Beauty and the Beast

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"What are you doing?"

Break had been reading through some of the books in his study when a blinding light had burst forth from nowhere, or so he thought.

When he looked up from his book, he saw Sharon opening up the usually closed curtains in nothing but a simple maid's gown; she had no doubt found it in the old dresser in her room.

She looked over at him with a smile which he was rather surprised to see.

"Well, if I'm going to be staying here I might as well clean this place up a bit" she brushed some not-so-imaginary dust off of her simple blue skirt and moved onto the next window.

Break simply chuckled and went back to his book.

"Well I suppose you might as well make yourself useful around here, just don't bother with the bodies in the basement" he said with a chuckle as he snuck a glance up from his book only to see that she had dropped the duster she had been using with wide eyes.

"It was a joke" he said with a chuckle.

She immediately relaxed and let out a small laugh.

"Right, of course" she chuckled to herself and went back to dusting.

Just then, Liam walked into the rom looking a bit flustered.

"Break, can I speak with you? Alone." Sharon took that as a hint and left to give them some privacy, as she was walking back to her room she couldn't help but glance at the end of one of the halls. There at the end of the dusty corridor sat a simple wooden door with the name "Emily" carved on it in lovely cursive.

She silently wondered who Emily could be, she didn't know of anyone else in the house other than Liam. She had been so full of questions that she forgot Liam's warning about the door in the West hall.

She hesitantly walked over to the door and put a tentative hand on the dusty handle, after a moment of hesitation, she slowly opened the door.

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Once Sharon had left the room, Break turned to Liam and sighed.

"What is it this time?" He noted that the young man was vigorously cleaning his glasses which usually meant he was nervous.

"W-well…it seems that were going to be having some trouble soon" he stuttered, nervously avoiding the subject. Break raised an eyebrow in curiosity and annoyance.

"Trouble?"

Liam nodded "it seems that Lady Sharon is…engaged to be married and her fiancé isn't very happy about you taking her…" Liam knew Break wasn't completely heartless, if the woman truly was engaged then he may let her leave.

Break looked rather surprised at this

"Are you sure? There was no ring on her finger when I brought her here; I'll ask her about it myself" he said resolutely as he stood up and left the study.

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Sharon looked about the small dusty room, the walls were painted a light pink and the room itself looked like its previous resident had been a young girl, did Break have children at one point?

Sharon felt her blood go cold at the thought, if the child had died then she could understand why Break wanted this room to be left alone, she suddenly felt as if she had gone too far with her exploration.

"I'm terribly sorry" she whispered softly to herself as if that would make amends, she quickly turned to leave only to come face to face with Break.

She froze in shock, his usual smirk had been replaced with a cold expression, she saw anger in his expression, but she could have sworn that for a split second she saw a flash of pain go through his crimson eye.

Her thoughts were interrupted by his unusually cold voice which chilled her to the core.

"What are you doing in here."

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FINALLY DONE! Sorry about the wait! I was having a writers block.

Serenade: thanks! Im glad you like it!

Sailor Buns: yes, yes you did XD I love Once Upon a Time!