He heard her scream while he was strolling in the gardens. Panic flared through him. He looked down at his hair covered arms and knew that if he didn't find her, he would never live again.
Where was she?
A growl sounded through the flower beds. And then he was off. Running as fast as he could through the bushes, hoping that the savage wolves had not eaten her.
There were five, jumping on her and ripping at her clothes.
"Belle!" he cried, while jumping at the grey furry creatures that guarded his home.
He clawed their necks and legs off. Tearing them apart. Even after they were dead, he kept clawing at them until his arm started aching, furious that they were the reason that he may not ever be human again. Suddenly, he remembered Belle.
He ran to where the bundle of purple cloth lay. He gently lifted her head onto his lap in hopes that she would open her eyes. He brushed his hand over her hair, pleading her with his eyes to not be dead.
Her eyes fluttered open and she looked at him, her eyes watering.
And when she spoke, her words had been hardly a whisper. And if the Beast's head was not bent so close to hers he would have missed it.
"I love you."
I love you.
He stood up so suddenly that her head crashed onto the ground. She groaned.
Pain pierced through him. He collapsed. It felt like his insides were burning. An unbearable stinging spread across his body. He clenched his teeth together and shut his eyes tightly. And slowly, like he was floating on water, he fell. Down down down, into the darkness.
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