BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Summary: JENSEN is the BEAUTY and JARED is the BEAST enough said; Some borrowed from Disney's beauty and the beast but mostly inspired by idea;
Categories: Jared/Jensen > Alternate Universe
Characters: Jared, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Jensen, Katie Cassidy, Alan Ackles, Chad,, Sandy, and Jim Beaver etc.
Fun Genres: None
Genres: Angst, Drama, First Time, Humor, Hurt & Comfort, Romance
Warnings: Underage
Series: None
ONCE UPON A TIME, faraway land, there lived a King Gerald and Queen Sherri who were beloved by all their people but alas they were not happy. They both longed for a child to call their own who would someday run this great Kingdom. One day the Queen was sitting in her Royal Garden enjoying the fresh air and smell of Roses when she thought she heard a wee cry. She rushed over through the thicket and noticed a shimmering light as she looked closer the image became clear. On the branch of a bush, near the stream there was a tiny small woman with wings holding on and desparately crying out so as not to be swept away by the rushing water. Sherri was in shock at first cause she heard about fairy's but had never seen one. She rushed to the small woman's aide. She picked her up very carefully with her hands. This is where our story begins...................
"Are you all right" stated Sherri to the small woman she held in her hands. She noticed she was quite shaken and breathing heavily and that she was drenched from head to foot.
"I think so." the little fairy sighed. "Thank You!, for helping me, I would have surely drowned." She began shivering and hugged herself to keep warm and looked up at her savior. She notice what warm and caring hazel eyes this woman had and she smiled weakly up at her.
"You poor dear, how did you get your self in this predicament..you must be so cold." Sherri began walking briskly back to her bench in the garden where she had a blanket and then thought wait that would not work. She then thought to herself that she could you the napkin from her picinic Lunch to wrap her new little friend up and keep her warm.
"I was just trying to smell the roses in the garden when this great gust of wind blew me toward the stream and unfortunately I got wet but managed to grab the branch to hold on. But no fairy can fly with wet wings.".. "I really thought that was going to be the end for me.". "How can I ever thank you." stated the fairy.
While the fairy had been explaining, Sherri got to her picinic basket and found her napkin and then proceeded to wrap the fairy up to warm her. she then stated "Well, oh, my goodness, you have had a trying day, I hope this making you feel a little warmer." Sherri smiled and said "Well , you could tell me your name."
The fairy smiled and ducked her head and said "My name is Crystal."
Soon the became fast friends, Sherri told her greatest wish was to have a child but due to her health being poor she had not been able to conceive. Crystal wished she could do something but she did not have that much magic. I know this witch and she could make this wish come true for you but I don't really trust her. She can be very unpredictable with her magic and her demands for payment , may be dire. Sherri looked at her new friend but all she heard was that she could have her wish, a child. They both went to see this Witch who had great power and her name was Ruby. When Sherri told her Husband the King about this he had his trepidation. He said if this was her wish he would go with her but he expressed that it was not necessary because he loved his wife very much and an heir to his throne was not necessary. He said he could alway fine a good man in his court to succeed him. Sherri smiled but said it was more than an heir she wanted but a child to call her own and to love.Sherri and Gerald returned from their meeting with Ruby and though they were very happy that their wish was coming true. They still could not believe the price she had asked. They were very perplexed by the Witch's payment. Soon Sherri grew with child and then as time passed quickly. Their child arrived and he was Beautiful with soft brown hair, beautiful Hazel eyes, and dimples. Sherri could not have been more happy. They Kingdom rejoiced over their new prince. He was given everything his heart could want and desire. Some might even say he was spoiled rotten. Prince Jared had grown and had a quick mind and strong agile body. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind. But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away, but she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. The prince tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart, and as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast, and placed a powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there. Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first year. If he could learn to love another, and earn love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair, and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?
JENSEN: Little town, it's a quiet village
Every day, like the one before
Little town, full of little people
Waking up to say...
TOWNSFOLK 1: Bonjour!
TOWNSFOLK 2: Bonjour!
TOWNSFOLK 3: Bonjour!
TOWNSFOLK 4: Bonjour!
TOWNSFOLK 5: Bonjour!
JENSEN: There goes the baker with his tray like always
The same old bread and rolls to sell
Ev'ry morning just the same
Since the morning that we came
To this poor provincial town...
BAKER: Good morning, Jensen!
(Jensen jumps over to the bakery)
JENSEN: Morning monsieur!
BAKER: Where are you off to?
JENSEN: The bookshop! I just finished the most wonderful story, about
a beanstalk and an ogre and...
BAKER: (Ignoring him) That's nice...Marie, the baguettes! Hurry up!!
TOWNSFOLK: Look there he goes, that boy is strange no question
Dazed and distracted, can't you tell?
WOMAN 1: Never part of any crowd
BARBER: Cause his head's up on some cloud
TOWNSFOLK: No denying he's a funny boy, that Jensen!
(JENSEN jumps on the back of a wagon and rides through town)
DRIVER: Bonjour!
WOMAN 2: Good day!
DRIVER: How is your family?
WOMAN 3: Bonjour!
MERCHANT: Good day!
WOMAN 3: How is your wife?
WOMAN 4: I need six eggs!
MAN 1: That's too expensive!
Jensen: There must be more than this provincial life!
(JENSEN enters the bookshop)
BOOKSELLER: Ah, Belle!
JENSEN: Good morning. I've come to return the book I borrowed.
BOOKSELLER: (Putting the book back on the shelf) Finished already?
JENSEN: Oh, I couldn't put it down! Have you got anything new?
BOOKSELLER: (laughing) Not since yesterday.
