BewilderedLoca

Disclaimer; I do not any of these characters, even though I adore this pairing crossover so much :] Thanks to Comidia del Arte for the plot really while I developed the rest and the then some after her suggestion. Takes place after 'Down in Paris', Enjoy :)

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It wasn't too long after her friends, who had come with her from the Court of Miracles, left to go back home and rest up for tomorrow, knowing it would be the same schedule as it was today and hopefully there would be just as much of a crowd as it was today. She took a deep breath and sat down on the cemented edge of the fountain as commoners walked by, most of them walking on their way back home.

She pulled out her small satchel and counted what much she got from her cut, trying to figure it out it if it would be enough for a good meal but instead found a card with a picture of a voodoo skull on the side of the margin, where it simply stated; 'Doctor Facilier. Tarot, Magic, Dreams made True.'

She blinked and lifted the card around to inspect and rotated it in different angles, trying to see out where and how it ultimately got in her satchel bag that was the size of a small coin purse. Maybe it just fell in during the act, without me knowing, she thought as she considered it being that and tossed the card to the side, deciding it wasn't really relevant or important to her life as of now.

She got up and walked over to purchase an apple but felt a arm yank her away and turn her around; only to reveal that it was two guards that were most likely bored and had nothing else better to do but pick on innocent bystanders and harass them.

"Where's a gypsy girl like you get all this money?" one of them guards asked as the other one grabbed her and restrained her arms while the first counted the change before pocketing it all for himself.

Esmeralda growled as she struggled, "That's mine! I worked for that money!" she protested.

"Mhmm and my mothers the Queen of England." The guard joked, elbowing his friend to join in their rambunctious course of laughter.

"Awfully rude, holding a woman like she's a sack of meat," the thin man she recognized from earlier, standing there behind him as the guard immediately went defensive. The thin man shook his head and tsk'ed the guardsmen. "Ain't ya'll mothers teach you any better?"

"Hey, who are you to talk to me about my mother," the guard growled and lunged at him while the man stepped o the side, causing him to fall right in the water barrel. "Smith! I'm stuck! Help me out!" he grunted as Smith released his hold on Esmeralda to go help his friend.

"Hold on, James!" Smith instructed as he pulled causing the barrel to tilt over and roll down the street "Just you wait until Frollo hears and finds about you! Helping a gypsy here is against the law!" Smith yelled as he chased after his friend down the street.

Esmeralda stood there and watched the scene take place before her, oblivious to the man picking up the satchel and holding it up to her, "This is yours, is it not?" he asked while she looked over and nodded. She remembered him now, he was the only one in that crowd that had the longest limb and thinnest body she ever saw-- compared to Clopin but wasn't as tall as this fellow.

He had high cheekbones, dark circles around his eyes which were violet. He wore a violet tailcoat, an ill-fitted purple vest that displayed a short amount of his abdomen and slacks.

"Yes…Thank you." She said hesitantly as she pulled her satchel back from as the man who closely resembled a living skeleton.

"Excuse me, where are my manners," he took his hat off and bowed, "The name's Facilier. Dr. Facilier." He grinned as he stood up and slipped a card from his sleeve and handed it over to her. She blinked and accepted the familiar card and quickly noticed it was the same one she had earlier. "I'm sure we'll cross paths again." He said gently to her as he took her hand and gently kissed it before departing into the afternoon crowd.

She hesitantly looked down at the card in her hand and sighed, "I have to start going home early."

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Ok so this is first official chapter, I knew it's short but the rest is longer and will be longer, muchos longer :0 Please review.