Shadows of What May Be (1/2)
anonymous
July 10 2012, 03:47:09 UTC
(A/N: Just something quick, because this prompt inspired me. Please bear with my Dickensian ignorance, I know the scrooge story mostly from cartoon adaptations and am taking some liberties to make it more compatible with BatB. This story was also slightly inspired by Adele's “First Love”)
Shadows of What May Be It was a grand feast that Fezziwig threw, and it was there, with her in her neatest dress, that he asked her. It was then, her radiant smile outshining her modest means,when he gave her what he called a little piece of their future
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Shadows of What May Be (2/2)
anonymous
July 10 2012, 03:48:06 UTC
Passage was expensive, but they were careful; they scrimped and they saved. She worried, from time to time, that she would become the miser she had cut from her life; but it was worth it to come out the other side and to see the countryside and smell the clean air. At first they were foreigners there, with strange tongues and strange money, but Belle grew tired of reading the same english books again and again, and she forced French into her mind story by story. She learned the language as a side effect of reading far more than she read to learn the language. Her father never came as far; his grammar weak and his pronunciation sloppy, so it was Belle who came into the village to purchase wares, and Belle who translated blueprints and the names of tools. Ebeneezer healed like an old, vicious scar. As Gaston chased her around the village she swore that she would never consider a man who she knew could not love her fully. As the villagers mocked her father, she swore herself faithful to him and his dreams before even her own. The
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Scrooge/Belle
Disney's Belle is also Dickens's Belle, the long-lost love of Ebeneezer Scrooge.
This is what happens when you stay awake until 4 in the morning.
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