hey guys! i've updated! who i would have updated soon however, ever since christmas eve i've been sooooooo busy! i havent had a day alone! until today that is (and i still have to finish my homework! TT-TT) but anyway i hope you enjoy this chapter! i'll give you an e-cookie if you review:D)

Disclaimer: every one has to have one of these don't they? … well, here it goes… I don't own Trinity Blood of Beauty and the Beast! there i said it!

Chapter 3: All Of Those Sins

Abel stopped at a door. He opened it up as he said, "Now, if you need anything my servants will attend to you." She cautiously walked inside the large dark bedroom. "You shall attend to dinner every night. Including tonight. And that's not a request!" He barked out the last sentence as he slammed the door.

Esther turned to the door and placed her hands on it as she leaned her arms on it. She gasped and turned away from the door. She saw a big canopy bed in the dark room and ran to it as tears fell from her eyes. She fell on top of the bed and sobbed into her arms and the bed as the rain, which pour outside, clung to and slowly slid down the window.

The storm outside raged onto the castle. Lightening flashed and thunder clashed as the wind and rain beat upon it.

Dietrich was in the local tavern in town. The place was dark and evilful looking. "Who does she think she is? That girl has tangled with the wrong man. No one says no to me! I'm the richest and most handsome man in town! Who wouldn't want me?"

Porter glared at a few people who stared at them. "Darn right."

"Dismissed. Rejected. Publicly humiliated. Why, it's more than I could bear." He said as he slammed down his empty glass on the table, causing it to crack.

"More beer?" Porter asked him.

"What for?" He said leaning on the table as he supported his head up with his fist and looked away from Porter. "Nothing helps. I'm disgraced."

"Who, you? Never!" Porter asked as he tried to cheer him up. "Dietrich, you've got to pull yourself together."

"Pull myself together?" He asked.

Porter looked out the tavern window and saw Esther's adopted mother, Laura, walking through the town in the rain. "Oh, look who came into town. Crazy Laura!"

"Crazy Laura… hmm. Crazy Laura… hmm." Dietrich said as he thought about her. "Porter, I'm afraid I've been thinking."

"A dangerous past time…"

"I know. But that crazy witch is Esther's mother. And her sanity is only so-so. Now I've come up with a plan. It's a good one too."

"And evil?"

Yes, yes, of coarse. Now, here's the plan." He said and bent down to Porter's ear and whispered the plan to him.

The storm had lighten up and the moon and stars shown brightly in the night sky. Some moon light shown through the window where Esther was now living in. She still laid on the bed sobbing. She was still soaking wet and bitterly cold by this time. Suddenly she heard a knock on the door. She turned her head toward the door and said, "Who is it?"

"Kate, dear." The reply came.

She slipped off the bed and rushed to the door as she wiped her eyes with her slightly damp sleeve. She opened the door to see Kate, who held a golden tray of tea, with another woman, who had wavy, dark brown hair and dark mysterious brown eyes and wore deep crimson-red lipstick, as Kate said with a smile, "I though you might like some tea to warm you up. You most be freezing from being in the cold." She and the other woman came inside.

"Oh, well, that was very kind of you. I am a bit cold. Thanks." Esther said as she closed the door behind them. She turned to Kate and the other woman as the other woman said,

"Hello. My name is Noélle Bor. I'm pleased to meet you."

"Hello, my name's––"

"Esther Blanchette." Noélle answered for her. "Kate and Catrina told me all about you. I hope you enjoy your stay in the castle."

Esther melancholy walked over to her bed and sat down on it. "I don't think I ever will. I lost my mother, my dreams, …everything."

"Cheer up, Esther. I'm sure everything will turn out all right in the end. You'll see. Oh dear, listen to me! Jabbering away while there's supper to prepare." She walked over to the door and opened it, but, before she closed it behind her, she turned and said, "Noélle will help you get ready. Goodbye, for now." She smiled and closed the door.

"Well, now, what shall we dress you in for dinner?" Noélle asked her as she walked to the closet. Esther didn't answer and just looked away from her and at the floor. Noélle pulled out a nice looking purple one and said, "You'll look ravishing in this one."

Esther looked at her and said, "That's very kind of you, but…" she looked again at the floor, "I'm not going to dinner."

"Oh, but you must! Abel will be very displeased if you don't." She told Esther. "Besides at least you could change. You'll catch a nasty cold in those clothes."

