Hey guys, sorry Chapters 8 & 9 aren't up yet. I'm working on them and hopefully they'll be out soon. When exactly I don't know yet, but I'll let you guys know in my profile page. I'll do my updates there from now on.

BUT! ...In the meantime while you wait, here's a Deleted Scene from Chapter 4 I decided to add in! It's based on a song that's part of the Broadway musical of Beauty and the Beast. The song is called "If I Can't Love Her" and it's sung by Beast after he scares Belle off and she runs away into the woods. I found myself listening to Josh Groban's version of it (Yes, I know. I'm sorry, but I just LOVE that man's voice and emotional inflections so much! Ah! LOL!) and it just got my creative juices flowing so...here's Nick singing it after he scared off Judy. FYI: It might help to listen to Groban's version of it, since I based it off of that one.

I started off with a scene from Chapter 4 so you can tell where it takes place within the story. Hope you enjoy it and I hope to see you all again at Chapters 8 and 9 when I get them out! :)

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Chapter 4 Deleted Scene: If I Can't Love Her

Judith races down the steps of the West Wing, racing past even Clawhauser and Finnick who eventually came back to look for her there. "Wait! W-Where are you going?!" calls a concerned Clawhauser.

"Promise or no promise I can't stay here another minute!" Judith calls back.

"Wait What?!" Finnick yells in disbelief, running after her along with Clawhauser.

Down at the bottom of the main stairway by the front entrance, Philippe accompanied by Manchas rubs at his head in pain. "Don't worry Monsieur Oates. If it keeps hurting, we can have our doctor take a look at you."

"Thank you."

The horse and coat-rack gasp when they see a small gray creature rushing down the steps. "Mademoiselle Judith?" inquires a confused Manchas.

"Miss Judith! You're alive!" the horse exclaims relieved.

"Come on, Philippe!" Judith grabs Philippe by the arm and drags him with her to the door.

"Where are we going?" asks the confused horse.

"I don't have time to explain!" Judith struggles to open the door given the powerful snowstorm roaring outside.

"Wait! Mademoiselle Judith, what's going on?" Manchas asks the frazzled bunny.

"I'm sorry Manchas," she simply says as she finally manages to open the door and leave outside with Philippe.

Manchas stands by the now closed door, completely dumbfounded. What could have happened to scare her off like that?

"Miss Judith!"

"Mademoiselle Judith!"

Finnick and Clawhauser call behind Manchas, breaking him away from his thoughts, "Finnick! Clawhauser! What happened? Why did Miss Judith leave like that?"

"We don't know," Finnick answers completely out of breath.

"Did the Master let her leave?" the jaguar coat-rack asks again.

"I don't think so," Clawhauser says, struggling to catch his breath, "But whatever the reason, someone has to go after her. It's not safe out there!"

The three look at each other in silence, their eyes full of concern as they glance back at the door.

High above them, watching them hidden in the shadows, is Nicholas. His ears pull back, as fear and guilt overwhelm him. He wonders whether or not he should send someone after her - He snorts angrily - No! Why should he go to all that trouble? After all, she brought this on herself for disobeying him. This is her own fault! If anything, good riddance! Nicholas walks away, heading back to his room with a clear conscious.

"Dumb bunny," he mutters angrily under his breath as he re-enters the dark cavern that is his bedroom, "Why should I or anyone else go after her? It's not my fault she's a coward like every other stupid..." he swipes at a destroyed table in his path, "...prey mammal in the world! Let her get in trouble. See if I care!" He stops in front of a cracked, full body mirror littered with bits of shattered glass strewn before it. The irritated fox views his unpleasant disposition reflected in the mirror. His hostile demeanor plus the broken mirror's deforming glass makes him look more feral than usual. It's enough to cause a discomforting churn in his stomach.

Nicholas' ears pull back, upset. Upset over the fact that he can barely recognize himself anymore in his forever savage state. He sighs hopelessly, pressing his forehead against the mirror, "She deserves to leave. Nothing was going to change anyway. I couldn't get a hare to love me when I was normal...so how? How could I have been so stupid to think a rabbit was ever going to love me looking like this?" He looks back up to the mirror at the sad misshapen fox staring back at him, "...When there's so little left of me…"

Nicholas slowly caresses a trembling paw down his face, leaving behind four hair thin trails of glistening red where his claws press. Even at his own touch, he's reminded of how much of a dangerous monster he's become...

And in my twisted face,

There's not the slightest trace

Of anything that even hints of kindness

He backs away to view his entire deformed body, miserably taking in the sight of his killer claws, his near hairless tail, his crooked neck, and his mangy fur.

And from my tortured shape

No comfort, no escape

He turns his head away, walking toward the other side of the room. No longer able to bare looking at the horrid monster in the mirror.

I see, but deep within is utter blindness

Hopeless

Nicholas comes face to face with his torn portrait - the one Judith had seen earlier. He reaches a paw to it, caressing what was once his face. The face, he will never see again...

As my dream dies

As the time flies

He turns to the wilting rose.

Love a lost illusion

With each new word, he takes a step toward the rose.

Helpless

Unforgiven

Cold and driven

To this sad conclusion

Nicholas stops before the rose. Serenading it with his misery. Informing it that he's done. Just done! It and it's terrible curse have won. He's failed. He wanted to try, but...he can't. He just can't love a prey mammal, not when one will never love him in return...

