After the enchantment, Belle and Prince Adam discover difficulties about her being a peasant girl, him being a prince, and being in love. Post Movie.

I do not own Beauty and the Beast.

Rated T for Mild Language and Adult Situations.

Chapter 1

Clack. Clack. Clack.

Her shoes hit the tile floor, one after another. The castle was quite during the night. Calm and quiet. Nothing like during the day. She had gone out for a walk because she couldn't sleep that night. She went to the kitchens to get a glass of water and walk back, but she found herself in the library. So, she got a book. Now, she was walking about the castle looking at the different pictures of the different royals.

"Belle?" Someone had called behind her. Belle looked around to see who had called her.

"Hello Chip." She said to the little four year old boy.

"What are you doing up so late?" Chip asked her.

"I couldn't sleep so, I went to get a book and a glass of water. What are you doing up so late?"

"I heard someone walking so, I went to go check what it was."

"Just like the brave boy you are." Belle said while laughing a bit. Chip beamed up at her.
"Yup."

"Why don't you go back to bed."

"You should too Belle."

" I will."

"Good. Now, Goodnight Belle."

"Goodnight." Belle called. She turned around and continued to walk back to her room.

Belle looked at the pictures on the wall again. There seemed to be many. Some of Kings, some of Queens, some of families. One caught her eye. A man, he seemed familiar. Auburn hair, thick eyebrows, and a fairly long face. The only thing that was different was that the man had brown eyes. She read the inscription under the painting.

King Vincent Ace Bernard de Leon

Well, that defiantly wasn't the person she was thinking of. She shook her head and continued to walk down the hallway.

A few minutes later she was back in the library. Reading the book she had gotten earlier that night. It was one of her favorites, Sleeping Beauty.

'While deep in the forest in a woodcutter's cottage, the Good Fairies carried out their well-laid plan. Living like mortals, they had reared the child as their own and called her Briar Rose.'

Belle's eyes started to droop as she read, finally becoming tired. She didn't want to stop reading now, it was her favorite fairy tale, she just wanted to get through this one chapter and then-

Plop.

She was fast asleep.

"Belle!" He called. He went to go and wake Belle for breakfast, but she wasn't in her room. She wasn't anywhere he checked.

'Maybe she's already down at breakfast?' He thought. Maybe he is just being paranoid.

He made it down to the dining room. There was Mrs. Potts talking with Maurice, her father.

"I can't get this doohickey to work." Maurice complained.

"Pish posh. You've been working on it for days now, I'm sure you'll get it to work soon." Mrs. Potts said to him. She then noticed him standing in the door way. "What seems to be the problem, Master?"

"Belle isn't here?" He asked.

"No, we haven't seen her all day." Maurice said.

"I did!" Chip said as he appeared by his mother's side.

"Now, Chip I don't want you making up stories."

"But, Mama! I did! Earlier in the day. She was walking around saying she couldn't sleep."

"Do you have any idea where she went?" He asked.

"No, monsieur."

"Maybe you could check in the library?" Mrs. Potts suggested.

"I will. Thank you." He said before he left.

He had made it to the library a few minutes later to find Belle sleeping at a table with her head in a book. He walked over to her and shook her lightly.

"Belle..." He whispered.

"Mmm." She groaned.

"Belle." He said again.

"Adam?" She asked as she raised her head from the book. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes and looking up at him.

"You really shouldn't be sleeping in the library."

"I'm sorry, I couldn't sleep."

"Then you should have gone back to your room before you fell asleep. You almost gave me a heart attack."

"I wasn't tired so I came here and started to read." She argued.

"Maybe you shouldn't read as much as you do. It's cutting into your sleep."

"Maybe you shouldn't be so overprotective." Adam didn't know what to say to that. He opened his mouth thinking he had something, but closed it.

"We should just go to breakfast." He suggested after a while, not wanting to continue the fight.

"Fine." Belle said. She had gotten up and walked out of the library with Adam.

The two had been through a lot together. With him being a Beast, cruel and mean to her a first, her coming from a small town where a conceded man tried to make her his wife. Eventually they had fallen in love and he became a human again. He hadn't told her about why, they had never gotten the time. Cogsworth wanted him to get back on track with his prince duties and they never had anytime to talk. But, Adam had promised himself that he would tell her later tonight.

"What do you have to do today?" Belle asked him.

"Hm? Oh, I think Cogsworth and Lumière want me to write a speech or something like that. I'll have to go to all the different villages in the province and give it so, they know why I had taken a leave for ten years." Belle nodded.

"When will you be leaving?"

"Whenever I write it, I guess." Adam said. "You know, this is probably the longest conversation we've had in a while."

"Well, no we had one yesterday."

"That was about how gross I thought champignons were. That doesn't count." Belle laughed at this.

After they had eaten, Adam had to go and write his speech.

