Tale As Old As Time (Adam)

Adam had been the owner of the market since the curse began. He couldn't remember who he really was, but he felt like he was used to the luxurious life and had been doing so since the curse began. He was moody and a bit selfish and stubborn at times, but he found himself caring towards the people working at his market. He felt conflicted in his feelings, feeling that he was abkve everyone else at times but also caring for people under his care. He felt like he was missing someone or something.

All of his acts of kindness were done in secret of course, so most people knew him as more of a tyrant than the kinder gentler side that secretly sent money or supplies to the struggling vendors or the homeless begging for food in his market. He did have the homeless removed from the market but he would send them away with food asking them not to return.

He was walking through the market doing an inspection of the vendors, appearances were everything to him of course. He had just finished berrating a vendor for having a drab looking stand and ordering him to fix it up when he turned to walk across the way and ran right into a woman who seemed to be hurrying by. He fell backwards bringing the girl with him, but he wrapped his arms around her and turned himself towards the ground so he would hit the ground and she would land on him so she wouldn't be injured, his body had moved on its own to do so.

He landed with an oomph sound.

((OOC: figured we could start with him being nasty with her and them separating with a fight before meeting up later when they get trapped in the market together. Let me know if you're okay with that and if i should change anything))

@belle

Adam was worried that the woman might have been hurt at first, but when she stood up quickly and started apologizing he could see that she was okay. He stood up slowly, brushing himself off. He suddenly was filled with anger. How could this woman not watch where she was going. Standing up he could feel his ankle had been injured but his anger pushed away the pain. "HOW DARE YOU?!" he said.

"CAN'T YOU SEE THAT THIS IS A PLACE OF BUSINESS? PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO BUY AND SELL THINGS HERE AND HERE YOU ARE RACING THROUGH HERE AND CAUSING US BOTH TO FALL DOWN!" he screamed. "YES I AM ADAM BEASTE, AND I AM THE OWNER OF THE MARKET, WHO ARE YOU THAT YOU ARE SO IMPORTANT YOU WOULD ALLOW BOTH YOURSELF AND ANOTHER PERSON TO BE INJURED?" he asked her still yelling at her. Then she asked him his name.

He began to laugh. "Is there anything you can do? Anything you can DO?!" he said. "YOU CAN GET OUT OF MY SIGHT BEFORE I HAVE YOU ARRESTED!" he said screaming at her again.

@belle

After Adam's blowing up at the woman he immediately regretted it. When she responded to him politely and said she would pay for her items and take her leave, he even began to feel guilty. So he stepped away from her, trying to think of a way to apologize. However, before he could think of anything he watched as she seemed to run into a storage room. At first he thought she was trying to steal something from her, but hearing her talking to the cat and seeing the cat hiss at her and runaway as he walked into the doorway, causing him to bump into a book case he realized he had been mistaken.

Before he had a chance to say anything the bookcase fell over knocking the door closed, and bumping a shelf which fell right towards Belle. He hurried to move in front of it, the shelf falling on to him. Once the other shelves fell and settled, effectively closing them in to the storage room, he let out a groan. The shelf had landed right on him. Luckily he had knocked Belle out of the way, but his leg got lodged under it. "Are you okay?" he asked groaning as he looked over at her.

@belle

Adam looked around, trying to figure out how to get himself out from under the clutter that had his leg pinned. His gaze shot back to Belle as she started losing it on him. He knew that she was right, he had been a beast and had been just absolutely terrible to her in the market. It was why he had followed after her after all. However, being yelled at by her was not helping things though, it just caused him to want to lash back out at her. As she lifted the bookcase he carefully dragged himself out from under it.

"How dare you?! I came here to APOLOGIZE TO YOU! IF YOU HADN'T BEEN CHASING SOME CAT BACK HERE WE WOULDN'T BE STUCK HERE!!" he yelled. Immediately he was embarrassed for his words. He looked down at his leg assessing the damage while also not looking at her so he could be calm and finish what he was saying. "I was trying to chase after you to apologize. I was very rude to you back there and I should not have yelled. I am sorry." he grumbled, managing to be calm enough to not yell it at her.


@belle

Adam winced when she rubbed his leg a bit. "I'm fine!" he said grimacing. He was not one who liked to show weakness. He looked to her as she moved to her bag to grab what it was that she was talking about for his pain. "I'm fine, I don't need i..." he said but stopped mid sentence as he saw the rose fall out.

He watched Belle pick up the rose and the petal fall. He stared at the petal for a moment. For some reason he felt very sad looking at it. Though he had no idea why. He looked back up at Belle for a moment and for some reason his heart pounded seeing her. He knew he cared for her, felt like he had for a long time, though he wasn't sure how that was possible, they had just met after all.

The only thing he knew for sure is that he wanted to hold her, so he crawled towards her and took her hand carefully, the one the rose was in, and pulled her into his arms, hugging her tightly but not so tight as to hurt her. Then when he realized what he had just done he let her go carefully. "I-I'm sorry, I don't know why I just did that." he said feeling embarrassed.