Belle sighed as she double checked her messenger bag to be sure she had packed everything on her list. If she was going to convince David that magic existed, she had no doubt she would need to take him to the trolls in Arandelle. She had a feeling that after Snow had been killed that he might have instilled a favor from Kristoff to have his memory of the cause removed. Without Rumple with her anymore, Belle could understand. It killed her to force him over that town line and he might as well have been killed. The Rumple she fell in love with seemed like a lie and discovering she was not even his true love in return had destroyed her. If there was anything she was going to do from now on, it was going to be to keep anyone else she loved from feeling that pain. Snow was gone but if magic took her, magic could bring her back.
When Belle had double checked everything on her list she put her waistcoat on and slung the messenger bag over her shoulder. Hopefully David would have the energy to meet her at Granny's like she had asked him to. Since the incident he had kept himself walled off and inaccessbile. It was all she could do to get him to answer her texts. Belle walked her way to Granny's needing the mechanical movement to help her own desire to wall herself off from taking over, and sat at the counter, waiting hopeful for David to show up.
