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Something is terribly wrong.

Belle had known the moment she opened her eyes that something was wrong, but there was a part of her too ready to deny that feeling as long as she could. She wiggled her toes in bed, she shifted, but she kept her eyes shut until the very moment she couldn't do that any longer. That was roughly the moment where a certain part of her body that had never existed before reacted very happily to the smell of Jacob beside her.

"Oh," she gasped, and then was forced to open her eyes in shock when that 'oh' came out much, much deeper. "Criss de calice de tabernac!" she swore, eyes wide with horror at both the situation and how shocked she was at it happening.

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Belle let out a startled laugh, covering her mouth with her hand when she got a brief mental image of how that lesson might go. She wanted to willingly ignore everything that had happened to her, but she didn't think she could. "How about giving me the basics about how to make sure I don't walk around at attention, so to speak?" she settled on.

"Well, just think about things that don't turn you on. Like, uh, what's the grossest thing you can think of? That usually works for me."

Jacob had never actually had this conversation with anyone before and it was really kind of surreal.

Belle made a face as she thought about Gaston. Gaston bathing. Gaston boasting and lording it over the village as though he's the best thing that's ever happened to them. "I think I found something," she said, even though she hated to think so much on it.

"See? Hope for you yet," Jacob said, brushing a kiss against her hair. It wasn't exactly the way he normally kissed his wife hello but this was...an unusual circumstance.

"Want to risk the Compound?"

She let out a hapless, frustrated laugh when he kissed the top of her head. It certainly wasn't what she was expecting and she gave Jacob a frown that was partways amused. "I think maybe we ought to find me a pair of jeans and a shirt to get me through the day decently, at least."

"Yeah, that'd be a good idea. So uh, you know I'm not attracted to guys but I'm going to stick with this even if it is permanent, okay?"

Jacob thought it wasn't but he wanted her to know that just in case.

Belle gave him a troubled look, giving a choked sound that practically epitomized how frustrated she felt. "I really hope this isn't permanent. If it is, we might have to start looking into ways for me to be a woman without island magic snapping its fingers for us."

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