When they finally broke apart from the kiss, Rose and Leon held each other close and watched the shower of sparkles raining down as everything changed around them, content as they stood on the balcony in comfortable silence. Rose leaned her head against Leon's shoulder and sighed happily as he stroked her arms and planted another kiss on her.

Just moments ago, she was lying mortally wounded as her love held her in his arms, sobbing and pleading for her not to leave him, as she took her last breath and the last petal fell from the rose, sealing the fate of those she loved so dearly.

Then, due to Leon's unselfish love for her and the healing powers of Irena, she was alive and human and that she and Leon were together again, never to be broken apart which was truly a wonderful feeling for her and she had to keep pinching herself to convince herself that it wasn't a dream.

She cherished the moment with Leon, the handsome, kind and wonderful boy she had waited ten years for and had won his heart and he reciprocated her love for him.

'Leon,' she said to him, 'you did it, you saved us all,'

'I did?' Leon said, confused but had an expression of joy on his face, 'how did I save you?'

'With your love and courage,' Rose said, 'and that has broken the spell that I was under. You saved me, my love.' Rose said, feeling her heart flutter at saying those two words.

'I think you better explain to me what this is all about, Rose,' said Leon, 'starting from the beginning.'

'Oh, I will Leon, I promise that I will tell you everything you need to know about how we came to be when you first met me,' Rose replied, 'but I would like to check on my servants first, to see if they are alright, as they may be feeling confused and excited about all this.'

Rose, while enjoying the precious moment with Leon, had been wondering about her parents, grandfather and the servants, if she would be able to see them again of if they knew that she had become human or if they too had been transformed back into the humans they once were and if they would recognise her if she did see them.

As if reading her mind, the shower of sparkles soon turned into a brilliant magic and when the couple were still standing on the balcony in each other's arms, it swept into her room where the servants were, not having left since Rose was stabbed and it surrounded them.

It had caught the objects by surprise and were confused by it but it was what they had hoped would come after ten years, rather than the white light that had cursed them and the castle although Remy had been a bit cautious about it, as he said,

'Oh no, not again with the magic!'

But this time it was for good as they transformed back into the human beings they once were, dressed in the clothes they had worn and had not aged one day, still the same as they were when the curse was placed.

'We're human again!' they cried happily, as they hugged each other and cheered for the spell had been broken for the second time and they heard the cheers of the other servants around the castle which indicated that they too were celebrating their humanity which they thought was lost to them forever.

Cogsworth breathed a huge sigh of relief and hoped that this would be the very last time that they would be under an enchantment and they would be human for good this time, without any more magic in their lives.

He also hoped that Belle, Adam and Maurice had been freed from the stone that had trapped them for so long and his long-awaited retirement by the sea would soon be happening, although deep down, his loyalty to his masters was strong and he wanted to stay longer to help Rose relearn how to be a princess and to prepare Leon for royal life, if the two wished to marry.

Mrs Potts and Chip embraced and she was hoping with all her heart that Maurice would be somewhere in the castle waiting for her, longing to be reunited with him, but was delighted to be with her son and being able to hug him.

Lumiere wasted no time in scooping Babette up in his arms and kissing her, before shaking Cogsworth's hand and trying to kiss him again, which the latter rebuffed by slapping him in the face and Rebecca wiggled her fingers and touched her hair, like she did on the day of the curse, feeling the soft, blonde waves instead of rough, yellow yarn.

Remy not only was his old self, with his messy hair and scruffy clothes, but the healing powers of Irena had shone through him along with the transforming magic and he was completely healed from his injury and was showing no ill-effects or signs that he had been blasted by the Red Enchantress and her magic.

'Oh, humanity, sweet humanity!' he said, kissing both his arms, 'I'll never take you for granted again!'

'That's cute,' Lumiere said, slightly creeped out by Remy's actions, 'creepy but cute.'

'Call it what you like, Lumsie, it's my way of expressing my feelings about being human again and that I can now hold Becks in my arms, drink coffee and hold cards in my hands!' Remy said.