"It has to say something practical. Something they will believe but, won't be to problematic to explain." Cogsworth said as he paced around study. Adam sat in the chair behind the desk while Lumière stood in front of the desk.

"Come now Cogsworth, it won't be to difficult to explain why he was gone. You're taking this way to critical."

"No, no, no. Anything the Master says about this has to be very thought out and planned."

"Can't he just say that he was traveling or something?"

"He can't just say he was traveling! People would start to question him about where and he would have to answer questions about where he's never been!"

"Then he doesn't have to answer them."

"Well, I'm sorry I'm the only one whose actually thinking this through! You froward hedge-born eunuch!"

"You take that back, you infectious elf-skinned strumpet!"

"Your reeky spur-galled scut!"

"Enough!" The Prince yelled as he rose from his chair. "Why don't we just say that I was staying with a friend in England?"

"But, Master, the people will ask about this 'friend' and why you were with him for so long."

"I don't know! Say that he had family troubles or something!" The Prince said. He then looked to Lumière. "I'm going to find Belle."

"Yes, monsieur." With that, Adam had left the room and went searching for Belle.

Belle was sitting in the library reading to Chip and the other servant children.

'"She's in love of-" Fauna said. "Oh no!" Merryweather said. "This is ter-"'

"Mademoiselle? Are you in love?" One of the children asked. All the other children pipped up and wanted to know the answer as well.

"Well-"

"No she isn't Adela! You have to be married to be in love!" Gabriel said.

"That may be true but-"

"You don't have to be married to be in love, you have to be really in love to be married." Alice said.

"Children." Belle said. "Marriage is what happens after you fall in love. You can be really in love and still not be married. It's just about what the two people want."

"Are you and the Master going to get married?" Adela asked.

"I don't know, Adela."

"I heard Mama talking about it to Monsieur Cogsworth!" Chip said.

"About Adam and I getting married?"

"Yeah! They said something about it being a tradition before the girls eighteenth birthday and something about an arranged marriage." Chip said. Belle was going to ask another question about this 'arranged marriage' but, then someone else spoke.

"Afternoon, children." Adam had said from next to Belle.

"Afternoon, Master." The children said.

"Do, you all mind if I speak with Belle alone?" There were a lot of ooo's from the children and laughter.

"Are you going to talk about love?" Gabriel asked.

"Well, something like that." Adam said, not wanting to give away to much.

"Marriage?" Alice asked.

"Is that any of our business?" Adela asked.

"Maybe it is." Gabriel retorted.

"I don't think we should stick around." Chip whispered to Alice. Alice nodded and they both left.

"Hey, where did Alice and Chip go?" Adela noticed.

"I bet I'll find them before you!" Gabriel said as he got up and ran for the door.

"Nuh-uh!" Adela yelled and she chased after Gabriel.

"Well, that was uh...interesting?" Adam said.

"Just wait, they'll be the ones who Chip and Alice are laughing at for falling in love." Belle said.

"That will be the day when pigs fly." Adam said.

"You can see it now, they're definitely going to fall for one another."

"But, Belle, they're only nine."

"It will be just like in the fairy tales." Belle said knowingly. Adam shrugged and sat down next to her. "I thought you were going to write your speech today?" Belle asked.

"I was but, Lumière and Cogsworth got into a fight so, I left."

"You left them fighting?"

"Well, no. I said for them to stop then I left."

"Was there something you wanted to talk to me about? Is that why you're here?"

"Well, yes as a matter of fact. There is something I would like to talk to you about."

And for the next hour or so, Adam had explained to Belle about the enchantress and how she placed a spell on the household ten years ago. Telling him to find love before the last petal fell on the rose. All because he was a selfish brat. That he had locked himself in the castle and forbid anyone to leave. Living just like a beast, thinking no one would be able to fall in love with a hideous beast. Until Belle's father had come along and had made Belle come along after. Trading places with him and eventually falling in love with him.

"So, because you fell in love with me, and I you, the spell was broken and now we're human and the place is as nice as it was before." Adam finished.

"It all seems like a fairy tale." Belle said.

"I guess it does once you explain it like that. But, to be honest, I'm glad it happened. Because if it didn't happen I would have never had met you." Adam said.

"That's so cheesy." Belle said as she smiled at him. Adam laughed.

"I know." Adam said as he kissed her.

So, this is my Beauty and the Beast fic! I thought it would be fun to do one after I met Belle in Disney World (btw, her favorite band is Coldplay) Oh, the joys of being fourteen and the only kid above the age of seven in the line to meet her.

This story, I will get around to more often than my How to Train Your Dragon fic, only because I have three fics in progress at once and this one I have more ideas roaming in my head, at the moment, than the How to Train Your Dragon fic. I will upload to that story though, but not quite as much as this one or my Legend of Zelda one.

French Words used:

champignons - mushrooms

mademoiselle - miss

monsieur - Mr.