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imgilmoregirl · 6 years

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Hello! Congratulations on you 900 followers!! I got a prompt for you, I had read your fic about Gideon finding out about his father's death, and it ends with Alice wanting to go with him to bury him. So, can you write about their trip, maybe with Robin too, and them talking about Belle, about the trips the family did, maybe even Robin remembering them, and Alice telling Gideon about the time she spend with Rumple, and the three of them in that beautiful home Belle and Rumple built...

Thank you so much, sweetie! And thanks for the lovely prompt, I hope you like what I got for you. I’m so sorry for the delay.

Afterwards

Summary: After Rumple’s funeral, Gideon and the others have a moment.

Notes: Disclaimer: I don’t own Once Upon A Time or any of the characters and storylines in the show. This is just a fanwork made for fun.

This is a follow-up to Legacy.

Therewas a weird, but somewhat comfortable silence in Rumple and Belle’s house atthe Edge of Realms. They had just buried the very last Dark One this worldwould know beside his beloved wife and Gideon urged the others in, althoughRegina had insisted in taking Henry and Rogers to take a look around.

Itwas a bittersweet feeling for him to be back in a place so full of good memories.Gideon had many homes while growing up, lived in many small villages and manybig castles, but he thought that this one had a special meaning for his parents,because it was there that they finally had some earned peace. He rememberedleaving the Academy on Friday nights and coming back just hours later afterwhat seemed to have been a whole week away.

Thegood thing about time running different in there was that Gideon could spend alot more time with his parents than it would be given him if the time passed atthe same rhythm in both realms. He had always enjoyed coming over, hearing hismother read aloud to him as if he was still a child, sitting by the spinningwheel with his father or just simply helping them to reach things in tallshelves. Gideon smiled to himself, a sad smile, melancholic mostly as he putsome water to boil.

“Tea?”He asked to Robin and Roderick, who were sat by the small four-seat diningtable.

“Iwill accept,” the blonde girl said, adjusting her glasses on her nose.

Nodding,Gideon separated four cups and took a look around, trying to find he other girlthat should be there, until he found her standing in front of the spinningwheel, running a gentle finger through it, eyes seeming to be full of tears. Heleft the kitchen, walking towards her and laying a hand on her shoulder, makingthe girl jump, startled, before looking back to see him and she relaxed.

“Healways spun a lot… I once asked him why, he told it helped him to remember,”Alice said, as if justifying herself. “Guess he was talking about you,your mother and your brother.”

Gideonsighed, knowing that she was right. The image of his father as an imp, spinningmadly in the middle of the woods, whispering nonsense about their family,crossing his mind. Even at his darkest, Rumplestiltskin couldn’t stop thinkingabout them, that was the extent of his love.

“Yeah,guess so. My father has always been very attached to our family,” Gideontold her. “Baelfire died before I was born, but my parents always told meall the stories about him. Papa loved us with all of his heart.”

“Mymom had a crush on him,” Robin interfered from where she was, still sat bythe table.

Glancingup at her, Gideon saw that the water had boiled and Roderick was alreadyserving the tea, but it was barely a detail in his mind, because he could onlyconcentrate in what Robin had said.

“What?”

“Sorry,bad timing,” she mumbled, grimacing. “If it makes you feel better,she always said that your mom was the best nanny I’ve ever had.”

Gideonarched an eyebrow at her as he and Alice came back to the table, taking theteacups Roderick was offering them. He didn’t quite remember most people fromStorybrooke, although he had seen pictures of them, but he knew that if he hadgrown-up there he would have grown with Robin, Neal and all those other people.

Maybelife in Storybrooke could have been nice, he thought as he shared a laugh withthat girl whose mother had a weird crush on his father. Maybe if they hadstayed there, his parents could still be alive. Gideon shook his head forhimself, feeling Roderick’s hand on his knee, still showing him the comfort heneeded. No, the life they had wasperfect and Gideon wouldn’t change it for nothing and he bet neither would hisparents.

“Hehad a book full of pictures, it is in his apartment if you want me to get itfor you later,” Alice started, slowly, almost hesitantly. “I lookedat the pictures in it many times, wishing for a life like that, life with loveand adventure.”

“It’smy mother’s travel book, she said once that papa gave it to her during my firstbirthday party,” Gideon answered, tracing down the border of his teacup. “Shealways carried it around and I helped her filling some spaces with ourfavourite quotes of the books we were reading at the time we took thepictures.”