A knock came to the door and then, it opened. William poked his head in; then, opened the door to show his body and said, "Dinner is served."

Abel frantically paced in front of a large fireplace, which was in the dinning room, as he asked Leon and Catrina, who both stood in the dinning room with him. "What's taking so long?" He asked them. "I told her to come down. Why isn't she here yet?" He barked at Leon and Catrina.

"Abel, just try to be patient." Catrina spoke. "The girl has lost her mother and freedom in one day."

"Abel," Leon said, cutting, "have you ever thought that perhaps this girl could be the one to break the spell?"

Abel looked solemnly at the two of them from the corner of his eye. It was his fault that his dear friends had to suffer the curse as he had to. It was worse on them because they didn't do anything to deserve such punishment. He was the one to blame. "Of coarse I have." He said bitterly. "I'm not a fool."

"Good! So, you fall in love with her, she falls in love with you and poof! The spell is broken. We'll be human again by midnight!" Leon said, enjoying the thought of being human again.

"Oh, but it's not that easy, Leon." Catrina spoke up. "Probably the girl needs even more time now than ever because of how scared Abel made her of him." She glared coldly at him.

Abel returned her cold look. "Well, she shouldn't have been trespassing! She could have knock and waited for someone to answer like a normal person."

"You have forgotten that it was raining and cold." Catrina stated.

"Well, one of you could have told me about her! But no! You were going to keep it from me." He snorted.

Catrina sighed as she rolled her eyes and looked at Leon. "Anyway, Leon, these things take time."

"But the rose has already begun to wilt. We can't wait any longer."

Abel, who had already returned to pacing in front of the fire, shook his head. "It's no use." He ran is claws through some of his silvery hair in frustration. "She's so beautiful," he looked at his hideously, black, claw-like fingers nails on his fingers, "and I'm… Well, looked at me!" He snapped as he looked at the two of them again.

"Oh, but you must help her see past all that, Abel." Catrina said as she approached him.

"I don't know how." He said as he turned around. His slouched his shoulders in a pitiful manor.

"Well, you can start by making yourself more presentable." She said as she rushed around him. It was time to make herself the governess he had when he was a boy. "Straighten up." She commanded. He obeyed her and stood up like a solider. "Try to act like a gentleman." She told him.

"Ah, yes." Leon said as he walked over to Abel and Catrina. "When she comes in give her a dashing debonair smile. Come on! Show me the damn smile." Abel tried his best to smile, but it only looked full of evil.

Catrina noticed that and said, "But don't frighten the poor girl."

"Impress her with you rapier wit."

Abel nodded at both suggestions.

"But be gentle." Catrina added.

"Shower her with compliments." Leon continued.

Abel looked at Leon oddly.

"But be sincere."

He gave her a look that said: "What's 'sincere' suppose to mean?".

"And above all…" Leon began.

He put his hands to his head and was about to yell at them.

"YOU MUST CONTROL YOU TEMPER!" They said together.

The doorknob rattled as someone tried to come in. Leon gasped and said, "Here she is!"

Abel looked up at the door as it slowly opened. He was looking for her but those few seconds seemed like all of eternity. Finally, William came in. "Good evening." He said, a bit uneasy.

Abel had a smile on his face, but when he saw that it was only William, his smile dropped. "Well, where is she?" He asked.

"Who?" William asked trying to play dumb. "Oh! Yes, Esther, yes. Well, actually, she's in the process of… Circumstances being what they are… She's not coming."

"What?!" Abel yelled. He was furious. He had wanted her to join him! He wanted to see her again. She had crushed all his hopes and plans for that evening. Crushed them into little itty-bitty bits. His once peaceful blue eyes now glowed red. His black wings reappeared on his back as he flew, only about seven feet off the ground for now, toward the door. He pushed open the door in rage as he flew out into the grand hallway. Leon, William, and Catrina all ran after him––all three of them ran a lot quicker then a normal human could run.

"But your grace…! Your eminence!" William yelled after him.

He ignored him. All he wanted was to find out why she didn't want to be with him. He flew in the dark, dodging a few pillars until he finally reached her room. He landed right in front of her door on the red carpet. He pounded on her door with his fist. "I though I told you to come down for dinner."

"I'm not hungry." She replied from behind the door.

"You come out or I'll," he thought of something real quick, "You come out or I'll break down the door!"

"Abel, that may not be the best way to win her affections." Leon pointed out.

"Pleaseattempt to be a gentleman." William asked.

