About a couple of days after knowing that Sagittarius was coming, everything was difficult for Belle to comprehend, helping the servants and making sure that Adam wasn't bothered by all the noise. Nothing could express how much stress Belle was under, her head was almost wanting to explode. When the third day came along, Belle received another letter from Sagittarius. She brought it upstairs to Adam, his room was still very dark and very cold, so Belle gave the letter to Lydia, who was still sticking around. Lydia read the letter, saying that Sagittarius finished with his royal matter and was coming to the castle early, in the next three days.
Both, Lydia and Belle, were now very worried that Adam won't get out of his...'problem'...in time for Sagittarius' arrival. Belle found out, the day after knowing that Sagittarius was coming, that Adam was stuck in his bed with a fever and his body was changing. Lydia warned Belle not to come near Adam because they didn't know he was going to react, but also since his body was changing, Adam didn't want to accidentally injure Belle. As for Adam himself, he felt like he was out of energy and didn't want to move too much. Adam was almost confined to his bed, Lydia wouldn't let him out of the bed...unless he had to use the bathroom. Besides that reason, Lydia won't let her son get out of the bed. Of course, Adam didn't like that idea, but he didn't want to get frustrated with his mother when she was only protecting and helping him.
It was very difficult for Adam to go through, but...it was just as hard for Belle, if not more. It was hard to control her feelings while she was helping the servants decorate the castle for Sagittarius' arrival. It was hard for her not feeling Adam near her, have his arms around her and her hands around his neck. Whenever she would get a chance to be in the library, she couldn't read. The library was no longer the wonderful place that it used to be...not without her telling her stories to Adam. Even eating at the dinner table wasn't the same, true, she had her father and her cousin, Tintement, for company, but it still wasn't the same without her love sitting next to her. Belle just missed having Adam near her, she started remember what it was like before the spell was broken.
Before the spell broke, the Beast would sit next to her in front of the fire while she would read different kinds of stories, fairy-tales and novels. When Belle first read 'King Arther' and 'Romeo and Juliet' to her Beast, she had never seen such joy from those big blue eyes from him. Just having him there listening to hear was enough bring a smile to Belle's face and make her heart feel so warm. When Belle started remembering how much she and Adam used to spend time with each other, a few tears escape from her eyes. Belle was hoping that what she was feeling wasn't going to be so bad when she was separated from Adam, but...by the way she was feeling, she was wrong.
After having dinner with her father and Tintement, Belle said good night to them and went to her room. Nothing could express how much she missed spending time with Adam, but she really can't spend time with him, considering his mother was in the West Wing. No matter how many times Lydia told her, Belle was still feeling very afraid of her. When Belle reached her room, she closed her door and put her hand on her right hip.
When Belle and Adam first found out that their mothers were alive, they kept out of sight at first because they were still shocked that they were brought back from the grave. Veronica and Lydia were in the kitchen when Adam and Belle saw them, but they stayed right outside the kitchen door. Lydia sensed that there was someone behind the kitchen door, she just didn't know her son and Belle were behind the door. Before Veronica, Belle's mother, could stop her, Lydia punched the kitchen door with quills sticking in the door. The quills went through the door and stuck themselves in Belle's right hip, nothing could express the pain Belle went through when the quills went into her hip, including the pain she got when she was stuck to the door because of those quills.
Belle could still feel the pain from that bad encounter, she also thought that because of that horrible encounter, she was so frightened of Lydia. Belle tried to ignore the pain, removed her clothes, got into her nightgown and crawled into her bed. She blew out her candle and tried to sleep, but she had a hard time falling asleep...because she felt so alone. Belle got out of bed and pulled out one of the trunks that she and her father brought from their old cottage. This trunk was special to Belle because it held her mother's wedding dress. Belle laid her head on the trunk's lid and pictured how she would look in her mother's beautiful white wedding gown. She couldn't wait to wear the gown so she and Adam can finally be together. Belle dreamed of how the gown would fit her and how wonderful the wedding would be.
Belle would have different color roses through her hair with the veil down to her back, the train following behind her, her hands covered by the white shoulder-length gloves while holding her beautiful bouquet. She saw herself walking down the aisle while holding her father's arm, but...she was feeling something and...she didn't know what it was, but it was bad.
Just then, Belle saw red on the aisle. She slowly looked ahead, the aisle was much more red. That's when she saw something she didn't want to see...Anton, Gaston's brother. Nothing could express the fear going through Belle's body.
"If I can't have you, the no one will have you!" Anton said, "I already got rid of my competition." Anton walked away for Belle to see...Gaston, wearing black, and Adam, wearing white, on the floor, in front of the cross, their clothes were red, no other color. Belle backed away as Anton advanced toward her with his evil smile. "You will be mine...and mine alone!" Anton charged her and Belle screamed.
