******Hello people!! Check out the note at the end for a surprise..^_^..
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Beauty sat and ate her chicken, side of vegetables and drank her milk. She was almost finished when the boy came hobbling into the room. She looked at him in curiosity to the pouty expression he wore. He simply smiled at her after a moment of pouting and plopped in a chair beside her. She offered him the rest of her chicken that she just couldn't possibly eat. He declined and patted his tummy to say that he had eaten. Beauty looked at him once more with a puzzled expression, she didn't know where he found the time to cook, eat and serve the Beast and now her!
She scooped up a spoon of pudding and offered it to him, he did accept this. He ate the pudding and smiled even more when she gave him the rest of it.
A low growl sounded behind them to show that they had another person entering the room. Beauty turned to regard him and found him far less scary, but still very, well, what would the word be? Strange? Different? Well whatever, she couldn't seem to keep her eyes from him. He moved closer to the table to see, once again, a very cheerful young boy.
"What's he so happy about," he said moving closer to where food was on the table.
"Not you," Beauty said her eyes never leaving the furry creature.
"Someone is apparently," said the Beast. Beauty glared at him for a long moment.
"And why would you think that?"
"Come, come. You haven't taken your eyes off of me since I came into the room."
"Who could?" Beauty said, one would say she glared at him again though since she had not stopped her first one perhaps it would be said that she glared deeper.
The Beast growled.
He looked at the food sitting on the plate on the table directly across from Beauty. The lad sat next to her smiling cheerfully, not seeming to realize the two of them were falling in loath with one another.
"What's wrong?" she asked, smiling sweetly. "Too well done for your taste?"
"Well, actually yes it is," the Creature said with an evil grin. "I do prefer raw."
"You mean still breathing?"
"Exactly." The Beast smiled when he said this.
Beauty opened her mouth to say something different until she caught the look on his face. She looked away suddenly realizing she was digging herself a very deep and dangerous hole. She looked back at him, determined not to let him intimidate her, though really he was doing a very good job of it.
"What happened to his parents?" Beauty asked, changing the subject and looking towards the little boy.
"What do you think happened," the Beast asked while he swallowed down a piece of the chicken.
"You're not supposed to eat the bones!" Beauty said amazed by the way he ate.
"Oh by all means! Please! Educate me on how to eat properly so I can remember to put a napkin on my lap before I eat my next kill."
Beauty glared at him for a moment, sighed and shook her head, unable to think of anything to say. She sat and stared at him as he ate and was appalled by the way he ate!
"Do you find me attractive?" the monster asked while he had food hanging from his mouth.
He didn't know what to make of the sweet smile that came on her face; well it would have been sweet if he didn't seem to know she had something up her sleeve.
"You're just so adorable! Like a big kitten!" she said, her mouth dropped open and she said in an almost ridiculous voice; "Can I pet you?"
The Beast stared at her for a moment. She didn't know if she should laugh at the look on his face or be scared of what was to come.
Seeming speechless he stood up and stalked from the room, muttering words that Beauty could not hear.
"Awe, here kitty, kitty, kitty!" she called after him and smiled to herself in triumph.
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Like a big kitten? Who does she think she is!
Marc growled low in his throat and stalked back and forth in front of his balcony. He had already knocked over the table in more frustration then anger. She really hadn't angered him just frustrated him.
Why didn't I say something to her! Why didn't I ... say anything!
A thousand comebacks came into his mind now...
... now that it was too late.
He growled again.
Only a few minutes passed by when a very cheerful little boy walked into his room. He glared at the kid.
"Why are you so cheerful?" He asked.
The boy smiled and walked over to the fallen table; placing it back onto its legs correctly he climbed up and sat on it.
"Expecting to stay now, are we?" Marc said and he leaned against his wall. "What are you smiling about anyways?"
The boy, tucking his legs beneath him simply sat smiling, then nodding towards the closed door (obviously towards the girl who was probably in her own room at the moment).
Marc growled and the boy's grin grew larger then Marc thought possible.
"I am hungry," Marc said rubbing his stomach and saying every word very slowly. "I am going to go find something to eat," he gestured to outside. "You go off and play with the pretty girl, okay?" this time he reached over and lifted the boy up by the back of his shirt and carried him to the door.
He put the child gently on his unsteady feet and looked him over for a moment before beginning to shove the kid gently out the door.
The little boy shook his head several times and hugged Marc around the waist and struggled to get back into the room. He apparently wasn't ready to go yet.
Marc gave a little bit of a stronger shove and was surprised when the boy fell to the ground; he hadn't pushed him that hard! He realized that it was the boy's intention to fall as the lad crawled under his legs and back into the room. The boy sat on the floor and hugged the table leg and shook his head to show that he was staying right here!
Marc growled.
The boy stuck out his tongue and then, after Marc once again leaned against the wall, climbed back onto the table and sat comfortably. He nodded again in the direction of the brown haired girl and this time, to Marc's horror, the boy winked.
What in the nine hells is that supposed to mean!
The boy looked to Marc with an expression as to if the large cat-man felt the same way.
"No! She is the worst... most... why am I explaining this to a deaf kid... no!" he said shaking his head and once again lifting the boy up and taking him from the room. He closed the door and slipped out his window to find some dinner.
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Beauty sat next to the warm fire and glanced out the window just in time to see a large creature running across the field and out towards the woods. Beauty shivered at the thought of what he was about to do.
She stood up and walked out of the room and decided it was time to explore the castle.
So with a small, blonde haired guide, she was taken her tour around the small castle.
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A/N : ok, not really THE author…this is techbaby..lil sis has asked me to finish posting the remaining chapters of this story for her.
Now for the surprise I promised you…the reason our Unleashed Soul is so uumm…distracted…here lately is cuz…
SHE GOT ENGAGED!!! Mr.Romeo Lover-Boy has popped the question!!!!
So currently all she wants to talk about is what kind of hideous Brides Maid dress she's gonna shove me into....hee hee hee.
But she did promise I could still wear my combat boots. And with her currently living in Guatemala, well, think about it…ALL THAT COFFEE!!!! I'll be in coffee heaven!!!! I could die a very happy woman.
**sniff** **sob**…my baby sister thinks she's all grown up now…**sob**