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2. (The same song(s) from the other ending will work) This brought some happiness to her within her pain. Pocahontas's pain got worse and it tore at John's heart. The doctor asked him to leave the room. Here he now sat, waiting, waiting for what ever should come to pass. The room was nearly silent now. Then he heard a cry, a strong wonderful cry, the cry of his child. The door slowly opened and Ludlow motioned for him to come in. Pocahontas lay with her eyes closed, her face and hair wet with sweat. She opened her eyes and made a small smile. He knelt next to her and cradled her in his arms. She placed a hand on his face and wiped the tears from his eyes. " Our child is a girl, she has your eyes." "But she has the beauty of her mother." " John, name her after my mother, Nekaiulani (Ne-Kaye-oo-lah-nee) the beautiful one. "Then we shall call her Rebecca after my mother as well." "John, I love you, I always have. Thank you for the happiness you brought to my life, thank you for my child." John then buried his face in her hair and whispered," I love you; you are forever in my heart. No one but you and our daughter will ever have my heart." Pocahontas paced her arms around him." John, I have never told you but I loved you from the moment I first saw you. It is now your time for us to have a life together. I will leave with you." John's bright smile broke across his face. He leaned in and kissed the woman he loved. The doctor spoke." Pocahontas, you are well enough to leave and return home. The change in the weather should help your condition and you my live life normally again." Pocahontas gave the doctor a smile, "Thank you for your help." " No thanks child just be happy and healthy." John then spoke, " we must leave now then my love. Then he questioned the doctor, but what about her husband." The doctor responded. " I will tell him that his wife and child were dead and that we buried them before he came back. We will make a mock grave. He will not question me as to its truth. I will remind him it was he who kept you here and in sickness, his guilt will not allow him to question. Leave children, Rolfe will not hinder you any more." John thanked the doctor. Pocahontas told John of Anne's help and he thanked her with an offer for her and her family to journey with them to the New World. They all left the house and started their journey to a new life. John stood proud holding his child and an arm around the woman he would make his wife. They watched the horizon of London disappear as they drifted to the New World.
Narrator: Far away from the shores of the Old World, my parents raised me. They started a new life by disappearing within my mother's village. My father married my mother in her people's traditional way. My mother thought me the ways of our people, my parents also thought me many other things. The lessons of life I learned most came from my parents, it was that love was continuous and the sacrifice for love can be great. But that love is worth that sacrifice, for it is the greatest gift any could give another, to love and be loved in returned. That is the true legacy of life, the passing on of love. The spirit of my parent's love lives on within me and I will pass that love on to my children, for it is our legacy. |
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