into a corner." Peggy guessed.
"I
did." Brackett nodded. "I just couldn't go through with it. Dixie,
I'm not ready to marry you, at least not now. It's not that I don't love you, I'm not ready to be a husband or a father, I'm just not."
"I
understand." Dix said, after a minute. "I understand."
With
that, Kel turned to leave.
"Kel?"
Dix called
"What?"
He answered.
"Tommy and I will be waiting if you ever are ready." Dix promised.
"Tommy?"
Kel asked.
"Kelly
Thomas Brackett, Jr. Your Son." Dix smiled.
"My-Son?"
Kel stammered.
"That's
right." Dix grinned. "The ultrasound confirmed it. We're having a boy."
Kel
gasped, then quickly left the chapel. Peggy then turned to Dix.
"You're getting tears on your beautiful, white dress." She said.
"Mama, I hope that I can wear this dress as that man's bride someday." Dix
replied.
"You will, Honey. I know you will." Peggy assured her Daughter as they left
the
chapel together.
THE END