JENSEN: (on ladder of bookshelf) That's all right. I'll borrow...
this one.
BOOKSELLER: That one? But you've read it twice!
JENSEN: Well it's my favorite! (JENSEN swings off side of ladder,
rolling down it's track) Far off places, daring
swordfights, magic spells, a prince in disguise!
BOOKSELLER: (handing him the book) Well, if you like it all that much,
it's yours!
JENSEN: But sir!
BOOKSELLER: I insist!
JENSEN: Well thank you. Thank you very much! (leaves bookshop)
MEN: (looking in window, then turning to watch him)
Look there he goes
That boy is so peculiar!
I wonder if he's feeling well!
WOMEN: With a dreamy far-off look!
MEN: And his nose stuck in a book!
ALL What a puzzle to the rest of us is Jensen!
(JENSEN sits on the edge of a fountain, singing to the sheep and the washing
woman in the background, who leaves)
JENSEN: Oh! Isn't this amazing!
It's my favorite part because, you'll see!
Here's where he meets Prince Charming
But he won't discover that it's him 'til chapter three!
WOMAN 5: Now it's no wonder that his nickname is 'beauty'
his looks have got no parallel!
MERCHANT: But behind that fair facade
I'm afraid he's rather odd
Very different from the rest of us...
ALL: he's nothing like the rest of us
Yes different from the rest of us is JENSEN!
Jensen walking up to small cottage that is aged but well cared for with roses blooming on either side of front doorway.
JENSEN; Papa are you here?
ALAN ACKLES: I'm down in the basement.., (glass shattering , smoke billowing, and clinking metal can be heard).
JESNEN: (rolls his eyes and smiles fondly) put his purchases for dinner on kitchen table and hurries downstairs. He sees his father under a another sort of contraption. "What happen this time? .."Are you allright? He picks up hs father and dusts him off.
ALAN ACKLES: "Well I'm not entirely sure but one thing is for sure, I know not to try that again."
JENSEN: "Come upstairs and wash up , for supper." .. Jensen goes upstairs shaking his had smiling. His father was muttering to himself. He truly adored his father but after his mother died. His father had retreated into a world of trying to create an inventions, like he was trying to leave something important behind in the world. Jensen himself missed his mother's grace , warmth, and beauty. Life had been difficult when his mother died but they had found their place. Jensen would cook and clean the home. Jensen would help his father with the horse's that they board, fed, and cared for the townsfolk. His father was very good with the horse's but he often told, Jensen that he could not match him. Jensen could go up to the most unruly and headstrong horse and he would become gentle and kind in no time.
There were sitting in there little table and were eating quietly when Jensen turned to his father.
JENSEN: I got a new book. Papa, do you think , I'm odd?
ALAN: My Son? Odd?.. Where would you get an idea like that?
JESNEN: Oh, I don't kow. It's just that I don't really fit in here..in town.. with the townsfolk. There's no one I can really talk too.
ALAN: "What aout Chad, he is nice strapping fellow or Sandy, lovely girl...? He looks at Jensen expectantly.
JENSEN: OH! Papa, Chad is alright but he can be such a douche bag sometimes and Sandy is adorable. We do have loads of fun but it's just the same old faces and stories. I wish their was more.
ALAN: More?. Alan looked at his Son and smiled. He was so much like his mother. He was Beautiful. Alan new how people would jest with his boy and call him Beauty when his back was turned but they had no idea. They only saw his beautiful face with golden brown hair and vivid green eyes. But they never saw Jensen fire..like now. He had gotten his Lust for life from him but unfortunately, he had lost that when Jensen's mother died. "Son, don't worry , you wll find your adventure and someone talk , too."
"Every thing comes with time and patience."
JENSEN: Smiles at his father. He has been looking drawn and pale, latey. "I want you to finish that entire plate and get to bed." .. "I wish you would let me take Mr. Beaver's Supplies. I don't like you going through that dark forest." Jensen look up at his father.
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ALAN: "Jensen, it's only something , I do once a month for my friend Jim. He buys his vegetables and grains from us cause he is an old friend of your Mother and Me. Besides I have Phillpe with me that beautiful old Stallion, I love making this trip and it's only 4 times a year, yes, I know in winter it is a little more dauting but we'll be fine ." Alan smiles at his son and pats his hand.
JENSEN: "I know , but father you...you have not been well , lately and you can't lie to me.. I have seen it..this time you are going so much later in the month... you usually take the Mr. Beaver supplies before the first snow fall of winter." Jesen gets up and starts t clear up his dishes and other from table and put them in sink.
ALAN: "Son, this was a wonderful meal but I can't finish anther bite.. You don't have to worry about me.... I 'm going to bed but promise that I will be careful and stick to the familiar path."
Jensen knew better than to argue with his father. He was very stubborn man. His mother would often tell Jensen when he was small that he got his stubborn nature from his father.
The next morning it was very early wih the sun just peaking over the horizon. Jensen got everything ready for his father's trip. He got his lunch ready , loaded the wagon, and hitched the Phillpe to the wagon. He rub the beautiful black mane and "You take care of Dad and don't let him stray from the path." He hugged the horses neck and the horse made a snort as if saying of course.
Alan saw his son with his shoulder tense and face with worry. He hated to see his son in such a state. He smiled warmly and pulled him into a hug. When he pulled back and p;ut his hand on Jensen's shoulder and he said "I will be home before you know it, but I don't think I can leave without a smile from you."
Jensen looked at his father and smiled warmly "Drive safe, I will be expecting you for Late supper."Jensen watched his father drive down the road into the horizon.