A/N Hello! This is my first story! I always loved Baelfire, so this is my idea on what happened to him after he fell through the "Magic Bean Portal"! No spoilers for Season 2.
Disclaimer! I DO NOT own Once Upon a Time or Baelfire, I only own my OCs
Baelfire was falling. That was his first realization. The portal must've transported him into the sky, for his back painful thumped onto a tree branch, ping-ponging him down until he landed on the ground with a dull thud.
He waited there. He waited for so long. Bae wanted so bad for his father to come tumbling down on top of him, making it through the portal after him. But no. The forest he had landed in stayed silent, only the sound of the crickets could be heard.
Slowly, he opened his eyes. It was a similar forest, almost identical to the one he was in, but the air was different, full of dust and smoke and impurities. He coughed before pulling himself into a sitting position. He looked around, checking to see if the clogged air was a fire, but it seemed that just the atmosphere was naturally filled with such particles. "Papa?" He tried calling his father's name, but his voice came out horse and rough. Bae hoped that his father had landed a distance away. "Papa!" He tried again, voice louder.
There was no reply.
Bae scoffed. His father broke their deal. That coward! Couldn't even choose his own son over his new found power. Bae pulled himself off the ground, and started walking. The portal wasn't going to open again, so what was the point of staying? "Coward…" He muttered under his breath.
The ground felt different too, like the entire Earth was moving under his feet. Gradually, but he felt it. He wondered if there were other creatures in this world too, and if they could feel it.
He saw the trees start to part in the road and he rushed forward. Road meant villages, and villages meant survival. He knew that there must be one couple or two able to take in a fourteen year old boy such as himself.
The road was different than normal ones. Not cobble or patted dirt, but some sort of sleek black surface with yellow lines in the middle. He walked alongside the edge, in case any carriages came so he wasn't run over by horses.
Suddenly, there was a low buzzing noise. He turned around to see two bright lights speeding down the path. The buzz became a roar and as the beast sped past him, he was forced to jump into the trench a few feet away.
What was that monster!? He trembled from the brush. The roaring slowly subsided as the creature made its way along the road. This path wasn't for carriages but monsters! He slowly pulled himself from the gully, puffing out his chest. "No. I will not be scared." He told himself, but to his dismay, his voice only came out as a tremble. "I will not be a coward!" He yelled into the air.
He jumped towards the road again, now walking closer towards the middle. If the beast wanted to come, it would have to move around him.
Bae heard another one coming and he purposely slowed his pace a bit. As the noise got louder and heard a strangled screeching sound before the rumbling stopped. Confused he turned around to see a woman, apparently human, in light blue clothes standing beside a gray monster. Trousers on a lady? Sure when she stood straight it would look like a dress, but it was highly improper for a woman to be in pants. Her hair was blond, another rare trait along with her blue eyes and pointed chin. She looked almost nothing like the people in his land. At least she was human. Humans were good usually.
"What the hell kid!? Trying to get yourself killed!?" She yelled. The beast stayed where it was as if it was some sort of pet. Maybe it was to pull carriages around and the last one had broken free. Bae tried to look around the beast to see if it had a carriage attached to the back end, but he saw nothing. "Kid! Look at me! What are you doing here at night!?" The woman was obviously frustrated.
"I'm looking for the village." Bae said.
"Village? There's no town here for miles kid." She walked closer to him, inspecting his clothing. "Where are your parents?"
"My mother left when I was young, my father refused to come with me to this new land because he would have to leave his dark powers behind as well." Bae scoffed.
"Dark powers? Aw, sweetheart…" She gripped his face with both hands. "I think you're a bit confused sweetheart, there's no such thing as powers…" She was trying to be sweet now.
"Yes there is, well in my land there was," Bae said. "But the fairy godmother told me that there was no magic here, and I wanted to come through with my father so he couldn't have his magic Dark One powers."
"Look here," She pinched his cheeks as if he was a child. "I'm going to bring you somewhere special, for special people like you, would you like that?"
Bae nodded. Maybe there were other children that had fallen through to this world as well. The woman smiled and led him to the monster and he flinched. "What is it? Do you not like driving?" She asked, her voice forcing to stay sweet.
