This idea came to me when I was talking to my sister about once upon a time and accidently said 'And Snow and Charming put Emma in a magical microwave'. After laughing for ages it came to me, what about once upon a time in reverse.

Normal people who live in the small sleepy town of Storybrooke get ripped from their normal lives and get taken to the enchanted forest where an adventure begins.

The main pairing is Rumbelle, the other pairings are Snowing and maybe later Swanfire.

You saw my pain, washed out in the rain
Broken glass, saw the blood run from my veins
But you saw no fault no cracks in my heart
And you knelt beside my hope torn apart
But the ghosts that we knew will flicker from view
And we'll live a long life
So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light
Cause oh they gave me such a fright
But I will hold as long as you like
Just promise me we'll be alright –Ghosts that we knew-Mumford and sons

Hope in the darkness

He tried to go to the library every day, most people thought that he must like reading and that he must have liked reading a lot but in truth it was more of the librarian he liked.

He thought that she was the most beautiful women he'd ever seen, in all the worlds he'd ever been to and he'd been to many different worlds and seen many different women and yet still she was more beautiful than all of them put together.

Rumpelstiltskin or Mr Gold as he was known in this world, in this town of Storybrooke, had come to this world in search of his son, his Balefire who'd he'd lost many many years ago.

When he came to this world he'd intended to find his son but he'd ended up finding this small town and he hadn't found it possible to leave. The whole town of Storybrooke had a huge part in his heart, he felt more at home in this sleepy little town than he did in the enchanted forest where he came from where you could say was his real home.

He walked down the road like he did every morning, his cane tapping in time with his feet on the pavement beneath him, he'd already checked on his antiques shop and was on his way to the library.

"Good morning Mr Gold" Mary Margaret and her husband David greeted him as they passed, he stopped for a moment to look at their new born baby girl in her mother's arms.

"Morning, how is Emma?" he asked them.

Mary smiled as she looked down at her precious baby girl "She's growing fast" she commented, Emma was the most beautiful baby her parents had ever seen and neither wanted to miss any second of their daughter's childhood.

"She's very beautiful" Rumple observed, he'd seen the future, many years ago he'd inherited the power from a seer and he'd seen the story of how he'd find his son, it came to him like pieces of a puzzle that he would have to put it together.

He knew that one day he would find a town and the people in that town along with Rumple would end up being taken to the enchanted forest but first they would be frozen there for 28 years, the saviour, a baby girl, the product of true love and the couple in front of him he was sure shared the purest and truest of all love and so their child would be a product of that.

"We'll let you go to the library" David nodded to Gold before he led his wife and new born daughter to Grannies to buy them some breakfast.

Gold nodded before continuing to walk down the street and to the library underneath the clock tower, he walked into the building, there was no sign of Belle the librarian behind the desk so he began to walk aimlessly through the aisles of books, running a hand along the shelves.

It was then that Belle caught his eye, she sat on the floor, her noes buried in a book of fairy tales as her brown curls fell over her shoulder, her skin was pale almost like porcelain but her eyes were a bright blue, they were bluer than all the oceans he'd ever seen or travelled across.

"Good book?" he asked with a slight chuckle as he watched her jump out of her skin.

"Oh Mr Gold, I should have known it was you" Belle's hand went to her heart to stop it from beating so fast, her Australian accent thick.

"I didn't meant to scare you" He admitted as Belle got back up to her feet.

"Do you need help finding a book?" she asked him, fluttering her eyelashes, they often flirted like this, dancing around how they really felt about each other. Rumple knew that a women as beautiful as Belle could never love a man almost beyond twice her age let alone the real monster he was meanwhile Belle didn't think that Mr Gold, one of the most powerful people in Storybrooke would want a silly little girl like her.

"No I was just….I was…." Gold looked down at the floor, trying to find the courage to talk to her "I was wondering if you'd like to have dinner with me?" he asked her after a moment, sure she would say no.

Belle's face broke out into a smile "I'd love to Mr Gold"

"Rumple" he told her after a moment.

"Excuse me?" her blue eyes met his brown.

"My name is Rumple" he added.

"Rumple, its an unusual name" Belle told him as she walked around the desk as sat down in her chair.

"It's a family name" He lied "What about dinner tonight at Granny's?" he asked her.

Belle nodded "I hear she does a pretty mean burger" She smiled.

"I'll see you later then" Rumple smiled before he left the library, feel like he was on a natural high, never in all the years he'd been alive had he thought she would say yes but she had.

"Gold, just the person I was looking for" He look up and groaned upon seeing a very angry looking Regina. Regina was the mayor of this sleepy fishing town.

