OUAT does not belong to me.
Summary: Gold and Cora seek the help of someone connected to Mr. Gold to help them try and get Emma and Regina together and so the shenanigans begins…that's all I have for now.
Chapter 1: What Changed?
Rumpelstiltskin made his way down the long, dark hallway. When he finally makes his way to the end of it, he stares at the door in front of him. He could do this.
Taking a deep breath he raises his cane towards it and knocks a couple of times. Noise can be heard coming from the inside, when the door finally opens the person standing on the other side stares at him for a second before slamming the door in his face only to be stop just before it fully closes by Rumples cane.
The person on the other side leans against the door, hand tightening around the door handle, waiting for the imp to talk.
"Please" The imp pleads something practically unheard off. Reluctantly the person opens the door to allow him entrance.
"What is it that you want?" is asked and not in a friendly manner, had he not been expecting it he would of cringe at the tone.
"You've not aged" this only earns a scoff from the brunette and only feeds her anger.
"I shall ask again, what is it that you want?" Where had this properness come from, the brunette hadn't spoken in such a manner in decades.
"I find myself in need of your assistance" comes out of Gold's mouth. He looks around the small apartment only to find it mostly empty. No pictures, empty white walls. A small couch facing the window is the only thing that occupies the room. The small kitchen looks pretty much the same way, no fridge or stove not even a microwave.
"It's been decades and the first thing you say to me when we meet again is that you need my assistance." Gold finally stops looking around the empty apartment and stares at the brunette standing in the room with him.
"We both know you won't allow me to bring you into an embrace, I'm actually quite surprise you still haven't asked me to leave" The brunette's expression remains hard and un-readable.
"Whose fault might that be?" Rumpelstiltskin has the decency to look ashamed he couldn't help it ever since Cora came back into his life he'd changed.
"I cannot apologize enough for what I've done"
"You've yet to even apologize in the first place" The brunette scoffs
"I'm sorry" the imp says and sincerity can be heard in his voice, the brunette's head rises to look at the pawn shop owner, studying him.
"I'm afraid it's too late for that" anger is all that can be heard in the brunettes tone "What it is that you need my assistance with go find someone else." With that the brunette points the imp over to the door.
"You must miss them" that's all it take for the brunette to lose her composure as Mr. Gold is rammed into the wall.
"I would still have them if you weren't such a coward" the brunette spits, resting one hand against the imps neck.
"You may kill me if you wish it" Mr. Gold manages to say through ragged breaths and the pressure against his neck increases.
"I don't want your life" the brunette says stepping away from Mr. Gold who seems to be catching his breath.
"You can have them back, you know" this catches the brunette's attention. "Storybrooke, where I'm from…it has magic." He explains.
"Why now?" the brunette asks offering him a glass of water which he gladly takes "after so long, why now?"
"I hadn't the faintest idea on how to approach you…I was scared. When I finally came here time was frozen, I didn't remember anything about our world about you or Neal our memories were taken away by the curse" the brunette is conflicted on whether or not to believe the words coming out of his mouth.
"This place…you talk about has magic yeah?" He simply nods in answer "they will return if I go there?" again he nods "What do you obtain from this?"
"Time with you…and your help" He says hope evident in his eyes.
"What if I refuse to help you and want nothing with you?"
"You may have nothing to do with me if you wish it but you must help me…please" there he goes again pleading "Please Charlotte. I'm really in need of your assistance…well not me precisely"
"What do you mean by that?"
"You would be helping someone get her happy ending" why can't he explain himself for once?
"Who?" she doesn't know why she's still digging herself into this, she knows she won't accept.
"Regina" is the simple answer but it changes everything "This is your chance to fix what your incompetent brother did to her first love.
"Had it been True Love he would be alive, brother had nothing to do with that" How dare he bring up her brother!
"Her love died because he wasn't there to seal the bond"
"Had that not happen you wouldn't be here" She says through greeted teeth "By the way have you found him?" by the look on his face it tells her that he has found him.
"You search for him but not me" Rumpelstiltskin stays quiet "Get out" the brunette orders him.
"He wanted nothing to do with me…still sees me as a coward" He explains.
"So what your son wanted nothing to do with you so you come looking for me?" she has a right to be angry, after all this year's how dare he just show up asking for her help.
"No matter how many times I ask for your forgiveness it will never be enough, what I did was wrong I was a coward. Power meant everything to me."
"Does it still?"
"No power has lost its hold over me"
She knows she shouldn't but she misses them and all she wants is to be able to see them again, feel them again. Enjoy their beauty like she once did. "What changed?"
"Power means nothing is you have no one to share it with"
"If I come with you to this town and help the Queen find another love will you promise to leave me alone after I've finished?"
He doesn't want to agree to this terms but he knows it's the only way he will be able to help Regina. Perhaps while Charlotte is there she may change her mind and give him a second chance.
"We have a deal" He says extending his hand towards the girl in front of him. She looks at his hand warily before incasing it in her own. It takes less than thirty minutes for Charlotte to pack her belongings which aren't that many just clothes.
They make their way down the hall and out to the main street where a black car is waiting for them. Gold opens the trunk for the girl to put the suitcase in. after that he opens the back door for her for which she just shakes of the gesture and gets in. Gold takes a seat in the passenger seat.
"Hello, you must be Charlotte" The woman in the driver's seat greets.
"It's Charlie. You're Regina's mother right? You took her first love's heart?" Charlie questions while putting on her seatbelt. Cora seems caught off guard.
"That was a very long time ago" Cora responds starting the car "I wasn't in possession of my heart and I only wanted what was best for my daughter." 'Oh well if it's like that then it's all forgiven…not' Charlie thinks as Cora explains and starts to pull out only to screech to a stop when a car passes by.
"She is knew to this things" Gold explains
"So you want me to help Regina find another love? You know just because I happened to be what I' am doesn't mean I can just poof her another one, there is a process" Charlie says after the silence gets to her, that and she's hoping it'll take her mind off of the fact that she might not make it out of this drive alive with Cora's driving skills.
"Do you if she's attracted to anyone?"
"See dearie-"
"Don't call me that"
"You see that happens to be the tricky part, she's really closed off when it comes to that" says Cora taking over from Gold.
"So the answers no?" both adults share a look before nodding.
"But there might be someone" Cora says "Her name is Emma Swan anyone with eyes can see she has feelings for my daughter"
"So what you're asking of me is that I get this Emma Swan and the Queen together yes?" Charlie asks, her voice soft and smooth a faint accent can be distinguished somewhere in there.
"Exactly" exclaims Gold, now Charlie isn't fond of him or Cora for that matter but they are willing to help someone who's given up love find it again, so that means something….right?
"What is their relationship as of right now?" the adults share another look before answering.
"They hate each other" they both say at the same time.
"Well then, this ought to be fun" Charlie grumbles.
*Should I continue?