A/N: wow wasn't that a LONG hiatus? quite so, so here's some more, mostly fluff. hope you are amused. and thank you for reading.

In the morning, Belle was sleeping still, the blanket barely covering her. Aidan was watching her as she slept, amazed still by the events that occurred last night. He got up and went into his kitchen and decided that he would surprise her, by making her breakfast. It would be his first attempt at such a thing. He never made anything for anyone, except his cousin Phil. Aidan was able to make one thing well, omelets, it seemed to work well for him, no matter what he put in it, he couldn't screw it up. And so he started, cracking eggs and chopping up what he had in his fridge. He saw the old coffee from the previous night and dumped it out. He started making a new pot. He peeked out to check on Belle who was still sleeping. He returned to his eggs when someone began ringing his doorbell. He rushed to the door, as he did not want to wake Belle yet. He looked at the monitor he had installed near the door. It showed a cop. Aidan was hesitant to open the door, but he kept ringing the bell. Aidan quickly opened the door, but not to all the way, only enough for him to be seen. He leaned on the door frame to block his view into his apartment.

"Is there a reason you're ringing my doorbell at this hour?" Aidan asked

"It's almost noon" the cop answered back

"How did you get in here?"

"Well there are businesses downstairs. And they all said you lived here"

"What do you want? I'm rather busy"

"I need to ask you a few questions. We found your umbrella last night"

"How do you know it's mine?"

"Funny little thing, very ornate, had your initials on it. Only one place makes umbrellas like that. So we asked him and-"

"Get to the point officer"

"Your umbrella was found next to 2 very beaten up men. One of them beaten so severely that he's on life support right now. "

"He shouldn't have stolen it then"

"Where were you last night?"

"I was here"

"You were here in your apartment all of last night?"

"Yes"

"Do you have any witnesses?"

A slender hand slide its way up from behind Aidan and rested on his chest. The officer followed the hand and tried to peer behind Aidan. Belle rested her head on his back, allowing only her eye to be seen, hiding the other side of her face that was bruised.

"He was here in his apartment with me all of last night, and this morning" Belle said

The officer smiled a bit, and Aidan was getting annoyed.

"Well as you can see I wasn't there last night. So if you don't mind" Aidan slammed the door shut.

He turned around and moved her hair aside. Belle held onto the blanket as he leaned in to kiss her.

"I wish you wouldn't do that"

"Do what?"

Aidan lifted her hand that was holding the blanket against her body and kissed it lightly. The blanket fell to the floor. Aidan's eyes wandered down and back up and smiled.

"That's better"

The two lovers awoke hours later still entwined in each others arms. Belle felt alive, she felt as if something inside her that had been aching to be released was free. She was free in his arms and she was alive when she was with him. She did not regret anything. She would have to face the consequences of her actions eventually.

"Take me home?" Belle asked

"Why?"

"Because I can't stay here forever"

"Yes you can"

"I have to talk to my spiritual mother"

"About what?"

"About the truth"

Aidan got up and put his robe back on. He disappeared into the bathroom. Belle got up and pulled the blanket around herself. She walked down to the dryer and realized she could not wear the clothes of a postulate anymore.

She reached into the dryer and took out his shirt and then put it on. It was fairly larger that she was and dwarfed her in size. She folded up the blanket and placed it on top of the dryer.

Aidan appeared again with a toothbrush in his mouth. He saw her wearing his shirt and it made her even more desirable. He wanted to take her up on the dyer. He wanted her. She wondered why he was staring at her so inventively.

"What are you staring at?" Belle asked as she walked up to him

"A beautiful woman wearing my clothes"

Aidan pulled her closer to him, and attempted to kiss her when she pushed him away.

"Don't even think about kissing me with a toothbrush still in your mouth!"

Aidan placed a large black trench coat over Belle as she was wearing nothing but his button down shirt. He took her hand and led her down to the car. Aidan watched her as she got into the car. He opened the garage door and the sun's rays were starting to set. He got into the car and started the engine.

Belle sat there looking at herself in the mirror in the visor. No longer was her hair covered. She saw herself for who she was.

"What are you looking for?" Aidan asked

"Nothing" Belle lifted the visor up and looked away

"Why so mysterious now?"

"It's nothing"