She always seemed to have a bee in her bonnet about something and for some reason always blamed him. "What's wrong now dearie?" he asked her with a tiered sigh.

"What's not wrong?" Regina asked him "Where is that baby you told me you were going to get for me to adopt?" she asked him "All I see when I look around our babies and stupid Ms Blanchard and Mr Noland keep shoving that stupid baby under my nose" she almost yelled at him.

"I haven't got any word back from the adoption agency, if you want it done faster, do it yourself" Gold told her, pushing the raven haired women away from him.

"I'm the mayor of this town Gold, I can take everything away" Regina told him, standing in his personal space "Just like that" She said snapping her fingers in front of his face.

"I'd like to see you try" Rumple sneered at her before walking away from her, going to Grannies to get some breakfast.

….c\_/….

Later Rumple walked back into his shop, he couldn't help but feel something wasn't right, something was wrong, nothing was out of place in the front of his shop but he noticed that the curtain leading to the back of his shop was open a little, not how he had left it.

Going out back it seemed as if nothing was wrong, so he walked around intently, sure that something was wrong or had been disturbed, he looked at everything he owned.

That was when he noticed it, the thin layer of dust of a small chest sitting on his shelf had been wiped away meaning that someone had opened it.

Going over to a draw close by the chest he pulled out the key for it, oh how he missed the days that he could unlock something with a flick of his wrist to do with the magic, he hadn't felt the tingle of magic through his veins in many years.

Unlocking the chest he took account of what potions were inside, his heart dropped when he saw the gap, when he realised what was missing, it was the worst possible scenario, Regina really didn't know what she could do with the power she'd taken from him.

….c\_/….

Regina stood in her black and white living room, staring at the bottle in her hand, she couldn't describe it's contense, it was like nothing she'd ever seen before.

It wasn't liquid, it wasn't solid it was almost like air, but it was a pinky purple colour and sort of sparkled. She wondered what Mr Gold was going with it and what the hell it was.

She wasn't sure what it did or what it was, she opened the lid with a pop the minute she did a deeper, darker purple began to flow out of the top and engulf everything around her.

She took a deep breath letting the smoke fill her nostrils, she felt this strange sensation hit her to the core. Regina's pupils dilated, it was almost like a drug and she loved the feeling it gave her, it made her feels so powerful, almost invisible. Magic.

….c\_/…..

Rumple was on his way to Regina's to make her give back the potion she took when he saw it, the very thing he'd dreaded, the purple smoke storm was rolling over the town of Storybrooke.

He had to tell David and Mary to put Emma in the wardrobe he'd sold them that was secretly enchanted so she would be saved from being frozen under the curse like the others were bound to be, otherwise there was no hope. Luckily they were walking straight towards him once again. He walked as fast as he could up to them.

"Gold are you okay?" David asked the older man, his crystal blue eyes full of concern.

"Emma" Rumple stuttered "You need to put her in your wardrobe, it's matter of life or death" he told them.

"What, why?" Mary asked clutching her baby daughter tight to her.

"That's why" Rumple pointed to the purple smoke coming from the Mayors house that was going to consume them.

"Okay" Mary nodded before grabbing David's risk and dragging him off in the direction of their apartment to do just as Mr Gold had told them to.

The once an IMP then turned to the library where he could see through the window that she was sitting at her desk, her noes once again buried in a book.

He wanted to be with her when the magic storm hit, she was the only one in the whole town that he wanted to stay with and protect. He also hoped that buy being with her when the storm hit when they reached the other side they might be together.

"Belle" He called when he walked into the library, he then hobbled over to where she sat behind her desk.

"Rumple" she smiled at him sweetly "Haven't come to cancel our date have you?" she teased him then saw the serious look on his face. "What's wrong?" she asked him, her blue eyes full of concern.

"That" Rumple said pointing through the window before making his way behind her desk to stand beside her.

"What is it?" Belle asked just as the storm finally hit the clock tower and library underneath making the windows shatter.

Instinctively Belle looked away from the window while Gold reached out to her waist and pulled her to him, she gripped his jacket tight and buried her head in his shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her waist and one hand soothingly ran through her brown curls.

"Just a storm, it'll soon pass" Rumple lied to her once again "It'll soon pass" he added. He knew it wasn't true, the truth was that they would be ripped from the world in which them all came bar himself and taken to his home of the enchanted forest and it was all his fault, he should never have made the curse in the first place "I'm so sorry" He began to mumble, being the coward he was he had to apologise it was the only thing he knew.

….c\_/…..TBC

I know the curse was too easy for Regina to release than it was in the program but I needed it to be simple because she isn't a witch yet, she wouldn't know how to sacrifice a heart and all that.

Anyway, I hope people like and please review,