Cherry hugged her pillow as she kept sleeping and had tears streaming down her face. She must have been having a nightmare. Forte gently tried to wake Cherry up. Cherry whimpered, but her eyes blinked rapidly and she looked up, wiping her eyes.

"Are you okay, Cerise?" Forte asks, sitting up carefully.

Cherry sniffled and shook a little. "F-F-Fine..."

Forte looked at her, not believing she was fine.

Cherry sat up and wiped her eyes as she looked a little miserable and shook up. "I had a bad dream,..." she admitted, she didn't want to tell him, because when she was younger and she had a bad dream around here, it would mostly be because of him.

"What was it about?" Forte asks.

Cherry looked a little miserable, but she would tell him. "I dreamt that... Somehow... Gaston came back to life and he was going to hurt all of us..."

"He is dead though, no one in their right mind would bring him back." he soothes.

Cherry couldn't help but glance at him when he said that. That's exactly what they all told her about him before the curse was broken, but she decided to not to say that to him. "Maybe you're right..."

Forte stroked a strand of hair out of her face.

Cherry wiped her eyes from the stressful tears bonded from her nightmare. "That was the freakiest dream I've had in years..."

Forte wrapped his arms around her carefully. Cherry wasn't one for comfort with Forte, but she allowed it to happen just this once. Forte gently stroked her hair too.

"I don't say this to you often... But... I'm glad you're here..." Cherry whispered in his hold, feeling so damaged and alone right now.

Forte kept quiet, but held her to make her feel safer and secure. Cherry quietly held him back, trying to calm herself down.

The Enchantress was in her beggar disguise, going through the town. She needed some supplies.

Paula was with her sisters and they were crying again. "What's wrong now?" she asked them, trying to be nice.

The beggar woman came closer, curious. Claudia and Laura were crying, it may have been a year since Gaston died and was defeated by the beastly Prince Adam, but they weren't over it when she was. Paula sighed, she decided to let them alone and she walked out of their home, she wanted to help her sisters, but it was a little annoying when they would carry on like this.

"Excuse me, my dear... I overheard crying... Is everything alright?" The Enchantress asks, still in disguise.

Paula didn't often talk with people she didn't know unless she was with her sisters, but she answered. "It's my sisters... We... Lost someone last year... And they're not quite over it..."

"Oh~?" the Enchantress asks, intrigued.

Paula nodded. "Gaston..."

"I see..." The Enchantress murmurs.

"My sisters kinda made me like him..." Paula explained. "I'm not in love with him though... I never really was... I kinda played along so they would leave me alone."

"Tell me more, my dear." the Enchantress says.

"Well... I'm actually in love... But... With someone else..." Paula looked to the disguised enchantress's eyes. "But... He's 'saved' another woman..."

"And you want this fellow back?" The Enchantress asks, sounding sympathetic, patting the girl's hand with her currently wrinkly one.

Paula's copper eyes seemed to fill with tears. "I think so..." she said, softly and a little shaky.

"What if there was a way to do that? Would you accept no matter the cost?" The Enchantress asks. Yes, she usually punished bad people, but she was bitter about one of her curses actually getting removed.

Paula looked curious. "But... How?"

"If you agree, there is a way to allow you to be with your love and to bring someone back... Though the price wouldn't be yours to pay... Would you still accept?" The Enchantress wonders.

Paula was a little stumped with what to think about that, but she decided to trust this woman, she seemed haggard, but pleasant. "I think so..." she managed to say.

The Enchantress held out a hand and a rose appeared, this one yellow, almost matching Paula's hair, though the tips were as red as Gaston's shirt. "Say the name of your love, and the name of the one to be brought back." she says.

Paula's eyes fluttered at the roses offered. She took a deep breath, shaking a little. "I would like Avenant and Gaston... Please..."

The Enchantress handed her the rose, and her disguise melted, revealing her true self but only to the girl. "As soon as I have gone, the one lost will be in my place, inform him of your plan and it will be set in motion." she tells the girl.

Paula was a bit surprised by the transformation, seeing that this 'old woman' was actually a beautiful enchanting woman as she took the rose that could rival her golden hair. "What shall I do?"

"Just inform the one who was lost that you want your love back, and then work to get the one you love back... The price will be taken at the time it does, no sooner, no later." the Enchantress says. She then disappeared in a golden light, a familiar figure left behind in the place she had been.

Paula flinched a little and looked away from her vanishing act as she held the rose like a treasure. She then looked back and saw the Enchantress was gone now. "Well, I guess I better get going..." she said quietly to herself.