At the request of one of my readers, I'm going to try to make this chapter romantic.

"Adam, wake up!"

Adam opened his eyes when he heard Belle's voice, he quickly sat up to see Belle, with her hand on his knee.

"You must've fallen asleep." she said, "I hope you were comfortable."

"Comfortable enough." he said, still a little groggy.

"Well, we're here." Belle said, she pointed at her cottage. "Papa and the servants are already inside, getting started." Adam rubbed his eyes and stared at the cottage, he noticed the little additions to it like the water wheel and the little pinwheel on the roof.

"Hmm, it reminds me of the cottages in your stories." Adam said.

"Yes...it does." Belle said, Adam noticed that she was a little silent.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Nothing could express how much I wanted to leave this place," she said, "I dreamed of an adventure, something that I knew that this village wouldn't give me."

"Did you ever get it?" Adam asked.

"Of course," she answered, "not only did I get the adventure I wanted...I found someone who loved me for myself...not anything else." Belle saw Adam turning pink and turned away.

"L-l-l-let's go help everyone." Adam said as he hopped off the carriage. He grabbed Belle's waist as she was climbing down the carriage, Belle wasn't too surprised about Adam's reaction to what she said, mainly because he's never felt like this before. Belle placed her hands on Adam's shoulders as he placed her on the ground. Belle didn't try to do anything...at least not yet, she wanted to wait until Adam felt more comfortable.

They walked inside the cottage, Lumiere with a female servant were carefully putting things in trunks.

"Master, Mistress." Lumiere said when he saw them.

"Lumiere, where's my papa?" Belle asked.

"He and Jardin and downstairs in the cellar," Lumiere answered, "I and Tranquillité are working here on the first floor. The second floor hasn't been touched yet."

"Thank you." Adam said, Lumiere bowed his head and went back to help Tranquillité. "Shall we go upstairs?" he asked Belle.

"Not yet," Belle answered, "I want to check on the animals."

"You didn't tell me you had animals." Adam said as he followed Belle.

"Three goats and two chickens." Belle said, "I left their feed out when I left here, I hope they're still okay." They went through the kitchen, Belle opened a back door that led out to the tiny fenced area where the goats and chickens were kept.

The animals didn't seemed too upset for being alone for a certain number of days, but the feed was severely low. Adam watched Belle spread out some chicken feed, the chickens quickly dove for the food in a furry of feathers. The goats ignored the uproar and ate their food, oblivious to everyone around them.

"By the looks of things," Belle said, "they seem all right to me."

"What are you going to do with them?" Adam asked.

"I guess I'll take them into town and see if someone wants to buy them," she said, "unless...you want them at the castle."

"That would probably be a good idea," Adam said, "Cogsworth can stop sending out for more eggs and milk all the time."

"Can I ask you something?" Belle said, Adam nodded his head 'yes'. "Well, since no one knew that you were around, how did you get all the supplies you needed, such as food and clothing?"

"Well, I'm not too surprised that you were going to say that." he said, "I sent out letters to the main castle, telling them what I needed and...without any questions...it was brought over."

"No questions asked?" Belle asked.

"None," Adam answered. "I was surprised about that, but I'm glad that everytime I sent a letter out needing something, questions about where I was were never asked. Some of the other things, such as my clothes and your dresses, were already present in the castle."

"Uh...were some of those dresses...um...belonged to...?"

"My mother?" Adam asked, "No, not all of them, I had the servants to custom make all the dresses you wore, especially the yellow ballgown. When I saw you that dress...nothing could express how breath-taking you were. I'll never forget how you looked on that night when...we first danced together." What Adam considered a bold move, he walked over to Belle and wrapped his arms around her waist. Belle started to blush as she smiled and stared into his deep blue eyes.

This moment reminded her of when Adam transformed back into a human, the only difference...she didn't have any doubts this time. She placed her hands on his shoulders, stood up on her tiptoes and closed her eyes. Belle felt Adam's lips on hers, the kiss still had that wonderful warm feeling just like the first time. She held onto his neck collar as Adam held her tightly.

"Aw, how precious!"

When Adam and Belle heard a voice, they snapped their eyes open and pulled away from each other. They got startled that someone caught them. When they pulled away, Adam tripped, fell backwards and landed on one of the chickens' nests. Feathers flew all over the place as the chickens squawked.

"Adam, are you okay?" Belle asked as she ran over to him.

"Besides being covered with feathers and...this stuff...sticking to me," Adam said as he raised his arm and saw the egg yolks, "I'm fine."

"Well...at least you know where eggs come from." Belle said, trying to lighten the moment.

"A romantic moment turned funny." said a female voice, Belle quickly turned around to see who it was. When she did, there was a woman, not much older or taller than Belle, wearing a blue feathered coat, a gray skirt and white shoes and was leaning on the fence.

