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Thanks in no small part to Days of Our Lives’ Gabi, Belle’s career looks to be on very thin ice. Though, we suppose Belle isn’t entirely innocent in this as Gabi certainly wasn’t lying on Tuesday when she informed Paulina that Belle had been sleeping with the enemy: EJ DiMera! Paulina was shocked and appalled at the accusations, but Belle managed to convince her boss that not only can she remain impartial in going after him, she’s just about the only one qualified to do so.
It worked… for now. Because Paulina warned Belle that if there’s even a hint of impropriety, not only will she be removed from the case, but from the district attorney position, as well! And that has to sting as that was the whole reason Belle decided to stick around in Salem to begin with.
Belle, Martha Madison tells Soaps.com, “was excited to bring integrity back to the office. She felt with EJ being the district attorney, that he wasn’t really doing his job. He was using the office to go after his enemies, and she wanted to make it right.
“If there’s anything that we know about Belle,” she continues, “it’s that she’s morally centered, and I think that’s why justice and equity and all those things are really important to her.”
OK, that’s all well and good, but morally centered or not, she was sleeping with EJ, someone who she knows has done horrible things — and was doing them while they were together! Madison chuckles, though, when asked how Belle could reconcile her morality with EJ, of all people.
“Everybody’s got a dark side,” she says. “Everybody has parts of them that don’t necessarily align with their sensibilities, and I think in being newly single and in a powerful position and just kind of changing the tone of her life and turning the page on this chapter, she’s exploring other parts of her.”
In other words, Madison laughs, Belle “wants to go have some fun and EJ’s willing.” But, as she notes, “those things tend to bite you in the butt pretty quick.”
And this fling is already biting Belle hard. She insists she can be impartial, and certainly seems determined to nail EJ to the wall if she gets any evidence he was involved with Arnold. As Madison herself says, Belle’s had a big “wake-up call to EJ.” But at the same time, Gabi’s not the first to accuse her of showing favoritism to EJ. And when Shawn did the same, Belle got awfully upset with him! So did her ex have a point?
“Well,” Madison admits, “I think nobody knows her better than Shawn. And I think it really burned her up because he knows that about her, and I think she knows it too… So, yes.”
The worst part is, it may not be the end of Belle and EJ just yet. She’s quit him before. She’s been disgusted and infuriated by him before. But we know from spoilers that on Friday, EJ’s going to make a confession to Belle. What that is, and what she does with it could be game changing.
One false move — or even, as Paulina suggested, the appearance of a false move — and Belle could lose her job and everything she’s been rebuilding in Salem. And that, in turn, could drive her back into a dark place and EJ’s arms. On the other hand, his confession could push Belle so far over the edge, she finally has enough and shoots the man who’s hurt her family over and over again. If there’s one thing this week is making increasingly clear, it’s that virtually everyone has a reason to want EJ dead.
For good or for ill, when feelings as strong as those EJ elicits in Belle are involved, it’s tough to think and act clearly. Madison, though, isn’t saying what’s happening. But she does have a few words of warning that have us worried these two aren’t done circling each other just yet.
“I think like most — I don’t know if I’d call them an addiction — but most bad things,” she notes, “I don’t know if you’re ever totally done with them until they completely implode your life. So we’ll see.”
