Most Prized Possesion (Rumbelle)

Chapter 34 Fault

Belles POV

I can't breathe.

I sit up gasping, clutching my throat.

Suddenly, oxygen starts running through me and I catch my breathe.

I look around me. My hospital room was dark and silent.

I start to panic, where is he?! Rumple, where's he gone?!

And then I spot him.

Slouched into the green armchair beside my bed.

His faced looked pained. All screwed up. Like he was worried, frustrated, sad.

Just looking at him made me want to cry. I've missed him so much...

But what that twin did to me....I feel so guilty...if Rumple ever found out, he'd go mad....it would kill him.

It killed me.

Suddenly his eyes twitched. He's waking up.

"Belle...?" He said opening one eye.

I sighed, letting him know I was awake.

He sat upright, suddenly awake.

He pulled himself up and came over to my bedside.

"How are you feeling dearie?" He smiled, crouching down to be level with me.

I nodded slowly.

"I'm fine..."

"No, you're not...you've been through so much, oh Belle - I'm so sorry," his face crumpled and tears streamed down his beautiful face.

"I'm so sorry, if I'd have trusted you enough....if I hadn't of left you there...none of this..this would never have happened, this is all my fault, please forgive me..." He sobbed, squeezing my hands, looking me right in the eye.

I hate it when he cries. He looks heart broken.

He was only trying to protect me. If I'd have stayed with rumple it could of got a lot of other people in danger, Rumple too - and I couldn't live with that.

I smiled sadly, it's not your fault Rumple.

I pulled him in and his head nestled into my shoulder. He apologised, over and over again.

I didn't say anything, I just held him close and stroked his hair, dying inside.

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Rumples POV

I completely broke down. But I can in front of Belle because I know she won't think anything less of me.

She sat there and held me tight.

But she hasn't spoken since last night when she cried... Not even when I fell apart. But I still know she cares.

She won't say anything...something must have happened to her ...something bad...

"Belle..?" I said quietly.

She lifted her head up from where she was staring at her lap as if to say, "yes Rumple?".

"Forgive me if this is too soon but....what happened to you?...." I ask her, sliding my hand into hers.

She pulled away and turned away from me, shaking her head.

"Come on Belle, you can tell me! Anything, anything!" I say, sadly, frustratedly.

She looked at me, her eyes desperately telling me to stop asking her.

"Please..."

She looked down, in pain.

When she looked up, she was expressionless, like a ghost.

"The twin..." She stuttered.

"Yes, yes Belle the twin?" I grab her hand again, using my other to rub her shoulder lovingly.

"He....he..." She didn't want to say her next sentence.

"He forced himself upon me."

No. I feel sick. Not Belle. Not my Belle....

The whole room started to spin, he raped her?

Not my darling Belle, oh please god no...

That's why she didn't like me touching her at first...

I was crushed. So was she. She shouldn't have had to go through that.

I can't imagine how she must feel....

"I'm so sorry," she said, looking so guilty.

"No!" I yelled.

"You did nothing wrong! Don't you dare think that Belle French! Never!" I said, holding her shoulders.

"I was tied down...I couldn't do anything to stop....." She was hysterical.

"It's not your fault Belle! You couldn't do anything, that should never have happened! You couldn't stop him, it's not your fault!" I shout at her, trying to get through. But she was completely out of it.

"I just lay there and let that monster do what he liked..." She was disgusted with herself.

"Belle listen to me! Look at me!" I had her face in between my hands.

But she was looking straight past me, cursing herself.

"I just lay there..." She kept repeating with disgust.

"BELLE LOOK AT ME!"

I shouldn't have shouted, but she heard me.

"This was not your fault."

She stared at me, out of breath.

"It was not your fault Belle."

It was the older twin's fault - and he is going to pay.

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