"I recognize that skirt and shoes." Belle said as she stood up, "Hello Tintement." Tintement giggled when Belle figured out that it was her. Adam was more surprised that it was Tintement, mainly because she was no longer wearing her golden wolf mask. As Adam stood back up, the feathers were sticking to him by the egg yolks. Tintement couldn't help but laugh.

"I didn't mean to disturb on your happy moment." Tintement said as she tried to hold in her laugh. "But I needed to make sure that my eyes weren't fooling me."

"Why are you here, Tintement?" Belle asked, "I would think you would be with Aunt Celia." Tintement raised her head and groaned.

"I still haven't forgiven her." Tintement said.

"You know she did what she did to protect us from her mother, Fiona." Belle said.

"I know, but it's still sore in my heart." Tintement said, "Ever since we were set free by her spell, I came here. I knew you weren't around, but I thought you would want somebody watching your house, especially with your stuff, Uncle Maurice's inventions in the basement and these animals that you have. I had a feeling you would come back for your things."

"Thank you, Tintement." Belle said.

"You're welcome." Tintement said, she then looked at Adam, "I think his highness should change his clothes." Belle looked at Adam and saw all the chicken feathers sticking to the egg yolks on his jerkin.

"I can clean it up." Belle said, "Tintement, can you fill a bucket with water and bring it up to my room upstairs?"

"Of course, I'll be back." Tintement said as she went towards the well.

"Let's go, Adam." Belle said as she grabbed his hand. He followed her first to the kitchen where she grabbed a few cloths. They then went upstairs up to Belle's old room.

When Adam walked into Belle's room, he saw what resembled his fiancee. There were books stacked on top of one another on her dresser, but there was very little else in her room.

"I know there's not very much," Belle said as she sat down on her old bed, "but I was able to work it out."

"There's very little in here, Belle." Adam said as he walked over to Belle, he didn't sit down on her old bed because of the egg yolks and feathers on his jerkin. "Were you that poor?"

"No," she answered, "we just had enough to get by and enough to let papa do his inventions. I wasn't a spoiled kid, so I never asked for much." Belle looked over at her old books on her dresser. "All those books originally belonged to my mother and...Aunt Maryvonne."

"Your aunt?" Adam asked, Belle sighed.

"Tintement's mother." Belle said, "Tintement didn't want to be reminded about her mother since that...nasty night, so she gave me her mother's books."

"I didn't mean to bring up...that horrible thing." Adam said sadly.

"It's not your fault." Belle said, but before she could continue, there was a knock on the door. Belle went over to the door and opened it, Tintement came in with a bucket.

"I warmed it up a little, heat helps remove any mess off clothes." Tintement said as she placed it down next to Belle's old bed.

"Thank you, Tintement." Belle said, "Maybe you can help us move out of this cottage?"

"Sure," Tintement said, "I think I'll take up on his highness' offer...if you'll let me, Belle."

"Meaning?" Belle asked.

"Adam offered me to stay at the castle." Tintement explained.

"We'll be together again," Belle said, "you can stay with us." Tintement smiled and went out of the room. After Tintement left, Belle put her cloths in the bucket.

"Can you remove your jerkin, Adam?" she asked, Adam quickly pulled it off and gave it to Belle. As she wiped his jerkin, Adam browsed through the books on Belle's dresser. Some of them were novels and fairy-tales, but there was one that didn't have a title. Adam was about to touch it, but he didn't want to invade Belle's privacy. "I didn't know what book that was either." Belle said, "it did belong to my mother, Veronica, but there is a lock on it. I don't know where the key is."

"I don't mean to invade your privacy." Adam said.

"I don't mind," she said, "maybe you can put those books at the edge of the bed? Then we can get everything else ready to go in trunks." Adam smiled, gathered the books and placed them at the edge at of the bed. "Well, it's now clean," she said as Adam looked at his purple jerkin, "still a little wet, but it's clean." She handed over the jerkin and held it out to him.

"Thank you, Belle." Adam said as he took his jerkin, "I'm...happy that you came into my life, not just because of the curse."

"What do you mean?" she asked as Adam put his jerkin back on.

"If you haven't came into my life, Belle," he said, "I wouldn't have been able to change so much. When you left to help your father, I didn't care if I was going to remain a Beast forever, you were the only thing in my life that was able to put a smile on my face and...was able to touch my heart." Belle blushed as Adam walked up to her.

"When...you were dying on that balcony," Belle said with her voice breaking, "there was nothing I wanted more than...just to have you back. I didn't care if you remained as a Beast or you were transformed into a dragon, a bear or a flying pig," Adam laughed at that comment, "I didn't care about anything else, I just wanted you." Adam just wrapped his arms around her.

"Belle, where were we before?" Adam asked.

"I think I remember." Belle said as she stood on her tiptoes. She grabbed onto his neck collar and closed her eyes. Once again, Adam's lips met Belle's, despite his slightly wet jerkin. Only this time, nobody disturbed them.

I hope this was romantic enough.