Thanks to jbelle, R2D2Chick, Muah-Baby-Muah, elissa the elf, Shiara the Witch, Aria, Indigo Ziona and everyone else who has been keeping up with the story - techbaby
°*°
Beast walked outside to the garden where Angel stood over the girl. She was kneeling next to the wall.
"Should I dig a pit there so you don't have problems with covering it up?"
"Shut up," Beauty said and Beast could have sworn he heard a sob.
Beast reached over and pulled the girl up on her feet and turned her to face him.
"You're not going to be vomiting all over my castle and telling me to shut up!" He held her by her shoulders and her feet did not touch the ground. He saw in her face, for a split second, that he scared her. But then her fear turned quickly to anger.
"Let me go!" the girl said trying to squirm out of his grasp.
"What is the matter with you!" he demanded.
The girl didn't answer him. She just glared at him. Beast got the idea and set the girl down onto her feet.
"I don't know," she admitted smoothing down her dress. "My stomach has just been ill. And if you ever do that to me again you will regret it!" She said it in a whisper and Beast did not doubt she would try. Though trying and doing were different things entirely. Beauty stormed inside the house.
Beast looked down at Angel who sighed and shook his head.
°*°
Beauty knocked gently on the large brown door. She really didn't want to do this. But she knew this was Beast's home and he would know where things might be.
Slowly she opened the door and peeked her head inside.
"I'm sorry," she whispered and Beast wouldn't have heard it if he didn't have such good hearing.
He looked over at her and raised his eye brow.
"I didn't mean to upset you... I just..." she looked everywhere in the room except at the large cat like creature.
"Forget it," he said feeling suddenly awkward.
"Okay, so um... I was wondering if you knew where to find some flower seeds? Angel seemed to want some and insists they are here."
"How am I supposed to know?"
"Well, like you said earlier, it is your castle."
Beast glared at her for a moment then shrugged. Angel hobbled into the room and took the Beast's hand and began to drag the large creature to help in the search for the seeds.
°*°
Half an hour passed and the only thing that kept Beast from quitting was Angel's tears. He, of course, denied that fact though. He wasn't much help to anyone really, just standing in the same room that Beauty and the lad where in.
Angel pointed for Beast and Beauty to look downstairs and to Beast's surprise and Beauty's horror, downstairs led to a dungeon and torture chamber.
"I doubt they would be down here," Angel persisted and the three of them soon found themselves searching the dungeon for seeds.
Beast really looked more at the torture devices and the cells and something shiny in one of the prison cells caught his attention.
"What is it?" Beauty asked walking into the cell and a very convenient and extremely unrealistic breeze blew in and the prison's bar door slammed shut.
°*°
It took a very long time for Beast to explain to Angel that the lad had to go find the key now. Angel nodded and hurried up the stairs and back towards the first floor of the castle.
"So now what?" the girl asked standing in the middle of the cell.
"We wait," Beast growled. He sensed the boy was behind this.
Beauty sighed and looked around for a clean place to sit or spot on the wall to lean against, after finding none she sighed again and simply stood there. Beast sat on the floor and leaned against the rusty bars.
"Think he knows where the keys are?" the girl moved over next to him and thought about sitting. She changed her mind however and stood watching him.
"He does, but I'll guarantee you he won't be back for awhile." He huffed.
She sat down.
"By the way, my name is Beauty."
"Beauty?" Beast asked looking her ridiculously
"Well, no actually it's Teresa, but everyone used to call me Beauty," she mentally kicked herself, she talked too much. "What is your name?"
"Beast," he growled.
"What was it before I got here?" Beauty said smiling.
"Before you got here I didn't need a name."
Beauty sighed and realized she wasn't going to get much of a descent conversation with him.
"Has your head been hurting? or your throat?" Beast asked watching "Beauty's" hand rest on her stomach.
"No, why?"
"You don't have a cold then," he murmured and leaned his head against the bars.
"Is there a way I can see a doctor?" Beast looked at her for a moment, was she joking? He saw that she wasn't and sighed moving to look at her closer.
"Tell me what you would a doctor," he said in an annoyed voice. He almost laughed at the look on her face. "I grew up with no doctor, as did my family, this is how you survive outside of being a rich bitch."
"How dare you call me that!"
"Get over it," Beast sighed leaning again against the bars.
"Okay, I um... I haven't had my, well you know, my womanly cycle for the past month." she whispered as if some horrible thing would happen to her if she were caught telling this to him.
Beast looked over at her, his eyes growing wider.
"And your stomach has been sick?"
"Isn't that obvious?" Beauty hissed and crossed her arms across her chest.
Beast chuckled and shook his head.
"Whore."
°*°
Beauty couldn't seem to find the air to breath. She stared at the Beast, how could he call her that!
"I'm not a whore! How could you!" She could feel her cheeks grow hot. "I've never... um... ever..."
"You had to of "um" because you're pregnant." Beast said, still smiling.
Beauty stared at him for a long time, one tear fell down her cheek and she realized then what had happened.
