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06 March 2013 @ 08:59 am

It's too cold now for Belle's favourite dresses, but she can still wear skirts she's found, as long as she wears something called tights on her bare legs. And so, she's dressed mostly warm for only going to the bakery to get something sweet for breakfast. She realizes she shouldn't, but the pastries with raspberry and cream cheese sound too good this morning.

As she walks, she has a book in front of her face; there are so many advantages to working in the bookshop. She has so many novels to read now, and she's currently engrossed in one about a land with dragons and kings that reminds her, somewhat, of Avalon. She's so absorbed in the book, that she doesn't realize she's about to collide with another person, turning the page quickly as the plot thickens.

Tags: belle french, henry mills, ruby/red, streets

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callsmered on March 6th, 2013 06:36 pm (UTC)

Red's reflexes are very good and she steps out of the way before Belle could collide and let's out a soft chuckle. "That must be some story."

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chippedbelle on March 6th, 2013 06:39 pm (UTC)

Belle looks up, surprised, then pleased with a smile. "I love it when the heroine is a woman," she admits. But she closes the book after noting the page number. Red was someone she looked up to, knowing that she would be a friend in Storybrooke too made it easier.

"How've you been?" she asks. "And would you like to go to the bakery with me?"

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callsmered on March 6th, 2013 08:20 pm (UTC)

"I would love to go to the bakery with you. Something decadent and lots of calories." Red smiled, "I've been better." She admitted, "I had a couple of very good friends go back home and I miss them a lot. How about you? Have you been well?"

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chippedbelle on March 6th, 2013 08:22 pm (UTC)

Friends going missing makes her frown just a little as Belle walks. "The village makes them leave like that? Without warning?" It hardly seems fair, and she hasn't experienced it yet herself.

"Rumple's been..." She's not exactly sure how to explain it. "Agitated? He hasn't wanted me to leave the room." She's out though; she refuses to be locked away ever again.

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callsmered on March 6th, 2013 08:30 pm (UTC)

"Do you think that he's being over protective or that it's something more? Something that he thinks is coming?"

It didn't enter Red's mind that he might be concerned that Cora was in the village as she didn't know the history between the two.

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chippedbelle on March 6th, 2013 08:36 pm (UTC)

"I don't know. He doesn't actually talk to me. It took me so long just to get him to tell me about his wife and son. He hates that I have a job, he doesn't like that I want to go and live my life."

She sighs softly. "I know he has his reasons, and I do believe in him. I just wish he'd stop worrying something is going to happen." Never mind that he can see certain pieces of the future; she has no idea about that.

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callsmered on March 6th, 2013 08:41 pm (UTC)

Ruby rolled her eyes, "doesn't he know that the tighter he holds onto you the worse it will be? My Gran did the same thing with me. She thought she was protecting me but it only made me want to run father and experience everything."

Which in the end was the worst thing that Granny could have done.

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chippedbelle on March 6th, 2013 08:43 pm (UTC)

"You all were free for twenty-eight years, learning about this land, while I sat in some cell, not knowing anything at all. There's too much to learn and do," Belle says with a little smile.

"Does your Granny let you do more now that the curse is broken?"

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callsmered on March 6th, 2013 08:59 pm (UTC)

"She let me do more back at the Enchanted Forest but only after something horrible happened because she wouldn't let me. In Storybrooke, I came here right when the curse was broken so I'm not sure back home." She smiled slightly, "but Archie said that I still have my sassy so I'm guessing she does."

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chippedbelle on March 6th, 2013 09:06 pm (UTC)

Belle can't help but smile. "Maybe she'll come here. A lot of people have, it seems like. Not that I really know any of them but you and Snow."

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callsmered on March 7th, 2013 01:01 am (UTC)

"I hope every day that she comes here." Red nodded. "Not that I want her to be stuck in a village like we were in Storybrooke, but I do miss her. It's funny." She paused thinking about it. "It seems that some people have a lot of connections here like Snow with Charming, Emma and Henry. And then there's others that don't have anyone."

She didn't include herself in that because she has Snow and Charming, too as well as Archie and her new friend Belle.

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chippedbelle on March 7th, 2013 04:10 am (UTC)

Belle thinks about that a little, and then she nods. "I wonder...if Rumple wasn't here, and if you weren't here, I wouldn't know many others. Only my boss at the bookshop."

It's a little off putting that she's only two or three people away from being completely alone. She's not sure she can count Snow, since she hasn't talked to her since the Christmas Ball.

"How depressing," she tries to joke lightly.

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callsmered on March 7th, 2013 11:51 am (UTC)

"You know, there should be a kind of mixer for new arrivals. I mean what if you're shy and you aren't comfortable walking up to strangers and talking to them?" Red said after a minute's thought. "Nothing date like or dance or anything like that but a come meet your fellow villagers smallish gathering so those that are shy or uncomfortable don't feel like they're ---- You know what would be nice? A welcome wagon. I mean I know there's a Welcome Center but a group of people that go around and meet new arrivals. Seeing how they're getting along. Sort of like village mentors."