Belle found herself back in her room, still laying against the trunk on the floor. She was taking deep breathes and tried to slow down her heartbeat. She brought her hand her chest, only find that her nightgown was wet from the neck down and above the knees. She closed her eyes and lifted her gown to her waist, the smell alone was enough to tell her...she was so scared that...she wet her gown. Belle sighed, wiped her eyes and got up from the floor. She quickly removed her nightgown, put on her blue peasant dress and quietly cleaned up the mess she made.
Belle felt scared, sad and very embarrassed that such a thing happened, but...she wasn't too surprised that it happened. The last nightmare that she had where Anton was in it...she wet herself just like tonight. She always thought she could handle any horrible thing that was thrown at her, even...that horrible night when Anton tried to grabbed her. Now Belle doesn't think she can't handle anything, she was under so much pressure from the servants to get everything ready for Sagittarius' arrival, she felt so alone with Adam being confined to his room in the West wing and...her heart was in pain because of all that.
Once Belle was finished cleaning up the mess she made, she went into her bathroom and took a bath. Belle couldn't stand smelling the horrible smell that was on her. Her tension was relieved, but the pain in her heart never left. After her bath, Belle found a fresh nightgown and threw her dress with her soiled nightgown. She was about to go back into her bed...until she saw a shadow from her window. She looked out her window and saw, what she thought, birds. They were many of them flying together like a pack, forming different kinds of shapes and forms among the light of the full moon.
Belle opened her window and watched the birds continuing to make shapes, like they were putting on a show. Suddenly, the birds went down to the ground and spiraled upwards against the castle. Belle quickly moved out of the way so that the birds wouldn't hit her. When the birds spiraled up back to the sky, that's when Belle took a closer look at them. They weren't birds.
"Those look like butterflies." Belle said as she walked back to the window. She saw some of the butterflies on the windowsill, she took a closer look and saw that they had darker colors. "Those aren't butterflies, these are moths." she said to herself. The moths started to move, slowly got up and flew out the window. Belle watched them fly down to the large gardens, that's when she saw a figure standing in the middle of the garden, but she couldn't see who it was because the figure was moving around. Belle grabbed her robe, went downstairs and went outside.
Once outside, Belle saw the moths still flying around still doing their show. Even though she didn't know her way around the large gardens, Belle tried not to get herself lost. Everything in the large garden seemed the same to Belle, but she thought the flowers were beautiful under the light of the full moon. Just then, Belle saw a moth coming towards her, it stopped right in front of her face. The moth had green wings with a red stripe on its wings and between its eyes.
"Hello there." Belle said, she lifted her hands to the moth and it landed in the middle of them. The moth pointed two of its little legs up in the sky, Belle looked up to see the other moths taking the shape of a heart. Then the moths spread out like how fireworks work when they explode in the sky. "How wonderful that they can do that." she added, then Belle felt something pulling on her fingers. She looked and saw the original moth that landed in her hands tugging on her middle and pointer fingers. "Do you want me to follow you? Is there something you want me to see?" Belle asked as the moth stared at her, it nodded 'yes' at Belle's questions. "All right, lead the way." she added, the moth released her fingers and flew down the path.
Belle continued to follow the moth down different paths, the moth would sometime land on a flower so that Belle could catch up with it. Belle didn't know what the moth wanted to show her, but...she had to find out what it was. Soon, Belle followed the moth down a path that had hedges on both sides. The moth stopped and landed on a black gate that was partially open. When Belle approached the gate, the moth flew through one of the holes and pointed its little legs to the left. Belle gently grabbed the gate, pushed it a little more open and peeked through, but it wasn't enough. She decided to open the gate wider and walked through. She wasn't expecting to see what she was seeing.
There was a figure that was covered by some kind of clothing, Belle thought that the clothing looked like one of Adam's capes he used to wear when he was the Beast. Just then, she saw the left hand rise into the air with the palm facing upwards, but Belle saw that the hand was a light green color and was covered with some kind of plush fur. The fingers were pointed on the end, but the plush fur covered whatever kind of nails or claws were on the hand. Belle watched, from the gate, the hand make a circle in the air. She just happened to glance upwards and saw the group of moths in the sky copying the figure's hand gesture. Belle saw the right light green plush fur hand come out, she figured that whoever she was spying on, he or she was controlling the moths in the sky.
Suddenly, Belle saw the little green moth, that she followed, fly over to the figure. Now Belle was worried that she was going to get herself caught. The little moth went over to the figure and when the figure spotted the moth, it spoke to the moth.
"So you're back, that must mean the everyone's asleep." Belle couldn't believe it, she recognized the figure's voice.
'That's Adam's voice.' Belle thought to herself, 'He's out of his room? Could that mean that the light doesn't affect him anymore?' She watched Adam pull something off his head, probably a hood. She saw Adam's red hair, it was a couple of shades darker than it was before. Then he turned to his side, Belle ducked enough for Adam not being able to see him, but...she saw what had happened to him.