“Well,he carried it around when we met. He took care of me for ten years or so, I owehim a lot…” Alice trailed off, sipping her tea.

Rumple’sletters talked a lot about her. Before the darkness overtook him, he used totell Gideon about how nice it was to not be as lonely as he thought he would beafter going away on his journey to find the Guardian. Gideon could remember thedesperate tone his words seemed to have when he wrote to him about his suspectsof Alice being the Guardian herself. He would never want to pass his burden toa kid, even more when he cared so dearly for her.

“Idon’t think you do. Papa never expected anything from anyone and if you gavehim a good friendship to rely on, it was more than enough.”

Asmile crossed Alice’s lips as her unquiet eyes darted around the house, stoppingoccasionally in the few pictures displayed on the shelves or the books hismother kept in the most beautiful glassware

“Heused to say that I reminded him a lot of his Belle. I think we were bothcurious and joyful,” she told him. “Adaily challenge, he used to say. Rumplestiltskin brought me strawberries everyday, detective Weaver bought me orange marmalade sandwiches and gave me ashelter in my bad days. You were lucky to have him as your father.”

“Yeah,he was always the best I could expect.”

“Iwould like to have known him,” Roderick interrupted, brushing his dark hair awayfrom his face with a distant look before adding: “Both your parents.”

“Iwould have liked that too, Rod,” Gideon guaranteed, kissing the top of hishead.

Onthe other end of the table, Alice moved her shoulders uncomfortably, incliningherself forward as she folded her hands around the teacup. Robin glanced backat her as if expecting something marvellous to happen, but all that the shortergirl did was to continue speaking, the sweetest smile overtaking her lips.

“Hewas sweet, although he tried to seem tough most of the time. He was funny also,”she said, laughing a bit. “He used to say ‘Alice,don’t let anything hold you, you can take the word if you want to, but neverforget what really matters’. It was a good advice.”

“Yeah,it was,” Roderick agreed.

“Papawas a wise man,” Gideon remarked. “Mama taught him how to be good and he becamethe best man I’ve ever known.”

“Ithink that they are together now,” she betted and Gideon couldn’t help butbelieve her words. “It’s True Love after all and no matter what happens, TrueLove is eternal and it always finds its way back.”

Reachingfor Roderick’s hand, he nodded, watching as Alice laid her head on Robin’sshoulder. Somewhere, far away from their reach, Rumplestiltskin and Belle wereprobably making up for the lost time, sharing a good laugh with Baelfire andmeeting up with all their passed friends and family. But in that moment, at theEdge of Realms, the place that once was their home, two young couples wondered aboutthe greatness of life and silent promised to honour those who were gone.

#rumbelle #rumbelle fic #prompt fic #mine #writing #thestorywelovebest #rumplestiltskin #belle #gideon gold #gidrick #curiousarcher #alice jones #robin mills

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maddiebonanafana · 6 years

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OUAT Rarepairs Christmas Movie AU @ouat-rare-pair @zoe19blink

Robert and Belle Gold host Christmas every year for their family, which is a large and blended one, including their two sons Neal and Gideon, and their grandson Henry from Neal’s first marriage. After being told that Belle is very sick, they fear that this may be their last Christmas together. Usually, everyone in the family can make it. This year however, there seems to be some roadblocks...

Tinkerbae

Neal and Tina “Tink” are pregnant and nearing the due date. At their last ultrasound, they are given both good news and bad news. Good news, it’s almost time to deliver. The bad news, they will most likely be spending Christmas in the hospital, and will miss Christmas dinner with the family. After going into labor on Christmas Eve, in what seems like a miracle, they are able to attend dinner and surprise the family with not just one baby, but two.

Woodenswan

Emma has just been proposed to by her boyfriend Walsh. Although apprehensive, she says yes and they are to be wed on Christmas Eve. As the date approaches, her best friend August slowly realizes he is in love with her, and Emma comes to grips that Walsh is not “the one”. After August confesses his true feelings and Emma realizes she feels the same, she breaks off the engagement and shows up to dinner with August instead.

Gidrick

Gideon is coming home for the holidays and wants to bring his boyfriend Roderick to meet his family. Roderick is not sure he wants to go, as he struggles with his sexuality and being publicly out. The two have a fight about going that almost tears them apart, until Gideon receives news that his mother is sick, and this may be their last Christmas together. After seeing how important it is to his boyfriend, Roderick agrees to go. When they arrive, Gideon’s family welcomes Roderick with love and open arms.