Angel hobbled down and unlocked the door; his smile vanished when he saw a tear in Beauty's eye. He glared at the Beast. Beauty walked past him and up the stairs and straight to bed. Angel, to the surprise of Beast, actually kicked Beast in the shin before turning and bolting as fast has his legs could carry him up the stairs.
°*°
"Teresita..."
Beauty walked out to the front grounds and looked around. White snow blanketed the ground, and the sky was clouded and promised more snow later in the evening.
"Teresita..."
She could hear it as if someone was screaming it on the top of their lungs, but realty said it was only a whisper. She took another step closer towards the forest.
"Teresita, I'm waiting for you."
"Angel?" she asked out into the cold. She began to walk towards the large forest. "Angel, is that you?"
She saw someone then, a tall, well built man with long braided blonde hair. He stood just at the entrance of the forest. She sprinted towards him, wanting to be in his arms.
"Angel! By the gods! Is it really you?" She ran towards him. But he turned his back on her and walked into the forest. "Angel? No! Come back!"
Beauty ran towards him, screaming out to him. She couldn't lose him now, not again. She was in the woods now, the darkness and angriness of them greeted her. She pushed past the dead branches and towards Angel. She could see nothing else but him...
So, of course, she didn't see the snow drift that she fell waist deep into. She climbed out of it and stubbornly ran on, following Angel. She tripped again over a dead tree and hit her head. Then everything went black.
°*°
"Where is she?" Beast asked, trying his best to get the child to stop crying. It was late evening and the snow was falling. The girl hadn't been seen since early afternoon. "Inside or out?"
Beast learned to try to speak with the most simplest of words while speaking to Angel. The boy only understood a few words.
Beast moaned in annoyance when the boy pointed his finger to the woods. The boy grabbed Beast around the waist and sobbed and then hiccupped. Beast laid a large hand on the boy's head and tried to comfort him. He picked the boy up and put him on the table.
"I am going out there-" he motioned outside, "to find the girl, but you will have to stay here." He pointed to the spot and the boy nodded his head quickly but wouldn't stop crying.
Beast quickly jumped from his balcony and half fell half climbed down the wall. He quickly went into the forest and cursed the girl in every way he knew how but hoped, for the boy's sake, he could find her.
The snow had already been falling for close to half an hour and he couldn't follow any tracks. He would need to use his instincts to this, he knew. He lifted his head into the air and sniffed in the cold wind. Turning in several different directions he finally found her sent and raced out towards her.
°*°
Angel hopped off the table and ran straight into Tee's room. He had to prepare for her. He pulled down the blankets and added a few as well. Then he went and started up the fire, after he got it burning beautifully he ran back down the stairs and peered out the window.
Not seeing anything he ran to the kitchen and prepared a soothing drink and dinner. The kitchen was magical and he had to do very little work. He guessed that the whole place was probably filled with some ancient magic, that is how his Pa never found him... how no one ever found him...
°*°
Beast had been out here in this cold for close to half an hour and was beginning to lose faith that he would find her. She would have probably frozen to death by now anyways. The thought didn't sit as well as he thought it would.
No, he didn't really want her to die, but he didn't think that it would bother him. He still had too much of his humanity yet to simply not be concerned.
"...angel..."
Beast turned and saw a large blue patch lying in the white snow.
"Stupid girl!" Beast growled as he hurried over to her. He turned her over in his arms and looked at her. Her skin had gone deathly white and she looked worse then he had ever seen her in the month she had lived with him. He growled at her low in his voice and she looked up at him.
"...Angel?" She asked tears rimming her eyes.
"Angel is back at the castle, he is fine! What are you doing out here?"
"No!" The girl struggled to get out of his arms. "Let me go, I have to get to him!" She moved away from him and began to crawl off towards something that Beast could not see.
"You're going the wrong way!" Beast stood and picked the girl up by the waist. She pushed and shoved and kicked, with all the strength she had she tried to get away from Beast.
"They'll kill him! Let me go! He can't die!" She screamed.
Beast yelped and dropped her to examine the new blooded bite mark she had given him. He stared at her in amazement. She bit him!
Beast grabbed her and turned her to her back and pining her beneath him. A worried look placed upon his face.
"Who is going to kill Angel?" he asked quietly, his face close to hers and demanding an answer. The girl looked up at him for a long moment before coughing and shaking forcefully.
She looked back up towards the direction she was trying to get into. She saw something that Beast did not. And the scream that came from her mouth made Beast pull back and cover his large cat ears. Once again she crawled in the direction of something her mind saw. Beast growled and picked her up, ignoring her screams...
°*°
"Who is Angel?" Beast asked sitting on the bottom of her bed. Beauty looked up at him and a tear fell down her cheek but she brushed it away.
"No one," she said lowering her eyes.
"The father of your baby?"
Beauty reached out to slap him but Beast caught it.
"I am no whore you stupid, prideful ass! It wasn't my fault!" She sneezed on him and wiped her nose on her bare arm and then realizing all her clothes where gone.
"Prideful ass?" Beast laughed. "Name calling are we? Well while we're at it: Stupid Whore."
Beauty jumped on top of him and clawed at his face and yelled curses at him. He, being much larger and stronger, easily rolled over top of her and pushed her wrists down onto the bed.
