Belle continued to glare at him, folding her hands in her lap. The movie continued to play in the background as they spoke to each other from opposite ends of the sofa. "Would you have been so lenient with your son?" Immediately after the sentence left her mouth her hand flew to it, as if she covered the area it had come out of fast enough it would simply go back down her throat.

Rumple grit his teeth. He turned and looked at her, doing his best to contain his rage. He loved her after all. "I only wanted what was best, for my son." He stood gesturing widely. "I became this" his hands went to his chest "To save my son from fighting in your father's damned war."

Belle had wholeheartedly planned on apologizing for her outburst until Rumple spoke and insulted her father's honor once again. "My father was only trying to protect the kingdom! He had no control of what the officers did, and trust me. If he had known they were being so cruel to those people he would have stopped it!"

"Your father was forcing children to fight for him! The officers had to be getting the orders from somewhere." He hissed as the pain in his knee grew and he moved to sit back down on the sofa, a scowl on his face. "He could have enlisted many others. I could have avoided this injury," a gesture to his knee "If it weren't for the damned Ogre war."

Belle stood quickly and began pacing around the small table in front of the sofa. "My father would never have forced children to fight for him! He was entirely to trusting in his officers and they are fully to blame! If you must know," She stopped pacing a stood directly in front of Rumple, screaming down at him.

"My father got to a point where he couldn't bare all the losses any longer, but it was to late to call anything off! So he made it clear to them to simply end it! He told them to fight! To fight for their freedom! For their lands! They took matters into their own hands and more people started dying!" She began to walk away now, shouting back at him and speaking very quickly as she moved out of the room.

"By the time I myself found out about the children, I found my father in his study with a dagger ready to end it all! So next time you decide to pass judgments about people, make sure you have your facts straight!" With a crackle in her voice as she shouted her last sentence, she exited the room and ran up to the stair case.

Rumple sat quietly as she yelled at him, and he sighed when she stormed out of the room. She had every reason to be angry with him, and he had a reason to have gotten so mad himself, but he should have held back. He paused the movie and stood, grasping his cane before slowly making his way up the stairs to apologize.

Belle had flung herself onto the bed, softly crying to herself and attempted to get the tears to stop flowing down her cheeks. She heard the stairs creak behind her and stood up swiftly, bolting to the bathroom and locking herself inside. She closed the lid of the toilet and sat down, resting her elbows on her knees and picking at one of her nails.

He heard her move and the door shut. So she had locked herself away in the bathroom. Rumple sighed and moved to sit on the bed, his cane resting on the bed next to him. He didn't know what to say, nor did he know what she wanted to hear. "I am sorry Belle."

Belle sat quietly in the bathroom, listening for any sound of speech or movement from the room beyond the door in front of her. When she heard Rumple speak, it was slightly muffled, and the constant wheezing sound coming from her mouth was not helping her hearing. She continued to sit in silence, trying her best to calm down and waiting to see if Rumple would say anything else.

Nothing, absolutely nothing from her side. Rumple sighed and moved to stand near the door. "I apologize. I had no right to say those things about your father, I know that he is only looking out for your best interests, but I still wish that he would accept you living here."

Belle sighed and moved quietly towards the door, standing next to it and leaning against the wall. "I shouldn't have said anything about your son." She wiped her eyes gently with her wrist and sniffled a little, her eyes still producing some tears.

"No harm done Belle." Actually, quite a bit of harm done, but it could be overlooked. "Now, do you wish to finish the movie? We were just getting to the good part, and I ensured to pause it so that you would not miss anything."

Belle opened the door and immediately made contact with his body, wrapping her arms around him tightly and taking deep breaths. "I feel like a small child. I don't ever understand how this happened. We were having such a good day." She squeezed him tight to her burying her head in the nape of his neck and breathing in the scent of him.

He patted her back and then ran a hand through her hair, ignoring the shooting pain in his knee from her impacting against him so heavily. "We can still continue to have a good day. As I said, the movie is paused, we can return downstairs and watch the movie."

Belle nodded, still clinging to his body like a leech, as if letting him go would make the fighting and screaming start all over again. "I'd like that." she said softly, brushing her nose against his neck and smiling lightly. She peeked his neck softly and squeezed him a little tighter, not wanting to let him go.