Chapter 1
Shimmer of hope
She had been running for a long time, so far for so long, her cloche billowing out from around her. How could she have not seen this, memories of the previous months flashed back to her.
"Belle what can possibly be the mater, your home now, that beast won't hurt you any longer" her farther stated proudly. "He is not a beast papa, I wish you would stop calling him that" Belle said in frustration, she loved her farther dearly but he still thought of her as a child and as a child you are not taken seriously.
"That thing is a beast, young lady and you need to stop feeling sorry for it, I understood when you first came home, that you had gone through a lot of shock and weren't in your own mind, but it's been two months now and you need to get back to your life here!" her farther said firmly, she then stood up and past rapidly. Belle knew what she had to do but was afraid to do it, afraid of what he'd say, but it had to be done, "papa I can't go back to the way things were now, I've already told you how I feel about him and I know you just think I'm being a stupid little girl for loving him, but I am not a child any more, I am my own mind and heart, I did everything I could to make him see that I love him, he just couldn't believe and now we both paid the price" she sat down with a sigh feeling dizzy and knowing why.
"Belle he is a monster and monsters can't love, he has obviously bewitched you into loving his, to hurt me, just like he did when he took you away, now being a…" but Belle interrupted him "it has nothing to do with you!, he's afraid that I betrayed he to some queen who apparently wants him to lose his power, as well as losing his power to my kiss, I'm his true love and he is mine, I have given him everything to try and prove him that and in doing so I now have a Pease of him with me for always even though he's not here" she was breathing heavily now, then he spoke "what do you mean a peace of him" there it is, the question she had been dredging "I'm pregnant papa" she finally said it.
If Belle had been expecting the loving farther treatment, she had been sourly mistaken, after breaking the news to her farther, the room exploded in into and array of swears and curses, after that her farther had sent out men to find the best healers, doctors and even clerics in the land to get the "demon" out of her, not listening to her when she said she wanted to keep it, then she left so as not to endanger her child. So there she was, eight months in to her pregnancy and showing, waking in to a tavern looking for a place to stay the night.
Later that evening belle sat and a table reading a book with one hand and the other placed protectively onto her rounded belly, feeling the child move within her. Just then a party of dwarves hustled and bustled onto the table next to her, Belle smiled at their playful banter, she also knottiest one dwarf looking slightly glum, she watched as an older dwarf came over to him to ask what's wrong, she listened as he listed the symptoms she knew all too well, when the older dwarf said it must be in his head she interrupted "it's not in his head its in his heart, you're in love" she stated sadly, thinking of her own love, then the older dwarf spoke again " that impossible, dwarves can't fall in love" she looked at the dwarf she'd herd the other dwarves call Dreamy "trust me, I know love and, your in it" "what it like" Dreamy asked as came over to sit by her, she continued to tell him about love and how if you don't talk it you'll lose it, she then told him his mistake about the firefly's and encouraged him to be with his love.
As he left, Belle stared of after him, felling happy for him but also joules, joules that he was going off to be with his love, while she was not. But she couldn't fret; no she had her own little angel to take care of, her own little shimmer of hope.