He then saw Rebecca running towards him, arms outstretched with a huge smile on her face, eager to be with her love, as was he and to have the kiss that he promised her when they became human again and he immediately gathered her up in his arms and twirled her around with her laughing and they kissed.

'There's your kiss, Becks,' Remy said, when they broke apart, 'I saved it for you when we became human, like I promised.'

'You certainly did, Remy,' Rebecca said, 'and thank you for everything you have done for me.'

'Oh, get a room, you two!' Lumiere said teasingly but he winked at the new couple, pleased that they were together and that Remy wouldn't be jealous of him anymore when he saw him and Babette displaying their affection publicly.

George and Katrine hugged each other, before they realised what they were doing and pulled away embarrassed and exchanged small, shy smiles as she left the room to see her aunt and for the first time, she didn't get stuck in the doorway, as everyone had anticipated.

'Hey, look at that, Kitty Kat didn't get stuck!' Remy said, 'and there will be no more of her saying 'Little help?' and pushing her out! I'm gonna miss that actually, that was really fun!'

'Well, I certainly won't!' Katrine said from the hallway, 'I sure won't miss being like a fly in a spider's web every time I go through a doorway!'

'Oh, Remy, you've only been human for less than a minute and already you're making outlandish comments,' George said, sighing, but smiled at his little brother fondly,

'But we all love you, despite your faults, especially since you were so brave to save Rebecca from that villager's fiery torch, not to mention Lumiere and Cogsworth as well and standing up to the Red Enchantress, albeit rather foolishly.'

'Thanks, Georgie, you're the best big brother ever and thanks for always sticking by me, no matter how many times I have caused trouble for you.' Remy said and embraced his brother.

'Right back at you, Remy,' George said.

However, in all their excitement, the moment was bittersweet for Raymond and Amelie as they held each other close and were shedding tears which were both of joy and sadness.

While they were happy that they were human and able to hold each other again for the first time in ten years, they were also distraught as Sophie was still missing and they didn't know if she had turned back into the little girl they loved dearly or if she was still a paint bottle.

They wished that she would come back, safe and sound, human or paint bottle, so that they could hold her again, having not been able to do so for years, having no arms and all and they wouldn't be at all angry at her for leaving with Leon and putting herself into danger, they just wanted her home again.

'Don't worry,' Mrs Potts said reassuringly, patting Amelie on her shoulder, having noticed the sad and distraught looks on the couple's faces as they were missing their daughter dearly and she remembered going through the same thing with Chip even though she knew it ended well.

'She will come back, I'm sure of it. I thought that I heard her voice outside but then again the storm was so loud, we could barely hear what was going on, never mind the voice of a small child.'

'I wish you were right, Mrs Potts,' Amelie said, sadly, 'we just want Sophie home with us again. It doesn't matter if she's a paint bottle or human, we want her back, so we can hold her since we couldn't during the curse.'

'Why don't we go downstairs and look for her?' Cogsworth suggested, 'for all we know, she might be there right now and so will everyone else…maybe the masters and Monsieur Maurice as well.'

'But Cogsworth, what about the mistress?' Lumiere said, 'what if she's…'

'Lumiere, if we're human again, then that must mean that the mistress must be as well!' Cogsworth said. 'we heard the boy say that he loves her and we saw the transformation and the spell is broken now, so therefore she must be human!'

'But what if she's human but not…' Lumiere said.

'Don't even think that!' Mrs Potts said, 'she's perfectly alright and the two need their privacy now, after all they've been through. We don't need to intrude just yet; they'll come downstairs when they're ready.

But for now, we must find Sophie, the masters and Maurice. Oh, how I long to see him again, it's been so long and of course, our dear Belle and Adam and we can only hope that dear little Sophie will be there as well since her parents are worried beyond belief about her.'

Seeing the distraught looks on Amelie and Raymond's faces, the servants had to agree and they were also anxious to see Belle, Adam, Maurice and the rest of the servants such as Monique, Nathalie (Rebecca screwed up her face when her name was mentioned) and Monsieur Hulliot.