Bluecricket

Henry, Neal and Emma’s son, knows that his school counselor Mr. Hopper is in love with his teacher, Ms. Blue, and he’s pretty sure she feels the same way. While trying to get them together, he discovers that deep down they are very lonely, and have no family or friends to share the holidays with. He invites them separately to his family’s for Christmas dinner, whether they are together or not, he doesn’t want them to spend Christmas alone. Surprisingly, they both show up and end up finding themselves under the mistletoe (that Henry swears he didn’t hang up).

#tinkerbae #woodenswan #gidrick #rumbelle #bluecricket #neal cassidy #gideon gold #tinker bell #archie hopper #emma swan #august booth #henry mills #blue fairy

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thiswomanshouldbewriting · 6 years

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600!

Tonight I gained my 600th follower. I can hardly believe that so many of you actually want to follow my crazy, disorganized blog. I love all of you, and you never fail to brighten my days.

I usually to a promptathon for events like these, but my muse has been kind of lazy in the past few months, and I’m not sure I could handle a promptathon right now. What I can do is tell you all what it’s currently on my writing list, so that you can know whether a fic I published and never continued has any chance of ever being finished. There are many fics for which I promised a follow up that never came, and I apologize for that, but I have way too many ideas and too little time, plus I tend to fall out of love with my old ideas when I get too many new ones.

So, here are the fics I’m either working on or planning on working on in the foreseeable future.

- Missing Pieces, a S7 AU focused on the Rumbelle family in Hyperion Heights, featuring also Alice as the Rumbelle daughter, just because I can.

- A Tale of Magic, my 3B AU. I started writing the second chapter and then I got kind of stuck, probably because I’ve been planning this fic for so long that I’m scared of it not being as beautiful as I imagined. Also because I stopped writing one evening because I was too sleepy to go on, and when I woke up the following morning I didn’t remember how the scene was supposed to end.

- Caged Love, honestly one of my favorite fics, for which I have half of the next chapter written. I don’t know why I haven’t finished it yet, probably fear once again. There are too many things that need to be explained, and it’s a bit hard to do it without making the chapter boring.

- Come What May, a oneshot that surprisingly became a multi-chapter fic thanks to prompts. This is the only one for which I haven’t written anything yet, and a part of me is tempted to end it where I left it. At the same time, I still have prompts and ideas for it, so I really don’t know.

- An untitled fic that I should have written almost one year ago for the Fandom Trumps Hate event. @jackabelle73, the one I should write the fic for, is being incredibly patient, but I still feel bad about my delay. It’s about Rumbelle and SwanQueen taking a trip in Italy. I started it and then, guess what, I got scared of ruining it, so I stopped writing altogether. I’m starting to see a pattern here.

- An alternate version of the Rumbelle scene in 5x11. I started this fic thinking it would be a brief thing, and now it’s over 5k long and still going.

- The Way We Feel, a follow up to The Bond Between Us, focusing on Gideon and Roderick, who is somehow still alive (I’ll explain how in the fic). This is going to be a massive fic because I just have so many feels about these two, okay?

- Last but not least, I’m actually writing a fic based on my own theory/hope that Alice is the daughter of Wish!Rumple and Wish!Belle. Expect angst galore.

So, this is what I’m currently working on, while I sit on a pile of forgotten fics and broken promises for follow ups. I have to warn you that right now I’m doing most of my writing on paper, so it will be long before I actually post anything online. However, since I’m celebrating, if any of you is interested in one of this fics, you can message me and I’ll post a snippet of what I’ve written so far.

I love you all <3

#Rumbelle #Rumbelle fics #Gidrick #Rumbelle AU #600 followers #Sara talks

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scribbles-by-kate · 7 years

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But of course! Imagine all the fic they will inspire :)

#gidrick #gideon gold #roderick

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ao3feed-rumbelle · 5 years

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Coming soon: Ghostwriter

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Y7le5X

by Paige_Turner36

After Rumple makes the deal with Regina/The Evil Queen to leave Belle and his son alone, he sets about making final preparations to make sure his wife and son will be safe and happy... without him. Starting with fixing up the little derelict green house Belle had bought unseen from Weasleton, without magic.