"But, she's being so difficult."

"Gently, gently." Catrina soothed.

"Will you come down to dinner?" He asked, not wanting to be too nice.

"No!" She answered immediately.

"Hmm?" He pointed at the door as to say: "See!".

"Ah, ah! Suave, genteel." William said.

He didn't want to say it. Not to her that he really wanted her to join him. But he had to. "It would give me great pleasure if you would join me for dinner." He said almost as if he was begging, pitifully.

"We say please." William mumbled.

"Please." Abel added.

"No, thank you!" She shouted at him from behind the door.

That's it. He lost his temper. "You can't stay in there forever!"

"Yes, I can!" She told him, still from behind the closed door.

"Fine! Go ahead! Go ahead and starve!" He yelled back. He turned to Leon, Catrina, and William and said, "If she doesn't eat with me, she doesn't eat at all." He ran off, gathering more speed with each step. Finally, he was soaring though the castle. He flew through an opened door and slammed it with all his might, leaving his friends at Esther's door.

"Oh, dear, that didn't go well. Abel's too stubborn and she's not helping either." Catrina said.

"Leon, stand watch at the door and inform me at once if there is the slightest charge." William told him.

"Feh, fine." He said as he stood by the door.

"Well, we might as well go down stairs and start cleaning up." William said and then, him and Catrina headed back downstairs.

Abel landed in front of a giant pair of double doors. His wings disappeared and his glowing red eyes returned to normal. He pushed open the doors as he talked to himself, "I asked her nicely, but she refuses!" He stormed into the dark, dusty, messy room as he kicked a chair out of his way. "Why? I thought that if you were nice to a girl she would defiantly be nice back! What did I do wrong?" He asked himself as he walked deeper into the messy room toward a table. A small, wooden table that had on it: a glass, rounded case with a magical, sparkling, floating rose trapped inside it and a silver hand mirror next to it. "Well, what does she want me to do? Beg?" He looked down at the mirror and picked it up. He looked into his scary reflection and said, quite calmly, yet angry, "Show me Esther." The mirror glowed green for a second and then, his reflection blurred then it changed into Esther, who now wore a light pink dress, similar to her other blue one, and Noélle's as the two of them sat on the bed in Esther's room.

"Abel isn't all that bad, once you get to know him." Noélle told her. "Why don't you give him a chance?"

Esther filled her both of her fists with her dress that lay on her thighs as looked down and said, "I don't want to get to know him. I don't want to have anything to do with him! That monster!!"

Abel's expression changed to hopeful to frustrated. He set down the mirror back on the table as he said, "I'm just fooling myself. She'll never see me as anything but a monster."

A petal fell from the rose, making the pile of petals under the rose turn from four to five. He shook his head in agony and defeat. He walked over to the opened balcony and over to the railing. He looked up at the full moon and sparkling stars as the silhouettes of clouds slowly moved across the night sky. He kneeled down, on both knees, in front of the railing as he hung his long thin, yet muscular, arms over it loosely. He knitted his eyebrows together in pain and suffering. "It's hopeless." He muttered. He let his arms slid back to him from the railing. He turned his body and leaned his back against the bars of the railing. He ran his claws throw his silvery hair and tugged at it, frustrated. "She'll never love me. Even though I want to love her. She's just so beautiful. It makes me mad that I can never have her. Oh, if only my stupid older brother hadn't made me mad that night! We would never have been in this mess. I would have found Esther someday. I know I would have for sure. But now, I know that I can never have her now. God wouldn't even want me now. All of those sins I have committed…."

here's the cast for this chapter:

Belle: Esther

Prince/Beast: Abel

Lumiere/Cogsworh: Leon

Cogsworth/Lumiere: William (you see Leon and William both play different parts at different times in the story)

Mrs. Potts: Catrina

Chip: Ion

Wardrobe: Noélle Bor

Maid: Kate

Gaston: Dietrich

Lefou: Porter (OC :3)

Maurice(Belle's Father): Bishop Laura

MYSTERY OC IN PLOT LINE??????(i'll give you a hint: Abel metioned him)

Well that's it for this chapter!! I hope you loved it! i had fun writing it! i love Trinity Blood and Beauty and the Beast! well please review cuz i like to see who read my story and what did they think of it! (i'm curious:3) so please review! if you do you get an e-cookie! yay! till next time!

p.s. also i might be adding another character in the next chapter! and i'll put Seth in it too! so check it out!