"What's this? It seems the ordinary guard has taken quite a liking to my queen. For the little respect I have for you, I'm going to overlook this. Leave here immediately and I'll act like this never happened." Gaston said.
"No", Adam replied with a grim look.
" No? Did you say no? You answer like I left you a choice Adam, leave here this instant! And that's an order, not a request. ", Gaston said, the anger increasing.
" Gaston, this façade ends here. I'm not going to do this anymore. Belle, get up.", Adam says gesturing to Belle on the bed.
Belle gets off the bed, tries to gather the remaining pieces of her dress and walks over to where Adam is.
"What is this?", Gaston says with his voice low and his eyes narrowed with rage.
" This is me taking back what was originally mine, what you stole from me when you pushed me down that building months ago." Adam replied him.
Pure hatred and rage exuded from Gaston's face when he spoke coolly,
"Belle, don't joke with me. Leave his arms and lie right back on that bed."
Belle did not quiver or shake in fear but instead looked Gaston straight in his eyes and repeated Adam's previous answer,
"No, I won't. Adam is back now, you have no right in this place."
"So you had to pretend to be my servant just to get here, that's sad. Too bad you won't be leaving just as you had hoped.", Gaston said.
Adam turned and faced Belle and spoke,
" Go to Cogworths and Lumiere, tell them that the plan has been moved up a couple days early, the extra men should be taken care of discreetly, also they should be alert in case of reinforcements or surprise attacks. I leave it to them while I'll handle Gaston here."
"But you can't do that alone, I'll help you once I relay the message."
"You will do no such thing, throughout the period of this attack, you will not be sighted anywhere. I cannot afford to lose you twice. I have an advantage with Gaston seeing that he's drunk and unstable so this should end quick."
"Okay, I'll do what you say.", she heads for the door and runs out. Gaston growls as she leaves.
" Belle, dont you dare leave here! Belle! Belle!! You swine!", he said facing Adam.
"I thought I got rid of you the first time, but you still manage to come back to terrorize my life, this time I'll make your end permanent." Gaston roared.
"I should say the same since you have refused to stop being a pest to me too." Adam replied with a smug look.
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Meanwhile, Belle has made her way to where Mrs Potts is, and relays Adam's message to her. Mrs Potts tells her that Lumiere already took the initiative to start after hearing that Adam had gone to confront Gaston. Lumiere and Cogworths had assembled all the servants and kicked off the plan. Cogworths had taken some men to deal with the intruders from outside. While the men inside were all served food and drinks spiked with poison that shuts down their whole system for a minimum of six hours giving them enough time to round them up and put them in a large carriage that would be directed out of town.
The men outside were Gaston's footmen he had gotten with his newly acclaimed wealth. They were being warded off by Adam's previous guards who were now mere servants under Gaston but had resumed training after Adam returned. The footmen easily surrendered after their leader gave up saying he won't risk losing one man in battle for the sake of Gaston. They retreated and started their journey back home.
The only men that hadn't been dealt with yet were Gaston's personal men, led by LeFou, Gaston's right hand man. They were in the west wing when everything was occurring.
Before the footmen surrendered:
"Are those swords clanging together that I hear?", LeFou said, squinting hard as he looks out the window, trying to decipher the images down there.
"Let's go see what's happening, everyone follow me.", LeFou ordered.
The six men exited the west wing where they were and headed down the stairs and outside.
" We are under attack! ", one man screamed.
" I know that, I can see it obviously ", LeFou replied irritated by the man.
" You two, stay here and help out these footmen, they should be able to handle themselves though, the rest of you come with me.", LeFou continued.
They entered back into the house, they noticed that all the men positioned to guard the castle were all missing.
"All the guards are missing!", the man shrieked again.
" I can obviously see that Louis!", LeFou roared in anger.
"Find them! I want to know what is going on in this castle!".
All the men around him scattered in different directions, looking for the guards.
LeFou headed for the chamber where master Forte had previously been kept. As he got closer, he heard grumbling and hushed voices coming in from there. He walked in and saw Lumiere, Mrs Potts and other servants of Adam tying up his guards together.
" What is going on here?", LeFou asked startling them.
"We are tying up your men, what else does it look like?", Lumiere replied him.
" I know you're tying them up, I meant why?"
"Because we are reclaiming our castle back.", Mrs Potts chirped in, with a smug look on her face.
As she spoke the rest three men entered into the room too and stayed behind LeFou then he spoke.
" The rest of you stay here and handle these people while I go and check on Gaston. Make sure, they dont take those men anywhere!", LeFou shouted trying not to show his panic.
As he hurried past the front door, he opened it to see what was happening with the footmen but saw an empty field. Confusion set in but he quickly ran up the stairs and to Gaston's room. He opened the door and saw Adam fighting with Gaston.
"Gaston, what's happening?", LeFou shrieked.
" Idiot LeFou, cant you see this man is trying to kill me. It's that...stupid beast, he....didn't die", he huffed out the words during the struggle.
LeFou fidgeted thinking of the missing footmen and the guards that had passed out and were being tied up. It must have been this Adam's doing, this Adam that is actually the Beast of the castle. It finally dawned on him; they were really reclaiming their castle.
"Help me, you fool and don't just stand there!" Gaston said.
LeFou looked around, trying to find something to use, while trying to calm his trembling hands. He took a ceramic vase on a shelf in the corner, closed his eyes, lowered it with force on Adam's body.
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Meanwhile, Belle was breathing hard, scared as hell of what might happen to Adam. She placed her head on the shelf she stood behind at the far end of the library. It was Mrs Potts who forced her to stay hidden there till after everything was settled. She felt so stupid hiding away while every other person was fighting to save the castle.
She always wanted an adventure all her life and when everything was happening, they expected her to just hide? No, she wasn't going to do that. She contemplated coming out to help but Adam's words kept replaying in her head. But after she heard a shattering followed by Adam's growl of pain, she wasn't going to remain there.
She hurried out to the library to Gaston's room, but stopped at the door, hesitant to go inside because of what she might see.
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Gaston looked down and saw blood seep down Adam's head with LeFou standing over him with a vase. Adam crumbled to the ground giving Gaston the edge over him. He laughed and picked Adam from the floor on a chokehold and hit him on the wall before throwing him down again. He gestured at LeFou, "Get me a sword, its time to end this."
But LeFou was lost staring through the window.
"LeFou, what are you doing?"
"How did they manage to get past those men? They are taking them away."
"What?"
"Our guards are tied up and are being put on a carriage going to God knows where!"
"LeFou, focus on what's important here! Get me my sword!", Gaston roared.
" Of course!", he replied and scurried to the corner where the sword was and handed it to Gaston.
As she heard him shout those words at LeFou, she panicked because that could only mean he wanted to use the sword on Adam. No, that couldn't happen, she just got him back, she would not lose him again. She would have to stop Gaston, she would not let Adam die, not again. She yanked the door open and ran towards Adam, screaming on top of her voice in fear.
Gaston laughed loud and hard as he raised the sword up above his head and lowered it to Adam with full force.
"No!", she shrieked...
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A/N: Tada...and yes, I'm still alive. And I promise I didn't forget y'all.
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