His last stop is a visit to his grandson Henry, the Author, to ask him to place him somewhere where he cannot "destroy" his loved ones: one of the empty storybooks. Rumple asks his grandson to place him at the moment of his true loves kiss with Belle, so he can see how different their story would have happened if he'd allowed her to break her curse.

Words: 620, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Fics coming soon...

Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, F/M, Other

Characters: Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold, Belle (Once Upon a Time), Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time), Baelfire | Neal Cassidy, Charlie Gideon Gold/Rumbaby, Mention of Alice/Tilly, Mention of Robyn Mills | Margot, Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Robin Hood (Once Upon a Time), Old Fat Hook

Relationships: Belle/Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold, Belle & Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold, Grandpastiltskin - Relationship, Mention of Golden Wonder, Mention of Curious Archer, Mention of Outlaw Queen - Relationship, Mention of Swanfire - Relationship, Mention of Snowing - Relationship, Mention of Gidrick

Additional Tags: Quilt, music box, new home, Rumple ghostwriter, Once Upon a Time storybook: Beauty and the Beast, season 6 AU, Fic preview, True Love, Regina is Robyn's mother in this universe, Alice has no relation to any version of Hook in this universe, Second Chance, Happy Beginning, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2Y7le5X

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #rumbelle #Once Upon a Time #ouat #Rumplestiltskin #Belle #Mr. Gold

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marshvlovestv · 6 years

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The characters in my many Awful Ships are played by a lot of different actors but only one of those actors played a homicidal furry on iZombie, and miraculously it wasn’t Jimmi Simpson

#grayson gabriel #it was grayson gabriel #gidrick #iZombie #roderick ouat #technically he wasn't a furry #he was dating a furry #but he committed the murder whilst wearing the fursuit #which is fucking incredible

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boushh2187 · 5 years

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Hello, and Happy Saturday! I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. I have another question about your character preferences. Gideon Gold-- thoughts/feelings about him? Were you ecstatic that he was de-aged back to a baby, or would you have preferred he stay an adult? Are you a Gidrick shipper?

Hello! Hope you are having a good weekend too. Mine is so so, but what can you do? I like Gideon. I am fine with him being a baby or an adult. Gidrick would have been cute, but for some reason I don’t really think of Gideon in a romantic sense. Maybe it was the whole aging and deaging thing. LOL. So I could go either way on putting him in a romantic pairing. But do what inspires you. :)

#replies to rcij santa 2019 #rumbelle christmas in july #Anonymous

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ryik-the-writer · 3 years

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Lookin' at you like a star From a place the world forgot

#ouat #ouatedit #gidrick #gidrickedit #gideon gold #gideongoldedit #roderickedit #roderick #roderick ouat #once upon a time #song edit #jaymes young #moondust #ryik-the-rumbeller-oncer

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therumbellehappyendingaward-blog · 6 years

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The Rumbelle Happy Ending Awards – Winners!

Thank you to everyone who voted and helped spread word about this event, the fandom surprised me again. Congratulations all winners, you are really loved! Here is the masterlist.

*Categories with two winners had the same number of votes.