'You're right, Mrs Potts, they'll be wondering where we are and we want to see the masters and Monsieur Maurice again, not to mention everyone else, except Natty as I'm not keen to see her, that's for sure!' Rebecca said quite cheekily, to the amusement of Remy who put his arm around her.

'That's my girl,' he said, while everyone rolled their eyes at them.

'And it's started,' Lumiere said, 'he's fast becoming a bad influence on dear, sweet mademoiselle Rebecca! She's even started talking like him!'

'Who knows, she might even be a good influence on him!' said George, chuckling, though he was sad that Remy wouldn't be spending as much time with him from now on except to do the laundry and fetching the water, now that he and Rebecca were together but also happy for his brother.

The servants then left the room and made their way downstairs to the foyer, many of them tripping over each other in their eagerness and having to get used to walking on two legs again, which amused Raymond, seeing their clumsiness, since it was usually him tripping on his two feet.

'And they say I'm clumsy,' he said, chuckling.

In the foyer, Belle, Adam and Maurice were standing around, wondering where their daughter and the servants were and they hadn't been aware about what had happened over the last ten years they had been trapped in stone.

They didn't know that, amongst other things, their daughter had been a beast just like Adam had been, changed for the worst and became everything that they didn't want her to be, a mob had invaded the castle again and that the servants had defeated it.

And that Rose had been fatally stabbed and then became human due to a village boy, whom she had imprisoned and fallen in love with, declaring his love for her and breaking the spell.

And they were anxious to reunited with her, no matter how long it had been.

They then saw the servants coming down the stairs, many of them tripping over each other in their eagerness to see their masters and as they reached the bottom of the stairs, Belle, Adam and Maurice smiled at them, glad to see their dear friends again and none the worse for wear in spite of their ordeal.

Like the servants, they too hadn't aged a day, still the young and loving couple and the eccentric inventor they remembered and loved dearly and they too were delighted to see their masters, although they didn't know where their daughter was or what had happened to her.

'Maurice!' Mrs Potts joyfully exclaimed at seeing her husband, as she rushed over to him and without a fuss, he embraced her, happy to be reunited after so many years apart.

'Oh, Angela, I thought that I would never see you again,' Maurice said, as he stretched out his back and groaned, still feeling stiff from being in the same position in stone for years.

'Goodness, am I stiff!' he said, as everyone chuckled, 'Being a stone statue sure is a strain on this old timer! My back has never hurt this much before!'

'Well, it has been ten years, Maurice dear, it's no wonder your back is so sore, you've been hunched over in stone for a decade!' Mrs Potts said.

'Has it really been ten years?' Maurice said, astonished those years had passed since he, Adam and Belle had been in stone, especially since they hadn't aged at all and everything still looked the same in the castle.

'But you all still look the same! How could time have passed us by, yet we haven't aged a single day? What's the deal with that?' he said.

'Oh, Papa,' Belle chuckled as she hugged her father, 'and it's so lovely to see you all again, we thought that this day would never come,' she said to the servants as she and Adam hugged them all.

'Yes, except that Sophie is still missing,' Cogsworth said but just as he said it, the familiar chirpy voice of Sophie could be heard, calling out,

'Mama! Papa!' as she ran into the room and she had been transformed back into the little girl she once was. Sultan and Lila soon followed behind her, back in their canine and feline forms, barking and meowing happily.

'Ah, Sultan and Lila are back,' Lumiere said.

'And so are my allergies,' Cogsworth said, as he sneezed since Lila was close to him and Sophie ran towards her parents, who were delighted to see their daughter safe and sound, as was she to see them.

'Mama, I'm a girl again!' Sophie said, 'just like you said!'

'And so you are, my little darling,' Amelie said happily, tears streaming down her face as she gathered the little girl up in her arms and hugged her tightly with Raymond putting both his arms around his wife and daughter.

Then Sophie frowned at seeing her mother crying for she had never done that in front of her and was worried that she had done something to upset her.

'Mama, why are you so sad?' she said.

