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Belle remembers and she loves (loveishope) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2013-11-18 14:02:00

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belle french, lauren drake

Who: Belle French & OTA
What: Reminicing and Reading
Where: Winds up at a Cafe not far from the public library
When: Morning of the 18th
Rating: TBD
Status: In Progress

It had been a trying time and even Belle's famed optimism was being tested. Oh it was still there, she'd sat in the living room for over an hour just holding the chipped cup that was so precious to her and wishing to whatever would listen that it would bring her love back to her. Christmas would be hard, she knew that too, the mistletoe she was so fond of, a stark reminder of what she was missing in this world that had become another home to her. She supposed she was nothing if not adaptable now. But gods she missed him, And of course Rumple would know what to do, he'd know how to help Emma, how to rescue Graham. And she'd be able to keep him level. Keep the Dark Magic from taking him over completely. She knew how Emma was reacting because she'd seen it so many times. Magic fed on darker things, hate, revenge, anger. But she was not going to fall. Belle wouldn't let her.

She ran up to her room replacing the cup in its pride of place in her room. "I will see you again." she said softly. A momentary pause in her cheery exterior. And how better to regain that than with a new book to read She'd be safe, she had her amulet, she had magical protections. And the library was only a few blocks away.

Slipping out the front door, long coat wrapped around her against the chill in the air. Belle made her way to her favourite place in the city. The librarian knew her by now, had actually compared her to....well...herself. Or her Disney self anyway, for her love of books and ability to read the same one time and time again without getting bored. She probably lost at least an hour in there, browsing, reading a few pages of this and that, trying to find something that took her fancy. As ever it was an adventure book, high seas, this time and involving pirates. Perhaps it was unfair of her, she tried not to judge, but she really did find she distrusted them. Understandably given her experiances with them.

Still, it wasn't the fault of the author that she instinctively thought of that man, and his hook and his lies.

She'd give the book a try.

Belle did what she needed to do to borrow said book and began the walk home. Slower than her walk there, She did look up when she came to roads but she'd walked into someone already. And confused a cat. And veered altogether too close to a postbox.

She finally gave up and slipped into a cafe ordering tea. She'd just finish this chapter...

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whoareyousaving
2013-11-18 09:48 am UTC (link)

Lauren had spent a large part of her time in this place with Hal, learning the way things were supposed to be. But she had also tried to do the socializing thing with other people, went to that party at Halloween and had fun with it. She decidedly ignored the crazy ghost girl with her delusions because Lauren really did not need all of that drama anyway. Despite her minor attempts, though, Lauren still largely kept to herself. She just hadn't found much of a niche here and she wasn't all that comfortable with the people around. Too guarded. Too accostumed to being used now. She couldn't seem to let herself really be open here. Though, if she were honest, she wasn't so sure she'd be willing to do that anywhere. Here, though, she's aligned herself with someone most people were less than thrilled with and it just felt all too familiar to be cast aside that way.

She had come to this little cafe several times now. Not that she needed food, but it gave her something to fill time with and usually she just ordered coffee or tea and sat and people-watched. Today was no different and she watched as a girl came in, ordered a tea, nose stuck in a book. It was a slightly amusing sight, really. So into her book, she nearly tripped over a chair. "Might want to put it down long enough to get to a table safely, love." she couldn't help the comment slipping out of her mouth, biting back a laugh but she couldn't hold back the smile.

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loveishope
2013-11-18 10:02 am UTC (link)

Belle looked around bemusedly as she bumped into the chair and was told perhaps putting it down might be an idea, recognising the girl as another displaced though not managing to quite put a name to the face. Still, knowing she was one of them did make it much easier to relax around her. She had been sitting there watching people and Belle couldn't fault it, it was what she did after all. When she wasn't engrossed in her books.

"Possibly yes" she responded with a grin. "I just couldn't put it down though, they've found this mysterious island! Lost for centuries!" Okay so she sounded crazy perhaps. Or there was no perhaps about it but she regretted nothing.

"You're...displaced, right? The seal and everything?" she asked, slipping into a seat beside the other girl entirely unaware of who she might have been beyond that. "I'm Belle."

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whoareyousaving
2013-11-18 12:23 pm UTC (link)

"Might result in injury, you keep going the way you are." Lauren pointed out, little smirk still firmly in place. An eyebrow shot up at her enthusiasm for the plot of the book she was reading. She was so excited about it, Lauren couldn't fathom quite that level of excitement over a book at this point, but to each their own, she supposed.

She watched as she slid into the seat beside her and nodded at that question, "Yeah, I am. This place is sort of nuts, innit?" She asked, sipping at the drink sitting in front of her. "Lauren." she offered in return with a slight nod. "You run into furniture while reading very often?"

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loveishope
2013-11-18 12:30 pm UTC (link)

It was entirely likely it would result in injury. Belle was sort of prone to it. "Oh undoubtedly it will. It might be one of those things I'm told are worth it though!" Belle replied, still entirely pleased with herself and her newly borrowed book. Even if she had run into a wall. It was clearly worth it. Lauren meanwhile didn't seem to share her love of books but seemed friendly all the same.

"And yes, frequantly. Or crash into things or fall off things, I'm really not very graceful." she admitted sheepishly. "What brings you out here then, other than tea and watching people crash into entirely inconveniantly placed tables."

Belle looked up as her tea arrived and finally set the book aside. It would be rude to read while talking to Lauren even if she could multitask, and even if chapter 2 was paragraphs away from completion!.

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whoareyousaving
2013-11-18 04:33 pm UTC (link)

"S'pose I wouldn't exactly call injuring myself a good thing, but to each their own, right?" Lauren found the other girl amusing, if nothing else.

"Just wanted to get out, really. Not much of a homebody," she admitted with a shrug. And it was true. Much as the sun hurt her eyes, she preferred being out to cooped up inside. Plus, being out like this gave her mini-tests of her control that she had been working on with Hal. Being around people, groups of them, and being just fine? It gave her a sense of confidence she hadn't felt in awhile. "What about you? Doing anything aside from running into inanimate objects today?"

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loveishope
2013-11-19 05:13 am UTC (link)

Well she could hardly fault that. The girl wanted to be out in the world and who was Belle to fault that when she too had simply needed a distraction. A break. As much as she loved her housemates and she truly did, it sometimes brought back to her that she was missing a part of herself. Without Rumple here, there were nights when she just missed him, moments when she could almost hear him giving her advice, or making some sarcastic comment or other about the Charmings.

"Oh nothing much." she said in answer to Lauren's question. "I needed to clear my head a little which, well for me, involves filling it with far off places and adventures. And then tea. I do love this place, just watching life go by, people doing what they do every day, little routines and habits. I sometimes just sit and watch them. Is that weird?"

She sipped at her tea, the warm liquid refreshing her as it always seemed to have a knack for doing.

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	whoareyousaving 2013-12-15 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	Lauren shrugged a bit at Belle's question, "I don't think it's weird." sipping at her own drink. "People watching is fun sometimes. And you can kind of see a piece of who people are when you watch them in a place like this, you know?" Of course, Lauren had other reasons to people watch sometimes, but she hardly thought that was a first-time meeting sort of conversation. (Reply to this) (Parent)