"Get off of me! Get off of me!" She screamed and kicked and tried to push him off of her. She struggled and squirmed until she realized she couldn't get out of his grasp, then laid there staring up at him angrily.
"Now," he said, his breath quick. "If you attack me again I will hurt you."
Beauty glared at him and when he moved away from her she pulled the blankets around herself.
"Who is Angel?"
"A man," Beauty said looking straight ahead and not daring to look at the Beast.
"Is he the father of your child?"
Beauty turned her head towards the Beast and looked at him. Then shook her head slowly.
"He is a dead man,"
"And the child's father lives?"
"I hope not," Beauty looked away again, she moved and stood up off the bed, still wrapped in the blanket. "Where are my clothes?"
Beast stood up and walked over to her, not really knowing what to say.
"You hope not? Did you not love him?"
"I didn't know him, Beast!" She yelled. "He... he...ah..."
"He what?" Beast yelled taking another step closer to her.
"You're an ass," Beauty said quietly looking up at him then.
"Tell me," he whispered.
"What is your name?"
Beast growled and Beauty nodded.
"This is my castle and I demand that you tell me!" he said, he was bluffing a threat and Beauty easily picked up on it.
"What will you do to me? Banish me?" Beauty asked also taking a step up towards him. "Why ever would you do that? You have dragged me back here twice!"
"I will... I'll..." Beast looked at her for a moment and then growled.
"Like I said, 'an ass'."
Beast looked back at her; he moved his face very close to hers.
"No, I'm a Beast." he whispered and growled as he turned to leave the room.
°*°
Beauty walked up the stairs and tapped on the door. She stepped inside and saw him standing on the balcony.
"Beast," she said, anger was still in her voice.
"If you came here to argue with me more; I'm not in the mood."
"I only want my clothes and can't find Angel."
"He is gathering firewood." Beast looked over at her and noticed she was still wrapped up in the blankets. "You said someone was trying to kill him. Did you mean the lad or the man you knew?"
Beauty sat down on the edge of the fur bed. Wrapping herself tighter in the blankets she breathed a steadying breath.
"Angel was the man I loved," she looked up to see the expression that Beast had. He looked at her curiously. "We were in the woods, I don't know why it happened but he was attacked by men. He apparently knew them and, well, they fought. He didn't survive."
She swallowed the lump that was forming in her throat and fought back her tears. She refused to cry. She looked up at the shocked expression on Beasts face.
"And how did you become pregnant?"
"You can't figure that out on your own?" Beauty exclaimed, shock and embarrassment showing on her face.
"You were forced then." It was more of a statement then a question.
"I don't want to talk about this anymore," Beauty said with a slight sob.
"Fine," Beast snapped out and turned and looked back out his balcony.
Beauty stood to leave, holding back the tears yet again.
"Marc."
She turned to look at him, not understanding.
"My name was Marc," he didn't turn to look at her, and she understood that that was his form of an apology. She nodded, though he couldn't see it, then turned and walked out the door.
She found Angel easily enough and was returned her clothing. Angel had at first tried to get her back into bed thinking she wasn't well enough to be out yet. She reassured him that she was fine and after they, she and Angel, ate dinner she held him on her lap again and let him fall asleep.
°*°
"You should be sleeping in a real bed," Beast grumbled as he lifted Angel up by the back of his shirt. "And so should the boy."
Angel, who was normally the first one to wake was still sound asleep. Even when Beast picked him up in such a crazy and not so gentle manner the child stayed asleep.
"Don't do that to him." Beauty said reaching out and cradling the boy in her arms again. "He is just a child."
"He is tougher than you think."
Beauty didn't say anything, just stood and laid the boy carefully down on the couch and covered him up with the blanket.
"You shouldn't be lifting things," Beast muttered slightly while glancing out the window at the progress of the garden.
Beauty glared at him, explaining with her expression that that was the last thing she wished to speak about. She turned and walked out of the room.
Beast growled, he liked her better when she argued with him. He looked down at the sleeping boy before turning and stalking from the room.
°*°
Angel sat up once he heard Kiddy and Tee walk away. He frowned when he noticed they walked in opposite directions. He sighed and pushed the blanket off of himself and moved away from the couch. He had to figure out another way to get Kiddy and Tee together.
He glanced out the window as he walked past to the garden and laying his fist over his heart he closed his eyes and wished that the day Tee and Kiddy fell in love a rose bush would bloom full of the prettiest red roses in the world. That way he would know when they fell in love. He opened one eye first and frowned deeper when no bush had bloomed just yet... He had hoped so much that they really did love each other, just didn't know how to show it. Ma had said that when she and Pa first met he was too afraid to tell her he loved her. She said he didn't know how to say the words, even though they are so easy to say sometimes people have trouble with it.
Ma talked a lot to Angel, or Kyle, as he was known then. He liked his new name but wished that Tee would call him Kyle, just once. He wanted to hear his real name come from her. He imagined she would say it just like his Ma did. He could remember a lot of the things Ma had said to him. He didn't understand all the words but he liked the way she spoke. Her voice was like music... a lot like Tee's voice is. Really sweet and pretty.
°*°