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[thechiyonosakenyc]

@coxragexs, taken from this ask reply.

It was a few weeks now since Gabe was living here with Belle and her father, Maurice and he was slowly getting the hang of it. He missed his old life from the future where he owned a bar – he still could not figure out what happened, but he got to know Belle’s world of old France and he loved it. He liked the slow life, and he slowly grew to be fond and attracted to Belle. She was totally different from the other girls in the village. It was night as they were retreating to their beds and Maurice went to his room. As Belle walked along the hallway, chuckling at her reply as she looked so innocent in her simple nightgown. “Come on, Belle.” He teased, as he took her hand. “Nothing’s going to happen. You want me to take off your nightgown? You can take my pants off.”

[scorpionisms]

"Oh monsieur." Belle gasped as she ran into the shadow on the street "Forgive me, I did not see you there." She added as she put her book down and gave he man a sheepish smile. coxragexs

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Instinct acted before anything else. Erik physically recoiled at the contact of another, withdrawing himself back into the shadows and turning his face away from the stranger. He raised a gloved hand to wave off her apology, inwardly cursing himself for making the choice of running his errands himself. Surely dusk in the dead of winter should have meant less people on the streets, but the girl seemed particularly distracted ; Erik wondered vaguely if she even knew where she was.

He pulled his wide-brimmed hat lower over his face, hoping that between the shadows it cast and the full-face mask he wore, she might not notice anything was amiss with him. Unfortunately, his upbringing prevented him from simply brushing her off without acknowledging her apology.

“No harm done, mademoiselle,” he said softly.