FLUFF

Best Fix-It

The Life You Save May Be Your Own by @thatravenclawbitch

Best Comfort

The Gift of Magi by @findingtallahassee

Best Date

The Worst That Could Happen by @thatravenclawbitch

Best Happy Moment

Quia Parata Sunt Omnia by @thatvermillionflycatcher

ANGST

Best Exes

Dark Heart by @emospritelet

Best Misunderstanding

Dripping in Gold by @maplesyrupao3

Best Post-Belle’s Death

Coming Home by @scribbles-by-kate

Best Love and Hate

Unfailing Faith by @mrs-stiltskin

Best Reencounter

The Bookshop Owner by @imgilmoregirl

AO3 TRIGGER WARNINGS

Best Underage

Reckless Abandon by @rufeepeach

Best Rape/Non-Con

Old Habits Die Hard by @dowehaveadeal

Best Major Character Death

A Safe Place by @lotus0kid

Best Graphic Descriptions of Violence

Death Becomes Her by @crysania

FAMILY

Best Gideon

The Bond Between Us by @sarashouldbestudying

Best Baelfire

Caged Love by @sarashouldbestudying

Best Belle/Rumple original child

Rose – The Dark Children by @imgilmoregirl

Best Family Long Fic

Heat of the Moment by @thescholarlystrumpet

Best Family One Shot

To Keep Out The Dark by @rufeepeach

Best Pregnancy

Heat of the Moment by @thescholarlystrumpet

SMUT

Best First Time

Bravery Will Follow by @emospritelet

Best PWP

Off Duty by @emospritelet

Best Threesome

Love and Trust by @emospritelet

Best Romance

A Dozen Roses by @ladybookwormwithteeth

Best Hate-Sex

Dark Heart by @emospritelet

Best Kink

The Party by @worryinglyinnocent

Best Movie AU

The Parent Trap by @imgilmoregirl

Best TV Show AU

Home by @winterswanderlust

What Once Was… by @barpurplewrites

Best Modern AU

The Tie That Binds by @ishtarelisheba

Best Curse AU

Shape Of Love by @Rumpelstiltskin_wait

Best Creature AU

Heavenly Bodies by @maplesyrupao3

Best Historical AU

Dark Sight by @maplesyrupao3

BEST OF THE BEST

Best Drama

Angel’s Unaware by @ethereal-wishes

Best Angst

Dark Heart by @emospritelet

Best Hurt/Comfort

I Must Be Warmer Now by @ifishouldvanish

Best Series

Reckless Abandon by @rufeepeach

Best Roleplay

The Fate of Pierrot by @thatvermillionflycatcher

ART

Best Sketch

Sea wizard by @nia-sketches

Best Manip

Lust by @virgidearie

Best Digital Art

Precious Moments by @licieoic

Best Gif-Set

I miss you - we miss you too son by @virgidearie

Best Graphic Art

The Gold Family - King of Loopholes by @nropay-gallery

Best Cosplay

wizard world chicago - @klairabelle, @delintthedarkone, @druidkitty, @snafu-moofins

Best Fan Video

Rumbelle Forever / OUAT/ Belle & Rumplestiltskin by @spellbound

Once Upon A Time There Was a Beast by @allicamallison

Best Artist

@virgidearie

SPECIAL MATCHING

Best RushBelle

Love and Trust by @emospritelet

Best WovenLace

Off Duty by @emospritelet

Best Rushacey

The Worst That Could Happen by @thatravenclawbitch

Best WovenBelle

Off Duty by @emospritelet

Best GoldenLace

Recovery by @justadearie

BEST SIDE-PAIRING

Best Swanfire

Waiting Game by @emospritelet

Best CuriousArcher

Stolen Books and True Love by @imgilmoregirl

Best Gidrick

The Light That Waits by @likehandlingroses

GOLDEN CATEGORIES

Best Author

@emospritelet

Best Rumbelle Fic

Dark Heart by @emospritelet

Best Anyelle Fic

Let’s Spend The Night Together by @ifishouldvanish

No Light Over London by @lotus0kid

Best Commenter

@ultimatefan

#The Rumbelle Happy Ending Awards #winners #rumbelle

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justanoutlawfic · 5 years

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Gideon & Roderick + A Second Chance

#gidrick #gideon gold #roderick #ouat #once upon a time

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imgilmoregirl · 6 years

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AO3 Link - FF.Net Link

Notes: Long time, no update. I'm so sorry! There was so much happening in my life these past few weeks - months actually - that I couldn't have the right break to write and when I did I had to focus on my RCIJ fic, but now I'm back for good and I will finish this fic. Oh, we won Best Belle/Rumple Original Child with Rose at the R.H.E.A, so thank you so much everyone! I love you all!

Chapter Twenty-Two

They didn’t waste time after Henry’s arrival, in the very next day the group parted to Wonderland. Henry had been there before, he told them, but the clues he had found always seemed to take him somewhere else. He hadn’t seen Cora around or heard of her name, but he knew that something weird was happening, because the place looked abandoned and the few people he had met there were as mad as one could be.

Rumplestiltskin knew that his grandson was right about that place seeming to be dangerous by the moment he stepped a foot outside the portal that took them there. He felt the undeniable magic, which Henry probably hadn’t noticed because he didn’t have it in himself like the imp did. Sharing a glare with Gideon, he touched one bush wall, which’s leaves were getting brown and falling. In the past this had been a colourful and beautiful land, but now, everything was dark and he could feel why.

“My mother is here,” Regina said. “Her magic is a powerful poison, but I think that she is not alone.”

“Definitely not,” he answered, picking an old silver pin, notched to form a circle with some symbols around. “I know who this belongs to. Gothel.”

