Belle Doll Written By: anneboleynlover
Author's Summary: Ami Mizuno's father once sent her a Belle doll in the mail.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon. I ended up not writing fanfiction for a while so I may be rusty. I feel fine with constructive criticism, but no flames. Please read and review!
Ami's father once sent her a Belle doll from her favorite Disney movie Beauty and the Beast in the mail as he knew her love for Belle. Belle had been a small stuffed animal with brown hair and hazel eyes and dressed in her yellow ball gown. It came to be a surprised gift because it had not been the usual birthday cards of his drawings and paintings, but one for no particular reason. Ami did remember the day it came in the mail addressed to her.
"What is that, Ami?" her mother asked early one morning as they ate breakfast together on one morning on one of Saeko's rare days off when Ami brought her their mail for her to go through it. Brown paper package had been what had been among the normal pile of bills. Ami came to see it had been addressed to her from her father.
"Dad sent me something in the mail," Ami answered. Both mother and daughter had been surprised. Her father never came to send her anything that came in packages in the mail so it was a shock to them that he would do so out of the blue.
"He did?" Saeko blurted out in confusion.
"I know it is odd," Ami agreed with her mom, "especially because he only sends me postcards of his drawings and paintings on my birthday, but it must be something he really wanted me to have, Mom, so it must be something very special."
"Open it so we can see what he sent you," her mother commanded eager to see what it could have been if her ex-husband sent their daughter an actual gift when he had never done so before.
"Okay," Ami said. She began to rip open the brown package and came to throw the pieces of it onto the kitchen table as she tore it. Ami came to tear it open and once she did she opened it to discover the Belle doll. She did happen to gasp in astonishment for she never thought her father would remember her love of Belle. "It is a Belle doll from Beauty and the Beast."
"Oh!" her mother replied taking a good look at the Belle doll. "That was sweet of him!"
"Dad must have remembered how he and I used to watch Disney movies together when you were at work," Ami told Saeko. "We ended up drinking Coke and eating popcorn on the couch as we watched them. I remember telling him that I wanted a Belle doll after I first saw her during the first time we watched the movie together, but I never thought that he would remember me saying so. I guess he proved me wrong."
Ami came to keep the Belle doll next to the pillows of her bed. She did love it because her father remembered something she had once told him she had longed for, but she thought he would never remember. It meant a lot to her that her father still remembered things she enjoyed especially since contact with him was limited, but she was grateful for the gift he had sent to her.