He snarled and growled as Gaston's face conveyed utter horror. He yanked the club out of his hands. And grabbed Gaston by the throat holding him over the edge, "Don't let me go! Don't drop me Beast! I'll do anything, anything!"

Beast's anger told him to drop him. But his heart made him ask himself, What would Belle do? What would she want you to do? His face softened and he pulled Gaston back onto the walkway, looking him dead in the eye, "I am not a Beast."

He through Gaston to the ground, "Get out, GET OUT!"

Gaston got to his feet as Belle shouted, "Beast!"

He turned his head and ran towards her, "Belle!" His claws dug into the castle walls as he climbed his way up towards her. When he made it up he took her outstretched hand, his other hand ran through her hair, needing assurance that she's real, "You came back."

Belle leaned into his touch, her small, pale hands holding his paw there.

Then the Beast roared in pain.

She looked down and gasped. Gaston was their pushing a knife into Beast's side. He pulled it out and it was covered in blood, the sheer horror of the moment scarring her for life.

Vision and Wanda came up in time to see it happen, both shocked beyond compare.

Gaston was looking smug when Beast flailed an arm, knocking him off balance and falling off the castle.

He fell past a window and Sam saw,  quickly unfolding his wings and jumping out the window after him. He caught him and brought him down for Nat to knock him unconscious till the police arrived.

Belle quickly grabbed Beast's collar and pulled him back in. She faintly saw Vision run and help, Wanda too. They laid him down on the floor and Wanda quickly went to work trying to heal the wound.

He can't die. He can't. He's the reason she came back, he has to live. Beast reached up to cup her face, "You- you came back."

She grasped his hand like a life line, "Of course I came back! I'll never leave you again!"

Beast tried to formulate the words, losing more blood by the minute, "I think, it's my time to go..."

"No! Don't talk like that! We're together now everything's going to be fine!" The tears were coming and she didn't care.

Wanda looked up at Vision, "The wound's too deep, he's bleeding out," she swallowed, not able to say the words but she forced them out, "I can't save him."

Belle began to cry, not wanting to hold it in anymore. He may be a Beast, but he was her Beast, and he was dying in her arms. "Don't cry Belle, at least I got to see you one last time..." He said it smiling. He'll never forget her, not even in death. And he knows now that he can die, knowing that he learned to love the wonderful woman in front of him.

His eyes closed. He slumped lifeless to the floor. "No...no, no, no! Please! Please don't leave me!" Belle broke down in tears. Not caring that Vision and Wanda are there, shedding tears along with her.

And the last petal fell.

-

Downstairs, the attackers have left, save for LeFou. Everyone was sitting around, pondering if they should go up after Vision and Wanda, when Plumette fell to the floor.  "Plumette? Plumette!" Lumiere ran to her side, and held the lifeless feather duster in his arms, "Oh, Plumette my love!" Everyone watched as one by one, Mrs. Potts's face disappeared, FrouFrou the footstool flipped upside down, Chapeau caught Chip sliding down the staircase and set him next to his mother before standing up straight permanently.

"Lumiere, I-I can't move!" Cogsworth said stiff. "It's been an honor serving beside you-" he croaked out before his face went blank and void of life.

"No my friend, the pleasure, was all mine." He then twirled around and stood as a perfectly normal candelabra.

-

Belle wept clutching the Beast's shirt, tears staining the white fabric. She stood up and cupped his face, "We are home. We are where we shall be forever. Trust in me, for you know I won't run away. From today,  this is all that I need, and all that I need to say, don't you now how you've changed me? Strange how I finally see. I found home. You're my home. Stay with me...

"Please come back to me..." Belle laid her head back on his chest, hoping she'd hear the beat of his heart. He can't leave her. Not now. Not when she finally realized...

"I love you."

-

Amora gazed at Loki, and face-palmed herself. How had she not known?! All this time Loki had sought her affections even before she even thought about Thor. "Loki." He glanced at her. "I've made many mistakes in my life. But this maybe the worst one. Because I love you too."

Loki jerked with disbelief. Then stood up and ran to hug her, "Oh Amora I should have told you sooner!"

"It's alright my love, I-"

Crying broke the silence. They had been to caught up with each other to look at the mirror. Beast was lying in Belle's arms, dead

"Oh no! This wasn't supposed to happen!"

They watched as Belle held onto him and said with all her heart those three words.

Amora teared up, "She loves him!" She cast her gaze on the rose, now just a stem. She felt Loki's hand grip her shoulder and saw the nod of his head. Amora raised her arm and touched the mirror.