“Gothel?” Emma inquired. “Who the hell is Gothel?”

Regina exchanged a glare with the Dark One, picking the pin from his hands and lifting it closer to her face, so she could analyse it better. The blonde princess walked towards her, peeking a look at it above Regina’s shoulder.

“She used to be good in the past, but then she started to kill humans, which is why she was banished from this realm. I only heard of her as a legend, but somehow, my mother should have found a way of bringing her back from wherever she was.”

From where he was, Robin tightened his grip on his bow, glancing at Neal. They all were tense now, the imminent threat haunting their thoughts.

"How can we find them?" Henry inquired. "I've walked around this whole land and I have found nothing but destruction wherever I went to."

"My mother is fool, her only way of protecting herself has always been blood magic. I can find her and I can take us inside her lair," Regina guaranteed. "We will find Belle and Ella today, then we will take them home."

She took Henry's hand in hers, squeezing a little as they shared a hopeful smile, but everyone else knew that although Regina wanted to give her son something to look forward to, they still had a rocky road ahead. Rumplestiltskin knew that better than anyone. He had been Cora's professor, he taught her everything she knew and was pretty aware of how dangerous that woman could be, as for Gothel, she was a legend and legends should surely be feared.

It got him even more worried about Belle. They were having quite a troubled year and now they were separated again, she and their unborn child, facing a great danger. The imp didn't like to think about that and he was glad to have other concerns, like keeping an eye on his sons and making sure none of them got hurt during their search, however Belle was still the main thing on his mind.

"Where should we go?" Gideon asked. "We should start looking somewhere, I don't want to have my mother stay in their hands for long."

Waving a hand, Regina made a necklace appear on the palm of her hand, alongside a tiny bottle. She opened its lid and poured the blue contents on the red gem, making it start to float.

"This is going to take us to my mother and hopefully, Gideon, to yours too," the dark-haired woman said, proudly.

Fighting his urge of rolling his eyes and tell her majesty, the former Evil Queen that it might not be as easier as she seemed to think. Yes, blood magic was something very characteristic of Cora, but with Gothel by her side, he doubted that she was going to be so careless when she knew that she had two daughters and a few grandchildren running around and that all of them would want to stop her from doing whatever she was planning.

He let the group start to follow the necklace first, staying behind and looking around, certain that their enemies should already know they were there and were just waiting to attack at any second. Gideon, of course, noticed there was something wrong with his father and stopped walking, looking back at him.

"Father, what is it?"

"Let's be careful, alright?" Rumplestiltskin started patting his son's shoulder. "Your mother's life is in danger and our enemies are not such idiots as Regina appears to think they are."

The boy nodded, eyes fixed in his. The air around them seemed to be heavy, very different from the last time Rumple had been there, years after Cora mysteriously disappeared. It was Gothel's power, he realised. Every single bit of life in that land was gone and now it felt like he was in the Underworld instead of a place that once before had been so beautiful.

"We will get mother back, papa. Don't worry," Gideon said.

"Aye," he nodded. "But just so you know, don't try to be the hero today. If anyone has to make a sacrifice, then this person is not going to be you. Belle would never forgive me if her beloved boy came back home with a missing ear."

Gideon gave him a sceptical glance.

"You know that I'm not a five-year-old anymore, right?"

"At five you helped me defeat your evil grandmother," the imp chuckled. "I'll need to get used to the idea that you'll need to take your own risks someday, just not now."

"Yeah, fine, we need to catch up with the others."

A tiny smile crossed the Dark One's lips and he held Gideon in place by taking his arm when he was about to follow the group ahead.

"Remember Roderick is waiting for you at home," Rumplestiltskin advised. "Thinking about your mother is what always stopped me from doing stupid things in the heat of the moment. She needed me to come home alive and so does your man."

It was a sincere and wise advice that he never imagined himself giving his son in that moment, however if Rumple didn't start to think about these things now, he wasn't sure if he would have a tomorrow to do so. He would save Belle, no matter the cost and if it was his life, as he started to imagine it would be, then he would go in peace.

A man had told his son, months ago that his days as the Dark One were counted, and back then Rumple had laughed at it, but now the reality of the situation was starting to hit him. Cora, Gothel and probably someone else waited for them and only the gods knew what the real hell they wanted.

