𝐀 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐋𝐘'𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐖𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 - Beauty and The Beast AU

"I want to drown in you, Claudette, no damn blade can touch me and no rifle can shoot me down. I will always be crawling back to you on my knees-come battle or storm. Do you understand that?"

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𝘼 𝙒𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙍𝙤𝙮𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙧.

1770.
Claudette Bardot loses everything in the fire that erupts in The Groaning Goblet Tavern in her quaint town of Alsace where she worked with her two sisters-Paulette and Laurette-as a waitress.

With the Prince of Beaumontria's monstrous curse withdrawn, his marriage to Belle, and the rogue city of Alsace brought under the kingdom of Beaumontria, the new era was supposed to be a new beginning. But not for Claudette.

Part of the doll-like beautiful triplets formerly known around Alsace as the Bimbettes, the sudden fire at the tavern brutally destroys her life as Claudette knew it, killing her two sisters and the kindly tavern owner Monsieur Warrick. The tavern is taken over by Monsieur Warrick's despicable, and entirely cruel aging aunt, and Claudette has nowhere else to go.

But when Alsace is visited by a group of the Prince's Royal Musketeers, and Claudette runs into the elusive and strong Marceau D'aureville, her despairing heart might just have found something else to beat for.