Nooo beauty could move me

No goodness improve me

No power on earth, if I can't love her

He glances over to the aftermath of his feral rage, focusing on every new bit of broken furniture. The wreckage, just further proving the futility of his mission.

Nooo passion could reach me

No lesson could teach me

Hooow I could have loved her and make her love me too

Lowering his gaze, he notices an open book on the ground. It's Mother Moose's Collection of Fairy Tales and Old Fables opened up to a page from a story titled, 'The Princess and the Ogre'. The illustration on the page depicts an unappealing fox-ogre about to devour a rabbit princess while the rabbit prince arrives to save her.

If I can't love her, then who?

Nicholas turns the page, only to feel his heart drop like an anvil. The illustration on the next page shows the rabbit prince stabbing the fox-ogre right in his heart. Nicholas looks away, as if feeling the fox-ogre's pain.

Though he's probably read the story a thousand times over, he can never quite get over that scene. He knows the fox must lose in this case, but...he somehow can't help but feel a number of emotions he's not supposed to towards the story's savage villain: pity, empathy, jealousy…...jealousy that at least the fox-ogre was put out of his misery when he realized he couldn't get the girl.

At that last thought, Nicholas raises his gaze, a determined and decided look on his face.

Long ago I should have seen

He stands strong on all fours. Will he actually go through with it this time? Yes, he's going to do it! He's going to end his misery by jumping off the cliff edge! The way he should have done years ago!

All the things I could have been

He turns to the balcony shutters, stepping ever so slowly yet firmly toward them.

Careless and unthinking, I moved onwaaaaard

BAM!

He barges past the shutters and out to the balcony. Nicholas then jumps down each nearby balcony and roofing to head back to where he had originally planned to end it all.

He jumps to a small tower roof that rests nearby one of the castle's many drawing rooms. Through the window, he can see Clawhauser, Finnick, Manchas, and Mrs. Otterton arguing - surely still attempting to think of a plan to save Judith from whatever dangers may lurk in the woods. Nicholas shakes his head with a mocking snort. Fools. Why waste their time? It's over, he thinks to himself as he jumps over to the small roofing above the front door.

He then jumps right onto the long bridge connecting his castle to the mainland. Upon landing, he struts down the long path, marching like a soldier ready to meet his death.

Nooo pain could be deeper

No life could be cheaper

No point anymore, if I can't love her

He continues marching onward, feeling time and the world spinning around him. Before he knows it, he finds himself treading at an even pace through the knee deep snow of the woods. Fighting against the heavy winds that brisk through his long shaggy fur. Determined to reach that cliff edge no matter what!

NOOO spirit could win me

No hope left within me

HOOOPE I could have loved her and that she'd set me free

The winds die down as Nicholas slows down and comes to a complete stop. Below and ahead of him, imprinted on the snow are a trail of rabbit and horse prints. Clearly Judith had come by here and by the looks of her frantic prints, Nicholas scared her far more than he had previously thought. Staring at the wild bunny prints, Nicholas feels his stomach twist. Did she really fear him that much? Did she feel he was truly so horrible to look at that she ran off practically tripping over her own two feet?

His determination to reach the cliff edge fades. Sadness overwhelms him once more as he's again forced to come to terms with a fact he's known since the beginning.

But it's not to be...

He reaches down, gently pressing his nose against one of her prints. Sniffing it softly.

If I can't love her

His eyes fill to the brim with remorseful tears as he looks up to the night sky.

Let the world be done with meeeeeeee…...

He pleads to the sky as a sorrowful tear runs down his cheek.

No longer having the strength or energy to continue onward to the cliff, Nicholas lies down where he stands and curls into the snow. He's just...done. He simply can't and doesn't want to continue, period.

If death should come to him, then let it be through either starvation or the freezing cold. He doesn't care anymore...he just wants one of the two to eventually come and take him from his misery. Nicholas rests his nose next to Judith's footprint. He gives it another gentle whiff, "I'm sorry...I didn't mean to frighten you. I didn't mean to hurt you," he apologizes quietly to it as if it were Judith herself he was speaking to.

Nicholas nuzzles the print, before shutting his eyes to wait for death's cold hand to swoop in and take him away.

He lies there for a couple of minutes, until the gentle breeze blows an unfamiliar scent towards his face.

sniff, sniff

Nicholas opens his eyes and whiffs the air. The unfamiliar, yet somehow recognizable smell immediately causes his ears to erect in an alert fashion. "This smell…" The large fox rises to his feet to smell the air better. His nose wiggles in the air, before he brings it down to sniff the ground. The feral fox's sniffing leads him to sniff around a thick tree. Coming around the other side of the tree, he spots the source of the smell - a series of several large canine prints.

"Wolves?" Nicholas observes the prints with his gaze, following them to where they lead. He sees that the numerous wolf prints overlap Judith's and appear to be heading right to where she's going. Nicholas feels his heart sink, "Carrots!" Forgetting his previous sadness, forgetting everything, Nicholas rushes after the prints. Hoping, praying that he's not too late…

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Hey guys, if you're interested I found another cute Disney theme park video of Nick and Judy acting all lovey dovey towards one another. It's a video from Disneyland in Hong Kong.

watch?v=Oc_x25X6Fb4 if the link didn't attach well, then type: 21/5/2017 Hongkong Disneyland spring time parade (Nick n Judy)

Watch minutes 0:00 - 6:20

Sorry, I just love these two so much! And we all know Disney park characters MUST stay in character, so seeing these two characters in particular act this way towards one another gives me hope that this ship will sail someday ;)