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Everything seemed to click together. Why didn't she see it sooner!

"Oh yes, plenty of times, one could say we're acquaintances by now"

That's how he knew.

"Don't you dare come any closer"

That's why he never let her see him.

"If you came here to tell me you caught it then you are a liar"

He was the demon.

"Set it down and look away"

It had been him all along! How could she been so trusting to a total stranger. How could she be so dumb! What if this was his plan all along?

It wasn't the first time he had attacked her and it probably wouldn't be the last. He messed up this time, however, had it been just her she would have let it slid. But she wasn't. He had threatened Belle too.

Her eyes narrowed at his form she lifted her bow and aimed at him again, drawing the string of her bow as far as she could. She should kill him so he would threaten anyone anymore. It would be a clean shot, no suffering for him yet a voice in the back of her head told her this wasn't right. Before she just wanted to track it down and see if it was a threat or not. But now it was more than a demon. It could talk and apparently it didn't want to die this way. But it shouldn't matter she should end it. He was dangerous.

She clenched her jaw and she aimed between his eyes.

This is murder her mind whispered to her.

After what felt like forever she put her finally put her bow down and began walking away. There was no point in killing him. Judging but the way he was bleeding he would die soon and it wouldn't be her fault. He had attacked first and she had only defended herself and her sister.

The nagging feeling in the back of her brain soon traveled to the pit of her stomach and the father away she got the slower her pace got.

He talked her mind reminded. What if he had been cursed too, like Belle had said Adam once was.

"Damn it all to hell!" She cursed at herself and her morals and ran back to his fallen form. She pulled out a small dagger she kept hidden in her boot and began cutting strips from her cloak and made make shift gauzes to stop the bleeding. Once she was sure it stopped she looked around and gather her surroundings his cave was a few miles away she was sure of it. For now she would just have to hide him from walking travelers. She grabbed him by his antlers and began to drag him.

"Oh god! You're heavy!" She wheezed only able to pull him a few feet away before she gave up. At least she manage to get him off the main road. She took her sword out and walked deeper into the forest and cut some shrubs, taking them back to him and laying them on him to cover his form. She'll have to leave him here for now until she got Tristan to help her. She went back to the trail and kicked dirt and leaves on the blood to cover it up. Once satisfied she began to run back towards the castle, stopping shortly when she saw Tristan a feet feet away. She whistled and he came trotting over to her.

"Good boy, you didn't run off all the way to the castle this time" she patted him before mounting him and leading him to where Gaston was hidden.

It had taken her a while to get him on Tristan. Especially since her companion kept refusing her commands though she couldn't blame him, she knew his animal instincts were telling him to flee. But once he was on him And realized no harm would come to him he began to follow her as she lead him away.

"It's not too far from here boy, I promise" she patted him.

When they reached the cavern she looked around to find a suitable place for him. That's when she saw that he didn't have much. Actually he didn't have anything at all except for the basket she brought him last him and an empty bottle of rum. It made her wonder how long he had been out here surviving off the land. She couldn't imagine herself living in the wild by herself sure she traveled by herself but she always stopped by towns and was able to socialize with other people. He didn't have that. She wondered if he ever got lonely.

No wonder he's always in a bad mood she thought as she tugged him off Tristan.

Snap

"No! No no no no no" she panicked as a strap on her saddle snapped causing it to slid off and Gaston's full weight fell on her with him on top of her. The air in her lungs was knocked out of her. She groaned and tried to push him off but he was dead weight and it was impossible to do with one hand. She would have to wait until he woke up again for him to get off her. If he woke up again.

"Wonderful" she muttered with a roll of her eyes. How is it she always found herself in these types of situations "Can this get any worse?" She sighed pinching the bridge of her nose with her free hand. To answer her question her stomach growled.

I had to ask she grimaced.

Belle had quickly arrived at the castle and gotten Adam and a couple of his servants to follow her back to where that thing had attacked her and her sister. Each of them were armed with weapons incase the thing decided to show again. Once they had arrived they saw Joie nowhere in sight.

"Search the area" Adam told his men and they set off to search the forest.

"What if we don't her Adam?"

"We will, if I learned anything from your sister from the past few days is that she is skilled at what she does. She'll be alright Belle"

"But what if something happened to her? What if-"

"Belle listen to me, she'll be fine" Adam assured her "We won't stop looking until we find her"

They search for hours until the sun had set. They hadn't found much except for a few shrubs that had been cut. His men weren't trackers and they could only assume the cut shrubs were from Joie's fight with the demon she and Belle had encountered.

"Young Master? The sun has set we won't have any luck finding her in the dark. We should start searching again early in the morning" his servant suggested. Adam looked towards Belle waiting for her to make the decision.

"I know I'm asking a lot but will you help again tomorrow?" Belle swallowed hard and they agreed with her. They did have a point. It was too dark already no point in risking their lives too to search for one person.

Have a little more faith in me Belle

Her sister was strong and clever if anyone could survive this it would be her.

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