Author: Ren Kayashima
Rating: T
Disclaimer: Once Upon a Time belongs to the creative team of Horowitz and Kitsis. Thank them for such a compelling show.
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Prologue:
Baelfire had gone by "Bae" for almost his entire life, but never more so than when he found himself in a world without magic. He had found himself somewhere outside the city of San Francisco, a large city with many weird sights to see, and wonders to ponder. It didn't take him very long to discover that Baelfire was a truly unusual name in this world, so he just went by Bae.
He had been walking the streets at fifteen years old when a woman by the name of Julia had invited him into her home. She had given him clothes, a bed, a warm meal, and all the love in her heart. Despite the fact that he had no past in this world, and no family, no record of existing, Julia had been kind. She had gotten him into a school (such a thing didn't exist for the son of a poor spinner). For twenty-nine years, he had experienced a normal life. No magic, no Dark One, no "Fairy Tale" Land (something he had learned to call his old land). He was truly normal in this world.
Twenty-nine years later, and Bae still enjoyed his normal life. He had met Colby, he had fallen in love with a rare beauty, and he had two amazing children as a result of it. He lived his life with Colby, thinking about how they would grow old together, only to have life intervene in the cruelest way, but not before Colby had given him the gift of fatherhood. A chance to experience normal in a whole new light.
Normal life wasn't spent living in fear. It wasn't spent hiding away from the world because his father was an evil force to be reckoned with. Normal life was spending the evening with his two children, watching the television, or taking walks at the nearby park.
Bae couldn't have asked for much more, even if he did want his father a little bit. But his father had let go. His father didn't want to be normal. His father had been corrupted by magic's temptation, leaving Bae to fend for himself in a new world.
Not once did Bae ever think that he would feel magic's influence in the air again. After all, he had been told that he would go to a world where magic didn't exist.
But one day, he had felt it. It coursed through the air like ripples in a lake. It shook his entire body that day, and he knew that something had happened, something that could only happen if his father was involved.
Magic had come to a world without it, and ever since it had been calling Baelfire's name. Summoning him.
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Author's Note: I started writing this last week after pondering it and fleshing it out in my brain for a couple months, and now it won't really leave me alone. So I said to hell with any possible canon and decided to post this on fanfiction. I'm not sure what's going to happen with canon and the episodes, but I'm not one to back down from an idea. There are going to be a couple of OC's and this story will focus on Rumpel and Bae reuniting and a bit of an adventure.
Leave me a review if you so desire.
Ren