'Oh, it's nothing, sweetheart, I'm just happy that you're safe and sound and back with us. We were worried sick about you, little lady and you gave us an almighty scare when you ran away.' Amelie said.

'Where did you go that made us worry like crazy, Sophie?' Raymond said.

'I'm sorry I ran away and made you worry, Mama and Papa,' Sophie said, 'but if I didn't, Leon would still be trapped in his basement, where that bad lady put him and his mother to stop them from getting to Rose to hurt her and he wouldn't have saved her.'

As Chip had correctly guessed, Sophie had indeed gone with Leon in his bag and proved herself to be a hero when she had rescued him from his basement, which enabled him to come back to Rose and break the spell.

She was eager to recall her adventure to her parents, who listened with amazement that she had been able to get Sabine to break down the door of the basement in spite of being a paint bottle and managed to save both Leon and his mother.

Then, the servants told Belle, Adam and Maurice about everything that had happened in the castle in their absence and they were surprised to find out that Remy and Rebecca had become a couple, especially since she had constantly complained about him to them and laughed and then smiled when the servants told them how Rose and Leon became friends and then fell in love.

But they left out the part where Rose had been injured by wolves after she had chased Leon out of the castle due to her temper and had later been stabbed in the battle with a rival suitor of Leon's, as they did not want to upset them, yet they wanted to know where their daughter was and find out who the boy she had fallen in love with and broken the spell was.

'Cogsworth,' Adam said softly to the nervous man, who looked at him, 'where is Rose exactly? Did she come down with you and who is this Leon that you say she has fallen in love with and who loves her in return? Is he here in the castle with her?'

'Is she alright?' Belle said, anxiously, 'Oh, how I long to see my sweet darling again, we've missed her so much! Do you know where she is, Cogsworth, I just want to see her again, it's been so long..' as she shed a few tears and Adam held her close.

'Well..' Cogsworth said, nervously, dreading Belle's reaction if he were to tell her that she had been viciously stabbed, even though she had been revived and turned back into a human, 'you see, your daughter has…'

He was soon interrupted by Babette shrieking and everyone turning towards the staircase as Rose and Leon, hand in hand, descended towards them.

Earlier, Rose and Leon had been still on the balcony, even when they heard the servants cheer, as they transformed back into human beings and them tripping down the stairs and their excited voices in the main foyer.

It made Rose smile to herself and Leon then remembered something important, or rather someone who had come with him and had forgotten about in the chaos and triumph he had endured.

'Mama!' he said, 'I've forgotten all about her!'

'She's here?' Rose said, confused as she hadn't seen Madeleine at all or knew that she had been here, although she had been distracted at the time with fighting Amandine.

'Yes, she came with me and she must be very confused at the moment. She probably has no idea what happened and I better go see to her.' Leon said, 'and you can go see the servants as well,' as he took Rose's hand gently and led her towards her room, but she hesitated.

'Rose, what's wrong?' he said, concerned, 'what's holding you back?'

'Leon, I'm not so sure about this,' she said, nervously,

'I mean what if the servants don't recognise me? The last time I was human, I was a little girl and they may be confused at seeing me grown up and think that I'm a stranger, much like you did, when you saw me transform.

Not to mention that your mother won't be thrilled to see me again. After all, I did imprison her when all she wanted was shelter and sent her away from you. I doubt she will forgive me after all that.'

'Rose, your servants love you and want to see that you are alive and well and human again, it won't matter to them, you're still you and you wanted to see them, did you not?' Leon said.

Rose just nodded.

'And my mother will forgive you if you let her. You're not the beast she saw when she entered the castle and I have more or less convinced her that you changed for the better. She even forgave the man who shot my father since she is not one to hold grudges against people.

If she could forgive him, then I don't see why she shouldn't forgive you.' Leon said and Rose reluctantly agreed, although she still felt uneasy about approaching Madeleine and apologising for the way she had treated her.

The two walked through her room and down the West Wing, now back to pristine condition and showing no traces of the former beast, meeting various servants, who greeted them enthusiastically, congratulating them both for breaking the spell and gasping in excitement at seeing Rose.

