Hi ppl! I'm back! I am so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o sorry I haven't updated in forever. I started school and I've been overrun with homework. I hope you like chapter 10 of "A Beast and a Rose!"

Chapter 10. "You have changed after all."

As Damién marched through the forest, he let himself and the men he had rallied become hopelessly lost....

"Do you zink it will work, Pierre?" Mrs. Potts asked, worried.

"Can you zink of a better plan?" the carpet/boy answered the teapot's question with another.

"It is ze best we can do. To protect ze castle, and zose zat we care about." Lumière said.

"But don't you think we should inform the Master?" Cogsworth asked.

"Non. We should not." was Lumière's reply.

"Show me Violette."

The mist in the mirror swirled and then parted in the middle to show Violette lying on her bed, sobbing.

"Stop!"

The Beast walked out of the West Tower, and went to Violette's room to see how she was. He knocked politely on Violette's door.

"Who-who is it?" Violette choked out.

"I came to see if you are d'accord." Toulèse replied.

"Oh, I am parfait."

"I will believe zat when cows fall from ze sky."

"Parfait. Come in."

Toulèse opened the door to find Violette sitting upright like she had never been crying. But the Beast knew better than that.

"I know you were crying." he said looking into Violette's eyes.

Violette looked away and said, "No, I was not."

"Look me in the eyes and tell me you were not." Toulèse said, crossing his arms.

Violette looked Toulèse strait in his electric-blue eyes, but could not bring herself to say that she had not been crying. She finally looked away in defeat.

"Please, let me help you, Violette." the Beast said, moving closer to the girl.

"You were not so keen to help those less fortunate than you seven years ago." Violette remarked, her voice laced with ice.

"It's been seven years?" he asked, bewildered for a moment.

"It will be by nine-o-clock tonight." was Violette's reply.

Toulèse looked at the clock that hung in Violette's room. It read, 7:00pm. The Beast gulped and thought, Two more hours before the Rose looses it's last petal, and I will remain a beast for ever, for Violette will never love me in return.

"Violette, you may leave if you wish it."

"What?"

"You do not have to stay here any longer."

Violette was so shocked she didn't know what to think. She just sat there with a shocked look on her face. She could hardly grasp the fact that Toulèse loved her enough to let her go.

Violette finally smiled and said, "Merci, Toulèse. Merci."

The Beast nodded and turned to leave. But stopped when Violette added, "You have changed after all."

"What do you mean?" he asked, confused.

"I zink I will let you zink it out for yourself." Violette replied.

A/N: Hope ya liked it! R&R!