Following her father had been a bit harder than Rose thought it would be. The first thing she and Roland had to do was to get out of the Dark Castle without anyone noticing and, when you considered that Mr. Potts was pretty angry at her and the girls kept asking for new hairstyles, seemed to be really an impossible task. She knew that Roderick and Mr. Dove were not a problem, but it took them a while to get over the others and finally escape to the woods.

By the time they finally reached the cabin outside Rumplestitskin’s property where the portal had been open, they were long gone. There was some rambling about how they would ever get to Wonderland now and some desperation coming from her, until Roland mumbled something about how his mother kept three magic beans hidden in their castle back in Sherwood.

She it was wrong to steal from Regina and that they would most likely get in trouble for that, but Rose couldn’t sit and wait like a child while her whole family was searching for her mother. So, what happened was that they travelled to Roland’s home, stole the bean and opened a second portal to Wonderland, appearing in the opposite side of the land than the others were. Of course, they didn’t know it.

Rose had heard incredible things about Wonderland during her life, but now that she was there, the girl needed to confess that she was really disappointed. The air was cold and the plants were dying, destroyed pieces of furniture spread around, a castle in ruins and the remains of what seemed to once have been a beautiful garden.

“What the hell happened here?”

“Something dark,” Roland answered. “That’s for certain.”

He was carrying the bow she gave him, the one that belonged to his father, and held an arrow tightly just in case someone appeared. Rose loved that Roland was that careful, it made her feel safe.

It was night and the dead cold air made her tremble, so Roland suggested they found a place to sleep and start to search for their family in the next morning. She didn’t want to agree at first but needed to admit that her clothes weren’t suitable for the weather, so Rose decided to accept his decision and followed him. They needed to light up the way with fire as the sky got more and more darker and their only option was to hide inside an abandoned little house.

Someday in the past it must have been beautiful, but now it was only dirty and stinky, however, it would serve their purpose for a night.

They found the master chambers and climbed up the bed together, using Roland’s cloak as a blanket. Rose hugged him, laying her head on his chest as she let herself fall into a deep sleep. She was still worried about her mother and what tomorrow might bring, which was why later that day she thought that it would have been a good idea to bring Gideon’s anti-vision necklace.

In a minute she was just enjoying the great rest the darkness provided her, but then all of the sudden it begun. Rose was kneeling on the floor, her clothes damp with blood and a squealing infant screaming somewhere in the background. She held the wrist of the woman laying limp in front of her and shook her head for someone. Dead, of course.

"Rose," the loud scream interrupted the vision and she started to feel her own body again. "Rose, wake up. Darling, wake up, it is just a vision!"

Taking a long, deep breath, Rose opened her eyes to see her betrothed shaking her shoulders desperately, his eyes wide in panic and his cloak almost falling to the dusty floor.

"Roland," she breathed. "Oh, gods!"

Her hands were trembling and some perspiration made her face feel odd. She swallowed hard, allowing Roland to pull her into his embrace and stroke her hair until her heart stopped racing madly.

"Calm down," he whispered to her ear. "Tell me what was it about."

"A woman dying in childbirth, I couldn't see her face just skirts full of blood," Rose answered in a weak voice. "Do you think I saw my mother's death?"

"No," Roland immediately said, shaking his head at her. "It could be anyone."

Tears were starting to stream down her face now, the mere thought of losing one of the people she most loved in the word splitting her heart in two.

"I can't lose her, Roland. I can't lose my mother."

The boy touched her wet face, brushing her tears away and kissing the top of her head. They had grown up together and he knew every and each way of soothing her, just like her family members did. However, it couldn’t stop Rose from panicking inside, she had predicted too many deaths in her life to not be worried just now.

"It's alright, it won't be her," Roland kept saying.

"But what if..."

"No what ifs,” he commanded. “We are going to rescue her, take her home, she will be fine and soon you'll have a new sibling."

Rose was about to protest, but he silenced her with a kiss. It wouldn’t make her forget what she had just seen but it would momentarily make her feel that the world was way sweeter than in reality, and for Rose, it was enough.

Cora held a long piece of parchment in her hands, feeling her fellow partners' eyes starting at her as she ran a finger along the short phrases of the spell. She knew they were analysing her every movement and that anything she said or did wrongly could end this strange partnership, which was why she was being so careful and secretive all the time.

Bringing Belle to them had certainly bought some trust, but Cora wasn't a fool, she knew that none of them would be stupid enough to fully believe one another. Leaning back against her chair, she nodded pleasantly at the parchment, pulling it back on the table as Facilier arched an eyebrow at her.

