Techbaby here….again…for the absentee Unleashed Soul…..**grumbles**

I got good word from our mother dearest – Unleashed Soul has been working on finishing the story!!!  YYAAYY!!!…..and Unleashed Soul herself also sent me a note comfirming she has been working on the story….YYAAYY  YYAAYY

And as for Princess's question about the name "Angel", I asked Unleashed Soul 'bout that – she said "I dunno, I just like it", and now it has become a trend in her stories.

Big thanks to Shiara the Witch (great name btw), Yoshiki, Elissa the Elf and Indigo Ziona for the latest reviews!!!!

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  "You think this is all funny, don't you?" Beast growled while Angel lay on the floor laughing so hard it hurt his sides.

  Beast, as the girl had nicknamed him, was covered in chocolate pudding with a large wooden bowl sitting upturned on his head. The pudding had dripped from his kitty head and down his shoulders.

  In trying to get Beast to try it the boy had climbed on top of the table and slipped. Beast was there to catch him and the bowl of pudding. Beast removed the bowl and tossed it to the floor and picked up the lad.

  The boy, who had just started to calm himself down, burst into laughter again.

  Beast couldn't help but smile; it was kind of funny...

  He carried the boy to the door by the back of his shirt again and laid the laughing boy outside the door. He didn't hear the boy get up to walk away for a few minutes and perhaps five minutes afterwards his door swung open again and the boy stood pointing at him, still laughing.

  Beast growled at the girl who was being dragged in behind the boy.

  "Hello to you too," the girl said before also laughing.

  "Oh, just... shut up!" Beast said annoyed and picked up a cloth and tried to wipe himself off. Angel sat on the floor and laughed at the site of the large creature trying to wipe himself down.

  "Here," the girl said as she walked over to him. She took the cloth from him and wiped down his fur in on his back where he had trouble reaching.

  "I can do it myself!" Beast spat but the girl didn't let him turn and continued to clean out his fur.

  For a moment he struggled but then gave it up and relaxed to the feel of the cloth's movements on his shoulders and back.

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  Beauty ran the cloth through his fur, out of curiosity she reached out and touched a clean spot and petted it with her hand. She wasn't surprised to feel soft and coarse fur. To her absolute surprise the Beast made a low sound, at first she thought he was about to growl at her but instead he purred.

  "Don't you dare snap at me!"

  Beast looked at her for a moment; he didn't seem to know what just happened.

  Beauty stood and looked at him back, his green cat eyes changed from not understanding to angry.

  "Don't you even start to yell at me!" Beauty said just as Beast was taking his breath.

  So instead of yelling he growled.

  Beauty glared at him and walked towards the door where the boy was still sitting, but no longer laughing. Beauty turned around and threw the cloth back towards Beast; it hit him, of course, in the face.

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  Angel looked up at Tee's flustered face. He didn't understand why Tee and Kiddy didn't get along very well. They should love each other. How would he make them into a family if they didn't love each other?

  Angel wondered how he was going to fix things. He had to find a way to make the two of them fall deeply in love with each other and still love him too. He thought of a lot of things to do and smiled at himself while Tee walked him down the stairs.

  He would make them love each other, no matter what it took...

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  To Angel's request Beauty waited at the table for her meal. She raised an eyebrow at the boy when Angel came walking into the room with Beast in hand. Beast sat at the table across from Beauty and glared at her.

  Angel smiled happily as he stood off to the side and watched the two of them sitting there. He smiled and nodded and hurried off towards the kitchen.

  "What has gotten into him?" Beauty asked watching the boy's happily limp towards the kitchen.

  "How should I know?" Beast growled.

  "You spend more time with the boy, I just thought-"

  "Thinking isn't one of your strong points is it?"

  Beauty glared at him again. She opened her mouth to say something but shut it when the boy came back in and laid their plates in front of them. Also, in front of them he laid a vase of red roses. Then hobbled from the room.

  "Oh my! Where did he find those?"

  "Doesn't matter," Beast said as he began to pile food into his mouth, "I promised him I would eat down here tonight so that he would leave me alone, I don't care what he feeds us or places in front of us."

  Beauty rolled her green-blue eyes and began to eat her own food.

  The candles, as if they had a life of their own, dimmed.

  "Hear that?" Beast asked with a mouth full of food.

  "Hear what?"

  "Music?"

  Beauty opened her mouth to say what a silly idea that would be but she could also hear a very light, romantic sounding music...

  Beast and Beauty stood and looked around but saw nothing.

  Beast picked up the last of his food and popped it into his mouth then bent down and pulled a small lad out from under the table.

  "Kid must know a thing or two about magic," he growled. The boy looked up at him and smiled, and shrugged his shoulders as if he had no idea of what was going on.

  Beast growled at him and walked off.

  As soon as Beast had left the room the music stopped and the candles returned to their normal light.

  Beauty looked down at Angel with a puzzled look.

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  "Does insanity run through your family or is that the Beast coming out in you?" Beauty asked while they engaged in another of their everyday oral combats.

  Beast growled.

  "You only growl when you can't think of anything to say," Beauty replied to his growl as she lifted another heavy piece of wood. Her head swam for a moment and she dropped the wood and fell to her knees.

  "What's wrong?" Beast asked, not moving from his spot against the wall. Beauty and Angel had taken over the job of cleaning out and rebuilding the indoor garden. Beauty was doing most of the hard labor.

  "I feel sick... I think I'm going to-" she didn't have a chance to finish her sentence as she ran off to the wall and vomited.

  Beast raised an eyebrow to her and she turned and looked at him.

  "Ugh, I think I must still have that cold." she said smiling at his face. He looked more curious then worried.

  "You been sick for awhile?" Beast asked as Beauty kicked dirt over the spoilt spot.

  "My stomach has for the past few weeks, but you must admit I was out in that cold for far too long."

  "Right," Beast replied and huffed a heavy sigh. He glanced over towards the boy. "Why am I out here?"

  Earlier that day Angel nearly cried when Beast wouldn't help them in the garden. For some reason it seemed the lad wanted the three of them to do things together. Beast and Beauty had not eaten alone since the night they heard the music, instead the boy sat with them (not that either of them minded.).

  "You're supposed to be helping us, I do believe."

  Beast growled and left.

It wasn't until a week later when Beauty realized that something was horribly wrong. She had gone a month without her monthly woman cycle. She had no idea of what this might mean, could she be more ill then having a simple cold. She sat in front of her fire and watched the flames do their elegant dance; she could have sworn she saw the image of her Angel in the fire. She sighed and gulped down her tears. She felt her stomach growing ill again and reached for her chamber pot.

There ya go..another chapter, you all know the drill…

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