Who: Belle and two guest stars What: The elemental gets a surprise guest. Where: All over the place! When: Monday evening. ((OOC: Yes my french translation is awful. It's a mix of translation sites and what I remember of my own French, lol))
Belle was walking back from her last Fire Control class when her phone beeped. Assuming it was probably Nox or one of her students she fished it out of her bag and checked the screen to see who wanted her. When she saw the name Lara she grinned to herself. Lara was a young French fire mage that Belle had met a little over two years ago, back before she reinvented herself as Belle, when she was Violet again for a brief time.They'd met through a mutual friend in New York and just clicked, the elemental taking the girl under her wing. They'd been inseperable for the next year until Lara moved away with her boyfriend and although Belle planned to visit she became entangled in her own dramas that eventually lead to her recreating herself as the Belle people knew now. They kept in touch via e-mails and texts throughout everything but of course life interferes and they didn't talk as much as they might wish they could so seeing Lara's name pop up on her phone made Belle very happy.
"V - In town. Need 2 talk. Coffee? xLx" Belle's smile took on a slightly confused note but she text back.
"Wow. You ok? When and where? ~B~"
"Now? u know a custom cup coffee in Danvers? xLx"
"Sure. See you in 20? ~B~"
Which is how it came to be that at half past five Belle was sitting in a coffee shop cradling a six week old baby boy in her arms as she tried to sooth him to sleep. Lucien (or Luc as his mother called him) was Lara's son and a total surprise to Belle who had never even known her friend was pregnant. The mage explained that she had become pregnant not amazingly long after she moved away from New York and she'd wanted to tell Belle but things were just so confusing and she didn't know what she was going to do so she never told anyone, not even the father who things had fallen apart with quite quickly and she ended up splitting from before she was very far along.
Fifteen minutes later when she was still sitting there with Luc and no sign of Lara Belle started to worry. Setting the baby down in his stroller to keep sleeping she pulled out her phone and rang the new mother. No answer. It was another five minutes of unanswered calls and voicemails before her phone beeped with a text message from Lara.
"I'm sorry. It's for the best. xLx"
A further fifteen minutes was spent trying in vain to get in contact with Lara or anyone who might be able to contact her but eventually Belle had to accept that her friend was not coming back any time soon and this was really happening. There was nothing she could do for now except take Luc back to the school and try and work out what to do from there. What choice did she have?
((Translations: "You're good with him." "Just different... and warm" "You would be a good mother"