"Are you sure this is going to work?" Gothel inquired. "The last time someone tried to cast this curse, it was a failure and I don't need to say that this failure is on your darling daughter's shoulders."

She had to hold herself not to snarl an answer to Gothel and Cora only did so, because right now they needed each other and, without that woman’s power she wasn’t really sure if she could cast that curse.

“Regina is weak,” Cora said, slowly. “She loves too much, that’s why she failed, but I have never made this mistake. I have never loved someone, not even my daughters and that’s why I will succeed.”

Gothel narrowed her eyes at her, not even a bit convinced of that. Facilier, in the other hand, took some steps towards them and pulled a chair for himself, taking a seat beside Cora as he traced invisible patterns in the table. One of his voodoo dolls was laying in front of them, a perfect copy of the imp he had been silently chasing along the years, waiting for the right moment to take the Dark One’s powers for himself.

“How can you guarantee us that you will have a heart to crush, Cora? If you don’t love anyone then you can’t really cast the curse.”

“Oh, I can,” she assured him. “Once I put my own heart back inside my chest I will feel affection again, I will look after Regina and play my part. I only hope you can play yours.”

Sighing, he took the voodoo doll in hands and smiled wickedly. That smile, was the reason why Cora had agreed on bringing Facilier into this collaboration in first place. He wouldn’t hesitate in doing what was needed and that was why he was so priceless to their plan.

“Nobody is going to stop you,” he responded in his husky voice. “Rumplestiltskin and his family won’t have time to. Now… Gothel, do you have your ingredients?”

“Of course,” she answered. “Two women of fire’s essence, to bring magic to a land where there is any. The life of an innocent child, to take us to the right place and time… This one is just a delivery away, but don’t worry I have the right kind of tea to sped up things.”

“Wonderful. So, now, my dears, we must prepare ourselves. We don’t have much time.”

With a wave of her head, Gothel agreed, pulling her chair back and leaving the room in which they had been reunited, heading straight to the dungeons where Belle and Ella were locked. Cora took a deep breath, thinking about the hardest thing she would have to do in a long time, put her heart back inside her chest. She was about to follow her own way too, when Facilier chuckled, looking up at the ceiling as if he thought it was really amusing.

“What is it?” Cora inquired.

“We have visitors,” he said, a moment before disappearing into a dark cloud of smoke.

An empty teacup was placed carefully in front of Belle, the brown and yellow patterns of it, estrange to her unlike the white and blue china they used to have in their castle. She was sat on the floor against the wall, one hand caressing the small mound of her belly was the other played mindlessly with a hairpin. Belle didn’t know how much time could have passed ever since she was imprisoned there, but she guessed it wasn’t a lot.

Rumple should be looking for her as Henry had been looking for Ella all that time and it was what scared her the most. If Ella couldn’t have been found, then so wouldn’t she and Belle didn’t want her child to be born in a cell like this, it was Rumplestiltskin’s heir and it deserved the word and not the enclosure of a dungeon, being threatened by Cora and her friends.

Belle knew that she was probably going mad, but she poked Ella’s arm, until she woke up, rubbing her fists against her eyes and yawning a bit, complaining about how she couldn’t get a proper night of sleep ever since Belle arrived.

“Ella, I have a plan. I’m going to take us out of here.”

“What? Belle… I don’t think you can. I’ve tried before.”

Shaking her head at her, the Dark Lady pulled herself up on her feet, accidentally kicking the teacup and breaking it as she made her way to the front bars of her cell, fighting against the locker as she plugged her hairpin into it, twisted a few times and made it swung open with a happy giggle.

“Come on,” she said. “I’m going to free you, Ella.”

“But, how are we going to escape? Please, think twice, Belle, if not for yourself then for your child, they will kill us as soon as we show up at the hallway.”

“No, they won’t. I won’t let this happen.”

Belle worked quickly to free her and took a look around, searching for a weapon, but the only thing she found were the torches that were hanging on the walls, illuminating the room. She took one of them. It would have to do it. If anyone got close to her, she would set the person on fire, she wouldn’t die here or this way, not when she still had so much to do. After all, she had promised Rumple that she would find a way to get rid of the dagger.

“Are you coming?” Belle asked Ella.

The other woman, took a deep breath, then she reached for the second torch and nodded. They were going to escape.

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