"Driving? You can ride this beast?" Baelfire watched as she climbed into the side of the monster. So it was a carriage! But where were the horses? Maybe they had a spell on them to make them invisible? Even so, she made him sit behind her out of the four seats inside. She then led herself around and climbed into the front side, gripping the round object in front.
With a jolt the carriage rumbled along. At first Bae was scared, he hadn't expected the invisible horses to go so fast. Sooner or later he had gotten used to it, leaning on the side and looking out at the trees. "So what's your name kid?" She asked. "My name is Susie."
Susie. What a strange name. "My name is Baelfire, but most people just call me Bae." He said. In this land they must have different names than in his world.
"Baelfire? What's your last name?" Last name? What was a last name? Maybe the last name he went by?
"Um… Baelfire…." He said. Bae didn't completely understand what Susie was talking about. This world must be very different from his own.
"No, I mean Baelfire, what? You have Baelfire and then a second name." Susie explained. So in this world they had two names! That was strange.
"Um… Where I come from we only have one name… well there are people like Snow White, but that's her only name." Bae inspected a bit more of the carriage. Not much really.
"Snow White? Snow White is a fairytale character sweetie…" Susie must've turned the horses because now they were heading in a different direction.
"But…but…" Baelfire tried to say something, but he knew she would just pass it off. Slowly, he leaned his head on the glass window, the rumbling of the carriage slowly putting him to sleep.
When Bae woke, he was sitting in a room with a lot of chairs. He saw it as a room that people would wait in before going to the apothecary. He looked around to see that the entire room was either white or pale sea foam green. It reminded him slightly of ogre drool, but the place was way too clean and uniform for it to be an ogre's den.
"Hey sweetheart, how are you?" The woman, Susie, came up to him crouching on one knee. "Look you're going to stay in here in this building for a while okay? This is a building for special people like you." For some reason, he felt that special meant something bad. He passed it off and nodded his head.
"We're going to bring you to the room you'll be sleeping in okay? There'll be some clothes in there you have to wear… are you able to dress yourself, or do you need help?" She asked slowly. Why wouldn't he be able to dress himself? He had been doing that since he was four!
"No, no I can dress myself." He furrowed his brow. Something was off here, they were treating him strangely. He guessed that it was just the way this world worked and he would have to get used to it.
"Alright-y then sweetie." She helped him out of the chair and led him down the hallway. It was also the same colors of green and white, though it was a little bit messier, with the occasional blue hand print or finger painting of a child. He shot a look behind them and saw they were being followed by two large men, big and cruel enough looking to be ogres, but still had the stature of a human.
"Who are they?" He asked. Susie put her hand around his shoulder, pushing him back forward.
"Oh they're just there for protection." Protection? Protection from what? Him?
They started walking past doors. Big large metal doors with little bar windows. He heard snoring and whimpers from the inside. Obviously other people were sleeping there. They stopped in front of one door and Susie pulled a key out of her pocket unlocking the door.
With sudden realization, he knew where he was. An insane asylum. "What? No!" He backed up, but the ogre men grabbed him by the arms and tossed him in the room. The insane asylums in his world were evil, beating their occupants and letting them starve to death. Sure this place looked better than the grungy straw cells, but they were all the same. "I'm not crazy! I am from another world!" He reached on his toes and gripped the bars of the small window.
"Sweetheart, we don't like to use that word around here," she reached through the bars and pinched his cheeks. "Everyone's special here Baelfire." She snickered as she walked away, the two ogre men following.
He scoffed. He felt like the universe what just trying to prove him wrong. Oh, you think that coming to this new and improved land without magic will fix everything? Well no, let's just throw an insane asylum at you. He turned around to inspect the room. There was really only a small metal cot with the sea foam green covers and a white dresser.
He opened the dresser on the top drawer to find two pairs of sea foam green clothes. Rolling his eyes, he pulled them on. They scratched and itched at his skin, even though they were a size too big. His prison uniform. He opened the next drawer to see some parchment and some strange colored sticks which he felt were something like quills. He played with one in his hand, only the size of his finger and wrapped in parchment marked "Crayola". Putting the object down, he opened the last drawer and saw some small children's toys. Some wooden pull toys, and colored building blocks.
Childish. He slammed the drawer shut and curled up on the cot, not even bothering to pull the covers over him.
A/N Yeah I know, a bit short. And school's started so I can't update as often, maybe once or twice every other week? BEAR WITH ME HERE PEOPLE.