In fact, the entire castle had been restored to its former glory, with all the beastly statues, gargoyles and dark stone replaced with angels and white marble, which gleamed in the morning sun that shone on it.

At the top of the stairs, Leon held Rose's hand and squeezed it, as he could see that she was nervous about seeing the servants and his mother, if she was there at all and, unbeknownst to Leon, seeing her parents if they were also there in the foyer, waiting for her.

'It'll be fine, Rose,' he reassured her and she squeezed his hand back, as they descended down the stairs, just as they heard Babette shriek when she saw them coming and all the servants approached the foot of the stairs with caution and stared in amazement at Rose as she and Leon walked towards them.

Not wanting to wait any longer, Belle and Adam were the first to approach Rose, as they walked slowly over too and saw her, not as a little girl or a hideous beast but a beautiful young woman, wearing a tattered pink dress and holding the hand of a handsome young man.

They didn't know who he was yet, but judging by the way that he was holding their daughter's hand and looking at her lovingly and encouragingly, he must be the boy, the one called Leon, that she loved dearly and one who had broken the spell with his love for her.

'Mama, Papa,' Rose whispered, as she blinked back tears when they approached her and Belle gently stroked her cheek, smiling at her with her own tears were falling down her face.

Her precious daughter whom she carried for nine months and, along with Adam, raised her with love and care before being cruelly separated from her, was now a young woman and about to be with her once more.

'Hello, my sweet darling,' Belle whispered, as she pulled Rose close as both of them quietly wept with Rose leaning on her mother's chest, just liked she used to do when she was a little girl and breathing in her familiar warm flowery scent, as Belle's arms wrapped around her and stroked her hair.

'We've missed you so much,' she said, holding her daughter tightly as hers and Rose's tears kept flowing.

'Mon ange,' Adam then said also shedding tears and put his arms around the both of them, 'we're so proud of you.'

Rose felt uneasy at her father's last sentence, for she had hardly given them anything to be proud of over the years, as she had done the same things he had done when he had been the first Beast, although, like him when he had met her mother, she had changed for the better due to the love of a person that had once been her prisoner.

But that didn't matter now, for the family was reunited and they went down on the ground, holding on to each other tightly as both Rose's parents kissed her, stroked her hair and held on to her as many tears were shed which dissolved their heartache that they had endured over the years.

For Belle and Adam had waited so long to be with their daughter whom they loved with all their heart, no matter how long it had been and that they had lost ten years of Rose's life that they would never get back but that was not important at this moment for here they were, together once more.

Leon watched the happy scene, wanting Rose to spend time with her parents but feeling like an intruder as he stood on the side-lines, as did the servants, who smiled and shed tears of joy at seeing the family reunited.

He was surprised to finally see them in the flesh and lovingly embrace their daughter and felt guilty about having thought of them as cruel and heartless for abandoning her because of her being a beast, when it was obvious that they weren't, having seen it for himself and he couldn't fathom why he had thought that.

Still hugging her daughter and husband and not wanting to let go, Belle looked up at Leon who was still hovering near them and although she didn't know him yet, she nevertheless smiled and stretched out her arm towards him.

Leon walked over, a little bit hesitantly, towards the woman who strongly resembled Rose, but had brown hair and the same doe-shaped eyes as hers, only they were hazel instead of the blue ones he was familiar with.

He had expected that she would want a handshake and put his hand out towards her but just as he was about shake it, Belle suddenly pulled him into the loving embrace she had with Adam and Rose as her way of saying to him, 'You're part of the family now,'

And Leon truly believed he was, as he was enveloped in the warm and loving embrace with his love and her parents, for the family was reunited once more and soon there would be two new members joining it.

I know this was supposed to be the chapter that wrapped everything up, but there has been a slight change of plan, as I decided to split it two ways, so that Rose would be reunited with her parents and that the servants would be excited about being human and meet with Belle, Adam and Maurice.

But I promise that it will be in the next chapter, so bear with me (nearly finished now!)

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