HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY! GOOD-BYE 2013, HELLO 2014!
"What a day." Lumiere said while walking with Cogsworth to the servant quarters.
"You could say that again." Cogsworth said, "Helping Belle and her father with all that furniture! After all that, the master still haven't said anything about contacting that cousin of his!"
"Cogsworth!" Lumiere said, "When the master is ready to do this, he'll tell us. You can't always boss him around about things he needs or should do!"
"Well, he said it himself, the master wants to inherit and accept his family's crown!"
"Let him do what he needs to do!" Lumiere said as he approached the door to his room, "You can't expect him to do everything right after a ten year enchantment." Lumiere walked into his room after saying that last sentence.
As for Cogsworth, he did understand what Lumiere was telling him, but he was more focused on trying to help Adam get outside of the castle.
"Tomorrow, he needs to get busy and send a letter to Sagittarius...if he's alive." Cogsworth said to himself as he headed to his own room. Ever since the spell broke, Cogsworth was starting to act like his old bossy self...just like his own father.
Cogsworth's father, Christophe, was in charge of the servants when King Henry Colère, Adam's father, was in control. Christophe taught everything Cogsworth knows because he knew that his son would take his place when Adam came into power. Just like the other servants, Christophe had feared King Henry. Christophe wanted to teach Cogsworth to have a serious attitude so that he wouldn't show how afraid he was.
'Father didn't do too bad of a job of raising me on his own.' Cogsworth thought as he entered his room and got ready for bed, 'If mother had lived, she would've had his head for doing her job.' Cogsworth finally put on the rest of his pajamas, blew out his candle and went to sleep.
"I can see why she called you a 'stuffed clock'." Cogsworth opened his eyes when he heard a voice. He quickly sat up to see who was there, but...he didn't see anyone. Just then, there was a white light coming from the window. The light flew through the window, into Cogsworth's room and took the form of a woman. Believe it or not, it was Lady Temps that Cogsworth was seeing, but Cogsworth thought Lady Temps was Rouge. Remember, Rouge is the name of the enchantress that cursed Adam to become a Beast and the servants into household objects.
"This is a nightmare!" Cogsworth almost shouted, Lady Temps waved her hand in the air. Cogsworth tried to yell...but nothing came out of his mouth.
"You shout any louder and you'll be waking yourself up!" Lady Temps said, "You're not the only one who's having this dream. In fact, all the servants are having this dream!" Cogsworth tried to get out of his bed, but he couldn't move. He couldn't move his legs because they felt glued to the mattress. "Just hear me out and this will be all over, understand?" Cogsworth just nodded his head, since there was nothing for him to do. "As I just said, I can see why Lydia called you that name." Cogsworth's eyes widen, he was shocked to hear the queen's name. "You'll probably be hearing that name again...because I brought her back from the grave! I also brought Belle's mother, Veronica, back to life as well. You servants deserve to hear the truth, I am a sorceress. Also...Lydia and Veronica are also sorceresses! There's also a very good chance that Belle and Adam will be too." Cogsworth's mouth dropped, he didn't want to believe it. "Make all the silly faces you want, it's the truth." Lady Temps continued with a serious tone, "So...you need to start acting less bossy and let others do what they need to do in their own time! You can't make the decisions for someone else, you can only make your own decisions! Now that you've been quiet for quite some time, do you think you can talk without being so loud?" Cogsworth just nodded 'yes', he wanted to ask a certain question. Lady Temps waved her hand in the opposite direction.
"A-a-a-a-are you going to curse us?" Cogsworth asked.
"Nope," Lady Temps answered, "but I am going to warn you. If you or any of the servants tell anyone outside this castle, you'll be answering to me! Remember what I said, the other servants are having the same dream you are right now! You must never ever tell anyone outside these castle walls. If it slips out of anyone's mouth, you will receive a fair punishment!" Cogsworth could tell the seriousness in the woman's voice.
"Y-y-y-y-y-you have my word." Cogsworth calmly said, Lady Temps showed a soft smile. She knew that Cogsworth, even though he was frightened of her, was being honest.
"Good answer." Lady Temps said, "Now...WAKE UP!"
Cogsworth snapped his eyes awake and sat up like a dime. He quickly lit his candle and looked around his room, there wasn't anybody in his room. Just then, he heard his little clock chime, he looked at his clock. It was saying 7:00, he didn't want to believe the clock. Cogsworth knew he went to bed around 8:30 at night, how could he have that dream? He thought the dream didn't take more than an hour.
'Maybe...I had it later in the night?' he thought to himself, 'I need to get ready for today and get everything needed today.' Cogsworth shook his head and got dressed. After getting dressed, Cogsworth opened the door, blew out his candle and went off to do his job.
While walking down the hall, Cogsworth looked at his list of things to do. That's when he heard giggling, he rolled his eyes. Cogsworth knew that that giggling belonged to Babette, one of the maids that used to be a feather duster, and the only time that Babette giggles like that is when Lumiere is flirting with her. Cogsworth rolled up his list, up it in his pocket and went around the corner.
There was Lumiere kissing and tickling Babette, Cogsworth shook his head and knocked Lumiere in the head. Lumiere released Babette and grabbed his head.
"Oh Monsieur Cogsworth," Babette said, "We weren't doing anything wrong."
"What I was seeing," Cogsworth said, "is something nobody needs to see."
"We just need a distraction, Cogsworth." Lumiere said, "Babette and I had a very strange dream." Cogsworth's eyes widen, he almost didn't want to believe it.
"What...kind of a dream?" he asked.
"It was almost effrayant, scary as you say." Babette said, "There was this woman dressed in white, telling me that she resurrected the Queen and the Mistress's mother."
"I had the same dream," Lumiere added, "The white woman told me that the master and mistress will become...some kind of magical beings."
"I don't believe it." Cogsworth said, Lumiere looked straight at him.
"You had the same dream too, didn't you?" Lumiere asked, Cogsworth just nodded 'yes'.
"So...it is true." Babette said, "She said all the servants were having the exact dream as we were. We now see it's true, très vrai."
"But if it is true," Cogsworth said, "do you think the master and Belle know about this?"
"We don't know," Lumiere said, "but there is a chance they knew all of this before we did."
"We better not tell them!" Babette said quickly, "The woman said not to tell them!"
"No," Lumiere said, "the woman in white said not to tell anyone outside these castle walls. I think we should."
"Even I have to agree with that," Cogsworth said, "Just knowing that she entered everyone's dreams and telling us the same thing, that's enough to know that she might do something very bad to us if we don't do what she asks of us."
"For once, Cogsworth," Lumiere said, "you actually aren't going to push the issue." Cogsworth just looked at his hands.
"Let's just say she told me something that was...an eye-opener. Right now," Cogsworth added, "we just better get everyone together and do our daily chores. If anyone does wonder about the dream, you two tell them not to tell anyone outside the castle." Just then, they heard rustling. They looked around to see where it was coming from, that's when Babette saw a bird at the window.
"Look," she said, "it's Witherspoon!" Babette went over to the window and opened it, Witherspoon flew inside with something in his feet.
"It looks like a letter." Cogsworth said as he gently took the letter from Witherspoon's feet, he examined the front of the letter to see who it's for and where it came from. Lumiere saw shock appear on Cogsworth's face.
"What is it, Cogsworth?" Lumiere asked.
"Who is it for?" Babette asked.
"It's for the master." Cogsworth said, "It's who it came from is what is the most surprising!"
"WHO?" Lumiere and Babette asked, Cogsworth raised his head, looked at them and said;
"Sagittarius!"